The tip offs were sent to a site set up by the non-governmental organisation, Zimbabwe Democracy Now (ZDN), which has run full page newspaper advertisements inside the country and throughout southern Africa.The ads list a website where officials can post details of illegal activities by the Mugabe government, both ahead of and during the poll, with an offer of up to US$5000 for information.”We have been swamped with information, some not credible, but much of which has checked out,” ZDN spokesman, Goodson Chibaya said from Pretoria, where the site is being managed.”In particular we had separate postings from the Manyame Airforce Headquaters in Harare and the Thornhill air base in Gweru, corroborated by another tip off by a very senior person in the army who not only gave us his name but allowed us to speak with him by phone,” he said.All three men had the same story. The said that on the night of Thursday 27 March, trusted officers in the army, airforce and police would be required to vote under supervision for the ruling Zanu (PF) party. The officers would each fill in multiple ballot papers.At Thornhill, the papers would be filled in at the air force sports club.On Friday 28, a helicopter from Squadron No 7 at Manyame HQ would fly further supplies of ballot papers to the Mugabe stronghold of Mount Darwin where a crew would be standing by to fill in multiple forms.The exercises would be conducted by Mugabe’s feared secret police, the Central Intelligence Organisation or CIO.”What then happens to these illegal voting papers, I don’t know,” Chibaya said. “But hopefully someone will inform us via the tip- off site. In the meantime we have passed the information to the SADC observer mission and have launched our own investigation.” – The whistleblower website is at http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/wb.php
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