The ZRP says it has intensified the maintenance of law & order at the Jumbo area in Mazowe. A team of senior officers visited the area on progress check this afternoon. Members of the public are accordingly advised that Jumbo mine and its environs are now a no go area with immediate effect.
The Police force has warned those harboring miners and gangs that they risk getting arrested themselves.
Said the Police, “People within the area such as miners and farmers who may harbor illegal miners or machete gangs are advised that the long arm of the law will catch up with them”.
The ZRP has intensified the maintenance of law & order at Jumbo area in Mazowe. A team of senior officers visited the area on progress check this afternoon. Members of the public are accordingly advised that Jumbo mine and its environs are now a no go area with immediate effect.
— Zimbabwe Republic Police (@PoliceZimbabwe) January 20, 2020
People within the area such as miners and farmers who may harbour illegal miners or machete gangs are advised that the long arm of the law will catch up with them.
— Zimbabwe Republic Police (@PoliceZimbabwe) January 20, 2020
The Metalon owned Jumbo mine has been a magnet of illegal miners and has seen the influx of hundreds to access the precious mineral. The government is on a path to restore sanity in the Zimbabwe mining industry after an outcry of the emergence of Machete gangs.
