![]() This is precisely why you have seen police trucks on the streets and increasing roadblocks on the city’s main feeder roads. ![]() “The idea is to showcase as much firepower as possible and scare away any potential rioters. “There is general fear among police commanders at the moment that the worsening hardships could trigger civil unrest and this was worsened by war veterans taking to the streets recently,” a police source said. It also comes amid a general apprehension occasioned by growing discontentment over worsening economic problems. The deployment comes at a time the governing party, Zanu PF, has been spooked by MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa’s trailblazing nationwide campaign which it has sought to violently thwart.
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