Senior cop evicted for anti-Mugabe music

Comment & Analysis
BY NQOBANI NDLOVU BULAWAYO — A senior police officer was fired and thrown out of his government lodgings after he was allegedly caught with MDC-T songs on his mobile phone and computer.

Assistant Inspector Tedius Chisango, who was officer-in-charge at the Ntabazinduna Police Training Depot clinic, was evicted together with his family on Friday.

He was accused of trying to incite police recruits to revolt against President Robert Mugabe.

One of the songs that infuriated his superiors is titled Saddam Waenda KwasaraBob (Saddam Hussein is gone, Bob is next).”

Chisango is now stranded after he was dumped in a bush, just a few kilometres from the training depot, about 30km from Bulawayo.

“I am stranded in the bush and I have nowhere to go,” he said yesterday.

“I slept outside last night with my family after the eviction from the police camp which you witnessed yesterday (Friday).”

This journalist witnessed the eviction before he was briefly detained together with Pindai Dube of the Daily News and freelance journalists Pamenus Tuso and Oscar Nkala.

But the four were released without any charges.

Police spokesman Superintendent Oliver Mandipaka professed ignorance about Chisango’s case when he was contacted for comment yesterday.

Chisango’s predicament comes hard on the heels of another case where another Bulawayo police officer was jailed for 10 days for using a toilet reserved for Mugabe during the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in April.

Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri has repeatedly expressed his hatred of the MDC-T, which he claims was formed to reverse Zimbabwe’s independence.

MDC-T says the country’s security sector needs urgent reform because of the open bias shown by the service.

However, Mugabe on Friday leaped to the defence of the generals saying the MDC-T was making the demands from a “politically drunk condition.”