Terrence Mawawa, Chivi |Members of the Zimbabwe National Army brutally assaulted vendors at Mhandamabwe Business Centre for failing to give them money to buy food.
A group of six soldiers from Chivi Growth Point arrived at Mhandamhabwe Business Centre last week and demanded money to buy food from the vendors.
The vendors indicated that they did not have the money. This angered the soldiers who forced the vendors to roll on the ground.
“Vendors were forced to roll in the mud at Mhandamabwe Business Centre.The soldiers also ordered the vendors to close their market stalls.
Women were ordered to go and look for the money at their respective residential places,” said a local shop attendant.
“The soldiers told us we should cater for their food expenses and we never took it seriously.
So when they came back we tried to negotiate with them but they would not listen to what we explained to them,” said a vendor who declined to be named.
Last week the Zimbabwe Defence Forces released a statement urging soldiers to desist from violence.
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Dzimwe nyaya ndedzekunyepa.
Lies of highest order. Poor reporting as well.
This is the problem we are probably going to see at election time… Cases like these will be heard everywhere
Some of these things are mis-reported in cases where vendors refuse to move to designated areas and soldiers try to insist. We need to read with a bit of eyes open as vendors like to be in charge of council decisions now after Mugabe gave them power to defy the police.
A country where people in any group no matter how well connected, refuse to obey police or the law so publicly is not a country that anyone, including the writer of this article, would like to live in.
Police, no matter how corrupt or dangerous or both, are a valuable resource to their nation. We need to encourage them to just do their job well. Vendors are equally valuable and should obey the laws. Designated areas would improve general health of the nation and also make policing easier, a benefit to all of us.
I hope this gets nipped in the bud. This is the problem of involving the military in civilian issues.
Arrest the soldiers to prove that the new government doesn’t tolerate corruption.