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Police block ConCourt poll challenge prayer meeting

by Staff reporter
18 Aug 2018 at 08:59hrs | Views
DOZENS of anti-riot and plain clothes police cordoned off the Harare Gardens Friday morning to stop a prayer meeting that had been called by some local preachers to pray for a fair judgement on a recent Constitutional Court election petition by losing MDC Alliance candidate Nelson Chamisa.

The meeting had been called under the auspices of the Mass movement, a consortium of Zimbabwean churches, citizens, labour movements and students.

The environment was tense as police maintained a heavy presence in the place with organisers ordered to disperse.

Outspoken preacher and Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD)'s Bishop Ancelimo Magaya, one of the organisers, told NewZimbabwe.com that police ordered everyone to disperse and leave him to pray on his own.

Father Brian Mcgary of the Roman Catholic St Peters' Mbare also condemned the police action while Father Rungano Muchineripi encouraged impartial delivery of justice in the high profile ConCourt matter.

The period just after the country's disputed elections has turned tense with six people gunned down by the army early this month while activists have been forced to go into hiding following a crackdown on opposition leaders and their supporters.

Source - newzimbabwe