{"id":73144,"date":"2023-01-26T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T12:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/job-sikhala-unwell-fails-to-attend-court"},"modified":"2023-01-26T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T14:59:08","slug":"job-sikhala-unwell-fails-to-attend-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/job-sikhala-unwell-fails-to-attend-court","title":{"rendered":"Job Sikhala Unwell, Fails To Attend Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), vice chairperson Job Sikhala, who is being accused of obstructing the course of justice, is unwell in jail and failed attend court today, Pindula News has established.<\/p>\n<p>The Zengesa West Member of Parliament is accused of disturbing police investigations into the murder of Moreblessing Ali last year, when he was the slain activist\u2019s family lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Sikhala\u2019s lawyer Harrison Nkomo told Harare Magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa that the lawmaker, who has been in jail for months, could not attend court because he is unwell, though his illness was not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>He (Sikhala) will be back in court on February 9.<\/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), vice chairperson Job Sikhala, who is being accused of obstructing the course of justice, is unwell in jail and failed attend court today, Pindula News has established. The Zengesa West Member of Parliament is accused of disturbing police investigations into the murder of Moreblessing Ali last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":73143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-73144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-policy","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"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>Job Sikhala Unwell, Fails To Attend Court - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), vice chairperson Job Sikhala, who is being accused of obstructing the co ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/job-sikhala-unwell-fails-to-attend-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Job Sikhala Unwell, Fails To Attend Court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), vice chairperson Job Sikhala, who is being accused of obstructing the co ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/job-sikhala-unwell-fails-to-attend-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-26T12:44:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-26T14:59:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1674731685.05.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/job-sikhala-unwell-fails-to-attend-court\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/job-sikhala-unwell-fails-to-attend-court\",\"name\":\"Job Sikhala Unwell, Fails To Attend Court - 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