Sekeramayi dismisses army reports

Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi has dismissed as false, reports that Zimbabwe National Army officers recently descended on Chingwizi Transit Camp and reportedly burnt down displaced Tokwe Mukosi flood victims' tents.

In an interview on the skirmishes that occurred at the transit camp two weeks ago, which resulted in two police vehicles being burnt by angry villagers, Sekeramayi the army had long left Chigwizi.

"What the army and the Air Force did was to assist in uplifting marooned villagers to Chingwizi," said Sekeramayi.
"After that operation, the army has played no role at all.

"There is no truth at all that the army is involved in the burning of shelter at Chingwizi. That is not true."

Sekeramayi said the ZDF was a people-oriented force that always assisted civilians during disasters such as cyclones, famine and disease outbreaks.