Tinashe Sambiri|Outspoken cleric, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya has reprimanded Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa over the incessant abuse of human rights in the country.

According to Bishop Magaya, the people of Zimbabwe are suffering due to COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis such that Mr Mnangagwa should not pile more misery on them.

See statement below:

THE EFFECTS OF COVID 19 ARE MORE THAN WHAT PEOPLE CAN BEAR, SO STATE ORGANS DO NOT ADD MORE PAIN.

While the second wave of this diabolic pandemic is more vicious than the first and therefore more needful for people to exercise much caution, we remain concerned that the recently announced ban on gatherings may be taken advantage of to violate people’s God give rights.

A spate of arbitrary arrests, selective application of the law and brutalization of activists among other vices we witnessed during the previous phase were aggregately a mockery of our justice system.

The smashing of a Kombi window screen resulting in the mother and baby passengers injured last Monday for instance was totally uncalled for.

President Mnangagwa’s government should clearly demonstrate that they do not intend this time around to match the effects of this diabolic pandemic which has been masterminded and instigated from hell, to wipe out people’s hope by arbitrarily arresting, abducting, torturing and brutalizing them.

By now, it has become abundantly clear that COVID 19 knows no political barriers and therefore there should never be any intention to bastardize any section of our society purely on the basis of their political opinion.

What unites us is much bigger than what divides us.

I wish you all a prosperous year even in the gravest of these circumstances.