MASVINGO-Soldiers with the millitary police together with traffic
police mounted roadblocks along the country's major roads seaching for guns
in the wake of a recent shooting on Air Force Commander Prence Shiri.
Perence Shiri survived an assasination attempt early this week while
driving to his farm outside Harare, state media reported on Tuesday. He
suffered a bullet wound on the hand and was said to be recuperating at
Manyame Airbase millitary hospital.
While the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said the shooting
incident is linked to ZANU PF sucession battles, president Mugabe said it
was the opposition bandits allegedly trained in Botswana that are
responsible.
But Botswana and South Africa rejected the alleged mercenary training
as baseless, saying president Mugabe wants to use the justification to
declare a state of emergency in Zimbabwe.
Sources within the army said the millitary police had been deployed
around the country's major roads to search for weapons which they believe
might be imported by the MDC to topple the Mugabe regime.
"Most of our collegues will not be going for the X-mass holidays as
they are mounting roadblocks along the country's major roads seaching for
weapons. The roadblock issue heightened following the shooting of Perence
Shiri," a soldier at Manyame airbase told Radio Vop.
Numerous roadblocks were witnessed where cars and people were
seached. Along the Harare-Masvingo highway, there were four roadblocks,
leading to traffic congestion along the way.
From Masvingo to Beitbridge, a journey that usually takes around four
hours, took longer due to the the riadblocks.
The same situation was also said to be prevailing along the
Masvingo-Bulawayo road, and Masvingo- Mutare highway.
However political analysts think the attack on Shiri was a job within
the Zanu PF party since there are factions.
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