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Chihuri must smell the coffee and change
Movement for Democratic Change
March 04, 2011

Remarks by Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri highlights one of the fundamental problems facing Zimbabwe today: a biased, partisan Zanu PF activist masquerading as a national, professional police chief whose Constitutional mandate expects him to serve all in their diversity.

While the MDC always knew that Chihuri was Zanu PF to the core, the party expected him and his few colleagues in the state security sector to understand that the past was another country and real change is now the only game in town.

For the record, we find it strange and abhorrent that as a public servant Chihuri has the audacity to rubbish his own Minister of Home Affairs, Hon. Theresa Makone, and the country's Deputy Prime Minister, Hon Thokozani Khupe, and accuse them of causing violence in Zimbabwe today. It is also unbelievable that as the head of the police force,
Chihuri has decided to ignore investigations in the 2008 violence as directed by the Global Political Agreement.

The facts on the ground are as clear as daylight. Millions of Zimbabweans have been subjected to murder, assaults, displacements, harassment and other forms of terror by Zanu PF gangs enjoying total immunity for their heinous acts of wickedness.

What is saddening is that our key national institutions are being dragged into the tainted realm of Zanu PF partisan politics as the party seeks to destroy the professionalism and patriotism of our public officers willing to serve Zimbabwe in an honest and impartial manner.

With such an attitude, Chihuri has rendered the police force totally impotent as officers countrywide constantly tell victims and survivors that nothing can be done to help them unless they receive orders from his office. Many end up in jails for filing legitimate reports of brutality and Zanu PF terror.

The MDC wishes to advice Chihuri that Zimbabweans are not morons. They have observed, recorded and filed thousands of cases of injustice inside their hearts and minds and eagerly await an opportunity to tell their own story.

The party salutes the thousands of police and other security officers who have struggled to remain uncontaminated by Zanu PF and decided to pursue their Constitutional mandate under extremely difficult circumstances imposed by the likes of Zanu PF activists like Chihuri and others.

We condemn Chihuri for his openly partisan Zanu PF agenda. Change is inevitable. It is high time Chihuri smells the coffee.

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