In September Utoile Silaigwana a retired army major was appointed substantive Chief Elections Officer of the ZEC which caused further alarm because of ZEC's past involvement with the security forces...
Acting Chief Elections Officer Utoile Silaigwana claims this arrangement would allow polling officers to prevent people from photographing their ballot paper when they vote...
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Although Mnangagwa replaced Mugabe's close ally Rita Makarau with Chigumba the internal structures of ZEC are still heavily populated by military and former military personnel including the acting Chief Elections Officer Utoile Silaigwana who worked on the 2008 ZEC Secretariat that failed to release the presidential election results for a month...
