Narrating his ordeal to Heal Zimbabwe, Councillor Njanjazi said that the security personnel at the house said around 1am, he saw two unidentified vehicles approaching the house. When he approached the people in the vehicle, they produced a gun and ordered him to lie on the ground. Several youths then started destroying the durawall and then proceeded to the house and started smashing window panes.
In a separate incident of arson, a bar belonging to the MDC-T Vice President along Coventry road in Harare was burnt by unidentified people on the same night. VP Mudzuri highlighted that he was shocked by this targeted attack and said that whoever performed the attack had ulterior motives. Speaking on the same issue, security personnel at the bar said that around midnight, a Mazda BT50 truck came and parked in front of the locked bar gate. Five men then proceeded out of the car and smashed the gate and gained entrance into the premises. Within minutes the men had set ablaze the thatched bar.
These latest criminal incidences come hardly a week after a vehicle belonging to the MDC-T was burnt in Kuwadzana in yet another suspected case of arson. Heal Zimbabwe notes that such acts of targeted attacks compromise the prospects for peace as the nation gears up for the 2018 elections. Heal Zimbabwe posits that such acts of political violence also justify why Heal Zimbabwe has been imploring Government to fully operationalize the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), a commission charged with developing mechanisms for early detection of areas of potential conflicts and disputes, and to take appropriate preventive measures. Heal Zimbabwe also implores political parties to reign in errant supporters who perpetrate violence. The police must also launch a thorough investigation and apprehend the culprits.
NB: Heal Zimbabwe is currently operating a 24hr early warning and early response system ahead of the 2018 elections. Please feel free to report any cases of human rights violations on the following numbers: +263 785 699 910, +263 779 449 071
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It is good when the political violence affect the opposition politicians themselves because they will finally acknowledge it. Povo have endured untold violence for decades and these politicians have all paid lip service to ending violence. Why did Mudzuri and his MDC friends fail to implement even one reform during the GNU; all this would not be happening today if they had done so!
Now that the Zanu PF are burning the grass under MDC-T leaders themselves’ feet, there is a chance they will listen and withdraw from contesting flawed elections. Elias Mudzuri will not contest next year’s elections if some one was to tell him that he will be beaten by Zanu PF thugs if he did. And yet he will contest even if he was told that hundreds of thousands of MDC-T supporters will be beaten and raped and hundreds murdered. This is how selfish and greed these MDC leaders are!