file pic A man who turned up to check his registration details was told by ZEC officials that he was dead. Emmanuel Chateka of Chi...
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A man who turned up to check his registration
details was told by ZEC officials that he was dead.
Emmanuel Chateka of Chinhoyi was told that he died soon
after registering to vote in the forthcoming elections.
Chateka said at first he thought it was just a
mistake that could be easily rectified. But he was referred to the RG’s office
in Chinhoyi to verify why he appeared on the exclusion list.
“It was devastating to be told that I’m a dead
man walking. I was told to go and rectify the mistake with the
registrar-general, which is taking most of my time when I should be fending for
my family,” he told The Standard.
ZEC’s Mashonaland West boss Austin Ndlovu
confirmed Chateka’s case, but said the RG’s office was the only department that
was competent enough to deal with the issue.
“Yes, we received such a case and we have since
advised the concerned person to go and rectify the issue at the
Registrar-General’s office before coming back to register again,” he said.
Investigations revealed that Chateka’s case was
not an isolated one.
Some registered voters in Mashonaland West have
reportedly been told that they were dead when they tried to check their details
on the provisional voters’ roll prepared by ZEC.
They have been told to go to the RG’s office to
confirm their existence.
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