Mugabe lied about Chitungwiza violence

Headlines, News — By admin on November 9, 2011 1:30 am

By Staff Reporter

President Robert Mugabe ‘lied’ when he claimed that violence broke out in Chitungwiza because the MDC-T who were having a rally at the Chibuku Stadium on Sunday banned the police from providing protection for the event.

Members of the notorious ZANU PF Chipangano gang attacked MDC-T supporters preparing for the rally. The gang, which was armed with catapults, iron bars, machetes and stones stormed the venue in the early hours of the morning and attacked those preparing the stadium for the rally.

On Monday Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai confronted Mugabe over the matter during their weekly Monday meetings but the 87 year old octogenarian claimed police did not go to the venue because the MDC-T had banned them. Speaking to the state media Mugabe’s spokesman George Charamba claimed:

“The President intimated to him (Tsvangirai) that the Police Commissioner-General was not at the venue of the clashes and had not deployed in Chitungwiza because the MDC-T made it clear to the police that they were not welcome to their meetings as the MDC-T was able to police itself.”

But speaking to London based independent radio station SW Radio Africa, MDC-T spokesman Douglas Mwonzora said;

“It is the most unreasonable thing I am hearing after a very very long time. President Mugabe must have been told by those who spy for him that the MDC notified the police of this rally and the police actually wrote to the MDC saying they were coming to the rally. To then say the MDC said the police should not come is just hiding behind a finger.” Mwonzora said.

On Friday it’s expected that the national executives of all three political parties in the inclusive government will meet to discuss the worsening political violence in the country. ZANU PF Central Committee members and the national executive councils of the MDC-T and MDC-N are expected to attend.

But Mwonzora said “the words we will receive from that meeting will be nothing but hollow platitudes. The ZANU PF domestic terrorists don’t seem to be listening to Mugabe anymore when it comes to violence.” Mwonzora said “The last time Mugabe spoke out against violence at Parliament Building, his people were committing acts of violence outside Parliament.”

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