FORMER home affairs minister Stephen Kampyongo has advised the police to conduct themselves professionally and not get excited by arresting opposition members. Commenting on the recent arrest of Lusangazi PF aspiring council chairperson Patrick Banda who was charged with personation after he allegedly used a grade 12 Certificate which did not belong to him during nominations, Kampyongo wondered why the police only decided to effect the arrest now when the candidate in question had participated in other polls without problems in the past. “These are the people that were saying that they will respect democracy for what it is. And one wonders why this person who has been a free citizen all long, all this time, he contested in 2016...

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