THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) has reiterated that it
has nothing to do with any illegal July 31 demonstration, as has been falsely
peddled on social media platforms, and will not be involved in anti-people
activities or political shenanigans.
In a statement, the ZDF said it did not involve itself “in
anti-people activities designed to achieve anti-Government political and
economic objectives by some malcontents within our citizenry”.
Fake social media messages have produce a plethora of
disinformation saying the defence forces supported a demonstration this week
and that the defence forces helped the MDC-T takeover Morgan Tsvangirai House,
and all have been dismissed as rubbish by the ZDF.
In a statement, Defence Forces Commander General Philip
Valerio Sibanda said the allegations were just figments of the social media
websites imaginations.
“The Zimbabwe Defence Forces notes with concern the
concerted efforts by some sections of the private media, which are bent on
dragging the ZDF into their political scheming. This is evidenced by an online
news item titled, ‘Military backing demo’ published by Transform Zimbabwe on
Chimurenga Radio on 13 July 2020. On the same day there was another publication
by ZimEye in their article, ‘The army has been used to settle politics’ and
that the ZDF and ‘other security structures are literally used to silence,
remove and oppress the people of Zimbabwe in a bid to keep ZANU PF in power’.
Further to this scheming, ZimEye on 5 June 2020, claimed that the ZDF had
helped the MDC-T, led by Thokozani Khupe to reclaim Morgan Richard Tsvangirai
House, formerly Harvest House, from the MDC-Alliance.
“These claims and assertions are the work of very fertile
imagination of the authors of these articles, which members of the public
should dismiss with the contempt they deserve. They are aimed at unfairly using
the security establishment to drum up support for their planned illegal
anti-Government protests.” Herald
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