By A Correspondent| Everything has been shut in Chitungwiza following running attacks against civilians by the police in Chitungwiza.

13 people who had simply visited their Hon. Sikhala had been reported arrested at the time of writing.

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Zengeza MP Job Sikhala told ZimEye, ‘the battle is still ongoing, everything has been shut down in Chitungwiza and St Mary’s, and there are no buses nothing is moving.”

He was asked to comment about possible casualties and he said, “injuries I haven’t received anything but what I heard is that the police without moving hunting door-to-door, trying to hunt for MDC persons, MDC members houses in St Mary’s and what I understand is that 13 of those people who visited my house were arrested,” he said.

Meanwhile, the MDC Deputy Spokesman Luke Tborinyoka commented saying:
the illegitimate ED regime has gone utterly berserk in Chitungwiza, with heavily armed police sealing off St Mary’s, persecuting party leaders and
indiscriminately arresting party youths in this high density area of Chitungwiza.

Among those arrested is national youth assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma while the MP for the area and MDC Deputy National
Chair Hon. Hon Sikhala was summoned to the police for no clear reason.

The police went on an orgy of violence in St Mary’s, breaking doors and barging into private homes in search of anyone suspected to be MDC.

No reason was given for the siege and the State-sanctioned violence. Last week, Zanu PF distributed fliers mobilising their supporters to siege
the rural home of President Nelson Chamisa in Gutu as well as the urban homes of Vice President Tendai Biti and Deputy National Chairperson
Hon. Sikhala.

The MDC regards the siege in St Mary’s and the incessant harassment of party leaders as needless persecution. The regime is treating the
MDC as a terrorist organisation when it is a legitimate political party represented in Parliament and running the majority of local government
councils.

The MDC has declared 2020 as the year of Action and no amount of intimidation will cow the nation from sonorously expressing their
displeasure at the illegitimate regime that has dismally failed to address the challenges facing the people.

It is the people who are truly sovereign and terror tactics will not work. State-sanctioned violence will not stop any idea whose time has come.