“By Edmond Lifwekelo”
The Former Police constable in the colonial Government and Former Railway station sweeper turned “president”‘s sponsered thugs in chawama are terrorizing motorists on the recently paved roads claiming its their road. The thugs are charging exorbitant fees to motorists and those who refuse to pay are beaten up and have their tyres deflated. The former constable’s thugs are carrying out their criminal activities in full view of the police officers from the nearby chawama police. A senoir police officer in the CID section at chawama police narrated that the police are powerless to stop the thugs as the thugs are saying they are under orders to charge the motorists from higher authorities. And the police have also been victims of these thugs as they have found their vehicles clamped and deflated by the thugs whenever they had wanted to intervene.The police source also said even area MP Edgar Lungu has no powers over the thugs. Meanwhile foreign nationals of Burundi and Rwandan Nationals operating some shops in kabwata site and service and nearby kamwala south are also living in fear of their lives from PF thugs who have been terrorizing them for some time now. The thugs are going round every saturdays “taxing” theseshops K50 each. A check at one of the shops in site service saw a fake pf reciept bearing kabwata ward 7 issued by these thugs.Zambia has seen the worst violence, lawlessness and thuggerism perpetuated by sponsered pf thugs with impunity. The top pf leadership’s silence on these matters has raised suspicion that the thugs are sponsered by the top PF hierachy.
Edmond Lifwekelo 