‘OPPOSITION ALLIANCE FANNING TROUBLE’

THE Opposition Alliance is deliberately daring police to flare up something that will make them relevant, police spokesperson Esther Katongo has said.

Ms Katongo was reacting to the 10 opposition leaders’ insistence that police almost assassinated UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema and fired live ammunition in Sesheke during the campaigns for the just ended parliamentary elections.

She told the Daily Nation yesterday that the allegations that the claims were false and baseless .

Ms Katongo warned the opposition to stop alarming the nation with false allegations toward the police service.

She said that all the opposition wanted was to dare the police so that become relevant in the political circle, saying that which the police would not stoop so low to such cheap politics.

“We know the opposition have objectives, so they want to push us, when they say something then we respond to make them relevant in the political circle.

Can someone surely count the ammunition that is a joke, and as police we shall not be responding to such politics,” Ms Katongo said.

And Opposition alliance says it will report republication president Edgar Lungu and the inspector general of Police Kakoma Kanganja to the International Criminal Court for causing violence in Sesheke.

Speaking during a press briefing in Lusaka, alliance chairperson Charles Milupi said the PF is to be blamed for the violence that characterized the Sesheke by-elections because it took a militia from intercity bus station to cause political violence.

He said for this reason it will in the next eight months present evidence to the ICC.

Meanwhile Mr Milupi alleged that PF has formed a militia comprising of cadres from intercity bus station, which is on payroll from Zesco and Lusaka city council to harm the political opponents. Mr Milupi claims the police fired more than one thousand shots on the United Party for National Development in Sesheke.

He alleged that state police wanted to take UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema’s life.

But when asked why the party was calling for the reinstating of four state police officer who were fired and whom he accuse of trying to assassinate Mr Hakainde, Mr Milupi said there were two types of police officers during the by elections comprising of state house police and Sesheke Police officer and that it was state house police officers who wanted to take Mr Hakainde life.