Temba Mliswa freed

Former Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman Temba Mliswa (pictured above) and four others arrested for disrupting a sanctioned Zanu-PF rally at Sengwe Business Centre in Hurungwe West constituency on Sunday have been released after the prosecution called for are view of the preferred charge.

The State is now expected to proceed by way of summons.

Mliswa, was arrested on Sunday together with former Harare provincial youth chairman Jimu Kunaka, aspiring Chinhoyi constituency candidate in the 2013 harmonised elections Prosper Gavanga, Munyaradzi Mugoneza and Farai Kuvheya.

They were taken to court yesterday afternoon but the prosecution said the charge needed to be reviewed and that the police would proceed by way of summons.

Mliswa's lawyer Musindo Hungwe welcomed the development saying allegations by the police were flimsy.