United Party for National Development (UPND) Member of Parliament for Kalomo and Director of strategy and mobilisation Request Muntanga had been released from custody due to insufficient evidence linking him to the the murder of Patriotic Front (PF) cadre Harrison Chanda.
Southern Province Commissioner of Police Charity Katanga confirmed to the media in Livingstone today. Mrs Katanga also said that over 10 other UPND members that were arrested and screened to help the police with investigations in connection with various offences linked to the murder were released.
She said that among those that had been released were UPND Livingstone district spokesperson Neto Halwabala and party chairperson for elections Ackson Sejani.
Mrs Katanga also said that, despite being re-arrested on Friday, William Banda has been released on police bond and is awaiting court appearance soon.
She said that Mr Banda had other offences in Lusaka which are being investigated.
Mrs Katanga said that 13 people had been released after being screened by the police.
She said that one person that was not a member of the UPND had been arrested for conduct likely to cause breach of peace.
Mrs Katanga also announced that nine people had been charge for obstructing a police officer from carrying his duty and were on bail.
And yesterday, Magistrate Chola Musonda ordered the prosecution handling Mazabuka Member of Parliament Gary Nkombo’s murder charge to obtain necessary instructions from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) within 14 days from yesterday so that the matter can be promptly tried in the High Court.
Magistrate Musonda said in default of his order, a preliminary inquiry shall be held by the Livingstone Magistrate Court in accordance with provisions of section 223 of the criminal procedure.
He made the order yesterday when Nkombo, 48, of 39B Mulungushi Road in Mazabuka, appeared for mention on a murder charge contrary to the Laws of Zambia.
It is alleged that Nkombo on February 26, 2013 at Livingstone in Livingstone district of Southern province in the Republic of Zambia jointly and while acting together with others unknown, did murder Harrison Chanda.
Magistrate Musonda said the offence which the accused has been charged with is not bailable and it is of paramount importance that he is tried expeditiously in the High Court.
He said his experience had shown that suspects faced with the same charge of murder, had ended up languishing in remand prisons without being committed to the High Court for trial.
“This case will be for the High Court to determine in an event that the case is presented before the said court for trial.
It is my view that all players in our justice system must be vigilant to ensure speedy trial of non-bailable offences,” Mr Musonda said.
Earlier, Mr Mwiimbu complained that Western Province Minister Obvious Mwaliteta brutally assaulted Nkombo on February 25, 2013 between 22.00 hours to midnight in full view of the police and no medical help was rendered by the police while no arrests had been made.
Mr Mwiimbu also displayed in court the Wednesday (February 27, 2013) edition of the Times of Zambia newspaper under a headline ‘PF cadre killed’ and read the part which read that Mr Mwaliteta physically confronted Nkombo in full view of the police.
The defence also asked why Mr Mwaliteta as well as Tourism and Arts Minister Sylvia Masebo should not be cited for contempt of court because the two made contemptuous statements on television on February 28, 2013 regarding the matter which was before court.
In response, Magistrate Musonda directed the legal team for Nkombo to draw up a formal charge or charges against the suspect or suspects in respect of the complaint.
He furthered ordered the police officer in charge at Livingstone Central Police Station to issue Nkombo with a medical report within 24 hours from the time of the order yesterday afternoon.
“In Zambia we are all bound to appear before the courts of law regardless of status or class. There is no one above the law, be it members of legislature, judiciary, executive or members of the public.
“We are all subject to the same law we have given ourselves. The ironic rule that all are equal but some are more equal than others in not tenable in Zambia,” he said.
As regards to statements made in the media, Magistrate Musonda said he would render a ruling in that respect on March 4, 2013.
Zambia needs serious prayers. Christians it is time to pray for the nation without ceasing, everything happening in the nation is a reflection of the state of the Church .
.. am sure you meant freemasonists.
Poor Charity Katanga, I think its time she found a job in NGO world, she has failed on that forced position by her uncle-in-law Sata. She was just messing up in Lusaka, she carries same silly attitude to Southern province.
How can she command to arrest people without pronouncing the charge “.. you under arrest for… nothing”.
SATAnic is in plot1 and through prayer the demon can be loosened to whence it came from. Viva! Amen!
Myself and I believe the real issue in the Livingstone Violence is this chap Obvious Mwaliteta. Within two months he is connected to two deaths of PF cadres and in both cases it is Mwaliteta who is pinning the blame on the opposition. Something is strange here. Do you remember last month when his servant was found dead and bare foot by a roadside outside livingstone and this Mwalitate was quick to blame the opposition. Could it be that this recent death of Harrison Chanda was something that Mwaliteta Ochastrated. I think a good private detective needs to be hired by the UPND to get to the bottom of this Saga.
Asryt !!! Now we should get the real criminals within UPND.
its the real criminal required here.. not UPND and not PF, the real people who killed 55years old man chanda who was sent from monze to livingstone to go and throw stones at children..
or was he old man chanda trying to steal campaign money from children as results the children pulled him, he fell and died… the truth must come out!
@Ndobo, Kwena uli mafi! You have no heart. Your brain is contaminated with dung!
@KRAASTAN… I think you are twisted, you ae ´MAFI´ yourself. Talking about having a heart, PF bundled a 55years old man with his walking stick and wheelbarrowed him from monze to livingstone, gave him stones to throw at UPND children who defended themselves as a result old man chanda dies in the crossfire that, at least one story, the other story is old man chanda on his walking stick tried to steal from moneydesperate PF kaponyas from libuyu (libuyu is like chiboliya, those of you who donot know) so beat the crap out of him and he dies… so who has no heart?!!!!!
This is a challenge to NGO’s,the Church , Civil Service Organizations etc to come up with effective mitigation plans to ensure violence does not take root in Zambia and not just issuing statements alone. When violence takes place in a country, Ngo’s, the church and Civil Service organizations will not function properly because everyone will be running to protect themselves , prevention is better than cure. NGO’s and the Civil service start educating the masses through Bill boards, drama, songs,media etc especially the unemployed youths not to be used by any selfish politicians for their protection whether ruling or opposition.
good point there..
UPND be very careful of the traps being set before you, retaliation in the name of self defense is not the solution they will implicate you with a tag of violence. No one will know the difference between who is violent between PF and UPND. An example is Uhuru and Ruto of Kenya facing trial at the Hague .Uhuru is accused of retaliation. It seems you are being provoked by strategy and they may use this as one of the defenses for the commonwealth. There must be rolling on the floor with laughter because you played into their strategy. Exercise restraint no matter how you are provoked by them , Zambians will then make a judgement concerning who is a violent party. Continue documenting all violence and intimidations and continue sending them to international bodies for their urgent
YOU ARE RIGHT THOUGH IT IS QUITE PLAIN THAT UPND ARE JUST A BUNCH OF LUMPENS STARTING FROM THEIR PRESIDENT WHOSE INTEREST IS BUT TO DISRUPT THE SMOOTH RUNNING OF DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECTS TO CREATE A CASE FOR FAILURE ON PF. UPND ARE SO DEEP IN THEIR OWN SH!T THEY DON’T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH HH THE ONE WHO BANK-ROLLS THEIR KANTEMBA-TURNED PARTY. THEY DON’T SEEM TO HAVE THE GUT TO FIRE THEIR SH!TEST WRONG DOER, HH.
intervention.
release gary nkombo it is common knowledge that he did not murder chanda as alledged by the police. can Gary yield a machete to jump on a moving van and hack someone and runaway? its total rubbish. it will be another embarassing case for the police
BA BWALYA ARE YOU A JUDGE? BE INFORMED THAT THE CHAT HASN’T BEEN FOUND GUILTY YET. HE IS INNOCENT UNTIL FOUND GUILTY.
Really! released due to lack of evidence…now you will be sued for damages, you donot arrest and keep someone for more than 48hours with NO EVIDENCE!… BANANA REPUBLIC OF ZAMBA under PF rule
My dear, being held without seeing a judge for more than 24 hours is actually quite common in Zambia. Not just under PF rule and in violation of the Constitution. Here is the Human Rights Watch report from 2009 of Zambia’s prisons; only 3% of inmates interviewed were brought before a judge within 24 hours, and the average length of time before seeing a judge after arrest was three months. http://www.hrw.org/node/89819/section/12. The criminal justice system has been doing poorly for quite some time now; not an excuse for PF certainly, but just a reminder of how entrenched the problems are.
.. There more than 5 cases to sue for..
1.First Katanga should sue herself for arresting innocent people, because she can’t sue the system.
2. Katanga should sue Sata for forcing her in a job she never wanted and can’t resign, forced labor.
3. All those released should sue for defamation of character of course.
4. Damages for mental and physical anguish by spending hours in police cell.
5. Zambians should sue PF government for negligence.
6. I will sue whoever is currently in-charge of Zambia, for emotional pain and daily awaiting for another funeral announcement.
PF fools
” She said one person who is not a UPND member had been arrested for conduct likely to cause breach of peace”. Doesn’t add up. Does it? Why not just say a member of PF had been arrested or Mr so & so had been arrested for this & this offense. Katanga has been so compromised that to align the name “PF” with wrong doing has become extremely difficult for her. The Lady is completely out of line and AWOL with basic international & acceptable police norms & procedures. This should haunt and hound her for a long time to come. A good cop must love & respect her suspects. Quite an ironical statement, but that’s how that profession is or else one is in a wrong job.
I salute Magistrate Musonda for his candor, objective and no nonsense approach to his work. When u have such judicial officers around, u really get re assured and refreshed, such people are rare these days. Isn’t it? God bless u and may the womb which thou cometh from forever be blessed.
And despite his tender age (34 or so),this young Magistrate puts alot of old judges in Zambia to shame by his candor,impartiality and wisdom.
upnd sworn illucinators at work yet again…
no remorse for the departed soul whatsoever. as if they will roam this world forever.
anyway, what do you expect from freemasons?
by the way, has anyone asked someone as to why there is loss of life whenever there is an election in livingstone?
as the saying goes… time will catch up with them.
Stop lying you dumb and dishonest quack! Who else died in a Livingstone election? PF from their top dog to the Kaponya in the street are all congenital and compulsive liars! You are the same maggots who went to arrest Mr Bauleni a UPND Lusaka Province Executive member for the murder of another PF cadre Menyani Zulu in Rufunsa. The PFstu.pidty was exposed when it was revealed that Mr Bauleni had been admitted in hospital at the time of the allegedly murder and that actually the UPND didnt take part in the Rufunsa Ward bye election when the murder was committed. PF you are an evil, vile and thuggish party. You are murdering yourselves and blaming UPND for the simple reason that youre a bunch of self serving tribalists. You aim is to exclude none Bembas from the Presidency .!diots!
You useless i.d.o.t. Chanda got what he deserved.
This is what you get when your mindset is fixed excitedly on premeditated action. These UPND men were just rounded up at the thoughtless orders of the now all too powerful Katanga and in the process valuable police time was lost resulting in missed opportunities to apprehend the real culprits. It’s like orders were given to arrest UPND leaders and do not worry about the PF. What a disgrace!
I said it that PF killed their fellow cadre,wow! Wait Mwaliteta knows.
Obvious Mwaliteta and Sylvia Tembo Masebo need to explain how Chanda died. When Gary is releasedas expected after the Livingstone bye elections these two plus Edgar Lungu and Charity Katanga should be promptly arrested and charged with obstruction of police investigations. We have a murder allegedly committed on the back of truck full of PF cadres and all the witnesses happen to be PF Ministers ( these Ministers have appeared on news programmes attesting to what happened). They will have a lot of explaining to do! They are the ones on trial!
My heart breaches with sorrow each time i think of once peaceful mother Zambia honestly speaking how can a minister be allow to brutally assault Nkombo in full view of the police and they do nothing at O not even at B, then when oppsition leaders speak out some pipo think they are biter what a shame i have to bear for being a Zambian.
We should pray for Nkomo!
UPND U ARE JUST SADISTS PROBABLY BECOZ OF BEING PRODUCTS OF POLYGAMUS MARRIEGES. U NEVER HAD TIME TO B LOVED. SERIAL KILLER. CHANDA’S BLOOD WILL FOLLOW U WHEREVER U GO. ONE DAY THE SAME MACHETS WILL LAND ON USELESS HEADS. MASONISTS!
what you talking about you street kid? you now have bemba speaking streetkids everywhere from choma to Gabarone in botswana,,, this kids lie, steal and destroy!..you bemba a product of hate from parents,, or maybe is those fumes from mining which make come with hate and dump your kids on the street
osmore you are a product of rotten sperms, your father could have done usa favour had he used a condom when he was funcking your mother in the bush,or are you a product of a broken condom
With all these develpments it is clear that President Sata is not interferering in all these issues and UPND are just entangling themselves in a lot due to hatred. If HEMCS wanted this could have been oppourtuny Time to fix him HH and should have learnt Boma ni Boma even if ulinama hafu, HH needs to reflect on these issues in his personal capacity and i call upon HEMCS to continue with his Big Heart indeed he seriously wants independency at ZP as has been demonstrated by ECZ please give him time to Rule Zambia as the majority voted for him. Some quarters still believe hey will manage to make Zambia ungovernable never only Zambian Majority will decide.
You surely have a problem with basic maths. What majority are you talking about. If 40% voted for him and 60% didn’t, in your world that is what you call majority? The electral system of Zambia is first past the post not 50+1% Know you maths. As for a big heart, yes a big heart for vengence. The man feels comfortable among the illiterata for he cant sustain an intelligent conversation without resorting to vulgar language. I have seen him in action. If only people were objective and realised that as a nation we could do better, that the mediocrity that we have. At this rate we are headed for a federal system of governance
Just shut up! The PF are just stu.pid! This is the same nonsense that was happening in the 1990s when Sata and Chiluba were baddies in the MMD of the 1990s. We had the same nonsense of framing opposition party leaders. Dean Mung’omba even lost his life to drug resistance TB he contracted in prison. This was after he was incarcerated for dubiously plotting to overthrow the govt with the fake Zero Option. Only a sick person would protect real murderous by framing his political opponents. This is sick and beyond the pale. People who take murder lightly are capable of committing murder. The PF have no moral compass. How can a normal person charge someone with a murder he didnt commit? Disgusting!
This is why we need a professional police service not one that blindly obeys each and every word passed over to them by the intoxicated and incompetent home affairs minister Lungu.
I hope one day Sata & Kabimba will be roomates with Omar El Bashir,Jean Pierre Bemba,Raila Odinga,Ruto and Charles Taylor at the ICC in The Hague.The PF are the real heartless killers.
LOL. WISHFUL THINKING. I LIKE YOUR DREAMS.
Partisan police with double standards.Its always the opposition to blame.When will they ever arrest big PF saints and angels who are perfect human beings who can do no wrong?
ZAMBIAN POLICE CAN NOT DO THEIR JOB INDEPENDENTLY, HOW-COME NO PF CADRE WAS ARRESTED? WHAT A SHAME, AS POLICE YOU SHOULD BE NON PARTISAN AND PROTECT ALL ZAMBIANS. WOW BAMUSELELA KWAKABA. BEFORE IT WAS ALL MMD NOT PF. I AM SO DISGUSTED THAT SATA WOULD LEAD OUR COUNTRY TO THIS LEVEL. I THOUGHT HE WAS THE MAN WHO WOULD CHANGE ZAMBIA. A LEADER WHO KEEPS QUITE WHEN SUCH A TRAGIC HAPPENS IN A COUNTRY. SHAME ON PF.
Where can one find the definition of MAPATIZYA FORMULA trying to understand the term as there are a lot of different views, no insults please
The police for sure know the culprite Gary Nkombo will come clean here.Even if we say and believe that the DP is a PF suppoter it will be difficult to find Gary with murder charge and commit him to the High Cpurt because Gary Nkombo was his coligues those who have been released.Secondly the truck was pf truck with pf cadres in ii when the alleged murder of chanda was carried out.This peace of information iam sure the police have it and they could have used to arrest the real culprete those who were in the truck the pf cadres.
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