‘Mnangagwa Ignoring My Pleas For Sikhala’, Claims Chamisa

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), leader Nelson Chamisa has made claims that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ignored several letters he wrote to him concerning the lengthy detention of party Deputy Chairperson, Job Sikhala.

Chamisa made these claims Thursday during a media conference in Harare following criticism that he and other top party officials had thrown the highly vocal Sikhala under the bus.

Sikhala has spent the past 270 days hauled up at Chikurubi Maximum prison and all his efforts to be freed on bail have hit brick walls in the courts.

Chamisa said Mnangagwa has not even responded to a single letter, making his efforts to get him released futile.

“I have even made an effort to write ‘severally’ to Mr Mnangagwa to say, deal with this Sikhala issue it is embarrassing us internationally and nationally. He has chosen not to respond. I wrote to him in private conversations to indicate to him what the issues are but he has ignored them. I have done my bit and I continue to do more,” he said.

He further revealed that Sikhala was now a worried man and the way he was being treated shows how the country is “rotten”.

“That tells you the country is rotten. He committed no offense. Sikhala is innocent but they have already adjudged him guilty without any trial. It tells you how sick we are.

“I have engaged and Sikhala is worried. The last time I engaged him he was telling me about how they have tried to say it is your leader who is refusing to talk to us. If he talks to us, we can deal with your release. That is what he told me. I have told him we can bend backwards, but we do not break principles. We do not tamper with principles,” he said.

Concerning the upcoming harmonised election, Chamisa said the CCC were not going to announce their plans, referring to Zanu PF as “problematic baboons…preparing to rig elections”.

“They do not believe in campaigning but they believe in coercing. But, we are different from them. We are preparing to win and they are preparing to rig and that’s why we have to counter their rigging. And, once beaten, twice shy.

“I can assure you that we will not announce what we are going to do to baboons that have become troublesome. But I want to tell you that these baboons are not going to be troublesome anymore, this far and no further,” he said. Nhau/Indaba

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