By Staff Reporter

Harare Magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka will on Thursday sentence former Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala following his conviction on charges of communicating falsehoods.

Sikhala who was last week convicted of communicating falsehoods was arrested in 2021 and charged with communicating falsehoods.

In his mitigation, Sikhala’s lawyer Harrison Nkomo told the court that the former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member was convicted using a section of the constitution that was declared unconstitutional.

Nkomo also said Sikhala is a family man with 11 children and 14 dependents on top of being a community leader.

He also told the court that the High Court had earlier acquitted journalist Hopewell Chin’ono after he was arrested for a similar offence.

Nkomo pleaded with the court to give Sikhala a wholly suspended sentence.