President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been criticised for being inconsistent and untruthful when handling issues with the public, especially regarding the August 1, 2018, and January 2019 killings.
The Daily News editor castigates Mnangagwa for his “bolt-from-the-blue admission” of deploying the army. The report reads in part:
He … admitted to deploying the army in January, during a three-day stay-away organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, in which more than a dozen unarmed civilians died.
Mnangagwa’s bolt-from-the-blue admission, which came via a notice read out in Parliament by Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, really took many by surprise because speculation at the time of the killings wrongly suggested the deployments had been ordered by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga.
Interestingly, despite the fact that the general public was wrongly accusing his deputy of illegally deploying the army onto the streets of Harare to suppress post-election demonstrations, Mnangagwa never set the record straight. Instead, he set up a Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 post-election violence.
The assumption at the time was that Mnangagwa set up the inquiry in a bid to provide answers to at least two questions that were on everybody’s lips: Who ordered the army onto the streets of Harare to deal with the violent demonstrations and who pulled the trigger on defenceless civilians?
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Which iunyrt in thecwod would fail to use in e ammunition. When rioters run a police station a d kill a police officer.
Which country in the world would fail to use live ammunition. When rioters burn a police station and kill a police officer.
The army attempted on both occassions to refuse that they were the ones who shot people. So which is it? If they had nothing to hide why did they refuse to take responsibility from the onset.