HOW UPND AND HH SILENCE ON PF GIVEN LUBINDA FOUR NIL COURT ACQUITTALS COULD SIMILARLY BE REPEATED WITH MIKALILE AND MBAYA POLICE ARREST NOISES
By Kasebamashila Kaseba
HOW UPND AND HH SILENCE ON PF GIVEN LUBINDA FOUR NIL COURT ACQUITTALS COULD SIMILARLY BE REPEATED WITH MIKALILE AND MBAYA POLICE ARREST NOISES
When I was detained for four days without charge and arrest at Kabwata Police, some of the cellmates upon recognising me as “the journalist” and upon hearing my story told me, I would soon be released.
It was like the biblical scene of Jesus on the cross between two thieves with one thief essentially telling Jesus, we are guilty, you are innocent.
UPND cadres or praise singers, I was presumed guilty as charged even without a charge or arrest or details.
And three weeks later I went to Lusaka Magistrate Court to appear or extend the police bond, where I saw and uneasely greeted and interacted with the PF and ordinary accused and escorts and lawyers.
I saw and heard how UPND and HH had no idea and intention of fighting corruption as they themselves needed or indulged in corruption they defended or undemined the court system from prosecution to persecution.
A persecutory not prosecutory judicial system working on political deadlines of five months cannot produce justice and UPND knows that.
For example, UPND or its UPND consultant Mark Simuuwe could abuse the law or upto the Police IG himself on me worse than he could use the law on actual PF corruption accused as he himself engages in questionable behaviour that the abused police or ACC could investigate and arrest and him for.
In the end, Mbaya and Mikalile (police arrest and online trial by media by conviction) accompanied by UPND noises could similarly end in (court) and UPND silence as it happened with Lubinda four nil acquittals.