Friday, April 19, 2024

Body of Zambian who died in Afghanistan arrives

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The body of a Zambian woman who died in Kabul, Afghanistan  arrived in the country yesterday.

The body, which was received by ministry of foreign affairs officials, arrived at the Lusaka International Airport at 14:00 hours  Friday. aboard Ethiopian Airways.

According to a statement released to ZANIS by the ministry of foreign affairs, Adele Zulu, 19, died in Kabul, Afghanistan on November 25 this year whilst in detention on drug offenses in that country.

She was arrested and detained in September this year.

The remains of Adele have since been taken to the University Teaching Hospital, UTH, mortuary before they could be disposed off.

The statement indicated that efforts by the ministry of foreign affairs to trace relatives to the late Adele have so far not yielded positive results.

The statement named Prisca Zulu  and Martha Katundu Zulu as sistaer and mother respectively to the deceased while Alfred Zulu , who once resided at house number 41 Kubu Street in Libala Stage 3 in Lusaka as father to the deceased.

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91 COMMENTS

  1. People these days are going to greater lenghts just to get rich. So am not surprsed! Everyone wants to own a beautifully furnished house,car, money and so forth,in a twnkiling of an eye and without even sweating for them. Its a get rich quick scam.

  2. Sad indeed! the things we do for a quick buck?! You mean things are so bad in Zed, people are daring to go to Afghanistan to peddle drugs?! LORD help us…

  3. Banda Sheikh.this is what I was talking about,this is exactly what most Nigerians do.Now you wenze kuseka munzakomati he cleans ma bums.To my fellow Zedian lets be content with what the Lord has blessed us with.Money is the source of evil.

  4. Not everyone who carrys a zambian passport is a real **==, i have met Ghanians & Nigerians in europe with **== passports, bought for only US $200 in lusaka offices, while I am deprived of a dual citizenship!!!
    This name Adele has never been heard of in **== surely the woman must have used a **== pass just to get to Kabul

  5. Iam great and you my dear? Thanks so much you have really helped me you guys.I promise you guys my first salary will go to you and God.

  6. Who is asking what she was doing in Afghanistan?? That’s the source for her Wares!! many questions seem unanswered – what did she die of? was she hanged?? How can the govt not track the relatives – passport should have the details, cross reference with the Reg card. Establish that the details of the fathers last residential are true, otherwise as we all know, we might soon be the dumping ground for all those travelling on dodgy Zed passports!!

  7. Ba ngwele are you seriously deluded that you think Zambians aren’t drug mules. You need to wake up I know a lot of zambians that carry drugs in their stomach just to earn some cash. It’s true the dealers maybe nigerian but the mules are not . Afganistan is the worlds heroine capital , from the girls age you can tell that she was probably coxed by an older person in return for promise of riches and fame. Shine eyed gyals always fall for this.

  8. Sad indeed that Zed is a subject of disgrace. Bane Zed is blessed with peace and poverty, why attempt to be rich especially in Kabul?

  9. LT you shud seriously improve in you story writing, first you refer to “the body” then you latterly refer to “the remains of”, the two imply different things, it’s not like after the body was receivewd at UTH it blew up & what we have are remains of!!!

  10. Ku konda the flashy lifestyle. Always about getting money through dubious means, this is just zambians exporting their lazy corrupt means to the outside world. Right now as we speak how many zambian girls do you think are using their bodies in exchange for a life of money. Babylon pa zed i tell you

  11. How unfortunate. But how is it possible that a 19 year old girl can find herself in kabul? this just shows that human traficking in Zambia is slowly becoming a real problem. howzit baby C?

  12. Shalapungu.
    I agree with you, these days young girls like flashy life styles. Its this celebrity life style killing them all.

  13. 24 Sarah Jones
    What do you mean this is sad. She was a drug trafficker and that’s why she found herself in that place in the 1st place. Only someone with a quest for ill gotten money will get or go to such a dangerous place. Small wonder she died there, mu prison i must presume. To the wicked and evil death shall come in the most dishonourable way. Good for that presumed drug trafficker.

  14. #30
    Its just sad that no one knows her in Zambia. Am sure some one gave birth to her. Poor gal, maybe she is not even Zambian.

  15. Am alright. just saddened by the loss of such a young life. Hey what do you think of our Zambian foreign ministry? it only acts as an undertaker for zed people living abroad. is it becoz of poverty that it fails to protect its nationals? e.g a zambian was executed in china,another beheaded in singapore.What about them diplomatic ties? chinese are busy commiting crimes in zambia but go scot free! please somebody save us!

  16. #13 Afro… At least you got free **==, and paid for a British citizenship through marrying a 62 year old Briton, and divorce her 4 hours after receiving the 2nd if not 3rd foreign passport. No kufwa kwawamapo.

  17. 33
    Sorry and apologies for misunderstanding your sympathy. True we all need to bury our dead, just as we all need to be given a decent and humane send off. Gd day for now.

  18. This scourge is becoming very rampant among young zambian ladies who want to get-rich-quick and in the process just complicate (or end) their lives while tarnishing the image of all zambian women in the process. Every couple of months we hear of yet another 20something year old zambian lady rotting in a middle east prison after being conned by nigerian drug lords. I hope this scene comes to an end soon before zambian women become ‘bad news’ like nigerians are considered the world over. To the dead, RIP. To the living, if anything seems too good to be true it most certainly is. There are no shortcuts to wealth without major repurcusions

  19. Zambians face reality and smell the coffee. Our fellow people do such too. Read the following from Times of Zambia:-TWO female Zambians have been jailed for 10 years each after being convicted of drug trafficking in Australia, Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary, Tens Kapoma has said.

    Gloria Chilolo and Fides Nyendwa’s sentences were, however, reduced to six years after the judge considered that the girls pleaded guilty at an early stage and their statement helped the police arrest a Dubai-based Nigerian drug baron named Kelvin Umai.
    Mr Kapoma said in a statement released in Lusaka yesterday that the duo was arrested last year and the sentence was backdated to December 25, 2007 when they

  20. #40
    Me am speechless of these young girls nowadays. There are so many bad stories going around about how they want it all and most of them get pregnant with others peoples husband when asked did you know he was married? the answer is no mukwai. Just useless.
    Just in one month I head of girls whom I thought were going to do much better in life, three girls in different loctions of the world and all of them pregnant by a non Zambian but blacks from west africa.

  21. Contd.
    when they were picked up.

    Mr Kapoma said a non-parole period of three years and nine months was set for the duo with a parole period of two years and three months and they would, therefore, be set free on December 25, 2011 to face deportation back to Zambia.

    The imprisonment of Chilolo and Nyendwa comes barely two weeks after a Zambian woman died while in detention on a drug-related offence in a Pakistani prison.

  22. Its unfortunate that these incidents are happening much more than ever,I am not surprised that young Zambian girls are being lured into trafficking drugs, from my point of view there has always been too much high life, a need to show off and belong among young Zambian people. when i studied in South Africa in the late nineties, drug trafficking was predominantly going on among Zambian girls, i met a couple who even boasted of how they were trafficking the stuff with their Nigerian boyfriends, some of these girls came from well to do families,drug trafficking is not new among Zambian girls and lets not paint a picture that some Zambian girls are innocent coz its far from the truth.

  23. Only a few days ago, another Zambian woman was arrested in Afghanistan on a similar offence.

    “I am once again strongly appealing to all Zambians to desist from such vices which are impacting negatively on the good image of Zambia to the outside world,” Mr Kapoma said.

    He said the ministry of Foreign Affairs was saddened by the phenomenon of Zambians, especially women, involving themselves in illegal activities in foreign countries.

    End of quote===

  24. Mwefipuba mwe! Someone should have told you she is Nigerian.ministry

    Met by ministry of foreign affairs officials? F*o*o*l*s!

  25. The law stipulates that anybody who dies in such circumstances needs a post mortem and toxicology tests to determine the examine the exact cause of death.This death should not be treated with kids groves Mr RB.There are alot of bad guys in this world.

  26. What makes this person Nigerian. She is a Zambian wonder small they brought her remains home. There are many Zambian ladies especialy those living SA who undertaken such missions before

  27. #36 Iwe Yama, ulichipuba, when some one denounces the zambian citizenship and adopts another one does not mean they have to marry and old person of which ever country they choose to live in. Some of us left africa, when you were still running around namashinsha mukaputula, we bwa We! I got married in Zambia in Chilubi Island, and still married to the same partner and have grandchildren:-t

  28. #46 i actually heard that story early this yr. They are finally charge….i thought it was just hear says…i hear one of the two girls was actually apying for her young sisters education in australia….maybe thats why she did it she was the breadwinner in the family n needed her siblings educated…its sad…for the wadges of sin is death…..Ngerians are bad news plaese zambians be careful nomatter how kind they look,they are always upto no good….

  29. People oten look as far as the nose withought much fore site.
    this is a clasic example of the outcome of using fake passports from countries you do not originate from. As result , if you get deported you get shipped to the country the passports indicate , thats the best case scenereo , how ever if you die , you too get shipped to the country your passports indicates , and become a lost soul with no one to ever identify your body .

    thie also goes to all you Zambians out there using Malawi,botwana and namibian passport .
    learn from this.
    you relatives will think your doing it big in Usa but not realising you died 5 years ago and was burried in an unmarked grave in namibia .

  30. She aint no Zambian prolly a Nigerian using a Zambian passport. Zambians love themselves too much to be mixed up in drugs in a far flung country as Afghanistan with the war going on in that country right now. Like somebody said, she’s a lost soul and shes not 19, though the passport might have indicated otherwise, to probably get leniency from the judge when caught!

    She ran out of luck!

  31. She was Zambian alright. Just do not underestimate the lengths some Zambians are willing to go in the pursuit of crime. and she was so young. There are many other unreported stories like this in Zambia and abroad. this just the tip of an iceberg.

  32. Can we also say VJ and Sikota wina are not Zambians? There are bad pipo in zed also from way back. Its the likes of VJ and Mandrax Wina who introduced zed to the crooked Nigerians. Many young zedian girls have done dispeakable things e.g sleeping with Lebarnese dogs to get rich fast. Poverty and the wish to lead a posh life without working hard has led to some of our young girls doing such things. Adele may just sound Chipataish.

  33. Afghanistan is a fundamentalist Islam and Male dominated state currently engulfed in a major war.As such it bogles my mind that a Zambian girl, non Arabic in dress or language, could easily entrench herself in a deadly trade in a country that belittles women.Further it takes a collaborative effort between the host nation and the (subject)victim govt to verify and foot the costs of transportation whether in death or deportation.Thus the govt must know who this unfortunate girl is otherwise they would not cover the cost.Finally Embassies all over the world primarily serve the interests of its citizens thus this girls plight should have been addressed much earlier before her demise by the govt.

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  35. #69 & #70 you are way of course. Like Amy Winehouse you deserve to be LOCKED in rehab so you can sober up, learn to focus and know your priorities. The subject here couldnt be further from your drug induced halucinations of balloting.I wish i could call you an imbecile but i will not, just yet.

  36. What was she doing in Afghanistan for crying out loud???????Of all places why go somewhere were there is war young lady?
    Sad news indeed

  37. DRUG related offences? Was she hunged? Is it out of stress in cells? Was it torture? Or maybe she was assaulted whilst in custody? LT collect more data. We are itching to know the cause of death. We,ve known the minister died out of illness but how about the little girl? I love Easterners I wish I ——-?her before she died. VERY SAD. MHSRIP.

  38. Whether the poor girl was Zambian or not is immaterial. The sad fact is that this fellow human being was desperate enough to resort to dangerous means resulting in her premature death. Money is not everything in this life. R I P.

  39. This woman is a Nigerian woman who bought a Zambia passport.I have met many Nigerians in Europe and the United States who cam overseas in Zed Passport

  40. Imwe munai alipa zelu all the time. if u keep blaming them then are u implying we are dim? as we are easily preyed by nigerians? I dont think so? Though my opinion is majority of them are not straight and a handful are good where as in zed its the other way round i.e handful bad and majority good/

  41. :((Firtly think u’r human jst like the dead poor girl,2d u’r not perfect either,3rd leave Nigeria out of this,then u wanna sort out the mess Zambians are going thru,dont constraite and hide in the name of peace coz u’r not the only peaceful country world over,talk of somthing unique frm other countries.
    Generally as Zambians we will neva learn to sort out issues coz we’re so happy of the poverty_Peace we say,hw do we say we hv peace wen our pipo are dying of poverty everyday.??? wakeup Zambia!!! & now u even pullout of Africa cup hosting in the name of yo failour 2 provide yo pipo a better living…Ahh..?
    Pls let us do something about this poverty..4get about peace now coz peace we hv not.

  42. #80:((Right wake up Zambia there is no peace in Zambia,its total Hell insteady, look @ living standard of poorman.
    As Zambians we owez boast of peace yet our pipo are really dying of poverty war and we watch a& say we’re peaceful.We owez make references if its a goodthing we say even the US,bad thing we say Nigeria, does it me we’ve got nothing 2 show of our own..Ah??
    Leave Nigeria alone this time and sought out the mess going on in Zed.Take time to study the route coz of why our pretty girls are perishing in foreign countries. 4me its Peaceful poverty we hv, so save us from Poverty, 4get about peace this time coz we have no peace whatsover. Pipo are dying while U’r busy preaching peace.

  43. And what is the current state of affairs with another Zedian girl,Gunea Daka, if my memory serves me right, about 21 years old, under arrest in Singapore for trafficking?

    It’s been relatively easy for Zedians to travel across countries but but with such arrests and at this rate, I am afraid it will be worse than Nigeria.

  44. kwena napapa sana afghanstan out of all the countries she cant be zambian. I think she was a dull gal,atleast bambepako ati tuleya ku USA.Nimbushi sana,may her remains rest in moloshi.

  45. # 78! Ba Father Kwanzaa, she might be a Nigerian, a Zambian or from any other country. The fact that there many Nigerians who own a Zambian passport does not guarantee that the deceased is a Nigerian. What if she is a Zambian from Chipata; those fellows from there have interesting names, e.g. Rupiah, Nokia, Basikolo, Condom Banda, Mpulumushi Mukandawire, etc. So there is nothing strange about Adele Zulu. It can as well be a Zambian name from the chiefdom of Mpezeni! May she rest in eternal peace. Amen!!! [-(

  46. imwe kukonda ndalama za quick niye problem,people don’t want to work hard for their money.Yes she was a zambian without doubt.

  47. hello peole
    my msg is to those how are want to go to afghanisan and want to fight they will never sucess and all of them will be death
    so this is good leave them what they do
    look all the civilions are death why?

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