Zimbabwe's police chief has warned he will not let opposition "puppets" take power in elections later this month, state media reports.Augustine Chihuri said President Robert Mugabe's redistribution of white-owned land would never be reversed.
Mr Mugabe says the opposition are "puppets" of Western powers who want to block land reform - which they deny.
Mr Chihuri is the third senior security chief to intervene in the 29 March elections on behalf of Mr Mugabe.
The campaign so far has seen little of the violence which marred previous elections but the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says the state machinery, such as the media, security forces and the electoral commission, are being used against it.
'At all costs'
"We will not allow any puppets to take charge," Mr Chihuri told Zimbabwean police officers going to join a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia and other senior police chiefs, according to the state-owned Herald newspaper.
"Most of us in here are truly owners of the land," he said.
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