 Good afternoon, we are here at Woodlands Police Station and we have come to check why Mr. Chris Zumanizimba, the former political adviser to President Eddie Garongo, has been detained without charge. Our expectation is that as a democracy, as a nation which is ruled by laws and not meant, if someone does anything that is suspected to be against the law of law, something that constitutes the breaking of the law, that person is supposed to be charged with an offense. It does not make sense whatsoever to detain a person without charge. You pick a person up, you throw them in cells, you don't tell them why they are being thrown in cells, you are not charging them. And that is no longer law enforcement, it is not law enforcement whatsoever, that is harassment of a political leader. And we have said this again and we are going to say it over and over, what President Haga in the HLMA is doing is not law enforcement, it is harassment of the opposition. We said this a couple of times in the past and we have not seen any change from government because for as long as the police are being used to harass the opposition, they cease to be state police, they become a vigilante group of the ruling party. And Zambia is a constitution of democracy, Zambia is a nation that is guided by laws and the law is very clear. If someone is accused of an offense, charge that person. Once you charge that person, the person then becomes entitled to be given either a police bond or to be given a bail, taken to court and they apply for bail. When you get a person and just throw them behind police cells with no explanation why they are behind cells, with no access to a lawyer, no access to their relatives, the way Mr. Zumaan is being kept here at Woodlands Police, then that is mental torture, that is abuse of authority of office by the president and by the officers in the Zambia Police Service. Because any person, any person under the law, they are entitled to access to a lawyer, they are entitled to access to their family, they are entitled to have their friends and relatives bring food and water to them. And for us, we came here about an hour ago and we brought some water, we brought some food, we brought a few things that you might need, toiletries, like tissues and the like. But we were told that there is a clear instruction from State House to the Woodlands Police Station that they should not allow anyone to visit Mr. Christoph as Zumaan Zimba. Now, since when did the police begin to report at State House? Our expectation is that a police station like this one, Woodlands Police, they are supposed to report at the division, Musaka province division, which is at Central Police and the division is supposed to report at First Headquarters. There is no way in the chain of command of the Zambia Police where the police are supposed to take instructions from State House. So when we are told that there is a clear instruction from State House that Mr. Christoph as Zumaan Zimba should not be allowed access by anyone, not even his wife is being allowed access, not even his lawyers are being allowed access, then you begin to wonder what kind of law enforcement is that? Is that really law enforcement or that is just harassment of the opposition, the ruling party and by President Haga Indah-Ichilem today to be a very sad day in the history of our country. Because in 2021 when the Zambian people voted for this new administration, they thought they were moving from one administration to a better administration. But evidently we've seen that this administration is not any better. In fact, this administration has started to abuse their authority very early on. Only God knows what we are going to be in in about two to three years from now towards the end of their mandate, as they become more desperate to try and win the 2026 general election. Only God knows that. So my appeal to the Republican president is that can you stop abusing your authority? Can you stop giving instructions to police officers in terms of who to arrest and who to persecute and who to mentally torture? Because that is totally unacceptable. You are not going to remain the president of this country forever. At some point you are going to become a former president and you will want to be accorded the privileges of the law of law. What is happening at the moment is very far from a fair application of the law of law. We are not saying that any person, whether in opposition, should be exempted from the law. But learn to enforce the law without harassing people. If you are enforcing the law, if Mr. Christopher Zumanizimba has done anything wrong, you were supposed to effect an arrest and charge him and tell him you are being charged with ABCD. And once he has been charged, the police will decide whether to give him bond or not. If they don't want to give him bond, they are not supposed to keep him here in the cells. They are supposed to take him to court so that at court he can be able to apply for bail from the major street. If the major street decides to decline that bail application, then of course we have to go to the next court, which is the high court, and appeal that ruling all the way to the supreme court. Otherwise, it makes no sense whatsoever, there is no justice whatsoever, to detain someone and keep them in cells without any charge. That is totally unacceptable and my appeal to the president is can you stop harassing people and start enforcing the law as opposed to harassment of the citizens? You need to start doing that now, otherwise posterity is going to judge you very harsh. Thank you.