The Immigration Department has deported a 27 year old American national after serving his jail sentence for trafficking in psychotropic substances.
Immigration Public Relations Officer Mulako Mbagweta told ZANIS in Lusaka today that Kimmel Daron Vincent who served as a peace corps was deported via the Lusaka international airport on an Ethiopian airline to his country of origin.
She added that earlier Mr. Vincent had been convicted by the Mpika Magistrate Court for trafficking in psychotropic substances contrary to section 6 of Cap 96 of the laws of Zambia.
Ms. Mbagweta explained that after serving the sentence for an undisclosed period of time Mr. Vincent was them handed over to the immigration department for deportation.
She has since urged security wings to continue submitting details of arrested foreign nationals to the department to enable it facilitate their deportation upon serving their sentence or any other punitive actions against.
Meanwhile the immigration department public relations officer has disclosed that the 26 Onshore construction workers who are Indian nationals who protested against their employers for poor working conditions are this afternoon expected to be sent back to their country of origin.
She said the 26 will be deported via the international airport on an Ethiopian airline adding that they only had temporal permits to work and stay in the country before they protested against poor working and living conditions from their employers.
On Monday over 360 Onshore construction workers protested and opted for an industrial strike to force management to succumb to their demands for better conditions of service.
However management has refused to succumb to their demands adding that the company had signed agreements with each employee on the conditions of service before coming into the country.
One of the employees Subhas Mallick is reported in one of the daily newspapers as having said 70 percent of the workers have opted to be dispatched back to India their country of origin.
Deport them! Even the sodomites and lesbians too, before they pollute our young ones with their crooked and dirty ways!
Mbangweta, can you get this thing straight. Are we saying the 26 are being deported because they were on temporal permits or because they protested against poor working and living conditions? Of course, which living conditions were so terrible as was observed by Chingola town clerk, Charles Sambondu. I feel this is not a better way of solving industrial unrest. Already like we have read, Zedians shall be recruited to fill the void. Don’t they see Zedians also protesting? Or Zedians are so blind to see? After rall, these chaps went to get foreigners at the expense of Zedians for jobs that could be done by locals. Can someone sort this nonsense please?
How long was the American imprisoned for? Was it hours, minutes or seconds? Or indeed a/some month(s)? year(s)?
This data has to be known. In all fairness, we need to know whether some prisoners receive under-prisonment, over-prisonment or optimum sentencing.
Really breath-taking to note a govt lacking objectivity in the Offshore saga. Just to be interested in seeing foreign workers being sent back without investigating whether the basis of the complaints were genuine or not, leads one to believe this govt fails to scrutinize Investors terms of employment conform to our labour laws, whether it is Zambians or foreign workers involved. this case goes to further confirm why the Chinese offer such poor conditions of service to Zambians – evidence of an incompetent govt full of ignorant leaders who lack a sense of their purpose in govt. Any country worth it’s salt will demand a company shows it has failed to find locals qualified to fill any position.
How on earth can GRZ bring in 3000 plus casual workers from abroad to do the job that locals can do????? This is total insenity! Then you let your own citizens roam the streets???
These workers don’t need to be in Zed in the first place! What a hell is going on here???
meant 300 plus
Corruption. tjhe home affairs minister must have been bribed. no two ways about it. sometimes it appears as if zambia do not have written laws bt they have verbal laws which can be twisted every second. most GRZ ministries would want the president to say something thats when they act.
I personally visited CCS (some chinese-built smelter site)and found more than 350 Chinese nationals working there with skills ranging all the way from managers down to toilet cleaners – all Chinese.
They’ve employed just about 12 Zambians just to look nice.
Zambia still has plenty deportation work to do.
I dare say the 300 workers were part of the contract signed by the government, some contracts come with a “workers” package. We should ask the Ministry concerned to explain.
#8, i like your conclusion….there is one fool at Omnia fertilizer who is posing as Assistant Director yet he is a finance Director and not recognised by ZICA. He gets his permits dubiously and uses very abusive language to his workers. Mbangweta do something.
Zambia still has plenty deportation work to do.
Bringing in workers amass from other countries at the expense of locals is bad policy. I doubt if there is another country that does so giving work permits indiscriminately like Zambia. Zambian leaders and policy makers are amazing. If we had 10 to 20 skilled workers you could understand but 300 or so for the same company is insane. Couldn’t those jobs be done by Zambians? It is time we stopped signing dubious contracts and investments.
Kanshi Ubuteko bwa Zambia bwamusango shani????????
The government should put binding policies on the percentage of skilled workers an invester is allowed and specify in detail which category in the org. hierachy. Its a shame that human trafficking is being promoted in the name of foreing investment. Those poor peple were promised better lives than what they had only to come and live like pigs. The beneficiaries of this scam in Zambia should know that impunity has a life span.
THESE PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY PRISONERS IN CONJESTED PRISONS OF INDIA. THATS WHY THEY WERE HOUSED AS MANY AS 60 PEOPLE IN ONE HOUSE.
SIMILARLY AT THE NEW CEMENT FACTORY IN CHILANGA, 2000 PRISONERS FROM CHINA HAVE BEEN BROUGHT IN WHILE FREEDOM COMPUND WHERE HUNDREDS OF UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS ARE ROAMING ABOUT THE STREETS IS JUST NEXT DOOR.