By NATION REPORTER
POLICE on the Copperbelt have launched a manhunt for assailants who are suspected to be UPND cadres who attacked Kwacha Member of Parliament Joseph Malanji on Tuesday.
Copperbelt Police Commissioner Sharon Cheelo Zulu said that police were interested in the matter and that they had launched a hunt for the suspected cadres.
“We have these records of unruly youths wanting to interfere with planned activities out of ignorance of the law,” she said.
She said it was the duty of the Police to protect citizens from all kinds of harassments and anything that they deserved as human beings.
Ms Zulu said they would go flat out to ensure that the culprits who ran amok at Bulangililo clinic are brought to book.
The cadres attacked people and patients before turning their wrath on property that was to be donated by Mr Malanji.
The suspected UPND cadres led by Bulangililo Ward Youth chairman who is an ex-convict popularly known as Ringo came in three Toyota Noah vehicles throwing stones and bottles at the people who gathered to receive the Kwacha MP.
Ringo had earlier come speeding into the clinic premises but was booed by the crowd who stayed put despite his numerous threats to the crowd.
Ms Zulu aid the police were making headways and that it was just a matter of time before the suspects were cornered.
