Police in Chingola have arrested six people popularly known as Jerabos in connection with the theft of over five tonnes of copper ore.
The police arrested the suspects on June 3 this year around 12:20 hours at Helen area at Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) Copperbelt police Chief Mary Tembo who confirmed the incident in an interview yesterday in Kitwe identified the suspects as Chrispin Makayi 32, Joe Kapasa 27, Jackson Mugwela 32, Rainford Munyenyembe, 27 and Steven Simbeye, all of Chingola.
Titus Chikwamo was found in possession of 23 bags of copper concentrates each weighing 25 Kilogramme in his Isuzu registration number AGA 5542 at KCM stock pile 98.
The police also recovered an abandoned Toyota Hilux registration number AAX 1394 laden with 20 bags of copper concentrate each weighing 25 kilogrammes.
Ms Tembo said all the suspected have been detained to assist the police with investigations in the matter.
Did they guns? Those are not jerabos
Chizungu. Kambani chabe chi nyanja baba
Police at work. Good to read. Keep chipping away at them. Soon there will be none.. Hilux na Isuzu cars? Stolen money spent in reckless living. No investment. No wonder they keep going back to steal
why are they called Jerabos?
‘jerabos’ simply means “jail-breakers” they are all ex convicts
Jele boyi
Jerabo is an informal of Jail Boy, in was Bembalized in the Copperbelt.
Chizungu. Kambani chabe chi nyanja baba…naimwe mukamba monga @Luki…whats your problem?
Iwe leave my bemba mbuya alone, he tried he is in the ‘ouse ‘ ‘leplesenting’ lol.
Lock them up until their bones rot in jail, these are the people destroying our country. I would love to see the bones for these characters crushed into powder
THEY DON’T EVEN DO ANYTHING WITH THEM. SOON THEY WILL BE OUT. IT’S JUST A WAY OF THE POLICE MILKING THEM. CAN’T U SEE MACKY II IS NOW PERFORMING ?!? BLIND ZEDIANS !
let them free,wen these foreigners steel you do nothing.
people……as zambians we are all entitled to our copper.
bemba thinking
They should reveal their bosses,those kids were just used,they are not the real thieves.
At times it would be nice to have an army, airforce, ZNS and police commander that remembers that our armed forces are sworn to protect us from terrorists foreign and domestic.
Good job mwami bazungu.
Wawa Wawa
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