CONVICTED UPND CADRES CAUSE SCENE OUTSIDE MAZABUKA COURT AFTER SENTENCING
Drama unfolded outside the Mazabuka Magistrate Court on Tuesday as two convicted United Party for National Development (UPND) cadres nearly clashed with Police Officers.
The incident occurred soon after Magistrate Franz Zimba sentenced Life Moonga and Robson Mbewe, both aged 29, to three years imprisonment with hard labor.
The duo, who were charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, refused to board the Police Van after the court session and attempted to walk to Mazabuka Police Station, overpowering one officer in the process.
A Senior Officer, however, intervened and stopped the two from proceeding.
The convicts also threatened Police Officers and a Byta FM reporter, warning that their three-year sentence was too short and they would be out soon.
Meanwhile, supporters who had gathered outside the court encouraged the duo to remain calm, chanting that they would provide food for them while they were incarcerated.
Moonga and Mbewe were found guilty of attacking UPND Mazabuka Chairperson, Wilfred Mulomba, at a named church on 17th May, 2025.
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The Police should charge them again for threatening violence and attempted assult.
This is exactly what Emmanuel Mwamba did and people should learn that they are not little Gods because they belong to the ruling party.
No Cadrism is a promise that the Head of State assured as with and if the Police fail to insitute the second set of charges. Then charge the Police for derelication of duty. These two convicts broke the law again, its the law that has caused them to be imprisoned. Society needs to learn and change. We can not be held in PF era mentality and let it remerge among us again. No cadrism behaviour.