{"id":3550,"date":"2019-02-11T14:02:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T14:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2019-02-11T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T14:03:10","slug":"zimbawe-now-military-state-chamisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbawe-now-military-state-chamisa","title":{"rendered":"Zimbawe now military State: Chamisa"},"content":{"rendered":"

ZIMBABWE has effectively moved from a police, to a military State, where members of the army are now being used to maintain order while police have been reduced to spectators, MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with NewsDay on Friday, Chamisa said while a police State under President Robert Mugabe was bad enough; things had become worse because the military has taken over.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a problem; it\u2019s bad enough to have a police State and when ED [President Emmerson Mnangagwa] came before elections after the November thing, he removed roadblocks, yet it was a decoy, he has even moved the country from a police State to a militarised State. We love our soldiers, we honour our soldiers; they are patriotic; but, honestly, why are politicians abusing our soldiers to draw them into issues that are not supposed to be theirs?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

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Chamisa, who snubbed Mnangagwa\u2019s meeting to come up with a roadmap for dialogue at State House last week, said the army was being used to further Zanu PF\u2019s stranglehold on power.<\/p>\n

His statements followed reports that elements of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) had taken over policing duties from the police who, since the coup last year, have been treated with suspicion because of their perceived loyalty to Mugabe.<\/p>\n

Until last Thursday, armed soldiers had become a common and permanent feature at major roadblocks mounted 24 hours a day on highways, while at some police stations, members of the military had pitched tents where they were now sleeping.<\/p>\n

Sources in the police told NewsDay that while the soldiers appeared to be working under instruction of the police, it was the army that was effectively in charge of operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are as scared of the soldiers as the civilians are. The police is not trusted. As we go out on patrols and roadblocks, we take instructions from the soldiers, this is how
\nthe system works because we are viewed as anti the current establishment,\u201d a highly-placed police source said.<\/p>\n

The army has since, through Major-General Douglas Nyikayaramba, conceded that they had taken charge after protesters overran police stations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey (protesters) overran police stations, burnt police and public transport vehicles and also killed citizens, including a police officer. They broke into police armouries, stealing weapons and ammunition, which they used to kill people.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad the military not come in support of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, one wonders whether the whole country would not have been looted that day. The ZDF (Zimbabwe Defence Forces) however, regrets the loss of life which followed the unnecessary disturbances,\u201d Nyikayaramba said, justifying military intervention.<\/p>\n

But MDC spokesperson Jacob Mafume dismissed Nyikayaramba, saying the deployment of soldiers was illegal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are deploying the military not to assist the police, but to prop up Zanu PF, we have become a West African-style military dictatorship, if you remember the military dictatorships of West Africa, of the 1980s and 1990s where the army said that they have to intervene in all sphere\u2019s of civilian life, command agriculture, command justice, command policing, command housing and everything else has to be done through a military dictatorship. It is a model that failed in West Africa and it is a model that will fail
\nin Zimbabwe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mafume said, in line with the Constitution, the army should only be deployed during an emergency or where police were unable to discharge their duties, not on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe deployment of soldiers should be a process to assist the police, there should be an emergency or there should be a state were the police are now overwhelmed and cannot carry out their normal duties, it is not every day that soldiers are deployed, that is illegal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ZIMBABWE has effectively moved from a police, to a military State, where members of the army are now being used to maintain order while police have been reduced to spectators, MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said. 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