FORMER SPY CHIEF XAVIER CHUNGU SLAPPED WITH 11 COUNTS, HIS LAWYER SAYS
Detained former Zambia Intelligence Service Director-General, Xavier Chungu has been slapped with 11 counts of various alleged offences, his lawyer, Godfrey Kunda has disclosed.
Mr. Kunda of George Kunda and Company expressed his concern to KBN TV that his client has been in detention since Thursday last week without being presented before the courts.
He revealed that Mr. Chungu, who is also Liberal Democrats Party Presidential candidate in the August general elections, has been charged with 7 counts of Communicating certain information contrary to Section 4 of the State Security Act
3 counts of Seditious Practices under the Penal Code and one count of prohibition of publication and disclosure of security and intelligence information under the Zambia Security Intelligence Services Act.
“He has been slapped with 11 counts in total,” he said.
Mr. Chungu was arrested following a media interview with the Zedpodcast.
The Zambia Police Service has contributed 75% to the fall of all governments in Zambia since independence. It is like the police command have a sale by date where they do not wish the appointing authority should not continue in office and they should also be retired with the fall of the party in power. No institution decampaigns a ruling party more than Zambian police. OR is it their political masters calling the shots? In the matters of Gary Nkombo and Xavier Chungu, even if HH was my father, I would not be happy here. Chungu was free until he joined politics. This is a textbook definition of POLITICALLY MOTIVATED arrest. Nkombo was the victim of violence but ends up being arrested as the perpetrator. Another definition of politically motivated arrest.
