Staff Reporter| A highly intoxicated Welshman Ncube led MDC official based in Gwanda yesterday thoroughly assaulted two police officers on patrol accusing them of planning to break into a local POSB banking hall.
Ndaba Mpande who is a senior security personnel at the party’s provincial office in Gwanda is reported to have heavily assaulted the two members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police on patrol in front of the town’s POSB next to the MDC offices accusing them of suspiciously walking around the banking hall.
Mpande who is allegedly reported to have been highly intoxicated at the time of the incident assaulted the two police officers with clenched fists and boots leading to the officers fleeing the area and leaving behind their patrol note books. The infuriated MDC official took the books and wrote that he had taken over control of the patrol duties assigned to the officers who he accused of plotting to break into the bank.
The officers reported their ordeal to other police officers who were on patrol in the area leading to Mpande’s arrest.
Officers at the scene said that they suspected the dreadlocked Mpande to have been high on heavy drugs most probably mbanje at the time he assaulted the police officers who were on their routine duties.
“No one in his normal senses would have performed such a weird act except if they were high on drugs,” said a police officer on duty at the time.
Mpande is expected to appear at the Gwanda magistrates court today facing two counts of assault with intension to cause grievous bodily harm.