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some sections of the media that are peddling falsehoods in a bid to cause mayhem in the force.
Chief police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba assured the nation that the force would carry out its constitutional mandate without fear or favour in the face of “superfluous onslaught by some injudicious elements in the media fraternity’’.
She was responding to reports in a local newspaper claiming that Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri was “threatening journalists’’.
“We are concerned at the sinister motives of some media practitioners, the likes of Dingilizwe Ntuli who are on the payroll of some non-governmental organisations to cause mayhem within the rank and file of the ZRP using the power of the pen,” said Snr Asst Comm Charamba.
“May they be advised that the power of the pen will indeed triumph where truth and truth only is written in accordance with journalistic ethics. May they also be advised that their ill-gotten extra pay cheque will one day turn into gravel in their mouths.”
Ntuli, she said, had decided to twist the recent speech by Comm-Gen Chihuri to suit his own agenda, that of bringing the name of the police chief into disrepute.
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Security chiefs recently said they would neither meet nor engage MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai on the so-called security sector reforms and those peddling false information that they would meet over the issue ran the risk of being arrested.
Responding to media reports that Mr Tsvangirai met security chiefs to initiate post-election discussions to secure their positions, Commissioner-General Chihuri on Tuesday said the security forces would never meet “malcontents”.
He was speaking during the official opening of the Commissioner-General of Police’s sports gala in Harare.
“Before saying too much, I wish to take this opportunity to warn liars and peddlers of falsehoods who dream of talking to us, to this general and to that general in their sleep, that the law will visit them harshly.
“Some of us have no business talking to individuals of no substance whose sole purpose and agenda is to create confusion within the rank and file of the defence and security forces.
“We are too busy to engage confused mal-contents who do not know their identity and have a propensity to destroy what others, dead and alive, fought for. They must stop abusing the freedom and democracy that so many Zimbabweans died for. I advise journalists to stop being used in this regard,” Comm-Gen Chihuri said.
Snr Asst Comm Charamba said Comm-Gen Chihuri was advising the journalists, advice that one may take or refuse.
She said the Commissioner General sought to put the record straight that he and other generals had not talked to Mr Giles Mutsekwa, who is MDC-T defence and security secretary and a former major in the Rhodesian army, over the so-called security sector reforms.
Last week, a local weekly claimed that Mr Tsvangirai had initiated discussions with the security chiefs through Mr Mutsekwa.
According to the weekly, MDC-T claimed that Mr Mutsekwa met Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Constantine Chiwenga, Comm-Gen Chihuri, Zimbabwe National Army Chief of Staff (General Staff) Major-General Martin Chedondo and Chief of Staff (Quartermaster) Major-General Douglas Nyikayaramba. But Comm-Gen Chihuri said the force’s binding and guiding philosophy was teamwork.
Snr Asst Comm Charamba said: “Dingilizwe Ntuli further goes to town by peddling falsehoods that the Commissioner General of Police has abandoned his constitutional mandate. This we view as rank hypocrisy by an attention-seeking journalist who decides to character-assassinate the head of a professional institution to give credence to his/her stable and rake in high sales from the attacks.”
She said the force was one of the few institutions where good corporate governance was practised.
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