By Own Correspondent| Opposition Movement for Democratic Change led by Nelson Chamisa has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to stop “brutalizing vendors” accusing the law enforcement agents of stealing vendors wares in their operation of removing them off the streets.

Government last week announced that vendors should leave the streets following the cholera outbreak which claimed 32 lives since September 6  2018.

In a statement, the MDC said removing vendors from the streets in an effort to prevent the spread of cholera was not the solution to the problems bedeviling the city  of Harare and the nation at large.

The opposition accused government of using cholera as an excuse to victimize people in an attempt to achieve ill-conceived goals.

Said Chamisa:

“The MDC is against the idea of blaming the victims for every calamity that befalls the motherland.

To make matters worse the apparatus deployed to enforce the Zanu PF decision are confiscating clothes and electronic gadgets from vendors, merchandise that cannot in any scientific way transmit cholera. These are clear acts of theft.”