A SOLDIER based at Mbizo Barracks in Bulawayo allegedly ran amok and assaulted three police officers, who tried to arrest him after accusing them of being thieves.
BY SILAS NKALA
This was heard by Bulawayo magistrate Sithembiso Ncube on Wednesday when Richard Mjumi (22) appeared before her, charged with undermining police authority, assaulting and resisting a police officer.
Mjumi pleaded guilty to the charge and the magistrate remanded him to Wednesday next week for sentence.
The court heard that on October 28 this year, Mjumi was playing snooker at Mpilo Central Hospital when a police officer, Solomon Dzingirai, passed by in the company of other officers, only identified as Constables Tabinga and Taruvinga.
The court heard, when Mjumi saw them, he labelled them thieves, in Shona, questioning their presence in the area.
“You are thieves, you want to disturb us from playing snooker. People are being killed and have their property stolen, while you are here,” Mjumi is said to have remarked.
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“If you remain here, I will hit you with stones.”
After the brief confrontation, the three police officers approached him intending to arrest him, but he became violent and attacked them with fists and booted feet.
The officers sustained injuries, but eventually managed to arrest him.
