The opposition UPND has appealed to ask Scotland Yard of the United Kingdom to investigate the alleged poisoning of its leader Hakainde Hichilema who has been detained for close to a week.
In a statement released by party Spokesman Charles Kakoma, the party is requesting that Scotland Yard or any other reputable organisation to investigate the chemicals that were used to teargas Mr Hichilema’s bedroom.
Mr Kakoma said Mr Hichilema’s condition is deteriorating and must be investigated immediately.
Mr Hichilema who is held at Lilayi Police Training Camp on treason charges had earlier complained to his lawyer Jack Mwiimbu that he was unwell following his arrest.
But Police have been denying his visits from relatives, friends and supporters until on Saturday when his wife Mutinta in the company of a lawyer and a personal doctor managed to visit him.
Mr Kakoma said Mutinta said she found her husband in a worse condition than before.
“As UPND, we demand that Mr Hichilema should be subjected to rigorous medical tests and treatment by independent doctors who are free from government interference,” Mr Kakoma said.
“We also wish to request the international community and human rights organisations to intervene in this matter. In particular, we wish to ask Scotland Yard of the United Kingdom or any other reputable organisation to investigate the chemicals that were used to teargas Mr Hichilema’s bedroom,” he said.
He added, “The Zambian authorities should take this matter seriously. As a party, we would like to warn the patriotic front government that they will be held responsible for anything that will happen to Mr Hichilema while he is in their Police custody.”
It could have been as nerve gas that kills you slowly. He’s going to die in a few or weeks
Lungu had better hope that never happens, otherwise his own end will be worse than Gaddafi’s.
Both him and his wife were teargassed but he only was poisoned? Ba UPND, try again!
HH has no respect or regard for his wife Mutinta and people that know him can testify. People should stop lying to themselves that HH is a good man. He has caused this because of his arrogant and evil way. Lastly, do you know Scotland Yard? They have no time to deal with this nonsense and attention seeking HH.
Mushota – Clearly you do not know what nerve gas is or what it does – put to keep quiet.
Yama impilipili shilababa kuti walanda ati balibikamo tu paisoni,ala mwikala patalala mwine apatalalika
Whatever!
I started staying away from ifivivu after naumfwa impilipili and kamfinsa police slaps. That combination makes you feel like you have been poisoned and eventually you become a better person like me.
CS gas likely to have been used can kill.
These bunch of UPND chaps is the worst thing that’s ever happened to this country.You really think you can break the Laws of this country and expect the world to sympathize with you? HH would have avoided all this had he just ordered his driver to stop.We are sick and tired of these people who are hell bent on disrupting the development of Zambia. We should be debating on how to develop our nation rather than talk about individuals who think that they own the country with everything in it. If UPND would like Scotland yard to investigate then let GMB and HH pay for the services, why do you want to waste government money on some lunatics on a crusade? we are sick and tired of you people!
Iwe what development ? If people had jobs you think any one will listen to HH ?
Just go in licking lungu boots for a chance to steal…..
@FUTUREZED(PREFERABLY OBSOLETE ZED) YOU SOUND MORE OF A CASE THAN ONE WHO IS IN TOUCH WITH REALITY. HOW MUCH MONEY HAVE YOU WASTED ON HOPELESS THINGS OR POCKETED? THE LATE LEVY PATRICK MWANAWASA(MHSRIP) EVACUATED THE LATE MICHAEL CHILUFYA SATA WHEN IT WAS CRITICAL THAT HE DO THAT AND RIGHT NOW PF IS RIDING ON THE TICKET MICHAEL EARNED OUT OF RUPIAH BANDA’S CARELESS HANDLING OF ZAMBIANS AND NOW ALL YOU CAN SAY IS THIS UNGRATEFUL THING ABOUT HH? YOU ARE A HEARTLESS LOT ALTHOUGH WE ARE COMFORTED GOD WILL DEAL WITH YOU WHICHEVER WAY. WE PRAY THAT YOU ARE SAVED AND THAT GOD WILL WORK IN YOUR LIVES BECAUSE YOU DON’T SEEM TO REALIZE MONEY IS THE ROOT OF EVIL. YOU ARE NOT WATCHING YOUR GREED AND IT IS CAUSING YOU TO BE EVIL. SHOW ZAMBIA THAT THE GOD YOU SAID YOU PRAY TO AND HUMBLE TO IS THE…
SAME GOD THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT. GOD CAN NEVER BE MOCKED.
@Kasongo and Spaka, you should learn how to read and articulate issues rather than just going on a tangent. Why do you have to wait for government to create jobs? HH is not the president of Zambia and until you get that in your heads, maybe and just maybe you will realize why people are fed up with his antics. As for Kasongo, I really don’t know what planet you are on. You sound like a paid blogger so not even going to waste my time replying to your comment. If you break the Law, it does not matter whether you are GBM or HH or Lungu, the law is the law period.
Which development s are you talking about in Zambia?
These are just monkey tricks to force police to release hh. If released, he will be back to his provocative language in no time..! Let hh face the law. No one is above the law..!
@munene kaizer zulu is,why isnt he in cells or atleast in court?
I think its huge lice and fat bed buds sucking the rich man he thinks its police pilipipili from tear gas. Be stong musankwa.
Proverbs 27:12 The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
Lungu is now realising that hh is more influential than him. I really wonder who lungus strategists are because whoever came up with this idea of locking up hh must be very dull or actually supports hh because this has played very well into our favour. Now we have got the world’s attention as to the need for petition to be heard and also lungus crooked schemes to get Zambia out of icc due to his abuse of human rights. Next week am travelling to some countries in Europe to meet with key stakeholders and funders. You cannot break our spirit
Mr NEZ
What have you done to encourage and support the petition being signed by zambians to stop IMF and other western lenders giving lungu loans to brutalise zambians ???
You seem to be talking a lot but not doing much where it matters.
Spaka I have signed the petition and also posted it here requesting people to sign it. I am travelling to Europe and the Americas next week and that petition will be on the agenda. I know it may seem like we are doing nothing as strategists but our work is behind the scenes. We calculate risks and benefits of certain causes of actions to give advice to the party at large. Please have faith and trust in us. We thank you
Wasn’t HH with his wife when he was allegedly teargassed? Is the ‘Gas’ that was used so discriminatory that it only ‘poisoned’ HH?
He is in solitary confinement.
Correct
That’s what happens when you want to take things by force, you see every where leaders follow the law and if you think you can rule this Country by not following the law sorry Zambia has only one place for lawbreakers.
Let him pay the price for his folly. Was HH the only occupant in the house when the so called poison gas was thrown in? Why are the others not affected?It’s just the environment of the cells that is wearing him out. Is it so difficult to practice clean politics by HH and his minions?
This is what happens when d*ck sucking parasites move in State House. They seem to grow wings. Keep on sucking d*ck because your time will come. Sooner or later, there will be nothing remaining to suck.
My only worry is that civilisation is taking too long to reach this part of the world.it is taking far too long. To get a political opponent to a Police station, all you need to do is to issue a Police call out. The man has never refused to go to the Police each time he is summoned. COMMON SENSE PLEASE. I AM PF. You don’t need guns, bombs and tear gas. It is unnecessary…
treason nd u expect a call out he jst caused it fo hmself nd let hm pay fo it law is law and this z nt politics but crime vs law.
Pleas lungu don’t release him.
HI must show he is ready to sacrifice his freedom for zambians young democracy.
There is a world bank and IMF meeting next week let’s see if lungu has the balls to keep HH locked up…..
It is not clear what Lungu and his fellow Criminals intended to achieve by Raiding HH’s House brutalising the Occupants, teargassing them, stealing money,food and assets, then arresting HH and slapping him with Treason etc? The law of unintended consequences rules. Now the whole World’s attention is on Zambia. There will be more calls for Dialogue and pressure to hear the Petition at ICJ. People can now see thru Lungu’s motive to leave the ICC becoz he knows that what he has done amounts to crimes against humanity and he should be indicted to ICC. Under these circumstances Mutati can forget about any Foreign Financial Assistance whether loans or grants. To make matters worse Lungu has threatened the USA,EU and other International and Regional Bodies for insisting that to resolve the…
Ba Moyo ..those theories do not work in the real world. BA IMF are in business and they will NEVER be bothered by one HH. You should have advised him to humble himself than behave like another Zambian President. He had his chance before SATA died ………on a silver plate but he so full of himself hence can not read situations properly. All those institutions you are mentioning have already been briefed of what REALLY happened. And you NOT get any OFFICIAL comments from them.
HH said that he was ready for jail? A body that is conditioned to live its life in luxury ready for the conditions of prison? The underfive spoilt boy would still become sick even if he were to be subjected to mere village conditions.
Aimvela jele, sazabwezapo. If necessary he will be taken to hospital under heavy police gusrd befitying a treason suspect, but, BUT he will dkeays go back to the cells until the case is disposed off.
Also in jail you may be given some privacy to speak to your wife, but no more than that. You argue with me, its a prison badaala, not your master bedroom!
I remember meeting a British national who was imprisoned in Zambia for 3 months and thes are the only words he said to me. Zambian prisons are the best teachers for law breakers
@15 Moyo, do you think that IMF and other internationall finance and investors think like you? If anything, for investors money to be secure law breakers must be kept where they belong: GAOL.?
Have you ever heard IMF demand that all jails be closed as a condition to giving financial assistance to Zambia or any other country? Come on UPNDonkeys, can’t you learn even simple lessons?
And what Donald Trump said on the arrest his friend HH
Micheal kindly give me 1 example of a treason charged person anywhere in the world who was ever summoned to a police station with a police callout? If you are treason charged you are uplifted by force. You are a greater criminal. Ask Gen Miyanda. He was transported in a sack in a boot of a car from DRC to Lusaka. He spoiled in his trousers.
Scotland Yard to do what?? Ba UPND you guys been to school but its a total waste of resources. And l thought HH was friends with Donald Trump??? Has he tried to contact him or assist in this case
Today you have realised that Zambia has authorities that you are appealing to. Let hyena rot ib lilayi. Kakoma you are also dull. How can the chemicals only affect hyena and not his wife since they were together in the same bedroom?
What a joke ba kakoma Scotland kufya bupuba.
What a jok you fools, Let HH safer for what he has been riping
HH will never learn nor listen to any one
These UPNDers are such alarmists. What on earth is Scotland Yard going to investigate on what is most certainly an area others have since passed through? The so called evidence could be tampered with I.e. Put there by UPND. @ uncle Charles, us correct, in asking why only HH, would be affected but nit others.
The people financing HH are cheating him but the truth is he will die for nothing why can’t he tell them to pack it in.Zambians are not stupid you insulted them and there revenge was the ballot box.This whole saga has ended his political career.He is heading the same way as Dean Mungomba
His greed will finish him the other surprising thing is how this family loves to talk about civil war but when push comes to shove even before gunshots are fired they run to their bunkers UKUITEMWA.
Koma aba Tonga fipuba ! Hungry Hyena was teargassed together with the wife, how come those 2 are not sick
The Scotland Yard should also investigate why Hungry Hyena’s wife hasnt been poisoned coz they were teargassed together. Maybe the Teargas is Gender-sensitive
The whole article is about Kakoma and nothing to do with the headline.
when commiting treason dd he consult Scoltland yard if so wht position is the organisation ths z nothing to do wth international organisations our Zambia is independent nd its bigger than simple hh who recently promised hs cows to oveetake the state house,hs mps also denied to listen to President’s voice.
and you expect th police to call out hm if the teargas was poisoned why is the wife not complaining of th same sickness mulebikamo amenshi ayengi mu ma cells