OUTSPOKEN former Zanu PF MP for Hurungwe East, Sarah
Mahoka, has accused State security agents and ruling party activists of calling
her at odd hours and threatening to harm her after she defected to the
opposition National Patriotic Front (NPF).
Mahoka told NewsDay yesterday that Zanu PF members were
also destroying NPF campaign material, including posters, and ordering her
supporters to dump her ahead of the July 30 polls.
“I reported the matter at Karoi Police Station yesterday
(Monday). Some Zanu PF supporters have been calling me and threatening my
supporters. They have openly told me that they want to burn my warehouses to
destroy my maize grain, which they claimed I am using for campaign purposes,”
she said.
“This is the second time. They once threatened to destroy
all my cattle with the belief that if I become poor, I will rejoin Zanu PF.
Most people are now living in fear in Hurungwe East.”
Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson Ziyambi
Ziyambi said he was unaware of the incident and urged Mahoka to report the
matter to the police.
“President (Emmerson) Mnangagwa is on record saying we want
free and fair elections. We don’t want violence and we encourage Mahoka to
report them to the police because there could be some people hiding behind the
name of the party to perpetrate violence and they should be brought to book,”
he said.
Mashonaland West provincial police spokesperson, Inspector
Clemence Mabweazara yesterday said he was yet to receive a report on the Mahoka
case.
Several opposition MDC-T activists in the area have also
raised similar complaints with the party’s Chirundu district chairperson,
Lovemore Kwanda, accusing police of being reluctant to arrest the alleged Zanu
PF perpetrators. Newsday
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