Staff Reporter|ZANU PF Member of Parliament for Nkayi South Stars Mathe on Thursday made shocking praises on President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the army’s brutal killing of six people in the streets of Harare on August 1

Contributing to the parliamentary debate on President Mnangagwa’s address to parliament,Mathe said that Mnangagwa showed that he was committed to maintaining peace in the country by allowing the soldiers to shoot live ammunition at unarmed civilians.

The August 1 violence erupted in central Harare with hordes of MDC Alliance supporters taking to the streets to protest alleged poll fraud by Zanu PF following the July 30 national elections which restored the ruling party’s two thirds majority in parliament.

“I am also congratulating His Excellency the President and praising him greatly because he showed that he is a hero; he is somebody who is to be emulated,” he said.

“He was courageous enough to take the steps of trying to make peace in the country, taking all the steps to protect the public because there were some elements in our society who wanted to create chaos and the country would have been plunged into darkness.

“If he had not taken the bold steps of cutting off that violence, many people would have lost lives. As I am speaking, because of the steps he took Zimbabwe has peace.”

President Mnangagwa has always distanced himself from the killings that have attracted a world wide condemnation. He has gone further to set up a commission of inquiry to report to him on who deployed the soldiers into the streets and circumstances around the brutal killings.