By SIMON MUNTEMBAI AM fortunate to be alive today because if some concerned citizens did not swiftly open the gate by force for me to speed off, the people would have killed me, former Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo has said.Mr Kampyongo who says he narrowly escaped lynching from suspected UPND cadres at Kamulanga Secondary School polling station during the Kabwata Parliamentary by-election on Thursday praised some Good Samaritan who swiftly opened the gate for him to drive out, before he was grievously harmed.He explained in an interview that that as he was getting into his car, stones started flying and some cadres went to block the gate to ensure he did not drive away, and if the gate was not opened by some concerned citizens, he was going to be harmed.He said the cadres threw stones which shattered his vehicles’s wind screen before locking the gate to block him from driving out.“Immediately I […]
THEY WANTED TO KILL ME – as Kampyongo explains lynching escape
