Probe bombings, police urged
THE petrol bombing of Senior Chief Mweemba’s palace, Daily Nation offices and the torching of City Market in Lusaka among others should be thoroughly investigated for possible connection, 3rd Liberation Movement (3rd LM) president Enock Tonga has demanded.
And Mr Tonga said that accusations by the chief, who is nursing severe burns in hospital that UPND members were behind the torching of his palace last Friday should be taken seriously and probed.
Mr Tonga told the Daily Nation that there was high suspicion that the fire incidences that had rocked the country and the petrol bombing of Senior Chief Mweemba’s palace were interlinked because the same method was used in all incidents.
Mr Tonga reiterated that there was a clear possibility that the perpetrators of the arson cases so far experienced were one and the same people.
He demanded for a probe into the link between the petrol bombing of Senior Chief Mweemba’s palace, Daily Nation offices in Lusaka and the torching of major markets across the country.
Mr Tonga pointed out that there was a coherence in the manner the attacks that had rocked the country in the recent past were being carried out.
“If you look at the manner in which these attacks have been occurring, anyone can tell that they are inter linked, the arsonists could be one and the same people. So there is need to thoroughly investigate this link,” he said.
Meanwhile, Mr Tonga said that accusations by the traditional leader that UPND members were behind the petrol bombing of his palace should be taken seriously and looked into.
Senior Chief Mweemba of Sinazongwe is nursing severe burns he suffered in a petrol bomb attack and has accused the UPND of plotting to kill him.
One of other the three occupants who were caught up in the fire later died as he was being taken to the hospital.
And PF Southern Province information and publicity secretary, Trymore Mwenda has condemned the attack on the chief’s palace.
Mr Mwenda said that the police should ensure that the perpetrators were brought to book as the behaviour was alien to Zambia.