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Original Post Date: 2010-09-22 Time: 08:00:09 Posted By: The BeardedMan
Howzit
The agents gunned down each other in the southern part of the country, Bulawayo in two separate incidents in a space of 24 hours sparking a tense stand-off.
CIO and senior bosses at the secret service outfit were demanding explanations after one of the dead CIO members was identified as a bodyguard of Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi.
The tragic incident came amid a heightened state of alert by the police after a senior police officer was killed and a detective and four members of the public wounded early Saturday morning.
On Monday, police boss Augustine Chihuri reiterated the police's “shoot-to-kill” policy during a funeral service organized for the dead senior police officer, Chief Superintendent Lawrence Chatikobo.
He said he was so angry at the murder that he was praying that the criminals’ lives would be cut short.
“I even appeal to God and my prayer is: ‘Lord, may you shorten the lives of these criminals’,” but people at the service said he directed the message to the CIO.
“Interestingly, this plea comes a day or two after the report that a ZANU PF youth member made a similar prayer, requesting God to shorten the lives of ‘sellouts’.
What has happened in Zimbabwe is that Mugabe has allowed the various wings of his party and associated security services to grow as big as they can, and now there is a conflict of responsibilities, duties and space. With this obviously unmanaged situation, there are going to be showdowns, and now the two are very unhappy with each other.
“Let me warn people who harbour criminals that the long arm of the law will catch up with them,” Chihuri said.
However, citizens say Chihuri's comments are misplaced as countless innocent civilians have been gunned down by police who later claim that the dead were “victims of mistaken identity”.
One of the witnesses of Saturday's shooting said: “Mohadi's bodyguard followed the instruction together with everyone else, but they (police) shot him while he was trying to explain who he was.”
CIO sources say their dead colleague was shot at point-blank range and this has angered the intelligence department who have expressed their dismay with the conduct of the officers who are suspected to be from the homicide section.
“There is a feeling that police should have exercised caution in this case,” said the intelligence source.
However, those inside the CID homicide section argued that while it was regrettable that the shooting had resulted in the death of a member of the security forces, the lives of the officers who shot at the operative were also at risk.“
If the bodyguard was at a local eatery playing pool, then why was it necessary for him to retain and wear his firearm? It was the security guards that raised the alarm when the firearm was spotted…
Mugabe’s man, George Chiramba, has waded into the battle with little thought to what he is saying, accusing the US of failing to show sincerity when Zimbabwe wants dialogue over the travel restrictions.
As I wrote yesterday, it is not for the US to loosen the restrictions in an attempt to show sincerity, it is for Zimbabwe to change their attitude to their own population to prove that the restrictions can be lifted.
Sadly, if anything does come of the dialogue, ZANU PF will claim that they persuaded the US to lift the travel sanctions, not the MDC, and they will refuse to any further negotiations with Tsvangirai’s and Mutambara’s MDC factions.
Zimbabwe took the matter to the UN at the weekend complaining that the US was being ‘hostile’.
President Mugabe accompanied by his wife Amai Grace Mugabe and a huge delegation left for New York on Friday. Mugabe’s spokesman George Chiramba was on Tuesday quoted by state media as saying: “They had denied visas to two members of the delegation. The other only got it at the airport after intense pressure through the machinery of Government.“
In other words, Mugabe was, yet again, allowed to rule the roost when it comes to the UN and the targeted travel sanctions. What is the use of having travel sanctions if, every time he leaves Zimbabwe, they are lifted?
I question the reasons why the various countries implement travel sanctions if at the first sign of pressure they relent and let the listed person/s travel anyway…
What a waste of time and money.
Another article stated that Barwe was ordered to repay the twenty grand in US dollars that he was paid in travel allowances, but that would have fallen through as he wa granted a visa at the last minute.
Mr Mugabe's UN broadside coincided with the arrival of a Zimbabwean delegation representing all three political parties in Harare’s national unity government, which was to take up the sanctions question with US officials in keeping with an ongoing bilateral re-engagement process, official Zimbabwean sources said.
President Mugabe told world leaders that “the debilitating sanctions” were hindering Zimbabwean progress toward UN Millennium Development goals on poverty and hunger, among others.
But he said that despite the sanctions imposed by the United States, Europe and others, Harare had made great progress fighting HIV/Aids and maintaining quality basic education. He said Zimbabwe as in the past continues to have the highest literacy rate in Africa.“
I do note that he failed to repeat his call that his party would give no more ground in the cross-party negotiations until and unless sanctions are lifted.
And he fails to explain just how it is that his inability to travel to the West has caused poverty in Zimbabwe. The truth is that his destructive policies backed up by the violent nature of his rule has brought Zimbabwe’s economy to its knees.
“Meanwhile, Mr Mugabe has come under fire for spending more than US$2 million on his trip to the US, from which he was scheduled to travel on to Ecuador. He was accompanied to New York by an entourage of 80 officials, according to the US Embassy in Harare. Sources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said a request for two million in funding went to the Treasury.
Political analyst Charles Mangongera told VOA Studio 7 reporter Blessing Zulu that Mr Mugabe's travel budget shows insensitivity to the plight of ordinary Zimbabweans struggling to survive.“
How can he plead poverty when he takes an 80 man delegation to New York that costs US$2 million? Mugabe is very good at ignoring the truth – even when it is in plain view for everyone to see – and makes allegations which are plainly untrue, unsubstantiated and of no relevance to current affairs.
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There was the case of a war veteran who spoke out against Mugabe and a few days later, having disappeared, was discovered dead.
Now living in poverty, Chidoda, who was ambassador to Etheopia when the country was under the leadership of dictator Haile Mariam Mengistu says Mugabe and ZANU PF have dumped him and other cadres in favour of people from his home area who never participated in the struggle.
“I will never forgive President Robert Mugabe for the bad way he treated me. What is lacking in ZANU PF is good leadership.“
I wouldn’t be surprised if Chidoda disappears.
Hon. Moyo was represented by Advocate Charles Chaskalson and Chris Mhike. Advocate Chaskalson argued that domestic parliamentary remedies should have been used by the appellant as the election was being held on the 28 August 2008 instead of appealing to the courts. The advocate said he was shocked that Jonathan Moyo was complaining about the conduct of the election yet he was one of the first people to congratulate the Speaker of Parliament upon his victory. Jonathan Moyo is pushing for the Supreme Court to uphold his case after the High Court judge Justice Bharat Patel dismissed his application to have the election reversed in March this year.
“The courts are becoming pretty good at reserving judgement in cases that have caught the local and international spotlight. Roy Bennett’s acquittal appeal by the State is under reserved judgement, and now this.
In Bennett’s case, because there is no public decision, Mugabe continues with his resistance to have him appointed to the cabinet, which means that the cabinet remains incomplete.
Mugabe is just using the courts to get his own way. He does not want Bennett in government, so the court leaves the case outstanding and Mugabe gets his own way.
“In Makoni South, Manicaland province, COPAC teams have abandoned the outreach meetings after ZANU PF supporters, State agents and soldiers, unleashed terror in the area and barring people from attending the meetings. The outreach meetings were abandoned at Gurure, St Peters school and Rumbwe Secondary School. One of the State security agents who are disrupting the COPAC meetings in the province has been identified as Simba Muzariri.
Meanwhile, four MDC cadres in Mbare, Harare were arrested after they had gone to Mbare Police Station to report that they had been assaulted by ZANU PF supporters during a COPAC outreach meeting at Mai Musodzi Hall on Sunday. Godfrey Cotton, Edmore Manyofa, Shingi Gorekore and Paul Majarifa have since been transferred to Harare Central Police Station's Law and Order Section but no charges have been brought against them. They are being denied treatment although some of them have injuries that need urgent medical treatment.“
It is typical of the pro-Mugabe police force to arrest the complainants, leaving the names accused to roam free – and yet they say they do not get involved with cases that are ‘political’…
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The activists from WOZA were arrested at the end of a march to Parliament buildings in Harare, to mark International Peace Day on Monday. Police rounded up people as they were dispersing, following the peaceful march by over 600 of their members, who included men. The aim of the protest was to highlight community safety issues and police behavior in communities.
After initial talk of charging them with public disorder, the group are now to be charged with obstructing traffic. Police had tried to make the group pay admission of guilt fines, but they refused, insisting on being taken to court. It is hoped that they will be taken to court Wednesday morning.
On Tuesday Jenni Williams, founder of WOZA, said: “Our support team were attempting to feed our 83 colleagues because there is no food in the cells. They were denied the right to take the food in at lunch time today. They were told we are not allowed to take the food unless a lawyer is present, which is not within standard operating procedures. We are seeing this as another delaying tactic.“
The police in Zimbabwe see the activist group as a soft target and have in the past, issued them with a severe beating. When the police approach them now, the member sit on the ground, offering no resistance to their arrest.
This time around, members not arrested handed themselves in to police, who duly arrested them and threw them in with the other members.
“Obstructing traffic“? The police are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
“WOZA also said a Men of Zimbabwe Arise member, Lazarus Mandondo, was severely beaten with baton sticks by police officers during a routine counting exercise last night. It is unclear why he was beaten but there is some concern for his welfare as apparently the beating was severe and witnessed by all detainees.
Williams said the ill-treatment of their members further highlights how the police continue to violate all standard operating procedures. She said Police Commissioner Chihuri has ignored their request for a meeting and she appealed to co-Home Affairs Minister Theresa Makone to take action.”hat disrupted outreach meetings in Harare. Makone excused the police by saying that they were just as paralysed as most victims of political violence.
On Tuesday 1,200 members of WOZA marked International Peace Day with a peaceful protest to Southampton House in Bulawayo in the morning. The aim of the protest was to hand over a set of demands to the Police Commissioner and the co-Ministers of Home Affairs.“
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Source: http://thebeardedman.blogspot.com/2010/09/wednesday-22nd-september-2010.html