Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance vice chairperson, Job Sikhala’s lawyer has revealed his client was threatened with death by a senior prison officer.

Sikhala’s lawyer complained to the Magistrate that his client was threatened with death by a prison officer named Mutimbanyoka at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.

Mutimbanyoka allegedly instructed a junior prison officer to handcuff Sikhala for the whole day on 23 August.

He also mixed with inmates who tested positive for coronavirus.

Mutimbanyoka told Sikhala that he would die and asked for his next of kin’s contact details.