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]]>Mangwana encouraged people to welcome the enumerators as they mean no harm and he spoke about specific cases on Twitter with the captions;
“CENSUS CHALLENGES
There are some people in Harare not cooperating with enumerators. Please cooperate.
An enumerator was chased away by a respondent holding a knife threatening to kill him, in Warren Park. The case was reported to police and the respondent was arrested.
Another case was of an enumerator who was offered USD150 by Pakistani family in Avondale thinking that he was from the immigration department. Case reported.
An enumerator in ward 41 was biten by dogs.
In Mandara one case was reported of a respondent who wanted to burnt an enumerator with some hot water.”
CENSUS CHALLENGES
There are some people in Harare not cooperating with enumerators. Please cooperate.
An enumerator was chased away by a respondent holding a knife threatening to kill him, in Warren Park. The case was reported to police and the respondent was arrested. pic.twitter.com/vZ09a9C0L4— Nick Mangwana (@nickmangwana) April 24, 2022
Nick Mangwana also spoke about an enumerator who had his recording tablet stolen in Gutu with the caption;
“GUTU
Some robber mugged a #Census2022 supervisor and took the Tablet in Bikita. He was caught trying to sell the gadget in Gutu. This thing has a 2gb storage and surely the risk of being charged with handling stolen property is not worth it. Don’t bother.”
GUTU
Some robber mugged a #Census2022 supervisor and took the Tablet in Bikita. He was caught trying to sell the gadget in Gutu. This thing has a 2gb storage and surely the risk of being charged with handling stolen property is not worth it. Don’t bother. pic.twitter.com/eUNj5E4UaW— Nick Mangwana (@nickmangwana) April 25, 2022
With all these challenges in mind maybe there should have been more efforts made by the government in educating people fully on what a census is and the purpose of recording the data they need. People could have possibly confused census people with political party people and that could also explain the violence. The exercise has clashed with the pre-election campaigns and possibly left some ignorant people feeling paranoid.
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