The opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) has revealed that it will engage lawyers in helping the family members of the slain Patriotic Front (pf) cadre, Moses Simuwelu, in having an independent pathologist to conduct a postmortem examination.
UPND Deputy Secretary General, Kuchuga Simusamba, says it is disappointing that the family members of slain PF cadre Mr. Simuwelu were blocked on saturday by police when they tried to exhume his body and conduct a postmortem examination with an independent Pathologist.
Mr. Simusamba says these are signs that the Zambia Police Service has lost credibility and is being used by the party in power to intimidate the people of Zambia.
He states that this is injustice of the highest order and preventing the family members from conducting a postmortem examination with an independent Pathologist is an abuse of their human rights.
Mr. Simusamba explains that even when the Medical Doctors from the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) had finished their postmortem examination on Mr. Simuwelu, it’s the police that had moved the body and could not allow the family members be close to the body.
The family of slain PF cadre Moses Simuwelu on Saturday afternoon failed to exhume his body and conduct a postmortem examination with an independent Pathologist after the police blocked them because the Pathologist they contracted had links with the police.