Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:24:17 +0000 By Sandra Machima CHIKONDI Foundation has called on the Human Rights Commission to investigate the human rights violation where some students were alleged to have been battered by police at the Copperbelt University. Chikondi Foundation president Bishop John Mambo said it was unacceptable for the police to have battered students for merely asking for their meal allowances through a demonstration, and that most of them were believed to have come from disadvantaged homes. He said the action was “nauseating” in a democracy and a Christian nation to say the least, and has called on the Church to stand up and take a position on the continued violation of people’s rights by police. Bishop Mambo appealed to the Human Rights Commission to stop taking a “watch and see” kind of approach on matters of human rights but be proactive and recommend stiff punishment to the abusers and violators of human […]
