The High Court has dismissed a bail application filed by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member and Zengeza West lawmaker Job Sikhala.
Sikhala is charged with obstructing or defeating the course of justice after he allegedly posted a video that was reportedly intended at misleading the police who were investigating the death of CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.
He denies the charges.
Speaking after the ruling, Sikhala’s lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said Sikhala’s case is one of those whose decisions are predictable.
“She has not given her reasons to do that she says her reasons will come later so it’s very difficult for us to know why (she has ruled this way) but this is one of those where most of these decisions are predictable. It’s a waiting game now because this was an appeal,” Mtetwa said.
The legislator was charged at a time he is currently locked up at Chikurubi Maximum Prison together with fellow CCC legislator Godfrey Karakadzai Sithole on charges of inciting public violence. He has since been denied bail in this case as well.
He is accused of inciting the public to violently avenge the death of CCC activist, Ali who was found murdered with her body cut into pieces 18 days after she disappeared, a Zanu PF activist, Pius Jamba was arrested over her murder.
During Ali’s memorial service, mourners ran amok and destroyed homes belonging to Zanu PF members in the Nyatsime area.
Sikhala was then charged with inciting unrest after the violent scenes in Nyatsime.
He has been locked up since then after his initial freedom bid hit a snag.
