SACCORD executive director Boniface Cheembe says he is hopeful that the sentencing of seven people involved in the Mumbwa riots to five years imprisonment will serve as a lesson to would be perpetrators. The Mumbwa Magistrates’ Court last week sentenced rioters to five years imprisonment with hard labour. About a week ago, a rioting mob burnt two people to death in Mumbwa District after word went round that another person had been killed in suspected ritual killings. Commenting on this in an interview, Cheembe said the law must take its course in ensuring that the public maintains peace, failure to which Zambia would become ungovernable. “We have taken note of the sentencing that has been meted out to some individuals...