Cumulative arrests of machete gangs moves up to 32 806 – ZRP
Cumulative arrests of machete gangs since January 2022 has moved up to 32 806, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed this week.
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Cumulative arrests of machete gangs since January 2022 has moved up to 32 806, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed this week.
In another bizarre incident of artisanal gold mining wars, villagers in Bubi Ward 19 were left shell shocked, yesterday (16 April 2020) when a local young artisanal miner was viciously attacked by a machete and axe wielding rival gang in broad daylight.
Machete-wielding gangs have caused much damage in a number of communities over the past few months, mostly in mining areas where they have been targeting miners and robbing them of their gold and other valuables.
Minister of State for National Security in the President’s Office, Owen Ncube has said that one machete gang is still to be accounted for as all the others have been arrested across the country.
At least 35 people were killed while 15 women were raped in the last 13 months by infamous machete wielding gangs commonly known as MaShurugwi, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Deputy Minister Michael Madiro has said.
Nurses at Kwekwe General Hospital are operating in fear as armed machete gangs continue invading the institution and getting into wards threatening nurses, as artisanal miners’ turf wars spill into the hospital.
Police have arrested 240 illegal gold miners in Hwedza in a move to eliminate machete gangs and illegal gold miners under their recently launched operation code named ‘Zero Tolerance to Machete Wilding Gangs and Chikorokoza’.
Three Zanu PF legislators in Mashonaland Central province have been accused of stifling the police’s crackdown on illegal gold miners and machete gangs.
Machete gangs that were arrested in mining areas across Mashonaland Central Province have resulted in overcrowding at Bindura Remand Prison, forcing at least 150 inmates to sleep outside the cells.
The military must now step in to stop machete gangs who are terrorising and killing people in many parts of the country, Norton MP Temba Mliswa has said.