Zimbabwe's army generals and police commanders won't meet Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and other "malcontents" trying to undermine their powers, according to reports in state controlled media.
The state-owned Herald newspaper reported yesterday that the country's police chief had warned critics that they risked being arrested if they continued demanding reforms in the security forces and "peddling lies" on the role of the armed forces ahead of elections later this year.
Security chiefs "will neither meet nor engage" with Tsvangirai, the newspaper quoted police chief Augustine Chihuri as saying.
He said Zimbabwe's security chiefs "have no business talking to individuals of no substance".
Tsvangirai's party, the Movement for Democratic Change, has called for the overhauling of the police and military, and has blamed them for openly supporting Mugabe.
On Tuesday, the MDC alleged that state election officials were inflating numbers of voters on new voters' rolls. It said lists in some voting districts swelled by more than 10000 names in two days - or 150 voters a second.
In other districts, the names of active party members were missing or misspelt, making them ineligible to vote and raising fears of voting fraud by officials loyal to President Robert Mugabe's party, the MDC said.
Tsvangirai met President Jacob Zuma, the chief mediator on Zimbabwe, on Sunday before heading to Tanzania to meet President Jakaya Kikwete, chairman of the Southern African Development Community "troika" on regional disputes. Tsvangirai's office said he had called for a regional summit on long- delayed democratic reforms in Zimbabwe.
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