MDC-T orders council to stop harassing vendors immediately

The opposition MDC-T has ordered the Bulawayo City Council to stop harassing vendors. MDC-T provincial spokesperson Felix Mafa told journalists that the council should develop policies that promote the poor instead of hindering them.

The council should be vendor-friendly than harassing, beating them and auctioning their ware.

The party has observed time and again that after confiscating their hard-found wares, they take them to Drill Hall (Police Station) and auction them at give-away prices, with some of the wares taken by the police for their personal use without even the council benefiting.

The council does not benefit anything from these brutal operations, so why harass the residents who are trying to eradicate poverty in their families?
MDC, as a social democratic party, believes in pro-poor policies, hence we have instructed our councillors to be above board. We condemn in the strongest terms any form of vice one can think of.

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