Police officer shoot Mongu pupil




		Number 61 February 2004




		Police Officer Shoot Mongu Pupil By Monica Kunda A named police officer of Sefula Police Post in Mongu last year allegedly shot and wounded a pupil under unknown circumstances. Harrison Pumulo, father to the wounded boy said on November 14, 2003, his son was shot in the neck by a named constable within school premises in the presence of the school boarding master. Pumulo who reported the matter to Mongu Legal Resources Foundation (LRF) for legal assistance said this happened after the school boarding master reported to Sefula police post a case of a pupil who had become unruly after taking alcohol. Pumulo alleged that his son was given a forced transfer to another school after suspecting him to be drunk even before police went to investigate the matter. He said the same day when his son was shot, he was found knocking at the dormitory's window asking his friends to give him his belongings so he could leave the school. While he was there the boarding master in the company of police officers approached him. He said one officer immediately slapped him and shot him in the neck saying he was the suspected drunken and unruly pupil they were looking for and later handcuffed him. Pumulo said the officer took his son to the police post while handcuffed, he was given a medical report form and later took him to Lewanika general hospital for treatment and signing of the medical report. He said the boy was admitted for three days and spend the first two in handcuffs. The boy was only unhandcuffed after Mongu paralegal officer Sianga Mulunga intervened in the matter. And the medical report obtained by LRF and signed by Dr. Henry Illunga indicates that the boy sustained a deep wound in his neck.