Hamasaka sues state over wrongful imprisonment

NEWLY-appointed State House media director Clayson Hamasaka has sued the state, seeking damages for malicious and wrongful prosecution as well as damages for false imprisonment, among other issues. According to the statement of claim filed in the Lusaka High Court, Hamasaka stated that on or about July 9, 2013, he was subjected to an arbitrary house and personal search at his house on plot number 12246 Woodlands Extension in Lusaka by a combined team of Drug Enforcement Commission and Zambia Police officers among other agents of the state. He noted that according to the search warrant, the said officers were looking for drugs and other illegal substances which the Plaintiff was alleged to be dealing in. “After the search, which...