By Own Correspondent|Secretary for Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Nick Mangwana has said the #ShutdownZimbabwe protests were pre-planned and MDC-Alliance and its allies are wholly responsible for the loss of lives and destruction of property which occured last week Monday.

Mangwana said while some of the organisers of the protest had gone into hiding, government was committed to ensuring that the organisers were brought to account.

Said Mangwana:

“Following today’s extensive briefing to his Excellency the President, Cde Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa,on the state of affairs in the country, it has become clearer more than ever before that the violent demonstrations which rocked the country last week were long pre-planned by MDC Alliance working in cahoots with its associate organisations , principally the ZCTU and political NGOs led by the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition and with foreign organisations and individuals who had been infiltrated into the country for the purpose.

The violent demonstrations were a direct result of this elaborate plan agreed to at a meeting held last year at Wild Geese Resort, which plan was meant to trigger and precipitate instability in the country for regime change.

The MDC-Alliance and its affiliates are thus wholly responsible for the destructive events which followed, and of course for the consequent loss of life and destruction of property which the country suffered.

“Ours laws clearly hold to account all those responsible for convening demonstrations whose outcome turns out to be violent. Government is thus committed to enforcing the relevant law to the fullest, meaning the MDC-Alliance and its allies will be made to fully account for the losses incurred as a result of those demonstrations.

Those from their ranks who are on the run, or are still at large hiding, will be accounted for eventually, in order to make them fully answerable for their actions,” he said.