By CATHERINE NYIRENDA –
POLICE yesterday questioned The Post Newspaper editor-in-chief Fred M’membe and one of his reporters over an article published by the newspaper sourced from a classified Government  document.

•THE POST Newspaper editor- in- chief Fred M’membe (right) and his lawyer Nchima Nchito leave Woodlands Police station yesterday. Picture by CLEVER ZULU

Mr M’membe and two other journalists from The Post, Kombe Mataka and Mukosha Funga were on Monday summoned by police at Woodlands Police station for questioning.
Mr M’membe and the two Journalists in the presence of their lawyers, Nchima Nchito, Philemon Songolo and The Post legal counsel Fynod Mufwafwi arrived at Woodlands Police at 09:00 hours yesterday.
After being interviewed for about an hour, police recorded a warn and caution statement from Mr M’membe and Ms Funga for publishing an article in The Post Newspaper on April 17, 2015 under the headline ‘Lungu Advisor under bribery probe’.
Both Mr Songolo and Police deputy spokesperson Rae Hamoonga confirmed the recording of warn and caution statements in separate interviews from Mr M’membe and Ms Funga.
“My client will not say anything at this point, the police will get in touch after a fortnight, perhaps at that time we will be able to give a comprehensive statement. Police have administered a warn and caution relating the Kaizer story,” Mr Songolo said.
Mr Hamoonga also told journalists that a warn and caution statement was recorded from Mr M’membe, 56, a journalist by profession of plot number 7345 Nagwenya Road, Rhodes Park, Lusaka.
Police also recorded a warn and caution statement from Ms Funga, 24, of House number 28/08 of Luangwa Township, a reporter with The Post.
“We could, however, not record a warn and caution statement from Kombe Mataka, 32, because of the state she is in, the legal counsel made a request that she was not feeling well and so she will be interviewed when she gets better,” Mr Hamoonga  said.
He said police recorded a statement in relation to the publication of classified information contrary to Section 35 of Cap 111 of the State Security Act of the laws of Zambia.
In the named article the newspaper was referring to the letter that was written by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Director General, Roswin Wandi to President Edgar Lungu.
“This letter is a classified document and we summoned the three, we feel there is a breach of the laws under cap 35 of the State Security Act,” Mr Hamoonga said.