ARREST DOREEN
…Minister Mwamba is Chabinga’s partner in committing a crime – KBF
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Bwalya warns Mwamba that being a Cabinet minister, she has a responsibility to report a crime, especially that Chabinga personally confessed to her
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Mwamba does not enjoy immunity from arrest and prosecution for a crime she was aware of but did not report.
By Mast Reporter
COMMUNITY Development and Social Services minister Doreen Mwamba must be arrested by police for failing to report a crime, Zambia Must Prosper (ZMP) president Kelvin Fube Bwalya has said.
Bwalya, popularly known as KBF, said in a live statement yesterday by failing to report expelled Mafinga Patriotic Front (PF) member of Parliament Robert Chabinga to police after he voluntarily confessed to a crime Mwamba had become an accessory to a crime.
Bwalya warned Mwamba that being a Cabinet minister, she had a responsibility to report a crime, especially that Chabinga had personally confessed to her.
“We are not fools. Iwe [you] Robert, I know you. I know your voice. I know how you speak. I know your intonations and I know when you’re speaking. And don’t think we are fools. Honourable Doreen Mwamba, you are an accessory to that offence because Chabinga confessed a crime to you and you did not report him to law enforcement,” he said.
Bwalya said Mwamba was part of the crime and should therefore be arrested for complicity and being an accessory.
He said Mwamba did not enjoy immunity from arrest and prosecution for a crime she was aware of.
“You too are part of that criminal enterprise. You also must be arrested. You don’t even enjoy immunity. You’re not a president. You’re just a minister. Who tells you a minister cannot be arrested? Who tells you that?” Bwalya said.
He warned that if Mwamba and those committing crimes were not arrested, they should be ready to face the law once the United Party for National Development (UPND) lost power next year.
Bwalya also warned director general of intelligence Friday Musiyalike Nyambe not to commit crimes.
“This power that you are enjoying, don’t abuse it because I can warn you now next year, come August next year when we kick you out of power, you know where you’re going. Friday Nyambe, you as an individual, as director of intelligence, your job is not to commit offences. Your job is to conduct intelligence for this country, not criminality,” he said.
Mwamba and Chabinga were heard in a leaked audio discussing how the UPND government would use the latter to corrupt a South African judge in order to procure a favourable judgement ordering the repatriation of former president Edgar Lungu’s remains.
Lungu died in South Africa on June 5 but his body is yet to be buried because the Zambian government has sued his family over where he should be interred and whether President Hakainde Hichilema should attend his funeral.
In the audio Chabinga was heard telling Mwamba to inform President Hakainde Hichilema how they would organise massive protests in Lusaka, Copperbelt and Eastern provinces to put pressure on both the Lungu family and the South African court over the matter.
