10-01-2021
The panic stricken Emmerson Mnangagwa’s fascist regime must be warned that the continued muzzling of citizens’ basic freedoms and rights breeds trouble.
In just less than ten days into the new year, 2021, Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rogue regime simply carried forward its thuggish behavior on every dissenting voices.
Just a few days after the release of ARTUZ trade unionist, Sheila Chisirimunhu, Mnangagwa’s daring dictatorship yesterday locked up journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and MDC Alliance Vice Chairperson, Job Sikhala.
The duo’s only crime is raising alarm on the police’s heavy handedness on harmless citizens when enforcing Covid-19 lockdown regulations as highlighted by a sore video where a police officer was captured hitting a baby strapped on a mother’s back.
Only that dictators have short memories and never learn from the past!
The Arab Spring popular revolution that toppled Tunisia dictator Ben Ali had the exact traits of immoral and spineless heavy handedness of police on citizens already struggling to put food on the table.
Citizens have every right to express their disgust at the unprofessional behavior of a police force supposedly expected to protect citizens especially given the experiences of the past.
Remember this is the same police force that last year tear gassed a bus with toddlers and the elderly at Harare Showgrounds bus terminus yet the public is still in the dark as to what became of those rogue police officers that threw tear gas.
We have every reason to be skeptical of this police force given that the same institution through its spokesperson Paul Nyathi once told us that the trio of MDC Alliance female youth leaders, Cecilia Chimbiri, Joana Mamombe and Netsai Marova were in their custody only to pull a summersault and the trio were three days later found bruised and sexually assaulted.
How can citizens fail to raise alarm on police immoral misbehavior when in the past we witnessed butchering of innocent citizens on 01 August 2018 by the police’s sister organization, the military.
Student activist, Allan Moyo and Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume are also languishing in prison just because they see things differently to the establishment.
By these senseless arrests and detentions, Mnangagwa is stirring the hornet’s nest.
Our rights to information, freedom of expression and hold opinion must be respected. In a season where poverty and Covid-19 reign supreme, the regime can do better by arresting those two instead of arresting voices of reason.
Mnangagwa risks public wrath if he continues in this path!
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Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
