The Police command says it is investigating the matter on a video that has gone viral on social media showing a police officer harassing Mazabuka Member of Parliament Garry Nkombo.
Lusaka Province Police Commissioner Nelson Phiri says the officer in the video has been taken for tests to find out whether he was acting under the influence of alcohol on duty.
He has told ZNBC News in an interview that the police command will not allow such conducts from its officers.
Mr. Phiri has warned of stern disciplinary action against the police officer is found wanting.
He has further warned police officers to desist from engaging in activities that tarnish the image of the police service.
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Hahahaha. St.u.pid off duty police officer in uniform harassing a common citizen. Ba Constable ngoma from lusaka central, kwena mulibapuba. Hehehehe. You gave them all your personal details in your drunken stupor. Gary looked like he was enjoying himself also. Lol. On a serious note, this is very disturbing. I can’t imagine having a confrontation at night with an armed drunk police officer. Worse if there is no one to witness the harassment. Very sad. I remember reading a story in the daily mail years back where a lady of foreign descent was shot by a police officer after she gave them a lift. They dumped her body in some bush and got the car. They were convicted though but still, a life was lost.
Drunk Zambian policemen as usual!
Last time i went to Emasdale police station to report about a theft i found the front desk officer on duty drinking JUNTA at the front desk- he even failed to write my complaint .
Garry Nkombo must thank his wife for saving his life.
Never argue with an armed policeman who is drunk at night.
Then you wonder why innocent people die in the hands of the police.
There is so much indescipline in the police service second only to corruption.
Today we could have been writing obituaries. …..
Very unstable security situation indeed, AK7 in unstable hands, if a pf police men asks me to escort them to the police station, they better come with a crane to lift me, such characters you might end up like that zaf officer.
But what is there to investigate? This is just window dressing on the part of the police killing machine. People need to also arm themselves and take them on. Fight fire with fire
Investigating the incidence, and the culprit is still on duty to compromise the investigation. This drunk ought to be in summary dismissal with such irrefutable evidence.
Dora is implicated in a the maize scandal and you are mute, the appointing officer!? Is it for fear of implication? She is not alone as Mwanakatwe is equal involved in some defaulting poor and deserving people’s money. What do you know, the Professor herself is equally not supposed to be in her ministerial position. These are the ones which are in the open, what about those others. People of Zambia, you love mediocrity and being poor!
Zambia Police have a serious reputation problem and the buck stops at the Commander in Chief, Edgar Lungu.
BUT WHO TOOK THAT VIDEO, AND HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT THEY DELIBERATELY AND CONVENIENTLY LEFT OUT? PERSONALLY I’D RELY MORE ON THE FILLING STATION’S CCTV FOOTAGE IF THEY HAD ONE…
Police Command will investigate like the did with that thug who was dancing in uniform with Lazy’s T-shirt…how can an officer walk about like that. What is there to investigate? Zambia by 2021 will turn into lawless DRC of years ago.
THE IDEA OF STOP-AND-SEARCH IS FROM THE POLICE OFFICER IS RIGHT ON IF THE POLICE SUSPECTS SOMETHING. STOP-AND-SEARCH IS EVERYWHERE AND MORE RAMPANT IN WESTERN COUNTRIES. WHAT MAY BE WRONG IS THE POLICE APPEARING TO BE DRUNK WHILE ON DUTY WITH A FIRE ARM. AND IT IS SO COMMON THAT POLICE IN ZAMBIA ARE FOUND DRUNK WHILE IN UNIFORM. WHAT IS EQUALLY, SAD IS THAT OUR POLICE OFFICER ARE NOT EVEN CLEVER AND I DOUBT IF THEY ARE AT ALL INTELLIGENT AS POLICE OFFICERS. IF HE WERE INTELLIGENT, HE WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT HE WAS BEING SET UP (FILMED WITHOUT EVEN PERMISSION TO DO SO?) BY THE WOMAN. THE FACT THAT A POLICE OFFICER CAN EVEN HAVE TIME TO DRINK SIMPLY MEANS OUR POLICE HAVE MOSTLY NOTHING TO DO. THEY ARE JUST LOAFING MOST OF THEIR SHIFTS. THE COLONIAL UNIFORM ALSO DOESN’T DO THEM WELL. THE…
THE COLONIAL UNIFORM ALSO DOESN’T DO THEM WELL. THE KHAKI COLOUR MAKES THEM LOOK STUPID HOWEVER, EASY TO MINGLE WITH CIVILIANS IN PUBS WITHOUT EVEN BEING NOTICED IF HE HAS NO HAT ON. IT IS HIGH TIME OUR POLICE WAS RE-BRANDED AND UNIFORMED CHANGED TO DARK BLUE OR BLACK WITH WHITE BOLD, ‘ZAMBIA POLICE’ OR JUST, ‘POLICE’ INSCRIPTION AT BACK AND FRONT OF THE TOP T-SHIRT/POLOSHIRT/SHIRT WITH CLEAR STAFF NUMBER ON IT. IT SHOULD ALSO BE MANDATORY FOR POLICEMEN/WOMEN TO LOOK FIT. MEANING ALL POLICE OOFICERS MUST BE ATTENDING GYM AND MARTIAL ARTS AND POLICIES FOR THESE FACILITIES CAST-IN-STONE AS MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS POLICY. ADDITIONALLY, ALL MUST BE IN A KIND OF SPORTS CLUB.
Yes taken for “CONNECTION TESTS”
1)Do you have connections in STATE HOUSE? Answer: NO
1(A) If yes WHO? …..
Decision: Since you answered NO at (1) you are “Fired”
@Peter
Spot on mate.
Why write in CAPS and expect people to take you seriously like that copper??
i personally wouldn’t be surprised to hear that nkombo wanted to fight the police officer rightfully deployed and executing his duties legally, this man is on record of itching to fight a kabwe member of parliament right at the parliament house, leave the officer alone and tell nkombo to have respect for police officers.
nkombo should be the last person to tell the officer not report on duty whilst drunk or drinking on duty because he himself once confessed in parliament one day that he was drunk from two shots of black label whisky. he is just a violent Tonga “bull”
THE OFFICER WAS RIGHT YOU DONOT GO ON THE FILLING STATION IN THE MID NIGHT AND SET HIM UP WITH A CAMERA
HE HAD THE RIGHT TO BE ALERT HE WAS NOT DRUNK HE IS NOT ONLY FLUENT IN ENGLISH YOU ONLY IDENTIFY YOUR SELF
YOU CANNOT DELIBERATELY IRRITATE AN OFFICER AT MID NIGHT ITS NOT RIGHT
Are you being sarcastic?
Actually, the Officer in his drunken stupor behaved very well. Mrs. Nkombo was very rude to the Officer.
So, did Mrs Nkombo set up this recording or what? She is the one who is talking too much but not seen on camera.
IN FACT, SINCE BA GARRY NKOMBO NIBA MP, HE SHOULD HAVE APPRECIATED THE FACT THAT EVEN IF HE WAS ALLEGEDLY DRUNK AT LEAST HE ASKED TO SEARCH THE VEHICLE- MEANING, HE WAS STILL ALERT. PA ZAMBIA WHY INSIST ON KUKAMBA CIZUNGU CHAMENE SIBAKAMBA BWINO. BA Mrs? AND THE OFFICER HIMSELF SIBAZIBA KUKAMBA CIZUNGU BUT BAFUNO KAMBA CIZUNGU. BAKAMBA MA, ‘NO’, PAMENE PAFUNIKA, YES. (NO YOU SAID IT INSTEAD YA, ‘YES, YOU SAID IT’).
I agree a above.
Mrs Nkombo was provoking situation, that’s why she recorded. So childish.
Country is run by drunkards, why can’t officer do the same?
Apologist 1mbeciles, how can you justify in law that armed and drunk police officer can be absolved from any CRIMINAL conduct? Because he is PF police officer threatening UPND MP? 1MBECILES!!!
i agree with u and the police officer was right and not drunk as presumed by many pipo,otherwise is very alert policeman coz he wanted to search the vehicle and its content but as usual MR NKOMBO he thinks he is very clever leave the officer alone i wish he short you and your wife coz of your sturboness
THAT IS UNLAWFUL AND ITS NOT PROFESSIOAL TO INTIMIDATE AN OFFICER WITHOUT RECOGNISING YOURSELF ITS WAS IN THE EVENING
HE WAS ASSAULTED WE ARE TOLD YOU DONOT SET UP AN OFFICER AND MAKE HIM ANGRY
You seem to be under the influence as well…
That’s why Lungu wants Zambia to leave the ICC! Zambians can expect to be killed willfully by the PFolice for no reason at all. If you cough, fart, demonstrate or you are from a region that PF does not like then you are another Mapenzi or Choongwa.
The reason why the MP did not recognize himself was to show you what the average Joe Public is being subjected to everyday by these useless PF officers…in fact its relevant that he should disclose his ID.
Yes from the narration of both Gary and the police officer, the police officer was roughed up or beaten. But the video was carefully edited not to show this scene. If the officer was as drunk as we are made to believe Gary would be dead. Who says a police officer cannot stop and search a citizen if he suspects something? Why did the Nkombos stage manage all this? Of course the police officer should be punished for being drunk. Otherwise he did nothing wrong beyond being drunk. Gary should think his wife because the officer could have discharged the fire arm. Were the Nkombos also drunk to behave the way they did?
YOU DONOT DEMEAN AN OFFICER HE WILL ALSO PROVOKE YOU AND MAKE YOU A FOOL THAT IS WHAT MR NGOMA WAS DOING
HUMILITY WITH LEADERSHIP IS IMPORTANT THATS A HIGH WAY AND HE HAS TO FIND WAYS OF IDENTIFYING PEOPLE QUICKLY AND IN A WAY THAT SUITS THE PASSBY
AT THE FILLING STATION AT MID NIGHT IN MAZABUKA STOKING AN OFFICER HE WAS JUST INQUISITIVE
You seem to be one of those who are ill informed and think a Police Officer is above the law and has rights to search your property just because he has a gun!!
HE WILL MAKE A FULL OUT OF YOU
You are another PF idyot! Even if provoked, a mature person does not resort to threatening behaviour.
Stup1d Garry MuKombo!
“Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.”
Gary Nkombo has met his match, he drinks on duty at Parliament and he admitted it. . Gary has shown leadership by drinking on duty and now others are following his example. Now Gary you see why it is not advisable to drink on duty….
Mrs. Nkombo wanted to make drama out of this. Did she surely expect the Officer to leave his gun before coming to talk with her? This was just an amicable encounter – no fuss about it. Very good police officer – in fact, he was not even on duty but very concerned about public safety – I think he should be promoted.
So if he is not on duty what is he doing searching cars, do you honestly think they are allowed to take their firearms home? This how people who own Jeeps have murdered in the past by police and later covered up
One Zambia: I fully support you. To me this police officer was guarding the filling station. At every filling station you will find safety notices banning amongst other things, having guns and smoking. Which mean is you go to a filling station as a driver with a gun, that gun has to be concealed. Secondly, in Zambia we just have a problem of political rhetoric. Any one who has traveled into the neighboring countries will agree with me that police conduct what is known as Stop and Search. This is done without a search warrant but purely a safety measure to control criminality. I am shocked Chanda is not aware of these acts. Forget the issue of being drunk here. The issue is was the policeman in order to ask for a search. The answer is YES. He was providing security at the filling station…
Ctd. Providing security at the filling station. In fact the policeman even refused to shoot Nkombo even after being dared to shoot. Nkombo told the policeman to shoot him but the policeman asked Nkombo what he had done for him to be shot. Nkombo charges towards the policeman and pushed the policeman around. The policeman was even saying what Nkombo was doing was not right. How can you people miss that discussion. This was a well calculated political move to justify the rhetoric in UPND. Who has proof that the policeman was drunk. If I were the policeman I would sue these tabloids.
Lungu has destroyed Zambia. Anyone can do what they want. Can Lungu and his PF leave ZP, ECZ Judiciary etc to be independent. This is what happens when you have a wrong leader as Head of state. We never saw these nonsense in Mwanawasa who was your fellow lawyer. Zambia under Lungu is finished.
Yes its true
The Police are corrupt because the force is infiltrated by politicians. The Police have learnt that it pays to take sides and they always take the side of the ruling party. We need an above board leader who can rescue the nation from such patronage and I dont think that leader is HH or Lungu. We will therefore live under such corrupt institutions as the police, DeadNBC judiciary etc until we cultivate a leader with mature understanding of democracy and its institutions. This will happen in 50 years time
Lungu will bring problems with his police thugs. Surely how can you tolerate such in the police force?
THIS MAN IS NOT A POLICE OFFICER, HE IS A PF CADRE
Same Sh1t different package
This is how low Zambia has become under the watch of chakolwa Edga Lungu. He is not a police officer but a PF goon in police uniform. All institutions have been infiltrated by these goons. We really need a change of leadership to bring sanity to mother Zambia.
BOTH GARY AND THE POLICE CADRE WERE DRUNK
So what? Garry is hardly saying anything in the video. He clearly was not driving. He was a passenger. He was courteous. So what is your point? Are you normal? Is drinking while in uniform and carrying a firearm normal to you, numbskull?
A lot of Zambians are too docile like this one..its no wonder Lazy Politicans like Edgar and tins are stealing with impunity and have become rich in a matter of months.
Nothing wrong with Gary being drunk. He was coming from a wedding. That officer was completely out of order. Mrs Nkombo did a great job recording him. How do you just ask to search a vehicle on the pretext that the vehicle is fully loaded. With what? ZP officers need better training.
“clean up the police”
I am quite dismayed at the conduct of the Police Officer. I know this guy and I am very ashamed that he has gone to such levels of drinking.
This Ngoma guy used to be kept by his wife not long ago at Lilayi Police camp until recently when he was infused into police in order to earn a living.
He was drunk and had a fire arm. There is no justification to his actions. You are not allowed to handle a fire arm in a drunken state; you are a danger to society.
These police officers of today have lost all manner of respect.
It is now truly wako-ni-wako even in supposedly serious jobs. The only qualification Ngoma has is his tribe.
The officer might have been drunk and to demand a search of the vehicle but he he should have asked for are vehicle papers and the drivers licence in case the car had jus been stolen. If Hon Nkomo had ntroduced himself to the officer, the officer could have respected him.
Luapula premier. Garry did well not to introduce himself to that corpse, thank God the guy didn’t notice that he is tonga.
The video does not add up. How did it start?
A video can start running in the middle of action. Are you serious? This is not a prank that is planned.
“Beyond a Reasonable Doubt”he says …is this what they train these guys at Lilayi Training School, this drunk officer could have emptied that AK 47 magazine in them if it was not for Garry’s wife had it been men. You have the dull minister of Justice Lubinda wasting $200,000 for consulting about useless ICC, when ZP officers do not even know basic rights of citizens. These officers used to have ID numbers and how on earth do you let an officer to guard an ATM whole night with even no comms to ask for advice. Really sad you have the Police IG procuring all those riot machinery when he is sending out *****ss with automatic refiles without training.
“Beyond a Reasonable Doubt”he says …is this what they train these guys at Lilayi Training School, this drunk officer could have emptied that AK 47 magazine in them if it was not for Garry’s wife had it been men. You have the dull minister of Justice Lubinda wasting $200,000 for consulting about useless ICC, when ZP officers do not even know basic rights of citizens. These officers used to have ID numbers and how on earth do you let an officer to guard an ATM whole night with even no comms to ask for advice. Really sad you have the Police IG procuring all those riot machinery when he is sending out foools with automatic rifle without training.
Citizens who do understand thier human rights and police professionalism are more dangerous than a drunk policeman armed with an AK47.
The comments by bloggers clearly shows why Africa is still living in the dark ages…
“Do not understand”……i beg your pardon…
I enjoyed watching this film. Nikulase Iwe niwe Ndani?
People have missed the point and that’s the problem in our country. You usually the actual issue at hand and end up discussing other issues. What is the issue here is that the policeman wanted to search the vehicle and not to kill anybody. If Nkombo and the wife did not refuse to have the vehicle searched this whole drama was not going to be there. Now as usual in zambia we have missed the point of discussion and gone astray and discussing that the policeman was drunk. No that’s not the issue. The issue is Nkombo and family refuses to be searched and that’s a criminal act. I tell you to try that nonsense of refusing to be searched by a policeman in uniform, whether drunk or sober. in another country you will not come back to zambia. Nkombo should have been searched and then report the…
Even with Jay Z dropping those lyrics will still have ill formed folk like you @Miya
Am I under arrest or should I guess some more?
“Well, you was doing 55 in a 54
License and registration and step out of the car
Are you carrying a weapon on you? I know a lot of you are”
I ain’t stepping out of sh*t, all my paper’s legit
“Well, do you mind if I look around the car a little bit?”
Well, my glove compartment is locked
So is the trunk in the back
And I know my rights, so you gon’ need a warrant for that
“Aren’t you sharp as a tack? You some type of lawyer or something? Somebody important or something?”
Well, I ain’t passed the bar, but I know a little bit
Enough that you won’t illegally search my sh*t
“Well, we’ll see how smart you are when the K9 come”
I got 99…
but a b*tch ain’t one; hit me!
A policeman has no right to search a vehicle for no reason at all. OMG! The country you live in…….
You are docile to think that is the caliber of a person you allow to search you. What is wrong with you Zambians that accept mediocrity? Grow up and stop this nonsense.
Ctd. The report the policeman for being drunk. Refusing to be searched caused all this drama. Two wrongs are never right people.
There was nothing wrong by Gary and family refusing to be searched. Who says police have a right to search vehicles anyhow for no reason at all. What if he plants drugs in the vehicle are accuses the owner. He would not have searched my car neither.
I cannot believe anyone with a sense of moral direction can defend this conduct by a drunken police man, an officer of the law.
The PF police are a shame to the nation. What is worse is that the Government will blame the victims.
Dununa Liveshi
So some people think the police have a right to just stop you and demand a search? Please avail yourselves with the law. You need reasonable cause or a situation where a commission of a crime is in the process. A drunken armed police officer insists, without a warrant or reasonable cause to search your car while you are filling it with fuel and you think this is part of due process? His drunken exhibition while waving around a gun, would in itself cancel any prior legitimate cause he may have had – and in this case he didn’t even have that! We don’t only need long overdue re-professionalisation training for the police – we also need basic rights awareness for the public. The police are not ‘gods’. They are subject to the same laws as everyone else.
@Miya – You understanding of police powers is frightening. The policeman had no cause to insist on a search in the first place. He needed cause, authority, reasonable suspicion or a situation where a crime was in the process of being committed. You even state that it didn’t matter that he was drunk. That in itself, even in a case where he has a warrant would negate the whole process. Learn you rights. This kind of attitude (probably due to your ‘innocent’ ignorance) is part of what exacerbates the development of extra-judicial killings, police states and dictators.
How did this police man conclude that the vehicle was overloaded, is there a weigh bridge at petro filling station, maybe it’s was the drowsiness in his eye that made him see a vehicle fully loaded with UPND katundu, if you watch closely the car had it’s doors wide open, and video recording started mid way through the confrontation, a sign the the madam had enough of this pestering pest. At the end of it all it looks like it’s the cop who was heavily loaded with junta.
The commander in chief must tame these police thugs because one they will kill one of his close relatives or him.
How can you give a gun to someone who’s drunk who allowed him to work in that state. it’s a trend in police force because he was suppose to be stopped before assigned in the field. Zambians are not proud of the their works will never develop with that altitudes towards our work.
Clever ones – who determines when a police officer can stop and search a citizen? The citizen? How many times have we been stopped by police at road blocks and asked to open the boots of cars? Here in Zambia and elsewhere? Do not talk things out of context. Little education is always dangerous. The Nkombo Show was unnecessary and immature.
Zambians should reject mediocrity. The police have the duty to search but allowing such a police officer to search you is suicide in itself.
The Nkombos didn’t carry themselves with dignity befitting an honorable member of parliament .They abused the police officer. Being night time , security at the filling station had to be maintained.The police officer was within his right and duty to search the vehicle .He asked for permission to do so. It wasn’t in order for the Nkombos to refuse granting the permission. Mr.Nkombo and his family should respected the officer on duty as he discharged his functions. The officer might have taken alcohol being on night shift,but that shouldn’t be ground enough to abuse him. ARE POLICE OFFICERS ALLOWED TO STOP AND SEARCH YOUR ? If answer is YES, stop the investigation . The are seeking attention.
This Tonga woman is only filming one version of the story… Why didn’t she film the version Mr. Ngoma is saying ” that he was beaten”…
This is one-sided crap, let ZP do their Job!
Ati sweetheart, are you sure that was the wife filming….????
Ati he was coming from a wedding, my foot! dressed like that..? listen very carefully to the woman, she says and I quote ” baina bana aba – he has kids”
My wife or your wife would say ” tilina bana – we have kids/children” Im very sure, this is that finished product KA Ruth girl from woodlands B, that most of those at parliament motel have fucckked!
PRIME TV WELL DONE: This channel is excellent it showned yesterday how these Police Men can get drunk beer and with power. They even shown the one in ZP uniform dancing in a Bar. ZNBC nothing. Imwe kuwayawayafye. These are the lessons Zambians should learn that this is the stage we have reached. Please,let action be taken against this Kapokola.
@Miya you miss the logic by miles away. We are free citizens in Zambia that are abiding to Zambian laws. Zambia police do not have powers above the rights of law abiding citizens to be subjected to stop and search at the whims of police (worse drunk police officer). Your point, “the Nkombos should have been searched first and then report”. My foot!, report to who?, what will come out of that report?, Zambians have reported before in PF regime and have ended up being locked up themselves. You have lost it and need to re visit your logic, as at now you appear less than one.
Nelson Phiri a very dull i.diot police command how do you investigate if he was drunk on duty after two days?
Nelson Phiri a very dull i.diot police command how do you investigate if he was drunk on duty after two days?
Every body knows that most Zambian policemen are uneducated illiterate thugs who make a living by robbing motorists.
They are not a professional force and most people who interact with them just want to get away from them for as little cost as possible.
This policeman should be charged with abusing his position and then fired.
Building a professional police force is not rocket science. Do traffic police need to be armed?
In the meantime people, please film all your interactions with these *****s and put them online
Living example of PF kaponyas recruited enmass to the police force
According to petro attendant both were drunk the cop and the mp. When cop asked to search the car nkombo asked him what for?:voice were raised the mp then roughed up the cop who run and cocked his rifle the woman then stepped in after the talking the mp challenged the cop to just shoot him to which drank cop asked what for
What is the halubaloo about this? Nkombo is a drunk himself who met a fellow drunk. Nkombo only had one shot of whisky. I dont know how it would have been had Nkombo had his usual two shots of whisky. Ngoma on the other hand had three shots of Kachasu! Hahaha! Or is it Mabisi mixed with seven days!
Shame
People need to watch “Mandela the Long Walk to Freedom” movie. Exactly what transpired in the colonial days only Zambians abusing Zambians.
sad indeed
Its very disappointing with the police in Zambia expecially the central police, the are very corrupt and the threane people instead of helping them. People have rights to approach the police. What a country I don’t know we’re we are going Zambia is finished the innocent people in prison because the get paid from the real criminals and the let them free. I know someone who is in prison for something he didn’t do the say the do not want to lose their jobs once is out. Now can you imagine that.