‘I WAS ARRESTED’

Speaking at a press briefing at Democracy House in Lusaka yesterday, Dr Mumba said he was arrested on December 10, 2020 and driven to Lubumbashi in the night where he was on December 11 interviewed for five hours on several allegations bordering on treason.

Dr Mumba said he was placed under house arrest (I was placed under restriction) at a hotel.

He said none of the allegations raised by the Congolese investigative wings contained any truth.

“I was apprehended at a lodge in Kolwezi by a huge delegation of contingent of soldiers who surrounded the lodge and drove me through the night to Lubumbashi where I was placed under restriction in a hotel room,”Dr Mumba said.

Dr Mumba said his response to the allegations were forwarded to Kinshasa.

He said the allegations levelled against him were fed to DRC security by powerful people who planned that he should be charged with treason in that Country.

Dr Mumba said he went on a hunger strike to push for government intervention.

He said his party is determined to ensure that people responsible for lying to the DRC government are tracked down.

“It is clear that some powerful evil men and women lied to DRC security so that I can be arrested and charged with treason and probably sentenced to death but we are determined to ensure that these people are tracked down and this process has begun,” Dr Mumba said.

The MMD leader said he could not give details of what he went through because he did not want to scare the nation.

And Dr Mumba has thanked government for the strategic role it played in securing his release.

Dr Mumba has also thanked two Presidents one from SADC region and the other one from east Africa and the International human rights bodies for securing his release.