By Staff Writer
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) stage managed the violence incident which resulted in one elderly citizen being injured severely in Murewa over the weekend in a bid to tarnish the ruling party’s image, Zanu-pf Mashonaland East provincial chairperson Daniel Garwe has claimed.
In a statement, Zanu PF chairperson for Mashonaland East Honourable Daniel Garwe said that they had noted with great concern a video circulating on social media purportedly showing a group of individuals physically abusing elderly people in Murewa.
He did not however provide any substantial evidence in his pre-emptive claims made before the release of the findings by the Zimbabwe Republic Police.
Garwe said there was no justification whatsoever that the assailants were members of the ruling party.
“Apart from the disgusting physical abuse captured in the video, the Province is disturbed by allegations that the perpetrators are Zanu PF members acting on behalf of unidentified bosses.
“The Province hereby distances itself from the individuals in the viral video. They are neither members of Zanu PF Mashonaland East Province nor any known affiliate and were clearly hired to further nefarious agendas including soiling the i mage of His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Second Republic.
“These individuals are not identified anywhere in the video by word or clothing as members of our peace-loving Party. It is therefore presumptuous, hasty and even sinister, to rush to brand them as Zanu PF members given that we are in an election season often fraught with all sorts of chicanery,” said the minister.
The National Housing and Social amenities minister said CCC’s propensity to stage-manage political violence incidents ahead of elections is well documented adding that some of the opposition’s senior officials are currently before the courts for such lies.
“The possibility that the Murewa incident was also stage-managed to draw negative international attention should not be discounted at this point.”
Garwe said the public should wait for the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to conclude investigations before pointing fingers at Zanu PF.
“We say no to violence, disunity and unrest and call on the Police to speedily bring the perpetrators captured in the video to face the full wrath of the law,” he said.
