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Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has threatened MDC secretary general Tendai Biti with unspecified action when he returns to Zimbabwe. He accused him of illegally declaring results of the March 29 2008 elections and “urging and abetting political violence”.
Three days after the Elections Tendai Biti announced the Presidential poll projection provided by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network that showed Tsvangirai received 47.0 to 51.8 of the vote and Robert Mugabe 39.2 to 44.4. The Margin of Error was 2.4. State media and some foreign media have since seized on 47.0 and ignored 51.8 to say he failed to win an absolute majority.
Chihuri had implied in his letter that Biti announced the actual results.It has since emerged that Justice Minister, Patrick Chinamasa who lost Makoni Central parliamentary seat yesterday reportedly told a South African paper that the actual results are that Morgan Tsvangirai won with 47% and Mugabe got 43% and those results were provided to South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki and also distributed to SADC leaders.
Of note is that on the weekend following the election,Robert Mugabe ’s spokesman wrote in The Herald that the initial presidential results were wrong and MDC candidate Morgan Tsvangirai according to George Charamba had 50% of the vote enough to avoid a runoff,but Charamba said that result was rigged and needed to be “corrected”.
‘Which is why there was a bit of desperation to stampede both Government and ZEC into announcing faulty results that would have rigged Tsvangirai into an outright win.” He said.
What followed the article’s publication were developments reported in the Metro that the government had taken over the functions of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission(ZEC) recounts in 23 constituencies were announced,ballots boxes were taken to an unspecified location,Observers and MDC chief election agents were excluded from the whole process until on Thursday this week.
The MDC has since provided its set of results that it says was collected after polling they show Morgan Tsvangirai with 51.7% of the vote. The results concur with those projected by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network,an independent body it projected Tsvangirai could have got 51.8 of the vote and Robert Mugabe 44.4.
Chihuri ’s Letter
On Wednesday Chihuri wrote a politically charged letter to Biti and was circulated to the press and Metro obtained a copy and has since confirmed that it has not been delivered to the MDC Secretary General or his office at Harvest House on 44 Nelson Mandela Avenue.
Exceprts:
“What is very conspicuous in the Zimbabwean political arena today is your prominent role in urging and abetting political violence through unbridled rhetoric of incitement.
“You know for sure, your violation of the country’s laws by declaring presidential results which was, in deed, in contravention of Section 110 of the Electoral Act, Chapter 2:13 and is still to be attended to by the police.
“Maybe, this you may cite as having been a deliberate delay in bringing the culprit to book, but as all know, the swift arm of the law will always catch up with the evildoer”
“Surely, the police have been looking for you so that you could assist in investigations surrounding the above-mentioned issue, concerning the electoral laws and other matters, but you were nowhere to be found.
“The only time one sees you is on the international media, making all sorts of unsubstantiated allegations against everybody else and the country, gallivanting all over the world. This might be the reason why you are out of touch with the real issues affecting the people on the ground.”
“Unfortunately, Honourable Biti, your intention to set a malicious political agenda against the Zimbabwe Republic Police by unnecessarily dragging it into your political skirmishes cannot be hidden anymore.
“No threats of any kind, manner and fashion shall deter me as the Commissioner-General of Police and leader of the Zimbabwe Republic Police to strongly act against any orgy of violence from any quarter in this country.
“I nevertheless urge you to take a leading role in condemning public violence, stop harbouring criminals at your party headquarters and publicly disband the so-called Democratic Resistance Committees, which have become a real menace to our peace loving citizens, since March 11, 2007.
“Let me hasten to say that I seriously view your allegations as an unacceptable political gimmick, in which I should as a matter of principle, register my uttermost disaffection and dismay, more so as it comes from a person of your standing, who has been a member of the legislature for a considerable number of years.
“I wonder why you should play political games with issues of this nature, issues that concern the security of this country and its citizens”
“However, culprits of various criminal activities including those involved in the recent failed MDC initiated stay-away were arrested and taken to courts for prosecution throughout the country.
“Should you be so willing to find more facts surrounding the disposal of these cases, I do hereby advise you to visit the courts and check with their records, which are public records in any case”.
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I thought they were saying those MDC was not telling the true results.
If Biti is not telling the true results, then how can Biti be charged with releasing the results?
Furthermore, I don’t see anything in the language of Section 110 of the Electoral Act, Chapter 2:13 that even remotely indicates that it’s illegal for someone else besides the Cheif Electoral Officer to announce the results before ZEC announces it.
110 Determination and declaration of result of election to office of President
(1) Where only one candidate for President is validly nominated at the close of the day
on which a nomination court sits in terms of section 38(1)(a), the Chief Elections Officer shall
declare such candidate to be duly elected as President without the necessity of a poll.
(2) Where two or more candidates for President are validly nominated, a poll shall be
taken in each constituency for the election of a President.
(3) Where two or more candidates for President are nominated, and after a poll taken in
terms of subsection (2) no candidate receives a majority of the total number of valid votes
cast, a second election shall be held within twenty-one days after the previous election in
accordance with this Act.
(4) In a second election held in terms of subsection (3) only the two candidates who
received the highest and next highest numbers of valid votes cast at the previous election shall
be eligible to contest the election.
(5) If, after a second election held in terms of subsection (3), the two candidates referred
to in subsection (4), receive an equal number of votes, Parliament shall, as soon as
practicable after the declaration of the result of that election, meet as an electoral college and
elect one of the two candidates as President by secret ballot and without prior debate.
(6) The result of an election to the office of President held in terms of subsection (2) or
(3) shall be declared by the Chief Elections Officer who shall forthwith publish such result in
the Gazette and in such other manner as he or she considers necessary to give sufficient
publicity to the result.
(7) Notwithstanding subsection (5) of section 23 of the Constitution, a person elected as
President in terms of subsection (5) shall assume office on the day upon which he or she is
declared so elected by the Chief Elections Officer.
(6) The procedure for an election in terms of subsection (5) shall be as prescribed.
ELECTORAL ACT (updated to 17th March 2008)
Actually, the government is the one actually violating many provisions in the Electoral Act!
COMICAL BITI HAS BEEN SPREADING HIS VIRUS FOR A WHILE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF FEEDOM OF SPEECH IN A DEMOCRATIC ZIMBABWE-HOWEVER EVEN IN IN THE SO CALLED DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES-PEOPLE WHO SPREAD ANTI GOVT INFORMATION ARE LOCKED UP UNDER THE TERRORISM ACT-ITS NO DIFFERENT FROM WHAT BITI HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO DO FOR A WHILE NOW.
SOME OF THESE GUYS HAVE DAMAGED THE COUNTRY’S REPUTATION AND IT WILL TAKE A WHILE TO REPAIR IT.WE WENT TO WAR SO WE COULD BE ABLE TO LIVE FREELY AND SPEAK FREELY-HOWEVER WE SHOULD KNOW WHEN TO STOP.
ZIMBABWE IS A PEACEFUL COUNTRY-AND WE ARE NOT PREPARED TO FIGHT EACH OTHER-WEARE BEING PUSHED THOUGH WITH SOME REPORTERS CALLING OUR PEOPLE COWARDS-WE KNOW THEIR INTENTIONS-MORE BREAKING NEWS FOR THEM..ANOTHER AFRICAN MASSACRE!!!
SORRY-ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE…WE WILL NOT FIGHT OUR OWN PEOPLE-WE HAVE PROVED IN THE PAST THAT IF THERE IS A GENUINE ENERMY WE ARE QUITE CAPABLE..WE HAVE NOTHING MORE TO PROVE.
VIVA PEACEFUL ZIMBABWE.
I am surprised at the reaction of the media world wide….why are they so desparate for a story on zimbabwe? The presidential results have not been announced yet-verification is today..what do we get? High ranking zanu pf minister has apparently said morgan got 47 and mugabe 43-makoni is not even mentioned.
The results that the media should wait for are ZEC results otherwise you shall suffer with gossip and lies. Why dont you say the name of the high ranking minister? If its not fact then dont talk about it-journalism as a proffession is dead and buried..
I can understand why Mugabe barred some of these from covering zimbabwe..these journalists are no different from biti .
what do you think?
PREDATOR, SCARFACE …CIO MWANA WAMUGABE
Mboko shut the fuck up.
I feel the comments of scarface and Predator quite insultive. Where on earth has it ever taken more than a month before election results are announced. look at the following FACTS:
1. THE ELECTION COMMISSION SLOWLY RELEASES PARLIAMENTARY RESULTS AND KEEPS A DEAD SILENCE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE.
2. THE ZEC CLAIMS THE DELAY IN THE ANNOUNCING OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS BECAUSE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT 4 BALLOTS HAVE BEEN DONE ON THE SAME DAY
3. DAYS PASS, PEOPLE ARE ANXIOUS AND THEY ARE ASKED TO BE PATIENT.
4. ZANU PF HOLDS AN EMERGENCY POLITBURO MEETING WHICH IS FOLLOWED BY ITS ANNOUNCEMENT OF MUGABE AS ITS RUN-OFF CANDIDATE - BEFORE THE ACTUAL RESULTS ARE ANNOUNCED
5. TARGETED VIOLENCE FOLLOWS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, SPEARHEADED BY ARMY AND POLICE OFFICIALS.
6. OPPOSITION GOES TO COURT TO PETITION THE ANNOUNCEMENT… THE COURT TAKES A WEEK TO RESPOND AND EVENTUALLY REJECTS THE PETITION
7. DAYS AND WEEKS PASS AND THE POOR ANXIOUS POPULATION SUFFERS. THE VICTIMS ARE ROUNDED UP AND FURTHER INTIMIDATED BY THE POLICE WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THEM.
8. THE VIOLENT PEOPLE, WHO ARE KNOWN TO THE WHOLE WORLD ARE LEFT TO CONTINUE INTIMIDATING THE PEOPLE FOR ‘VOTING WRONGLY’
9. THE SADC, AU, UN AND OTHER RIGHTS DEFENDERS ARE ALL IGNORED AND TERMED RACISTS AND COLONIALISTS. ARE THEY ALL THAT BLIND?
10. NOW BITI IS IN TROUBLE, TSVANGIRAI IS IN EXILE, THE PEOPLE CONTINUE DYING, MBEKI IS QUIET, PRICES CONTINUE INCREASING, THE MEDIA CONTINUES DESPERATELY LYING TO THE PEOPLE, HOUSES ARE BURNT AND VICTIMS HAVE NOWHERE TO GO, THE WORLD CANNOT INTERVENE IN THE AFFAIRS OF A ‘SOVEREIGN STATE’
Somebody tell me, where are we going? what happened to the beloved beautiful Zimbabwe that we fought for?
As for you Scarface and Predator, pliz shut the fuck up. You just make the wound more painful by using publicly exposing your blindness and intoxicating this section of the paper with bulls**t
DANIEL ROMEO MUTSUNGUMA- MURDER
CIO agent based in USA murders Tabitha Maruma an MDC supporter in Rusape. His wife is a receptionist @ the Zw Embassy in Washington. We need an international warrant coz he will get away with it as ZRP has no bollocks …Do u expect Chihure to do anything, get serious guys.
DANIEL ROMEO MUTSUNGUMA- MURDERER
CIO agent based in USA murders Tabitha Maruma an MDC supporter in Rusape. His wife is a receptionist @ the Zw Embassy in Washington. We need an international warrant coz he will get away with it as ZRP has no bollocks …Do u expect Chihure to do anything, get serious guys.
This is a true sight of the real confusion in that sad country. Its just a country where only the rich under the Mugabe regime sing songs of praise. People talk about peace? I daught if any of them can really define what that word mean. Zimbabwe knows no peace. Yes, we cant run away from the fact that Mugabe liberated that country, but lets not run away also from tha fact that he has done more damage than any good to it. This Chihuri guy sounds just like a traped monkey that has ran out of ideas. He is just trying to twist that straight forward Electorol Act to suit his persue his twisted goals in the name of the law.That Act does not say people must not PROJECT election results. Is projecting election results in Zimbabwe a crime? If so, then he must be having a case. But on the Electoral Act it does not say anything like that.
This is just a ploy by Mugabe to try to stop Biti from going to Zimbabwe to campaign for the runoff elections. They are trying to just stop Biti and Tswangirai form going back to Zimbabwe to campaign for the run off.
Zimbabwe is being reduced to nothing by people once considered ite heroes. Cry the beloved country!!!
PASI NEMDC ZVIMBWA SUGATA YOU WILL NEVER RULE ZIMBABWE BECAUSE YOU ARE POLITICALLY IMMATURE, NO CLEAR CUT POLICIES AND YOU ARE FUCKEN PUPPETS, THE DAY MDC DOES RULE ZIMBABWE WE WILL GO BACK TO THE BUSH.VIVA MUGABE LONG LIVE OUR AFRIVAN PRESIDENT
THEY IS NOTHING MUCH I WOULD LIKE TO SAY BUT TO COMMENT ON WHAT MHATA INONZI TSVANGIRAI JUNIOR HAS SAID. IT SOUNDS FROM YOUR MESSAGE THAT YOU WHERE BORN AND BREAD IN A FAMILY WHERE YOUR MOTHER WAS A PROSTITUTE AND YOUR FATHER WAS A WAR VETERAN .REPLY THIS COMMENT IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY.MDC IS THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTRY
BITI,if that is all what you have to say as a new Leader of our country we chose on 29/03/08;then we made a terrible mistake.Make no mistake and be pushed into a run-off by this trickster Mugabe.Better getting used to our old problem than replacing it with a new one.You don`t have anything to help us with I now realize.
HOW LONG DID IT TAKE GAY GEORGE BUSH TO BE DECLARED PRESIDENT IN AMERICA? HE WAS APPOINTED PRESIDENT AFTER HOW MANY RECOUNTS? IRAQ TOOK THREE MONTHS.
DONT FORGET OUR ELECTIONS WERE HARMONISED-SENATORIAL-PRESIDENTAIL-COUNCILORS ETC. THIS WAS A FIRST IN AFRICA.WE HAVE DONE QUITE WELL IN MY VIEW.WE ALSO HAVE LOGISTICAL PROBLEMS IN THE RURAL AREAS.
KUSAFUNDA KUNONETSA-DO YOU REALISE WITH THE PRESSURE THE WESTERN MEDIA WAS PUTTING ON ZIMBABWE TO SEE THE END OF MUGABE -THERE WAS GOING TO BE BLOODSHED HAD THE RESULTS BEEN ANNOUNCED RECLESSLY.PEOPLES FEELINGS WERE RUNNING HIGH AIDED BY THE MEDIA SOME EVEN RISKED THEIR LIVES TO REPORT THE NEWS WITHOUT ACCREDITATION-OTHERWISE WORKING ILLEGALLY.
REMEMBER THE BBC REPORTER -JOHN SNOW! WHERE IS HE NOW? I HAVE TO THANK ZEC FOR A JOB WELLDONE .THEY HAVE THE INTERESTS OF ZIMBABWEANS AT HEART.THEY HAVE MANAGED THE PROCESS FAIRLY AND IN A DIGNIFIED MANNER.
I AM SURE THE EXPERIENCE OF THE PRESIDENT HAD A LOT TO DO WITH IT..WHILE YOU WERE ALL THINKING HE WAS PLANNING TO RIG HE WAS ACTUALLY PROTECTING THE PEOPLE HE LOVES. A SUDDERN RELEASE OF THOSE RESULTS WAS ONLY GOING TO SERVE THE INTERESTS OF THE WESTERN MEDIA AND MDC MASTERS.
NOW WHERE HAVE THEY ALL DISAPPEARED TO? THEY DID NOT SEE BLOOD KENYA STYLE SO WHATS THE POINT IN WAITING…ALL THOSE MDC PRESS CONFERENCES AND WHAT HAVE YOU.ZIMBABWE INDEED IS A FREE COUNTRY MANAGING ITS OWN AFFAIRS…
WE ARE ALL WAITING FOR KING MORGAN TO DECIDE RUN OFF OR NO RUN OFF.I WONDER WHAT HIS SUPPORTERS FEEL ABOUT THE RUN OFF-DO THEY WANT IT OR NOT? OR DOES MORGAN DECIDE EVERYTHING LIKE A DICTATOR? HOW FAR NOE MORGAN 49.9%—OOOHHHH ALMOST THERE BUT NOT QUITE.
IT REMINDS ME OF FOOTBALL WHEN YOU WATCH THE HIGHLIGHTS- YOU SOMEHOW KEEP THINKING THOSE CHANCES LIVERPOOL MISSED EARLIER SOME HOW ONE OF THEM WILL CREEP IN…WHAT A PAIN!!!
rinamanyanga hariputirwe,chisingaperi chinoshura.
PREDATOR JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP KANA USINA ZVINE MUSORO ZVEKUTAURA. U R NOW IRRITATING US. ARE U NOT THE SAME PERSON WHO APPEARS WITH THE NAME SCARFACE, SOMETIMES MORGIDZA TSVANGWA? WE’RE GETTING FED UP WITH UR IGNORANCE!
Biti
Mabara tinawo wee! Mbumburu dziri ku Angola ndedzedu tinoda kudzishandisa chaizvo kurwisa vavengi ve Zimbabwe. Be warned: wanyanya kuenderera iwe uri Mwana mudiki pa politics dzeZimbabwe. Une foot and mouth here iwe? Unowana nguva yekufunga here iwe? Unoti wakaenda kuchikoro chei - munhu kuvhundukira kutora unoita seune mamhepo?
who the fuck is dhara? you ave no right to tell people to shut up-why dont you read what they are saying and make some sense out of it.
if it makes no sense to you dont get angry -just say your side of the story. all the people you se contributing articles here care about their country-they just have different ways of saying it…for various reasons.
Debate on zimbabwe is good-in business its called brainstorming-others will come up with silly ideas but you do not insult them but encourage positive thinking .some of the silly ideas will turn out to be the ideal ones…enough on that!!
Now where do we go from here now that the results are out? What do you want the mdc to do-im saying mdc as a party-not morgan. We attach too much power to these people no wonder they end up as dictators. The party should come first.
In this case do you think you should take part in a run off? If not then what do you want to do? We are fed up of hanging about.My opinions matter so dont insult me.Just deal with the issues i have raised in a proffessional manner.
some times people have the tendency to get angry if they encounter difficult questions-no just say your side of the story.If my argument is not right then say why you think so and put your point across…
So should the mdc take part in a run off? Do you agree with biti and morgan on the issue?
At this point i want to thank each and every zimbabwean for your efforts in a non violent solution to our problems as some seem to be praying for. Just know that at the end of the day black on black will not be tolerated in zimbabwe.when the real enermy emerges we will fight-we have been there before.
Every other country is praying for a kenya or rwanda in our country-we say no to that as we are a caring community.we have lived like this for the past 28 yrs bar a few spats.We have proved to the rest of the world that we are educated and practice democracy in its truest form-not blood bath.
zimbabwe is a peaceful nation-we are not for sale.
Most of you guys you showing you cannot have a peaceful discusion because you have been to the bush.
No wonder kutonga matadza - going to war is one thing and kutonga different. Result is poverty and disease will tonga you mushe and you can shout your SLOGANS on empty stomachs.
Thats not the wish of the deaprted HEROES of 2nd Chimrenga.
LOVE ONE ANOTHER AND GIVE PEACE A CHANCE. LISTEN TO THE GENERALS, ZVINAVASHE, MUJURU, MACHINGURA.
Ndapedza ndini
Jinda ra Madzara 4 PEACE
Dear Zimbabweans,
Although hushe huchiravanwa, let us not forget that that we are not supposed to be nobody’s pupputs. Kuguta hunge tada isu, no one will feed us fo nothing. The Westerners only befriend us because of what we have in our country. Since when did a white man become a black man’s friend? Twangison, beware of these people lest they use badly!
Dear Zimbabweans,
Although hushe huchiravanwa, let us not forget that we are not supposed to be nobody’s puppets. Kuguta hunge tada isu, no one will feed us fo nothing. The Westerners only befriend us because of what we have in our country. Since when did a white man become a black man’s friend? Twangison, beware of these people lest they use badly!
Is tswagirai afraid of a runoff? If not, let us go for it and you lose hands down. Not after hordes of your white farmers started invading farms again. People tried to vote you in good faith not knowing that you were selling off. Shame on MCD.
it is difficulty to fight a man who is hungry than a man armed with live ammunition. Therefore in order to win support you do not need to kill your own people who voted you into power. Find out the cause and enjoy the same support. remember one thing in a home if the father is penniless female children resort to prostitution .
Richard, just go home and find out if your relative havent been affected but this new ZANU PF violent campain. Maybe your houses got torched just like what is happening all over the country.
Richard, let me tell you one thing for free. ZANU PF is like a condom - it will give you a sense of security that its proctecting you against the whites while in fact it’s screwing you.
you got a point xxx
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