I feel Sikhala, Sithole’s prison torture: Chamisa

CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed that the State is maliciously exposing incarcerated legislators Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North) to inhumane treatment as punishment for their political affiliation.

Sikhala, Sithole and 14 other party members were arrested on charges of inciting public violence following violent clashes that erupted between CCC and Zanu PF supporters at the funeral of slain opposition activist Moreblessing Ali in Nyatsime in June this year.

Narrating his ordeal when his visit to Chikurubi Maximum Prison last Thursday was foiled, Chamisa said:  “When we were blocked from seeing Sikhala and Sithole, they had already been told that we had come to visit them.

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