MMD President Nevers Mumba and seven other party officials who were yesterday detained at Kamfinsa state prison after failing to meet their bail conditions have today been released from Kamfinsa State Prison after meeting their bail conditions.
After their release from Kamfinsa state prison, Dr Mumba along with his co-accused went to Chisokone Market in town where he bought mealie meal and other foodstuffs amid booing from the members of public who were waving the Patriotic Front symbol while the accused waved the MMD symbol.
Dr Mumba was arrested by police in Kitwe on Monday along with four Members of Parliament and three other party officials for unlawful assembly.
The MPs include Howard Kunda of Muchinga, Masaiti’s Michael Katambo, Lufwanyama’s Annie Chungu and James Chishiba of Kafulafuta constituency.
Others are MMD Deputy National Secretary Chembe Nyangu, Copperbelt Provincial Women’s Chairperson Edith Mataka and Greenford Kalinda, a peasant farmer.
They appeared in Kitwe magistrate court yesterday where they all denied the charge of unlawful assembly and bail was granted to all of the accused persons with a sum of K2 million each in their own recognisance.
The bail conditions further included that each accused person should raise two sureties based in Kitwe while one surety should be from a well established institution.
At the market, Dr Mumba’s motorcade was booed by some youths who were waving the Patriotic Front symbol.
As the motorcade passed through Independence Avenue and Zambia way, pedestrians, vendors and motorists waved back the PF symbol as they booed the MMD officials.
The youths bunged the windows on Dr Mumba’s motorcade forcing the entourage to rush out of the market as more people started to form up shouting that the previous regime failed them because public funds were buried instead of investing in basic social facilities and services to people.
Earlier after his release, Dr Mumba said that he had come out of prison a determined person with the resolution to contribute to the democratic growth of the country.
He said he was well-looked after by the inmates and intended to buy them mealie meal, adding that conditions in the correctional facility was deplorable.
Dr Mumba urged the Government to screen inmates who are pardoned because most of those released had spent six to three years and have been re-arrested for committing other offences.
“The Government should release inmates who have completely reformed. The conditions in the prisons almost made me break down. I thank the prison authorities and inmates who looked after us very well,” he told his supporters who had gathered outside the prison.
Dr Mumba later held a briefing at Jubilee Lodge where he urged Government to address the mealie meal shortages in the country.
He was also grateful to MMD and United Party for National Development (UPND) MPs who walked out of Parliament in solidarity of their arrest and subsequent detention.
ZANIS
Zambia is becoming ungovernable and if the president does not show leadership, it will become a failed state – like some well-known countries north of Zambia. There is need for the president to be above pettiness and take control of the country, e.g. not allowing Kabimba be above the law. Sata is creating a monster out of of Kabimba, who is getting out of control with a hapless president failing to discipline him. Zambia is still one of the poorest countries in the world – number 150/169 in terms of human index data. Jobs need to be created, schools and hospitals functional, roads tarred, 24hr electricity and water, sanity in land allocation, garbage collection – the list goes on of the many challenges Zambia faces. And Sata is not showing any ability in managing them …
Leave Zambia for these reasons above is cowardice my man. We shall conquer the problems until we make it better. So my friend dont be a coward.
Come on it is not like Sata is the inspector general of police.Why attribute whatever decisions the police is making to Sata ? Grow some element of rationality.
Zebige is only big in his dreams not in his head. It is fools like him who make zambia remain backwards
Support your arguments kaili why you think i am like that.It appears to me that you are a retard.
The stage has been set by SATA himself who attributed everything to the incumbent president. for example during LPM he addressed LPM and said he was stronger than him after he came out of prison. The reason for him being in prison had everything to do with a Govt Vehicle the he(SATA) was keeping after he left office. During RBs reign it was the same thing. Anything that happened was RB the list goes on.
Zambia is making giant strides in the wrong direction.We will never develop with such dweebs like Sata in charge because all our energies are channeled towards petty political goals.Watch as another 49 yrs go by and we’re still poor,hungry and sickly.Haiti and Liberia have been there before and have nothing to show for their 100 plus yrs as independent nations.Zambia is next in this dubious club.
#2 Zebige, you obviously don’t understand the way politics operate in Zambia for you to even think that, there’s no political connection behind Mumba’s arrest with a tie to state house. You my friend, should remain a spectator.
Nevers, wamona efyo mwanba mu chitolokoshi nomba teh? Kukosa boss! This is just the beginning…
PRAISE GOD, PRISON IS NOT A GOOD PLACE, I CANT WISH AN ONE TO GO THERE.
well… i will not argue you know better
To be president you have to taste jail
#6 How long is this list as millions have passed thruogh prison? Let your Busa not break the Law and next time let him have surities available to bail him out. How can you claim popularity when you cannot manage to find 2 people of fixed abode to sign your bond papers? After being released he goes to chisokone market to buy millie meal only to be chased by marketeers. What a shame. Free advice, let him go back to God.
Some bloggers amaze me – can’t you see that the country is headed in the wrong direction? Opposition parties have a role in a democracy and victimizing them is not a progressive way of leading. The republican president should be more of a republican president than a party leader. But he must also be in control of his party and ensure that there is law and order. We need oerder other wise we’ll end up like Somalia.
Satan pipo have no place in a Christian nation,don’t touch the anointed
Satan pipo have no place in a Christian nation,don’t touch the anointed look at armywarms allover the country.satan and his gardeners like kabimba should swallow yo pride.zambia is not yo village.
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