Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)’s deputy commissioner-general (DCG) Innocent Matibiri has had his powers clipped.
Matibiri, who is former president Robert Mugabe’s nephew, has been moved from the powerful post of being in charge of operations to human resources.
Following his reassignment, Levy Sibanda who was in charge of human resources, has been assigned to take his place as ZRP DCG in charge of operations.
Before Mugabe’s resignation on November 21, his nephew was among top police officers who were tipped to succeed police commissioner-general, Augustine Chihuri.
The post of DCG (operations) allowed Matibiri to sit on the Joint Operations Command or Joc — the supreme organ for the coordination of State security in Zimbabwe.
Continuous efforts to get a comment from police spokesperson, Charity Charamba, hit a brick wall yesterday as she continually told the Daily News that “I am in a meeting.”
By the time of going to print, Charamba had not responded to questions sent to her mobile phone.
Security sources at the Police General Headquarters, however, told the Daily News yesterday that Matibiri’s re-assignment must be viewed within the context of recent developments in the country