By Paul Nyathi|The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has refused to provide election stakeholders with copies of the provisional voters roll which was being inspected by voters for the last ten days.

In a reaction to the rather strange move by the Commision, elections watchdog the Election Resource Centre on Tuesday made an urgent chamber application seeking a court order compelling ZEC to release the Provisional Voters’ Roll used for the current Inspection Period

Opposition MDC Alliance coalition candidate who is also the MDC Secretary for Legal Affairs David Coltart questioned why the electoral commission was refusing with the roll hinting that the commission is being controlled by the military.

“This is a critically important case. The question is why the ZEC has to be taken to court at all to get this information? If this was a truly independent body, and not controlled by the military, one would think it would be committed to transparency,” said Coltart.

The court had not yet made a determination on the issue at the time ZimEye.com wrote this article.