Thursday, March 28, 2024

UNIP CB Provincial Chairman arrested

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Opposition United Natioal Independence Party (UNIP) Copperbelt Provincial Chairman, Oliver Kabange has been arrested by the immigration department over his nationality which is still being probed.

Investigative wings say Mr. Kabango is not a Zambian but a Congolese national
born in the Democratic Republic of Congo) DRC in 1963 and has been branded a
prohibited immigrant.

Mr. Kabango 44, a mining engineer at Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) is currently
detained at Kamuchanga open air prison in Mufulira.

 The opposition Copperbelt Provincial Chairman contested last years September
2007, tripartite polls as a parliamentarian for the Mufulira Central seat under
the joint alliance, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA).

Sources handling the case say Mr. Kabango entered Zambia in 1993 and managed to
acquire a Zambian passport and National Registration Card (NRC).

The sources disclosed that Mr. Kabango claimed that he was a Zambian born at
Kashiba District in Mwense in Luapula Province, but such chiefdom does not exist.

 The sources noted that Mr. Kabango’s arrest has nothing to do with his ties with
the opposition party, UNIP.

 The sources said Mr. Kabango’s nationality has been under scrutiny for several
years now and the immigration department has managed to extract and ellicit key
details on this issue.

 The sources said Mr. Kabango was born in DRC, educated and grown up in Belgium.

The investigators say no Zambian has actually come forth to claim that they know
Mr. Kabango.

7 COMMENTS

  1. whats this phobia of foreigners.Who cares if the man was born in DRC.If he is contributing to the zambian economy and has not stolen or killed anyone leave him alone!Look at people who call themselves americans – people from all over the world and they are the ones making america great.Stop being so backward and divert your efforts to developement.

  2. Jimmy
    You are a fool we can not allow a situation in our country where foregners paticipate in politics. Of course they are free to live and do business but the Zambian politics is for Zambians. Get some sense you fool. You are the people that are selling our country.I feel and tend to believe that we must probe your citizenship as well.

  3. very regretable news indeed.Zambia is for Zambians and this guy chose to be zambian despite being born in the DRC.Where were these immigratin officers when he was contributing to the mining sector ? Now that he is in Politics,he has become a congolese.Politics is dirty, if your are not strong stay away.

  4. #2 tombiza chikala what are doing in the USA if at all that is where u live. If Zambia is for Zambians why don’t you bring your ass back then, FOOL

  5. Just what’s wrong with our Journalists really? What does “born at Kashiba District in Mwense in Luapula Province, but such chiefdom does not exist” mean anyway?. Ofcourse Chief Kashiba exists in Mwense District. A little investigation would have revealed this to the media. If our immigration officials don’t know this then God help us all!. And our half baked reporters need to go and find out exactly why this guy is being persecuted. Yes, that’s what the “Police” say, but go on and do your own research. Please!

  6. This Tombiza, what ever his or her name means. You ran away from your country to go live as a refugee in a foreign land, leaving a gap for immigrants to do your job and now you are encouraging your stupid uncles to persecute people who are willing to do the job you ran away from. Read the Zambian constitution on immigration before you utter anymore dirty words.

  7. To you all fools you don’t seem tounderstand the point that man can live and work in Zambia but should not be allowed to be in politics. Just you know I am free to be whereever my money takes me. I will definately come back to Zambia and defend our country

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