Police in Siavonga have arrested and detained five men for allegedly looting valuables and other items from an international police (Interpol) car involved in an accident that killed a police officer.
Siavonga police station officer in charge Charles Saimba confirmed the incident to ZANIS and identified the Interpol officer as Macko Wayanda based at Kariba Border post in Siavonga.
Mr Saimba said officer Wayanda died on the spot on New Year’s Eve when a car he was driving got involved in a traffic road accident.
He said instead of rescuing the interpol officer, the ‘ looters ‘, went on rampage to remove two car cassettes, a passport, a wallet with undisclosed sums of money and other valuables belonging to the Interpol officer.
The suspects, who included two taxi drivers, a mini bus driver and a bus conductor,are alleged to have been the first people to arrive at the accident scene and took turns in removing the cassettes and went on to search the police officer who was gasping for his last breath.
According to police, Assistant Superintendent Macko Wayanda died in the early hours of Thursday morning after he rammed into a stationery trailer truck belonging to Coca cola Company limited that had been abandoned on one side of the road.
Wayanda who was driving the latest VW golf car that had not yet been registered is said to have been coming from a named night spot around 04: 00 hours where he had gone to celebrate his Eve from and was on his way home to New site and service.
Saimba who also confirmed the death of the Interpol officer said the accident occurred along the Kariba – Siavonga road near Matinangala junction.
Saimba who could not give further details into the matter however said that Wayanda who was alone in the car could have lost control of the car forcing it to hit and go under the truck trailer.
However a cross section of Siavonga motorists blamed traffic police officers for failing to ensure that they removed the trailer on the road despite it being there for the whole day.
They also castigated police traffic officers for failing to instruct the owner of the truck (Coca-Cola) to mount triangles that would reflect to other motorists using the road that there was an obstacle in front.
“The death of Wayanda could have easily been avoided if traffic police officers removed the trailer from the road because it had been left there since morning (Wednesday) and no reflectors on put to signal other motorists “lamented a named taxi driver.
A check by ZANIS at Siavonga police station where the vehicle had been toed to found the car extensively damaged with the entire roof ripped off.
His body lay in the district hospital mortuary before being transported to Lusaka on Saturday evening where a postmortem would be conducted before being buried.
ZANIS/ENDS/LL/ENDS/MM.
What is wrong with people that they can loot a dying man, shame
Was the police officer drunk? These law enforce should also enforce the law on themselves to avoid such tragic deaths,I have every reason to believe the officer was drunk on New’s Eve.
Na K, are you sure!8-x
why pa zed a lot of deaths?? my condolences :(:(:(
Imagine
correction:drank and not drunk
Sony Ericsson Phiri
Happy new year my dear! Hope you are not one of the looters. :-j:-j:-j:-j
Njala, people now celebrate over others’ misfortunes. RB is the causality. He has too thick a face, he can only see with a lot of difficulty. Leisure is his policy. Look at how all his old children flocked to Mfuwe to go and colletively plunder our tax money.
Matworld same to you my dear, I hope it was a good party like mine!
Lady chiza’s legs,you were nambala 1.What happened?
Sad tale from pa Zed. We seem to have lost our compassionate tradition where now we can even rob the dying. Shame on the looters. such accidents caused by idio*tic parking of trucks are so common in Zambia. Nite driving on highways are a 50 – 50 gamble between death and life in Zambia cause all sorts of trucks ply our roads.The officer has surely died a painfull un-necessary death.MHSRIP.
In Singapore, people of such an offence are subjected to 30 shjamboks by strong renowned muscle men under instruction by national police before taken into cells:d LOL.
imwe please,let us be serious. how can a normal human being to that honestly? olo ninjala awe!
its a sad story dat pipo end up looying dan helping.wayanda is oso to blame coz there is a road safety rule dat reads DONT DRINK N DRIVE.im prety sure he had enuf of wateva brand of liqour.if im not mistaken all coca-cola trucks ve reflectors.
You would expect to read such stories in places like Nigeria or DRC, not Zambia.
You mean people are now stealing from the dead? Olo ninjala please. That was pathetic, honestly. Siminyama che iyo? Lets not blame immorality squarely on poverty.
Bushe kuti wapusuka if the people that could have helped are the ones going for the items mentioned. One would have thought that PSV drivers are the ones to even help in such a situation. shame…..
What do you expect from tax and minibus driver! really a sad thing, stealing from a dying person
:o:o
Matworld and my Bro Bamoze!!
Glad to see that you made it into the new year and that you are not yet reacting to it.
That the public service drivers were the looters is not surprising. What do they know about Ubunthu except survival of the fittest? I hope they get serious punishment for their actions.
someone told me that the only time you can learn to appreciate a policeman i s when you get in trouble…they have their down sides but hey atleast the are doing a good..we salute you yopu policemen :)>-:d/
Sad news. My condolences.
>:)
#15 Nine Chale
A successful new year to you too and also Sony Ericsson Phiri
There is a lot of Nigerian and Congolese influence in Zambia and so it should not surprise you that we are now taking after them.
Ntwenu, Someone at LT has rigged the blog!!!
Shame!
Lusaka
Cheers to you too! things are so bad that these characters can even loot your wife!!! 😮
Lusaka
Happy new year my dear.Long time I missed you dear.
May da soul of the cop rest in peace. One can wonder y such things r happening to mother zed who has been a peaceful nation.Jesus cum rescue the innocent souls.
Zoe
Hi dear! your flag!
Hey Lusaka happy new year
Zoe
How are you my dear?
Pinkly
Lelo taulebomba bwino no ka :o):o):o) zo-ona.any idea where 3RqU is?
Lusaka, r u the same tht went AWOL?Welcome back my dear,where dd u leave Baby C?
Matworld
Yaba! Ala ndalabako limo. There you go.. :o):o).
I dont know where 3RqU is.Kapena akali na hangover…
We need morality revolution in zed – or is it civilization!
Matworld am very well thanx,am jus feasting on fresh maize in da office.
Zoe
I think Baby C changed her name to somthing else,after the fake one came on the scene. What do you think guys?
#27, 28 & 34
Matworld, Bamoze & Zoe
Yeah, I am back. Had a sad festive period as I lost my grandma. She was over a hundred but now am back were I am supposed be.
Poverty!!!!!
Zoe
How can you be so heartless as to brag on the blogg that you are eating fresh maize? bana ku shan’gombo died after kudya bowa ka? They are eating “mabwabwa” ku southern ka? Awe mwana, You should have just said you are relaxing. 😮
Zoe, why maize and not vodka? atleast Pinkly had :@)%%-3:-o and@};-
Zoe
Oh! no you have remainde me of my mum and the farm,she used to cook for me milisi.Here milisi ni delicacy.Hope I will find some at the farm in june. 8->8->8->
Lusaka
If she was that old, you should actually be celebrating her long life because she lived life to the fullest. Dont mourn my friend. You and i will probably never get there,..let alone sixty (its tricky). MHSRIP
Lusaka
my condolences my dear.Mine is 92 years she says she will never die until I take my wife to her.Oh poor grandma Iam missing you Hope my brother pa Kabwe is taking a good care of you. 8->8->8->8->
#30 Pinkly am fine my dear hw ru?Is it that u like pork so much tht it dnt miss on evey meal?U must be a “michopo” fan
Yaba
GUYZ NAIKOSA INE ANOTHER MEETING.LATER.
Iwe Matworld-Nice guy
Boza lako, ungalekelele your grand ma entirely looked after by your brother and claim you miss her! Actions speak louder than words.
LT I would like to commend you for making these discussions very dynamic by changing topics everyday on the column “Latest”, sometimes even twice a day.
However, I have noted that some categories are not changing, eg the column “Popular”. When you point of this category you find that even today the top topic is:
“Sata leads so far”
Why dont you make this category dynamic also by puting timeframe eg,
“Most popular for the day”
“Most popular for the week”
“Most popular for the month” and,
“Most popular for the year”
We cannot have Sata leading so far, and up to now he is not winning.
This makes the site give an impression that it is static.
Please do something.
Rashid Jones
Bwanji mudala pa Gaza siuyopa? hey my dear am really praying for that war to come to an end.Iam watching it from Aljazeera hey I tell you pipo are dying. 8->8->8->
41 Ba Moze ma bro please dnt castigate me,its only a cob of maize.I do pity the children who r dying day on day out but wat can we do wen the so called govt has turned a deaf ear on their plea? Awe naimwe ba Moze wat mo nganchipunda ati “Pizza”
Matworld
I’d made a similar promise to my grandma, that she wouldn’t die until she saw my child. But eh! it was not to be. So lets quickly arrange that you take me there. But then again, supposing she dies soon after? You will feel haunted.
Bamoze
Am planning to live that long whatever it takes. Off course ili tricky but ni kulimba chabe
relax
Relax mudala Iam studying.I definately miss her she was good to me.She is also missing me.I love her so much just like I love her daughter my mother,the only problem bakuChipata bonse so Mbeba sizishota munyumba. :-j:-j
#49 relax,yes matworld misses the grandma and hes hopin 2see her in june.Nika student ka nice guy so hes waitin 2write exams b4 he cums back home.
Lusaka
No problem Iam coming mu june.
Zoe
Thank you my dear you have saved me.You deserve a peck hope you dont mind! :x:x
This is how evil people can be. word of advice, if you have a puncture along kafue rd misisi,chawama aree dont stop because there are peple who just roam around these waiting for a mishap. now, where was this late cop coming from at that hour ?
Rashid how did you know that? true! i had :o)+%%-+@};- to complete the set.
Matworld
Take Lusaka to your grandmother, i think you were meant to be.
Ba Maureen
>:d< missed you on saturday morning
Matworld-Nice guy!
Kansi uli che! keep up nice guy.
May the departed soul of MACKO WAYANDA rest in eternal peace. I personnaly knew the office and his death was communicated to me by his friends in Kariba at about 06:00hrs on the same day he passed on. Its rather disappointing that this act of banditry seems to be taking root in zambia.
I was lucky that when i was involved in a road accident in Kitwe at the so called 16 Feet, i was in a convoy. No sooner the accident took place copper copper booys where all over the car wanting to loot what i was carrying in my car. Luckily i was not hurt in any way, much as the car flipped over and my friends got to the scene and secured the car. This looting attitude is unzambian and should be stopped.
Ba Maureen
That is timely advise. Thanks. But is this no stopping at whatever time of day or maybe say in the evening?
relax
Thanks ^:)^^:)^
Ohoh anyway matworld,thanx 4da peck.
Matworld u shal find yo grandma wel wel. But i hope shes not in kamuchanga, katondo, natuseko or makululu kuli cholera.
Whoever is having maize…please send some kuno ku USA..we are in middle of winter..the maize we buy is pre-frozen
Poverty at its worst. :((
ZOE muli bwanji
#63 Usually in the evenings say after 19Hrs. A Doc friend of mine was even beaten and robbed despite him being injured already….that ka stretch is bad
:o):o):o):o)
Zoe
She is at the farm in Mukonchi.Its like you know kabwe very well ka.
Pinkly
Great!! :-j:-j:-j
#62 Careful when you use NO SOONER. It always goes with THAN. English Structure Grade 8 Term 1, week one, day 1
#67 its zoe,how do i send it to you?
Ba Mweene am oryt.Wen r u back to yo motherland?
Hey There’s a new thread !!
Matworld yes i knw kabwe bt quiet a bit coz i hav only been there 4 2yrs (grade 8 n 9) at Kalonga High Sku.
What crap! I have read this article over and over and I seem to miss where alcohol is mentioned. These holier than thou twisted theories are so off the mark. First aid would probably have made a difference and that’s the cracks of the whole story. Don’t start factoring in what has not been reported.
Morons!
Zoe
I used to live behind Mulubila lodge,with the first born in my family.he’s still there with Barclays.I know Kabulonga very well near Zambia China mulungushi.
Atase ba kawalala ba njala you will even loot you son comming back to visit you. shame on you!
75, 76, 78 Nitumizileko unga (Maize Meal) Nayewa proper nsima
Oh, back to main story, its sad that some people can resort to stealing from the almost dead person, Shame
Vi ma looters ni vamene vi siliza kupaya ma accident victims ati to eliminate witnesses. Any looter so caught must be charged with murder and sent to the gallows with no appeal whatsoever.
Matworld i used to live at ZSIC flats near Broadway Basic Sku n muved to Livingstone then Lsk but was at Chipembi Gals in Grade 10
Zoe and Mat world
If it an identification complex you are suffering from, i have a suggestion: Just give each other your full names and addresses and continue from there! Niya bwanji yamene mwayamba? “i used to live there, used to go to fimo fimo school…” awee, Takana iyo. Am waiting. 😕
Ba Moze wat are u waiting 4.Imwe naimwe daay mwalitemwa ukushuta abanenu.I hav Matworlds email address.Mwanshuta sana nekaiche nainuka .Pleasant blogging to you all.Ba Moze,no hard feelings lets shoot each other 2moro.But wat are u waitn 4 b4 i go?
:-h:-h:-h:-h:-h:-h
the guy should have been very drunk and was speeding. dont drink and drive or you die!!!! 8-x
Whe are you surprised ? Muntu’s have been doing this for years…..if you can eat,steal or screw it you are interested !
#90 Are you sure your name does not have an ‘i’ missing ku last ? Because you look and talk like one