By James Gwati-Overzealous police offices in Gweru have arrested a state media journalist.

Herald Midlands Bureau Chief, Freedom Mupanedemo, was Monday morning briefly detained at Gweru Central Police Station for what the police termed “Contravening lockdown regulations”.

Mupanedemo, was arrested despite him showing the police officers both his Zimbabwe Media Commission accreditation card and Zimpapers ID.

The police also ignored government pronouncement which qualifies journalists in the essential service category and are exempted from the COVID-19 induced government lockdown regulations and went on to lock up the scribe in their filthy Gweru Central police cells.

They locked the journalist up for about an hour and only to release him after the intervention of ZRP national police spokesperson, Paul Nyathi.