By Staff Reporter
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One of the five City Power technicians who were allegedly attacked by music producer Chicco Twala claims that the weapon he threatened them with was a real gun and not a toy.
The technician also disputed Twala’s claims that he mistook them for cable thieves, asserting that they were dressed in overalls and drove a clearly marked City Power vehicle when Twala attacked them on Sunday night.
The six technicians were attending to a reported power fault and Twala allegedly refused them access to the power box outside his yard.
He said Twala assaulted one of his colleagues and pointed a gun at the rest of the team. Twala has, however, insisted that he used a toy gun to scare off the technicians, which he mistook for cable thieves.
Standing just 2m away from the scuffle between Twala and his colleague, the technician said as soon as the musician cocked his gun, he froze and could not run away. Twala is said to have slapped the technician, choking and pinning him to the ground.
“He is a liar. That was not a toy gun. I know the sound of a gun and that was a real one, there’s no two-ways about it. It was so loud, I can still hear it,” said the technician, who did not want to be identified as he fears for his life.
He explained that they were dressed in overalls, even though not all of them, and that their trailer had a huge City Power sticker on it. He said while the altercation was taking place he continued to identify himself to Twala.
He said he and other technicians ran away on seeing the gun. “Twala then started going off at me for a while. I stayed for another 20 minutes because his son assured me that his father would stay indoors and I was waiting for new technicians to be deployed.
