Chilufya Tayali
TRYING TO RECUPERATE, WESTWOOD POLICE CELLS ARE TORTURE CHAMBERS, I EVEN FEEL ILL
Holding cells are not supposed to be torture chambers, but to keep a person while police are processing an arrest and taking a person to court. Unfortunately, in most cases they are used to torture people.
What I go through is nothing but torture and I have been tortured for seven times in the one year Five months President Hakainde Hichilema has been in power, yet praise singers want me to sing with them.
Human_Rights organisation must justify their existence and purpose if citizens are tortured so openly and they do next to nothing.
Many of our holding cells are congested and not fit for keeping people, especially if we even consider the presumption of innocence.
Westwood police cells is like 3×3 meters square with an open toilet in one corner. People relieve themselves right before the eyes and noses of their fellow inmates.
The toilet is usually clogged with human stool and urine because there is no water inside, it is flashed from outside, from time to time.
When the toilet was clogged with faeces, I could not only feel the bad odour but my mouth could feel the taste of the particles of it in the air I inhaled.
With this load shedding, the police post stays without water for a long time.
Inmates never bath, because there is not provision, so, all they do is eat and relieve themselves in the open.
I have been in many police cells, but this is the worst and I guess it was meant to torture me more.
I slept on a cold dirty floor with nothing to cover, even though I offered to buy myself a mattress and blanket, but they refused, until the following day when they allowed me to use only one blacket from home.
We were only six, yet I felt so bad, but I was told at times there are more than 20 inmates and I wonder how they survive.
Surely, how can I stop talking seeing that kind of misery being done to people, I actually thank God for showing me how people are suffering and I am more resolved, albeit myself wife and others asking me to stop talking.
If I have to die for speaking for people, so be it.
20:00hrs I will talk more.
TAYALI THE PUBLIC LAWYER OF THE PUBLIC COURT OF OPINION!!!