By Staff Reporter
Lawyer for the Kasompe residents whose houses were demolished, Economic Front (EF) leader Wynter Kabimba, has filed a notice in the High Court demanding that each of the 250 claimants be paid compensation in line with what each one has demanded.
And Kabimba said the police are very good at forcibly breaking up easy things like homosexual protests than piecing together skilled investigations.
Speaking with Daily Revelation, Kabimba said he filed a notice in the High Court notice yesterday, saying the 250 plaintiffs have demanded compensation from the Chingola Municipal Council for their properties that were demolished.
“The details are that the demolitions were illegal. Amos Sinkamba is the lead plaintiff,” Kabimba said, and when put to him that the council had demanded that he should provide the evidence to show that their documents were legal, he said that was for the court to determine. “So what we have done is we have filed the writ of summons, we have filed the statement of claim and we have also filed a list of documents. So all of those things will be served on them on Monday.”
Kabimba said nothing has come through on promises to the affected residents as the council keep on telling them that they would give them alternative plots.
“This is a list of 250 and each one of them has given an approximate value of their property,” he said.
And Kabimba warned that people should expect more appeals before the Judicial Complaints Commission (JCC) from UPND cadres as they feel that is the easiest way President Hakainde Hichilema could get rid of the judges he does not want as opposed to going through the investigative wings on the judges alleged impropriety.
“Because HH is trying to restructure all these institutions, including the judiciary, to put his own people there you are going to see a proliferation of these unfounded allegations against officers. He has started that with ECZ and I am sure the judiciary will not be an exception,” Kabimba said. “So you are going to see a lot of these unfounded allegations because if a judge has asked for a bribe from you, what is the appropriate tribunal? The tribunal is not the JCC. The tribunal should be the Anti-Corruption Commission. So why are you going to the JCC and not the ACC? It’s because they know that it’s easy to circumvent the process of the JCC like we have seen in the case of the DPP, because if a judge is under investigations with ACC the President cannot suspend him because the investigations and the whole matter is sub-judice. But if it’s before the JCC, it’s easy for him to suspend such a judge.”
Kabimba said state institutions risked being destroyed in order to bring them under the subjection of the President.
And Kabimba responded to Inspector General of Police Lemmy Kajoba’s statement that the 13 girls call for rescue coincided with work police were already doing, saying the truth of the matter is that police need to up their game.
He wondered how it was that up to the day of the rescue, the whole country was only talking about the abduction of Pamela Chisumpa and had no idea that the group was beyond just one individual, and that the police were unable to piece together the trend of disappearances of the other 12 girls to one action.
“And if you remember before that they issued a statement that Pamela Chisumpa was alive because she had called her boyfriend. They didn’t say that she was with other girls,” said Kabimba, saying there was a question of competence and capacity in the police service. “They are good at breaking up demonstrations of homosexuality, they are good at preventing the Mbundas from hosting their traditional ceremony. That’s all they are good at, things that can be done by even a non police officer. But in terms of this skill to investigate and piece events together I don’t think that our police really does that.”
