Police inaction on thuggery worrisome

For at least the second time this year, Finance minister Tendai Biti has been besieged by rowdy crowds who, other than exposing themselves as shameless partisan hoodlums, are a nondescript lot without any professional identity.

Not a single professional labour union has claimed association with this group calling itself war veterans and claiming to be fighting for the betterment of everyone else in Zimbabwe.

There is no war veterans’ body that has claimed responsibility for Monday’s disgraceful display at Biti’s office and a majority of the rabble rousers were clearly far younger than the youngest veteran of the war of liberation could possibly be.

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