The MDC-T estimates that more than 200 of its supporters were murdered in 2008 by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) supporters in the run-up to the bloody presidential run-off that Mugabe contested alone in June.
“We have engaged a new security officer. We have reasonable grounds to suspect that some of the town’s guns were used during the 2008 presidential election run-off,” said Farai Nyandoro, the mayor of the small town, about 70 km from the capital Harare.
Despite the MDC-T assertions that its members were killed in cold blood, no arrests have been made on the suspected Zanu (PF) murderers, many of whom continue to break the law with impunity.
The police, widely regarded as pro-Zanu (PF), have done nothing to investigate the charges.
“We are not on a witch hunt, but we do seek to establish the truth and bring to book anyone who abused the guns that went missing in 2008. As a council we must establish whether there was any abuse of municipal property,” said Nyandoro.
The previous Marondera council was predominantly composed of Zanu (PF) Supporters, including the security chief of Mashonaland East Province and Lawrence Katsiru, who acted as the town’s public relations manager.
Post published in: Zimbabwe News