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A TOUT stormed the Gwanda magistrate’s court in a drunken stupor and left court officials dumbfounded when he demanded to be attended immediately after arriving late for trial. Busani Sibanda, 29, of Jahunda Township, who was facing a charge of resisting arrest, “ordered” magistrate Sheila Nazombe to attend to him saying he had other business to do.
Sibanda had the audacity to talk as he pleased after the court session was adjourned and cracked jokes before court officials prompting Nazombe to charge: “Are you sick? You are drunk isn’t it? Yesterday (Tuesday) you were not like this.”
Sibanda responded: “No I am not drunk. The problem is that yesterday I had talked too much and my temperature was high. I don’t like talking. Now that the witnesses have gone back to their homes let us make it on another day,” he said leaving the court in stitches.
Sibanda denied a charge of two counts of touting for customers in an undesignated place and resisting arrest.
Prosecuting, Mncedisi Dube said on January 31 around 9.30AM Sibanda and his accomplice, Blessing Muronzi, 26, a commuter omnibus driver, were found picking passengers at an undesignated point.
“A team of five uniformed police officers from Gwanda were on cycle patrol in the town carrying out crime prevention duties. Muronzi was driving along Soudan Street towards Bulawayo while Sibanda was shouting for passengers going to Bulawayo to board the vehicle,” he said.
The court heard that police officers stopped the duo and when they tried to arrest them they resisted. Five police officers reacted swiftly leading to their arrest.
The trial continues.
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