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Outspoken former Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala (CCC) has been found guilty of inciting public violence in what the State claimed was an effort to avenge the death of opposition activist, Moreblessing Ali.
HARARE – The High Court on Monday found Pius Jamba Mukandi guilty of the murder of opposition CCC activist Moreblessing Ali in Seke, Chitungwiza, in June last year.
Justice Esther Muremba, who delivered her five-hour long judgement, deferred announcing the sentence for Mukandi to December 20 this year.
Judgement in the case where Pius Jamba Mukandi is accused of killing Citizens Coalition of Change (CCC) activist, Moreblessing Ali in cold blood in June last year has been set for December 4.
The High Court has been told that the results of the post-mortem conducted on the slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member Moreblessing Ali are yet to be completed despite the murder trial already nearing its completion.
Outspoken former Zengeza West MP and opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) senior official Job Sikhala has clocked 500 days in pre-trial detention over what his party says is politically motivated persecution.
Job Sikhala, the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Vice Chairman who has been incarcerated for seven months for voicing against the murder of party activist Moreblessing Ali claims that he is extremely sick at the Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison where he is jailed an suspects colon cancer.
The family of slain opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali yesterday vowed that her remains will not be buried until their lawyer, Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala has been freed.
Harare magistrate Tafadzwa Miti has dismissed bail for opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MP Job Sikhala citing that his 63 arrests previously show that he is an “incorrigible and unrepentant criminal.”
Harare magistrate Marevanazvo Gofa on Thursday finally granted ZWL300 000 (US470) bail to opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MP Godfrey Sithole after the judiciary controversially made him spend more than 150 days in prison. Sithole was arrested on 14 June together with Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala and 14 residents of Nyatsime.
A petition demanding the unconditional release of jailed opposition MPs Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole and 14 residents of Nyatsime is becoming one of the most signed applications in the history of Zimbabwe as it has so far garnered more than 27 000 signatures across the world.