The MDC condemns the callous murder of Maxwell Ncube, an official in Professor Welshman Ncube formation last Friday in Zhombe district.
The late Ncube’s heavily bruised body was discovered on Tuesday morning along a dry river bed, some 300 metres away from Malamlela Business Centre, stuffed in a sack and had a deep axe-like wound on the head.
The MDC is convinced that Mr. Ncube’s death is as a result of state sponsored and politically motivated violence in the Midlands province. That Zanu PF thugs were involved in this murder is beyond doubt.
Ncube’s gruesome murder squarely points to state-sponsored violence as the police have not done anything in investigating and arresting the murderers. The MDC is worried that the police typically take no action where violence and murder is committed by Zanu PF thugs or sympathisers hence our call for security sector reform.
The same police have been at the fore-front in arresting MDC and human rights activists on trumped up charges yet they turn the usual blind eye when it is a member of the MDC who is attacked or murdered.
An MDC youth activist, Ayaya Kassim is hospitalised after he was seriously attacked by known Zanu PF mobsters last week but the assailants have not been arrested although a police report has been made. More than 700 Zanu PF thugs besieged Parliament and attacked Members of Parliament recently but not even one has been arrested by the police.
The MDC calls for the immediate arrest of Ncube’s murderers and stands by the Ncube family in this period of mourning.
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