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Israeli company suspected of helping ZANU-PF rig election
02 Aug 2013 at 16:16hrs | Views
IN a dramatic move which appears to consolidate reports Wednesday's general elections results were largely rigged, shadowy Israeli security company Nikuv International Projects Ltd (NIP)'s founder and CEO, Emmanuel Antebi, was reportedly in Zimbabwe on Tuesday to meet President Robert Mugabe and other senior Zanu PF officials.
NIP, which was in 1996 taken to court in Zambia over vote rigging allegations as reported by the Zimbabwe Independent recently, deals with voter registration, creating and printing of the voters' roll, demarcation of constituencies, voter registration cards, nomination of candidates and election results.
The NIP boss, accompanied by his deputy Ammon Peer, flew into the country from the Israeli capital Tel Aviv for meetings with Mugabe, Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, former State Security and now Transport minister Nicholas Goche and Central Intelligence Organisation's deputy director-general Aaron Daniel Tonde Nhepera over election issues.
Antebi and Peer apparently met Mugabe and his trusted security officials at State House for about one and a half hours.
Top sources had earlier told the Independent, Antebi and Peer would fly into Johannesburg, South Africa, from Tel Aviv before connecting to Harare.
Israeli security agencies have a long history of defending the country, its installations and government personnel against security threats.
As specialists in security and elections issues, NIP's services are reportedly in demand mainly by leaders and governments which want to fix election issues.
Journalists who had gathered at State House for Mugabe's press briefing on Tuesday on the eve of Wednesday's voting day, saw two dark-haired Jewish men arriving at around 2pm.
They were accompanied by a local security aide who carried a black bag. The incident raised eyebrows among journalists.
The two apparently left the black bag with Mugabe and it is not known what that bag contained, although journalists joked that it had some diamonds, money, an engineered voters' roll or even the election results themselves.
NIP, which was in 1996 taken to court in Zambia over vote rigging allegations as reported by the Zimbabwe Independent recently, deals with voter registration, creating and printing of the voters' roll, demarcation of constituencies, voter registration cards, nomination of candidates and election results.
The NIP boss, accompanied by his deputy Ammon Peer, flew into the country from the Israeli capital Tel Aviv for meetings with Mugabe, Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, former State Security and now Transport minister Nicholas Goche and Central Intelligence Organisation's deputy director-general Aaron Daniel Tonde Nhepera over election issues.
Antebi and Peer apparently met Mugabe and his trusted security officials at State House for about one and a half hours.
Top sources had earlier told the Independent, Antebi and Peer would fly into Johannesburg, South Africa, from Tel Aviv before connecting to Harare.
As specialists in security and elections issues, NIP's services are reportedly in demand mainly by leaders and governments which want to fix election issues.
Journalists who had gathered at State House for Mugabe's press briefing on Tuesday on the eve of Wednesday's voting day, saw two dark-haired Jewish men arriving at around 2pm.
They were accompanied by a local security aide who carried a black bag. The incident raised eyebrows among journalists.
The two apparently left the black bag with Mugabe and it is not known what that bag contained, although journalists joked that it had some diamonds, money, an engineered voters' roll or even the election results themselves.
Source - AllAfrica
