Major Highlights
Abduction of political activists
Hon . T. Ngadziore in hospital
The month of November started
with the abduction of a Member
of Parliament and youngest
parliamentarian,
Honourable
Takudzwa
Ngadziore
on
Wednesday 1 November 2023.
In a live video published on his
Facebook account, Honourable
Ngadziore desperately shouted that he was being chased. The visuals
from the video show a man with an AK47 assault rifle following him. The
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) later reported that Honourable
Ngadziore was “found naked, left for dead, and dumped in Mazowe”,
about 50km away from Harare City Centre. Barely two weeks after the
abduction of Takudzwa Ngadziore, another opposition CCC member
Bishop Tapfumaneyi Masaya was allegedly abducted in MabvukuTafara, while campaigning for Phibion Munyaradzi Kufahakutizwi, who
was seeking re-election into parliament after being recalled. Bishop
Masaya was later found dead on the 14th of November. The targeted
abductions are calculated to create “engineered apathy” among CCC
supporters from participating in the upcoming by-elections, thereby
creating an unfair advantage for ZANU PF candidates. The fear amongst
the citizenry that has been generated by the abductions and other human
rights violations has curtailed citizens’ enjoyment of their political rights
as enshrined in Section 67 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, and the
rights to freedom of assembly and association provided for in Section 58
of the Constitution
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