A
GROUP claiming to be soldiers today allegedly caused chaos at the Bulawayo Province
Census command centre, housed at the Bulawayo Polytechnic ostensibly to prevent
the induction of enumerators. The group also reportedly disrupted census
training workshops that were taking place at the college. This follows reports of
similar occurrences in Harare and Mutare yesterday as soldiers defied a cabinet
directive that soldiers will only be used as enumerators in their places of
work.
According
to sources consisting of teachers and headmasters from Bulawayo Province, the
group of over 50 men, who were in plain clothes, prevented would be enumerators
from entering the Bulawayo Polytechnic where recruitment and induction of
enumerators was taking place and maintained a vigil throughout the day to
ensure that the workshops and recruitment did not go ahead. Witnesses told
Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) that they were not sure
whether the group genuinely consisted of soldiers, but said they felt it was
connected to powerful people as the police did not pitch up to disperse the
group and allow the training workshops and recruitment to go ahead.
BPRA
is concerned that these events are an indication that Zimbabwe is degenerating
into an outpost of lawlessness with the relevant authorities looking aside as
hooligans impede on national processes. The association calls upon the police and
other interested parties to take concerted efforts to ensure that order is
restored in the census preparations so that the exercise can continue.
Regards
Information Department
Bulawayo Progressive
Residents Association
Bus. Tel: +263 9 61196
Cell: +263 773 788 183
Website: www.bprazim.org
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