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Five
Bindura men face eviction from Foot-hills farm
Restoration of Human Rights (ROHR)
August 29, 2009
Five residents
of Foot-hills farm were on Thursday attacked, and their homes destroyed,
by a gang of six ZANU Pf youths hired by former mayor of Bindura,
Webster Bepura, for resisting eviction. Webster Bepura is evicting
the five from a farm that he took over from David Baliey during
the farm invasions in 2003.
Around 0700hrs
in the morning, Jacob Chiripanyanga a self confessed war veteran,
accompanied by Webster Bepura , Masanzu, Nhauriro and other three
unidentified man stormed the homes of Obert Mujeri and his colleagues,
beat them up using sticks and clenched fist before confiscating
a bicycle belonging to Lanos Zakeo.
Obert Mujeri,
Fanuel Musona, Lanos Zakeo, Lazaurus Mafunga and Gift Mhembere,
have lived at Foot-hills farm all their lives until hell broke loose
when they were given a notice to vacate the farm before the 29th
of August. They believe they are being targeted because of their
support to the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) .
In a shocking
move, constable Nyekete from Bindura Rural Police Station, refused
to open a docket for the case but instead opted to give the assaulted
a letter to deliver to their assailants. The letter summoning Jacob
Chiripanyanga and company to Bindura Rural Police Station read:
Bindura Rural
Police Station
You are hereby
summoned to Bindura Police station without fail tomorrow Friday
28 August to explain why u have assaulted Lanos Zakeo and others
please bring the bicycle you have taken back.
Constable
Nyekete
The rights of
farm workers continue to be violated with impunity, as law enforcement
agents ignore their plight. It is regrettable, that despite the
existence of the six months old coalition government, the rule of
law remains elusive and the police continue to act unprofessionally
especially in cases that are politically motivated involving culprits
from the ZANU PF party. If ever the law is applied, it is done so
selectively.
In a separate
incident, residents of Bindura are living in constant fear following
threats of violence made by Mathias Machiridza, a ZANU PF losing
councilor for Bindura ward 3, at a meeting held at Kingstone Farm
last week. The people who attended the meeting were threatened with
severe violence in the event that they contributed contrary to the
controversial Kariba
draft constitution during the envisaged Constitution outreach
consultation process.
The Constitutional
making process has so far been marred with deep mistrust and misinformation
amidst reports of fresh rounds of intimidation campaigns looming
ahead of the setting up of thematic committees. Last month ZANU
PF thugs disrupted the all stakeholders constitutional conference
at the Harare International Conference centre in an effort to derail
the proceedings and prevent Zimbabweans from writing their own constitution.
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