Kazembe, Matanga defend police brutality

HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have shot down the $900 000 compensation demand made by a Kwekwe man who claims to have been negligently shot five times in the abdomen by police officers last year.

The incident allegedly occurred in February last year and the complainant, Tinashe Deshe, has sued Kazembe and Matanga saying his shooting by their subordinates was not justified.

But, Kazembe and Matanga in response to Deshe’s High Court application, said the shooting was justified as complainant had resisted arrest and charged at police officers brandishing a machete.

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