Kapiri Mposhi Magistrates Court has sentenced a 19-year-old Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) national to six month imprisonment with labour for illegally entering and working in Zambia.
Kapiri Mposhi Magistrates Edward Banda Deni Tshiangala a wheelbarrow pusher of Ngandaishika village in Lubumbashi, DRC, was charged with an offence of unlawful presence in Zambia contrary to section 11 (3) and 56 (1) of the Immigration and Deportation act no 18 of 2010.
Tshiangala had no document legalizing him to be in Zambia and readily admitted the charge.
Facts before the Court are that Tshiangala entered into Zambia via Kasumbalesa on 16 February 2022 without a valid temporary resident permit or valid border pass.
According to the statement of facts on the said date Immigration Officers received information from members of the public that there were suspected immigrants along the Great North Road and acting on the information the officers to rushed to the area and apprehended the now convict.
In passing judgement Magistrate Banda advised Tshiangala to get a boarder pass and employment permit next time he decides to enter into the country and work from Zambia.
Magistrate Banda then slapped a six month jail sentence with hard labour after which Tshiangala will be eligible for deportation to his country of origin.
“You cannot just enter and work in Zambia at will and without a work permit from the immigration. You will serve six months imprisonment with hard labour and you will be deported by the immigration after serving the sentence,” Magistrate Banda said.
Why are you filling up prisons for nothing …why not just deport him back to DRC
An ignorant African will prosecute a fellow Africans for visiting his land and yet will support the western world in a war, the same westerners who colonised,raped your fore mothers and sold you as slaves . What a shame
An ignorant African will prosecute a fellow Africans for visiting his land and yet will support the western world in a war, the same westerners who c0l0nised,r.a.ped your fore mothers and sold you as sIaves . What a shame
Kikikikiki the borders we never made. I grew up in Mufulira and as kids during our jungle hunting ventures we often found ourselves in the DRC. Without passports
This bad imprisonment for nothing
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Zambia Immigration is very good at arresting fellow Africans meanwhile China has been given thousands of hectares of land in the Copperbelt with thousands of Chinese living there.
Colonial mentality hangover not thinking for oneself and held captive to “orderliness” that is not of your own ethnic making. At some point the so called cities were just villages which “natives” would move in and out, to and fro crisscrossing between villages freely and communicating in the best way that they could between village dialects! Africans instead of easing challenges that were imposed on them at a gathering that never recognized that they were people to allow participation as borders were created are now steel handed in implementation of what the colonialists handed over at dawning of self governing! @ Tarino Orange and Bembaguy, you both are spot on, bravo!