MUYAMBANGO DISMISSAL, A GOOD RIDANCE, POLICE NEED REFORMS
In order to please his master, Deputy Inspector of Police.in charge of Operations, Milner Muyambago was personally at Mulungushi International Conference and supervised and protected the illegal Patriotic Front Extral-Ordinary General Conference that was being held there on 24th October 2024.
He deployed and supervised over 200 police officers to secure and seal the area.
He ignored regulations requiring 21-days clearance for fingerprints and security clearance and filled the form to take to Chief Registrar of Societies in the night, to attempt to change and replace office bearers of the legitimate Patriotic Front from Edgar Lungu to the newly “elected” team.
Recently a Ndola businessman Floyd Malembeka accused Muambago of refusing to pay for a tractor he bought from his agricultural equipment company.
Instead he went to Floyd’s suppliers and accused him of failing to pay for the tractors to the supplier and criminalised the entire process.
Floyd was scandalised by the Zambia Police Spokesperson, and he was given multiple criminal charges in Kabwe, Ndola, Lusaka and Kalomo and was locked up and remained detained from May 2024 until we publicised his case in December 2024.
Such cops, together with his boss, Graphael Musamba, have given a bad name to the Zambia Police.
President Hichilema has somehow referred to the sorry state of the Zambia Police.
“….President Hichilema reiterates the importance of public officers respecting the law, upholding the rule of law, and being accountable to the citizens they serve…”
The Zambia Police has been cited in the United States Country Report on Human Rights Practices, Human Rights Watch International, Amnensty International, United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Report and others, accused of committing extra-judicial killings, torture of suspects, inhuman treatment, corruption, prolonged detention and other misconduct.
The Zambia Police has also been turned into a corrupt commercial venture where the Traffic Department raises funds for a senior cartel of officers and police stations have been turned into debt collectors to pursue criminal cases of “obtaining money by false presences”.
Everytime I was locked up in police cells, I found many victims of commercial transactions detained until they or their relatives found the money, signed settlement agreements before the charges of “obtaining” as it is called, could be dropped.
Currently the Zambia Police is the negative flag bearer of bad governance, corruption and ilegalities in the government.
In police rankings across the world, the Zambia Police is cited to be amongst the worst law enforcement agencies joining countries with the lowest law enforcement rate in the World and doing poorly on the Police Corruption Perceptions Index, ranked alongside, Venezuela, Somalia, Somalia, Myanmar , Libya DRC and Mozambique.
I don’t know the reasons for Muyambago’s dismissal but this is very good riddance from the Zambia Police.
I wish President Hakainde Hichilema could use this opportunity to clean up and implement robust reforms of the Zambia Police…but we know he can’t!
He needs the Zambia Police in that rogue state to carry out dirty schemes and assignments, as done by Muyambango, against his political opponents until after the 2026 elections.
By Emmanuel Mwamba
MUYAMBANGO DISMISSAL, A GOOD RIDANCE, POLICE NEED REFORMS
