IG REMMY KAJOBA & POLICE COMMAND: YOU ARE NOT WITCHHUNTING BUT CORRECTING THE NEGLECT OF DUTY BY THE PREVIOUS REGIME AND YOUR PREDECESSOR IN ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW IN ZAMBIA.
IT is erroneous for anyone to accuse the Zambia Police Service of witch-hunt when arresting people who are suspected of committing crimes with impunity against fellow citizens under the guise of politics and power.
During the last regime, if you were not a member of the ruling party reporting a case against any official from the ruling party to the police, it would be a miracle for that case to be attended to by police.
Police were scared of dealing with cases related to the conduct of cadres, party officials and ruling elites.
In other words were they were untouchables, a trend they want to perpetuate even in the new dawn government.
This frustrated many leading to many ignoring the police whenever confronted with attacks, insults and hate speech from the ruling party cadres.
A number of killings, assaults, tribal campaigns etc were committed by the ruling party cadres even in the the Govt Report on the Commission on Electoral Violence and Voting Patterns mentioned some PF leaders as instrumental in triggering violence and hate tribal speeches and campaigns.
However, the police have never investigated and followed those findings and recommendations todate and no one has been brought to book.
The new administration must follow these findings and recommendations and ensure those who thought were above the law are made to account for their misdeeds.
No amount of crybabying politics should be tolerated or entertained under the guise of tribe, party and religion because those who committed crimes did it own their own not that they were sent by their tribes and political parties.
If indeed they were, then crimes is crime and an offence is an offence whether committed today, yesterday or decade ago or more or sent by a tribe or party to commit it, it is still crime.
This is why some people in Rwanda, Yugoslavia among other countries that were engulfed in civil war are still being arrested and tried for crimes committed decades ago.
What is special about those politicians and cadres who broke the laws of Zambia with impunity just because they were close to the powers that be?
To the police, don’t be discouraged but be encouraged to bring to book all regardless whether they are sitting politicians or retired and let them account for crimes omitted or committed.
Many Zambians are with you except those who survived on lawlessness and disorder to earn a living who maybe unhappy and agitated.
To our chiefs, stay clean of politics because as these politicians are nabbed, they will, for the first time, crawl to your palaces soliciting for sympathy but tell them to clear themselves with the courts.
I submit
McDonald Chipenzi