The perpetrators of the violence on former Hurungwe West legislator Temba Mliswa’s Spring Farm were arrested on Friday and after being held at Chinhoyi Police Station, were brought before the court in Chinhoyi Saturday morning.
The three Zanu PF members who allegedly terrorised Mliswa’s farm workers at in Karoi in May, appeared at the Chinhoyi Magistrates Court on Saturday facing assault and theft charges.
Nigel Murambiwa (30), Tapiwa Masenda (27) and Chinjai Kambuzuma (32) were granted free bail and remanded to August 14 by Chinhoyi magistrate Nyaradzo Ringisai.
The prosecution says that the ruling party supporters invaded Mliswa’s farm ahead of the June 10 by-elections and repeatedly assaulted the politician’s employees with sticks, iron bars and logs accusing their boss of seeking to contest the by-election as an independent candidate.
Their acts are on video footage.
The development is set to humiliate former Local Government and National Housing Minister Ignatius Chombo who appears in video footage organising attacks on Mliswa.
The suspects also allegedly stole the farm workers’ kitchen utensils and other valuable goods worth $1 000 during their stay at the farm shortly before Mliswa lost the by-election to Zanu PF candidate Keith Guza.
They are being represented by Mike Mutsvairo.