The building is owned by the National Social Security Authority (NSSA).
The organization which fight for the rights of the youths is accused by NSSA of engaging in ant-government activities.
Some of the reasons cited by NSSA is that our organization is producing and distributing a purportedly anti-government organization and holding meetings with a large number of people on its premises said NYDT in a statement to The
Zimbabwean.
The NYDT management said the organization had a two year running lease agreement with NSSA.
We have been paying our rentals in time and we have not been doing anything sinister. I think we are being victimized for trying to politically empower our youths. Since we started our youths voter registration mobilization exercise last month, law enforcement agencies has been all over us, said the organization.
During the past week, NYDT has suffered successive interruptions of its activities by police and Zanu (PF) supporters.
Last month police in Binga cancelled the groups youth sports festival claiming that the event was not cleared by the police.
NYDT meetings in Matabeleland North and South have also been disrupted by war veterans and Zanu (PF) supporters in recent weeks .The organization had also its youth arts festival recently violently stopped by police in Nkulumane.
The eviction of NYDT from Compensation House, which is owned by pensioners, comes hard on the heels on the arrest of 14 members of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise in Mabuthweni and Entumbane who were undergoing some training on
leadership. Another civic organization, Bulawayo Agenda, has not been spared either as its Weekly publication, Weekly Agenda, is now under siege. The papers distributor in Hwange is reportedly in hiding after soldiers chased after him when he was distributing the paper.
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