By Staff Reporter
Economic Front (EF) leader Wynter Kabimba says police should not just sit back over assertions that Tutwa Ngulube was poisoned, saying a civil way must be found in the manner politicking is conducted in the country, as in any other violent country, the lives of the ministers who attended the funeral could have been risked.
Speaking with Daily Revelation, Kabimba said he never knew the late Ngulube to make the same assumptions that some of those in the PF were making, but described the assertions as very serious.
“You are alarming his family, you are alarming families of other people. Now as a result of those, even those who are involved in politics are getting words of caution from our families saying ‘oh just be careful, have you heard that Tutwa was poisoned? You see this politics yamene walimbikila?’ And the guy who said one which I really found rather surprising, if they quoted him correctly, was Dr Cannicius Banda who said I have evidence that Tutwa Ngulube was poisoned. You have evidence? If I say that I have evidence that X was killed, the police must get interested,” Kabimba said. “Here is somebody who has died and here is somebody who knows how he died or who killed him. And I was expecting that by now the police could have followed that up and ask Cannicius Banda to go and substantiate or give them the evidence. I mean there must be a limit to politicking. There must be some civil way of doing things especially when you are dealing with a life of somebody else, when you are dealing with a family and friends. So I don’t know whether to call them wild, I don’t know whether to call them unsubstantiated but here is somebody who has said that I know that this man was poisoned and I have the evidence, at least the statement which I saw.”
Kabimba said when someone was making such assertions, the police must get interested as that is how the whole matter could be put to rest.
“But if you just keep quiet, those in authority, I mean the police, think that people are just doing politics and that is the right way of doing politics, I totally do not think that that is the right way of doing politics…even you guys in the press should press this. You know you are dealing with a society, you are dealing with a country. You know simasobela, this is not world cup. This is about life,” he said.
Kabimba said he has been a victim of the same kind of politics where former Defence minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba made allegations to the effect that he knew that Kabimba was corrupt and that he had a dossier to that effect, but wondered how the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) remained mute on the same.
“They go and call him on gassing, where he said me I know who is responsible for this gassing. Again where people had lost lives. People had lost lives either through acts of retribution like the former Town Clerk Hakuyu, innocent life of a professional young, he’s killed in Gwembe district as a result of those wild statements … I can’t even say myself whether there were people gassing but you know it went. It created such a cloud in the nation. And here is somebody who says me I know,” Kabimba said. “Now it is repeating itself over Tutwa Ngulube. Everybody who wants to make a statement ‘no Tutwa was poisoned.’ Another one ‘no Tutwa poisoned, no we want a postmortem because Tutwa was poisoned’, another one comes up and says ‘me I know, I have evidence.’ No guys, you know we ought to live together. Can you imagine if we lived in a violent country, what would have happened to those ministers from UPND that attended the funeral? They could have been killed and say here are the people that have killed this guy. Mitima ikali kupya. And then you come to establish that really it’s wild politicking.”
Kabimba said he believed there was a way the country should play civil politics, especially when there was a life of somebody, who had a family, and therefore people who make statements must make sure that statements are backed by facts and substance.
“You can flare up things that you didn’t even intend to. And I don’t think that police should just sit back and everybody should just say that this is politics and then after that Tutwa is buried and everybody goes back to business as usual. No,” said Kabimba.
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