‘Zec a captured institution’

OPPOSITION parties have alleged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is a captured institution after it announced the government has now taken over the procurement of biometric voter registration (BVR) kits from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

People’s Democratic Party president, Tendai Biti told a Coalition of Democrats (Code) meeting yesterday that the fact that the government, all of a sudden, has found money to buy the kits shows that Zec is captured.

“What happened yesterday (the Zec announcement) is State capture.

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