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Armed policemen outside Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s office on Tuesday blocked lawyers from presenting him with a petition to urgently restore law and order in the country, news reports said.
“They suggested the petition be posted instead,” said Sternford Moyo, the president of the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ), who had hoped to present the petition to Mugabe as he held his weekly cabinet meeting. He then led some 70 robed colleagues through the city centre to Parliament where the petition was handed in. It expressed “grave concern and disquiet at the breakdown of law and order and the ongoing violations of the rule of law in the (poorer) suburbs, commercial farming and rural areas of Zimbabwe.”
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