A SOLDIER stationed at Induna Barracks 11 Combat Group and a police officer stationed at Njube Police Station in Bulawayo last week appeared in court facing charges of assaulting a resident during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Obvious Nkomo (33), a soldier and Dennis Maturi (45), a police officer, were denying the charge when they appeared before magistrate Jaconiah Ncube on Friday.
The court was told that on May 1 this year at round 5pm near Sidudla Bar in Njube, Bulawayo along Luza Road, the pair was on duty escorting a truck selling subsidised mealie-meal and doing routine checks when they had a quarrel with a motorist Winston Chadomba (33), of Mpopoma.
The court heard that after some minutes, the two took Chadomba to Njube Police Station.
Chadomba was held at the police station up to about 7pm and later released without charge.
