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Decoration in family home turns out to be a grenade

Government has sent a team of landmine experts to Mazabuka to comb landmines and other explosives which were left behind by foreign troops during Zambia’s freedom struggle.

The team comprises of Zambia Army officers and staff from the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), an international NGO contracted by the Zambian government and United Nations Development Program (UNDP), to undertake a countrywide landmine impact survey.

Team leader, Antonio Campira said that the survey was going on smoothly.

Mr. Campira said the team has since discovered a dangerous explosive called a”grenade ” in Malala area of Chieftainess Mwenda which a named family was keeping.

He said the grenade, which was found in the house, had not been tampered with.

He explained that several lives could have been lost had the family removed the pin from the device.

Mr. Campira said villagers in Malala have hinted to the team that several grenades were left behind by the foreign troops in the hilly area of Hapiku, where the couple picked the recovered explosive.

He said his team will visit 22 sites in Mazabuka district and will work closely with civic leaders and traditional rulers in investigating areas suspected to have landmines and other explosives.

And a facilitator from Zambia Army, Paul Hanyimbo said since the survey commenced in Southern Province, deadly devices which are suspected to have been left behind by foreign troops on the Zambian soil have been discovered in Mazabuka, Gwembe, Sinazongwe and Kalomo’s Mapatizya areas.

Warrant Officer Hanyimbo urged communities to support government’s initiative because it was meant to rid their areas of dangerous explosives that could harm them.

He explained that the grenade which was found in Mazabuka’s Malala area has since been deposited at the Armory section at Mazabuka Police station.

He expressed worry that various areas in the district were contaminated with landmines and other explosives, noting that this has led to underdevelopment.

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195 COMMENTS

  1. Jamaco please. I was so sure I had gotten this one. How are you by the way. I’m going back to the AU thing to comment

  2. At least there are initiatives in Zambia taken to tackle these matters!!

    Awe the family should thank God. Lucky one!!

    Imagine!! Normally house Rats would even trigger that grenade!!

    The Rats must be disciplined

    :d:d:d:d:d

  3. These Grenades don’t just explode anyhow, imweee. Don’t you know that the saftey pin requires a considerable ammount of pressure to release?
    Awe ba LT iyi story yena you just “chankwilad” it for the sake of news sensation, just like BILD Zeitung loves to blow up useless headlines here.

  4. He explained that the grenade which was found in Mazabuka’s Malala area has since been deposited at the Armory section at Mazabuka Police station.

    Come on dispose of it now….why wait for some dumb police officer to play around with it and blow up the station or sell the thing for cash.
    The thing has been laying around since the war and is most likely highly unstable.
    😮

  5. Those of you who remember an articleabout some children picking up a grenade will recall that i mentioned that this hunger is killing our people. People pick up a grenade thinking its mango and in an attempt to peel it, kansi you are removing the safety pin!
    Here you are now. You begin to use grenades as decorations!!! Awee, this is too much.
    Next, we will be using bullets to purchase goods in shops!!

  6. Mwebantu kanshi, how do you pick up anything to put as decorations in the house?..bwafya sana..God help us. [-x**==

  7. Jamaco I’m just listening to the news, there are 4 Lottery winners in NRW. Have you check your numbers?

  8. 15. Nine Chale

    Iwe Nine Chale Psssssssssssssst!!

    Please note that some Grenades explode just by looking at them :d

    =))=))=))=))=))=))=))=))

    LT mwilatinya abena Zambia imwe!! :o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o

  9. 19. Nine Chale

    Not yet!! I will be checking this afternoon.

    LT are you selling this site?

    Please let me buy it and post some sensible Threads! :d

  10. Jamaco, careful with your jokes. Don’t let LT get x( at you and show you a [-x red card, followed by :-t and then you will be very :p.

    Anyway, what we Zedians here can do is launch our oun German Times by Zambians. What do you think?:-b

  11. #16 No my dear, this grenade is as good as new. You may wish to know that the Safety Pin can be removed and you can walk with the grenade for a million years in your hands without releasing ( Not that releasing you are good at )the fly handle you are seeing in the picture and then slide the pin back in its place.

  12. 26 Jamaco. clever chap. I got a t-bone for 15 pin mwana.seven plates of traditional %%-. and shhhh8-} a ka wash down. am not talking in the office lest the nosy bosy smells the ka mosi

  13. #28 Wounded Buffalo
    Picking up a grenade and using it as a decoration is bad enough! But telling us how to release the safety pin…! awee, thats too much!!! 😮

    #25 Lady Chizas Fimo fimo

    =))=))=))=))=)):-j:-j awee nafya!!!

  14. :)) ni Chale. You are right. Chaps that have never seen pineaples! they thot the pin was a sucker!

  15. For once, HH $-) is a ka gud man. hes got an amoury and mine fields in his political stronghold but his supporters use them as decorations. had it been it been bashi Chilufya :-&. PF wud be in power.

  16. Ba Maureen

    That was too much. am not surprised with LTs action!!!

    Wounded fimo fimo

    Wantinya mudala. Even explaining how to remove the pin?? 😮
    Natina mudala!!

  17. Hi Jamaco, Lady fimo fimo, Wounded Buffalo, Big Moze & Nine Chale.

    My first comment was W.I.C.K.E.D and was deleted by umukamba LT

  18. #35, The police are on a money making spree impounding buses.Operators have parked their buses as a protest. They are saying it is too much.

  19. :-& bashi Chilufya, go into a pact with $-) HH. the chap cant make good use of the staff in his backyard.~X(

  20. :-$ bashi chilufya is in Southern Province next week as part of the landmines clearing team

  21. Shani Ba Maureen? I can imagine the strong vocabulary you used. Ba LT shino nshiku naba fulwa sana!

  22. Thought only kids picked these things in Shangombo area not knowing adults are keeping them in the houses as decorations in Mazabuka..

    Iam mauless..
    Nazizwa sana. :-t:-t:-t:-t*-:)*-:)*-:)8-x8-x8-x8-x

  23. Baby C
    This business of going to Mazabuka now…. awee, am getting concerned. Kuti ba kupela grenade as a dessert, ka?
    What do you think? Nshile mona bwino mwee. [-(

  24. I have gathered all those objects looking similar to the one above and I am keeping them in one corner of a kraal. I personally think they are harmless.

    Not a single cow of mine has died for your information.

  25. Jamaco

    Certainly not. I have a single bull for each kraal. I have no idea what they are. I guess, wait let me ask one of these boys to remove them immediately.

  26. Ba Moze

    That’s my worry as well! Hmmmm! what do we do? Ba moze problem naimwe paliba kalye! You like eating too much !!!

  27. Ba Moze

    Ka topic kaili epo ba LT balewayawaya! This stuff has gone sour! :o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o)

  28. RB bring back National Service programme as was in UNIP days. Surely, National Service taught villagers about military furniture and associated accessories. Government you have the responsibilty to educate the people. Could we please have a picture of the said couple.

  29. Jamaco

    :o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):o):d:d

  30. I personally have no problem with it. Its just that some women use it to confuse men, Ka? Always dropping things deliberately while walking in front of you so that they can pick them while you watch!!
    Chibi, Ka? [-x

  31. Ba Moze

    Men are funny! whenever you see a girl dressed in a mini, you even slow down so that you a better view! Finshi mufwaya?

  32. Baby C
    Not all are like that. Its just that some are weak, thats all. Some pretend to be strong, and others are genuinely srong. Even this strong also is debatable mwee!!

  33. Baby C

    Am in the middle! Ndine munthu naine. Vima vutako sometime, Ka?

    Jamaco

    Its better than silence mudala.

  34. Baby C ! Do not mind that one. I meant to post :o:o:o !! and not >-)

    ba moze you are right. But LT is sleeping nomba ka!

  35. 81. your flag Baby C

    awe my dear!! I made a mistake!! Look at my entry pa #80!!

    Iwe uli muntu wandi. Teti mponte iyo! :d

  36. #
    83. your flag Baby C

    Because a Man is born without any choice. What comes FIRST is on!!

    I should admit!! :d

  37. Lack of record keeping, poor training and sheer incompetence has resulted in an unneccessarly loss of life and injuries. The priority should be to teach people how to recognise these weapons and call in bomb disposal unit, if we have any?

  38. Baby C

    jamaco couldn’t have put it more plainly!! Iliko bad ku bamuna. We try koma mwee. Filashupe fye sana.

  39. #
    90. your flag Baby C

    Still it belongs to us :d

    That is for sure!!

    Abanakashi nabena balamufwaya ka!!

    I wonder why :d

  40. Baby C

    With it or not, paliko ka vuto mwee. Thats why women should not dress in mini skirts. they should be considerate of others. [-x

  41. Not related to topic but just a reminder on Muyunda’s energizer battery theft. Now compare it to this “The rapper DMX was sentenced on Friday to 90 days in jail and at least 18 months of supervised probation after his conviction on charges of theft, drug possession and animal cruelty” This DOG has had so many of such offenses look at his punishment compared to muyunda’s.

  42. #95

    Nipa ZED mudala. This world is so unfair. …Though Muyunda anaitaya. At least you steal some edibles like cheese! Not batterries. An d to make matters worse, you put them in your fimo fimo! Literally asking the police to arrest you!!

  43. #
    96. your flag Baby C

    Iwe ifintu fyawama tabapatikisha iyo!!

    These woman will use a language where by you as a man have to read between the lines!!

    She will say .. “I don’t like that”, but it does not mena she doesn’t want it!!

    She will say “you are crazy” but in actual facts she means ” I want you”!! So ifwe nomba you know whats up!!

    If you ignore her and pretend you are the quite type then she tells her friends ” he is a loser”!!

  44. Baby C

    Umuntu alefilwa no kwenda, ati fashion!! Yangu tata. 😮

    balefwala fye ifitenge. life would would be simpler!!

  45. baby C

    Women are cunning! bama tricks sana. If words dont work on a man, then they will unleash the mini skirt! Elo lunya!!

  46. Nonsense, Zambia’s liberation struggle was not an armed one. They should say when SA, Zim, Nam were fighting for independence.

  47. Baby C

    Ati shani?? Thats worse nomba.Pantu tukalamona fye shapes and sizes!!Yangu Tata!! Kulaipunka sana ku chimpwena!!

  48. Awe imwe Chitenge is also fine!!
    Sometimes it makes the men curious about the inner world!!

    Ine nomba ati ” Bamoneka shani ba gelo aba nga ichitenge chapona”? Sop still the imagination is triggered wheather mini or ichitenge we find a way.

    So please imwe when its on, then its on!!! It does not matter what you were wearing before!!

    :d:d:d:d

  49. # 94, ba Moze ……. considerate to otherzzzeeeeeee? awe ni ka execuse ako manje.
    by the way how are you doing?

  50. Baby C amagogo ayo eyalelenga that you start seeing things. :o):o):o):o):o):o):o) Let me use these before the allocated 24 hours expire!:o):o)

  51. On your laptops, get set, Gunns Blaziiiing baba. Lelo, ni lelo. shud be nambala one on the new thread.

  52. I am ready for Numbala l-)

    I have put everything I have on that!! I just can not miss it!!

    I need to satisfy my ego!!! Remember that Baby C!!

    Some buy a Posche but ine I just go Numbala l-) pa LT!! It is enough to keep me going. But than :o):o):o)

  53. Ba LT shani ilyashi lyaka Teta nabashimaini ilitwaumfwa? :o):o):o)

    Lady Chiza welcome back. Atishani amatebeto?:d

    :o):o):o)

  54. Baby C, I know your trick, you want to keep me busy here so that you rig the new thread. awe nakana. lelo ni lelo.

  55. If I fail to become number one on the new thread, then I will never blog. washala, washala, waya, waya

  56. Its movie:

    Starring Lady Chiza, Baby C, Ba Moze and jamaco as Jam man, in “LAST BLOGGER STANDING!”. 😕

  57. I am watching the thread s as if it is a matter of life and death!!

    I will not compromise that Numbala l-)

    MY EYES ARE WIDE OPEN

  58. Jamaco, Ba Moze, Baby C, sorry that things had to get to this level friends. I am not living the number one spot to you. Not anymore. enough is enough. I am not blinking and taking two for solace!

  59. There was a sudden gush of adrenalin in me a few second ago as I typed this but the smell of testesterone from Ba…was very strong. relax. Am in control.

  60. 151. Lady chiza’s legs

    this is worse than drugs!!

    Anyway welcome to the Club!!

    :d:d

    I am about to put some money down on this one!!

  61. Wafwa na Panga. the count donw starts. some chap at LT says they would have posted by the time you finish reading this!!

  62. #38 (Lady Chiza’s legs) please mind the way you talk about PF and the government. We will not shade blood for us to be in power. Our weapon is GOOD POLICIES that we have for our Zed. Remember that careless comments may land you in got soup. The world is small. iyee…Nakumfwila uluse!

  63. Thank you gentlemen for giving me number one. you can now relax and post other comments. 2 to 7 are already taken.

  64. Girlfriends are appetizers. Taste good at any time.
    Mistresses are Tomyams. Hot and spicy. Eaten frequently.
    WIVES are Maggie. Eaten when there’s nothing to eat.!!!

    :d

  65. The quickiest pee I have ever made!!!

    Baby C I was standing and started shooting!!

    I hope it looks favourable for the next person!!

  66. Three Guys were introduced to a girl. Hi,…. I’m Peter, not a SAINT. I’m Paul not a POPE. I’m John not a BAPTIST…
    The girl replied.. Hi.. I’m Mary, not a VIRGIN

  67. Iyo Kumazabuka kwaba akantu.I thought pipo there are clever than su Bembas kanshi cimo cine. :-j:-j:-j

  68. “Mr. Campira said villagers in Malala have hinted to the team that several grenades were left behind by the foreign troops in the hilly area of Hapiku, where the couple picked the recovered explosive.”

    I have been kwa-Hapiku in Chikankata area through Hamunyone Hills to kwa-Chaanga and Sianyoolo. I alomst reached kwa-Cimata, but the my party aborted the trip a few kilometres before we reached the destination. These areas are a wonderful scene for all to see with sparkling gems of stones in their surrounding hills. Surely landmines are there, but the places are apotential for good business.

  69. Mr. Campira said the team has since discovered a dangerous explosive called a”grenade ” =))=))=))thats funny

  70. wabwino

    Where wenze you? I missed you my dear.Iam great just concluding my birthday celebration,Nga you how are you? :-j:-j:-j

  71. Are there no televisions in these areas? At least a ka war film will easily teach and tell somebody/someone that this car small chakuti, ni ka bomb!! 🙁

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