THE COURT POLICE
After I was sentenced and the court rose, the journalists outside the courtroom asked the police to parade me through the court premises handcuffed so that they can take pictures of me.
The Police refused and said, we are taking Mwewa through the tunnels. I didn’t know this information until we got to Kamwala prison.
Parading Amos Chanda in handcuffs through the court premises is completely unnecessary. They should have also taken him through the tunnels.
SMLtv
It is good that he was convicted and displayed so that others learn not to behave as foolishly as he did. If you don’t want public embarrassment, don’t commit the crime. Simple.
The under ground tunnels connecting the court complex and Chimbokaila prison are (sometimes) only used when the prisoner or convict is to be kept at Chimbokaila. Those being posted to other prisons other than Chimbokaila do not need to use the tunnels and can go directly from the court to the vehicle that will take them to their assigned prison.
Secondly, depending on what time the sentence is passed in the courts, the prison officers manning the tunnel entrances may not be available and that route will therefore be closed.
Give us facts not what you are talking about.
Why was Charity Katanga not handcuffed and displayed. This selective humiliation is not right. The authorities should put their house in order. Everyone sentenced should leave the courtroom via the tunnel to avoid potential nasty incidents.
Nothing can justify this despicable conduct by the prison authorities. Mr. Chanda was not a flight risk and it was therefore not necessary to subject him to such humiliation.
Let us be humane in the way we treat those who break the law. It is not about “teaching him a lesson” or extracting some kind of revenge.
We should never go overboard by deliberately humiliating wrong doers.
Very true.
I support you.
This is from the first comment:
If you don’t want public embarrassment, don’t commit the crime. Simple.
Really as simple as that. Why do want to hold criminality with kids gloves, no need. It’s them to change and not this sympathy. No one is above embarrassment.
BOMA ni Boma. KK went to mukobeko on very uncomfortable IFA truck in handcuffs