{"id":68551,"date":"2022-10-30T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/prison-authorities-block-family-from-delivering-birthday-cake-to-detained-job-sikhala"},"modified":"2022-10-30T21:03:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T19:03:28","slug":"prison-authorities-block-family-from-delivering-birthday-cake-to-detained-job-sikhala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/prison-authorities-block-family-from-delivering-birthday-cake-to-detained-job-sikhala","title":{"rendered":"Prison Authorities Block Family From Delivering Birthday Cake To Detained Job Sikhala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa has reported that prison authorities denied the wife and family of detained Job Sikhala from delivering a birthday cake to him.<\/p>\n<p>The Zengeza West Member of Parliament who turns 50 years today has been in prison since June after he was arrested and charged with inciting public violence which erupted in Nyatsime during the funeral wake of slain CCC activist, Moreblessing Ali.<\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter post seen by Pindula News, Chamisa described Sikhala, popularly known as Wiwa, as \u201cthe citizens\u2019 hero.\u201d He said:<\/p>\n<p>Today Hon @JobSikhala1 turns 50. Sadly, I\u2019ve just heard from his wife that they had baked a bday cake for him but Prison authorities denied the family the opportunity to have the cake delivered to him in prison. Join me in wishing the citizens\u2019 hero a happy birthday. God bless Wiwa!<\/p>\n<p>Sikhala and fellow legislator, Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North) as well as 16 other Nyatsime residents have on several occasions <b>been denied bail. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sikhala, an <b>MDC Alliance<\/b> MP, is accused of obstructing justice for allegedly recording a video threatening the murderers of CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.<\/p>\n<p>He is also charged with inciting public violence under the same facts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa has reported that prison authorities denied the wife and family of detained Job Sikhala from delivering a birthday cake to him. The Zengeza West Member of Parliament who turns 50 years today has been in prison since June after he was arrested and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":68550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[11494,1493,2189,2408,10293,10250,11746,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-68551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-parties","9":"tag-14-june-nyatsime-violence","10":"tag-africa-press","11":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","12":"tag-job-sikhala","13":"tag-job-sikhala-and-godfrey-sithole-denied-bail","14":"tag-moreblessing-ali-murder","15":"tag-nyatsime-16","16":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prison Authorities Block Family From Delivering Birthday Cake To Detained Job Sikhala - 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