By Jacob Ngarivhume | ZEC must betransparent After the outrageous report that only 2971 people were registered to vote in 2021, I decided to visit the ZEC offices to demand for answers Citizens are clearly justified to call for the resignation of the ZEC chief elections officer Utoile Slygwana He is famous for announcing election results back in 2005
When I got to the ZEC offices around 10AM, I was greeted by a truck of armed riot police We parked our two small cars outside the heavily fortified office Inside there was no parking space, the car park was fully packed with brand new 4X4 vehicles You need not be a mathematician to estimate that the value of the vehicles runs into millions of US dollars
At the gate were four armed police officers in uniform They asked who we were and the TZ organizing secretary introduced our delegation As he mentioned that I was Ngarivhume they pointed us to the offices and that we go in and see the police at the reception I was alarmed, police at ZEC reception
We went to the reception as directed, there were four police officers at the foyer reception They asked for our details and questioned us the reason of our visit Our organising secretary explained again We asked to see the chief elections officer
One police man lead us into the ZEC reception where there was no one He gave us chairs to sit and asked us to wait After fifteen minutes a gentleman came to speak to us and we explained ourself again He went out to call the ZEC Director of public relations and they both sat for a meeting with us
We obviously raised our great exception to the presence of police at ZEC offices and the various layers of police that we went through to secure the meeting They explained to us that it’s for security reasons Zec had been attacked by hooligans before and so they were taking preventive measures We highlighted that as it stands ZEC is no longer an office for the people of Zimbabwe but a private security fortification
They noted our concern and promised to raise it to the higher authorities The two ZEC officials informed us that we could not see the chief elections officer because he was not in the office neither was any of the ZEC commissioners We agreed to discuss with them We shared our huge frustration of the 2900 people registered to vote in 2021
We informed them that citizens were angry and are calling for the resignation of the chief elections officer for gross incompetence Source: Zimeye
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Source: Zimeye
