By Own Correspondent| Opposition MDC president Nelson Chamisa said that his hands are pure as far as the shedding of innocent blood on August 1 is concerned.

August 1, 2018, has become infamous because of the shooting to death of six unarmed civilians allegedly by soldiers who had been called into Harare CBD to disperse protestors.

While giving his testimony before the Kgalema Motlanthe-led Commission of Inquiry on Monday evening, Chamisa bemoaned the moral decadence which has engulfed state institutions.

He expressed shock with the testimonies made by soldiers and police whom he accused of lying under oath.

Chamisa said:

“My resolve is unbreakable and my heart is pure, these hands you see have not spilt blood, these are clean hands, the mouth you see here has never conspired to have a life that is lost on the basis of political violence.

We will not walk to State House in the blood of the innocent. The paradox is that the allegations are being made by those whose hands are unclean.

In the context of August 1, this was a plan that was done well ahead by the deployment of water cannons at Harvest House on July 28, on a Saturday. Why would you deploy tanks at Harvest House and not at Zanu PF headquarters?

These are both political parties that are in an election but you have already deployed against one and have already worked on a presumption that there is going to be a demonstration that is going to come or emanate from one party and not the other.”