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Zimbabwe: Harare Deputy Mayor Comes Face to Face With Wife’s Killers

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Original Post Date: 2010-09-22 Time: 09:00:02  Posted By: News Poster

By Tichaona Sibanda

The deputy Mayor of Harare, Emmanuel Chiroto, on Sunday came face to face with some of the crazed killers of his wife, whose gruesome murder in 2008 is yet to be investigated by the police.

While almost all of Abigail Chiroto’s killers are known to the police, no arrests have been yet been made, 27 months after she was found brutally murdered on June 18th at a farm near Borrowdale on the outskirts of Harare.

On the night of June 16th Chiroto’s house in the suburb of Hatcliffe was petrol bombed and destroyed by ZANU PF supporters. Abigail, and his then four-year-old son Ashley, were taken away by the attackers.

The assaliants dumped Ashley outside a police station on the day of abduction but went on to kill 26 year-old Abigail, whose cold bloodied murder was covered extensively by local and international media.

She was found with a gunshot wound to the head and a deep cut on her stomach. A post-mortem report showed she had been savagely assaulted and her limbs broken.

It was a political killing that left the intended target, Emmanuel Chiroto, grief stricken. But to his horror, the deputy Mayor came face to face with four of the killers during disturances that marred the constitutional outreach meetings in Hatcliffe on Sunday.

‘Four of the people who were part of the group that abducted and later killed my wife were in a group that disrupted meetings in wards 18 and 42 of the Harare north constituency. They were so menacing to a point they even threatened to finish me up because they couldn’t do so in 2008,’ Chiroto said.

‘They were armed with iron bars, sticks and stones and at one time wanted to smash my car because they could not stomach my presence at the meeting. But what struck me most was their audacity to refer to my wife’s murder and their boisterious threats to do the same with me,’ he added.

‘I maintained a safe distance from the rowdy ZANU PF crowd but the four (killers of his wife) kept charging towards me feigning to whip me with their weapons. At this juncture there was a major confrontation between two sets of supporters which forced the abandonment of the meetings. To our surprise two of our MDC officials from the area were arrested by the police but none from ZANU PF was picked up,’

The two MDC officials are still locked up in police cells at the Harare Central police station. They are expected to appear in court facing trumped up charges of assaulting police officers.

Chiroto said even as he made his way to the police to follow up on the arrest of their officials, the four thugs briefly trailed him, before making a u-turn. He told us the whole episode on Sunday brought back sad memories of the madness of the 2008 violence.

‘To think that these guys would have the nerve to confront and insult me after what they did to my wife is pushing their luck. Mhosva hairovi (a crime does not go away) I want to believe these guys are well aware of that, because God is not for one man but for all of us,’ Chiroto said.

In a related incident a statement from the MDC said four MDC cadres in Mbare were arrested after they had gone to Mbare Police Station to report that they had been assaulted by ZANU PF supporters during a COPAC 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. The MDC said the four are being denied treatment although some of them have injuries that need urgent medical treatment.

Meanwhile COPAC teams were on Tuesday forced to abandon outreach meetings after ZANU PF supporters, state agents and soldiers, unleashed terror in Makoni South constituency, Manicaland province.

The MDC MP for the area, Pishai Muchauraya, said the disturbances forced the cancellation of meetings at 21 centres in the constituency. He said the well coordinated disruptions bore the hallmarks of the military running the campaign.

‘These disruptions are so organised that ZANU PF people are getting orders from the same source. It’s like 2008 again and most villagers in the constituency are now scared of attending these meetings,’ Muchauraya said.

In Bulawayo, 11 outreach meetings that were abandoned after ZANU PF COAPC members failed to turn-up, have been set for 22nd to 28th September.

Original date published: 21 September 2010

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009220059.html?viewall=1