Zim govt quizzed on Afcon military deployment

MDC-T lawyers yesterday quizzed government's decision to deploy military personnel to Equatorial Guinea to provide VIP security at the on-going Africa soccer bonanza arguing it was unconstitutional.

Jessie Majome, the MDC-T MP for Harare West constituency questioned the acting leader of government business in the National Assembly, Lazarus Dokora to provide reasons why government had decided to send military personnel to the oil rich country.

In responding to the question, Dokora said Majome should put her question in writing and take it to the ministry of Defence for suitable.

Majome had said the law further provided that when the country dispatches its military troops outside its borders as happened with the Equatorial Guinea deployment, Parliament is supposed to ratify the action within a specified period.