Copperbelt Police Commissioner Charity Katanga confirmed on Saturday that Sakala 30, was found dead in the River Side Police cell on Friday morning after being detained on Thursday.

Katanga allayed assertions that Sakala had been killed by police saying he was found with a small bottle of Doom, a poisonous pesticide in his underwear.

“The following morning, he was found unconscious and he was taken to the hospital but he had died. When he was being taken to the mortuary, the body was inspected and found with a bottle of doom under his pants, the body had no injuries,” Katanga explained.

“So because of the stories that were circulating, police were forced to call the father to the deceased together with other relatives, I directed that they go and inspect the body which was done and the body was found to be intact,” she said.

Katanga said Sakala was wanted by police for aggravated robbery and was detained on Thursday.

Katanga said, a thorough investigation
was underway to establish the true cause of Sakala’s death.

But Vainess Sakala, elder sister to Oscar insisted that police had killed her brother.

A grief stricken Vainess said she noticed a deep cut on the back of Oacar’s head and blood in his noise when she went to see his body in the Kitwe Central Hospital mortuary.

She rejected suggestions that her brother could have committed suicide because everything she saw suggested he had been killed.