How new film backs up our claims of organised Zanu-PF corruption
Video evidence currently being broadcast on western media, shows members of the Zimbabwe prison service being officially supervised as they vote for Robert Mugabe well in advance of the recent presidential run-off poll. The film serves to verify our reports of the practice published here a month ago.
On June 11 this blog, under the headline "It hasn't begun - but Mugabe is winning!" reported that "thousands of police and associated uniformed thugs" had been lined up by their officers, presented with postal voting slips, and ordered to put their mark against Mugabe's name.
We quoted a source within the police as saying that Senior Assistant Commissioner Lee Muchemwa "told us we would vote for Mugabe whether we liked it or not. We voted in front of the Police Internal Security Intelligence (PISI), who checked our ballot papers."
The process was carried out at that early date to avoid any scrutiny by outside observers, who had yet to arrive in the country. It was also conducted without the presence of any officials from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.
The new video, taken with a hidden camera by a member of the prison service, confirms that the practice was widespread amongst all sections of the military, the militia, and the security services, and undoubtedly helped to give Mugabe his huge majority in the sham election.
In my report at the time I quoted Assistant Police Commissioner Nyakutsika, who made this striking forecast in front of his men: "Even if you tell the foreign press, even if you tell the western governments, we do not care. They will do nothing."
As I said then, and as I say again now, he's got that right.
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