Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has slammed the deployment of state security agents and members of the army in the rural areas ahead of possible elections next year.
Speaking at an event to commemorate International Human Rights Day, Tsvangirai urged Zimbabweans in general to protest against any violation of their human rights and called on soldiers and police members deployed in rural areas to pull out and stop harassing the people.
“We are seeing that in rural areas people are deploying soldiers and the police to harass people. That should not be accepted. The army is not there to abuse people, the army is there to protect people. The police are there to protect the people and not to harass people and so are the CIO’s. Our vision for Zimbabwe is to restore human dignity,” the PM said.
“If electricity goes up, people should protest, if maize goes up people should protest. It must be known that what we don’t want we must protest.
“Workers should demand their rights, women should demand their rights, children should demand their rights, students should also demand their rights on a daily basis. Government must be accountable to the people and not that the people must be accountable to the government.”
“Gone are the days when the government was not accountable to its people it is now history,” the PM told those who attended the commemorations in central Harare at the Africa Unity Square.
