Residents and vendors urged not to fight municipal cops by Mayor

Bulawayo residents and vendors have been told not to fight municipal cops.  This was said by Bulawayo Mayor, Martin Moyo after classes between the municipal cops and vendors.  Vendors accuse the council police of brutality, after they allegedly beat a vendor till he passed out.

The mayor said:

We want to manage the vendors. Municipal police do not want to fight the vendors, but the vendors always attack our police. It’s even worse when they are conducting raids near illegal pick-up points, as touts tend to incite each other to beat our police.

We appeal for sanity as municipal police have become targets of attack. People have been made to believe that our municipal police are against the vendors, yet it is the other way round. They are ganging up against municipal police.

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