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reports suggesting that aliens were being turned away from voter registration centres and referred to the army barracks at KGIV and police for clearance.
In a statement to media houses, Mr Mudede said he wanted to correct the misconception that dozens of people were turned away at mobile registration centres.
“People are only turned away on the basis that they have inadequate documentation required for one to be eligible to register as a voter, that is national identity document, or valid passport and proof of residence,” said Mr Mudede.
“However in the event that one fails to provide, affidavits to be completed by the applicant are readily available at the registration centres.”
Mr Ian Makone, the chief secretary in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s office had told some media outlets that that people were being turned away from a mobile voter registration centre at Shumba Clinic in ward 3, Goromonzi.
But Mr Mudede said investigations had proved that Mr Makone was peddling falsehoods to the press.
“Investigations done by the provincial registrar of Mashonaland East province and the district registrar of Goromonzi district at Shumba Clinic ward 3, Goromonzi revealed that the name of Violet Kamozhi as alleged in the article was never recorded in the register of people turned away,” he said.
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Mr Mudede said there was a record of all people who were turned away from voter registration centres.
“The registrar general’s department would also want to clarify that as part of the procedure to ascertain citizenship of an individual, one is taken fingerprints which are sent to the fingerprint bureau for classification.
“For urgent classification a person may be required to take fingerprints to the bureau in person.
“The production centre for passports and fingerprint bureau are situated next to the Zimbabwe National Army Barracks referred to as KGIV not to say they are situated in the barracks,” he said.
Mr Mudede said no one was ever sent to the army for verification if they did not have criminal records as that function does not reside with the army.
All mobile registration teams, he said, had enough documents to facilitate processing of affidavits.
He added that all cases of late registration for adults without birth certificates and identity cards should be referred to district offices for interviews.
“This is to facilitate further investigations to establish whether the person has never been issued with documents as well as establishing the citizenship status of the individual,” he said.
He said due to inadequate funding the exercise was being carried out at district level with four teams deployed per district.
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