Zanu (PF) youth militias effected a citizen arrest on Simanzeni Ngwabi (16), a vegetable vendor at the main bus terminus of the city on Friday after she jokingly passed insulting remarks aimed at a campaign poster of President Mugabe.
According to police records, Ngwabi is a man but The Zimbabwean on Sunday established that she is in fact an orphan from the poor suburb of Njube. She dropped out of school due to lack of funds two years ago to become a vegetable vendor.
The youths handed Ngwabi over to police after she allegedly said to them in Ndebele: Go away with your campaign poster of your old man who has wrinkled skin and always raises a knuckled fist.
Ngwabi’s sister Thulisiwe said she was making efforts to seek funds to engage a lawyer for her young sister’s release.
I am shocked that police can be so evil to detained a poor little girl for a week without taking her to the court of law for trial, she said .
Zimbabwe police national Spokesperson, Wayne Bvudzijena refused to comment saying he was yet to get details of what transpired.
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