Police in Ndola have arrested a 36-year old Tanzanian national of Lubuto Township in Ndola for shooting and allegedly attempting to run over army officers who were on their routine training near Commando Unit.
Copperbelt Province acting police commanding officer Tresphord Kasale has identified the suspect as Samir Sallah of House Number 3417 Lubuto West.
Mr. Sallah is also one of the directors at Ngoro Ngoro Haulage Company.
Mr. Sallah is alleged to have fired gunshots and attempted to run over the officers after being stopped from where they were conducting their routine training along Mukolwe-Commando road.
In an interview, Mr. Kasale confirmed to journalists in Ndola that police have charged Mr Sallah with attempted murder.
He said the incident occurred on Friday at around 11:30 hours on Mukolowe Road which is located near the Zambia Army Commando unit camp.
“Fact are that soldiers were conducting their routine training along Mukolwe -Commando road and it so happened that the suspect who was driving a Toyota Land cruiser registration ABR 4500 almost bashed one of the soldiers who stood on the road to signal motorists of the activities which they were doing,” Mr. Kasale said.
Mr Kasale said when the suspect who had two occupants in his car was asked as to why he was not stopping when they ordered him to do so, he became argumentative and ended up getting his pistol and fired one shot in the air and another in between the legs of one of the victims.
“The Soldiers managed to reason with the suspect and got the pistol Taurus TMB 63376, caliber 9mm with seven rounds of ammunition,” he said.
Mr Kasale said that the pistol has been handed over to the police with two empty cartridges.
The acting Police Copperbelt chief disclosed that the cartridges will soon be subjected to ballistic examination
But what threat did the soldiers pose to this man? Why did he behave this way? Something is not adding up here.
Treason. I think that is what it is.
Maybe the army wanted to settle there old scores by setting up a road block which didn’t make sense to the Tanzanian.
What time did that happen? Ideally, civilians don’t open fire on the army unless something is fishy.
Otherwise this guy behaved treasonously to our country’s defenders, commandos.
Check his his ties to Islamic fundamentalists..he sounds like a violent foreigner
Send him to Mukobeko
Send him to Mukobeko. Just the kind of instant justice this world doesnt need. You have just read one version of the story and you are rushing to convict an accused.. This certainly isnt the full story
YES ITS NOT THE FULL STORY
WE HAVE AN UNRULELY ARMY LACKING IN DISCIPLINE
I EXPERIENCED THAT NOT LONG AGO JUST AFTER ELECTIONS
Seriously something wrong in this country. How does a have the courage to pull a pistol against an army officer and survive? In any other country even in the west, this guy should be dead. This is our elite army unit. If they cant show force in such circumstances where someone discharges a weapon, I worry about our security. I can assure you, if this happened in Tanzania by a Zambian, we would have been receiving a casket
This guy should be dead!!!!
You Third World citizens who have watched too many Hollywood propaganda movies think your army is there to kill everyone in its path like in some Rambo movie. Learn to respect life, even if its not an American’s life. How can someone be angry at the fact that his army didnt kill someone? And like someone says here we dont know the facts yet. We have only heard one side of the story. The army may be covering up something
Soldier always do those operations and because the always use the main roads .mostly they disturbe traffic,so as you meet them they always give way ,but iam sure this man never exercised patience.we always experience that in Mufulira along Mufulira Ndola road and I see no problem with that.
This is a upnd sponsored mercenary brought in to kill any army officers who leaked their displeasure to tayali. Bafeekala
Benson only you are a foreigner to us. You lost citizenship of zambia when you moved to that evil country.
Benson only you are a foreigner to us. You lost citizenshlp of zambia when you moved to that eviI country.
@Man in black, the guy FIRED A GUN at our army not one but two shots. He should have been shot dead. But this is all academic. I am almost certain the soldiers directing traffic were not armed otherwise the outcome would have been different. Even people who brandish knives and threaten others get shot – dead.. You must live in cuckoo land
Warned Zambians that we are besieged by fundamental Islamists in Zambia. One is in parliament , in a Zambian parliament. Others are defending this would be murder Samir Salah on this plat form. The one in parliament fired so many gun shots durung campaigns and reported to police. He nearly killed one of the campaign managers of another candidate. He declared was an Islamic Alkaida operative in Zambia.
He’ll pay a bribe and the case will fizzle out