20/10/2025
Untold Files - Zambia
File 01: The Security and Intelligence Disciplinary Committee
Politics is a dirty game, especially if played by powerful individuals with self-interest, but if played by honest and selfless individuals, politics is a tool that can be used to develop a nation and protect its citizens from the horrors of this world. On the other hand, there exists the corporate world, which stands as a pillar that supports national development through job creation, corporate social responsibility, and also being a major driver of a country’s economy through various activities, including financial management, manufacturing, mining, tax contribution and above all, job creation. Still, despite the good side of the corporate world, there is also a dark side; here we define corporate bodies as the most cold-hearted legal beings ever created by humans throughout history, and the worst thing is that we cannot separate the corporate world from politics and governance.
Throughout the history of our great nation, Zambia, politicians have been secretly supported by various corporate bodies that might have an interest in the governance of the country or a certain municipality and how it conducts its business and operations. Because of this support, most corporate bodies tend to influence how a political leader manages the affairs of his/her office. For many years, these corporate bodies have been taking advantage of the governance system and how government business is carried out.
Despite the unfair grounds on which some politicians and corporate bodies influence the decisions of the central or local government, individuals who are willing to fight for fairness and justice exist within the governance system. It is for this reason that a time came when some politicians and other influential corporate leaders decided to take a keen interest in the operations of some counter-terrorism and internal security bodies after witnessing one of the greatest government agents who brought to book the most feared cartels to ever exist in this great nation. A group of corporate leaders and businessmen who have a material influence on some politicians compelled some of the most powerful members of parliament to force the national assembly and its Speaker to institute a special committee of highly trained lawyers, technical staff and influential politicians to look into the disciplinary matter for selected government agents who seemed to be/or might be a threat to the existence of these secret dark corporate cartels; in the eyes of those who do not understand the evil side of the corporate world, this special disciplinary hearing is just another way of fighting for what is right within the internal security wing.
Five (5) months ago, the Speaker of the National Assembly brought to the attention of the President this special committee, which was supported by two-thirds of the members of parliament: this whole special committee hearing did not sit well with the president, but his hands were tied because it was supported by elected members of parliament.
The President called for a joint internal secret meeting with those charged with home affairs security, high-ranking individuals from the judiciary, and some selected members of the legislature who have been pushing for the institution of this special committee including the speaker of the parliament, the agenda of this meeting was focused on identifying various government secret agents in the Investigation and national security wings that may pose a threat to the public as they had stipulated in the guidelines but in the actual sense it was all about protecting the secret dark corporate world. In what the president thought was going to be a selection exercise, a list had already been compiled and approved by influential supporters of this committee, this list comprised ten of the best, competent and highly experienced government secret agents this country has, and the president firmly stood on his position of being against this committee because he thought and believed it was a mockery of men who have sacrificed a lot for this nation, but this matter was not within his jurisdiction.
Present day:
It has been a month since these special committee hearings commenced, and the 16th of November 2025 was the day set for Agent Fredd's trial on this Special Intelligence Disciplinary Committee (SIDC).
That morning, the committee, chaired by the honourable Patrick Banda MP for Lusaka Central Constituency and deputed by the Attorney General, sat awaiting Mr. Fradd’s arrival in the house. At this point, the African Human Rights Commission (AHRC) took an interest in this hearing after following previous proceedings of the committee on other government secret agents.
Minutes later, Fredd arrives at the committee chambers with no one in his company and pardoned the house for his late arrival.
Immediately, he apologises, and the human rights activist from the AHRC replies and passes a sarcastic comment, "Agent Fredd! It’s funny how you are always on time when the situation is about torturing suspects for you to get information from them, but worry not; we, as a panel, understand."
"Excuse me, madam? but that's not how you welcome a person before a committee..." Fredd takes offence and wonders who that panellist is, then he turns his eyes to Honorable Patrick Banda MP, and asks, "Mr Chairperson, sir! Pardon me, but have things changed concerning how these committee proceedings go about?"
The honourable MP smiles and adds, "Agent Fredd, you are not here to ask questions, you are here to answer questions...."
Fredd is conflicted with the statement from the chairperson and holds his peace and silence...
The chairperson adds further, "Take a seat, Mr Fredd and welcome to the house." Then he turns his eyes to the Attorney General and signals her to start the proceeding. The Attorney General looks at her documents while positioning her microphone in place, and then she adds, "Welcome! Once again, Mr Fredd, or should I address you as Agent Chonza?”
Fredd faces down and smiles, and then he responds calmly, “Whichever you find appropriate, Madam.”
“Ah! Great then, so! Before proceeding with the introduction of the panellists, I would like to find out if you know why you are here." The Attorney General asks.
Fredd responds, "Apologies your honour but I do not know why I am here, as far as I know, I want to believe that this committee is for regular checks and balances concerning operations at various investigation wings meaning the Chief of ZBCI is the one who is supposed to seat before this committee instead of myself according to the knowledge I have about these hearings."
"I can see you have no idea about what's going on here, but anyway, you will find out as we proceed." The Attorney General adds.
Fredd is confused but smiles, and then he adds, "Okay, sure!"
With a straight face, the Attorney General continues, "So, for the panelists, I am sure you have an idea who these individuals are but for the sake of protocol; up above me, is honourable Patrick Banda - MP for Lusaka Central Constituency, who is the Chairperson of this committee and I, the Attorney General, my name is Mrs. Elizabeth Nakatali, the deputy chairperson of this committee.”
“To my furthest right is the honourable Minister of Justice - Mr. Shapanga Mutambo, next to him is the honourable Minister of Home Affairs - Mr. Jorry Mweemba, and to my left-hand side, the African Human Rights Commission sub-region representative and activist - Justice Janet Mandlala from South Africa and last but not the least, the Judge of the Supreme court of Zambia - Judge Yollande Mwenda and other technical team members from the Justice department and home affairs including the ministry of health with medical reports and other reports for various suspects you handled."
Fredd gets conflicted with what this committee is all about, but pays undivided attention.
The Attorney General introduces the agenda of the hearing, "this seating is extraordinary as you, probably, I assume, have seen the word *special in front of the committee’s title, it’s different from the ones that are usually broadcasted on National television and the main purpose of this committee seating with you is to establish the extent to which you deal with your suspects during investigative interrogations and also to establish if or if not, the techniques used to obtain information from these suspects are within the laws of our land and the African human rights commission generally accepted rules of government agents dealing with suspects. I hope you understand what is about to happen here, Agent Fredd."
He realises that this won't have a good ending, then he adds, "I don't understand, Madam Vice-Chairperson, maybe you can clarify further."
"Okay! I shall explain, and I want you to listen very carefully, what is about to happen here is that we will be asking you questions based on these declassified reports from ZBCI, and you will be answering, yes or no... Unless we require you to explain further, we will advise." The Attorney General adds.
Fredd looks at her attentively.
After the Attorney General introduces the agenda, she calls upon the honourable Minister of Justice, Mr. Mutambo to read his first case against Fredd, Mr. Mutambo adds, "Having known the agenda and sole purpose for this seating, I, on behalf of the constitution and the people of Zambia; my first case is in line with the investigation you carried out on a member of the Kavan group two years ago, the ministry of health established that a suspect, Nalikanda Muyuni had internal injuries and a broken rib from what is believed to be torture he suffered at your hands, and these injuries were mainly due to the use of force to obtain intelligence by hitting with various metallic objects and injecting of pins and/or needles into human flesh, and my question, do you agree that this is the extent you reached to extract information from this suspect and do you understand that it's a violation of the law to inflict pain of this extent on any human being regardless of the situation at hand?"
Agent Fredd responds intelligently, "Honourable Minister, I do not understand the violation of the law you are talking about because I was carrying out my duties as prescribed in my contract to the benefit of this great nation and its people."
"Agent Fredd, your answer should be a yes or no according to the rules set by the committee..." The Minister reminds.
"Apologies, your honour, but your questions won't get a satisfactory response if I answer in the way that you expect me to." Agent Fredd argues.
The chairperson interrupts and decides to seek clarity on his response and asks, "So, are you denying that you didn’t use any form of force during that interrogation as articulated by the honourable Minister?”
“Your honour, my response will not change; I was carrying out my duties,” Fredd adds.
“I will assume the answer is no, you didn’t use any force, we proceed to the next case, but bear in mind that we are still coming back to this case with facts from the reports." The chairperson then turns his eyes to the judge and adds, "Justice Yollande Mwenda, your case please."
"Agent Fredd!" ...the Judge of the Supreme Court puts her case before the committee... "15 months ago, you were on another assignment which resulted in the death of a National University Teaching Hospital (NUTH) medical doctor as a result of the interrogation techniques you used while working jointly with another agent from the bureau. This medical doctor left a family behind, and he was one of the heroes of this nation. He was part of a team that separated the Siamese twins in the early 2000s. The Ministry of Health’s medical forensic inquiry team determined that torture using electric live cables was used to obtain whatever information you needed from this man, and you left him unconscious for hours, and this resulted into***......"
Before the judge could complete her statement, Fredd interrupts in fury and adds, "My lord, with all due respect; no force of such capacity was used on this medical doctor in question, we simply used basic interrogation techniques but he was terrified when he knew it was game over for him and his legacy because of his crimes, we left him and called our medical team to attend to him when he had a heart attack after we obtained our lead, the correct report on this matter is at the bureau..”
Justice Yollande questions, “Please explain what basic interrogation techniques mean…no! no! no!, do you know that you left him half dead?”
“My lord, please check the report at the bureau, this doctor and his team consisting of pharmacists and biomedical engineers were funded by a terrorist group called the FourSeven Movement to develop a bio-chemical weapon that was supposed to be detonated in the provincial capital of the Copperbelt and the death threat was estimated to be over a million civilians including mothers and children, little children around the Copperbelt province and some areas in surrounding provinces, we must not ignore that the casualty included people in the DRC who were going to die a painful death... if you think I am talking without facts, send personnel to obtain a report on this matter at the bureau or the office of the Investigator General and peruse through. I did what I was supposed to do to protect the people of this nation, and we found the terrorist group after obtaining intelligence from the doctor... with a joint team of special agents from the National Intelligence Agency, we stopped this group and the individuals in question were brought to book."
The Judge further asks, "So you are still denying that you didn't use criminal force on this doctor?"
"I only have one answer to all your questions: I was carrying out my duties as a government officer to protect millions of people," Fredd adds.
The chairperson interrupts the Judge and adds. "Agent Chonza, kindly make the house understand what basic interrogation tech ……
…before the Chairperson completes phrasing his statement, another agent walks in through the main entrance during the committee hearing and interrupts the proceedings while displaying his shield/badge, "Excuse me honourable chair and the house, my name is David Sinkala, acting director, ZBCI’s task force, We are here for Agent Fredd and it’s a matter of….**"
Agent Fredd turns around and looks behind upon hearing the Director's voice... then the chairperson interrupts Sinkala and adds,"…. Hold on, Mr. Sinkala, this is a committee hearing instituted by the National Assembly of the Republic of Zambia jointly with the African Human Rights Commission on matters that undermine human rights by your agencies, you just can't walk in during a proceeding and ask for an agent we are currently dealing with."
Director Sinkala, "I am well aware who instituted this committee Honourable, I know what this committee is all about, and I know how this ends too but am not here to talk about that, and treating these officers like criminals is making me wonder if your committee values the lives of the majority innocent citizens of this country or the interest of the minority corporate individuals with their selfish agenda, we all know this committee and its agenda goes against every principle this nation was built upon.” ... “This proceeding as a whole is an insult to what we as government security agencies have done for this nation and your government… deep down in your heart you know this is not right."
The chairperson responds. "Tame your tongue before your cross lines Sinkala, is that an accusation, actually what exactly are you trying to put across by saying this committee is only serving the interests of corporate bodies?... and trust me, nobody in chamber is accusing anyone of being a criminal but the content of these reports are saying these officers might have violated human rights by using corporal force on their suspects, and your agencies have been working without checks and balances of this nature for far too long, this is not an insult to the agencies but …."
"With all due respect, honourable chairperson,” Fredd interrupts confidently, “I was only doing my duty as an agent of this government. I won't stand here and let those incomplete reports fashion me a criminal for the job your government and the government before gave to me, which is to protect the majority of innocent people in this country." Agent Fredd adds.
Director Sinkala turns his eyes to the Attorney General, "Madam Nakatali there is no time to argue about this matter, the proceedings will continue when agent Fredd discharges his duties on the arising matter, there is a threat no our national security as we speak and only agent Fredd can help at this stage, if there was any other option, I surely wouldn't be here."
The chairperson questions, "…Then tell this house and its committee members what that threat is; they need to understand why they are letting this officer walk out amidst a proceeding."
Director Sinkala gets a bit furious and responds, "As I said, it’s a matter of National Security, it’s classified, and only the President can declassify this information. Perhaps you would like to call the president and chief of ZBCI to debrief you."
The chairperson, "The Attorney General has powers vested in her by the President of the Republic of Zambia to declassify that information."
"Please bear with me, I am not undermining your authority but as I said, call the President first, and, I am sorry to say this but I only get orders of such magnitude from the investigator General, the chief of ZBCI, or the President himself, not even the chief of the National Intelligence Agency has the power to order me in that capacity." Director David Sinkala argues.
"One day you will stand before this committee hearing and produce factual information about this day and be assured that you will face the wrath of your indiscipline Director Sinkala." The honourable MP for Lusaka Central threatens.
"I always knew that a day like that would be coming and, honestly, I am ready for that day, your honour, and if that day comes when duty calls, I shall leave the committee room during the proceedings without fear or regret." Sinkala stands firm.
"What will we tell the House of Representatives? What? ...that some Director from I don't know which task force came to pick an officer in question without any preprinted instruction." The chairperson asks.
Director Sinkala, "I have no time for this, honourable. Talk to the Investigator General, She will know what to tell the Speaker if he doesn’t know already."
While Director Sinkala is explaining, the committee’s secretary walks in and says, “Honourable, you have a call on line one from the investigator general.”
Minutes later, after speaking to the investigator general, the chairperson looks at Sinkala and adds, “The investigator general has given a go-ahead but Agent Fredd, we are not done yet.”
Director Sinkala responds, “Thank you, Sir.” Then he looks at Agent Fredd and says, "There is no time, tiye mwanaa... I will debrief you on the way to the dark site."
Fredd is a bit confused with what he just said as he stands and walks out... "Mmmm! Manje what is dark site boss?" He asks out of curiosity.
Sinkala smiles as they walk out of the building leaving all the committee members shuttered and confused with what just happened as he explains to Agent Fredd,
"The dark site is a highly classified Zambia Bureau for Classified Investigations operations centre where only highly classified crimes are dealt with, located 25km east of Lusaka’s CDB, this site doesn't have a visible building because it is housed 20 meters below the ground, it has no proper road connecting to the main road meaning the only quick way to get to this site is by a helicopter or through a tunnel from our HQ, this area appears as a farm land on the radar and is highly secured with cameras, a satellite view within 10km square range fully monitored by our staff 24/7 and for as long as it is in operation, this site does not exist and only a few selected government officials know about it."
"How come I never knew or heard about it all these years I have been with the bureau?" Fredd asks.
David smiles and adds further, "As I said, it is a classified asset and it wasn't your time to know about it yet."
"Okay, interesting..."
20 minutes later, as they arrive at the dark site...
Fredd in a fascinated state, "wow! This place is amazing... I never thought we have such an advanced, state-of-the-art facility in this country."
"You have seen nothing mwaiche, wait first tingene mukati." Director Sinkala adds.
As they walk out of the elevator, 20 meters below the ground, they are welcomed by the head of information systems, Agent Marrie-irane... Director Sinkala introduces, "Meet Fredd, I am sure you have heard about him and his works before."
Agent Marrie, "nice to finally meet you, sir, looking forward to having a successful working relationship with you."
"It's my pleasure agent????" Fredd asks.
"Marrie-Irane... Agent Marrie." She adds.
Director Sinkala asks as they walk to the operation stations and every other officer in the operation chamber looking at Fredd, "What's the latest update on the Novemberist?"
Agent Fredd pays un-divided attention as Marrie explains,
"The Novemberist isn't our main target, our target is Roukus Cliff Bwalya, former military personnel who disappeared from the face of the earth 19 years ago.”
..She pulls up a photo of him on the 95 inches screen main information display unit as she continues explaining,
“Known internationally as Cliff which is also his code name under the African Joint International Intelligence organization (AJIIO), he was born from a Zimbabwean mother and a Zambian father but other related information says he is South African by origin, as far as we know, Cliff doesn't have a nationality.”
She pulls up the next photo of Cliff and continues, “…and in 2012, he appeared in Blantyre and the Malawian authorities proclaimed him dead in that year after a mass shooting that claimed 17 lives in that city. Apart from his mother, Cliff does not have any other family members in Zambia or Zimbabwe or anywhere in the known world, Cliff has no friends, no business partners, and his loyalty is only to the highest payer in the corporate world according to closed files from the AJIIO and the NIA..."
Director David, "So, you mean this man has been dead for over 13 years and now he has resurrected? …What is his current location and any ideas of what his agenda might be...?"
Marrie pulls up a mapping system and footage, "According to these CCTV photos and footage pulled out by our national surveillance automatic face detection system, an exact match or at least 97.88% match of Mr. Roukus Cliff Bwalya was identified at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (KKIA) about 25 minutes ago, and according to the latest information, he hasn’t checked out of the airport and nobody knows his destination or agenda at this point." Agent Marrie adds.
"Hold on... This Cliff guy, ex-commando? I heard about him during my training with the army... and I also knew he was dead from the stories in camp, I saw footage and photos of him in a pool of blood... ..but how the hell did he manage to blind our sister Agencies like that...?” ... “From what I know about ex-special force fugitives who resurrect from the dead, their agendas are no good if they resurrect in your country after 19 years of disappearance..." Agent Fredd adds.
After listening to what Fredd said, Director Sinkala in panic, he commands, "Attention everybody! You know what's at hand, extract team Mushala gather and find Mr. Roukus Cliff Bwalya and bring him home for questioning without fail... Stay Sharp and alert in the field, Cliff is a highly trained ex-special forces trained by our army and you what that means, be cautious and consider him armed and extremely dangerous.” … “Agent Fredd, you are the lead field agent, Marrie give them all the information they need once in field... and update me in real-time.” … “In-case of a critical situation, involve me in the ops centre, stay Sharp soldiers."
Agent Marrie, "Right on it Sir."
Director Sinkala on a telecom to a loudspeaker broadcaster in the Ops center, "All IT specialists on work stations stay alert and sharp, we can't afford to lose sight of Cliff... and I need eyes in the air, by eyes in the air, I mean deploy the AKR99 sniper drone... Agents on team-Nkalamu hang in tight for back up in case Mushala falls."
"Marrie connect me to the Airport's head of internal security on a secure line now."
Minutes later, Director Sinkala on a secure telecom with Airport head of internal security, "Morning Mr. Hamoonga,”
On telecom, ** “Morning, who am I speaking to?” **
“I am Sinkala, the Director of a government special task force in charge of counter terrorism, straight to the point; I have information concerning a threat within your main terminus at KKIA, I am sending my team for an elite operation to capture a certain dangerous fugitive who was aboard flight 9877DF, kindly advise your men to cooperate with my men and offer assistance were needed, they will be arriving in 10 minutes time."
** “Roger that….” **
…………………………….
The mushala extract team arrives at the KK International Airport 10 minutes later and positioning themselves in case of any gunfire exchange.
Extract team commander on telecom with the IT team at the station, ** “All teams set.” ** … ** “AKR99 sniper drone has been deployed and in full control, Dark-site, you will be having visual of the Airport’s bird’s view in 3, 2, 1 … please confirm!” **
Marrie on telecom, ** “Affirmative!” **
Meanwhile Special Agent Fredd and Agent Nonde Lubeya dressed as civilians walking into the Airport's main terminal and communicating with Agents at the Dark site.
Agent Lubeya on telecom, "We are heading into the main terminal, please update on the suspect's position."
On telecom (Agent Marrie) ** “Our system is still scanning for access to the airport's infrared and camera system and trying to pinpoint the exact position of the suspect. According to my system here, Cliff is around the Main terminal, inside! Spread out and look around, He was last seen in a white corporate shirt, Blue jean trousers and a brown head sock.” **
"Roger that." Agent Lubeya on telecom.
Agent Fredd after listening to the telecom update: looking around in hope to identify the suspect, he commands, "Spread out, I am heading to the east wing ... look around the other side, stay sharp and be careful."
Agent Fredd walking eastwards while steadily looking around but failing to identify any person matching the information given by Dark site... on the other side, Agent Lubeya steadily looking around too and says on Telecom, "All clear... no suspect identified!"
"All clear too..." Agent Fredd on telecom reaffirms.
At the dark site, Agent Marrie on telecom, ** “Agents, it can't be *all clear... my system is showing that he is around that area and I can also see your exact position within that radius... am failing to pinpoint his exact location but am working on it right now... look around, he must be somewhere within.” **
..... Agent Fredd (Telecom), ** “We can't ...” **
Agent Marrie interrupts ** “Hold on, he is making a phone call right now... I can see his signature picking up on our network from the serial number of the phone he used to make a call earlier...” ** Agent Marrie adds while trying to pinpoint his exact location using his phone signals.... and orders another IT personnel in the background, "Kris, Please, isolate those signals within a 10-meter radius, hurry!"
Kristopher, "On it..."
Agent Fredd (telecom)... "Marrie, we are running out of time, there are people walking out of the terminal right now, they might notice the extract team outside and initiate distress which might signal the suspect to escape."
**Affirmative sir! ... hang in a bit... the signal has been isolated by Kristopher, hang in there in 5, 4, 3... 2..."** Agent Marrie guiding.
Agent Lubeya notices someone strange from the back speaking on phone, and alerts the team, "I think I have an ID on Cliff... Agent Fredd.... On your 6!"
Marrie Simultaneously adds (on telecom) ... ** “Suspect Identified! I have the airport CCTV camera tracking him, Agent Lubeya... right in front of you ... He has changed clothes, Black Jacket, red shirt and blue jeans.” **
Agent Fredd turns around simultaneously as agent Ingrid gives directions on the exact location... he adds (on telecom), "I have eyes on him too!"
"Agent Lubeya, close up-on him, draw your weapon at my order."
"Copy that..." Lubeya while steadily walking towards the suspect from the behind...
Agent Fredd quickly walks in position and draws his weapon pointing at the suspect and catches him off-guard while he was talking on the phone, "Zambia Police, freeze! Put your hands up where I can see them clearly."
While panic rises amongst civilians in the main terminal, Roukus Cliff smiles while lifting his hands up and kneeling down to the floor and doesn't look surprised about this arrest, Agent Lubeya moves in quickly from the behind and secures him in handcuffs and adds, “You are under arrest Mr. Cliff Bwalya, your silence is important at this moment.”
… Agent Fredd tries to calm the people around the area with lies... "Calm down people, this is a Zambia police force special operation and we have secured the suspect in question and everything is under control, please stay calm and wait for a briefing from the Airport’s security staff.”
** “All units stand by! The suspect has been captured. Mushala team, send four (4) personnel to es**rt Mr. Cliff Bwalya to the Chopper for transportation to the dark-site” ** Agent Lubeya affirms (on telecom).
Mushala Team commander responds (on telecom). ** “Roger that!” **
…. At the dark site, Agent Marrie debriefing the Director on telecom while he is in his office trying to establish communication with the Chief of the agency at HQ… **“Sir, the suspect has been secured and they are already airborne to dark-site.”**
Director Sinkala looking at agent Marrie on the ground floor (Ops center) from his glass-walled office slightly above the ground floor which gives him a proper bird’s eye view of everyone on the ops center and other surrounding stations and adds… “Great work team…. Marrie let me know as soon as the suspect and the team arrives.”
“Copy that sir.”
….. In the Chopper 5 minutes before arriving at the dark-site ... Roukus Cliff looking at agent Fredd and smiling at him, Agent Fredd gets a bit uncomfortable and asks, “Why are you smiling, anything funny?”
Roukus Cliff responds, “Special agent Fredd and Agent Lubeya, right? I bet, those are your names… Nice job in capturing the long-lost fugitive and lying to the civilians that this was a Zambia Police Special Operation.”
This statement confuses the agents and they get surprised how he knows them by their names, Agent Fredd looks at him in a confused state and decides not to say anything but looks at agent Lubeya who is equally surprised.
He (Cliff) laughs and asks, “Surprised? or what? Confused that I know your names? It’s a small world for great men like you in this system…”
… Later, they arrive at Dark-site and secure Roukus Cliff in the holding chamber (H.C1), with all cameras in the chamber on him and all IT personnel paying maximum attention to him as Agent Marrie gives vigil instruction through the telecoms on the matter at hand while she heads to the holding room to debrief the information extraction team. The holding chamber was constructed with high molecular integrity glass, bullet strong, tinted from the inside and allows the people outside to see everything happening inside and not the other way round… when doors are sealed shut, the glass walls are soundproof and air-tight which means only telecoms work as mode of communication.
Director Sinkala, Agent Lubeya and other field agents standing outside the holding chamber looking at Cliff while Agent Fredd was debriefing about what happened during the capture “…….surprisingly, he did not carry any weapon or anything on him, the only thing he had is a cellphone, A photo of what seems to be his parents and child, a wallet with a credit card of a foreign bank account. Marrie has advised that only three (3) transactions are appearing on this account, Marrie can explain further on that.”
Agent Marrie walks in and immediately takes up-on were Fredd left, “After I liaised with the Financial Intelligence Agency, a comprehensive forensic report has been established and it says this foreign bank account only has three (3) transaction on its statements and after an analysis was taken on these transactions, we discovered that one was an inwards transfer of funds to this account from another international bank account with no details whatsoever, the remaining two (2) transactions are outwards, one being a bank charge and another being flight charges to KKIA and there is no material balance remaining on this account, something like $200.57, Kristopher is trying to establish communication on your channel with the CEO of the International Bank which holds his account, he will debrief us soon.”
Agent Lubeya adds, “While we were airborne he mentioned our names…. and we don’t understand how he knows us, it’s like he has some information concerning ZBCI agents.”
Director Sinkala also gets confused and passes orders, “Agent Fredd and Lubeya, you are up for information extraction… Marrie let your team monitor his stress and anxiety levels on our system… but remember who we are dealing with, this is no ordinary criminal… this is an ex-special force soldier of our defense forces… he is extremely trained and he probably knows our systems.”
“Copy that.”
“Get to work guys, let’s see what we can have…” Director Sinkala watches through the glass as Agent Lubeya and Fredd walks in the holding room and position themselves for interrogation while Marrie and her team reads his distress levels on the system.
“Cliff, I bet there is no need to introduce myself… since you already know me by name and I bet you also know me by deeds…” Agent Lubeya adds
Cliff smiles while looking at him…
Lubeya continues… “And I believe there is no need to introduce Agent Fredd… but one thing to remind you is that Agent Fredd is a highly trained soldier by the Zambian Army commandos ranges of brutality special forces and he is also equipped with the ZBCI advanced……..”
…before he could complete his statement Cliff cuts him short and completes his statement on his before. “…ZBCI advanced brutal interrogation techniques….” Then he smiles and asks, “Is that what you wanted to tell me? Or threaten me with? … try something else agent Lubeya, do you need me to tell you about yourself?”
“Enough Cliff…” Fredd adds while hitting the desk with fury…. “If you know us, then you know the rules…. We ask, you answer ….”
“Always, the old way.” Cliff adds while smiling.
… Outside the holding chamber, Director Sinkala looking at Agent Marrie and asking her, “Who is this guy, really and why does he come out so confident about knowing who we are?”
Ingrid confused and adds… “and his distress levels are so normal.”
Back inside the holding chamber…………..
“Yes, always the old way... seems you know us better… 2012, the Malawi Investigation Wings proclaimed you dead… why have you resurrected in Zambia and why now, thirteen years later? What’s your end game?” Agent Fredd asks.
“Those are petty questions but I will answer the first one for your clarity’s sake… I was never dead, the security wings in that country are porous just like this country. The very men you work for are a threat to your operations and existence.” Cliff responds.
“Why are you here? What’s your agenda? I won’t ask again.” Fredd asks while losing patience.
Cliff responds, “Mwamene na kambila those are petty questions, I don’t need to remind you again…” he looks behind facing the tinted glass knowing that Director Sinkala is outside the holding chamber watching the interrogation proceeding and adds,
“Director Sinkala or task force lead agent, I know you are there watching this interrogation... You are wasting your time interrogating me about why I am in this country… I want to talk to you, not these small agents you have sent in here.”
Agent Fredd laughs… “Us? Small agents? … Guess what? Director Sinkala is busy attending to big issues… and you are a small matter that’s why he sent us to you.”
Cliff ignoring agent Fredd and adds further… “Mr. Sinkala, what happened to the lead you had on the Novemberist? You will deny this but I know you had a lead ... You are telling me you have been distracted by my arrival at the airport?”
Outside the Holding Chamber (H.C1) …….
Director Sinkala gets more confused and asks Marrie, “How does he know about classified information we have been working on for weeks now?”
Marrie confused as everyone else.
Director Sinkala directs Ingrid… “Patch me into the coms inside H.C1”
“Done! You are through to the coms.”
Director Sinkala (on telecom) … **”Cliff, you have my attention… what do you want?”
“Director Sinkala you see, you channeled your resources on the wrong suspect… I know you thought I am the Novemberist, just like your IT personnel advised you… what’s her name again… ooh, yah! oh yeah.. the beautiful agent Marrie-Irane, right? What you need to understand is that the Novemberist is in this country and you missed him because he arrived in the country four (4) days ago, on his where-about, I do not know……” Cliff explains.
** “What makes you think I will believe what you are telling me? What makes you think I will believe that you are not actually the Novemberist himself?” ** Director Sinkala (on telecom).
“Hahaha… Your government and the neighbouring government thought I was dead 13 years ago, to make it even worse, your government lost trace of me 18years ago until the Blantyre shooting in 2012 when you only heard that I was dead and you didn’t confirm, did you? furthermore, what makes you think if I was the Novemberist, you would find me so easily at the KKIA?” Cliff challenges Sinkala.
Director Sinkala analyses what he is saying and makes sense of it……. And asks, “Mr Cliff, all that doesn’t matter unless you tell me your agenda…”
“Mr. Director, It seems you have become an impatient man, you were not like this on the 13th battalion of 1999… anyway that’s not important…” Cliff smiles and continues…. “Firstly, tell your two agents in this room to walk out… I can’t speak properly with such small people around me, I only deal with big fish.”
Agent Fredd and Lubeya take offence, but they can’t do anything because Cliff seems to be cooperating without the use of any force.
The Director directs them to walk out of the holding chamber as he tries to cooperate with Cliff….
He adds, “Cliff, you can now continue, I am listening….”
“Thank you for your kind and humble gesture. At least, you still have that goodness in you, and Agent Fredd and Lubeya don’t be mad about this, it’s just me.” ………Cliff smiles again and continues further, “Anyway, this matter is of utmost importance…. Tell everyone at the ops centre and the server room to pay maximum and undivided attention to what I am about to say.”
Outside H.C1.
Agent Fredd asks Director Sinkala, “How does this guy know so much about this facility? I thought you told me… only a few individuals know about this site?”
“Fredd, I am as confused as everyone else is now,” Sinkala responds.
Back inside the H.C1 with Cliff.
“I know you are wondering how I know so much about the dark site, don’t worry about that, you will find out soon, but the most important thing now is; today in the evening, there will be an attack on City market in the Lusaka central business district and this attack will be a diversion for something or another attack of higher materiality to take place later tomorrow or the day after. I am not sure what time exactly the attack will happen tomorrow or the day after, but these attacks are staged and masterminded by one man, the Novemberist. I don’t know who is funding him, and I don’t know what their agenda is, but all I know this will happen…”
"Cliff... you don't have evidence about that... We just can't trust and believe a dead person who just resurrects with information from nowhere just like that." The Director adds.
"Director Sinkala... You and Agent Fredd know and understand how criminals work, they strike when you least expect... If I were you right now, I would be mobilising assault teams to the City Market area in an effort to stop this attack." Cliff adds.
Director Sinkala, "Give us your source of that information... We will follow the lead."
"There is no time for this, there is no time to follow leads here... I have given you information, but your pride won't let you act on it… I am your only lead for now, and since you won’t believe me, from now on, I won't say anything further because that’s the only information I have... I advise you to send your agents and extract team and do something about this; otherwise, a lot of lives will be lost this evening, and their blood will be on your hands since you know about this, and you know what month it is, it’s October and the month before the month of the Novemberist." Roukus cliff adds and holds his silence.
Agent Marrie disconnects the intercoms' line to H.C1 and looks at Director Sinkala waiting for his directive... but he is silent for a moment trying to contemplate this information, then Agent Fredd breaks the silence, "Perhaps we should reconsider what we know about the Novemberist..."
Sinkala looks at him as he speaks.
"What if Cliff is right about the attack...? It would be our fault to ignore this entail, and then, after the attack happens, will you be able to live with it, sir?" Fredd asks
"This man is a fugitive.... He can't be telling us what to do." Director Sinkala holds on to his pride.
"I'm sorry, sir, I know it’s not my place to add anything, but he is not giving us orders or telling us what to do... I think he just gave us a lead on something my IT team and I missed." Agent Marrie adds.
"Then what are we waiting for, Agent Fredd and Lubeya remobilise the Mushala extract team in full force... Marrie advise the IT team to stay alert......" The director furiously gives orders while his pride breaks.... He presses the telecom and continues, "Nkalumu team stay on hold for backup."
The agents in his presence notice his pride being severed while he gives orders, but affirms to his directives and makes a move quickly.
Fifteen minutes later, as the team drives up the Great East Road, past the University of Zambia (UNZA).
Happenings around the City Market area in the Lusaka Central Business District.
The area is calm, and business is taking place as usual.
On secured telecom with an encrypted voice.... the Novemberist talking to his associates on ground... ** "Mat, what's your status?" **
** "Everyone is in place and all explosives are in place boss." ** Mateyo responds.
** "Sharp! Silvia, do you copy?" ** The Novemberist asks.
** "Am in Sir... Northern wing explosives detonators are online, and the associates on the ground working with Mat are doing final touches." **
** "And the people, are they leaving the trading centre already, it’s almost market closing time...?" ** The Novemberist (Telecom.)
**"Affirmative, sir, but according to the CCTV cameras, I have secured for my eyes, the street vendors who trade from outside the market are just setting up their stands..." Silvia adds
** "This is not the grand mission, it's just a diversion.... We don't need a lot of casualties, are the vendors safe outside...?"** The Novemberist affirms and asks...
** ” I can’t guarantee the safety of the vendors outside; that depends on the structural integrity of the walls of the market building.” ** Silvia advises.
He continues, ** "Okay! In the next 25 minutes, initiate phase one of this mission.... Keep me updated Silvia... Mat, make sure the team on the ground is safe after the mission is completed and move into phase two plans." **
** "Copy that sir."
The telecom disconnects.....
Stationed at the incomplete Katondo building on floor six (6) where she is running her information systems and scanning the central business district through satellites, Silvia (on her secured tablet), using satellite tele-scanning the number of civilians around the area who might be affected by the minor explosions and being alert to every movement around the area... Six minutes later, she notices a distressing signal as she identifies motor vehicles for the ZBCI as they join Katondo street from Cairo road.. Then she presses her telecom device and advises her team on the ground, **"All units, do you copy... All units do you copy…?! Alert! I have identified two motor vehicles suspected to belong to the ZBCI heading towards our target.... Move-in and initiate phase one ... I repeat, two ZBCI motor vehicles heading our way...!"**
Then other vehicles appear on her radar... She advises again, **"more vehicles, six (6) in number, coming from the north part of Lumumba road... I think they know we are here... Initiate phase one and fall back... I repeat, Initiate phase one and fall back."**
Team members affirm.... **" Copy that Silvia..."**
Team members who were planting the explosives fall back and run into the nearby compound (Kanyama and chibolya) to seek refuge as the bomb experts initiate the explosive sequence...
Then Silvia walks out of the Katondo building and joins the pedestrians as she heads towards Cairo road, trying to escape into hiding, then she gives final orders to Mateyo, **"Mat, initiate protocol now... am out of the building."**
**"Roger that..!!"** Mateyo adds and presses the remote detonator...... and within seconds, city market goes into six sequential explosions happening within short intervals... and the shock waves firing around 200 meters radius and shuttering every glass windows in its way..... within seconds, city market is engulfed in flames and screams of people burning inside can be heard, outside; civilians, traders, drivers and conductors scattering in all direction for safety and other people in the distance filming the current happenings on their phones, and Mr. Simon Mwewa lane captures the events on facebook live while he explains and running for safety, “Holy Mary other of Jesus, what’s happening? People, City market is in flames, the series of the explosions sound like they are being triggered and controlled but I can’t conclude on that, please check on your family members who might be around this area, the situation is bad here……….” the nearby areas are all on standstill while people watch in shock from a distance and black smoke covering the skies as the flames progresses.
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