LET ARMED FORCES CLEAN-UP LUSAKA COMPOUNDS FOR CRIMINALS

Dear Editor,

With the ever rising reported criminal activities in many of Lusaka’s compounds, I strongly think it is time for government to deploy defence forces to comb these areas and flush out criminals.

A day hardly passes without hearing or reading in the local media about someone being robbed or worse still killed and body parts removed.

This obviously cannot go on. It calls for some apposite action to check these bad people in our society.

Former president Dr Kenneth Kaunda of the UNIP administration used the Army to swoop on compounds suspected to be harbouring criminals at the dawn.

The exercise produced the desired results as at the end of the search, scores of criminals were rounded up and sent to prisons.

So the cry by Matero’s Kapwepwe ward 25 councillor Mwamba Salubusa for a head count and imposition of curfew in his area is well founded because Matero and indeed other compounds like Mtendere are getting back to their old bad days of hideous criminal activities.

The armed forces, to me, have already proved a point by clearing vendors from streets following the outbreak of cholera in Lusaka which claimed more than 85 lives.

The armed forces have the zeal, professional training and tact to deal with any situation.

Just let them do one operation and I am more than certain that many Lusaka residents will be satisfied with the results because they mean business and cannot be compromised.

So let the minister of homes affair have a chat with his defence counterpart to help rid our city of bad elements which are reigning terror day and night.

Kindly hear me as I rest my case because they say a stitch in time saves nine later.