Police Spokesperson Ester Katongo
Police in Lusaka have
released 123 of the 126 Evelyn Hone
Students who were arrested on Wednesday on 21st March, for illegal protests.
The students have been released after paying Admission of Guilt.
And Police spokesperson
Ester Katongo has also disclosed that 59 of the 207 students who were arrested
are students from the National Institute of Public Administration NIPA.
Mrs. .Katongo says All
NIPA students have since been released
unconditionally after claiming to have been caught up in the confusion after
Students from Evelyn Hone pulled down the wall fence which demarcates the two
institutions .
She is hopeful that Many
more students are yet to be released today.
And elsewhere in
Lusaka, a mob in Bauleni compound looted
two shops and set ablaze a motor vehicle, Mitsubishi RVR registration number
ABE 2270 blue in color, property of a 48 year old male Adult also of Bauleni
Compound.
Police spokesperson
Ester Katongo tells Q News that the incident happened yesterday around 19 :00
hours when the driver of the motor vehicle spotted some children jumping and
clinging to his moving motor vehicle.
The driver then stopped
and begun chasing the children , when some members the public saw this and accused him of being a ritual murderer.
Attempts by the driver
to explain what had transpired failed, as the mob descended on him before he was rescued by some members of the
public who surrendered him to Police.
She says the unruly
crowd later looted shops whose value of stolen
goods is yet to be established.
She says police have
since apprehended one suspect identified
as Solomon Zulu believed to be the master minder for the looting and is
detained in Police custody.
Investigations have continued while the driver
who is the victim was taken for medical attention.
Mrs. Katongo has since appealed to members of the public to desist from
raising false alarms and taking the law in their own hand as this is illegal
and has potential to put lives of innocent people at risk.
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