National Democratic Congress Political Consultant Dr. Chishimba Kambwili has claimed that state agents are after his life and they plan to poison him when the arrest him on Tuesday.
And Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo has confirmed that Mr Kambwili has been summoned to appear before police for questioning following a complaint by Chiliufya Tayali that Mr Kambwili used false names to register his company Mwamona Engineering Services.
But Ms. Katongo said allegations that Mr Kambwili is to be poisoned whilst in detention are his own imaginations.
Mr Kambwili told a news briefing that his residence that he has credible intelligence reports that President Edgar Lungu has sanctioned for his arrest, detention and subsequent poisoning.
“I have received information that during the process of investigations they want to poison me while in detention. But let me tell them that God is in control and I will not die of poisoning, God forbid,” said Mr. Kambwili.
Mr. Kambwili said he is aware that he would be arrested and detained without bond on what he called trumped up fraud charges.
“On Friday there was a meeting at State House where the people under fraud department in the police service investigating that case of Chilufya Tayali, you may wish to know that Chilufya Tayali reported me to the police that i had registered a company with a fake name. When police did the investigation, they proved that it was not true that I had registered the company with a fake name. They found out that the person they were saying was a fake name was actually my son Mwamba Chishimba Kambwili,” he said.
“When they hit a brick wall in their investigations they went and reported to the powers that be that the person they were talking about was still alive and was the one running the company Mwamoneni as a Director,” said Mr. Kambwili.
Dr. Kambwili revealed that police had been instructed to find anything incriminating in order to arrest and detain him.
“I am told they went to search at PACRA and according to them, I had signed annual returns on behalf of my son who is the Director at Mwamoneni Engineering. They have been instructed to arrest me and detain me and not even to grant me bond on Tuesday.”
He said when he received the intelligence report he informed his lawyers, who later received the police call-out on Monday that he should appear at 10:00 Hours at the police station.
Dr. Kambwili said police have been instructed to effect an arrest even where they do not have evidence incriminating him for purposes of punishing him for taking a strong stance against corruption by President Lungu’s government.
“The police indicated to them that it was a weak case and could not proceed to prosecute it. But President Lungu has instructed Kaizer Zulu to work with the police to make sure that tomorrow when I go to the police I am detained and refused police bond.”
Dr. Kambwili said he was ready for them and that he was equal to the task.
“I will be at the police station (Lusaka Central Police) at exactly 1030. Let them do what they want. I can rest assure them that we shall meet in court. This issue of politicians abusing the police and other state institutions must come to an end. ”
But in a separate interview, Mr Tayali told off Mr Kambwili and advised him to desist from politicising the matter.
Mr Tayali said, “this crime was committed way back before Edgar Lungu was politically conceived as a Presidential material. You were forging documents on your own. So stop lying, it is me, fighting you for the crimes you committed. You created a fictitious person called Mwamba Chishimba and gave this fake person an NRC of your sister called Sampa Kambwili, yet you still want to be arrogant and play politics.”
He continued, “You opened bank accounts, signed contracts as Mwamba Chishimba, collected money and never finished the projects, but no one touched you, because you were a bully of a minister. You knew you were not clean, but your arrogance and unbridled Presidential ambitions, you forgot that, it was President Lungu who was protecting you, while I was waiting for a day to pounce on you. Let the police arrest you and take you to court, I am ready to come and testify, my evidence is overwhelming even if you bring Keith Mweemba.”
Chilufya Tayali should not rejoice for messing up other people. You may laugh first and cry last.
Main issue here: “Mr Kambwili used false names to register his company Mwamona Engineering Services” and this is a convictable offence. He did this so he can corruptly siphon money from government. FULL STOP. Tayali should be commended for alerting Zambians to this CORRUPTION by Kambwili.
Stop crying you cry baby kambwili. I recall a time when you said Chagwa could not sink so low as to try and take out HH. What has changed now ?? in the era of “Digital” records are now easily kept and it is still there on Youtube for all to see and hear. He referred to HH’s allegations as the Joke of the Year. Well Sir your is also the BIGGEST JOKE OF 2018. Those interested check out the youtube link below…..
They’ll just make him popular for nothing.
Arresting HH made him popular & it made the VISION-LESS, LAZY DRUNKARD look like a dictator & everyone now knows he is also a thief. CK will at an appropriate time spill the beans on the VISION-LESS, LAZY DRUNKARD’s corrupt deals.
@1 It appears to you that anything against government is justifiable whether wrong or right. Kambwili like you and me is not exempt from law. If really committed the offense he should be treated like you and me..no less or worse. Please let’s use our heads not emotions. As for poisoning I wonder why HH was not poisoned if this is possible.
Messing up other people???? Kambwili claims and accussed many people as being corrupt. What is wrong with him facing the same law he claims to be protecting? At least he had been given an opportunity to defend himself.
People like Jonathan Lungu, Antonio AND DORIKA SILITI are an example of what’s wrong with our society in general and politics in particular they don’t whether they are going or coming and the majority of the people still blindly support them and follow them. DESPICABLE!
How did Tayali get hold of this info? Who is using him? Are current PF leaders not guilty of similar manipulations? Let Tayali, since he is the state investigator, investigate all the ministers and we see how many are clean.
Please use that poison discreetly
you will just of too much fat in the body. ukulwa sana
Tayali wants a job from the President of the Republic of Zambia, HE Edgar Chagwa Lungu. I call Tayali’s approach the Bauman Lusambo strategy. What Tayali does not know is, Lusambo like Siliya was appointed by the “invisible hand.” Tayali does not have any relationship with the invisible hand. Ba shimpundu, na chinondo!
How is he messing the people, learn to seperate chaff from the grain.
Poison and then arrest! What crap news!
……. Chishimba Kambwili has claimed that state agents plan to POISON him!……how and when?
He says when they arrest me on Tuesday!
Yo! Let us follow with keen interest how this thing will pan out.
what goes around surely comes around. The sad part is that ordinary Zambians’lives are at stake. We can’t continue with Lungu and PF mediocrity. Kambwili helped create this monster called PF which is devouring Zambia
Bemba land has a consistent trend of producing lunatics.
And which land has a consistent trend of producing tribalists?
Mr oblata. irony is that we dont want u5. that explains why he has no mp in lusaka. keep him as your tribal leader.
I thought it just Tayali who is seeking to prosecute him why Lungu he should be serious let him talk about Tayali not Lungu.
You are right. How does Lungu come in? I have also followed this story keenly and know that it is Tayali who has sued Kambwili.
You think with out state house pushing any police would bother about using someone’s name on a company ??
That’s Chishimba Kambwili for you.
Bola naikosa
Dog eat dog! Let them turn on each other these thieving scoundrels.
I can’t trust this tribalist. I will never forget the way he insulted people from a certain region in this country in run up to 2016 general elections. He thought he was invincible. Southerners and Westerners if you will give your vote to this tribalist then you are f00ls.
Chickens have come home to roost, now I am not sure whether it is on Kambwili or PF. Lolo.
Comment:Tayali you are a simple but great man,you have started bringing them one by one. Now Perdue the Manson to the end
Zambian politics today you screaming at people next you crying. Why can’t you just enjoy your money with your family not like you truly love Zambia and it’s people . What you got whilst in government is enough to live a better life than any other person. But you want to lie to Zambians and God that you fighting for the people who you never fought for when you were awarding contracts to yourself. Rubbish that’s the way you will all end up you selfish politicians. Kill yourselves that’s your way of life. We don’t care any more. Just like you don’t care about us. Is the money never enough. Cry a river and only the ones you enough your money with should feel for you.
Good points. Only those with evil motives can support this mentally unstable individual.
I though cholera was worse, this corruption pandemic has gone to another level. It will claim many.
So mwamona is your company. It got all the contracts in luanshya. Anyway it is true twamona that if you want to be rich join politics register a company with a fake director and protection is guaranteed until you lose your job. Anyway twamona.
“This issue of politicians abusing the police and other state institutions must come to an end.”
You started it! You abused ZNBC!
Now you are complaining?
The little respect I had left for this man has waned. He is either crazy or scared. On corruption, three fingers are pointing at you Kambwili. You must be more corrupt than those you accuse. You are hallucinating and seeing things that aren’t there, because you are scared. Stop talking nonsense and face Tayali in court.
But why Keith Mweemba?
Ka tayali kapuba why drag keith mweemba into that nonsense, kambwili am sure he is regreting the hate he had for post newspaper to point were he prayed for its closure, now he has got no one to speak for him.
The hired gun Tayali shoots again, the only opposition leader who seems preoccupied with not becoming head of state!. Any way this is a case that has no light at the end of the tunnel only trying to deflect CKs ambition.
Naumfwa icisushi canunka pwi pwi pwi. This thing called Chishimba cisushi. He is a bully. I now understand why his wife has refused to come back to stay with him. Anyway what do you expect from a good for nothing person
So he is separated from his wife?! Kanshi utu mahule natumupesha mano. They have drained him of all his senses.
To All Zambians Read: Matthew 6 V 14 -15 Jesus Said: For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, BUT if you do not forgive men their trespasses neither will your Father (IN HEAVEN) forgive your trespasses. (It does not matter who you are in society Jesus is talking to you to day that forgive your brother and every thing shall be well in your life)
In the same bible (doctrine) it says the starting point of forgiveness is confession. So let all those who want forgiveness confess. However, I have personally forgiven you for posting such an indoctrinated opinion.
The bible is a two edged sword. Unless you opt to pick only what you want, the same book has parts which advocate revenge.
There’s no Jesus, neither was there ever one before 325 AD. The letter J never even existed then.
Wake up people.
Have you not noticed that the sun shines on everyone, believers and nonbelievers, the rain falls on all rooftops?
Everyone who uses his head has a chance to prosper, believer or not.
Moslems prosper, Jews prosper, Shintuists prosper, Buddhists prosper, ….
And so do nonbelievers.
On one hand, seeing how PF and ECL are eagerly suppressing any form of opposition, one would feel with Kambwili after reading the first part of this article. These people can do whatever it takes.
On the other hand, when you read Tayali`s narration, there seems to be some consistency with some “facts” that corner Kambwili.
So the truth is somewhere in between.
How come Tayali has more information than ACC who investigated CK, and until now have never bought a case against him? Is it intentional that they are using Tayali to avoid political noise that would arise if the case was handled via ACC? SMELLS.
Hate him or not; most of the things HH says come to pass. He told you Sir Doctor Mr Kambwili that you shall need this POST newspaper you are closing down. Where can you genuinely be covered now ??? Wanya uzachucha !!
…so the post was press freedom for Zambia??? Without post newspaper, there is no press freedom??? I think we gave too much power to one man. In RSA, each province has its own newspaper and the really good ones go national-THAT’S PRESS FREEDOM. Now to put all our press freedom in one individual and newspaper and call it press freedom?? More like a reincarnation of Joseph Gerbels’s Nazi propaganda machine, really-too much power in a single entity….
Today we’ve got more freedom of expression than when the Post was alive. Just by using LT to discuss issues is freedom.
Ndanje
LT is an internet madia and lungu can not do much about that….look at the radio stations being attacked by pf
@Spaka: Do you know how many radio stations and tv stations are in Zambia today operation freely??? Let’s not forget, Zambia’s best selling newspaper, Daily Nation is privately owned. Mast and now Diggers is also freely distributing copies every morning. So where’s the suppressing of press coming from????
Warped thinking DOES Kambwili really need the Post? For what? The Post helped to kill the alliance between PF and UPND. The Post popularised the notion that UPND was a tribal party. UPND HH was desperate if he said people like Kambwili will need the Post. Kambwili and the rest have many better ways of expressing their feelings including using online news sources, social media such as facebook (which he does so well) twitter. Other papers can draw from these and disseminate to the wider audience. So Kambwili does not need the Post which thrived on manupilating political leaders. Look at the way they went yo bed with Sata and Mwanawasa!
#Spaka please don’t disappoint me, government can shut out all internet if it so wishes. Besides how many have been arrested in despotic countries for “abusing” social media. Please let’s pretend to be ignorant just because we don’t want Lungu.
Ndanji
GRZ can not shut all internet , you don’t know what you are talking about……and if they did that , apart from the technical challenges of the internet used for safety critical systems , lungu will the next day be labelled a dictator same the N korearian one and expect western sanctions…….
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Maybe it’s strange to you, Ethiopia and Turkey have done it what stops Zambia from doing it. You’re using its system.
#Spaka so now you believed Lungu is not a dictator? Your words not mine have said a lot that a lot of things you say about Lungu are false. He’s human and can make mistakes unlike the unfailing god called HH.
The Post was one sided. It prosecuted the opposition agenda to malign those in power. It didn’t qualify as credible because it mostly carried libelous material meant to soil people’s characters. It’s political platform thrived on lies and the opposition called this news and celebrated. For me, it’s good riddance that this ‘paper’ has deservedly gone under like the crap it was.
Ndanji
Lungu has pulled back somewhat from abusing people’s democratic rights of assemble and expression after he was warned in no uncertain terms by the international community……and for your information I only despise lungu for his refusal to deny that he is a corrupt theif and the fact he holds no one accountable for any thing in GRZ….
Turkey and Ethiopia were under coup and war conditions when they shut social media , unless that happens to Zambia lungu can never hope to shut the internet no matter how he hates it…
is he in a way telling us what they used to do to political opponents when he was in cabinet?
@ZAMBIAN CITIZEN, Sir do you think in a country which has press freedom, the public broadcaster ZNBC which is paid for by all citizens would be operating as propaganda mouth piece for Lungu and PF. If you think the way ZNBC is operating is proper in what is supposed to be a multiparty and plural society, then you are a pitiful victim of ignorance. ZNBC continues to be monopolised by one political party to stifle free debate and to perpetuate hero worshiping and the one party mentality. The reason the community stations are operating with less control is because they have very limited coverage. The wide coverage of the Post is the reason it was closed. And no media with national coverage can be tolerated under this regime unless it is a vuvuzela like the Nation. The moment the Nation…
The post had wide coverage, yes. But are you aware that after 2015 elections their coverage was cut by over 50% because people stopped reading the post??? Fred’s affinity to manipulate politicians cost him his paper. So, reduced revenue, a huge tax liability (he stopped paying tax around 2010 and tried to use the courts to get away with it) and other unpaid statutory obligations, THE POST CRASHED!!! Nothing to do with govt.
Citizen….
Stop lying …lungu had everything to do with the closure of the post.
How many companies private and parastatal owe ZRA so much in out standing tax …..
@Iwe Zambian Citizen, Please respond to the points raised by @ NKOLE WA MAPEMBWE UMFWE MILANDU.
There is a difference if coverage is reduced by 50% by peoples choice than when “the public broadcaster ZNBC which is paid for by all citizens is operating as the propaganda mouthpiece for Lungu and PF”. Currently, there is no investigative journalism in Zambia, a part that was largely played by The Post. Now complete vacuum, no wonder when one alleges any form of corruption, what we hear is that, that person need to bring facts. That should be the job of the Investigative journalist and ACC. It will be wise to accept that ZNBC is monopolised by one political party. There is no media that can now openly represent the people without fear of intimidation, which was not the case with the Post.
@kanyenye: ZNBC is govt owned media. If upnd came to power today, you would see how they would sing praises about them…hell, good morning Zambia would probably be in tonga, kwekwekwe….There is a reason why people buy more copies of Daily Nation and Daily Mail and not Mast or Diggers, they are not attracted to fake news anymore. Same with post, it lost its readership before it folded, you are welcome to check your facts. Nation and Mail now represent people.
The only people I have respect for are Harry Kalaba and Lucky Mulusa.Kalaba noticed some wrongs and left.Mulusa openly and courageously pointed out some wrongs in government and was shown the exit door.Kambwili was defending the wrongs in government but when he was fired he turned around.Kambwili you have no credibility even if the courts of law vindicate you in the allegations levelled against you.
For Lucky Mulusa, I can say 100percent he’s truthful. As for my village mate, I still have a feeling there’s more to it than we’ve been told. To me it’s a let’s wait and see situation.
#Spaka so you think you can just use internet in a vacuum? What are you doing in UK if you don’t understand how this works.
How is ECL coming in ? When it’s Tayali vs ck Late as waite for the court ruling don’t jump before walking.
Just go they arrest you
It’s Global. Even in Russia, the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was arrested on trumped-up charges.
CK has been a positive turncoat, whether its because he was thrown out of the gravy train still he should be lauded for choosing to speak out and make the damning revelations about the rot and corruption and plunder that is hatched in State House. The president has not come out to defend the allegations levelled against him; houses he is building around Lusaka, fire tenders, road contracts, Topstar, etc, etc, the list is endless!! It became apparent that CK has been a pin in their side and it is in their interest to silence him and they doing it shamelessly! A day of reckoning is coming, Lungu and his partners in crime are not above the law.
TASTE OF OWN MEDICINE!
Chimbwili you now know how others felt whilst you were part of the persecutory machine in P.F prior to your sacking.
You Chimbwili defended P.F’s Brutal traits when you were sitting on the high table, forgetting things can change. Anyone in doubt, pls check out Sunday Interview hosting the Mbwili.
ENJOY TRIBAL COUSIN!
Poison Chishimba Kambwili? What a waste of good poison that would be.
…kwekwekwekwekwekwe….
My feeling too. Mbuli is the biggest coward that ever lived.
You mean to say the case before the police is one were Mwamona is registered under different directors apart from CK while CK himself has been running it all along. I m NO fan of CK but where is the case here. Obviously that Mwamba is there and that sister will be produced. If you say the company received payments without doing the jobs, then pursue the directors which apparently is not CK. I truly hope the police have more than what Tayali is bragging about there otherwise this is a waste of time.
But CK on his own forged signatures for his underage son and late sister and forged signatures when opening and cashing $$$$$ at banks. Why didnt the Directors sign on their own. The Directors (son is 5 years old and the Sister is late). CK Dololololo
Thats the job MR Lungu EC is good at, oppressing political opponents both within and outside the PF. Awe these loans you are getting and sharing the money is not good at all. You are leading in chinese loans to start with. China will start controlling zambia and they will demand something which will directly badly affect the citizens. Mr E.C.Lungu and the team, the consequences of the loans you are getting will land this country in trouble in future. Learn to be self sufficient. To prove that you are a capable leader, emulate Tanzania’s president plans not just getting loans from china and stealing. Ask those countries around the indian and pacific oceans which got loans from china and failed to pay, are now being controlled by china. Very soon you will land this country in problems. Why…
Wenyo!
People of the Zambian land it’s a crime fraudulent to use fake names and signing documents.When Kambwili formed Mwamona he had issues with getting into the mines because he was blacklisted him and his brother to enter mines due to his scrap metal dealings so the only thing he could do was use his sons name he was a minor then no registration and used his sister registration number this is illegal anywhere in the world whether politician or not .lekeni ba police babombe and Kambwili knows all this he is playing on your minds seeking sympathy from people.Who told him he’s going to be poisoned fake cry baby.
Is that all they have on kambwili ???
Pathetic attempts to silence CK …
Chief Jerabo Kambwili, he is proving to be more scrap than the scrap he was dealing in.
Lungu only wants kambwili to come back to PF …….he knows CK is all about abrasive politics that rings with the masses…..
CK don’t fall for lungus tactics, stand firm …..lungu will be spending a lot of time in courts , his corruption is overwhelming.
The sister is late she was a nurse at Mufulira Ronald Ross hospital people know all these things .Thats another case using a deceased person documents takwaba mul Andy uyu
People like #Spaka will overlook such. As long as it’s against Lungu it’s ok whether Chishimba has committed a crime.
Ndanji
That is not the case…..how many corruptions allegations have we seen investigated ?? Like 42/42 , the $288 k ambulances we have davis mwila telling PF caders to steal council plots, we have pictures of PF driving pf cars without number plates ….etc etc
Only if you talk about corruption or you have presidential ambitions do you get sacked and a police visit…
Many many more transgresions
Those are allegations even Kambwili’s case will have to be proved in court, he won’t be imprisoned without good through the court process. Personally I haven’t commented on those fire things because I don’t know the specs and especially that the whistleblower is said to be one of the bidders. I remember how many times you accused Kambwili and Kalaba of corruption. You see that’s why your crusade against corruption is a non starter because it’s dented with so much dishonesty. Let your Yes be Yes not changing with the prevailing mood.
PAIPA PANO…. KEKEKEKEKEKE!!!!
Kambwili thought he is clever,now life is catching up with him.WANYA UZACHUCHA MUNDENDE ALONE!!!
Kambwili is very corrupt.he forged papers to form a fake company,gave himself huge contracts.Bravo Chilufya Tayali for exposing this f0ol!!
Plus why are you crying before the Police could even arrest you?ZP cannot arrest an innocent person.if you are clean,our courts will clear you,if not,you will be jailed-to end your presidential dreams!!
LOOK,I ALWAYS TELL ZAMBIANS NEVER TO LISTEN TO THESE USELESS POLITICIANS WHO ONLY CARE FOR THEIR POLITICS!!!no politician would cheat me that he wants to fight for poor Zambians.they all only care for their pockets first!!ONLY GOD SHALL SET US FREE FROM POVERTY AND NOT A POLITICIAN!! as for you CK,No sympathy from us-just…
BUFFOON CK broke the law and should face the music…as for Tayali your time will come.
Just run away to UK and join your family. Why do you want to live like you do not have enough to sustain you. Ask bashi Nono. He knows that what goes up shall one day come down and when that happens you are better off keeping your mouth zipped. Just for the one position you can insult people?
One word for his state of mind: paranoia.
I forgot that word.
Just listen to the person talking, running away from his own shadow kikikiki wonders shall never end. Boma imanga. You run to UK they will smoke out of Leicester hahahahahaha
How ?? Like they smoked out fred membe or Larry ??
Tayali what’s your motive in life?
To bring down suckers like Kambwili, kalaba and you know who..
An eye for an eye
So Tayali seem to be having evidence on the $42million fire trucks Deal.As you have stated you just wait for the right time to pin those currently holding office.
It is a pity to see PF carders sent to cut people using pangas……Lungu, your time in office is expiring with bad record every single second that passes. Shame on you na ka Tayali ka swine!
Koswe pa mbale!
I like the heading…. They want to poison me cries Kambwili….cries not says.
Cholera has overshadowed tipima, what Kambwili needs is testing and counseling not poison. Who would wish to kill Kambwili? I would rather kill Fr Chilinda and not Kambwili because his burden of sins is very heavy while that of the father is very light. You must be very courageous to wish to face God over Kambwili’s misdeeds. Just go and answer for your sins Baba
Golden advice to Kambwili.’
If snakes and dogs are cherished delicacies in China, the best course of precaution I would take if I found myself in China is to switch my diet to vegetarian dishes. Kambwili has some basic fragments of intelligence that could have guided him not to spin unsubstantiated accusations against innocent souls.
If UPND die hard supporters turn to praising NUMSA’s Secretary General for using a Workers’ Union to back Mmembe’s atrocities inflicted against former Post Newspapers employees, we wonder if COSATU’s leadership mentally ok. Kambwili is in love with Post Newspapers, but his character will negatively impact on workers of his fake engineering companies. These issues are broad.
Comment:CK is saying that PF is too corrupt but why is it that it has become too corrupt after they have sent him out and he never wanted to leave the party he called corrupt?Can some one answer me?
There are a number of good public and private universities that are sprouting in this country. In this regard those who take politics as their profession are encouraged to register in Schools of Faculties of Law to learn complexities of social, economic and political concepts. If Zambia were to attain at least 50% composition of MPs endowed with legal degrees, there would sober political pronouncements inside and outside Parliament.
The authorities at Copperstone must be embarrassed with their product.
The fact that a person may have been ‘eating’ with the people he left, is not justification for using the state apparatus for personal vendettas or pursuits. This Tayali case appears weak and something that can initially be pursued through a civil procedure – deal with the companies registry and its procedures first. It is good to report corrupt practices (though with an impotent and corrupt ACC, no big fish cases of those serving, are taken up) but it is also legitimate in this case to question Tayali’s interest. There is a saying that, “If a little bird continues to dance in the middle of the path in front of you, then you must know that its drummers are in the nearby bush”.
I think the brain is too small for this guy’s body mass. So has he been poisoned? Was he denied police bond? Is that what he thinks state house is used for, to plan to arrest idoits like Chishimva Kambwili? Thinking same na hh what’s wrong with our opposition?
So Tayali you are confirming that Lungu used to Pretect Kambwili when Kambwili was a Cabinet Minister. If this is true, then the President in corrupt because he protects those whom he is close to. If this is true according to Lusaka Times and Tayali, then the President is the one who decides who to prosecute or not. If this is true, then this is political.
If this is true then Zambian politicians are a bunch of corrupt *****s.
He knew he was going to be arrested because he was guilty of the offence. hence carrying the mattress to the police station.
He is just facing the law.
I wish him well in prison as that’s the end of his presidential ambition- soon to be criminal convict.