POLICE in Lusaka have arrested a 22-year-old man of no fixed abode for unburying baby graves and removing wrappers in which the bodies were.

According to a statement issued by police spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo, Fiesta Tembo was also found with some cannabis upon being searched.

“Police in Lusaka received a report of Trespass on Burial Sites alleged to have occurred on 09th November, 2020 at around 04:30 hours at Chingwere Cemetery in Matero in which an Assistant Foreman at the Cemetery aged 56 reported to have found one male person unburying baby graves and removing wrappers in which the bodies were. One baby blanket was spotted in the open. The suspect was identified as Fiesta Tembo aged 22 of no fixed abode. Upon being searched, the suspect was also found with a plastic containing suspected cannabis,” stated Katongo.

“A Docket of case has been opened and the suspect will also be handed over to the Drug Enforcement Commission . The suspect is report to be a Convict facing a similar offence and the serving a suspended sentence of two years since August 2020.”