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Mugabe Police Block War Vets Indaba
8 March 2017
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Police in Harare have dismissed as false, reports in the media that they had allowed war veterans to meet for their indaba in the city. In a statement yesterday, Harare provincial spokesperson Assistant Inspector Tarirai Dube said the war veterans had to comply with the provisions of the law to conduct their meeting.

“The police want to make it very clear that they did not ‘OKAY’ the war vets indaba as alleged. The applicant has to comply with the provisions of the law as enshrined in the Public Order and Security Act Chapter 11:17.

 “Any gathering without compliance to the provisions of the law will be deemed unlawful,” she said.
The sentiments come after the NewsDay carried a story yesterday headlined “Police Okay War Vets Indaba”, in which they alleged that the force had finally allowed war veterans to meet in Harare for their indaba meant to discuss “Zimbabwe’s deteriorating economic, social and political crisis”.The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association (ZNLWVA) spokesperson Mr Douglas Mahiya was quoted saying police had given them the greenlight on Monday and that war veterans, Government and Zanu-PF officials were expected to attend.

In an interview yesterday, Mr Mahiya said if police had issued a statement pertaining to the issue, it means that they had denied them permission to conduct the meeting.

“They are the regulatory authority and if they have issued that statement, it means that they have denied permission. What else do you want me to say?” he said.

0 Replies to “Mugabe Police Block War Vets Indaba”

  1. It any one deserves the brutal treatment from the Police it is these war veteran thugs!

  2. These are thugs, it will serve them right it they are tear-gassed again!

  3. How ironic that the regime had for years turned a blind eye to lawlessness and thuggery by war veterans against white farmers, their workers and povo and even assisted the war veterans. Today the war veterans are being denied the right to hold a meeting. Last time the rogue war veterans defied the regime they were tear-gassed and hosed down with water cannons. It is hard to feel sorry for these war veteran thugs, they fought so hard to impose this corrupt and murderous regime on the nation it is just that the regime is giving the thugs a taste of the oppression they dished out so liberally to others.

    Mahiya and his rogue war veterans have not changed, they fact that they still want to impose VP Mnangagwa on the nation shows they are still rogues!