They were granted a US$50 bail each today when they appeared at the Gweru Magistrates’ Court. The two arrested at the Gweru Central Police Station on Sunday after they had gone to make a report of the damage made to Chibaya’s vehicle. The vehicle was stormed by Zanu PF youths at Guinea Fowl business centre just outside Gweru Town.They were remanded out of custody to 8 November.
Meanwhile, Clarkson Makwara, a councillor in Mazowe South, Mashonaland Central was arrested in Bindura yesterday, Monday by three police officers in plain clothes.
They accused him of chanting slogans that were derogatory to Zanu PF’s Robert Mugabe at an MDC Youth Assembly meeting at Glendale Hall last Sunday. He is currently detained at Bindura Central Police Station.