A source at the ZESN offices said several police officers armed with a search warrant, invaded the offices around 11:00 this morning, claiming they were searching for subversive material they believed was being kept at the offices and illegal immigrants being harboured there.
Details of the Harare raid are still sketchy but it is understood no arrests were made after the police found no incriminating evidence.
Meanwhile, reports from Masvingo indicate that the ZESN offices situated in Hofmeyer Street were also raided early this morning by suspected Central Intelligence Organisation agents who came in two Nissan Hardbody trucks.
“In the early hours of today around 2am ZESN offices were besieged by two Nissan Hardbody trucks without number plates at their Hofmeyer Offices in Masvingo.
“Party of the contingent approached the security guard and tricked him that they were ZESN officials from Harare and were rushing to Chiredzi to implement a program,” read a statement from a civil society organisation, Community Tolerance, Reconciliation and Development.
They said the men used a bolt-cutter to gain entry into the offices where they took away a computer, T-shirts and chairs after abducting the guard manning the premises.
The raid, COTRAD said, was a continued crackdown targeting Non Governmental Organisations dealing with election related programmes. The organisation said a police team deployed to investigate the raid composed of known CIO agents, some of whom had taken part in the disruption of a ZESN meeting two weeks before.
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