Police Pick Spax, Kazala linking them to the Group that Stoned President Hichilema
Police have picked renowned Chingola based businessman, Kabaso Mulenga popularly known Spax.linking him to the group that went riotous on Saturday, 8th November 2025..
Mulenga is the owner of Spax Mining Ltd, a mining company based in Chingola.
Others detained include former Deputy Minister of Sports and former Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) Vice President, Richard Kazala.
Spax is detained at Chingola Police Station.
This is part of crackdown that resulted from President Hakainde Hichilema’s public rally where he was booed, stoned and chased from Chiwempala township in Chingola.
Earlier the Police also picked Alex Mwale the assistant pastor at Pentecostal Church of Christ in Chingola led by Bishop Joseph Kazhila.
So far, 27 suspects have been apprehended for allegedly participating in the riots, acts of arson and the destruction of public property in Chingola.
This was disclosed by Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Jack Mwiimbu who visited Chingola and conducted on site inspections of the gutted market.
Come on.
Why would Spax or Kazala want to stone Hakainde? These people are businessmen that drive the local economy in Chingola. This has now become a witch hunt. This is why we need to vote these people out. They are not good for our country. This is the worst government in our history, by far. And they truly deserve to be given only one term of office.
REJECT TRIBALISM, CORRUPTION AND OPPRESSION.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
Iwe kwata amano
Ati muleya kwisa, ikaleni. Muleya kwisa? Hakainde was pleading with the crowd to stick around. The entire crowd was not happy with him. So will the police arrest the whole crowd? Ati batoteleni ba president, and the crowd booed him. Our leaders should listen to the grievances of citizens, otherwise they will get treated in this harsh way.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
Sir, why do you get so excited with Hakainde news, any and all Hakainde news?Be careful, one day you will choke!!!! I am your ardent Follower and I have never read any of your blogs that don’t mention Hakainde. If not by his name it is by all his “nicknames” that you have heaped on him. With your Slogan Chorus about 2026. If we belonged to the Canine Species, I am sure you would be a pure bred Rottweiler. It doesn’t tire and let go.
Best luck to you, Sir
On leaders to listen yes but not changing the government
It is not that the crowd wasn’t happy. They were moving away because they saw the explosive unruly behavior behind the President. Definitely next they expected tear gas canisters, brutal reaction from police and arrests.
*The President commanded not to shoot and restrained the UPND Cadres.
Today we would’ve been counting dead bodies. Can we afford that? Unless, one is unZambian like am seeing. Whether one is in diaspora or inland it is not a situation to celebrate.
is your country, protects its image.
Let’s all condemn the act.
PF criminals it was worse government ended up killing people and ligalized tribalism, hatrages, nepotism, favoritism, caderism, bitterness and kamugodi.
The change you wish for shall never come for you. Your bitterness will never give rewards. Clearly, you are missing your days under PF, when you lived propped up by illegalities. Never Again! Never again shall a group of mafias pretending to be a govt ever again take over the reigns of power in country, NEVER.
May your evil dream remain Castles in the realm of your imaginations.
Viva HH
Viva UPND
Viva Good Governance
So with your shallow thinking.you are fine when the poor people are funded to do rubbish and it’s ok with you when go to jail?
But detaining someone does not mean that he is guilty, some one can be detained to help the police in the investigations, or someone can be detained if he is linked to the case, the initial number was just two but now it has risen to twenty seven, people are busy mentioning who ever was involved in the same. The law is very simple and clear, a person is deemed innocent until proven guilty. So if all the twenty seven will be found innocent, they will be released and set free but if they will be found guilty, then the law will take its course. There is nothing sinister about detaining someone, is it not the same Spax who was arrested or detained in 2020 on the suspicion of gassing under PF? Why should it be an issue now if he is one of the suspects in the presidential stoning? No one is above the law, let him and others prove their innocence and they will be released.
I am also very disappointed with the above comments, there is no government in this world that will leave criminals to commit crime freely whether UPND is voted out or not, the law will remain. So it does not make sense to vote out the current government because of detaining suspects, do you want the criminals to be free to commit crime? It’s the duty and responsibility of any well meaning government to maintain law and order in the country and UPND is just doing that. For those who will be found guilty, should be dealt with, they are a disgrace to the people of Chingola, Copperbelt and Zambia as a whole. This is not PF where the gassers and arsonists were left free to gas people and burn markets, under UPND we shall know and deal with them, balacebana nomba line.
well said
Forgive this Tyrol and take him the way he is. He is one of the most useless PF carders ever. This character seems to.be very much hate because HH won and is reigning. Does this fellow understand what he is talking about? Is he using his brain talking? Is he normal? This character seems to be more than a carder but a PF junky. Are you not the only who is mocking HH about what happened in Chingola? You seem to have no morals of some kind not even in their minute level. Can’t you feel ashamed of supporting rubbish? Who ever is upright will never bring near such nonsense.
Just wondering what will become of HaaIndigoTyrol Mwamba after 2026. For five years, from 2026, the man has to digest the fact that the PF pangas and theft are a thing of the past not to befall Zambia ever again.
My opinion on the arrest of Spaks may just be because some of those young men take the material to him. He may be a buyer of the copper ore, and not necessarily linked to the Stoning Incident.
If this is the case , then even the Chinese buyers should be arrested. Am sure the police know where the Chingola Juveniles take the material.
On Hon Richard Kazala, I have no idea why he has been arrested, but more likely his Patriotic Front leanings may be at play here. Politicians from the UPND want this case to become political.. hence the President ‘s laughable and far fetched statement that those youths want to storm polling stations next year, which is just a figment of the mind. Poliing station misadventures occur in Southern Province, and not anywhere else in Zambia, that’s an undeniable FACT.
My theory on what happened in Chingola is just frustrations which have been building over time, concerning the mining activities of those young men. And the Police should know this. This story has not started today.
Those boys rioted before, but their grievances were not addressed. Where the previous riots also planned by Politicians? There have been contradictory approaches from Area Member of Parliament, hon Chipoka Mulenga and the Mines Minister, Kabuswe , who we hear has some vested interests in the issue. All these have played out in public space.
An opportunity just presented itself to raise the protest a notch higher during the President ‘s visit, amidst the other citizens grievances.
The entire audience seemed to be against the President’s presence, and booed him when introduced. They didn’t want Mr Hakainde Hichilema there. The UPND structures should tell the truth on the situation in Chingola.
The Residents grievances, and specific frustrations by the Stone Dealers was a mix , which spured that spontaneous reaction…and is always the case in such things, mob psychology took over, and chased Hakainde from the town. The President entered a hostile environment, and people didn’t want him there.
I doubt if there was any prior planning. Those youths were prepared to die on that day. Who approaches a President ‘s dias with stones , thinking he will live another Day? A Stone approaching an AK 47 and you think you will live to tell the story?
Can they choose to die for Spaks or Kazala?
The Police needs to do a proper proffessional job, and without any Torture to extract information… And without following the script from the UPND. The UPND want to blame Opposition politicians, and the police will miss it if they play that game.
The issue of the Jerabos is about survival…And as they say , ” We are already dead. In those holes we reach , to look for Material, we are prepared to die”
31 can die today, 100 will be in the pits tomorrow, over the corpses of their friends.
May the Authorities find a solution to this problem in Chingola, which should be a blue Print elsewhere.
I don’t usually like your comments because they are childish, but this one I am with you 100%. Start posting objective comments like this one, some day we will get it right as a nation.
One has to ask if you bother to read other people’s opinions to broaden your perspective or just blurt out yours?
We all have opinions and perspectives after reading an article. But as life learners going back and reading what other people think helps better our perspectives. Broadens our outlook better shapes who we are. Remember everything starts in the mind.
Bwana I find, in contrast with you “its your way or the highway”. Isnt a very narrow way of looking at things? What makes you so right all the time?
I mean, read through what @Citizen has stated. Is that a more factual perspective than the speculative attempt to keep swaying the narrative that you make?
Rather manipulative and destructive of you. We read your comments daily, and the slant is the same. Find a means to point out how in EVERY aspect possible this administration has fail. That is all you and indigo do daily.
I mean is that even possible? Yes, the UPND government MAY NOT have done every thing right. But there some things that they have got going to the benefit of Zambians.
With all the amount of hate you spew. Be objective. Be real. Remove UPND and then what?
What does the oppositionhave to offer? Tell us?
Edgar Lungu was a kelptomanic. No sense of right or wrong like the People who think mining illegally is right. Try not fueling arnachy in your life. People only have Zambia as their home, unlike you they dont have the means or another place to call home but Zambia.
It’s like you sit and dream.
Look: Those arrested have the information to share with Police investigative wings so, don’t waste your time writing irrelevant.
There is enough source of information already in custody.
Instead of bridging the gap, UPND is now widening the gap between them and the people in Chingola and by extension on the coppebelt. Why do political parties make these mistakes in extratime with no time for recovery
No Boss, the police should actually go deeper and finish this nonsense, the culture of a number of people in chingola is not ok, I mean few months ago FAZ burned Chingola football supporters. That tells you the kind of people we are dealing with. We need to teach them good manners before they teach stupidity to the whole of copperbelt. Don’t laugh when your child is insulting his siblings coz tomorrow he will insult your visitors. This is what we have allowed in chingola for many years and now if we don’t show leadership/parenting (by beating/sending to jail the chaps) we will never control the situation in future.