Legendary producer Chicco Twala faces gun-related charges after a fiery encounter with City Power technicians, on Sunday.
Why was Chicco Twala arrested?
The statement released by Johannesburg MMC for environment and infrastructure Michael Sun does not name Twala as the alleged instigator, but sources who spoke to Sowetan Live confirm the 59-year-old was sent to jail for allegedly toting a loaded firearm, on Monday.
According to Sun, the arrest came a day after the producer allegedly assaulted and taunted a City Power technician with a gun.
Responding to multiple reports of a power outage in Bloubosrand, Joburg’s electricity provider deployed a team of technicians to repair the fault that had affected the community for a number of days.
Sun explained, in order to commence with repairs, “power needed to be temporarily cut to a wider area so the technicians could work on the faults.”
It seems, sometime before work began on the faulty power line, Twala allegedly confronted one of the technicians, threatening violence “should the team continue with their work.”
When his warning was ignored, it’s said the producer attacked the technician “and pointed a cocked pistol to the technician’s head for force him to stop.”
“It is reported that the resident in question in fact had power to this house but did not want the technicians to work on the faults affecting other residents in the area,” Sun noted.
Twala responds to arrest: ‘It was a toy gun’
Fearing for their lives, the technicians fled the scene without addressing the power outage affecting Bloubosrand. Karma would come knocking on Twala’s door on Monday, however.
The veteran producer was arrested and slammed with assault and a weapons charge.
Twala, in response to the arrest, claimed he only toted a toy gun at the technicians, whom he thought “were cable thieves who caused a blackout to six houses.”