Silver's on it

This morning I had another encounter with Super Cop ‘Silver’ doing what he does best – this time at Avondale shopping centre in Harare. There I was among other peaceful mortals trying to do some banking when two gunshots went off outside the bank. Funny, instead of avoiding danger, people actually scrambled outside to see what was happening.

It was super-cop Silver making an arrest of apparently hardened criminals who had been illegally dealing in minerals at Wimpy (at least that’s how the story goes). In what was clearly a tip off, the suspects were caught mid-drumsticks and unaware.

In movie style: blue lights, police dogs and all, the notorious silver car was flanked by two brand new Isuzus to cordon off the vehicle belonging to the suspects. In his black leather jacket and shades, ‘Silver’ could be seen manhandling the suspects who were clearly not armed or resisting arrest. Meanwhile, plainclothes police stood around armed to the eyebrows with guns and baton sticks. Some could be seen shoving photojournalists away from the scene and I had a brief sense of déja vu of my days as a young journalist.

No one was wounded and it turned out the two gunshots had just been warning shots. Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. If anything, these intelligence guys ought to charged under POSA and put behind bars for a day for causing alarm and despondency. I thought; this country would be a different place if they also moved with such great energy to arrest the very hardened criminals to whom they report.

Bloody show offs.

This entry was posted on July 27th, 2009 at 9:53 am by Natasha Msonza and is filed under Reflections, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.