GARY Nkombo says the suspension of his campaign activities in Mazabuka while those of the UPND candidate continued, amounts to politically motivated suppression. Nkombo says the police have been weaponised to protect the interests of the government. Meanwhile, Nkombo has described the tear-gassing and injuring of his supporters as acts of political militia. In a statement, Monday, Nkombo called upon the police and ECZ to immediately restore the right to peaceful assembly and fulfil their constitutional mandates as independent bodies, rather than acting as instruments of the ruling party. “On the evening of 6 June, 2026 and into 7 June, 2026, the Zambia Police Service, acting in concert with agents of the ruling party, unlawfully cancelled my formal campaign launch...