Security minister implicated in machetes violence

OPPOSITION MPs yesterday alleged in Parliament that State Security minister Owen Ncube was the co-ordinator of the machete gangs, popularly known as MaShurugwi.

They said this as they grilled Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, who had appeared before three Parliamentary Committees of Mines, Home Affairs and the Thematic Committee on Peace and Security to give oral evidence on the machete gangs menace, which has resulted in deaths of around 38 people.

Mufakose MP Susan Matsunga even suggested to Kazembe that the solution would be that President Emmerson Mnangagwa should pronounce “stop it” and the whole menace would immediately come to a halt.

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