Own Correspondent|MDC Activist Josphat Mzaca Ngulube and his three accomplices who were recently sentenced to seven years in prison will today be transferred under unclear circumstances from Bulawayo’s Khami Prison to Harare’s Chikurubi Prison.

Mzaca’ Ngulube and three other assailants were late last year convicted of burning three cars and property of a house belonging to Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial women’s league chairperson Eva Bitu.

Ngulube (34), Fortune Masuku (29), Melusi Moyo (32) and Otilia Sibanda (34) were found guilty of malicious damage to property during the violent January protests.

Lavenda Moyo (66), their co-accused, was found not guilty and acquitted.

Mzaca Ngulube’s lawyer Nqobani Sithole said that the Prisons and Correctional Services indicated that they were transferring Ngulube and his colleagues to Harare on unclassified security reasons.

He said that they will try to resist the transfer as the activists do not have relatives in Harare who will be able to visit them and provide them with food as they have been doing at Khami Prison.

Ngulube has since challenged the incarceration.

Ngulube contested last year’s parliamentary elections as an independent candidate in Bulawayo South constituency before joining the MDC early this year.

Sithole said Ngulube was in “high spirits” though having some health challenges.

“He is in high spirits. We knew that regardless of his defence the probability of his conviction was high…he was prepared and not taken by surprise by the unfair conviction…otherwise, we are filing an appeal at the High Court against his unfair conviction,”