A KABWE resident is planning to sue the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) for detaining and torturing him without a proper reason.

Boyd Mumba of Kabwe said on March 28, 1999, officers from DEC went to his place

looiking for Mumba’s brother-in-law who they were suspecting of being involved in drug dealing. The officers started beating the whole house including Mumba’s wife who was six months pregnant.

Mumba pleaded with the officers to stop beating his wife since they knew who they wanted but they continued.

After sometime they asked Mumba to give them K50, 000 as admission of guilt fine but Mumba refused to pay because his wife had not do anything. The same day the officers arrested his wife and detained her at Kasende Police Station.

At the police station, Mumba’s wife was badly beaten. Mumba then went to DEC’s Anti-Violence section where he was advised to go with witnesses.

When he went there the following day, the officer in the DEC offices in the Anti- Violence section told him to go to the cell.

Later, Mumba went to the cell and found his wife being beaten and forced to sign the warn and caution statement. The same day Mumba was detained at the same police station.

Whilst in the cell, Mumba’s wife became sick and was taken to the hospital. The doctor discovered the baby could not move because of the kicks and beatings she had received.

Mumba was released on bail on May 13, 1999 after his lawyer A .Simutanyi applied to the court.

On Saturday July 3, 1999, she gave birth to a baby girl who passed away two weeks later. Mumba appeared in court for the first session on September 21, 1999

Mumba was later suspended from work because he had been arrested.