PETAUKE Independent member of parliament Emmanuel Jay Banda has written a formal complaint to Inspector General of Police Graphael Musamba, demanding that he takes action against his abductors.

And Banda has narrated that his captors had guns and all sorts of torture devices with which they even threatened to castrate him while squeezing his testicles.

According to Banda, President Hakainde Hichilema’s political advisor Levy Ngoma, State House Chief Communications Specialist Clayson Hamasaka and UPND Deputy National Youth Chairperson Trevor Mwiinde were among those who interrogated him over former president Egdar Lungu’s source of funding and how he manages to circumvent attempts to block his movements.

Meanwhile, Banda recalls that when he finally crawled his way to a good samaritan’s house after being dumped on the side of the road, he said; “I am Jay Jay Banda, the missing Member of Parliament.”

Below is a verbatim of the narrative report addressed to Musamba and seen by News Diggers:

I am making this complaint for a second time to the authorities regarding people I identified where I was being kept captive. Hope you will now carry out investigations on the people I have named. These are Levy Ngoma the Presidents Political Advisor, Clayson Hamasaka the President’s Chief Communications Specialist and Trevor Mwiinde the UPND Deputy National Youth Chairperson. Around 19 – 20 hours the day before my abduction I went to Arcades to deposit K49,000,00, on my Airtel money on Friday 24th May 2024. I deposited in number 0972611912. From there I went to Parliament Motel. Around 21-22 hours I went home to Ibex. In Ibex I did not stay long and told my wife, “You should prepare for me the clothes and everything. I am going to the constituency tomorrow.”

I went to Yellowshop in Libala South. This is my other house. I reached there and there was no electricity. Everyone was sleeping so I went straight to bed. Around 01:00 hours I woke up and told my wife I was going. I told her to tell my other wife that the driver will come to pick her up around 04:00 hours.

I left and on my way to Ibex I started calling Leornard (sic) the driver. I called him 2 or 3 times. He did not answer and so I dropped him a message to come home around 04:00 hours. Whilst driving my wife, from Yellowshop called me saying that Bamake Joachima, who is our auntie, had taken our auntie to hospital as she had been bitten by a dog.

I said she should ask her when she wakes up if she will accompany me or not. I called my wife in Ibex asking if she has now packed the clothes and I asked that she prepares food. Just after hump in Twin Palm Road a vehicle stopped me in front. I think it was coming from opposite direction. When it stopped someone jumped out. I tried to swerve to the otherside but another vehicle blocked me. A third blocked me behind it came with full beam. I then locked my door. Three people from the front vehicle came to my vehicle with guns. They came and tried to open my vehicle but they couldn’t. They came in the screen and started shouting, “Open! Open!”

They started bashing the screen. I thought that maybe they wanted the vehicle and I should just cooperate with them.
I opened my front door. I lifted my hands up. My phones and car keys were in my pocket. When I came out I saw that they were a lot. There were 6, 7 or 8 of them. They searched me and got my two phones. I have an I Phone (sic) and AZ Fold Samsung. They got my my car keys and more than K50,000. After they searched me, one of them went into my car and got a paper and commanded me to write a note. He folded the paper and handed it to me with a pen. He then dictated that I write words which included asking for forgiveness from Zambian people and other things. When I finished writing what they had dictated the one commanding me said, “Put your name!”. (sic) I did so and he said, “Put MP!” After I did that they took the paper on which I had written and grabbed me by the shoulder and trouser belt as they pushed me into one of their vehicle’s boot which looked like a Toyota Corolla.

They then drove off. They drive (sic) for a longtime. They finally came to a stop and car was reversed backwards. The boot was opened and it was still dark. I could see that the car had been reversed upto a door of a building that was open. They took me inside and it was dark. They took me through a second and then third door. They pushed me through the third door and locked door behind me. I was left there in the dark for a long time which appeared to be hours before they came back. When they came back the torturing begun.

One said, “Imwe Bantu Muna paya maningi Bantu!” They started interrogating me brutally. They seemed to focus on trying to find out how former President Edgar Lungu raises money and who were his main funders. The other area of their interest was who are the funder for former President LUNGU and the Patriotic Front.

The other line of interrogation was as to who was passing information from law enforcement agencies to Former President Lung and other members of the opposition. They were asking how we managed to get to Chipata and also the Copperbelt Inspite (sic) of the measures they had put in place to intercept former President Lungu. They also wondered how President Lungu was able to evade the authorities even in Lusaka.

My interrogators also wanted to know which police officers and security officials I personally worked with and who were my contacts. I was asked whom in the Office of the President we were working with. They asked, “Who are you working with?” “Who is (sic). They also repeatedly asked how many times and where I met with a Mr. Nyambe. They said, “Amabwela kuli Edgar. Ama bwela ntau bwanji?” I repeatedly stated that I did not know him and never met him at the former President’s residence.

At some stage they were squeezing my testicles whilst interrogating me. It became more extreme and one of them tied my testicles and asked one of the others to get a knife in order to castrate me. They said since I was not co-operating and protecting the people who I was working with in the system, after they had cast rated (sic) me the very people whom I was protecting would be the ones who would “marry” my wives. The torture was very severe and all types of instruments were used to eat (sic) and inflict pain on me. Amongst the items I saw were wires, electrical cables, thick planks, pliers and other instruments I did not properly identify.

The torture was all over my body but concentrated on my back, legs, feat (sic), lips, tongue and testicles. That at some stages people I knew came into the room I was being tortured (sic). The people whom I could identify who came into the torture room were Levy Ngoma the Presidents Political Advisor, Clayson Hamasaka the President’s Chief Communications Specialist and Trevor Mwiinde the UPND Deputy National Youth Chairperson. I cannot identify the other people who were coming in and out.

Levy Ngoma the Presidents Political Advisor, Clayson Hamasaka the President’s Chief Communications Specialist and Trevor Mwiinde the UPND Deputy National Youth Chairperson were on several occasions asking me to cooperate saying all would be well. The three came in at different times sometimes solo and sometimes in pairs. On one occasion they were all there.

As I was kept in a dark room I do not know for how long I was kept there and how many hours I managed to sleep.
After the long hours of severe torture failed to get them the information they were seeking one of them ordered that, “Go and throw him in the river.”

I was put in the boot of a car by two of them who shut me in the boot. The car drove off and I could hear at least two voices talking. They were discussing how and where they should dispose of me. As they were driving they slowed down and one of them said they could see police beacons ahead. One of them said they should turn around and this is what they did. My captors seemed to thereafter panic and they started arguing amongst themselves as to what would be the next move.

That is when they started discussing amongst themselves that they could not do “this big job” for such little money. At this stage they reached conclusion that they should just let me go. One asked what they would tell the others when they got back. One then said they would just report that, “We have done it.” The other asked what they would say if I survived and turned up since they had not finished me off. At this point one said they would just say they had done as ordered and did not know how I survived and got out of the water. They then stopped the car and untied me and ordered me to roll over the edge of the road. I did as I was told and lay quiet where I stopped.

After a while I heard car doors closing and the vehicle left. I lay there for some time in case they came back. When I had I gathered some strength and will, I got back to the road and saw some lights not too far off. That (sic) I crawled to the door of a house that I could see. I went to the door and knocked shouting, Help! Help!”

That the voices I could hear speaking in the house stopped talking for a short while and they started discussing my plea for help. Some were saying that I was possibly part of a gang of thieves and this was a ploy for the gang to gain entry and rob them.

A man came and looked at me through the window without opening the door. The man at the window started quizzing me and I told him that I had escaped my abductors and I was Jay Jay Banda the missing Member of Parliament.

He asked me whom they could ring to check out my story and identity. The number that immediately came to my mind was that of my mother. I gave him the number and he rang it. I asked where I was and he said Kafue. He still did not open the door. I heard him call someone and relate what had happened. I begged for water and he gave me a bottle from the window. He told me that the police were coming. He also told me my relatives were coming. The police and my relatives arrived at almost the same time.

As I was not in good shape my relatives asked for a mattress which the Good Samaritan gave us. I was put on the mattress on which I was carried to a car which took me to a hospital in Kafue.

The police then said they wanted to take me to Maina Soko Military Hospital in Lusaka. My relatives insisted that they would take me to Medland’s Hospital. We wanted Medland’s (sic) as this is the hospital I attended and under which the National Assembly has a medical scheme for Members of Parliament. When I got to Lusaka I was given a drip. Thereafter I do not recall what happened until I woke up in Maina Soko Military Hospital.

That I am informed by my sisters and wives that I was then forcibly abducted from Medland’s hospital by state security officials and taken to Maina Soko Military Hospital. That initially my Lawyers and family were not allowed to visit me. Later my wives were allowed to visit me. My Lawyers were only allowed to visit me on 29th May 2024 after intervention by Mr. Mwenya Muleya of the Human Rights Commission. That after this visit my lawyer, Sakwiba Sikota S.C., was again stopped from having access to me until on Friday 7th June 2024. That the State has been vetting who can visit me in hospital thereby breaching my Constitutional Right of Assembly and communication.

That on Friday 31st May 2024 the police told me I had been discharged from Hospital so they were taking me home. That I was given a discharge slip which indicated that although I was being discharged I was suffering from acute distress. That the psychologist doctor who attended to me told me I needed to rest and avoid stressful situations. The doctor went on to state that being in familiar surroundings and interacting with family, friends and even pets was important for my recovery.

That my lawyer Sakwiba Sikota was informed and he said he was coming through right away. When the State security officials were informed my lawyer was coming over they insisted that we leave right away. That since they had told me I was being taken home I did not change into day clothes but only put on my dressing gown on top of my sleeping attire.

That I had only had a very small breakfast snack as I thought I was going home where I would have a full breakfast with my family. That I did not know that I would be in police custody for the rest of the day without any food
That instead of taking me home they took me to Command Centre near the red brick Office of the President complex where they tried to commence my interrogation.

That I refused to be interrogated in the absence of my Lawyer. That my Lawyer Sakwiba Sikota eventually traced me to the Command Centre and joined me. He talked to me for a few minutes and Mr. Yuyi who was head of the team insisted that the interview’ begin. I and my lawyer insisted that I was in no condition to be ‘interviewed’ but Mr. Yuyi stated that I would only be released upon being ‘interviewed’. After the standoff we were left with no option but to undergo the interview under protest. Mr. Yuyi said they were not concerned with the discharge slip and if my lawyer kept on talking about it they would eject him and deal with me in his absence.

That after having been abducted from Medland’s Hospital and restrictions on my visitors I begun to get very agitated that if I did not cooperate I would face unknown circumstances which could go to any extreme. That we went into the ‘interview room only to find that I was in fact going to be interrogated by nine people. That my stress levels were heightened when I saw the nine interrogators. That only four of the nine were introduced when my lawyer asked who was present.

Mr. Yuyi refused to introduce the others and said we should just know that they were policemen. That of the ones who were introduced I only remember Mr. Yuyi, Mr. Thimba from the police and Mr. Ronnie Chipepo from Office of the President. That I could not tell if these others were party cadres or even amongst those who had been torturing me in Kafue. That I was hoping that as they introduced themselves or during interrogation I would be able to detect if any of them had voices that I could recognize as being from amongst my abductors. Throughout the non introduction to the end of the interrogation I did not hear at least three of the interrogators say a word. This raised my stress level as I could not be sure whom I was in the interrogation office with.

The tone of the interrogation was very stressful and not friendly. The interrogation was laced with veiled threats and some quite clear ones threatening to throw out my lawyer. That when recounting my torture ordeal I was overcome by recollection of the trauma I underwent I broke down and could not go on. That my lawyer again asked that the
‘interview’ be postponed as I was clearly not in a position to carry on and he reminded them of the discharge slip from the hospital. That my interrogators insisted that they would only give me a few minutes to recompose myself.
That I told my interrogators everything that had happened to me during my abduction That the interrogators then asked if I was blindfolded during my stay in the torture house and I told them that I was not blindfolded.
They then asked if I could identify my abductors to which I answered in the affirmative I told them that there are some high ranking government officials I identified and also a high ranking UPND official. That they got very interested and demanded the names of the officials.

That due to my anxiety as to whether some of my torturers were amongst those interrogating me at the Command CENTRE I indicated that I was not comfortable to reveal the names to the entire group of nine. That I indicated that I was only comfortable to name the three government and UPND officials to only two of the interrogators I knew. By this time Mr. Yuyi had already left the interrogation to be in the hands of Mr. Thimba. I requested that everyone else leave apart from myself and my lawyer and from the state only Mr. Thimba and Mr. Ronnie Chipepo.

That after the others left I reported that the three I was mentioning and reporting were Levy Ngoma the Presidents Political Advisor, Clayson Hamasaka the President’s Chief Communications Specialist and Trevor Mwiinde the UPND Deputy National Youth Chairperson. I made it clear that the place where I positively identified them was at the torture chamber. They asked me if I saw them at the site of the abduction and I told them that at the Ibex Hill abduction I cannot say who was or was not there. That I confirmed that I spoke or was spoken to by Levy Ngoma the Presidents Political Advisor, Clayson Hamasaka the President’s Chief Communications Specialist and Trevor Mwiinde the UPND Deputy National Youth Chairperson. That I demanded that these people be investigated.

That Mr. Thimba said that the information given was very important and that he had to let the Inspector General of Police know so that he is told the way forward. Mr. Chipepo also said he would have to report to his superiors at Office if the President. That my lawyer said before the other ‘interviewers’ came back in the room he could consult the Inspector General in the phone. That Mr. Thimba said because of the nature of the information he would have to speak one on one with the Inspector General. He promised that after reporting to the inspector General of Pokice he would get back to us as to how to proceed. That my lawyer reminded Mr. Thimba that my report must be quickly investigated and the people complained against be interviewed. Mr. Thimba said he would call back the rest of his team and close the statement where we had reached before the rest if his team left the room after which he would excuse himself. That he called in the rest if his team and told them to close off the statement at the point it had reached before they had left the room.

That the statement was closed and Mr. Thimba and Mr. Chipepo excused themselves. The duo did not come back. By this time Mr. Yuyi had returned That my lawyer then asked that I be taken home but Mr. Yuyi said that first they wanted to ‘interview’ my wives and only thereafter would I be taken home. That they started the interrogation of one of my wives which centered on their relationship and whether they had fought. That by this time I was highly stressed, hungry and tired and retired to the holding room to try and gather my strength and composure.

That after sometime an officer came to the holding room and demanded to take handwriting samples from me without informing my lawyers or letting me get legal advise on the same as my lawyer had remained in the interrogation room with one of my wives. That after they finished interrogating one of my wives they called for the next one and started interrogating her and again the interrogation was centered (sic) on whether my wives were related and it was suggested that they had been arguing amongst themselves. That during the interview of the second wife some people claiming to be policemen in plain clothes came and said they were taking me.

That they did not say where they wanted to take me or where in the absence of my lawyer. I told my wife to quickly alert my lawyer and she rushed to the interrogation room and alerted my lawyer. My lawyer Sakwiba Sikota S,C., came out and met us in the corridor in which they were leading me to outside. That upon asking where I was being taken they said they were taking me to Police Service Headquarters to clear up one or two things. That my lawyer asked if I was under arrest and they said, “No.”. That my lawyer then stated they had no right to take me and as it was already after 17:00 hours and I had not eaten the whole day. That my lawyer also pointed out that even te medical discharge slip warned that I had acute distress. That this did not move them and they insisted they were taking me against the objections of my lawyer who pointed out that we were still expecting Mr. Thimba who had by this time been gone for over an hour to get back to us on the way forward.

That upon reaching downstairs my lawyer negotiated that as a compromise one of my wives ride with me in the police vehicle to which they pretended to agree. That upon my lawyer heading towards his vehicle which was in car park, the policemen pushed me into their vehicle and physically restrained my wife from traveling with me. That I was not taken to Police Service Headquarters but instead taken to Kabwata Police station where I was put in the cells. That by this time my stress and hunger levels were at dangerous levels. That I collapsed at Kabwata Police Station and had to be rushed to Maina Soko Military Hospital. That my lawyer was not allowed to see me at Maina Soko Military Hospital until Friday 7th June 2024.

That since my incarceration at Kabwata Police Station and Maina Soko Police Station the authorities say they are charging me over incidents that happened in 2016 and 20 (sic) which were disposed of and I was fined in lieu of jail time. That I paid the fines. That apart from the police stating this is reason they have incarcerated me even the President of the Republic of Zambia called a press conference centered (sic) on me where he instructed to reopen a case that had been dealt with already. That none of the original complainants have asked for the long disposed of cases to be reopened. That the State wishes to subject me to double jeopardy contrary to my Constitutional protection of Article 12, 13, 15 and 18 That I have not been given police bond or taken to Court over the charges placed on me inspite them all being bailable. This incaretion (sic) is clearly malicious and I call upon you to do a professional investigation of the people I have named.