PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has directed the police to arrest UPND cadres who harassed and blocked citizens during a funeral procession on Tuesday. And President Hichilema says he wants the case involving Petauke Independent MP Emmanuel Jay Banda, where he beat up a police officer at Central Police, to be reopened. On Tuesday, UPND cadres ran amok and disturbed motorists during the funeral procession of UPND Lusaka Province Vice Treasurer Brian Mizinga. Scores of UPND members were seen singing and marching towards the burial site, disturbing the flow of traffic in the process. The shirtless cadres, some of whom were seen protruding through vehicle windows, climbing on top of buses and barely clinging on to the moving cars, blocked roads to...

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