A Bicycle Taxi ‘Dampa’ Operator Murder fellow for Jealousy

A Bicycle Taxi ‘Dampa’ Operator Murder fellow for Jealousy

 

A jealousy ‘Dampa’ (bicycle taxi operator) has been arrested by Police in Salima district for alleged murdered of a fellow in the business due fight for customers customers.

According to sergeant Gift Chitowe a Salima Police Public Relations Officer, the suspect is Chimwemwe Babison aged 24 who has been operating Dampa business in the district.

The police officer says the suspect has been complaining that his Dampa business was going down yet his counterpart Edward Chipembere aged 40 was more than lucky when it comes to wining of new customers.

“Both the deceased Edward Chipembere and the suspect Chimwemwe Babison who hails from the same village have been operating bicycle taxi business which is famously known as Dampa. But the suspect became jealousy of his friend for having more number of customers and that they continued to increase.”

“So the suspect decided to murder his fellow just to take up the business and he planned this event for a long time.” Said Sergeant Chitowe

Sergeant Chitowe said the deceased was murdered and burnt in the night of 8^th November when returning from Salima Boma where he went for shopping and that some of the items bought were Petrol fuel that the suspect used to burn victim body. The officer said the body was discovered in the following day.

“Postmortem results at Salima Hospital has indicates that the victim succumbed to head injuries.” Said the Officer

Both, deceased and Babison hails from Misi village T/A Kalonga in Salima district.

Babison is expected to appear in court soon when the ongoing strike by court officers ends, to answer charge of murder.