Chamisa cleared to visit jailed MPs

OPPOSITION CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has been granted permission to visit the party’s jailed legislators Job Sikhala and Godfery Sithole, and 14 Nyatsime residents.

Chamisa’s lawyers last week gave a seven-day ultimatum to the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) to clear the visit after he was barred from visiting Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison where the legislators are being detained awaiting trial.

In a letter to his lawyers Shava Law Chambers, ZPCS chief director for legal and corporate affairs Commissioner Willie Risiro said: “Please be advised that authority has been granted for your client Chamisa to visit members of his political party incarcerated in our prisons.

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