Women Criticise Police For Selective Application Of The Law
Zimbabwean women say they don’t feel safe exercising their political rights due to the selective enforcement of the law by law enforcers.
The issue was raised during an online meeting, Thursday, organised by the Women’s Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) on promoting peace and security of women during the electoral cycle, reported Senzeni Ncube writing for CITE.
This follows recent brutal attacks on female politicians belonging to the opposition CCC in Insiza by suspected ZANU PF activists.
Speaking during the online meeting, development practitioner and lawyer Nikiwe Ncube-Tshabalala said the police should guarantee the security of women during elections. She said:
We have laws in place that are supposed to protect us, we have the criminal law codification act, which criminalizes acts of violence against not only women but all the members of society, it’s an offence to do assault, public violence, it’s called disorderly conduct, so what really has been lacking is the law enforcement that is letting us down as women because those laws are sufficient but if only the police could enforce them up to the level that we expect them to enforce those laws.
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We don’t know what really is happening on the ground, we don’t have anything tangible to say this is how they do their work, so thus where we are having a challenge, our women, as a result, are not secure at all because the laws are there but who will guarantee that I am not going to be attacked if I go to Plumtree for example to exercise my political right?
We have seen women being attacked already, someone is in a hospital bed now, with two broken arms and we are saying what have the police done, have they accounted for her assailants?
The measure that has to be put is to rope in all the stakeholders, especially law enforcement, I think they are letting us down.
Precious Ndlovu from Youth in Progress Trust in Bulilima said women in politics have lost faith in the Zimbabwe Republic Police’s will to protect them.
