Officers from the Law and Order section, armed with a search warrant, invaded the offices around 11am on Tuesday, claiming they were searching for subversive material they believed was being kept at the offices and illegal immigrants being harboured there.
Meanwhile, reports from Masvingo indicate that the ZESN offices situated in Hofmeyer Street were also raided early Tuesday by suspected Central Intelligence Organisation agents who came in two Nissan Hardbody trucks.
“Part 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 programme,” 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.
COTRAD described the rain as “part of a continued crackdown targeting NGOs dealing with election related programmes” and said a police team deployed to investigate the raid included known CIO agents, some of whom had taken part in the disruption of a ZESN meeting two weeks before.
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