ZEC Declines to Investigate Zanu-PF Voter Registration Fraud.

The MDC on Tuesday approached the head of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission
(ZEC) in Mutare, Colonel Moffat Masabeya, and informed him of reports that
Zanu-PF MP for Chipinge south Enock Porusingazi, was involved in voter
registration fraud.It is alleged Porusingazi had on several occasions ferried villagers from
Gudu and Save in Mozambique to the district registrar’s offices in Chipinge
where he managed to get them identification cards. According to the MDC the
volatile Zanu-PF legislator would then proceed to ‘have his people
registered as voters.”We have information it’s a syndicate between officials from the registrar’s
office and Porusingazi. A number of these illegal aliens were registered
well after the deadline but their registration slips were backdated to
January,’ said an MDC official.But Colonel Masabeya said it was not the duty of the ZEC to investigate such
reports and told the MDC to take their complaint to the police, who he said
deal with fraud cases.The MDC was not surprised by Masabeya’s response, as he is a known serving
officer in the Zimbabwe National Army. Described as a die-hard Zanu-PF man
Colonel Masabeya lost in the 2005 primaries to represent the ruling party in
the Chimanimani constituency, currently held by State Enterprises and
Anti-corruption Minister Samuel Undenge.Based at Dangamvura’s Chikanga 3 Brigade battalion, Colonel Masabeya was one
of the army officers who led an assault team of soldiers on to Charleswood
Estate, which they eventually grabbed at gunpoint from Roy Bennett, the
former MDC MP for Chimanimani.’If we say the election playing field is not level, these are the things we
will be referring to,’ the MDC official said.