Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala has threatened a general strike over the incarceration of a member of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe who was jailed 16 months for protesting against poor remuneration.

Sikhala said Sheila was a victim of weaponisation of the law to persecute people.

“This message from the ARTUZ President Obert Masaraure has touched me. The woman Sheila is a casualty of the regime’s weaponisation of the law to persecute people. #FreeSheila, failure of which we will call for a general strike,” said Sikhala.