MDC-T Secretary General, Tendai Biti claims Zanu PF has deployed security operatives and other shock troops around the country to coerce people into voting for the party in general elections set for next year.

Speaking to supporters in Kuwadzana on Sunday, Biti demanded the “immediate removal” of serving and retired members of the security services he claimed Zanu PF has deployed in the countryside.

Defence Minister Emerson Mnangagwa has denied deploying army units around the country.

Still, Biti claimed Zanu PF was ready to unleash violence on the population and described the party as a pack of “vampires who have gone for two years without blood”.

“They will kill and unleash violence but there are no brakes to real change. We are only left with two bus stops now and these are the new constitution and elections to deal with (President) Mugabe once and for all,” Biti said.

He also reiterated his party’s insistence that the country need only hold Presidential elections next year and called for an end to what he described as “Zanu PF propaganda churned out (by) the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation”.

Biti said Zanu PF leaders were too tired to anything new for Zimbabwe.

“The only ammunition we have is the people and let’s all register to vote and conclude the presidential elections,” he said.

Addressing the same meeting, MDC-T spokesperson, Nelson Chamisa, claimed his party had achieved in two years as part of a coalition government what Zanu PF failed to do in 30 years.

He also demanded that Zanu PF demilitarise the countryside and stop intimidating people.

“The ballot should thrive over the bullet and our aim as the MDC-T is not to fire police officers or soldiers but to do away with (President) Mugabe.”

Zimbabwe is set to go to the polls next year to replace the coalition government.

President Robert Mugabe has insisted the country must hold elections early next year to end what he describes as an awkward and semi-legal power sharing arrangement with the MDC formations.