Unrestrained  soldiers have gone on a rampage in Makoni North beating up residents and taking away their properties.
The first signs of the abuses were publicly seen at Honde Valley’s Hauna hospital where and on Wednesday two people were admitted suffering from bloody injuries inflicted by the army.
ZimEye is reliably informed army officers are on an illegal, abusive wild, freely grabbing stands in Hauna’s high density areas particularly in Phase Two.
In what has been blamed on local (ZANU PF) MP Luke Masamvu, the uniformed officers are forcefully taking people’s properties with neither compensation. ” Masamvu, the same legislator who earlier in the year ordered management at Nyanga Renewable Energy (NRE) company to employ only ruling party youths, ” is allegedly behind the land grabs as he allegedly connives with council bosses.
“People who might have bought stands with their hard-earned money but are yet to develop them, are just being told that their stands have been taken over. Soldiers then move in and build their houses without any form of payment to the stand owner,” sources said.
Contacted for comment, the Mutasa North MP told ZimEye.com he is not aware of any of the attacks taking place. He demanded for a police report before he could speak. “Do you have a police report in relevance to that matter?,” he said.
He continued:
“How can a person be attacked and he doesn’t go to the police to report, if the information (you got) was correct?

“If they want to relay certain information, they should put it in writing, not in a false manner(sic),” Masamvu added.
But recorded evidence at the hospital shows of a truth two residents were admitted Wednesday from wounds inflicted by the soldiers and our sources insist the violations do exist adding, “those against are then being beaten up or vosungwa nekurohwa voendeswa kuArmy Barracks dzepa Hauna Growth point.
“This is happening like right now and noone seems to care or protect the people,” the report continued.
“Of the abused are people initially allocated by the Mutasa District Council or those who had bought them with their hard earned money.
“And due to the current hardships, some people have been finding it difficult to build structures
“Vanhu vari kurohwa and last night two people were admitted at Hauna Hospital after being badly beaten up nemasoja.
“Their argument is vaive vaka promiswa ma-stands neCouncil and Council has failed to allocate the stands to them and they have no choice to grab all undeveloped stands – stands that were legitimately allocated to the people of Mutasa District by the same council.
And because kumaruzevha and very far away from the media, vanhu vamwe chembere havana kana kwekuhwanda and are surrendering their properties.
“We hope kuti at least someone can follow up. This is being done by the evil MP Masamvu with knowledge ye council.
“Why can’t the council allocate the Army its own area with their own stands?”
After a lengthy battle Saturday morning, MP Masamvu finally agreed with ZmEye.com to investigate on the matter.