YOU ARE A HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER YET YOU ALWAYS RIDICULE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE, LAURA MITI TOLD
YOU ARE A HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER YET YOU ALWAYS RIDICULE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE, LAURA MITI TOLD
FORMER LUSAKA MAYOR, FISHO MWALE, COUNSELS LAURA MITI
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DEAR LAURA MITI,
My two cents on the Jay Jay saga. If it wasn’t for your writing today I would not have commented on this very sad and unfortunate saga. I have always respected and followed your writings. But this one was embarrassingly shallow, devoid of any empathy for the victim and his family.
What are we coming to as a nation? The starting point for your writing should have been on the state or condition of Jay Jay and the obvious trauma that he was in as well as the family.
Whether it was staged, phony, or a political stunt by both Upnd ,PF sympathizers or by SELF,those terrible hospital scenes clearly show that Jay Jay was in danger, he had been hurt and the family was traumatized. Why have we become so callous and inhuman?
There was absolutely no effort to respect medical professionalism or first level emergency procedures by those armed police officers. Were the protocols relating to a patient’s rights to a choice of medical treatment followed. Am presuming Jay Jay was neither under arrest nor a suspect.
From where I stand what I witnessed was “Sympathetic Kidnapping by security officers “ which was still not legal!
I have been a victim of 4 armed robberies, 2 in SA and 2 in Lusaka. The last one in Lusaka in 2011. I was ambushed outside my gate , kidnapped at 21 hrs and was only released at 2am. It is a terrible experience and the worst part of the nightmare was when it took me up to 6am to convince my wife and relatives of my brush with death , of my humiliation at the hands of ruffians who were as young as my children grabbing my genitals and putting a gun to my face. Elsewhere I would have gone for therapy.
Laura dear Sister let us give space for the healing process for all of us to begin. We are being torn apart as a society and it will take people like you who wield the pen which is mightier than the sword to help all of us cast our egos aside, our vitriol and toxicity so that we can reach out ,touch our souls find peace and love as Zambians. Jay Jay Banda MP is physically and mentally devastated. Whether it is by design, by conspiracy or accident is not important, he is hurt and could die. Let us be Zambians and love one another.
Your brother Fisho