Thursday, March 28, 2024

Lusaka police shot dead

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A 32-year -old Police Officer at Lusaka’s Bennie Mwiinga Police Post has died after he was shot by unknown people.

Police Spokesperson, Esther Katongo identified the deceased as Sergeant Ludovic Bwalya.

Ms Katongo said sergent Bwalya died in the early hours of yesterday

She says the incident happened around 04 hours in Lusaka ‘s Presidential Housing Initiative-PHI.

Ms. Katongo says sergeant Bwalya was discovered by members of the public, who reported having found a body of a male person dressed in a police uniform.

She says Police officers from Bennie Mwiinga Police post rushed to the scene and discovered that it was Sergeant Bwalya.

Ms. Katongo told ZNBC News in a statement that the Police rushed him to Levy Mwanawasa University Teaching Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

 

She says Sergeant Bwalya sustained gunshot wounds in the chest.

 

Ms. Katongo says Sergeant Bwalya was on duty and had asked for permission from his supervisor to knock off early as he had a church programme later that day.

 

The Body is lying in Levy Mwanawasa mortuary and investigations in the matter have been instituted.

31 COMMENTS

    • I have told people many a times, UPND dont mean well for this country.

      They started the fire blaze, now they have started killing Police officers.

      My goodness

      Thanks

      BB2014,2016

    • Police should be the last to complain when so many innocent Zambians have died at their hands. Do they think ordinary people will not retaliate if they shoot dead their relatives and friends?

    • Money is the root cause of all evil. Most Zambian police officers are co?rupt. This is not far from a corrupt act. I SMELL A RAT.

  1. We must choose to be a country of laws and not guns. I find the proliferation of gun ownership in Zambia very worrying and scary. Plus this Jerabo thing which is also driving us towards the culture of South America where rebels are better equipped than law enforcements agents…. kaya mwandi

  2. Why police walking no gun Zambia sure be like SA everywhere police is walking or driving he/she has a gun.my condolences to the the family of deceased.

    • IT WAS PROBABLY YOU PF RUBBISH THAT DONE IT JUST TO MAKE THE OPPOSITION LOOK BAD. POLITICS OF THE BELLY. YOU DON T CARE WHO YOU HARM JUST TO PROVE A POINT. HOPE IT HAPPENS TO A CLOSE RELATIVE OF YOURS THEN YOU CAN REFLECT ON YOUR NONSENSE.

    • What time did Sergeant Ludovic Bwalya leave the Police station to attend to church matters? Any witnesses? If the report is accurate, the body of the deceased was found at about 04 hrs the following day and still wearing his uniform. Was he carrying a bag when he left the station? Possibly for carrying civilian clothes and went to a drinking place. After the drink he put police uniform back on for safe travel back home. He may have been very aggressive and abusing towards others on the way home. Ethanol test known as BAC scale (Blood Alcohol Concentration) can be done on blood to confirm his state mind at the time of his death. If it were a case of forensic nature, urine could be obtained through catheterisation for drug test. This is just to help the police to understand the source of…

  3. MUSHOTA YOU SHOULD BE PICKED UP AND GO TELL THE POLICE WHICH UPND MEMBER YOU KNOW SHOT THE POLICE OFFICER. IT IS *****S LIKE YOU THAT ARE INCITING A WAR IN THIS COUNTRY.

  4. Because of the thuggish behaviour of upnd zealots these bandits are now taking advantage. If upnd can sober up we will be able to tell these masquerade of bandits. Please ba upnd can you grow up fast else you will be wiped up by these cops. I can assure you that G5 are now watching you.

  5. Let the Police do their job . Don’t accuse PF or UPND. Mushota , I know you need attention. Do you PHD is too shallow for you. You are more than PHD holder…
    There is a new PHD bufi-logy at Robert Makasa University in Muchinga Province, Chinsali District… It is better than the PHD from Glasgow University you got.

  6. 1. If it happened around zero four ( 04hrs), 2. Deceased was still in uniform, 3. Deceased got permission to go to church but was still in uniform 4. Tell us where he stays so that we know whether the route he used was appropriate. Thats how one investigates / reasons, not what some “PHD?” magot wants to deduce.

  7. First how could the deceased get permission leaVING WORK WANTING TO GO TO CHURCH? HOW CAN OFFICER INCHARGE GIVE HIM PERMISSION FOR SUCH AN EXCUSE? WHY HIS NAMES DONT SOUND ZAMBIAN and yet he was a police officer? LUDWIG? IS HE SON OF SONDASHI? WHY SHOOT HIM ALONE? MHSRIP NO POLITICS HERE MAYBE HE TRIED TO CHALLENGE JERABOS

  8. After their deliberate arson attacks around the country to frame HH did not work now PF have resorted to killing men in uniform to plant seeds for a state of emergency…….

  9. I have confidence in our Police Investigation Department as long as there is NO INTERFERENCE in their investigation.
    OUR POLICE WILL FIND THE PERPETRATORS, I HAVE SEEN OUR BOYS AT WORK & ITS IMPRESSIVE.

    COP KILLERS MUST BE HUNTED DOWN LIKE KILLER DOGS THEY ARE!

  10. Mushota you are so Negative do you ever post positive things, for you anything is Negative or Bad or UPND, please use such media to share information Knowledge and wisdom.

  11. Good night U5, I am sure you will use the time when you cannot sleep to reflect deeply on your life manners and behaviour. Ask yourself whether a normal person can spend his time hallucinating in all the Courts that one can think of – high court before all the judges, magistrate court before all the magistrates, Concourt before a single judge and before the full bench. I hear now you will also dominate the local courts. Underfive you have a life before you including becoming President in 2026 when Lungu finally decides to go. This business of seeking jail is a miscalculation on your part, who do you think cares about you? You will rot in jail even your donkey followers will eventually forget if threy have not forgotten about you already.

  12. Zambia police have stopped investigating such issues and instead they are more into politics , have they concluded the investigation on the Zaf officer who was killed within there vicinity. It’s big no and that case is slowly dying a nature death. May your soul rest in peace officer. Whatever happened God knows.

  13. It is sad that a life has been lost and above all this nonsense it will be his family who will be hurt the most. Kanganja should focus on making sure Bwalya’s family are looked after and that they are paid their dues from the Police. Issuing threats will not help him nor Bwalya’s family. However, aside that, the Police should have only themselves to blame, they have lost all the credibility and no wonder they are having problems solving crimes because the public hate them now with a passion because of brutality. How many innocent Zambians have been killed and brutalized by the Police? And you expect the public to love your cops? I can guess that Bwalya is a victim of a hate crime by the public against the police. It is the police’s fault that they are now targets.

  14. it’s quiet sad…a man I knew in person.. a fearless man…they shud start investigations ryt now…or else no one here in PHI z safe anymore..

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