Zanu holding police captive – Makone

In an outburst directly aimed at her coalition partners in government, the minister said she was ‘disgusted and sickened’ by Zanu (PF)’s thuggery during the constitutional outreach program. Responding to weekend reports that police did nothing to stop Zanu (PF) supporters from the violence that disrupted outreach meetings in Harare, the co-Home Affairs minister said the police were just as paralysed as most victims of political violence.

If anyone of them (police) dares do what they’re supposed to do, they are the ones who will end up in worse trouble. We’ve got a captive police that is not allowed to do its job which it knows best, said Makone. Until such a time when we have a comprehensive security sector reform as espoused in the Global Political Agreement we will never get an effective police force.

Makone, the MDC chairperson of the women’s assembly, said following events this week, the whole world can see what they have been saying all along, that trying to work with Zanu (PF) does not work.