UPND leader Hakainde has called on Government to seek the assistance of Scotland Yard and the FBI in the UK and the US respectively, to assist in investigating the crimes of gassing in the country.
Mr Hichilema says Zambia is faced with events that may plunge it into serious chaos if not handled properly and if government has nothing to fear, it should engage the said investigative agencies.
He says this is a challenge which no responsible government anywhere in the world can refuse when their own citizens are living in fear and being murdered every day.
Mr Hichilema says the UPND has absolutely nothing to fear and believes that the truth needs to be revealed so that Zambians know the perpetrators of gassing incidents, through the judicial system.
“Let’s seek help from international investigative wings if we are failing to deal with perpetrators of terror attacks,” Mr Hichilema said.
“Zambia is faced with events that may plunge the country into serious chaos if not handled properly. Over the last three months, the country has seen over 20 individuals killed either by mobs or by the police, as the nation is gripped with criminal acts of chemical gassing right across the Republic,” he said.
“These events involve criminal gangs or individuals spraying chemicals in the homes of citizens, that several media reports have indicated have an effect similar to clinical chemicals used in theatres during surgical procedures.”
Mr Hichilema said three months into these events, the police claimed to have arrested over 30 people with non of them produced before the courts of law, and so far there is no explanation to the citizens as to what is causing these events.
“Despite deploying the Armed Forces and other security agencies, the incidents seem to be on the upswing than on the decline. This has left citizens wondering and feeling helpless, and subsequently resorting to the illegallities of mob justice resulting in the unfortunate loss of innocent lives,” he said.
“And in this whole process unfortunately children are falling victims too. For example in Kabwe, a small boy was sent to buy insecticide by his parents and a mob noticed the can he was carrying and concluded he was one of the killers and descended on him and brutally killed him.”
He added, “In Lusaka a citizen working for the Intercontinental Hotel Gym was rushing from his home to catch his early morning company bus, and met his fate when a vigilante mob waylaid and severely beat him despite police presence nearby.”
“In many parts of Lusaka mobs have taken the law into their own hands because they seem to have lost faith in Law Enforcement to protect them. Many innocent citizens have been killed and the country is in a state of uncertainty and fear.”
He lamented, “What is profoundly alarming is that several actors within the Patriotic Government are determined to link these events to the UPND and have been issuing statement that can incite retribution to innocent citizens, with potential to degenerate into genocide.”
He stated that people are also seeing parallels to past events that were State sponsored by previous Governments, that were used to drive fear into the community, then used to arrest and assassinate political opponents.
“This similarity cannot be a mere coincidence, but a well calculated and coordinated effort to accuse the opposition as being responsible for these heinous criminal acts.”
“Worthy noting and of great concern is that despite night curfews all around the country and the deployment of thousands of troops from the Police and the Zambia Army, these incidents seem to be taking a sharp rise. Media reports and information has been circulating for months that the State has been planning such events to specifically bring fear and accuse the opposition as the perpetrators.”
He said these events are way too complicated for the opposition to pull off in a police state like Zambia, where not even a discussion on proposed legislative changes like Bill 10 can be allowed, without the PF arresting or beating innocent citizens that are expressing their democratic rights.
“The PF government has for years used sponsored mobs to beat up political opponents into submission.”
He says UPND believes that these gassing incidents are State sponsored and specifically intended to eliminate political opponents.
“We therefore call on the Zambian Government, for the purposes of transparency and for the citizens and the world to know the truth, to seek the assistance of Scotland Yard and the FBI in the UK and the US respectively, to come and assist with dealing with this state of affairs which the government appear to be failing to handle.”
“As UPND we have absolutely nothing to fear and believe that the truth needs to come out so that the Zambian people know who the perpetrators are, through our Judicial system.”
He said, “We call on our collegues in government if they really have nothing to hide, to rise to the occasion and agree that independent Law Enforcement like the FBI and Scotland yard be invited to investigate these crimes against our people. This is a challenge which no responsible government anywhere in the world can refuse when their own citizens live in fear and being murdered everyday.”
That is the most logical thing to. do since our police have miserably failed and we continue to needlessly lose life
Why ask for things that have never happened? When did the Zambian government ever invite Scotland yard to investigate anthing? Be realistic suggest practical things. What is the difference between asking Lungu to bring in the FBI CIA and calling for national prayers to solve the problem? All these solutions are far away from the nation
PF would never accept any external help because they know the whole truth will come out. The gassing thing is a dumb and stupid initiative by PF to implicate opposition but the whole thing has gone terribly wrong.
This guy talks a lot of sense it’s the obvious thing to do if this Government has failed.
HH has plenty solutions just unfortunate he can’t call the shots. Pity Zambia
Okay…….
Such professional assistance is urgently required today and not tomorrow.
The Zambian police have failed its people in many ways and should be disbanded.
God bless Zambia.
“The PF government has for years used sponsored mobs to beat up political opponents into submission.”
He says UPND believes that these gassing incidents are State sponsored and specifically intended to eliminate political opponents.
When we tell you Akainde is a piece of SHlT and his cadres support him
Like I stated three days ago..IG is too incompetent and too compromised to handle this case. This is what Zambia has become under these thieves overseen by a weak President.
Absolute BS. Hang on, Zambia Police, Zambian army is coming for you.
Ghosh!
Has Zambia really failed to find these culprits or the process is still going on. Are we just looking for instant results.?
This needs local Detectives, Police and OP who can even interview people in local languages. FBI would fail to penetrate on that premises.
i think people have lost faith in local popo, if people can value their building at K4, It simply means their market value has hit its lowest since KK,s days, I agree an independent part would do for now.
These acts are being perpetrated by opposition, the call for a state of emergency and outside law enforcement help together with their anti Zambia propaganda agent Africa Confidential will impact our economy negatively. Exchange rate, fuel prices mealie meal and inflation will rise and put a burden on the Zambian people. Opposition clearly thinks all these effects will help their prospects in winning the general election. You forget one thing, God will defend his interest in Zambia the Nation and its Land have been given to his dear Son Jesus, by popular demand. Witchcraft and murder out.
NEVER LIKE THIS IN ZAMBIA BEFORE.
LEADERS, WHATS GOING ON.
AM ALMOST BELIEVING SEER1.
END THIS NONSENSE, PERIOD!…
If any country has to function effectively, the intelligence service needs to be effective. That is why you have the so called “Office of the President”, The Military Intelligence and the CID in the Police. The intelligence should be so effective such that incidents like what is happening now are prevented even before they happen. That is what effective Intelligence does. The common people do not even know that such a thing was about to happen. We are so reactive it is not true. Deploying Soldiers in the streets is just a show of force and will not sort out the gassing problems. It will only avoid mob justice. Let us invest more in intel. Police all over have informers who are on payroll. I doubt whether we have any of that. The only Intel we have in Zambia in on Political Rivals.
FBI and Scotland yard would in the first instance doubt the sanity of the Zambian state if they were invited to investigate this case. Zambia police should not negotiate with perpetrators and sponsors of terror. These people deserve to be disarmed and discarded at mukobeko to hang as provided by the law. The Angolan government didn’t negotiate with Savimbi, he was shot on sight.
Zambia Police always find cats when they are arresting suspects
It’s obvious that this gentleman has the least understanding of how investigations see done or how the institutions he’s referring to work. The Scottish don’t speak any of the local languages how will they gather valuable intelligence? ZP has more info than your Scotland Yard. He just reads in Chase about FBI and he says bring them here, is this man normal?
Is HH normal Zambians. Why does he tease the government all the time . HH is truly a s@t@n1st
Ayatollah, you must understand the context in which Trible HH makes the proposal, you cannot trust anything PF or controlled by PF. In any case FBI or SY can do the analysis of info translated into English by Zambia PF police. In other words Zambia PF police can gather the data while the professional analysis is done by the independent experts. Unless of course you are suggesting that Zambia PF police will deliberately mislead the experts with wrong information.
Where in the world do police watch as a suspect is being assaulted by a mob?
How is speaking local languages related to investigating the gas phenomenon? have ever read about the attack on entebbe airport? did Izraelie special forces need to use any local language to diffuse the hijackers and the ugandan army on their own territory?
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY STANDS READY TO HELP FIND THESE CRIMINALS, THEY KNOW ZAMBIA IS UNABLE TO FIND THEM SINCE EVEN THE 48 HOUSES THEY COULD NOT FIND THE OWNERS!
I wonder why HH has so much faith in the foreign entities, he alway looks to the outside world for help, why cant we have faith in our wn investigative wings to finish thier work , does it mean we cant solve our own problems?. For once lets show the world that we can do it alone, look at Nigeria when they are fighting Boko haram do they run to these entities that HH is calling, NO, they fight and will continue to fight alone. This is all sugarcoating, HH has been financed always by foreign agants in a desperate attempt to wrestle power from ECL. There is no doubt that this gassing has been funded handsomely by HH’s funders to instil fear and intimidation to paint the government black so that people lose faith in it to call for early elections. The man is trying to project himself to the…
The President (commander in chief) has to deal with this matter urgently . A lot of terrorists were arrested with the gassing equipment and chemicals . (Evidence)
Just declare a state of emergency and deal with these terrorists like other countries do.
This is no time for law practice but brut force.
Why invite FBI and scotland yard?and why not KGB?. Hell no.
Our police and defence and security wings are capable enough to deal with this matter and even more effective under a state of emergence.
This is no time for law practice as it is time consuming as we know a case can take more than five years.
Mr HH have you first of all confirmed that there is even any gassing taking place? Don’t be part of the mass hysteria by concluding before it has been verified that gassing has been happening. What if some of these cases are because of smoke from charcoal burners whilst sleeping, or industrial fumes, or even strong smell of exhaust fumes in compounds or smoke from burning rubbish?
Poor souls are being lost because of the very same approach you in the opposition and some in the ruling party are taking towards these incidents. No please stop it and stop saying people are being gassed because you are creating a sense of fear causing innocent people to be killed. The biggest challenge is not the Dominican called gassing even if it was happening which it’s not but the innocent lives…
Ctn…The biggest challenge is not the so called gassing even if it was happening which it’s not but the innocent lives being killed by instant criminal justice gangs and that’s what you must address sir!
colleagues educate yourselves before making unsubstantiated comments… the FBI and Scotland Yard can assist when requested. We in Zambia have invited them or they have assisted in several cases i.e. the Lusaka Strangler case in 1980..where 29 ladies were killed. These guys guided the investigations and strategues and operations so as to set the trap that caught the Lusaka Strangler… Another case is the murder of Wezi kaunda.. Scotland Yard detectives came to Lusaka to assist investigation in Nov 1999.
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The Zambia police force is heavily compromised and should no longer take part in these investigations
Come on Kaizar lets hear your St…d comment.
This is game over for the perpetrators and sponsors of these horrendous acts of terror. Both actors need jail time; and if proved that a political party is involved, deregistration of such an entity is a viable option.No credible government worth its salt negotiates with enemies of the state. The Nigerian government is not negotiating with boko haram. These individuals are being hunted like wild game every day. ZCTCA the organ charged with oversight of our cyberspace needs to do its job properly. It’s time they channelled their energy in destroying every website that promotes hatred fake news and tribalism.
For those saying the FBI and/or Scotland Yard don’t speak the language and therefore can’t investigate, I think it is you who are delusional and don’t understand shyt about intelligence analysis and criminal investigations. Look they don’t need to speak the language and they don’t need to be in the street following leads. First of all there is no suspects to interview.
What they do is piece together evidence; patterns and the jigsaw puzzle. The evidence and patterns and leads can be collected by the local cops as boots on the ground. But the real work is done by the analysis on a computer to piece together evidence and make sense of the information and noise.
It has nothing to do with speaking the local lingo.
But what is also surprising is how ‘lazy’ Zambian journalists are… to date I haven’t found a coherent report that informs the public about the background: 1) What exactly is happening? 2) When did it happen? 3) What is the timeline? 4) Who are the victims and how many? Etc. With more competent journalists, they always give a background paragraph and timeline (ala ‘What we know so far’ CNN type of summary). These guys assume every reader is informed and knows the background… crazy!
For those saying the FBI and/or Scotland Yard don’t speak the language and therefore can’t investigate, I think it is you are missing the point and it is you who don’t understand sh*t about intelligence analysis and criminal investigations. Look they don’t need to speak the language and they don’t need to be in the street following leads. First of all there is no suspects to interview.
What they do is piece together evidence; patterns to fit the jigsaw puzzle. The evidence and patterns and leads can be collected by the local c0ps as boots on the ground. But the real work is done by the analysis on a computer to piece together evidence and make sense of the information and noise.
SO it has nothing to do with speaking the local lingo.
The Police killing a 14 year old school boy sure and some body in her normal senses says lets wait for the postmortem, a postmortem to do what, the postmortem to say it was not a gun shot? what type of reasoning is in this country kanshi. I am PF but equally fed up like the rest in the country
HH is insulting the intelligence of Zambians.please my advice to HH is please you have a lot to learn.How possible is it for Scotland Yard even start such an investigation?our security network is far behind for what Scotland Yard is used to .These people are used to CCTV cameras which don’t exist in my beloved country Zambian compounds where we have most such crime reported.apart from few CCTV cameras in few homes where else.And if UPND forms government bwana HH are you going to rely on Scotland Yard for security?
This man worships USA & UK.He can’t be a president of this country.He is full of inferiority complex.why should u surrender your country to foreign powers?
coward and backward thinking
Some Zambians are really useless. How do you explain the case going on for months without a solution? Wake up and see the failure by our investigating wing. What we need are answers! answers! and answers! Not promises of catching the culprits.
Are we now defenseless?
Look at these silly PF bootlickers above , people are being burned alive in streets and yet your PF can not even identify what gass is allegedly used ???
Your same corrupted security wings failed to find who build 48 mansions how are they going to find any one perpetrating violence from amogest them selves ???
Just like how these same dumbeat PF bloggers were telling us investors will be falling over themselves to come to Zambia , we are still waiting , and we will be waiting for them to identify an alleged gas in 2 years ….
Looking increasingly like state sponsored terrorism to cower and suppress any opposition to their failed rule.
Only PF can operate such a scare plan under the noses of their police…..
This is state sponsored terrorism on its own citizens.
If NGOs and opposition can not move more than 10 meters in protest in any part of the country without being attacked by the police and PF , how are these perpetrators able to freely attack civilians if the state and PF are not involved ??
Now I can say with confidence that HH and UPND are sponsors of this terrorism. How come HH is now concerned when he was not concerned when this gassing started? He has become concerned after people start linking this to what happened just after the 2016 elections when HH and UPND started burning markets, schools, courts etc. HH and UPND are the sponsors period.
During this crisis this man has been more of a leader that ECL
An aspiring president who has no solution for local law enforcement?? Just call our colonial masters and they will sort it out, he says??? No wonder upnd under this twit has been rejected 5 times by Zambians!!!
Yaba!
There we go again.
Uyu ena ni zero pa zero.
Hogwash! Plenty hogwash.
HH, never ceases to amaze me.He is playing to the gallery.Lets just give ZP room to operate and stop spreading falsehoods in our communities.This reminds me of the story “the boy who cried wolf”.Am not saying gassing is not there but there’s rampant ignorance in our country.Please Govt invest a lot in education its so embarrassing to see mobs descending on fellow innocent citizens who are just carrying or in possession of insecticides like doom,raid,target even inhale for as-ma.The rate of ignorance in Zambia is alarming because its not only posing danger to the country but also to themselves.
It was lungu and kapoyongo behind the market fires , after they got paid for 42/42 , the fires mysteriously stoped….
Now after the whole country and beyond saw the PF can not win any free and fair election as was seen in chilubi where they had to bribe the electorate and ban the opposition to win, it is now dawned lungu and his gang that they can bribe the whole country 2021 and they will be watched by would media, so blocking the opposition is out.
This state sponsored terrorism they are perpetrating is their only option to divert attention away from their dismsl economic performance and some how cancel elections
Hard hitting facts the resident PF rats on LT can not live with……
How can any person or organisation carry out a gassing campain on streets full of PF caders ????
How can the whole security apparatus of the country fail to stop lynch mobs burning pipo alive for the first time in our history ?
Why has lungu been silent for so long ?
There are no actual gassing attacks but PF and lungu are behind this mass hysteria and were hoping for the opposition to be blamed. The truth has ways of revealing itself like in this case where most belive pf and lungu are responsible….
I personally think inviting the FBI is a good idea in as much as the global world is concerned, but also a very bad idea as concerns indigenous Zambians. The facts remain that Zambia is now more the 16 million in population and its a young population. 70% of this young population are poor and uneducated people, because of this, if the FBI and other investigative bodies were invited, the fear among Zambians will be worse in that it would be unimaginable to see a cop or soldier from another country beating up a Zambia (the picture actually takes us back to colonial times)… Its better to be beaten by our own other than foreigners. The commotion that is happening in Zambia at the moment is also intensified by the general citizenship’s lack of quality education and civilization.
After preaching the Armageddon campaigns and now you want FBI to come, ubupuba…….
AKAINDE REALLY KNOWS HOW TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM HIS SH*T
dictators in history, Mobutu Sese Seko A man who ruined his country, Mobutu ruled with brutality, corruption, and extreme case of narcissism. He also arrested and killed rivals and political opponents and elections were rigged..Much of the foreign wealth in the country that his government took channeled to his pockets. He also squandered profits from his country’s exports. He sold Zaire’s huge diamond, cobalt, and copper to western countries and kept much if not all proceeds. Instead of giving the benefits or profits of his economic policies to his impoverished people, he funneled it to his own bank accounts. Mobutu used sheer brutality and ruthlessness in order to maintain control over the government, military, and his own people. ” SOUNDS FAMILIAR”!!
# Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wazabanga or “the almighty conqueror who goes conquest after conquest leaving fire in his wake.”
Lungu is an educated crook, and lawyer for that matter, not a clever lawyer, other wise he would not have been barred by LAZ , none the less a trained crooked lawyer….
Have you ever seen lungu utter tribal attacks ?, no but he lets those under him do so…..
Lungu goes not sign for anything, and never appears live in front of a free press….incase he implicates himself….
The likes of HH are the ones that sold us in to Slavery to UK and USA years ago. They have seen an opportunity to sale Africa again. Is HH still thinking that Africa cannot deal with its own problems? What HH telling Zambians that when he becomes president and is faced with challenging problem going to do. Solve it or go crying to his sponsors?
You are so right. Ni imperialist mindset iyi. Everything can only be solved by the Europeans
Zambians you can be pretty dense and such fools…the FBI and Scotland Yard should leave work in their own countries to come and do your work here(I guess thats why we have a lot of ghost workers on payroll and a pathetic work ethic because we want everyone else to do our work)…the fbi and Scotland Yard who are paid by USA and UK taxpayers should use that money to do work for you Zambians on top of the aid u get from them(I guess thats why we always wait for handouts and things to be done hence we are poor)….
politicians in Zambia including this hh have no logic/vision hence we are doomed whoever wins 2021. LACK OF VISION, INNOVATION, SENSE, VALUES AND MORALS IS THE NATION WE ARE. NOT EVEN A CHRISTIAN NATION. WE TALK CHRISTIANITY BUT WE ARE THEY BIGGEST HYPOCRITES,
This little boy never ceases to amaze me!
This makes him sound daft
Additionally if HH does follow International news the FBI have got their hands full trying to solve a problem in America were White Police officers are shooting black people. White Police officers have been shooting black young men on accusation of being in possession of drugs or guns and in this age of smart phone witnesses have been posting videos online shooting innocent black people. These are the people you want to bring in Zambia. If HH is serious he should call Malema who have experience with white security wings for advice.
This boy really is serious about selling the country. Privatisation brain has never left him.
KCI, being a Deluded possibly psychotic Cadre yourself, no level of education would penetrate your thick skull, similar to 95% of shameless hungry P.F cadres, good example being P.F, C0.cr0ach k@ T4.yal!
Real people are dying, being painfully lynched in public for being in the wrong place & all you can offer from your 4n@l sph!ncter is “H.H has /will sell us to slavery”? SLAVERY IS WHAT IS CURRENTLY HAPPENING IN ZED, POVERTY & NO SECURITY, we’ nkoko we’
Wait till your Dad, brother falls on the wrong side of these mobs, then you will feel the pain & wish this can get solved pronto!
Pf0lice have failed coz the service is full of ill qualified “wooden tops” like you without an ounce of grey matter, but “favourable tribe” to take up the posts. Any wonder 48 mansions is still not…
Cont;
any wonder 48 mysterious mansions has NEVER been solved, just like the illegal fencing off the of the Forest in Nyimba & Mukula saga had to have entities from abroad to expose the daylight P.F “Thievery”
P.F, like Zambia PF0lice have failed, & lost the confidence of its citizenry, coz it is run by ill qualified Cadres like an illegal currency Katondo street Bandit (Ch!mp)yongo, hence folk are now taking law into their own hands.
BRING IN SCOTLAND YARD I SAY, & WITHIN 3 WEEKS, THIS PROBLEM WILL BE SOLVED & WRAPPED UP!!
We all are aware this confusion suits ba J0.n@ & his Seer 1 loving P.F bandits, coz simply, out diverts attention from P.F’s failure to Govern.
Lastly, #P.F.KUYABEBELE!!!
Greetings from Moscow, Russia. Is hh deluded ? We are investigating this and will not use the support of his masters. This time you will serve your time for treasonous behaviour if you not careful. Our Russian partners have advanced this alot. I have enough evidence e
Haspaka , ask HH to end the terrorism strategy and sanitise the party for competitive political outcomes, like elsewhere in civilised society.
jp50
Will PF hold a convention ? , or will alpha and omega lungu be forcefully adopted unopposed ???
I truely believe that it’s high time that we Zambians should open our eyes, I don’t think we deserve to call ourselves as a Christian nation because what is happening now is devastating and sad.
Am in support with what Mr HH suggestion because this way, we’ll get to know who the real culprit behind this gassing thing are.
If the police are there to protect the people from these (ritual killers) as they call them, then why is it that people are being beaten and burned every single day? Wake up zambia and let’s not start Pointing fingers at each other. Instead, let’s work together and let the experts help us investigate on our behalf.
HH is useless and dull. How can Scotland Yard come to investigate SATANISM. Even the people who are being paid that money to GAS innocent people because of blood money are not normal.
HH is foolish and dull.
The sad thing is that we failed to find the ones who where burning the markets.. we should have involved Scotland yard like we did on kk. ..I have my own thought on this gassing.. why when caught quickly we burn them. Even the one in the hospital had to taken out and burnt. And the first target is the police to burn? Well here it is.. the ones who burn them are in the same group. They try to cancel evidence so better kill a colleagues to stop questioning them. The same gassers burn the police so that they find it easy to do the gassing next time…my thought
Thats why we say HH is not a person to trust. In everything, he always rushes to the bazungus for solutions, but whst if those fail, what next then? And by the way, when you put the pieces together, all this nosense is pointing to HH and UPND just analyse these whole thing ve4y carefully starting from his threats way back. And by the way, why is hw so scared as if he is the only opposition leader? He knows what he has done and now its has backfired all in the desperate attempt to be president of Zambia. You are reject and amount of lies and hatred will take you to State House.
Naimwe be koswe , no one apart from PF and state security have The capacity to gass the country right under the noses of PF caders and the police…..
Which HH can gass people in PF strongholds ? Every street corner is full of unemployed PF thugs and you think some one other than their own can go gassing them ?????
He has a lot of Halusions indeed.For example calling off his Turkish terror group to stop bidding on his behalf. Why can’t he wait for 2021 elections?
This is sad bane..even the alternative government under HH has no solutions to the current impasse in the country, sorry people but it sounds to me that the beautiful ones are not yet born!!!!
Mwebantu FBI & Scotland Yard deal with internal US/UK issues. External issues are dealt with by CIA & MI6. Now it is folly for One HH to think we have no capacity to deal with our own issues. Sometime if you have no solutions better keep quite. This man is simply dull