Police urged to seek international help to find abducted Pamela

The Zambia National Men’s Network for Gender and Development (ZNMNGD) is calling on the Zambia police service to seek international help from well-equipped police organizations such as Scotland Yard to trace the whereabouts of Pamela Chisumpa who was abducted a month ago.

Organisation National Coordinator Nelson Banda feels that efforts by the Zambia police to make headway to locate Pamela has not yielded the desired results despite Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Jack Mwiimbu, making a public announcement that eight suspects had been arrested in connection with the criminality and that police had also recovered two mobile phones she was using.

Mr. Banda has noted the need for the police to seek international help to locate Pamela especially that the Zambia police is a member of the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Co-Operation Organisation (SARPCCO) which have members with advanced technology and well resourced police organizations.   

He is also urging government to prioritise equipping the police service with modern technologies in crime detection and prevention if they are to remain on top of their work even in the face of new emerging trends of criminality or the country risks citizens losing hope in the police capacity to protect them.

Mr. Banda says the announcement by the minister gave citizens and Pamela’s family some relief of a possible quick end to the traumatizing incident, but that relief is fading into intensified fear and anxiety with each day that passes without tangible progress of finding her by the police.

Mr. Banda is worried that it is exactly a month today since 22-year-old Pamela Chisumpa was abducted from her mobile money booth business place on Cairo Road in Lusaka on 13th April, 2022.