{"id":80385,"date":"2023-07-12T08:21:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T06:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ccc-files-criminal-case-against-trigger-happy-former-deputy-minister"},"modified":"2023-07-12T11:50:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T09:50:18","slug":"ccc-files-criminal-case-against-trigger-happy-former-deputy-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ccc-files-criminal-case-against-trigger-happy-former-deputy-minister","title":{"rendered":"CCC Files Criminal Case Against &#8220;Trigger-happy&#8221; Former Deputy Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>CCC Bikita South aspiring Member of Parliament, John Mupanduki, has filed a case against Energy Mutodi who allegedly fired shots at opposition supporters at a rally last week.<\/p>\n<p>Mutodi is the ZANU PF Bikita South aspiring legislator and the current Goromonzi West MP. CCC said in a statement:<\/p>\n<p>Our MP for Bikita South, Hon. John Mupanduki, has successfully opened a case against ZANU PF member Energy Mutodi, who fired gunshots at our members during a rally at Baradzamwa Business Centre in Bikita South, Masvingo Province on July 6, 2023. Case RRB 5583028 was reported on July 9th, 2023, at Bikita Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>We call upon the Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to take action against this criminal behavior by an aspiring MP.<\/p>\n<p>Mutodi\u2019s behavior violates both the constitutional and electoral act provisions. We want elections and not war.<\/p>\n<p>Mutodi, however, denied that he had fired shots at CCC supporters but did not explain what he was doing at the venue for an opposition rally. He tweeted:<\/p>\n<p>I challenged Mr Chamisa\u2019s CCC supporters to show me any wounded person from a purported shooting and they could not.<\/p>\n<p>But I can show without doubt his audience was too small to be addressed by a reasonable presidential aspirant<\/p>\n<p>Last week, CCC claimed that Mutodi fired gunshots at CCC members who had gathered at Baradzanwa township in Bikita awaiting party leader Nelson Chamisa\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Mirror, Mutodi allegedly besieged the venue with two trucks laden with ZANU PF supporters who threw stones at CCC supporters who were waiting party leader, Nelson Chamisa.<\/p>\n<p>He was reportedly in the company of Kumbirai Ziki a Forever Associate Zimbabwe (FAZ) member in Bikita South.<\/p>\n<p>Mutodi, who is an academic, author and musician, was elected the Member of Parliament for Goromonzi West, Mashonaland East Province, in the 2018 elections.<\/p>\n<p>But during ZANU PF\u2019s restructuring exercise before its Congress, Mutodi relocated to Masvingo Province from Mashonaland East where Goromonzi is situated.<\/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. CCC Bikita South aspiring Member of Parliament, John Mupanduki, has filed a case against Energy Mutodi who allegedly fired shots at opposition supporters at a rally last week. Mutodi is the ZANU PF Bikita South aspiring legislator and the current Goromonzi West MP. CCC said in a statement: Our MP for Bikita [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":80384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[1493,2189,8705,3654,8195,4748,13921,403,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-80385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-africa-press","10":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","11":"tag-ccc-rally","12":"tag-energy-mutodi","13":"tag-john-mupanduki","14":"tag-political-violence","15":"tag-politically-motivated-violence-violence","16":"tag-violence","17":"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>CCC Files Criminal Case Against &quot;Trigger-happy&quot; Former Deputy Minister - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"CCC Bikita South aspiring Member of Parliament, John Mupanduki, has filed a case against Energy Mutodi who allegedly fir ...\" \/>\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\/ccc-files-criminal-case-against-trigger-happy-former-deputy-minister\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CCC Files Criminal Case Against &quot;Trigger-happy&quot; 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