The Zambia Police Spokesperson Rae Hamoonga says Police have issued a medical report form to Abel Changwe aged 48 of Jamaica area in Balastone of Lusaka who is alleged to have been abducted on 10th June,2023 at around 12:30 hours at Kasupe Crossroads in Balastone.
Earlier Changwe narrated to the Zambian Business Times – ZBT – how he was approached and picked by unknown people who later on abducted him demanding for a sum of k12, 000. Police Spokesperson Rae Hamoonga has told – ZBT – in an interview that Police have since instituted investigations into this matter.
It is alleged that the victim was made to drink unknown substance by three unknown women and one man who gave him a lift from Balastone to Lusaka town but along the way, the suspects offered him a substance to drink which made him to become unconscious.
On the same day around 18:00 hours, the victim woke up and found himself locked up in unknown place demanding for k12, 000 while his smart phone was taken away from him leaving him with a small phone in had hidden on him.
After spending 2 nights, it is further alleged that the victim was blind folded and driven in the bush of 10 miles area where the fired one gun shot in the air and left him there.
Afterwards, the victim managed to free himself and waited until morning when he was picked along the gravel road by a Good Samaritan who dropped him at Chikumbi turnoff along Great North Road
Thereafter, another motorist picked him from Chikumbi turnoff and left him along 70-70 road where he requested a phone and called his wife who went to pick him up and they went to report the matter at Barlastone Police Post around 16:30 hours on June11, 2023.
Police have since warned members of the Public to be extra careful and avoid by all means to eat foodstuffs offered to them especially when given a lift by strangers
