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THE known hypocrites who are supposed to join Chishimba Kambwili in jail have ganged up to cast aspersions on the integrity of the Zambian judiciary by claiming that the trial of NDC leader was not fair, Chilufya Tayali has said.

State hands over gold panning certificates in Rufunsa / Page 3

with colon cancer

…apologise or else, Mucheleka told

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FORMER President Rupiah Banda has been diagnosed with cancer of the colon and has asked Zambians to remember him in prayers.

Meanwhile, President Edgar Lungu has wished Mr Banda a quick recovery as he fights cancer of the colon.

Mr. Lusambo

Mr. Mucheleka

By SIMON MUNTEMBA

The two trucks the Scania from South Africa and the Freightliner (right), Zimbabwean registered where found laden with Mukula tree logs. [Pictures Linda Tembo Soko]

P.4 RB diagnosed

Mr. Sampa

IMF talks on Girl, 16, diesagain after family

One of the victims hacked by suspected UPND militia who where in a convoy with their Party president Hakainde Hichilema in Mpika last week.

Demolish structures beating for sleeping out • Mwanakatwe reveals contributing to floods - Lusambo P.4 talks set for April P.4 See story on Page 3 Police spokesperson Esther Katongo said it is alleged that the victim did not sleep at home after attending a wedding in a nearby village.

UPND militia led by s o m e former policemen is suspected to be behind the adduction, severe assault and disarming of two police officers who were deployed to provide smooth passage of Hakainde Hichilema at Mununga area in Lavushimanda.

According to Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo the militia group is also planning to blow up the recent procured Government’s anti-riot motor vehicles using explosives to incapacitate the police service.

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Commonwealth sidelines ZCID on dialogue preps Zambia prays

According to Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo, over 30 UPND militia group comprising former police officers hired as body guards for the opposition leader attacked, abducted and disarmed two police officers of an AK47 rifle with six rounds of ammunition and four teargas canisters.

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GOVERNMENT has announced that ConCourt must ofexplain the commemoration the Day of National Prayer, Fasting, Repentance and Reconciliation in Lusaka has Chilanga vacancy - YALI been moved from the Mulungushi International Conference Centre to See story on Page the Lusaka Showgrounds.

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AMARGEDDON IS HERE

WE do not have to wait and be told officially by the United Party for National Development (UPND) that Armageddon is upon us.

Its actions send a clear message that indeed, the Armageddon that UPND president Hakainde Hichilema once threatened has dawned.

The brazen acts of lawlessness being carried out by UPND cadres all speak for themselves that the party has declared war against law and order.

After all, is that not what Armageddon is all about, create political upheaval and make the country ungovernable?

The UPND claims it is a law-abiding political organisation, but its actions show nothing to prove that.

For how else could one describe last Thursday’s act of lawlessness when its militia group abducted two police officers in uniform in Lavushimanda’s Mununga area and dumped them some 20 kilometres away on the Great North Road?

Even in everyday life, no one dares attack a police officer in uniform because that uniform represents the state.

According to Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo, the over 30 UPND militia group comprising former senior police officers attacked, abducted and disarmed the two police officers of an AK47 rifle with six rounds of ammunition and four teargas canisters.

This is a clear case of an attack on the state and we demand that the culprits must be fished out and face the wrath of the law.

Never in the country’s history has a political party ever attacked and abducted police officers.

He said the two officers who were badly beaten with a hammer, an axe, matchet and fists were bundled into a white Toyota Hilux double cab whose occupants included UPND Member of Parliament for Sesheke, Rome Kang’ombe.

Mr Kampyongo said the firearm was handed back to the officers after they were dropped between Lukulu and Finkuli area over 20 kilometres from where they had been abducted from.

“The over 30 UPND militia group went away with the six rounds of ammunition and four teargas canisters,” he said.

Mr Kampyongo is right to direct the police to speed up investigations into the matter where the UPND militia group in the company of their party leader Hakainde Hichilema also assaulted innocent citizens in Muchinga Province.

We know that the UPND president has never hidden his disdain for the PF government of President Edgar Lungu and his prepared to put his plans of making the country ungovernable in practice.

But he ought to be warned that Zambians would not stand with arms akimbo and let him crate anarchy in an otherwise peaceful country.

In Parliament on Friday, Vice President said “We hope the abduction of police officers in Mpika is not the beginning of Armageddon which has been talked about.”

Speaking during the Vice-President’s question time in parliament, Ms Wina said “The abduction of the police officers is very regrettable. Mr Speaker, it is very regrettable that things like this can happen in our country and maybe this is the beginning of the stage of turbulence that we have heard about.”

We have always said politics should be about winning the confidence of the public through debate and not by beating your rivals.

We trust therefore that even as the country observes the national day of prayer today, Zambians will pray for all politicians and their supporters to realise that they are one people with a common destiny.

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ARE UPND’S FACEBOOK-BASED MILLENNIALS MEANT TO BOLSTER HH’S POLITICAL FORTUNES?

By MUBANGA LUCHEMBE FOR policymaking UPND politicians, it’s easy to discount the millennial generation as lazy, footloose and obsessed with social media.

In Zambia, the whole generation is derided as Yo-Bali, those who prefer to lounge at home with their aged parents, rather than embrace a more financially independent lifestyle.

But such easy stereotypes belie a much harsher economic reality. And nowhere is this despondent realism more evident than in upper-class city suburbs seemingly on the verge of perpetual economic and societal change.

Zambian millennials – those born after 1999 – many have confronted the 2008 global financial crisis as kindergartengoing kids and the ongoing Covid-19 crisis as grownups.

But even these crises are mere bookmarks in the longer story of Zambian economic fragmentation which began with the World Bank-induced Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) and the subsequent privatisation of national assets of the early 1990s.

This is a stagnation which has already resulted in a whole generation of young Zambians being without steady employment, bereft of economic independence and increasingly without hope for the future.

Although Zambian millennials are more educated and skilled than their parents, two out of three workers with a short-term contract are under thirty.

As a result, young Zambian adults are seemingly poorer than the previous generation.

Closing this dichotomy – between the struggling younger generations and their often seemingly affluent parents and grandparents – is the biggest obstacle to fundamentally rebooting Zambia’s economy. Perhaps even more importantly, giving young Zambians a fair opportunity at economic independence requires challenging the stranglehold on political policymaking held by older Zambians.

But to give millennials a fighting chance at success means confronting two bedrocks of Zambian society: an antiquated education system and a reorientation of political power away from well-heeled middle-aged and retired Zambians.

The Zambian education system is exacerbating millennial struggles.

Highly theoretical and based on the acquisition of general background knowledge but few life-sustaining

practical skills, the Zambian teaching system at the post-primary level is not attuned to the realities of the 21stcentury labour market.

The results are either abstract or controversially obscure. This millennial disenfranchisement has caused frustration, distrust of government and a tendency to vote for pseudo-populist parties.

Zambia is a society where young people are showing signs of being interested in politics once more – their patience is running out with high levels of unemployment. This does not necessarily mean that they will be rushing to join political parties however – despite the choices on offer.

Known and unknown to many, the United Nations World Youth Report, released in 2007, suggested that young people around the globe were participating politically, but not in a conventional way.

For example, it said the youth would rather volunteer at local clinics and schools to uplift their communities than directly campaign for a political party.

This has not stopped parties looking for new avenues of expression.

For instance, there is evidence that Zambian politicians seem to have learnt from the American experience. Take the social networking site, Facebook, for example. President Barack Obama used it effectively to lure the youth into voting for him.

This is precisely what we are seeing mimicked by the UPND mobilisation team on Facebook, buoyed by funds from UK-based SABI Strategy Group and South African-based Brenthurst Foundation to brand the 2021 UPND presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema as “Bally-1.”

Prominent among his backers has been Henry Sands the managing director at SABI, a firm that provides comprehensive communication strategies and solutions to international businesses, high-net-worth individuals and political organisations.

Sands attended Birmingham University, where the UPND leader also attended to study for his finance and business strategy masters programme.

Many politicians including Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu are now on Facebook. They interact with their supporters through this medium.

UPND for one boasts that this has helped inject life into politics by appealing to young people. Some analysts agree. But for young people domiciled in city slums and rural settings, without access to luxuries such

as smartphones and the internet, breadand-butter issues remain the focus.

Despite dabbling in technology and trying to appear hip, political parties must still attend to young people’s urgent needs.

Top of the to-do list are ideas and initiatives of creating jobs, reducing levels of political violence and combating an HIV/Aids epidemic that is reportedly claiming hundreds of lives every day in Zambia – many of them young.

The first thing is to realise that neither a naive UPND leadership nor its muchheralded “Bally will fix it!” campaign message will save Zambia.

Such initiatives will only facilitate the existing opposition party’s policymakers clinging to top positions while the money flows from the foreign-based paymasters.

Millions of dollars of investment in the regime-change agenda and online propaganda activities against the PF will change nothing, if more deepseated structural intraparty reforms are ignored.

Secondly, Facebook-based millennials should refuse to accept the current status quo as the only available path for the UPND. This will mean confronting the older generations about the illogicality of such generational inequality. It means the young need to inject a sense of urgency and positive disruption into their approach to mainstream intraparty politics.

It’s time for a productive movement of change that is not just the same old negative messaging stuck on repeat.

For all the noise they generate, groupings like GEARS/CiSCA/OCiDA are devoid of tangible intraparty reform proposals. So what can UPND’s Facebook-based millennials do?

How can they bolster HH’s political fortunes, yet existing UPND politicians are incapable of internally reforming the party because that would mean compromising their own tightly held privileges?

Without age-conscious politics, UPND intraparty democracy will remain a façade behind which the rich, the corrupt and the deceitful keep exploiting the youth. Millennial netizens need to re-imagine equality at this time of reckoning before the 2021 polls.

Critically, they need to re-imagine Facebook-based movements moved into action by the belief that one life is no less important than another, and no one life should be lived at the expense of another.

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Mr Kampyongo said the over 30 UPND militia group comprising former police officers hired as body guards for the opposition leader attacked, abducted and disarmed two police officers of an AK47 rifle with six rounds of ammunition and four teargas canisters.

Mr Kampyongo has therefore directed the police to speed up investigations into the matter where the UPND militia group in the company of their party leader Hakainde Hichilema recently also assaulted innocent citizens in Muchinga Province.

He said the two officers who were badly beaten using a hammer, an axe, matchet and fists were bundled into a white Toyota Hilux double cab whose occupants included UPND Member of Parliament for Sesheke constituency.

Mr Kampyongo said the firearm was handed back to the officers after they were dropped between Lukulu and Finkuli area over 20 kilometres from where they had been abducted from.

“The over 30 UPND militia group went away with the six rounds of ammunition and four teargas canisters,” he said.

In addition to the other seven casualties recorded, he said, the UPND militia group also stole various items belonging to innocent citizens valued at approximately K10, 000.

Meanwhile, Mr Kampyongo has disclosed that a known opposition political party in Zambia has solicited funds from the international community to cause anarchy in the country.

He said Government had information of a political party leader who was in East Africa to source for funds to carry out

criminal activities in the country, but warned that his days were numbered as the State security was on top of things.

Mr Kampyongo said Government was monitoring him and would not tolerate any form of violence from his party or indeed any political party.

“One political leader was in East Africa to solicit for funds for his party’s illegal activities to destabilise the country but we will not allow it. We shall not allow individuals to destabilise the country because of a few coins,” he said.

The minister said one of the illegal activities lined up by a political grouping was to blow up recent procured Government’s anti-riot motor vehicles using explosives.

“The source for the explosive is already established and the culprits are also known,” he said. The Minister however said the suspects scheming to damage the newly procured equipment were being monitored and very soon they will be brought to book.

He however assured Zambians that Government would continue investing in the security of the country to ensure the citizens were protected and safe all the time.

He reiterated that elections were not a new phenomenon to Zambians who have always endeavoured to remain peaceful.

Mr Kampyongo reminded the opposition political leaders to revive their role of offering checks and balances to the ruling party and not to install fear in citizens.

The Minister has also appealed to the people of Muchinga to remain calm and not seek vengeance as the Government was doing everything possible to bring to book the culprits.

State hands over gold panning certificates in Rufunsa

By OLIVER SAMBOKO GOVERNMENT has handed over gold panning certificates to four gold mining cooperatives in Rufunsa aimed at formalising artisanal mining activities and to help improve productivity in the sector.

The cooperatives that that have benefitted are Chomwetu, Chipeketi, Kamandu and Pokela.

Officiating at the handover ceremony and launch of the Zambia Export Diversification Strategy in Gold and gemstone, Mines and Minerals Development Minister Richard Musukwa implored ZCCM-IH to invest in machinery to grow the gold and gemstone mining sectors.

He said with proper machinery in place, the gold sector has the potential to create employment and help spar growth in the country’s economy.

Mr Musukwa said the PF government has embarked on formalisation of mining activities on gold and gemstone to empower local people through cooperatives and ensure that the country benefit from the natural resources.

The minister assured other cooperatives across the country that his ministry will prioritise the issuance licences to encourage formalisation of gold mining activities.

Mr Musukwa also said Government was determined to ensure the exploitation of gold was done in a professional and transparent manner.

And Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Assistant Secretary General for Programmes Kipyego Cheluget said the block will continue to support the diversification of the mining sector to grow the economy.

Dr Cheluget commended the government for putting in place export diversification strategy for gold and gemstone sector which he said was key to growth of the sector.

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HYPOCRITES GANG UP

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THE known hypocrites who are supposed to join Chishimba Kambwili in jail have ganged up to cast aspersions on the integrity of the Zambian judiciary by claiming that the trial of NDC leader was not fair, Chilufya Tayali has said.

Meanwhile, Lusaka lawyer Tutwa Ngulube has said NDC vice president Joseph Akafumba should stop hallucinating that convicted Chishimba Kambwili was still eligible on the 2021 race because it was “game-over” for him.

Mr Tayali, the Equity and Economic Party (EEP) president said all those who were saying Kambwili’s trial and conviction was political persecution said so because they were themselves corrupt.

He was reacting to remarks on one of the local newspapers attributed to Socialist Party (SP) leader, Dr Fred M’membe and UPND president Hakainde Hichilema that Kambwili’s trial was not fair and a political persecution.

Mr Tayali said Dr M’membe and Mr Hichilema have ganged up to discredit Kambwili’s conviction for their own interests.

“People like Fred M’membe and HH, these are the people that should actually join Kambwili in prison. So for me, I have no regards for these people who are saying it is political persecution,” Mr Tayali said.

He said Dr M’membe and Mr Hichilema could not condemn the crimes that Kambwili

Mr Tayali committed because by doing so, they would be condemning themselves.

“Of course the corrupt have ganged up against the judicial system. They are discrediting the judicial system because they are scared it might soon find them wanting, so they are discrediting Kambwili’s trial just to cast aspersions on the integrity of the Zambian judiciary,” he said.

About HH, he said, the privatisation

issues is in public domain, the land issues, the lower Zambezi issue, all these issues are haunting him. He got rich out of taking advantage of the resources of this country.

So how can they condemn Kambwili? They can never because they know that soon the law will catch up with them.

Meanwhile, Mr Ngulube who is Government Deputy Parliamentary Chief Whip, said it was wishful thinking for Mr Akafumba to insinuate that Kambwili would contesting as President or any other political office while he is convicted.

Speaking at a joint media briefing with the UPND which was held at Kambwili’s home in Woodlands on Thursday last week, Mr Akafumba said the convicted NDC leader would still be on the ballot paper in 2021 during the general elections.

Mr Akafumba argued that despite being incarcerated, Kambwili was not barred from contesting elections next year.

But Mr Ngulube who quoted article 100 (2) h of the constitution of Zambia, said Kambwili’s conviction in the Lusaka magistrate’s court disqualified him from contesting as President or any other political office.

He said Kambwili could only contest if the conviction slapped on him by Lusaka Magistrate David Simusamba was overturned by a higher court on appeal.

He said on this basis of being a convict, Kambwili could not even be allowed by the Electoral Commission of Zambia to file in nominations.

Zambia prays

Patients’ eviction riles hospital

By GRACE CHAILE- LESOETSA

THERE is nothing that hurts so much as to throw a critically ill patient outside the hospital and the nation needs to rise to this inhumane treatment, says TMS Hospital Limited board chairperson Elias Mpondela.

And Mr Mpondela said TMS Hospital is not the borrower of the K18 million debt owed to First Capital Bank but the owners of the building MKP who put it as the third party mortgage.

He said MKP borrowed the K18 million to finance the Heroes estate project which was a joint venture with the National Housing Authority.

On October 12, bailiffs pounced on TMS Hospital over the alleged debt owed to First Capital Bank.

In an interview, Mr Mpondela said it was unfair that TMS Hospital found itself as a third party, evicted when it had nothing to do with the case.

He said TMS Hospital has been a customer of the bank for over 14 years since it began its operations in Zambia and wondered why they had to be treated in such a cruel manner.

“They have been paying K175, 000 per month to the bank as their tenant.

And we have been banking with them for over 14 years and we give them good turn over as TMS Hospital. We were

given two days to vacate the building without a consideration that we are a health institution and the health of the patients is a priority,” he said.

Mr Mpondela said being a public health facility, First Captial Bank could have given them at least a three months’ notice.

“How do we remove technical equipment, staff, business and the patients? How do you remove patients who are sleeping on a bed getting treatment? This is unfair,” he said.

“They could have at least given us three months, we are not objecting to the fact that we had to move. We went to the court to ask for time while we were paying rent. Do you remove the tenant that is paying rent, why? Just to get out the business, this is abuse. . Do we create a precedence for any health facility that defaults to be treated in such a similar manner, is this fair,” Mr Mpondela said.

He said they had even written to the ministry of Health to intervene.

On September 30, Justice Wilfred Mwila vacated the injunction granted to TMS Hospital restraining First Captial Bank from evicting them from the premises.

Mr Justice Mwila said the bank had given the hospital ample notice and time to get their affairs in order and locate on an alternative property for the hospital.

GOVERNMENT has announced that the commemoration of the Day of National Prayer, Fasting, Repentance and Reconciliation in Lusaka has been moved from the Mulungushi International Conference Centre to the Lusaka Showgrounds.

Minister of National Guidance and Religious Affairs Godfridah Sumaili disclosed this in a press statement issued on Friday.

Reverend Sumaili stressed that the changes are for Lusaka Province and that all details of the commemoration scheduled for today remain unchanged.

The Minister has since advised the general public to join in the prayers and adhere to prescribed Covid-19 health and safety guidelines.

President Edgar Lungu is today expected to grace the commemoration of the Day of National Prayer, Fasting, Repentance and Reconciliation while the Vice President will be in Chipata.

Meanwhile, Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) president, Nevers Mumba has called on the church to use the National Day of Prayer to reconcile different groupings in society such as political parties.

Dr Mumba said everyone, including political players should genuinely engage and seek forgiveness of one another.

He also challenged Church leaders tasked with the responsibility to spearhead this year’s prayers to go beyond the usual commemorations and reach out to marginalised communities affected with different afflictions. – ZANIS.

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RB diagnosed with colon cancer

…As President Lungu wishes him well

By SIMON MUNTEMBA FORMER President Rupiah Banda has been diagnosed with cancer of the colon and has asked Zambians to remember him in prayers.

Meanwhile, President Edgar Lungu has wished Mr Banda a quick recovery as he fights cancer of the colon.

Mr Banda disclosed his illness yesterday through deputy administrative officer in the office of the fourth President Mr. Chibeza Mfune.

In a statement issued by Mr Mfune, Mr Banda said he has been diagnosed with colon cancer.

The 83-year-old former head of State said he had decided to make it public because he realised that the Zambians who gave him the opportunity to lead the country deserve to know his health condition.

“I have been moved to make this announcement taking into consideration that, although this is a personal and private matter which was actually only known by my relatives, including my two sisters, Ms Velesi Katema, Ms Seba Zulu, my younger brother James Banda and my children here in Zambia and diaspora led by my eldest son James Banda, the Zambian people who honoured me with the privilege to serve them as Head of State for which I will remain forever grateful and indebted, deserve to know that I have been diagnosed with cancer of the colon,” Mr Banda said.

Mr Banda has however

Girl, 16, dies after family beating for sleeping out

By NOEL IYOMBWA A 16-YEAR-OLD girl in Zimba has been beaten to death by five members of her family for not sleeping home.

Olen Siang’andu of Kayaba village in Chief Simwatachela Village was beaten by her father Legacy Sikaambi aged 39 years, her grandfather Folosi Sikaambi aged 79 years, her uncles Polse Sikaambi aged 50 years and Rodwell Sikaambi

said he was comforted that he would fight the battle just as his wife Thandie did.

He has since asked Zambians to remember him in prayers.

“Most importantly as the nation will no doubt recall that I lost my first wife Hope Makulu Banda to cancer and as fate would have it, my wife Thandie Chilongo Banda is a cancer survivor.

“Therefore, her counsel, encouragement and support borne out of her own experience after having successfully battled this type of disease is a great source of inspiration and comfort to me,” Mr Banda said.

And in a statement issued by his special assistant for press and public relations Isaac Chipampe, President Lungu said Mr Banda and first republican President Kenneth Kaunda were inspiring him as surviving national leaders and wished them well.

“As surviving former Presidents of our nation, Your Excellency, Mr Rupiah Bwezani Banda, and His Excellency, Dr Kenneth David Kaunda, you are always sources of inspiration for me.

I, therefore, wish you quick recovery as you battle cancer,” President Lungu said.

The Head of State further expressed gratitude that Mr Banda has disclosed his health status to the nation.

“That is a mark of love for the country and its people and we all should respond by wishing him well,” Mr Lungu said.

aged 29 years and her brother Conceder Siangandu aged 18 years.

Police spokesperson Esther Katongo said Olen stained bruises all over the body and suspected internal injuries.

Ms. Katongo said it is alleged that the victim did not sleep at home after attending a wedding in a nearby village.

She explained that the suspects also assaulted another 16-year-old girl, Oviness Michelo, 16 years who is a complainant.

Ms. Katongo disclosed that the complainant sustained bruises on the back and general body Pain and is admitted to Zimba Mission Hospital and the body of the deceased is in Zimba Mission Hospital mortuary awaiting Postmortem to ascertain the actual cause of death.

HE police in Lusaka are contemplating banning traffic snap checks following continued reports of corrupt activities by officers on the ground.

Traffic police officers in Lusaka have made it a business to extort money from motorists through mounting roadblocks beyond stipulated hours.

Zambia Police Road Traffic Division Superintendent, Yoram Phiri, warned that the lawlessness by some traffic officers would force the service

to abolish snap checks.

Mr Phiri said the high command was aware about the unbecoming behaviour of some traffic officers, saying that more than one check point was mounted on the same stretch.

“Some officers shift from one point to another on Kafue road,” he said.

Mr Phiri said that as a result some motorists were inspected more than three times as the officers were on the same route but at different points.

He observed that this was inconveniencing motorists, especially those delivering goods and services and warned that failure to follow directive

would result in banning snap checks.

Mr Phiri advised police officers to communicate with each other before mounting snap checks to avoid having close check points.

“Like I said last time, police officers are not allowed to mount check points for a long time but only snap checks, but what we have heard is that they simply shift to another place but same route along Kafue Road, they move from one place to another.

“If they not adhere to rules from the high command to run coordinated snap checks the plan will be to cancel these snap checks until it is well organized,”

UPND plans ‘mischief’ in Mpika

By OLIVER SAMBOKO THE UPND plans to cause trouble in Mpika when their leader Hakainde Hichilema appears before Police for questioning on Tuesday, it has been learnt.

Meanwhile, Home affairs minister Stephen Kampyongo has warned that government will not entertain any form of violence or trouble regardless of who perpetrates it.

UPND deputy national youth chairman Gilbert Liswaniso said in a statement that has been circulated on party social media platforms that they would organise a convoy of over 1, 000 vehicles to escort Mr Hichilema to Mpika where is being sought by police.

“This time around, HH is not going alone, a thousand cars from all over the country will join him and as we drive along, more and more cars and buses will follow us,” he warned.

Mr Liswaniso also called all members of the party across the country and those in the diaspora to hold peaceful protests wherever they maybe be.

He accused the PF Government of abusing the police against the opposition while leaving PF supporters and cadres enjoy unfettered protection of being above the law.

He said the party was aware that the summoning of Mr Hichilema was instigated by the PF who want to harm him

No voter must be left out, LAZ tells ECZ

By SIMON MUNTEMBA THERE is need for the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ to ensure that no eligible voter is disenfranchised from voting on account of processes, and that everyone must be carried along including prisoners, says the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ).

And LAZ honorary secretary, Sokwani Chilembo said the association was deeply concerned with the continued countrywide electoral violence.

In a statement to the Daily Nation, Mr Chilembo disclosed that LAZ had paid a

so that he does not appear on the presidential ballot in next year’s general election.

But Mr Kampyongo said he would not allow the UPND to move with a thousand vehicle convoy.

Speaking at a press briefing yesterday Mr Kampyongo said, “not under my watch, I will not allow UPND to move with a thousand vehicle convoy”. He advised Mr Liswaniso to be a law abiding citizen and not to promote anarchy because he risked being “smoked out” from wherever he may be hiding.

The Minister said it was sad that some political parties were daring government and when it acted, they claimed the civic space is shrinking and play victim.

courtesy call on the ECZ on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at which a number of critical issues surrounding the electoral process were discussed.

Following the said engagement, he said, a 20-member delegation of LAZ led by its president Mr. Abyudi James Shonga, met with the ECZ and the Zambia Law Development Commission at Mulungushi International Conference Centre on Friday, October 9, 2020 to review the proposed Bill on voting by prisoners in the forthcoming general elections.

“LAZ reiterates the need for ECZ to ensure that no eligible voter is disenfranchised from voting on account of processes, and that everyone must be carried along, including prisoners, subject to the guidance offered to ECZ by LAZ,” Mr Chilembo said.

Meanwhile, Mr Chilembo condemned the continued countrywide electoral violence and urged the ECZ to take necessary steps to curb the worrying culture of electoral violence.

Well Done Lungu - Mwata Kazembe

…as he welcomes the ECL-MPEC to Luapula PARAMOUNT Chief Mwata Kalembe of the Luba Lunda people of Luapula Province has welcomed the Edgar Chagwa Lungu Multipurpose Empowerment Cooperative in his chiefdom.

Mwata Kazembe said that President Edgar Lungu’s support to the downtrodden was appreciated.

He was speaking when ECLMPEC national coordinator Ms Evelyn Banda and her team paid a courtesy call on him at his Kazembe palace in Mwansabombwe.

Mwata Kazembe said he would ensure all his deserving subjects participated in the

programme and applied to access the various empowerment packages offered by the ECL-MPEC. The traditional leader urged the ECL- MPEC national coordinator and her team to ensure that they work with all traditional leaders in Luapula to ensure a smooth implementation of the empowerment programmes.

Meanwhile, Ms Banda thanked the Mwata Kazembe for his commitment to improving the welfare of his subjects by partnering with the ECL-MPEC. Ms. Banda said that the ECL-MPEC aims at

empowering not less than 50 cooperatives per constituency in the province.

Ms Banda said that the Edgar Chagwa Lungu Multipurpose Empowerment Cooperative considers traditional leaders as key stakeholders in the implementation of its programmes.

“We hold you our traditional leaders in very high esteem and we are very cognizant of the fact that you play the most important role in the lives of our people in the grass roots” Ms Banda said.

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he said.

Some traffic officers have defied the directive from the high command and were mounting road blocks especially on highway roads instead of undertaking snap checks.

Police officers have continued mounting roadblocks along Kafue road specifically between Chilanga and Makeni areas.

One of the motorists, Kelvin Siame, said that the police officers were inconveniencing motorists and creating congestion.

He said that police should instead monitor traffic flow along the road rather than being on the actual road.

Secure borders, Govt urged

By SIMON MUNTEMBA THE apprehension of 12 illegal immigrants of Ethiopian origin who were apparently being trafficked along with others to an unknown destination is a reminder that human trafficking is still rife and Zambia therefore should tighten its security at entry points countrywide, Peter Chanda has said.

Mr Chanda, who is New Congress Party president was reacting to a news report that the Immigration Department in Nyimba had apprehended 12 illegal immigrants of Ethiopian origin while 15 others, including six Zambians accompanying them were on the run.

The 27 Ethiopians were reported to be on their way to South Africa when the mini bus they were in belonging to Fleetwood School of Chipata fell into a ditch while trying to escape the Kacholala police check point in Nyimba yesterday.

One of the apprehended Ethiopians revealed that the driver wanted the Ethiopians to use a bush path while he and five other Zambians pass through the police checkpoint to reunite at a later point.

In September this year, an additional 26 Ethiopians enroute to South Africa were apprehended in a suspected human trafficking case in Nyimba.

Seventeen-year-old Abdilwas Ahmed of Halaba in Ethiopia said that he and 25 others were apprehended by immigration officers in Nyimba as they were trying to cross into neighbouring Mozambique.

But Mr Chanda wondered how many such trips have gone undetected.

He said in an interview that in as much as Zambia was an accommodating country, the nation could not continue to allow illegal entries into as such compromise national security.

“While we welcome Ethiopians and indeed other foreigners who want to visit our country or use it as a transit point to their destination, they should use legal channels for entry,” he said.

He said that was the only way Zambians would ascertain as citizens that they were not exposing themselves to wrong elements capable of planting discord or indeed criminals who would end up terrorising them.

All the arrested Ethiopians will appear in court soon.

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Attempt to fraudulently get loan ACCUSED DISPUTES FACTS IN DRUGS CASE Nakonde lands business woman in trouble TOLL RECEIPTS FORGERY whilst acting with Kalengo a Businessman of Lusaka, robbed RABECCAout BANDA OmariBYFrancis of K816,170 Cash.

LUSAKA youth who The charge further initially admitted alleges thatbeing before foundorwith after such the read drugsrobbery, disputed facts two used or prosecution, threatened saying by the everything mentioned to usenotactual violence belonged him. to on Francis in to order Hestolen claimed he pleaded retain the money. because he did not

By MULENGA The guilty alleged incident understand the charge then.

MUSONDA is said The to 17-year-old have hapAfter a body search was on 10th July 2020 included before magistrate JASON that Simbeye the penedappearing district Ruth Kapulo whereofhe man alleged have in Nakonde a bag hetowas Muchinga Province. is facing three counts of orchestrated a robbery carrying, the foundWhen trafficking psychotropic the in matter and got away with over 10 diazepam up for mention K800,000 cash in Na- came substances. beforeMagthe court Resident tablets, a clear plastictobagbefore Facts konde has continued were that on Banda, September 24, istrate George containing marijuana appear in the Nakonde and 2020, the Drug Enforcement informed the Court drugs. as the State 96Magistrates sachets of heroin Commission (DEC) received Court that instructions the Court awaits for inon how to proceed with structions.

Simbeye 31 is jointly the matter had not yet charged with Francis been issued by the Of*Visit www.dailynation.info today!

Kalengo 47 of Lusaka's fice of the Director of Matero Township with Public Prosecution's.

The Court adjourned one count of aggravated Robbery contrary to the matter of the two section 294 of the Pe- in absentia to August nal Code of the Laws of 21 for another mention and possible committal Zambia.

Allegations are that to the High Court.

The two are still reSimbeye a resident of Chipata jointly and manded in custody.

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information that there was a boy trafficking in psychotropic substances in Mandevu township.

The DEC officers proceeded to the area where they found the boy at Chitemuka market.

After a body search that included a bag he was carrying, the found 10 tablets, a clear Bydiazepam MULENGA MUSONDA plastic bag containing HREE and men96insachets Muchinmarijuana of heroin ga drugs.

Province have apWhen shown what was peared in the Nakonde found, he admitted Magistrates Court ownership. charged said he was with The 13boyCounts, among implicated and had nothing to them forging Road Toll Redo with the drugs. ceipts and Theft involving said he did not have all over He $430,000. the drugs mentioned in the Temba Mulako, 28, an Opfacts.

Magistrate Kapulo asked the boy why he pleaded guilty to the charge when he knew he did not do it.

He said his friends went to pick him from home and he was not aware they had drugs.

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Magistrate Kapulo: Did you not tell me that you were in possession of the drugs and it was your first time using?

Boy: Yes I did but not all the drugs were mine.

He said the heroin belonged to his friend.

He said he pleaded guilty at the first time of taking plea because he did not understand the charge.

erations Manager, Titus KaSaturday ponda, 32, 25 April, 2020his Assistant and Felix Kaonga, 31, a Messenpossession by virtue of their ger and all employees of Teemployer Tefami Construcfami Construction and SupNATION DIGITAL plies are facing 13 counts tion.

In four counts, Mulako of Forgery, Uttering of False and Kaponda are accused of Documents, Fraudulent forging payment vouchers False Accounting Tel: +260 211 243527 and Theft

by Servants contrary to the purporting that they were issued by Tefami Construction Laws of Zambia.

It is alleged that the 3 joint- when in fact not.

The two are further acly and whilst acting together MULENGA MUSONDARoad Toll of forging stole $430,243 and K79,593 BYcused equivalent to K7,700,000 Receipts purporting that www.dailynation.info 20-YEAR-OLD drugby pusher were issued the Namoney that came into their Athey

Choma drug PAPER pusher admits charge

BY JOHN KOMBE

A BUSINESSWOMAN of Kalingalinga in Lusaka has appeared in a Chongwe magistrate’s court for allegedly presenting false documents in an attempt to acquire a loan from a finance lending institution.

This is in a case in which 32-year-old Agnita Chisanga is charged with three counts - impersonating a public official (Payment Vouchers )of Tefacontrary to Section 102 Chapter 87, uttering false documents miand Construction. contrary to Section 352 Chapter 87 forgery contrary to Section 342 of the penal code Chapter of the laws are of Zambia.

The87incidents said to Chisanga is alleged to have attempted to fraudulently obtain a have happened in the early loan from Good Fellow Lending Institution monthsinofChongwe.

2020 in Nakonde She allegedly presented herselfdistrict as a public . officer by using documents belonging to Grace Namukonda of NRC number When the three appeared 407830/68/1. She presented the NRC and pay slip of named for plea before Resident person.

Magistrate George Banda The court heard that the loan manager, Ms Beatrice who is also in an IT Mubanga who conducted a checkMulako noticed inconsistencies specialist her verification. She then called the police whowas took visibly her for seen tightly a did crimina questioning. It was later discovered that theholding documents not thriller Novel by Bestselling belong to her.

Crime John GrishChisanga denied the charge whem she novelist took plea before tional RoadKabwe FundTembo.

Agency am in his hands as he enmagistrate when incourt fact not.

The recorded a plea of not guiltythe anddock. adjourned tered Kaonga is October also facing the case to 28 forfour mention and November 11 for read al When the Court counts of uttering doc-was the commencement of false trial. She remanded in custody. charges to them, they

uments namely Payment Vouchers and Road Toll receipts purporting that they were issued by Tefami Construction and NRFA respectively when in fact not.

In two counts Mulako and Kaponda are accused of falsifying accounting details

strongly denied any wrong doing compelling the Court to record pleas of not guilty in all the 13 counts.

The matter was adjourned to August 31 for commencement of trial.

The three are on police bond.

has admitted before the Choma Magistrates Court to selling narcotic and psychotropic The two are alleged to have considered that he had pleaded drugs. stolen 17 turkeys and other In the dock was Wilson guilty. livestock and stock feed all Siamuche Zambia valued at K108, 350.00.

She Township said however, she did not who was charged two need with to remind Simutunda of counts of trafficking and unlawful the seriousness of the offence happened on unknown dates, possession committed of controlled drugs as defilement took but between February and contrary to the laws of Zambia. a heavier weight because it ofApril 2020.

Particulars of the offence in THE Ndola High Court sitting where he informed the court that he was forced into tender- fended morals of society.

Mukota told the court that count one are that Siamuche in Kasama has sentenced a his manhood wasn’t functional ing plea.

Ms. Justice Sunkutu added the duo used to sell turkeys trafficked in 1.3 kilogrammes 57- year -old man of Kasama to when the matter came up for Ms Justice Sunkutu said the to him and claimed that their sexual relations were there of marijuanathat a herbal product

By MULENGAemployer MUSONDA 25-years-imprisonment with sentencing. court also did not show that the to had sent them. be practiced of Cannabis Sativa without between people He said he only discovered hard labour for defiling his ZANIS reports that the court convict brought up thelawful issue of age. authority or medical A 30-YEAR-OLD Tanzanian national that the deals were not neighbours’ seven- year- old records further revealed Simu- of the ailment before the trial “It is therefore puzzling why recommendation. has appearedgenuine in thewhen Nakonde Magisthe duo daughter. tunda claimed that because court, therefore the fact that he second In the count, he find sexual gratigrown men trate Court charged with possession hired him to transport maize is alleged tofication have unlawfully Kelvin Simutunda has been of the non-functioning of his raised the issue of a non-funcin children. There are of a counterfeit note and bran which heMarijuana. reluctantly BY JOHN KOMBE possessed grammes of convicted on one count of de- manhood, he would not have tional manhood at the high 0.4 certain things in life that are Tony Kiyando a Mechanic from transported to an unidentified heroin without lawful filement of an underage child, defiled a child. court was inconsequential. just notauthority. acceptable,” stressed Tukuyu in Tanzania is charged with woman believed to be a A BUYER of stolen property Theby incidents are said to have and the court described the act And the court issued an order She also deemed the plea the Justice. ofbuyer. a Counterfeit and Mukota saidnote that he has testified how possession two farm happened on September 30, as shameful and puzzling. for a medical examination to be the convict in the trial court to She said that even nature said of waterfalls Trafficking in later Psychotropic Substances reported the matter to workers area 2020 in Choma. ‘’The child is not only two done at Kasama General Hos- be unequivocal and the resul- no to such practices as in it Chongwe was police after he heard that the used contrary to supplyto the Laws of Zambia.

When he appeared for plea, years out of under-five- card, pital, a matter that was later re- tant conviction was therefore employer wasone complaining uncalled for. him with turkeys believed to Allegations in count are that Siamuche said he understood but was like a day old chick ferred to the University Teach- proper. of livestock. have been stolen Kiyando from theirhad about Justice Sunkutu said she in hisloss possession a K100 all the chargesMs read to him by not miss out feasted on anything cross examination employer. whichDo could not be on even ing on Hospital in Lusaka as there She said that she allowed the interpreter was basing her judgement on counterfeit noteDuring without authority. the court Munika the duo each asked the cannotthe leavecourt the comfort until days fully you grown,” was of noyour urologists at the former. examination of convict in inter- thein fact even had Mukota, 41Intetified Mwananshiku Tonga, the when peopleWebster count two, he is accused of trafwitness whether it was then 29 in 78grammes wondered. medical report revealed est of justice. language hesex, was they comfortable home. Get first hand factual newsA from the had it at theagainst right Charles Mwila, ficking of Marijuana, who sold him the turkeys and and Benson Nyambe, 27 with.

TheDAILY courtNATION has wondered after examina“Since we have not received age and so men like Simutuna herbal product of Cannabis Sativa digital e-Paperthat at aSimutunda click sold the maize bran. The both employees of a Ms Rose Siamuche pleaded guilty to whereofsome men got the con- tion was found to be suffering word from the hospital to the da were a disgrace not only to without lawful authority or that medical a button. witness confirmed he was Sakala. all the charges andbut explained to as a whole. tinued inhuman behaviour and from hydrocele of the left testi- functionality of his manhood, recommendation. men, to society very sure of his claims.

This is in a matter where the court drugs he was sexually gratified themselves cle and nothing was on record I find it is not prejudicial to that the areruled saidthat tothe have “Do not take children’sthey innoThe court are charged withThe thefttwo by incidents found with were for sale and he with children who are meant to concerning his condition be- him today! for me to proceed with the cence away before time.servant *Visit www.dailynation.info onprosecution 28th Julyteam 2020 NaA girl contrary to happened hadinproved Section was given by a Joze to conduct be cared for, rather than being fore the court. sentence especially if the indeed of seven years old is just their case beyond any 272two and 278 of thekonde penal district. illegal activities.

When plea defiled.

“I shall proceed going by ev- this was a problem that was of years reasonablefor doubt.

Thebefore court out of using an under five code Chapter 87 of the laws he appeared Magistrate Muyambango Resident George Banda, therefore found the duo with a of Zambia. They appeared for Magistrate Sitting in Kasama, Ndola idence on record since court is great concern to the convict, he card,” She lamented.

Munukayumbwa entered pleas court to answer and himself put them trialthat before magistrate theKabwe accused strongly distanced High Court Judge in -Charge, not bound by medical opinion would have brought it upofin the in bothMs. Justice guilty counts and Sunkutu said on defence.

Tembo. from both allegations.

Ms. Justice Emelia Sunkutu said unless it is absolutely necessary court below,” She said. adjourned the thematter fact that the child was sevto a later The court adjourned the of to Banda entered pleas date after Public Prosecutor she has never witnessed one for it to do so,” Ms. Justice SunAnd in mitigation, Simutunda en was aggravating and The thustwo are allegedMagistrate matter to 11 for stolen 17 turkeys not and guilty in respect toNovember both counts and adjournment. cooking a day old chick and kutu said. through his lawyer said applied that hefor an Simutunda should walkhave with defence the accused livestock andadjourned stock feed the Siamuchehis willhead appear on for the restother matterwhile to August 24 for consume it.

She said that it showed that was a first offender who readily hung of his are on bail awaiting their next all valued at K108, trial.

350.00.

October 20 life for facts possible Court records reveal that the the convict pleaded guilty be- pleaded guilty to the charge andand then sentenced him to appearance in court.

The offence is said toKiyando have sentencing. was remanded in custody. conviction was according to fore the trial court and there Ms Justice Sunkutu said she 25-years-imprisonment with

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Teacher bullies school cook.. accusing him of witchcraft. This was at Siavonga (Dr Lubinda Haabazoka) Secondary School as reported by the Lusaka Sun/The Zambian Sun.

The 2021 elections are likely to remain tribal and regional LET us save the elephant and The following are some comments from other animal population in video our online edition.

To watch the go to www.thezambiansun.com Livingstone.

It’s the last town the Pew Research Centre, a think-tank, Dear Editor, found that 58 percent of Americans think remaining with animal presence.

• CLARA S HAMOOYA: As a Tonga I get all his words race relations are “generally bad” and People may pretend and say whatever but this is not how we play chimbuya.

This Lozi teacher Kwasala munadya nakupaya 45 percent believe it has become more they want to appear morally upright or must be arrested, this is too much. My heart bleeds. acceptable to express racist views since politically correct but the truth remains He can’t do such a thing to an elder not to talk of taking vonse!

Donald Trump was elected president. that no one can ignore the potent role a video The exit polls by various researchers that tribe and region play in African need to stop expansion • We INKECHI ANDREW, MWEENEthe CHIYUNI: Claradivisions S show across racial and politics.

Hamooya.

He was locked up yesterday. educational groups, too. As was the Toresidential ignore or pretend otherwise is to be the of areas into • CLARAtoSthe HAMOOYA: Nice can't his friend in the 2016 presidential election, hypocritical realities that wehe face astreatcase that way white men voted Republican by a wide Africans. game reserves andThis areas where •While ÑÔRÀH ÎÑÔÑGÉ LÙMÀÑÔ: is someone's margindad (60 percent to 39 percent) while tribe and region are important and why would a teacher do thatLivingstone to a grown man,women huh were divided (49 percent animals are found. white demographics in elections and why? tribalism and regionalism are favoured the Democratic candidate; as campaigns, City Council should ensure that • CATHARINE CHANDA: OnlytoBembas and Ngonis are many supported the Republican). Blacks dangerous sentiments that needs be thewith only people who know chimbuya very well.

I love voted overwhelmingly (90 percent) for fought everything we’ve got. we preserve nature. you Koswes the Democratic candidate, including The world over, demographics such JOHN C NKHOMA: Catharine Chanda, wecomparable love you to shares of black men (88 as•race, ethnicity, religion, gender, These are my wishes Kolwesage play very crucial roles in percent) and black women (92 percent). education, • Twalumba JOLLITY TINTAand MUDENDA: As wethat edge closer to the 2021 elections politics, campaigns elections This and is utter stupidity kapati teacher needs an early retirement after all there are

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we expect to see desperate political it would be naive and lackadaisical for many on the this waiting list. How dare he bullies an elderly resort to tribal and regional shenanigans anyone to ignore reality. manMiddle busy preparing a meal for pupils?

Andsentiments the video to woo and hoodwink voters.

In the East, religion plays a man ulichianga mudala.

What we should guard against is the central role in politics.

Most (if not all) • KINGSTONE BWALYA: The man who wasdangerous taking the animalistic instinct of some Middle Eastern countries make sure that video must be laws arrested well. UPND please arrest individuals to try to divide and baseless their constitutions, and as education the two today. take advantage of us using tribalism and curricula comply with the religious • DOUGLAS Sad...extremely sad!! regionalism for their political expediency. norms dominant MWEEMBA: in each society, this has Dear Editor, luxuries to meet the cost of the country. President Edgar • MOSES MUBANGA: Evil chap deserves to be We must summon our moral and sometimes fuelled sectarian divisions and nshima.) The PF govern- Lungu and PF government arrested.

Let is this cook gethappening a medical reportintellectual and have authority and fight VER tribalism the last four ment's open market policy has tossed the coin and it conflict, like what currently months (July to Octohas created a conducive en- is still spinning. The farmhim arrested. and regionalism with everything we have in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Yemen and Lebanon, ber 2019), of theour price of vironment for sector growth. er's side of the coin is finally CARPENTER: This is assaultconflict and the teacher should for the unity, peace and prosperity let•alone the ongoing Arab-Israeli Zambia's staple food (maize For decades Zambia has facing upwards. The farmer arrested. nation. whichbehas a prominent religious aspect mealie meal) has been enjoyed government subsi- has for the first time sold his One Zambia, Oneand Nation. to •it. JUSTINE NGOSA: Very sad, inhuman on an upward trend. dies on food and essential maize at the market price.

Observe Social •More NJINVYANJI SILWAMBA: Respect everyoneStay Home. Mask Up. than a decade after America This is largely due to an services such as electricity.

This has put more monDistancing.

Sanitise regardless of their status, this behaviour was uncalled Wash and elected its first black president, fears of open systemYour allowing farm- With time, these subsidies ey in his pocket. This has Hands Regularly. ers to sell maize at market have been reduced and stirred a production move- for packaging materials such worsening for. racial tensions are on the rise with growing emergence of white • the ENOCK MASIYE: TCZ should do something about this value. A healthy situation. in some cases withdrawn ment and an increase in the as sacks (Antonio Mourinho Mwanza) supremacism. teacher. A poll in February from Government on the other to ease the burden on the number of persons putting The ultimate result is new What we can spend Dear Editor, hand has continued to pro- national The we rightconvincingly for- jobs, new income term. treasury. The ad- hoe to ground.Can • KAY CHIBALE: This teacher is very stupid. streams declare cure agricultural produce foundthat andwe a are justment process is never mula has been andseriously a broadened taxnow baseto alltest as many as we • CHERRY KABISA: This teacher is very stupid from farmers as per tradi- seamless An increase but is a necessary (COMMENTS) with an aim the quarantine those can and fighting Covid-19?

What is of enhancing SOMETIMES when I sitbalance and struck.

• CHARITY KASONGO LENGWE: This is bad, who in agricultural output for willthenation’s tion (at slightly lower pric- measure. quality of livelihood. found positive, will be less the reason seemingly does that? have a critical look at the mean; es) to beef up We need to ask ourselves; increase in mealie Heartson Mabeta: Unfortunately this is the backbone not food only security • DEBORAH TAIZYA'S MUM: Shocking, why treat aof democracy and it’s than the money that will be casual approach toThe a deadly cumulative number of cases *A reduction in prices of meal the Food Reserve "Who feeds Zambia?" prices is therefore a politics but also religions like Christianity which promotes freedomthrough of association hence fellow human like that. to repair the damaged pandemic such as Covid-19? cases reported byproduce and increased blessing in disguisespent agro Agency.

"Atand whatnew cost do they do it?" whose we•have protestants in a his cold war friend with the Roman Catholic Church.

VICKY ZULU: And idiotic is laughing and turn This market value or cost "Do they make a of profit out exports. This economy resulting from the Is itinthat we bedo not have will be appreciated benefits the minister Information filming sure. Both need to be arrested. comes a self-regulating or reflective tag has led to an in- of it?"

The answer to each of beginning next harvest seaslow process of testing very enough Covid-19 test kits or everyday, Cde Katontoka Mweemba: I agree with Antonio Mourinho Mwanza. crease in mealie meal prices these three questions will in market driven sector of the son. Every wise citizen with • Michael MULENGA MWILA FUNDANGA: But why ai?you Some few people daily. we have but do not have the ask myself a lot of whether or economy. for the consumer. It's a bitter turn Idetermine foresight should seize this people are evil. is better to test even political to expediently and answers*An increase Peter Mfuni:MWANSA: Correct. InNot ouratcountry, to make believe in will industhe current with price no of measweetthat taleregionalism of sorts in that the notquestions moment and join the It band• LUCIA its level someone best but atwants its worst. a million came with PF, (WRONG).

They should read Sikota Wina’s book “The Night Without a speedily do the right thing.? tries manufacturing farming coming forth.

Where are we lie meal is justified.

Zambia farmer is getting value with wagon of new farmers.

The people a day • JOCH NAITUMELA SILISAPO: This is bad and totally equipment, The fertiliser subsistenceIs the every drop of sweat and the is largely rewards will be worth it.

President.” countrywide if possible, and moreand we keep releasing going fed as by a country? unacceptable. most of KAY MUSONDA, consumer (mostly in urban farmers have 4, 000 positive people small numbers every day the approach wewhom have are takenother inputs, • KAMIZHI NDONYO: Harassment at its level best. *An increase in demand PF Media. areas has to forego certain in rural or outskirt areas of Isaiah Sakala: Chendi Mukwasu, sinceact..

1998should political quarantined than a gradual more we build more anxiety in testing the people for • ALEX MALAMBO: Unprofessional be campaign language changed to tribal regional politics, now it’s hard to reverse it because of the 2016 election. discovery of the same number and fear in the Zambian disciplined.

Covid-19 realistic?

• SANDRA SODA: Where is this? of positive cases within a people. It would even be In the face of Covid-19, is Christopher Chimfwembe Bwalya: Comrade Mwanza, it is what it is, even when we • JOCH NAITUMELA: Silisapo, Sandra Soda it's written period of four months or more. better to keep quiet and the government giving hope were growing up no matter how bad our brothers mistreated us at home when they are in somewhere For me, the “new cases” announce the cumulative to the people or more fear fights with our people, because they were are our brothers and cousins we sided them • NAMAKAU SHIYANGA: This was too much. we are announcing everyday results over a period of two and negative anxiety is being and we still do.

• NAMAKAU SHIYANGA: Foolish teacher. are not new but the slowly weeks. created in the minds of the • VINCENT YONA: The law should visit immediately.

Mead Mutale : This is very true and only human comrade. Voting on racial, gender discovered cases of people The government might people? Is the approach we • MISHECK M KAYARA JR: OK what wasisfunny ai? or tribal lines is expected.

What’s concerning the growing lack of coexistence Dear Editor, and already infected. We are just have taken cost effectiveDear to Editor,say they have no money • GEORGE CHAINDA SR: Mr Bowman Chilosha tolerance in between elections. making a gradual discovery of to speed up the process the Zambian government in Lusambo take note.

CROWDS are not a determinant of winning elecI AM dismayed that Radio the cases. but the question is, haven’t the long term?

• YVONNE Shame. those Lutanda was closed because Denver NkundeNJELESHI: : You are very right Antonio Mourinho some tribestions. want Most other of tribes to who attended the HH/UPND The 50 cases discovered we received any donations Zambia has a population of • MATE BIZMARCK MUTABA: Vacancy iyo. rally in Kitwe didn't come from the district. of a programme that was vote for them while they haven’t been voting for other tribes in their region.....

That was a UPND national rally.

Epobapela deemed tribal.

My own feel• LIMPO MWANGALA: He is playing with his retirement over two weeks could be towards the Covid-19 fight? approximately 18.38 million. apopene. Ba UPND Zambia yonse.Every day new cases of ings are that truth package. known in one day had And hurts. if we have received less Cassius Lungu : This problem comes about owing to the existence Most of democracy. of his members were ferried from Southern We all know the voting • ALICKhas KAMANGA: Please have this teacher arrested. more than 5, 000 people than five on average are Democracy fueled such divisions, today in Rwanda no one makes nonsensical and a few noise from Western and other provinces. pattern in thesomething, UPND strong-how have we used an animal and needs be isolated from theThere was noProvince been tested in one day. it? in Southern IBA Director General basedHe onisdemocracy in turn the to country is at peace. division in Libya untiltrying to hoodwink announced by the Ministry UPND and HH are Zambians holds,of especially community. the demise of Gadaffi and subsequent introduction of democracy.that they have become popular on the CB. is so For this reason, I suggest If it’s the money we have Health.

OnUsing some daysProvince. no new The voting Josephine Mapoma • DUMI SANI: That idiot of a teacher must be fired..... crowds are their old tactic. At lastcases they always lose. regional and received so tribal that the government must order as a donation, are are announced.

There His Mwape so nonsensical youcontinue don't treat people it’s likenormal the way willwe crycall even 2021. no amount of masking it can close the radio station for Charles : That will because Globally inThey Africa it in tribal mandatory testing for all the we using it to feed those who reason for having no new HH cannot change anything in Zambia.

After all he was behaving. hide it.

Let us call a spade a speaking the truth. The tribvoting in developed world it’s strongholds or by color of the strong Party in the region, citizens in the country. are quarantined or what?

Even verythe few cases as they don't have a manifesto. They cases can't doorwhat spade. al vote won’t stop unless we • ANGELA MBIRI: is very and foolish how can province or state such He as red andstupid blue state . The earlier we accept it the better PF government has done in sevencompared years since 2011. if nothat donation The tribal vote comes has to other countries talk come about forth, it openly. I Let say us all queue up one he do that, let the law take its course They are very far from ECL’s powerful development from Southern Province is well done Radio Lutanda for day and be tested. We can the government can still find recording even more than 4, • LUIS LENNOX I: Thealready only idiot is the hearing one whotribal was talks from ‘high profiled Peter Funsani : We have started agenda which has delivered. documented any- tohighlighting it the same way we queue someand money sort out thethe tribaldovote 000 cases a day is thewell number shooting the video. people’.....then come 2022 we constitute a commission of inquiry on SONTAPO the votingnot patterns? ukulandafye and promising people one is free to go to the Elec- from Southern Province.

• GARNET MUMBA: The teacher and the idiot of a up when casting a vote in an problem at hand. on aCommission impossible or manna from Heaven.of people being testedtoral of Zambia Napwisha, camera man should be put behind bars. we must never stop fighting election.

Many things Antonio Mourinho Mwanza : Peter Funsani tribalism, wefor 2021 polling certain one We shall only wait day. day. In Zambia,and check on the results of have come to • use KAYwhatever CHIBALE: Very stupid mmmmmm Your ratings on HH, CK are FAKE. beatonly 80 the last two elections. must it takes to fightteacher its dominance in our society NSHANGALILWA, Lastly, I appreciate the a standstill andCHANDA no one knows dayHH wecan't tested people ELC. I think it when was wrong to Lusaka. will end.

• Papadopoulus Munkombwe: He is a fool. efforts the government is the coronavirus and recorded very few cases.

PAUL CHILESHE. Peter Funsani : Antonio Mourinho Mwanza social beings have way of clustering each making in uplifting the living At the pace we are moving As a country, we need to other. The biggest issue is that we use those social clusters to fight each other. We standard of the people. What as a nation, with people freely move. But we cannot move practice social clustering almost everyday of our lives....the issue is to use it as a tool to I have given is a piece of moving from the epicentres due to the pace at which the fight a cause which involve masses such an election

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Sunday 18 October, 2020

ARE WE WINNING AGAINST COVID-19

Daleb Langford: Sure doc ...let's talk so that these people hear!

Namushanawa Nyambe: I am happy to hear your voice on this matter, just some few days ago, a boy was killed by an elephant in UPND crowds started Livingstone. The issue of residents chasing elephants is a serious one, way back in 2006 but sir if you go across boarder Vic Falls or Kasane people stay with animals side by side and these are the same animals which cross the river, so what will happen is that these animals may decide to be not coming to Zambia meaning that tourists will not be seeing them and as the tourists also will stop president Chilufya Tayali in his Dear Editor, coming to Livingstone. Meaning presence at the court premises. no dollar coming to our country.

This was in a matter Mr WE wish to express our When it comes to trees cutting the Hichilema had commenced disappointment to learn whole Southern Province is gone criminal proceedings for libel that police officers are now no trees meaning less rains which against Mr Tayali. To date, Mr endangered species at the advice to help save the people government is moving in terms to other places and taking a translates into poor yields for he better given the gravity of the snail's pace in testing people, of testing people. As long Mupengelanyika Hamuyuni Simon : Good observation Sir. Hichilema has not distanced hands of cadres and notably province, which also makes the situation in which we are. we are likely to cover more as we keep testing very few himself from the violence neither the UPND in Mpika as reported Jordan Malawo : I agree with you ...but that is where we miss it as Zambians. people every day in proportion years dealing with the virus. power generation dams to have FR. MATALAYI C. KABINDA, The longer time we take in the entire population of over has he demanded for their sectionsto of the media.

Goldens Golden : less True , unfortunately two major political partiesin are some quilty on this Ofm Conv. determining who is infected 18 million, can we be proud less water water inthedams scheme. I wish one day Zambians will realize that they are just been used by some Mikomfwa, Luanshya and who is not, the greater or convincedthe of making any prosecution.

In democratic Zambia, politicians do the needful. themselves can correct this by saying no to meansandmore load Zambians shedding . Ba the repercussions in the long progress? tribalism and vote on merit. One Zambia One Nation It is unfortunate that the political players have the President please muyanganepo. protracted tolerance of such responsibility to ensure that they behaviour has now degenerated compete for political power in a Mayamba Sitali: I agree with into making police officers their civil manner devoid of any taint you Doc, so much human activity target. If the police officer can of hooliganism. destroying the natural environment be abducted against his will, The unbecoming behaviour of we wonder whether citizens are UPND who were in the company Joseph Chipayeni: I agree with assured of safety under a UPND of their leader Hakainde you.

Government.

Hichilema which in the end We are made to believe that We urge the police to resulted in the abduction of HH or his top brass who were in Elias Nkhuwa: When it comes to proactively follow this issue the police officers raises the the entourage have an inventory settlement planning, many councils and ensure the matter reaches questions of morality. of the cadres they ferried to seem not to be doing a great job. a logical conclusion so as to Mr Hichilema’s continued create an artificial popularity.

Are we employing and voting the preserve the integrity and dignity silence on the abduction of the It will therefore be kind of right people? of the Zambia Police Service. police officers in his camp is a HH to hand over the unruly This is also a wake call that the mismatch to his claims that in cadres to the police other than Brian Mweene : Very true. I police should take mostly issued an impossible situation he found his extremely provocative and support you doc on this one. careless statements such as “we himself in State House will take unremorseful culture of justifying Tourism in Botswana towns such will put this country on fire” or his thugs.

The act is not only violence disguising it under the as Kasane is booming all because “defend yourselves against the retrogressive but a threat to veil of self defence.

It also shows of the proximity of wild game. We police.” national security. their fragrant disrespect to the need to find a solution to animalAs a party wishing to govern HH must emulate President police who were merely on duty man conflict so that we could the country, UPND must show Edgar Lungu who has carrying out their national duties. earning from wild life. Monze and patriotism by respecting the consistently rebuked cadrerism This is not the first time, Mr Namwala could have easily have institutions of Government and especially that the President Hichilema is willfully paying a become tourists spots due to their always use established channels has no tolerance for thuggery blind eye for violence committed proximity to the parks but we have to handle their complaints. irrespective of whether it is done in his presence. encroached too much in his name. The number of PF As the nation may properly MARVIN CHANDA MBERI, cadres appearing in the Courts recall, a few years ago, Austin Mulolo: Couldn’t agree Youth Rights Activist. of law and those serving jail the UPND cadres attacked with you more Chingola. sentences clearly proves this.

Economic and Equity Party (EEP)

IBA should reopen Radio Lutanda

CADRES WHO ABDUCTED POLICE OFFICERS MUST BE HANDED OVER

Cancellation of Ndola mobilisation rally right move Dear Editor, THE Students Mobilisation Coordinator’s office welcomes the decision by the Patriotic Front national mobilisation committee chairman Mr Richard Musukwa to cancel the Copperbelt Province mobilisation rally which was planned for yesterday at Musa Kasonka Stadium and was to feature two South African musicians.

We also wish to acknowledge the efforts of provincial mobilisation committee chairman Bowman Chilosha Lusambo for his efforts in growing the party on the Copperbelt.

As a matter of fact, we note with great appreciation the reasons cited by all concerned stakeholders including the ministry of Health for guidelines on prevention of the Covid-19 under the prevailing circumstances.

The students’ mobilisation team is committed to ensuring adherence to all the conditions set out in the prevention of the worst consequences.

We also wish to acknowledge the concerns raised by our local artists who feels it’s time to recognise them and give them an opportunity to profit from such concerts.

We further urge all students to remain calm and wait upon the new dates that will be set by the stakeholders for our participation in mobilisation activities.

IBRAHIM KABWE MWAMBA, National Students Mobilisation Coordinator.

Sunday Sunday Sunday 5 July, 2020 19Sunday July, 2020 2020 18, October

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PROFESSOR MWIINE LUBEMBA ON SUNDAY (Not Paramount Chief Chitimukulu)

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NO MATTER WINS THERE’S NAPSA SHOULD HAVE2021, CREATED What youWHO probably don’t CASTOR SEED …Our neglected Eco-friendly NO ESCAPE FROM THE CHAOS MORE JOBS WITH US$100M… know aboutcropGold is urgent indigenous industrial The UN COP 22 protocol pledged US$100 billion to eco-friendly industrial solutions.

There exist additional financing mechanisms under resolution 61 to 67 of the 2016 UN COP 22 that our Finance Minister can tap into if his predecessors have not already depleted our allocation.

US$100 billion happened under Mwanawasa’s recede because neither Mr “kulibonesha ta” acampaign.

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A M B I A Sports Fans Association patron Peter Makembo has urged Zambian international striker Justin Shonga not to give up his blocked move to Europe by South African giants Orlando Pirates who blocked his move to Europe before dumping him at Tshakuma FC. And Makembo has hailed government for pledging to support Chipolopolo coach Milutin “Micho” Sredojevic in his quest to redeem Zambia’s chances to qualify for the 2022 Camerron Africa Cup of Nations.

After he was unveiled as one of the new players at South African premiership side Tshakhuma FC, Shonga said Pirates blocked his move to Europe before dumping him at Tshakuma FC. The former Nkwazi FC striker said his move to Tsha-

kuma FC was planned by Orlando Pirates as he did not know anything about it until he was called into the Pirates office by the chairman Irvin Khoza.

"I think this move was already planned by Pirates because I didn't even know I was coming this side because I already had other plans with my own agent," Shonga told the media after being unveiled in Polokwane on Thursday.

“The plans I had, I wanted to leave South Africa and I wanted to go to Europe. Clubs were waiting for me but unfortunately Pirates never wanted to release me by that time.

"By the time Pirates released me, the window period was closed in Europe."

However, Makembo urged Shonga to stay focused and work hard at his new club to gain the coach’s trust at national team level.

Makembo said the former Nkwazi striker is a talented young players who can redeem himself following the numerous challenges he faced at Orlando Pirates where he spent the 2019/2020 season without a goal as he was mostly on the bench. “Shonga should not be discouraged by the move from Pirates to the new team from

Limpopo. Let him use the opportunity given to show that he can still be called for national team assignments because he is a Chipolopolo player,” Makembo said.

“The move may affect him psychologically but if he impresses at Tshakuma FC, European clubs will still come for him and he will be able to win back his position at the national team,” Makembo said.

Shonga, faced disciplinary action at Pirates before last season's bio-bubble along with Thembinkosi Lorch after they were found guilty of breaching club protocols.

Meanwhile, Makembo has hailed President Edgar Lungu for supporting the growth of sports through the Ministry of Sports which ledged to assist Chipolopolo coach with everything he may need to prepare the team for the AFCON qualifiers against Botswana next month.

Makembo acknowledged that the Serbian needs everyone’s support including the fans to deliver positive results.

He reaffirmed his associations’ commitment to support the Chipolopolo during the crucial back to back AFCON qualifiers against Botswana set for next month.

Copper Queens step up Cosafa preps

By MICHAEL MIYOBA THE Zambia senior women national team has intensified preparations for the 2020 Cosafa Women Championship set to kick off on November 4 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

And speaking during an interview after a morning training session at Edwin Imboela Stadium yesterday, Copper Queens coach Bruce Mwape said the team is in good shape with no injuries.

Mwape said the team’s target is to win this year’s regional competition after winning silver at the 2019 edition.

“The plan is to come back as winners because we have participated in the COSAFA for many years and reaching the final last year was an indication that we can also be champions for the COSAFA tournament.

“This time around, people are expecting us to win the competition because of being the champions representing Africa at the Olympics. All our fans are expecting us to start on a good note buy winning the COSAFA,” Mwape said.

Mwape said the Copper Queens will play two friendly matches with local clubs as they prepare for the Cosafa tournament.

Meanwhile, the Shepolopolo coach said two foreign stars in Barbra Banda and Rachel Kundananji could join the team after the leagues in China and Kazakhstan finished.

“We have Barbra in China. The league just ended and if she comes next week we will be able to look at her fitness if need be she will be included in the team that will go to south Africa and even with Kundananji it is the same story she might join the team,” Mwape said.

Zambia will compete alongside hosts South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Comoros Islands, Malawi, and Zimbabwe, while East African team Tanzania will participate as the guest nation. The group stage draws for the championship will be held on October 20 and the eight participating teams will be split into two groups of four and challenge for a place in the semi-finals.

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KWEKWE man has been arraigned before the courts for allegedly raping and impregnating his biological daugh-

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The man, whose identity cannot be revealed to protect the victim, but is from Chiwundura, allegedly raped and impregnated his 19-year-old daughter.

He was arraigned before Kwekwe Magistrate Ms Mildred Matuvi facing rape charges.

He was remanded in custody to October 24 for provision of trial date.

Prosecuting, Ms Ethel Bhumhure told the court that sometime in June this year, the accused person and the complainant were staying together at a farm near Kwekwe.

One day he alledgedly sneaked into the complainant’s bedroom, Ms Bhumure told the court. While in the bedroom, the accused person allegedly sneaked into the blankets where the complainant was sleeping.

He then threatened her with death if she dared scream before going on to rape her once.

The accused person temporarily left the room before returning after some minutes and raped the accused person twice.

After the act he threatened her with death and left the room.

The matter came to light when the complainant visited her aunt who discovered that she was pregnant.

She was taken to hospital for tests

where she was discovered to be 20 weeks pregnant.

The matter was then reported to police leading to the arrest of the accused.

The accused in his defence left the court in stiches after he claimed to have gone mad after going after a bat.

“She saw a bat and screamed for help and I quickly rushed to her rescue. The bat however disappeared into darkness and we went mad. I ended up sleeping with her as I thought I was in my bedroom. We did it three times, I remember. But soon after she regained consciousness that is when I discovered I was in the wrong room,” the accused told the court. - THE CHRONICLE.

Cambodian farmers deploy scarecrows to ward off virus ARMED with a stick, a floral-shirted scarecrow with a plastic pot for a head stands guard in front of a rural Cambodian home — a sentry erected by superstitious farmers to ward off the coronavirus.

Known as “Ting Mong” in Khmer, the creatively rendered scarecrows often pop up in villages that have been hard-hit by infectious diseases like dengue or waterborne diarrhoea.

“I’ve set up Ting Mong to prevent the coronavirus from threatening my family,” says farmer Sok Chany, 45. She has two posted in front of her wooden stilt home in Kampong Cham province, about 110 kilometres (70 miles) northeast of the capital Phnom Penh.

The other is dressed in camo-green and has a stick propped like a rifle across its hay-stuffed chest.

“It is our ancient superstition to set up Ting Mongs when there are dangerous diseases or to avert evil,” she

tells AFP. The majority-Buddhist kingdom has a strong strain of animism incorporated into the daily lives and rituals of Cambodians, with many believing that spirits are tied to places, animals

and things.

Ting Mongs are meant to ward off evil spirits wishing to bring harm to an unsuspecting family by spreading disease.

In Sok Chany’s Trapeang Sla village, no chances are taken — an effigy is tied to the gates of nearly every home, though constructed with varying degrees of effort.

Some are elaborately dressed in military uniforms or floral pyjamas, while others simply have stuffed bags with sunglasses perched on them for a head.

Farmer Ton Pheang stuffs old clothing up the arm of his Ting Mong, who is dressed in a bright pink shirt and has a helmet for its head. . - AFP

Jilted man threatens to kill wife with lightning WHILE many people are happy that the rainy season is upon us, a woman from Ntabazinduna is living in fear of losing her life after her estranged husband threatened to kill her by lightning while in her house.

Rhoda Dlodlo from Madlelenyoni Line claimed her ex-husband Elias Zondo from Dobha Line in ward 5, also in Ntabazinduna, threatened that he had the power to send lightning to kill her as punishment for deserting him. In a desperate bid to stop Zondo from carrying out his chilling threats, a fearful Dlodlo approached the Bulawayo Civil Court and sought a protection order against him.

“I want a protection order to be granted against my ex-husband Elias Zondo.

We parted ways because he was an irresponsible man.

He was failing to financially support me. He is a drunkard and would drink beer from morning till late at night.

“He would come home very drunk and start insulting me with vulgar language. On 17 September he followed me to my sister’s house where I’m now staying. He came armed with an axe and knobkerrie and was

threatening to harm me.

“He also threatened to bewitch me saying he was going to send lightning to kill me together with those I’m staying with. He is also coming late at night at our home and lies in wait in the yard.

He is a very dangerous man and I now feel insecure that he can harm me together with those people I’m staying with,” said Dlodlo.

Zondo didn’t, however, refute his ex-wife’s accusations. He said he carried out the threats in a bid to force Dlodlo to reconcile with him.

“Yes, I followed her to where she is now staying because I wanted her to come back home so that we can stay together.

I was hurt that she deserted me so that is why I followed her to her place of residence. This is also because I didn’t expect her to leave me just like that,” protested Zondo.

His efforts to reconcile with Dlodlo seemed to have been dampened after the presiding magistrate Nkosinomusa Ncube sternly ordered him that for the next six months he should not to go to her house without her consent or to behave in a violent manner towards her.

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Chubby dog put on strict diet after getting hilariously wedged in doggy door A CHUNKY dog who made the most of pigging out on KFC and steak while his owner was away has been put on a diet after getting stuck in a door and ripping it clean off its hinges.

Owner Charmaine Hulley got Drax two years ago, when she gave the poor pup a home after he was found living on the streets looking frightened and malnourished.

She said when she first bought Drax home he was too scared to look at anyone or eat, but fast forward to now and the problem is long gone, with the dog indulging in his new life of luxury.

He transformed from skin and bones into a healthy figure, but recently Charmaine headed off to live with her mum for a few months for personal reasons.

She left him and her three other rescue dogs in the care of her partner Taylor, who due to working long hours said he ended up feeding Drax “a lot of human food, steak and KFC”, as reported by LadBible.

Drax’s weight gain was cruelly exposed when Taylor visited Charmaine with the dogs and Drax got the doggy door wedged around his body while trying to fit through.

In his defence, the door at Charmaine’s mums house is intended for little dogs, but his owners admitted even the one at his own home in Australia is getting “a bit snug”. - MIRROR

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‘Hand washing now more important’

By NOEL IYOMBWA

OCTOBER 15 is Global Handwashing Day, a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives.

This year’s event was organized by Water Aid in partnership with Peoples Process on Housing and Poverty in Zambia and other cooperating partners.

The event was held in Kanyama compound In speech read of her behalf by Kanyama Ward 10 Councillor Brighton Bilumba, Kanyama Member of Parliament Elizabeth Phiri said that this year’s Global Hand Washing day commemoration is unprecedented with the world struggling to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.

She said that unlike in the past, this year’s theme follows the recent global initiative calling on all of society to scale up hand hygiene, especially through handwashing with soap.

Ms. Phiri observed that handwashing with soap can reduce respiratory illnesses by about 16 21 per cent and diarrheal illness by 23 to 40 per cent.

“In the new normal where Covid 19 cases are increasing each and every day with a total of 37.7 million cases recorded to date globally

and 15,549 cases recorded to date in Zambia, it is therefore important for each and every Zambian to consistently wash hands to protect ourselves and our loved ones from the invisible fata enemy that has continued to claim lives globally, “she said.

The Member of Parliament stated that the global pandemic has shone a light on the importance of washing hands, meaning the day now carries extra relevance.

And Water Aid country representative Pamela Chisanga condemned the local authorities for the role they play in ensuring that there hygiene.

She said that hand hygiene is important especially to young people as it can be passed to the next generation.

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By TERENCE MISELO

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EMALE DJ Tendai Machingura Simbi fondly called DJ Tendai with an i, is set to wow fans at the October 25th planned Bizzy Wizzy Entertainments Summer Street Party.

The versatile DJ who started her trade as a Radio Dj in 2008 at Zambezi FM in Livingstone is looking forward to doing her best seeing that she and DJ Rhys are the only females at the highly anticipated show.

The annual Bizzy Wizzy Entertainments Summer Street Party will be held at Bizzy Wizzy Entertainments Pub in Lusaka’s Kabwata area.

The event which is an annual celebration of music, dance and Deejaying will be graced by several other big names in entertainment.

Top notch DJs and artistes have been named to offer the best entertainment on the big day.

Planned to be triple hosted by DJ Manstan, Kaliwa the Black Stallion and

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3rillmatic, the event will start from 18 to 23 hours with strict adherence to the Covid-19 preventive guidelines.

Artistes Ruff Kid, Dalisoul, T-Sean, Davaos and B1 are among the many artistes to perform.

DJs Bizzy Wizzy, Kedo, Xtra Tall, 800, Hussein, Scarface, Shooter and Crunk will be on hand to entertain guests. Others are Luv Bird, Olly, Rhys and Kos the Dynamite.

It is for this reason that Tendai feels honored to be part of the lineup.

Tendai has also worked for Falls FM which she joined in 2012.

“I moved to Lusaka in 2018 and did my lessons as a Mix DJ under British Council & Rackless Kazi,” she says.

“Despite being a Mix DJ I am also a Beauty Therapist, TV/Radio Presenter and a business lady.”

She says she is also a single but proud mother of two beautiful kids namely Miyoba and Mikaela.

Chokwe masks unveiled effective after this exhibition has ended.

The Chokwe tribe, native to the North Western parts of Zambia, is one that holds a fascinating and rich history. The dance and music performance that the audience got to enjoy at this event was deeply rooted in the respect of tribal traditions. Ancient spirits known as the Makishi were represented in the masked dancers, as well as in ritual

By TERENCE MISELO ALLIANCE Française in Lusaka hosted the Chokwe Exhibition displaying 72 Chokwe masks and artefacts.

This exhibition which is part of a great cultural cooperation project between France and Zambia, unveiled a collection that was initially owned by M. Marcus Matte but was purchased

by TOTAL Zambia who donated it to the Zambian government through the National Museums Board.

The exhibition was also made possible with the cooperation of the Embassy of France in Zambia, StArt Foundation, and the Alliance Française.

The project took more than one year to put together and thanks to this generous donation from TOTAL Zambia, the public will be able to

learn about the heritage of the Chokwe tribe in the museums of Lusaka and Livingstone where the artefacts will be exhibited as part of their permanent collections.

To seal this relevant donation, Mr. Ernest Mfula representing TOTAL Zambia as Head of Retail and Digital, Mr. Flexon Mizinga Director General of the National Museums Board and HE Mr. Sylvain Berger Ambassador of France in Zambia signed the official handover contract.

Before sending the collection to the museums, an exhibition will take place at the Alliance Française of Lusaka until November 6th 2020. Entrance will be free, and visitors will be able to come all day long. The donation will be

dances and ceremonies in the past.

This legacy can now be admired by the public, in the masks, tablets and other artefacts forming this unique collection.

All in all, it is important to emphasize on the fact that the sole purpose of this whole collective project is to preserve indigenous heritages in Zambia and inspire more initiatives like “The Mystical Chokwe Exhibition” to perpetuate and showcase the marvellous legacy of the Zambian culture.

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Artiste Vision targets more music

Police on fitness mission

By NOEL IYOMBWA

IN order for police officers to fulfil the mandate of protecting members of public and their property, there is need for them to be physically fit in order to carry out their duty effectively, Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kanganja has said.

Speaking during the launch of the Zambia Police Service Aerobics Mania at Edwin Imboela Stadium, the IG said that the job of a police officer is demanding hence the need

to be fit all the time.

He however clarified that to be fit does not mean to have big muscles and a big body but to be able to be flexible and the body being able to fight diseases.

Mr Kanganja said that President Edgar Lungu set the pace for fitness and there is need to emulate him adding that a fit body helps an individual perform better in any job.

The police chief disclosed that in the quest to ensure that police officers are fit ahead

of 2021 elections,Police high command have embarked on refresher courses and aerobics exercises.

He has since directed all provincial commissioners to ensure that police sports day is taken serious to improve their fitness.

“My police officers you should also take care of your diet what you eat not too much meat and follow health guidelines for Covid pandemic which has affected the entire world,” he said.

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Ezra calls for intellectual property awareness

By TERENCE MISELO

Copperbelt based arts promoter and talent manager Ezra "Blackson" Mwansa has called on the arts associations in Zambia to prioritize intellectual property awareness among content creators and consumers.

Mwansa believes If the

By TERENCE MISELO

BUDDING artiste Steven Kings Mushai musically known as Vision has promised more music following the success of most of his singles including ‘ Hard to Get’ featuring Bombshell.

The singer who has worked with several aryistes including the late great Daev Zambia on the song ‘Reali’ is becoming an influence on the Zambian Music industry.

The Multi-talented singer and songwriter who fuses his music with Afro Pop, Hip-hop, Dancehall, RnB and House music genres says he is happy with the support from his fans and to reward them he promises more music including something gospel.

Vision professionally started music in the late months of 2018 and released his first single called “Million Ways To Love You” In January 2019.

Vision has since worked with a lot of artistes among Bob Muli, Dambisa, Bom$hell, Daev, Willz, Cactus Agony, Trina South, Hamoba, Ozzy The General, Nina Sky and Bow Chase to mention but only a few.

Amongst his famous songs include, ‘TeAmo Ft his wife AKA Legacy, Bum Bum Ft Kidman, Central Brown & Frisco Meadare, Little Bit Naughty Ft Dambisa and Hard To Get Ft Bomb$hell Grenade. Others are Njota (Duet With Kidman, Taulo Ft Kekero, Together We Can Ft Mr. Flash of flash buses (COVID 19 Awareness song) and Reali Ft Daev Zambia.

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creators respect the efforts and energies put in to make good content, we cannot have free downloads.

"It's sad that many artistes do not want to take music as a business by monetizing their content on the various digital stream platforms available locally and on the global market," he said.

"The world is changing

daily and creators need to embrace these changes in the digital world."

Ezra Mwansa who is also the co founder of Ever Moving Forward Enterprise said due to pandemics like Covid 19, the entertainment business almost came to a standstill.

"It's therefore necessary to take advantage of the digital advancements by

being available on digital stream platforms so as to reach out to more consumers," he said.

"It's not enough to ask artists to stop giving free music, it would be of the nation's economical benefit that the arts associations begin to create deliberate policies to sensitize both the creators and consumers."

TopStar opens more channels

By NOEL IYOMBWA PUBLIC Signal Distributor TopStar Communications Company Limited has added five (05) local television stations to the platform since July this year to date.

This brings the number of local TV stations on TopStar Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) platform to thirty – two (32).

This number also includes television stations that are broadcast in specific areas.

Company Public Relations Manager Joy Chula said the new television stations are Mozo; Millennium; Musanza; Sun and Nonkas.

Ms Chula said that of the 32 stations, 11 are currently viewed countrywide; six are broadcast in the provincial headquarters and along the line of rail; while 13 are restricted to single specific areas.

She explained that areas of broadcast as outlined are in line with the service level agreements (SLAs) signed between TopStar and the Content Service Providers (CSPs), who in this case are the Television stations as to which areas they may wish to transmit their content.

The public Relations manager pointed out that as a Public Signal distributor, the company has the responsibility to distribute signal to all parts of the country and ensure that Zambian households have access to information and watch affordable TV. She stated that the growing number of local TV stations on the platform signifies the importance of the role TopStar plays in the broadcast media industry. “ This is to enable every household have access to affordable television, providing local content that will impact the development of various communities through experiences and dissemination of information.

“As a public signal distributor it is our responsibility to make sure that we distribute signal to every part of the country so that people can access information through digital TV,” said TopStar Public Relations Manager, Joy Chula.

“The function of a signal distributor is necessary and significant in the communication and media space and it is important that TopStar puts in place measures that will keep digital television broadcasting operational for the general public to receive signal and access information,”she said.

TopStar is the public signal distributor with a mandate to distribute content by 32 local Television stations, serving over 750,000 subscribers countrywide. TopStar owns a 100+ channels’ content platform combining Local, African and international channels. The company's vision is "To ensure that every Zambian family can access, afford, watch and share the beauty of digital TV".

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HEN talking about job searching in Zambia, one of the lines you are certain to hear is “you need to know someone to get a job.” This is especially true for sectors like environmental conservation, where networking and making important professional contacts are often the most important component of a successful job search.

While this may not be issue for established professionals who are just looking to move from one organization to another, it is certainly a mammoth task for students and those looking to join the conservation space.

Without anyone to give them proper career advice, it is easy for students studying various courses within the field of conservation to feel a little lost and disillusioned.

That is why in August 2018, Wildlife Crime Prevention and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife launched Zambia’s first Conservation Careers Fair, a platform for students to interact and connect with established professionals who work in various conservation organizations. The Conservation Careers Fair aims to cultivate an environment that encourages inspired young Zambians to participate in conservation and to show them that conservation can be a rewarding and viable career path.

The inaugural event, which was held at Mulungushi International Conference Centre, brought together over 20 conservation organizations and more than 500 students from the country’s top universities and colleges. Due to the increasing need for more networking opportunities for Zambia’s next generation of conservationists and the overwhelming responses that followed the 2018 event, the Conservation Careers Fair is now an annual event.

In keeping with the Covid-19 times where major events are happening virtually, this year’s Conservation Careers Fair was held online through Facebook Live and YouTube. The Virtual Conservation Careers Fair 2020, held under the theme: Adaptability for survival – for job seekers & organizations, opened with a keynote talk

by Ministry of Tourism and Arts Permanent Secretary Dr Auxilia Ponga. In her address, the PS called on the youth to

CONSERVATION CAREERS FAIR: Inspiring Zambia’s Next Generation of Conservationists

identify opportunities and bring refresh approaches to solving the many conservation challenges that Zambia faces. “We face rapid population growth, expanding agriculture and infrastructure, and globalized demand for natural resources. All of these are exciting potential careers paths.

One exciting thing about

this year’s event is that it was not a one-day affair. It was spread over a period of four days from Monday 5th October to Thursday 8th October, with morning and afternoon sessions. The sessions featured inspirational talks and career advice from prominent local and international conservationists, spotlight exhibitions of some

of the wonderful efforts being made by various conservation organizations to protect Zambia’s ecosystems and the wildlife they hold. The sessions also featured master classes given by recruitment experts on topics like “Everything you need to know to get the job”, “Got the job, now what?”, which provided an insight into employment opportunities for young Zambians.

Zambia faces many conservation challenges that require young minds and a fresh approach. This makes inspiriting and boosting the confidence of bright young Zambians, the future of conservation, cardinal. For this to happen, young people need to know what a career in conservation looks like, who their potential employers are and some of the pressing issues the conservation sector is grappling with.

Some of the challenges facing conservation require an interdisciplinary approach.

That is why when we talk about jobs in conservation we are not only referring to traditional professions like ecology and environmental education. It is becoming increasingly common to find lawyers, communicators, teachers, marketers, veteri-

nary doctors and many others from different professions rendering their expertise to the conservation sector.

Some of the inspirational talks shared at the 2020 Virtual Conservation Careers Fair include “From the African Savannah to Capitol Hill” a chat with Jimmiel Mandima - Deputy Vice President of Conservation at International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), “The business of conservation: private sector wildlife management” a chat with Chanda Mwale - Operations Manager at Wildlife Producers Association of Zambia, and a Masterclass on Getting the Job: Everything you need to know about CVs

and Cover Letters by Emma Harvey. Anyone who is passionate about protecting Zambia’s ecosystems and its abundant wildlife can access these inspiring and insightful video resources on the Conservation Careers Zambia website and on its Facebook and YouTube pages.

In addition to the Conservation Careers Fair, which has become an unmissable calendar event in the Zambian conservation space, Wildlife Crime Prevention teamed up with ARC Zambia to create a dedicated jobs board were job seekers can find the latest conservation and environmental jobs within Zambia and the region.

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ZAMBIA’S UNSUNG HEROES: Chola Mwitwa’s dream of a greater Zambia slowly comes to life (Part 2)

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E is a man on a special mission – to promote excellence in Zambia by focussing on quality and productivity improvement in every sector of the country’s social and economic sector.

His patriotism, and commitment to improving the quality of local products, transforming the workers’ mindset towards hard work, creativity, and innovativeness is unflinching.

Mr Chola Abel Mwitwa, 61, heads one of government’s smallest units but tasked with a huge responsibility of ‘planting’ a culture of Continuous Improvement in work processes and innovation amongst the people and organisations. He is very hopeful that that dream would become a reality soon. He boosts of placing Zambia on the world map of countries promoting quality and productivity improvement and making it the first African country to compete and mint Gold Prizes at the International Convention on Quality Control Circles (ICQCC) in 2018 in Singapore.

Today, we publish the last segment of the recent interview with the KAIZEN Institute of Zambia (KiZ) Chief Executive Officer, conducted by reporter Mwansa Pintu.

What role do you hope to play, as KiZ in Zambia’s transformation towards attainment of Vision 2030?

KAIZEN Institute of Zambia Limited hopes to play an important role in Zambia’s transformation towards attainment of 2030 vision. As you know we at the Institute transformation is at the heart of everything we do. This is because the very management methodology we are promoting, KAIZEN, in Japanese means Change for Better or simply continuous improvement in English. We therefore see KAIZEN playing an important role in Zambia’s transition a prosperous middle income country status by 2030.

Our vision is that by 2030, we should have an economy that is competitive, self-sustaining, dynamic and resilient to any external shocks, supports stability and protection of biological and physical systems and is free from donor dependence. In addition, it should have stable social and cultural systems that support human capital formation. Among other things, the nation Zambians aspire for, should be characterised by 21 aspirations that are specified in the 2030 Vision: We have looked at the 21 aspirations that Zambia will be characterised by 2030 and established that the KAIZEN Institute of Zambia Limited can play a pivotal role in the attainment of the following 6 aspirations: 1) (e) Diversified and balanced and strong industrial sector, a modern agricultural sector and an efficient and productive services sector; 2) (g) Technologically proficient, fully able to adapt, innovate and invest using its human and natural resources; 3) (i) Sustained high and increasing productivity levels with regard to every factor of production; 4) (l)Exemplary work ethics, honesty, high human and ethical values, quality consciousness and the quest for excellence; 5) (r) Decent work opportunities that ensure respect for fundamental

human rights and principles; 6) Safe and secure social environment.

We see Kaizen contributing significantly if supported to play a greater role. You know the goal of Kaizen is to drive ongoing improvement. Kaizen drives people to participate in improving their own processes by identifying forms of waste and elimination them through Value Stream Mapping. This type of Kaizen often is used to drive a cultural transformation because it requires everyone to think about improvement every day, everywhere.

Through Quality Control Circle (QCC) activities, kaizen Contribute to the improvement & development of the enterprise, respect for humanity and build a happy workplace which is meaningful to work in and display human capabilities fully & eventually drew out infinite possibilities.

QCC is defined as A Quality Control Circle is a small group consisting of first line employees who continually control and improve the quality of their work, products and services. QC Circles operate autonomously, which creates empowerment of all levels of organisation to tackle issues around Quality, Cost, Delivery, Service and Safety.

You have so far successfully worked with various companies/organisations to them improve quality and productivity. Kindly tell us about three or four of those companies and how exactly they been transformed after embracing the KAIZEN concept?

Since inception the KiZ has worked with over 70 organisations from both the private and public sector with varying degrees of success.

These include Toyota Zambia, Strongpak Limited, Kafue Steel, Zambia Revenue Authority, ZESCO Limited, Road Development Agency, Californian Beverages Limited, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Local Government, ZamLeather Limited, Kanyama, Chawama and Choma Level One Hospitals, HITACHI Construction Machinery Limited. Let me just highlight a few of the results obtained by the organisations that have embraced Kaizen Ministry of Health through Team Cheetah reduced Tender Evaluation time from 45 Days to 21.

Imagine the implication of this. The time taken to evaluate tenders had a direct effect on the time taken to complete procurement

and in turn time taken to complete projects including delivery of medicines.

Zamwood Furnishers, one of the SME outfits in Livingstone, engaged in the manufacture of wooden products, has embraced Kaizen and has managed reduce in-process delivery time from 3.5 Hrs. to 2 Hrs in less than six months. This project aimed at Eliminating non-value adding activities in the production process in order to reduce in-process delivery time and increase production volume.

ZESCO Livingstone, through Kaizen activity reduced the number of Faults by 39% within three months.

Imagine the benefits to customers, both individuals and corporates in the communities, and businesses that depend on electric energy. Business such as Saloons, Metal Fabricators, Barbershops, etc would work slightly longer hours servicing their customers and resist closure.

Zamshu, a footwear manufactur-

ing division of Zamleather Ltd, and a fully owned subsidiary of Zambeef Products PLC, has been implementing Kaizen for some time now.

Through Kaizen, the company is using it to maintain Zero Defect rate and improve their leather processing and routine machine maintenance.

This has led steady production growth, more distribution channels opened across the country, product quality has improved to international standards, the company is now supplying Zesco Limited and Lusaka water and sewerage company with their quality safety shoes and the company is now supplying PEP with a variety of School shoes.

Chilanga Town Council ( T e a m Perfectors) has embraced K A I Z E N and within one year managed to reduce the unin-

spected business premises from 43% to less than 10% as well as the reduction of the time taken to issue the fire certificate from 14 days to 7 days through the elimination of non-value adding steps in their processes. This was achieved through development and adherence to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is This enable the council adhere to the law and increase revenue collection from increased number of inspections.

What is the certification by KiZ all about and what does it entail?

As you be aware, one of the functions of the Institute is Kaizen Training and Certification. This is done in order to ensure the quality of Kaizen provision. To ensure quality, we have developed a Kaizen training curriculum with support from JICA Experts that is above what you find in Africa and the Assessment Criteria. We provide this training step by step from level 1 to 4 and thereafter Total Quality Management (TQM) from level 1 to 2.

We would be commencing training this year in November beginning with Kaizen training level 1 and 2.

Do you, as KIZ, have any specific goals or targets as regards the attainment of a more productive and quality work culture in Zambia?

Yes, we have, how can we not have.

Our goal to give equal opportunity to every Zambian to benefit from Kaizen. We also have a five plan in which we shall strengthen the Institute to be Centre of Excellency in the promotion of out Golden Tringle of KAIZEN to serve Zambia and the Region. In this plan, though now affected by Covid 19, we intend to introduce KAIZEN in all 10 provinces of Zambia by end of next year, train over 1000 people over 5 year period deploy Kaizen in over 300 organisations within the coming five years.

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