Copper thieves are plotting to launch an assassination trail of police officers involved in the fight against theft of the commodity.
This is according to Copperbelt Police Commanding Officer Martin Malama.
Dr. Malama says police have information about a clandestine meeting which illegal copper dealers recently held in Kitwe to plan assassinations.
He says the police investigations in the copper-theft syndicate have advanced and he has vowed that all those involved will be brought to book.
Meanwhile Dr. Malama has confirmed that police in Luanshya have impounded a truck loaded with suspected stolen copper ore and a man has been arrested to help with investigations.
Dr. Malama says the truck was found parked at a house in Minkomfya Township and named the arrested suspect as Fanwell Kambobe.
The Copperbelt Police Chief says the fight against copper thefts is inevitable.
Dr. Malama says no amount of threats will stop the officers in the operation from doing their duties because Zambia needs resources to develop.
[ ZNBC ]
Well done Doc. We appreciate what you are doing for the betterment of this country
It wil be like Mexico soon down here!!!!!!!!
aba banyama…these officers are very much in bed with the crooks
This is all good work by our police service. However a political decision is required for Zambians to benefit from the sale of copper. In fact this decision MUST become an election issue instead of useless issues such as those of gays and the like. Get those criminals and lock them up!
I have heard and possibly people in Kitwe have good testimonies on how powerful these people are–criminals involved in copper theft, such that the first time I started hearing the crackdown, I actually feared for Dr. Malama’s life though my heart would always bleed when I visit CB and hear how untouchable these guys have been for years now. Congrats Doc and go after them before they catch you. We are behind you. Make CB especially Kitwe a safe haven for all of us to live in. Deal with the Jerabos and those powerful families with the seriousness the issues warrant
Young, Shi Mumbi, Mohammed, Fawazi and the others are the notorious KopaKopa thieves. Some Police officers are in league with them and these bad eggs leak info to the copper criminals. So Doc shuffle all the long serving police Officers on the task force. Transfer then away from Kitwe. The chinese as well have joined into the the party of stealaing Copper. Countles of them have been arrested for copper theft, caught Red handed with the contraband BUT NONE of them is in jail or taken to court but freed. That’s why MMD to GO 2011.
This is alarming illegal copper dealers holding a meeting to launch an assassination trail of police officers?this confirms how lawlessness criminals have became.Please Doc.Cage them all.we don’t need such mafias in our belove country.In fact this should go as far as to those unsupecting buyers who buys
the metals and concetrates some are china men in this case.
Chinese are protected by the MMD government, all these copper stealing will disappear next year under PF government. There wasn’t much of these out break of thieves in KK era.
That’s lawlessness at it’s best. Law breakers meeting to assassinate cops it’s like watching a mafia movie. Break every mineral syndicate you come across and cage these scandalous money making chaps. For them to start holding such meetings then you are hitting them were it hurts, do not relent hit harder double your efforts the nation appreciates the efforts you and your team are putting in.
JERABO BOYZ !!!
The only way to stop these Gerabos from killing all the cops in Kitwe is to transfer all the Kitwe cops to other provinces. These copper theft are engineered by cops who are in the same league with these dangerous and arrogant bandits. Can you imagine a cop being slaped in full view of other senior officers by a Gerabo in Kaunda’s days? The daily happenings in Kitwe can only be compared to Hollywood scripts, its unbelivevable? Go to a night club and you will be amazed- COPS WORSHIPING KNOWN CRIMINALS! These mineral criminals (Gerabos) have mini armies. They move with armed trigger happy criminal bodyguards. Armed with pistols in convoys of lattest expensive vehicles. Everyone knows them except the man who matters most, THE IG. Iam happy to enjoy my Mosi in Lusaka. Kitwe, eish!!
Send real cops from Lusaka for a month operation and clean up this city.Send all the Kitwe cops on paid leave for a month and see the results. Its surely becoming Ciudad Juarez of Zambia.
Cops are involved in this scam. Two police officers died last year when they attempted to intercept a train ladden with copper. They were using Shimumbi’s gray Prado to carry what could have become the “great train robbery.
We appreciate the work that Dr. Malama has been doing from the time he came. Almost all his predecessors were easily compromised by these so-called Jerabos. These Grade seven jerks (Jerabos) go on to terrorize innocent citizens by their uncouth behavior with the guts gotten from the so much money they make from stolen copper. If it were an ordinary Zambian stealing this copper I wouldnt complain much because then the money would remain within the bounds of Zambia unlike the status quo where all the money realized from the sale of copper is developing other countries. Viva Doc, and viva a government that God will one day bless us with where we the Zambian will trully benefit from our kopala!
Start by firing all Gerabos as Police Reserves.
Do your hear all you chaps who say that leadership does not need education. Listen to Dr Malama speaking and you feel it, you feel that the guy knows what he is talking about. No waffling like an audio cassette. On the other hand, when you hear Police Officers promoted on political partronage they speak like cadres, no issues, everytime they open their mouth it’s like gumu-gumu greenhead…no brains, the whole head is full of bones!!
#17 u are damn right Bro! these police officers appointed by virtue of political patronage speak just like u!
these are all funded by chinese mafias
Some time back, one of the Gerabos, whatever he got high on, was seen pushing a huge tyre in Parklands area just before that round about going to Riverside, chap was pushing that tyre right in the middle of the road, causing serious traffic, all he was doing was to prove a point that, “he was the boss, and untouchable”! Atate bake Muntu! Cops were just watching, as usual. Such is the calibre and pomposity
This is Rupiah Banda’s fault!
If he is not careful, the Nigerian and Chinese friends CROOKS that he is bringing in Zambia on the pretex of being investors, will bring the NIGERIAN TYPE of assassinations and killings like those in the Delta Region of Nigeria.
Chinese and Nigerian MAFIAS have no boundaries.
Anyway, lets us unite as Zambians and VOTE OUT RUPIAH BANDA in the coming elections and make sure we warn and make Sata be aware to change the constitutions that empowers and protect Zambians.
God protect the Zambian police involved in this operation.
This is frightening. Dr Malama needs to be congratulated and supported for the work is he is doing.
However, I concur with my other colleagues above that there is need to transfer and rotate the who have overstayed in the same police stations throughout the country. As it is said that, “familiarity breeds contempt”.
Also, the cars/trucks used to ferry stolen copper should be impounded and forfeited to the state as it is with game-meat. This law should surely be put in place.
You need to act now before you are killed.
The Law is straight forward. One the Police has failed send in the Army. It worked during the KK era’s mealie-meal smuggling operations. Shoot on sight !
Doc M,get ride of the police reserve..thats your weakest link.
But the police including Dr Malama know these copper thieves
watch this space…………………………………………
Let them enjoy their natural resource. After all the Local thieves invest locally compared to the international thieves (investers).