Terrence Mawawa|Prominent Masvingo based Newsday reporter Tatenda Chitagu was last night involved in a scuffle with a group of unruly MDC Alliance supporters who accused him of attempting to denigrate the party.

The unruly elements confiscated Chitagu’s mobile phone and notebook, albeit briefly. They claimed he was sympathetic to a faction within the opposition party.

In an interview with ZimEye.com, Chitagu said: “MDC youths were unleashed on me by councillor… who also had grabbed my phone.They took my mobile phone for some minutes as I was filming their protest over the decision by their party councillors to go to bed with ZANU PF.

I actually did not expect such unruly behaviour from the MDC Alliance supporters.

I actually thought the councillor would know better than his supporters – the importance of leaving journalists to do their job.”