Zanu PF central committee member and President Robert Mugabe nephew Phillip Chiyangwa has reportedly ordered the arrest of the Southlea Park Home Owners Association leadership who are challenging his $42 million compensation for the government owned farm  home to 8000 people.
On Wednesday the Harare Central Police Station’s Law and Order Section arrested two leaders of the residents’ association Nathan Nyambuya and Clifford Kaseke ” on Chiyangwa’s orders”.
The police detained the two after telling them that Chiyangwa was accusing them of trespassing and influencing residents to stop paying compensation for their stay at “his” land.
Clifford Kaseke the deputy Southlea Park Home Owners Association President said they were detained by the police the whole of Wednesday.
“The police told us that we were facing three charges, that is, trespassing, blocking residents from compensating Chiyangwa and selling stands,” he said.
“For selling stands we asked them to show us the evidence which they said Chiyangwa had and on trespassing we did show them our home addresses which indicated that we are home owners and we indeed stay in Southlea Park and it is the third allegation of  blocking residents from paying compensation which we admitted and showed them the High court application we filed  last week in which we are not resisting to pay but seeking clarity on the farm ownership, and it was after we had produced the High court application when the police released us and told us that they were going to  call us when they have finished their investigations”.
Southlea Park residents last week filed an application with the High court challenging Chiyangwa’s compensation demands.
The court gave Chiyangwa (10) ten days to respond before setting a hearing date.
It was after Chiyangwa was served with the summons at the weekend that he plotted for the arrest of the residents.
At the beginning of the year Chiyangwa ordered the police to block the same residents from meeting where they wanted to deliberate on the eviction threats he issued in December.