INCLUSION OF UPND CADRES IN POLICE INTERROGATIONS EXTREMELY DISTURBING
….how will citizens be getting justice if known political party cadres are part of the investigative wings interrogation team questions Makebi Zulu!
LUSAKA, Tuesday, February 8, 2022 (SMART EAGLES)
RENOWNED Lusaka Lawyer Makebi Zulu has wondered how citizens will be getting Justice if political party cadres are part of the investigative wings interrogation team.
Mr Zulu’s statement comes after learning that a UPND cadre was allegedly involved in the interrogation and arrest of former President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s Aide de Camp, Deputy Police Commissioner Chisanga Chanda.
Speaking in Lusaka yesterday, Mr Zulu disclosed that his Client has been charged with an alleged offence of accessory after the fact relating to a murder that took place in Kaoma district and is said to have concealed a fugitive when infact not.
“The person that the Police wanted made himself available, he saw a Lawyer and he was supposed to go to the Police at that the time the Police got there. The Lawyer he had engaged was at hand to ensure he made himself available,” he said.
He said the former President’s bodyguard was detained on Friday last week but was not put in Police cells.
Mr Zulu added that what is disheartening is that his client during the entire period was subjected to questions that are NOT related to the charge among which was the disclosure of source of funding for the PF.
“Our Client was apprehended on Friday, and the manner of his apprehension is that he was merely called. After being called he was detained.. Having being detained, we approached the Police wanting to access our Client, but we couldn’t at that particular time because the Police said it is administrative.
“From Friday, he was only brought here at Woodlands today at 11:30. Our Client was kept at an undisclosed place in Kalundu. His Wife and her friend including his driver were also detained when they went to check on him,” he said.
Mr Zulu said this is a case of victimisation and that the statement his Client was made to give in the absence of lawyers will be challenged.
“They made him sign a statement in the absence of Counsel despite an undertaken that would call us his Lawyers to be present at that particular meeting… we will be going to court on 22nd February, and there, we will make the necessary application that we need to,” he said.