HOW 13 ABDUCTIONS IN SIX MONTHS IS ONE ABDUCTION IN TWO WEEKS
Heritage Party President Brigadier General Godfrey Miyanda with Kasebamashila Kaseba at the Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Lusaka, Zambia Sunday 27 December 2015 pix by Derrick Sinjela
HOW 13 ABDUCTIONS IN SIX MONTHS IS ONE ABDUCTION IN TWO WEEKS
(Wednesday, 13 April 2022 to Monday, 3 October 2022)
(173 days)
(24 weeks and 6 days)
(5 months, 20 days)
By Kasebamashila Kaseba
Zambia Police yesterday, on day 173 of the abduction for ransom of Pamela Chisupa, at a house in Chilala, Lusaka found and released 12 other abductees and reportedly arrested two abduction suspects.
Otherwise, there are still more questions than answers.
For the example, what was and is still unanswered is the revealed number of abductees and the number of abductors as well as their motivation.
Therefore, apart from discovering and raiding the abduction crime scene, it is clear that abductors actually continued to abduct more and more at the average rate of an abduction per two weeks as they police investigations supposedly closed in.
Zambia Police Service Inspector General of Police Lemmy Kajoba (Send right).
Otherwise, if it is true that police officers or investigators were on the ground in same neighborhood asking the public, including abductors, about the whereabouts of the abductees or an abduction den, it is telling of police incompetence in investigation of abductions tgyus the boldness of abductors who staged an abduction in the last two weeks right through the police investigations and surveillance.
NGOCC worried over abduction of Pamela Chisumpa and 12 lasses – Tuesday, 4th October, 2022 Pictures by DERRICK SINJELA
While the police has clearly been overtaken and ZICTA exposed by the public and social media, police should have withheld the names and the images of the abductees but concentrate on publication of abductors’ names and images in order to help the abductors’ counselling and healing, not necessarily a police service.
Robbie Chitambo
Police needed to wait until the abductees were themselves ready to speak to either investigators or the public or help in the investigations and prosecution, after counselling.
In the end, the lingering question is whether there are no other abduction dens or rings, without a “popular” Pamela Chisupa, especially that the police didn’t resolve the Chalala crime wave that evidently degenerated into abductions, that also rose to 13 abductions before the abductors “carelessly” gave themselves or their cover away.
Pamela Chisumpa
