OVER 13 ARRESTED AFTER CHINGOLA RIOT DURING PRESIDENT HICHILEMA’S VISIT
By Joseph Kaputula
Home Affairs and Internal Security Minister Jack Mwiimbu has disclosed that more than 13 people have so far been arrested in connection with the riotous behavior that occurred on Saturday in Chingola district on the Copperbelt.
President Hakainde Hichilema was on Saturday forced to cut short his address to marketeers at Chiwempala grounds in Chingola after some agitated residents began throwing stones during his speech.
Addressing the media in Lusaka this morning, Mr. Mwiimbu says the suspects will be charged in accordance with law, emphasizing that the Zambia Police Service and other security wings will take decisive action against the perpetrators.
Mr. Mwiimbu has condemned the incident as unacceptable, warning that government will not tolerate acts of lawlessness that endanger public safety.
He has further revealed that security assessments suggest the riotous behavior may have been orchestrated by unknown individuals, whose motives are
yet to be established.
Mr. Mwiimbu has since commended President Hichilema for exercising restraint by directing security personnel not to open fire on the unruly crowd, despite the provocation.
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Just wait bazaulula and their sponsor will regret.
You can start castrating them after that give them poison we need to clean chingola only in Goma and Haiti they can entertain that nonsense
The president on the other hand made a mistake by restraining the security wing to handle those thugs ,from the vedios you can see that the police were ready to manhandle the thugs but the president said leave them this caused one of the thugs to throw a stone that scared the president and oops the whole crowd scampered,disturbing the good people of chingola who wanted to listen to how the president is going to sort out the problem pertaining to their burned market this was barbaric ,terrorism and uncalled for
Meantime some sociopaths were gloating at this like it was some kind of an achievement hear.
Maybe the Police should also question them…