Chinese company, China Jiangsu International the company linked to Chieftaness Nkomeshya has been summoned by the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) to explain why it had ignored a High Court order restraining it from conducting the mining activities.
ZEMA public relations officer Irene Chipili confirmed that China Jiangsu International Limited and Vikram Investment Limited, the rightful owner of the land in question were summoned last week but that the Chinese company refused to report to the agency.
Chipili said the agency had summoned the two companies with the hope of resolving the matter but the Chinese company had continued to ignore the summons.
Chipili said China Jiangsu International, Busoli Development Company, Skyline Quarry Limited, Economic Technical Co (Z) Limited and George Mwamba, the brother to former Defence Minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba have disregarded a High Court injunction and have grabbed a mining area dully given to Vikram Investment Limited and have started quarrying and mining activities without a valid licence.
It has been established that the named companies have encroached Vikram Investment Limited prospecting area 16703-HQ-LPL which was formerly given to the company by the Ministry of Energy and Water Development.
Paper trail obtained shows that Vikram Investment Limited was awarded a large scale prospecting licence number 16703-HQ-LPL in Shantumbu area in Chongwe but before the company could commence its mining activities, China Jiangsu International Limited unscrupulously moved on the site and started quarrying.
Vikram Investment Limited had gone to court seeking a court injunction to restrain Jiangsu and Skyline Quarry Limited from conducting mining activities its large scale prospecting area but even after the injunction was granted, the Chinese company along with some local companies have continued quarrying.
Vikram had applied for the large scale prospecting licence and the ministry of mines dully gave the company the licence and the Zambia Environmental and Management Agency had approved the environmental project brief and granted Vkiram to commence its mining activities.
Last week, the Chinese almost shot investigative journalists from MUVI Television and the Zambia Daily Nation for attempting to interview the illegal mining and to collect footage of the illegal mining activities.
ONLY IN ZAMBIA DO FOREIGNERS IGNORE COURT RULINGS, AND IT’S A SIGN OF TOTAL LWALESSNESS IN A COUNTRY WHERE EVEN THE HEAD OF STATE NEITHER TAKES HIMSELF NOR HIS JOB SERIOUSLY SO HOW WILL FOREIGNERS RESPECT US AND OUR LAWS?
Chachine. Lets fix these non-law abiding exploiters
This PF is really a governing using the 10 Commandments, I am not just sure which commandments we talking about here……….
Nonsense!! what kind of a country is this, a banana republic?? The directors of the company should have been arrested way back for contempt of court.
in Zambia with corruption that is possible. Shame, shame
@ UPND – The People’s Choice
they are using the newly created “90 day commandment”
“We shalt do as we so please”.
OH! so ZEMA is now talking because it is the Chinese. How about THE LOWER
ZAMBEZI MINING saga ?
Leave the Chinese alone they are our saviours.
ZEMA talk to those Polish pretending to be Australians who want to start
open pit mining in the LOWER ZAMBEZI game park!