Police Effect Ban On The Carrying Of "Dangerous and Any Traditional Weapon In Public."

Zimbabwe Republic Police has effected the ban on the carrying of dangerous weapons in the public in the Midlands Province as a way of reducing murder cases.

The development was announced by Officer Commanding Midlands Province, Commissioner Moses Magandi while addressing the Gweru Pastoral Fraternity meeting on Tuesday. Magandi said:

We are worried about the surge in all forms of crime including murder, rape and robbery perpetrated in the province. There are prohibition orders that have been put in place to ban the carrying of dangerous weapons in Gweru and the province to thwart any potential use of dangerous weapons that are calculated at causing harm to the general public.

Members of the public are banned from carrying catapults, machetes, axes, knobkerries, swords, knives or daggers and any traditional weapon in public.

The ban was first announced in January by Midlands police spokesperson Inspector Joel Goko who said that gold-rich areas such as Chirumanzu, Gokwe North, Gokwe South, Gweru, Kwekwe, Mberengwa, Shurugwi and Zvishavane are the ones targeted by the ban.

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