{{Zimbabwe’s generals and police commanders say they won’t meet with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and other “malcontents” trying to undermine their powers, the country’s official media reported Wednesday.}}<\/p>\n
Pro ZANU-PF media reported that the country’s powerful police chief Augustine Chihuri warned critics of the army and police that they risked being arrested if they continued demanding reforms in the security forces and “peddling lies”.<\/p>\n
Chihuri was quoted by the media saying, “will neither meet or engage” with Tsvangirai.<\/p>\n
He added that security chiefs “have no business talking to individuals of no substance.”<\/p>\n
MDC party has called for an overhaul of the police and military blamed for openly supporting President Robert Mugabe and failing to enforce the rule of law in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
Chihuri dismissed the calls for security reforms as attempts to create confusion within the ordinary ranks of the defense forces.<\/p>\n
“I wish to warn liars and the peddlers of falsehoods who dream of talking to us, to this general or to that general … the law will visit them harshly,” Chihuri said.<\/p>\n
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