Military police crush army food brawl

By a correspondent

Military police had to be called in at Masvingo Polytechnic College to quell a brawl for food between soldiers feasting at a ceremony to mark Defence Forces Day.

Our correspondent reports that on Tuesday visibly hungry looking soldiers fought each other in queues for a taste of the free lunch.

Several soldiers traded insults on why some had jumped the queue and before long a brawl erupted. The military police were called in and arrested several junior army officers.

‘It was amazing to see soldiers being bundled into a military police vehicle and sent to detention at the army barracks,’ an eye witness told us.

Out of Masvingo’s 3 military barracks we were not able to identify from which one the soldiers came from. Indiscipline within the armed forces has been on the rise and only last year soldiers rioted in several cities in protest at poor wages.

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