Staff Writer
JAILED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Zengeza West legislator, Job Sikhala says he is taking his time in jail to educate fellow prisoners on the political situation in Zimbabwe.
He has been imprisoned at Harare’s Chikurubi Prison for the past 151 days, said being held at the maximum security prison among the country’s most dangerous criminals had not deterred his conviction, as he was ready for a longer haul.
Sikhala was arrested mid-June alongside co-accused Godfrey Sithole and 14 other opposition activists who protested the brutal killing of colleague Moreblessing Ali by a Zanu PF member, Pius Jamba in Nyatsime, Chitungwiza.
Speaking to the media this week, the defiant opposition leader said he is instead using his tenure of incarceration to raise awareness on the Zimbabwe situation.
“Zanu PF is afraid of releasing me. They know doing that before next year’s elections will definitely cement their loss at the polls. They know my capacity,” said Sikhala.
“There should not be any doubt or fear for me here, I am comfortable with them keeping me here. It gives me more time to teach comrades being kept here about the Zimbabwean situation.
“I have prepared myself for a long stay and am ready to stay until the cows come home. This is just an attempt to delay the inevitable, a Zanu PF loss.”
