Defence minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM) touches-up his hair before welcoming President Michael Sata at Livingstone’s Harry Mwanga Nkhumbula International Airport on November 2, 2012 – Picture by Joseph Mwenda
The Mailoni brothers have been on the run over the last six years after allegedly killing a number of people in the Luano valley.
All efforts by the security and defence wing to catch the serial killers have proved unsuccessful and recently a traditional leader in the area appealed to Government to consider hiring witchdoctors to help find the killer brothers.
And in an interview, Mr. Mwamba who is commonly known as GBM said that he was ready to personally fund the activities of the witchdoctor who is willing to help catch the Mailoni brothers.
“Government wants to use all avenues to bring to book Mailoni brothers and am willing to use my own resources and if it means hiring witchdoctors, am ready to pay,” Mr. Mwamba said.
“I want the people of Luano Valley to live in peace, am calling upon any witchdoctor who has the ability to catch these killers to come forward and see me,” he said.
Mr. Mwamba assured the nation that the trio will sooner or later be captured by government forces that were deployed to Luano valley to clamp them down.
He said the forces have made inroads in tracing where the Mailoni brothers may be hiding and that it was just a matter of time before the killer brothers are brought to book.
Mr. Mwamba could however not divulge much information concerning the matter for fear of jeopardizing operations to arrest the three ‘blood-thirsty’ brothers who have caused untold terror to the people of Luano valley of Mkushi district of Central Province.
He was speaking to journalists in an interview in Lusaka shortly after presenting Christmas hampers to patients at Maina Soko Military Hospital.