A ZANU PF official has called for tighter security around jailed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) vice chairman Job Sikhala who has been in pre-trial detention since June 2022.
ZANU PF Director for Information, Tafadzwa Mugwadi, said Sikhala should be protected after the jailed Zengeza West MP recently accused some of his allies of trying to bring him poisoned food. Said Mugwadi:
The State should increase security for Job Sikhala1 following his expression of real fears of danger from his peers in CCC.
Counter-killing in opposition is real but always finds a scapegoat in blaming the Zanu PF. The hypocrites he refers to are his rivals in CCC.
In his New Year’s message sent to Zimbabweans from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, Sikhala intimated that CCC was infested by sellouts and hypocrites who want him dead. He wrote:
The University of Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison has revealed to me treacherous hypocrites, sellouts, colluders with my persecution, and opportunists trying to capitalise on the predicament of the moment for cheap political and financial gain from my tormentors.
Some wished me dead. I am sick. Please, they must then pray for my death.
Some plotted schemes to destroy me by spreading false intelligence given to them by their handlers and are dabbling in rumoUr mongering and getting into deals to the extent of carrying poisoned food to deliver it with a friendly smile. I am aware of all their shenanigans.
… With respect, prison teaches one to distinguish real and true friends on the one hand and hypocrites on the other.
It opened me and exorcised from me some fallacies and falsehoods I had about some people around me.
It made me discover that my sincere, genuine and eternal friends are the masses and people of Zimbabwe, cutting across all classes and professions, domestically and in the diaspora.
The passion of their roars and bellows I hear on a daily basis is amazing and extraordinary.
A million kisses of love my dearest friends. Your sharing of pain with me is historic.
Sikhala was arrested together with more than a dozen other activists for allegedly inciting violence in Nyatsime in June 2022 following the murder of party member Moreblessing Ali.
The other CCC activists have since been granted bail by the courts. | NewZimbabwe.com