Police not acting on Cabinet lockdown regulations

GOVERNMENT efforts to curb the spike in COVID-19 cases is being frustrated by police officers who are allowing shops and night clubs to open until 5am the following day.

Revellers dance and drink beer all night long without proof of vaccination, not maintaining social distancing, wearing masks or sanitising.

Sometimes the police officers who are deployed are bribed by shop keepers and bar attendants on the instructions of the bosses.

The Cabinet directive on COVID-19 curfew and guidelines have never been followed.

I, therefore, challenge anyone disputing these facts to go to Kuwadzana, Warren Park and Dzivaresekwa at night to see how people are disobeying simple directives.

To evade arrest and punishment, night club operators are making some “donations” to local police stations.

Cabinet directives have never been adhered to in most southern suburbs of Harare, if not the whole country, because of corrupt law enforcement agents.

Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission should make a follow up on these assertions, which, after all, are supported by facts.

Police operations are not taking place and any patrols by local stations have been pathetic.

Night spots are opening the whole night despite the existence of a government curfew.

These night spots have become a hub of criminals like robbers and muggers.

The people, who spend more time at these night spots, are unemployed youths, a situation that raises our eyebrows as communities.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Cabinet are firing blanks by announcing lockdown regulations that are never enforced.

I feel pity for Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa, who announces the so-called lockdown extensions that have never been observed.