By Paul Nyathi|A man from Bulawayo who was arrested on Friday shortly after giving evidence at the Kgalema Montlante led Commission of Inquiry into the killings that happened in Harare on the first of August has spent the weekend in prison.

Wisdom Mkhwananzi, who gave evidence at the commission, indicated that he grew up as an orphan after his parents were killed during the Gukurahundi atrocities of the early eighties. He went further to accuse Zimbabwe current President Emmerson Mnangagwa for presiding over the death of his father.

Mkhwananzi was violently apprehended by police from Bulawayo Central Police Station amid huge resistance from members of the public who felt that he was being unfairly arrested for giving his testimony on the brutality by the Gukurahundi soldiers.

A Bulawayo magistrate on Saturday remanded Mkhwananzi in custody to Monday where a ruling on his bail application will be held.

Court records indicate that Mkhwananzi is facing three charges, undermining the authority of the President, lying under oath and assaulting a police officer.

He is being represented by Jabulani Mhlanga a lawyer from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Bulawayo.