HARARE – CCC leader Nelson Chamisa said he was stood up for three hours on Thursday as Zimbabwe Prisons Services barred him from entering Chikurubi Maximum Prison where he sought to see Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole.
Chamisa also sought to see 16 party activists, commonly referred to as the Nyatsime 16 who have been pre-trial detention since June this year.
The accused are facing charges of inciting public violence.
“I am so disheartened that after we have just been made to wait for three hours, we were invited to the office of the officer in change Mr Hukurume who indicated to us it’s unfortunate that we were not able to see honorable Job Sikhala and the other Nyatsime colleagues, because the Minister of Justice has instructed that we can’t see them,” Chamisa told journalists outside Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
“We were surprised because they stood us up for three hours, and all of a sudden they say ‘we have received an instruction and a phone call that you can’t see all your colleagues’; so we were not able to see them.”
“Besides being an ordinary citizen, I am also a practising lawyer and I have every right to see any client if need be,” he continued.
“But they threw away all those considerations to just make it a humiliating act as it has happened. It’s very unfortunate; we will fight this,” he said.
