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INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday claimed\u00a0 government\u2019s intelligence operatives had concluded that the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition party was responsible for the January 14 to 16 stayaways, which turned violent.<\/p>\n
Mutsvangwa said this in the Senate in response to questions from\u00a0 MDC Alliance legislators who wanted\u00a0 to know why government was attributing the protests against fuel price hikes to the opposition when, in fact, the stayaway was the brainchild of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and some pressure groups.<\/p>\n
Masvingo Senator Tichinani Mavetera (MDC Alliance) had quizzed Mutsvangwa on why the State media was peddling falsehoods, which had the potential to divide the nation.<\/p>\n
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Mutsvangwa said intelligence gathered by government had found out that the MDC had held two meetings in Harare to organise the protests.<\/p>\nNewly sworn-in President Emmerson Mnangagwa speaks during the Inauguration ceremony at the National Sport Stadium in Harare, on November 24, 2017. Zimbabwe’s newly sworn-in President Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed during his inauguration speech on November 24 to protect foreign investments in the country as he sought to lay out his economic credentials. “In this global world no nation is, can, or need be an island. All foreign investments will be safe in Zimbabwe,” he told a crowd of tens of thousands at his inauguration ceremony. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ Zinyange AUNTONY (Photo credit should read ZINYANGE AUNTONY\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cThis country has got intelligence departments and there is nothing which happens without intelligence knowing.\u00a0 There was a threat of regime change, and there was a meeting on November 3 and November 7 at Wild Geese (Lodge) and on January 12 at Belvedere, and there is a record of that report.\u00a0 We would not have enjoyed this peace if we did not have intelligence,\u201d\u00a0 she alleged.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt was an uprising and we saw hooligans looting shops and vehicles being torched, and police on duty were stoned to death and roads barricaded.\u00a0 There was unnecessary loss of life, but government intervened and managed to quell the noise and now we have peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier, Mashonaland East MP Wunganayi Tapfumanei had asked Home Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro to explain how government had come to the conclusion that the demonstrators were MDC supporters when they were not in party regalia. But Madiro said it was a question for Mutsvangwa.<\/p>\n
Senator Martha Muronzi (Mashonaland Central) then grilled Mutsvangwa over women abuse.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt does not matter who has broken the law. They will be arrested.\u00a0 As a woman, I am pained by reports that there were women that were raped because we want to give women their dignity.\u00a0 Our police have established victim-friendly desks to treat the rape victims with empathy.\u00a0 We also encourage civil society to assist the affected women to come forward and report the cases,\u201d Mutsvangwa said.<\/p>\n
Midlands Senator Morgen Komichi (MDC Alliance) asked\u00a0 Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi if\u00a0 government\u2019s solutions to quashing\u00a0 stayaways was to use brutal force.<\/p>\n
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday claimed\u00a0 government\u2019s intelligence operatives had concluded that the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition party was responsible for the January 14 to 16 stayaways, which turned violent. Mutsvangwa said this in the Senate in response to questions from\u00a0 MDC Alliance legislators who wanted\u00a0 to know why government was attributing the protests against fuel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,9,10],"tags":[87,55,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-3041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-miscellaneous","10":"category-parties","11":"tag-chasima","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-mdc"},"yoast_head":"\n
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