The Zimbabwe Republic Police has arrested seven people,
believed to be in the business of making and supplying machetes to robbers.
They were arrested during raids conducted at Siya-So home
industrial area in Mbare where 31 machetes were recovered.
Information gathered by The Herald revealed that the
machetes prices ranged from US$6 to US$10 each. National police spokesperson
Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi
In an interview, national police spokesperson Assistant
Commissioner Paul Nyathi said on Thursday, the police carried out raids at
Siya-so and Matapi areas in Mbare where they arrested seven suspects.
“Yesterday we conducted raids at Siya-so and Matapi where
seven accused persons were arrested for selling machetes to the machete gangs.
We recovered 31 machetes,” he said.
Assistant Commissioner Nyathi said some of the suspects
escaped during the raid.
Police, however, has, for the next three months prohibited
the carrying of weapons by members of the public, as use of the dangerous
weapons in criminal activities surges.
Assistant Commissioner
Nyathi urged the public to take heed of the prohibition notices in their
respective areas.
Failure to comply with the order, Assistant Commissioner
Nyathi said, will render one guilty of an offence that attracts a jail term.
“In accordance with Section (4) (1) of the Maintenance of
Peace and Order Act (MOPA) Chapter 11:23, Officers Commanding Police Districts
also known as regulating authorities have now prohibited the carrying, whether
openly or by concealment, in public places or public thoroughfares or public
display of catapults, machetes, axes, knobkerries, swords, knives, stones or
daggers or items capable of use as weapons and likely to occasion public
disorder or a breach of peace,” he said. Herald
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