Farai Dziva|A Government spokesperson has claimed ARTUZ president Obert Masaraure’s bruises are self-inflicted.

In an interview yesterday, Information and Broadcasting Services permanent secretary Nick Mangagwa claimed the wounds that Masaraure had were self-inflicted.

“We have checked with the security services including the police and they do not know anything about that. There is not even a police report that was made. We believe that this was stage-managed to put Zimbabwe in very bad light since Zimbabwe and the European Union (EU) have launched a formal political dialogue process,” Mangwana told a state run publication.

“The police did not do it (abduct him), the intelligence did not do it. He inflicted the bruises on himself to give a bad picture about the Government after he had called for a strike that was not successful.
“It does not mean it’s the State that inflicted the bruises on him, the State does not have monopoly on bruises. This has nothing to do with the State, its self-inflicted.”