POLICE ARREST SIX PEOPLE FOR AIDING JAY JAY BANDA ESCAPE
…. includes Banda’s wife, two police officers and three correctional officers
Lusaka… Tuesday August 13, 2024
The Zambia Police Service has arrésted six people for allegedly aiding Petauke Central Member of Parliament Hon Emmanuel Jay Banda escape from lawful custody.
This includes Lombe Chali, one of Hon Banda’s wives, two police officers and three correctional service officers.
Police Spokesperson Ray Hamoonga says they all have been charged with the offence of Aiding a Prisoner to Escape Contrary to Section 120 Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia.
“The Zambia Police Service wishes to inform the public about the arrest of Lombe Chali on August 9, 2024, one of the wives of Jay Emmanuel Banda, who escaped from lawful custody while admitted at Chipata General Hospital. Lombe Chali was formally charged on August 9, 2024, and was subsequently released on Police bond. Following further investigations into the circumstances surrounding the escape, two police officers, Mfungwe Phineas and Kabole Benson, as well as three prison warders, namely: Sakala Moses, Nathan Mbao, and Musa Spider Zulu, were arrested on August 12, 2024 and later released on police bond,” said Mr Hamoonga.
“They all have been charged with the offence of Aiding a Prisoner to Escape Contrary to Section 120 Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia. All six suspects have been released on Police bond and will appear in court soon to answer to the charges leveled against them.”
Mr Hamoonga further said the Zambia Police Service remains committed to upholding the law and ensuring that those who breach the law, regardless of their status or position, are held accountable.
“We assure the public that no stone will be left unturned in this matter as we seek to ensure that justice is served. The cooperation of the public is always appreciated in our efforts to maintain law and order. We continue to encourage citizens to report any suspicious activities to the nearest police station,” he concluded.
Even the police officers helped him escape. They can see that the tribalist conman is offside. They do not subscribe to personal vendetta. Just like the rest of us, including most Zambezi country folk. We can all see that the tribalist conman is abusing his authority persecuting and detaining opponents, while at the same time presiding over the worst corruption we have ever seen, the worst cost of living ever, the worst load shedding ever.
And to even offer K2 million tax payers money? What message does that send to donor community? Does the conman know how far that money can go to help the very needy?
What is wrong with this conman? Is he really OK upstairs? I have my doubts. Only a mad person can behave like this. Idi Amin was mad. I see a lot of similarities, except Amin had no LGBT masters to serve. He was genuinely interested in developing his country, not Panama.
Your head must must be having highlly abnormal temperature, please take some panadols, you will feel fine.
How did a supposed patient who was unable to walk unaided during court appearances manage to escape through a window two meters high from the ground? Not even those who were posting messages regularly to condemn the government for taking an ailing person to court want to talk. Emmanuel Banda has not been ill since his supposed abduction. He has been feigning illness to gain public sympathy.
The combination of the Northeasterners to look after the jailer has some connections to high authorities in the system.
I smell a rat. By the way who assyned these officers to take care of this slipperly criminal? Both the police and Prisons officers who assyned these five are also questionable.
How can people that aided this pfidiot prisoner to escape be given bond when clearly they’re a flight risk? Especially his bemba wife who is obviously a typical thief. The police should be serious!!!
Yaba hahahaha.
We used to think we were big thieves, but we were wrong, hahahaha. You guys are bad! You deserve that title of “thieving tribe”. Ifwe, twacepa sana.
Just commend the police that let him go. They did the right thing. First they abducted him, but alibaponona bonse bad. If there is crime he has committed, let the next president after 2026 preside over it. Not this bitter vengeful tribalist conman.
Vote wisely in 2026 my praise singer friend.
Bail should not have been granted.
Kabimba was right. HH and UPND think they are running a church not an African country. Those Umodzi Kum’mawa officers have dribbled the system. Don’t be fooled they are masters of tribalism and regionalism. UPND, as Sata said, are under-5s in politics.
Don’t speak on tribes, speak on personal grounds. Thieves don’t represent their tribes but themselves. It’s cheap rhetoric to associate one’s thieving to their tribe.
Don’t spoil the soop with your ignorance about thievery and tribes. The two aren’t the same and there is no correlation. Shaa!
HH should let the police work. He can’t please everyone. Criminals are thriving whilst thieves are enjoying their stolen loot. Now the police are being ridiculed by nincompoops like JJ Banda and Munir Zulu from the village.
We know he wants to leave a perfect record but politics is not like the corporate private sector…. it’s rough so ba President has to start listening to people who have been in the business longer than him. It’s not about impressions…it’s dog eats dog out there. His enemies are ready to kill and be killed. Again LET THE POLICE WORK!!!!!
We know what he is telling his ministers in cabinet which is trickling down to the police IG. He is a good president but he needs to STOP MICRO-MANAGING YOUR MINISTERS. Your long hours of lectures are killing cabinet. Ministers are looking like headless chickens because of your naive lectures.
Why is there too much political interference in the work of Police where even the President wants to influence outcomes of investigations?
As things stand, this is a spoiled case bordering on political persecution!
What you do matters less than how you do it!
Meanwhile JJ ali phe enjoying life somewhere