This came out on Monday when the ZRP,, represented by Deputy Commissioner Innocent Matibiri, appeared before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Defence and Home Affairs that is chaired by Glen View Member of Parliament, Paul Madzore.
Matibiri is the Deputy Commissioner in charge of police operations.
He was giving oral evidence on the police’s preparedness for the referendum on the draft constitution that parliament has already endorsed and is set for 16 March, in addition to general elections slated for the second half of this year.
Matibiri claimed that 99 percent of non-governmental organisations in Zimbabwe were “ cause for worry and a serious threat to national security”, saying they displayed an “unusual kind of generosity” for providing mass communication radio sets to communities who are starved of information.
Of late, ZRP has been arresting CSO members and confiscating the shortwave radios that community members have been receiving from them.
He vowed that the police would continue to confiscate the radio sets, adding the ZRP was keen to find out how they found their way into the country.
The deputy commissioner revealed that the police had placed CSOs under surveillance, having deployed a “sufficient intelligence network”
across the country to monitor the day to day activities of NGO’s and political parties whose operations he claimed were motivated by “devious” intentions.
Matibiri appealed to the 2008 Global Political Agreement, saying it outlawed exiled media such as Studio 7.
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