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Village heads in Gokwe intimidates villagers over voting procedures in coming elections
07 May 2017 at 07:31hrs | Views
Village heads in Gokwe are reported to have recently intimidated villagers through telling them that they will be required to cast their votes at a polling station they will be advised to go when the time comes.
This was revealed by Zimbabwe Peace Project which reported that village heads in Gokwe were called for a meeting at Zumba on the 10th of April and
Tchoda on the 12th of April by some group of suspected state agents who were masquerading as Zimbabwe Electoral Commission officials.
"It was alleged that the people who had called for the meeting instructed the village heads who attended to tell their people that they will only be allowed to cast their votes at specific polling stations which were going to be made known to the village heads by these unidentified people," said ZPP.
"They further said that they should notify their people that no one should cast his/her vote at a polling station not specified by the village head. These people then later said that this was done to see which polling station would have voted for opposition parties. It was then discovered later that these people were not ZEC officials as they had said."
This was revealed by Zimbabwe Peace Project which reported that village heads in Gokwe were called for a meeting at Zumba on the 10th of April and
Tchoda on the 12th of April by some group of suspected state agents who were masquerading as Zimbabwe Electoral Commission officials.
"It was alleged that the people who had called for the meeting instructed the village heads who attended to tell their people that they will only be allowed to cast their votes at specific polling stations which were going to be made known to the village heads by these unidentified people," said ZPP.
"They further said that they should notify their people that no one should cast his/her vote at a polling station not specified by the village head. These people then later said that this was done to see which polling station would have voted for opposition parties. It was then discovered later that these people were not ZEC officials as they had said."
Source - Byo24News
