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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Midlands Minister for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Larry Mavhima has refuted claims that members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) are brutalising Gokwe-Nembudziya communities for violating lockdown regulations.<\/p>\n

This comes after Zanu-PF women\u2019s league commissar Maybe Mbowa alleged that soldiers were beating up villagers in the area. Said Mavhima:<\/p>\n

Nothing of that sort ever happened, that is fake news. The army did not brutalise anyone in Gokwe-Nembudziya; any reports to that effect are nothing but fake news.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament, Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu-PF), recently described the reports of army brutality in the district as \u201cmischievous and poisonous\u201d. He said:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not surprising that her audio was first published by UK based online sites and well known Government critics before even being shared locally, a move calculated to bolster the UK\u2019s defence on its imposition of sanctions on the aforementioned members of the Security Services on the basis of \u2018human rights violations\u2019.<\/p>\n

These very damaging lies cannot and should not be ignored because of their broader implications locally and globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Midlands Minister for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Larry Mavhima has refuted claims that members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) are brutalising Gokwe-Nembudziya communities for violating lockdown regulations. This comes after Zanu-PF women\u2019s league commissar Maybe Mbowa alleged that soldiers were beating up villagers in the area. 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