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ZEC
declines to investigate Zanu-PF voter registration fraud
Tichaona Sibanda, SW Radio Africa
February 27, 2008
http://www.swradioafrica.com/news270208/zecdeclines270208.htm
The provincial elections
officer for Manicaland has declined to institute an investigation
into reports that a Zanu-PF legislator has allegedly helped 'illegal
aliens' to register as voters.
The MDC on Tuesday approached
the head of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in Mutare, Colonel
Moffat Masabeya, and informed him of reports that Zanu-PF MP for
Chipinge south Enock Porusingazi, was involved in voter registration
fraud.
It is alleged Porusingazi
had on several occasions ferried villagers from Gudu and Save in
Mozambique to the district registrar's offices in Chipinge
where he managed to get them identification cards. According to
the MDC the volatile Zanu-PF legislator would then proceed to 'have
his people registered as voters.'
'We have information
it's a syndicate between officials from the registrar's
office and Porusingazi. A number of these illegal aliens were registered
well after the deadline but their registration slips were backdated
to January,' said an MDC official.
But Colonel Masabeya
said it was not the duty of the ZEC to investigate such reports
and told the MDC to take their complaint to the police, who he said
deal with fraud cases.
The MDC was not surprised
by Masabeya's response, as he is a known serving officer in
the Zimbabwe National Army. Described as a die-hard Zanu-PF man
Colonel Masabeya lost in the 2005 primaries to represent the ruling
party in the Chimanimani constituency, currently held by State Enterprises
and Anti-corruption Minister Samuel Undenge.
Based at Dangamvura's
Chikanga 3 Brigade battalion, Colonel Masabeya was one of the army
officers who led an assault team of soldiers on to Charleswood Estate,
which they eventually grabbed at gunpoint from Roy Bennett, the
former MDC MP for Chimanimani.
'If we say the
election playing field is not level, these are the things we will
be referring to,' the MDC official said.
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