Members of the Central Intelligence Organization who were terrorizing villagers in Manicaland Province have removed registration numbers from their cars, after an SW Radio Africa SMS news alert on the 6th August. The SMS exposed the names of officers involved in the violence and gave the registration numbers of the cars used.

The alert exposed the use of a white Nissan double cab ABM0196 used by a CIO officer identified as Shingi, ABM0155 used by the Officer in Charge of Chipinge CID known as Chizemo and another similar truck ABM0203, used by a CIO known as Matake.

On Friday Makoni South legislator Pishai Muchauraya told Newsreel; 'After that exposure by SW Radio Africa the CIO's involved in that violence removed the number plates of the cars operating in Chipinge. They also confronted some of our members, including some drivers, asking us why we are putting them on the internet including their registrations numbers and names.'

The identified CIO officers were moving from village to village ahead of constitutional outreach meetings and terrorizing known MDC supporters. The campaign is part of moves by ZANU PF to silence any opposition to a draft constitution supported by Mugabe's regime. The CIO's named were particularly active in the Chipinge, Chipinge South and Musikavanhu constituencies.

Muchauraya told us it was at these ZANU PF forced meetings that only certain people were identified to speak on behalf of the whole community during the constitutional outreach exercise. The CIO thugs were also forcing village heads to record names of people who were attending the meetings and what they were saying during them.

In weeks gone by war vets leader Jabulani Sibanda warned villagers in Nyanga, Chipinge, Makoni and Chimanimani that if they did not support the ZANU PF position on a new constitution they would see a repeat of the bloody election violence in June 2008.