BY STAFF REPORTER
HARARE
Senior Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) officials are under 24-hour surveillance by Government, who fear they might leak information regarding the presidential poll, The Zimbabwean has learnt.
Liberty Mupakati, a former intelligence operative with the CIO, claims that members of the top echelons of ZEC are more or less under house arrest in their hotel, which also doubles as the poll collation centre. They are under CIO guard around the clock.
He said his sources were impeccable that even die-hard Zanu (PF) people talk openly about Mugabe having comprehensively lost to Tsvangirai.
“I can testify that late on Sunday (March 30) I was informed by one of these officials that Mugabe had been beaten by Tsvangirai by 57.8 per cent of the poll to 39.9 per cent. Armed with these results Chiwenga, Chihuri, Bonyongwe,
Shiri and Paradzai Zimondi of prisons, then approached Mugabe at State House. Mugabe, in a state of shock, sent them back to Chiweshe to ask him to reverse the result. Chiweshe told them he was bound by his professional ethics as a lawyer and could not reverse the election result. They pleaded with him to try his best to save the situation. Chiweshe tried his best – the results of the presidential election have not been announced since then,” added Mupakati.
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