HH was warned & cautioned for Seditious Practices

Copperbelt Province Police Commissioner Charity Katanga says UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema has been warned and cautioned for Seditious Practices.

Ms Katanga has told Q-news in a telephone interview that this is contrary to section 57 (1)( d) as read with section  60 (1) (f) of the Penal Code.

She says Mr. Hichilema is alleged to have broken this provision of the law when he recently uttered seditious words against the Chinese people.

Ms. Katanga says the fact that Mr. Hichilema has been warned and cautioned of the said offence, there will be another course of action from the police that will follow.

She has since cautioned political leaders against issuing unsubstantiated statements which incite xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals.

And Ms Katanga says eighteen suspected UPND cadres were arrested for conduct likely to cause breach of peace when UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema appeared for questioning at the Copperbelt Police divisional headquarters in Ndola today.

She says those arrested, 17 are males and one female.

Ms. Katanga adds that the Journalist, Frank Chingambu, of the Ndola ZANIS office who was also arrested has been released.

She says the journalist was apprehended after he failed to produce identification and got into a confrontation with police officers