Police missing the target

POLICE have failed to apprehend master-minders of chemical gassing because they are too focused on arresting perpetrators of instant mob justice, Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP) president Sean Tembo has said.

Mr Tembo said the police had their priorities upside down because the problem of mob justice was a direct product of the terror being perpetrated on innocent citizens by chemical gassers.

He said in a statement that police should prioritize the primary problem of gassings without getting carried away by the secondary problem.

“We are of the view that the police are too focused on apprehending the perpetrators of mob justice than they are in apprehending the perpetrators of chemical gassing.

This is evidenced by the fact that up to now, the police still have not apprehended the master-minders of this chemical gassing.

Mr Tembo however said it was commendable that the police had apprehended numerous suspects of mob justice.

He said that the majority of the suspects come from a poverty-stricken backgrounds and cannot afford legal representation to exonerate themselves in case they were innocent.

The PeP leader, therefore, appealed to the police avail the suspects to courts of law in the shortest possible time.

He said those who were innocent should have an opportunity to exonerate themselves in a timely manner before their lives were unduly destroyed in remand prison.

And Mr Tembo urged the defence forces to desist from terrorising innocent citizens in the course of duty against chemical gassing.