THE Nelson Chamisa led MDC-T claims to have unearthed gross
anomalies on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) voters’ roll released last
week, with over 400 voters registered under one non-existent residential stand
in Unit G, Chitungwiza, while another 300 reportedly appeared under one address
at Dombotombo in Marondera.
MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora confirmed the
Chitungwiza and Marondera cases yesterday, saying these were just “a tip of the
iceberg”.
“Yes, indeed, that communication has been received by my
office and we are not only dealing with that case from Chitungwiza, but from
other parts of the country as well,” he said.
“We have another case in Dombotombo, Marondera, where 300
people are registered under one address of a two-roomed house.”
Mwonzora said the Chitungwiza case was raised by the
party’s ward 25 aspiring councillor, Johannes Petros Mwandana, where it has
emerged that the 400 voters were registered under stand number 100086 Unit G, a
non-existent address.
He said his MDC-T party would today make a “strategic
intervention” after compiling the list of complaints from across the country.
“This shows that Zec was not thorough and there is a lot of
cheating going on. My office is compiling the list from the whole country
before making a strategic intervention by tomorrow (today) or Tuesday,”
Mwonzora said.
Zec chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana, however,
denied that there were any concrete cases of such gross anomalies within the
voters’ roll.
He said the case in Chitungwiza was being hyped by elements
who would want to cause alarm and despondency ahead of the July 30 polls.
“I am aware of that case (in Chitungwiza), it came to my
attention last week and I personally checked on the same voters’ roll that they
have, and under that address, only five people have registered. I do not know
what these people are trying to do. That is not true at all and I think that is
somebody who is just trying to be mischievous and cause alarm and despondency
on the part of the electorate,” Silaigwana said.
The voters’ roll released by Zec last month continues to
raise eyebrows, with recurrent cases of missing persons on the list of names
and fictitious addresses among other reported suspicious errors. Newsday
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