In an interview with The Zimbabwean, Zimbabwe Human Rights Lawyer (ZHRL), Lizwe Jamela said Ncube, who is the councillor for ward 10, was arrested for organising a residents’ meeting.
“ZHRL have just dispatched a lawyer from Victoria Falls, Thulani Nkala, to offer legal assistance to the councillor. We do not know where he is detained right now but the only information we have is that he was arrested yesterday” said Jamela.
Ncube’s arrest comes barely two days after the arrest of four journalists in the same province on Friday last week. The journalists: Pindai Dube from the Daily News, The Standard reporter Nqobani Ndlovu and freelance journalists, Pamenus Tuso and Oscar Nkala were released without charge.
The four journalists were arrested in Ntabazinduna while covering the eviction of a senior police medical officer, Inspector Tedious Chisango, from a government house. The journalists were arrested while taking photos of police recruits loading Chisango’s clothes into a waiting police truck.
The journalists were taken to Ntabazinduna police training depot and were handed over to the training school’s deputy commandant, Chief Superintendent James Mbwando and his assistant, Ben Chabata.
While the Assistant commissioner Chabata was explaining to the journalists the ‘implications’ of taking the photos of the police truck, Inspector Chisango intervened and told the two officers that it was him who had invited the journalists to cover his eviction.
“I am the one who actually called these journalists to cover the story. I want the whole world to know my story. I have lost my job for being a suspected MDC supporter and you expect me to be quiet?” Inspector Chisango told Chabata in the presence of the journalists.
After detaining the journalists for almost seven hours, the police finally took their personal details and released them without charge.
Post published in: Zimbabwe News