President Edgar Lungu has dropped Zambia Correctional Services Commissioner General Percy Chato.
Mr. Chato has been replaced by his Deputy Commissioner General in Charge of Administration Chisela Chileshe.
Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda has confirmed the development to ZNBC News in Lusaka.
Mr. Chanda said that Dr Chileshe will be sworn in next week.
Meanwhile, President Lungu has sent a message of condolences to the Family of late Chieftainess Choongo of the Tonga people in Monze, Southern Province.
President Lungu has since asked Cabinet Office to render any assistance to the bereaved family.
In his message of condolences to the royal family, President Lungu said the death of the traditional leader is a loss not just to the people of Southern province but the entire country.
Chieftainess Choongo died on Friday, in Kitwe where she had gone for treatment.
Mwende bwino ba Percy. Congrats Dr Chisela. I used to enjoy his mastery of medical terms in bemba on znbc’s chintobentobe
My pray is that this Dr Chileshe will improve the prison conditions which are really at the same level as concentration camps. How do we have such terrible prison conditions and poor diet despite the prisons always boasting of bumper harvests? Why are we doing this to ourselves.
Further there is need to fire some people both in the judiciary and ministry of justice for failing to implement policies which called for the decongesting of prisons by way of allowing community service for minor misdemeanours as opposed to custodial sentences these custodial sentences are sadly often with hard labour which are just modern day slavery. It’s a fact that there are truelly sadists in the judiciary.
Chato is fired because he didn’t want to accommodate HH next Wednesday. Tired of jailing innocent people. God bless you Ba Chato, God bless Chimese. Who is next Kanganja???
Thank you Mr. Chato for painting HH’s cell at Mukobeko, even though the useless UPND thought fresh paint was meant to suffocate Him.
Mr president, does it occur to you that rendering such type of help is not sustainable, for how long will people live on handouts? People need to be economically empowered to bury their dead with dignity and not by droppings from your table, it’s patronizing and demeaning, no brownie points here
Mr my point are you not aware that chiefs are on salaries better than even some district officers. Plz researth before you expose your selves
Mr Percy chato your fate was suppose to come during the arrest of HH. How did you allow exorcism for release of HH by more 100 sangomas from SA in band with kalubales and other N/western province nyau-wizards to make correctional service an exorcism-shrine.? Your orders were wrong such that, you were giving exorcist socerers wrong time table.Some were doing that in front of you by send your Juniors in your full view. Good that you have been dismissed so that you go learn more magic.
Useless comments from useless heads.That’s what critics in this country are known for, always pretending to know much more.
“Chieftainess Choongo died on Friday, in Kitwe where she had gone for treatment.”
In Kitwe? And that is where riots were incited, indeed these boys have no respect for their traditional leaders!!
MHSRIEP from us Zambians.
Its really sad that our Zambian generals are so weak that they a even reduced to cadres in whatever ministerial posts they a in,first it was general chimise whatever way u call him and now its chato,who knows who is next maybe its kanganja,work up and save the Zambian people and not an individual.
*wake up
Iwe can you compare a civilian prison commissioner to a General? What’s wrong with you people kanshi?
TOO BAD FOR CHATO, BUT I HOPE THIS DR. CHILESHE C., WILL PUT IN PLACE GOOD MEASURES WHICH WILL SEE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN PRISONS ENJOY THEIR RIGHTS TOO, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY THE DECONJENTION OF PRISON FACILITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY SHOULD BE THE MAJOR KEEN INTEREST. GOD BLESS ZAMBIA.
@edwin well said my brother