Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) war veterans have condemned the arrest of their colleagues in Harare for demanding that the Government improve their welfare.
Police on Tuesday arrested 39 war veterans, who wanted to petition President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the ZWL$16 000 monthly pensions they were receiving from the Government.
ZPRA chairperson Ben Ncube urged President Mnangagwa’s government to stop embarrassing the impoverished war veterans and instead address their grievances. Said Ncube:
Government should not wait to be pressured. It is the mandate of the government to cater for the welfare of war veterans. This is a genuine grievance.
It is embarrassing, and shameful to see liberators of this country being arrested with an intention of making them rot in jails for raising concern over their welfare.
We have been reduced to destitutes by this government.
Meanwhile, the ex-combatants were on Friday released on Z$5 000 bail each by a Harare magistrate.
They are being accused of participating in an illegal demonstration with the intent to promote public violence.
Haa chinhu chinonzi zapu ndipo pasina nezvechinhu ,ndiyo party yakatitangira nhamo yese iyi Nkomo a man who was on equal terms with Mugabe in terms of arms and army surrendered to Mugabe achiti anoda legacy nhasi ava kungonzi mdala wethu for nothing after vanhu vake vafa wo surrender ini ndikafigwa nevatsigiri vangu handidzokeri shure,kuzoti vana mdc vagoigona zanupf yakatadziwa ne ZAPU vanhu vachine mweya wehondo,nkomo,nkomo mudhala wethu for nothing chero ukaverenga ava mu gnu aingo frustrating Na Mugabe
Nkululeko you know nothing about zim politics. Zapu was the first political party formed by blacks during colonial era n Nkomo was its leader.. Mugabe n others formed zanu pf i.e zanu was a faction led by the shona tribe which had sold out to the whites n got blessings frm em since mugabe had agreed not to drive away whites from the farms which was contrary to what Nkomo n others had planned (in return mugabe was promised leadership n it happened according to their plans as they rigged the elections which were won by zapu). Aftr the elections mugabe was forced to take action by the minister of defence who was the current serving president Ed along side NATO members who were bitter because they had lost sophisticated planes which were gunned down by the Zipra forces. Those massacres were stage managed by ed who abducted and killed American tourists in vic falls en framed the zapu leader n thats where this brutality started. Nkomo gave in cz he wanted Zimbabweans to be free not to lead the country saka ziva chokwadi wechidiki Nokomo was ryt because civil wars are not good at all