By ADRIAN MWANZA
IT is highly suspicious that the five masked criminals who attacked Goodward Mulubwa seemed convinced that he was hiding more money even after handing them the K30, 000 they went away with, his family has said. Mr Mulubwa, a Lusaka businessman and close ally of former President Edgar Lungu, was attacked at his home in Twin Palm on Saturday night.
Mr Mulubwa’s son Brian narrated that five masked criminals pounced on him around midnight and that they knocked on his bedroom door which he resisted to open. He said Mr Mulubwa opened fire and a gun battle ensued and that in the process he was hit by pellets from the gun. Brian said his father did not get a direct hit but just the pellets from the hand that scathed his skin. He said they managed to enter the house and demanded for money.
When he told them that he only had K30,000 they refused and demanded for more claiming that he had some more. ‘’After he told them that he only had K30, 000 they started debating amongst themsepves whether to kill him or not and what made them leave was the arrival of police from Woodlands police who started firing at the gate,’’ he said.
Brian said that again a gun battle ensued and that the culprits managed to jump the brick wall fence in the opposite direction. He said he was just wondering why they wanted more money as if they knew what they were looking for. And acting Lusaka Province Commissioner James Masiye said that the police quick interventions saved Mr Mulubwa’s life. He said the police were quick to respond and managed to make the thieves leave the premises before any harm was done to Mr Mulubwa. ‘’Unlike what was being reported on social media, it is actually the police that made sure that he was rescued from the hands of those masked criminals,’’ he said.
Meanwhile, PF Member of the Central Committee Raphael Nakacinda said shooting of Mr Mulubwa was evident that people closely linked to Mr Lungu were being targeted and by his perceived enemies. Mr Nakacinda said the attacks were fishy and it could be that he was a close associate of the former head of state, Mr Edgar Lungu.
‘’There is more than meets the eye because the circumstances were very peculiar and no criminal without some form of training could have executed the task,’’ he said. He said people were living in fear because their lives were in danger by people who wanted to do away with them.
