By NATION REPORTER
FORMER University of Zambia (UNZA) Vice Chancellor Professor Luke Mumba has called for the arrest of United Party for National Development (UPND) Lusaka Province vice chairman Soul Mwale Cornhill for his verbal tirade against the institution, its staff and the students.
But Mr Cornhill says he has apologised to UNZA, its lecturers and students for his unwarranted verbal abuse and slander which has attracted heavy criticism against the much hated cadrerism which President Hakainde Hichilema has banned.
Prof Mumba said that UNZA had tracts of land which it had given to employees in a bid to create a debt swap as they were owed money by the institution. He said that it was wrong for an individual in the name of a political cadre to claim that there was illegality when the due process of awarding and allocating the plots was followed.
“It is very shocking that an individual can insult the integrity of UNZA with so much impunity. He should be arrested for such uncouth conduct against the lecturers and students and indeed the entire academia,” he said.
Prof Mumba said such lawlessness could not be condoned and that the law enforcement agencies needed to move in to set an example for those who still wanted to perpetuate caderism.
He said there was no need to just do cosmetic condemnation just to quell the situation but to ensure that the law was followed to the letter.
Mr Cornhill, the UPND official on Tuesday went ballistic, using the insulting words “Imbwa Zapa UNZA” a term that triggered demonstrations as the students felt insulted and ridiculed and took to the streets in protest.
The students demanded for an apology from Mr Cornhill for demeaning the entire UNZA populace.
But Mr Cornhill said that his comments were misconstrued as he did not mean the students or even the administrators at the institution but a few individuals that were involved in organised crime.
