Exiled former Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi has slammed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime for bringing opposition MPs Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole to court in leg irons.
“What really is the justification of putting leg chains on top of handcuffs on anyone in 2022, let alone on a blackman by a black government?? Highhanded treatment of Job Sikhala is a symbol of the highest degree of repression,” Mzembi said.
When Mzembi was dragged to court by Mnangagwa’s regime in 2018, it was Sikhala who acted as his lawyer.
Sikhala and Sithole were charged with incitement to commit public violence in June following clashes between CCC youths and Zanu-PF youths in Chitungwiza at the funeral wake for murdered Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali.
Ali was abducted by alleged Zanu-PF thugs for two weeks before her body was found cut into pieces and her intestines packed in a plastic bag and thrown into a well at the Beatrice home of claimed Zanu-PF supporter and murder suspect Pius Jamba.
Jamba has since been arrested as the key suspect in the murder.
Sithole and Sikhala were denied bail by magistrate Gibson Mandaza who argued they were “a threat to public security”. They approached the High Court but the State is delaying filing its response in the bail application.
The legislators will spend two more nights in prison because the State delayed the two’s bail appeal hearing after it failed to file its response.
The matter has been moved to Thursday to allow the State to respond.
Sithole is a CCC Member of Parliament for Chitungwiza North. Sikhala is the Zengeza West MP.
The two are represented by lawyers from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR).
“We are intensifying efforts to get Hon. Sikhala and Hon. Sithole is out of prison and today the National Prosecuting Authority undertook to file its response to our bail appeal and Justice Munamato Mutevedzi will preside over the hearing on Thursday,” ZLHR said in a statement.
CCC said in a statement:” The regime in Harare continues to postpone the freedom of our MPs, Sikhala and Sithole after it failed to file its papers, subsequently postponing the bail hearing to Thursday 7 June 2022. The two are being persecuted for demanding justice for Moreblessing Ali.”
I would have shouted “Amen” if it was coming from any1 elz but Walter Mzembi it was your regime that forced the disappearance of Itai Dzamara….a good start would be telling us where Itai is other than that keep that beak of yours shut!
Trust Duri doc trust apana munhu asina nyaya dzake ukadakuti tidzitevere toose nyaya iripo hanzi ndeya job wiwa skhala ngatimbosiyanei nekuda kuroba pasiripo
Pauden Ncube My brother l have a very simple point…..Walter is in no position to make any comments regarding the brutality by the mafia government because he is also part of them klaar
Now you see it’s evil because you are no longer in rhe government or a minister!
Nothing is permanent only time will tell
Ngaawuye ataure izvozvo ari padhuze
Nguva ndeya Mwari …vari kuona zvavo vanyerere ….vachapindura zvine mutsindo…
Zvichapera
Bcz he nor one of them now
That’s nonsense they think they will rule for ever
Mbwanana hadzisvinure musi mumwe wazosvinuravo iwe Mzembi but its too late
Waste of leg irons ,with that fatty tummy they think wiwa can bother run away, shameless police
Mzembi uyo muudzeyi kuti kushure.. Zanu yega be it yaMugabe kama yani Ropa rodeuka.. where was he when Tsvangirayi was butchered, ?? Job he is safe asiri kurohwa uyu wotaura zve leg iron
Valid point though when he was in Mugabe’s cabinet he never saw the wrongness of such primitive heavy handedness on those posing a real threat to the powers-that-be hold on power!
That’s former exiled Minister’s thoughts ….Muroverei mawokoo!!
Nhai pfuko maheu buttermilk ikubatika nechepapi ndimbosuka hangu mudumbu
Mnangagwa is rubbish
Vadzvinyiriri vechitema 🤣😂
Zimbabwe is a banana Republic how can you handcuff an MP to court. What a shame
Vana Mzembi better kunyarara musada kumutsa hasha dzevanhu kwedu mumasvingo South iwe nasekuru vako Zvobwo Hamuna zvamakatiitira you are just the other side of the same coin
# free job sikhala en godfre sithole pliz
Mnangagwa and his government are barbaric and not legitimate, we don’t even understand the crime that these guys have committed
There crime is to be in an opposition party.
You know I have been going through all these comments , you feel very shame on some of them who are at the other side of Limpopo, they get killed each and every day without being prosecuted …Here in Zim we have the best police in Africa ..
Crossley Sbanda which arrests pple for being in the opposition party.Hapana chisingaperi
Crossley Sbanda devil of highest magnitude
free sikhala free sithole
They are the same
Ndokunzi musungwa ikoko
But it happened even when you were still a bloody minister nxaaa