GAMATOX TOP PRISON OFFICER TRIGGERED RIOTS newsdzeZimbabweNewsdzeZimbabwe

9.9.15

GAMATOX TOP PRISON OFFICER TRIGGERED RIOTS newsdzeZimbabweNewsdzeZimbabwe: Elijah Vhumbunu also made claims that they were being used as sacrificial lambs.

He said they were severely assaulted and had to sleep naked in cells full of water without any blankets for more than 3 days.

He singled out one officer Pambayi as being very aggressive and insensitive to their plight when they complained about the deplorable conditions in the food, the presence of lice and the shortage of blankets that he openly told them these were the ideal prison conditions.

He also claimed that the inmates who are alleged to have been shot on the roof attempting to escape, according to the state papers who include Titus Mandikodza, Dennis Aruma and Zuze who grabbed the gun in the afternoon of the riots, had all been alive after the incident as they had slept with them contrary to what emerged in the papers.