According to highly placed sources in the national army, selected members of the army received payments in the form of cash deposits in their bank accounts. The allowances will be paid on a monthly basis until the day of elections, our sources revealed.
“We got information from our senior officers that some money had been deposited in our accounts on parade on Friday. When I checked my account I saw that there was US$250 which came in the form of unspecified “allowances”.
“According to information leaked from our intelligence department, the recipients of this payment are supposed to be deployed to the rural areas by the end of November while others are reported to have already been deployed,” said a highly placed source at Defence House.
Meanwhilem some CIO operatives have been planted within the country’s uniformed forces organizations in the face of growing unpopularity for Zanu (PF) among members of the uniformed forces.
Another source at Harare Central police’s law and order section also revealed that the organization’s Police Internal Security and Intelligence (PISI) department, Zimbabwe Prison Service’s Security department and National Army’s Zimbabwe Intelligence Corps (ZIC) have been infiltrated by members of the Central Intelligence organization (CIO).
Defence Minister Emerson Mnangagwa recently told parliamentarians that the
army had the mandate to protect the country, hence the deployment of soldiers across the country, but denied that the deployments were for political intimidation and terror to secure votes.
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