A TRUCK with registration number FJL 343 FS carrying several boxes of cooking oil from Johannesburg in South Africa to Ndola overturned in Kazungula on Sunday after a male driver Jordan Banda and unknown female passenger picked up a quarrel while the vehicle was in motion.
Mr Banda however denied fighting with a female passenger although the eyewitnesses insisted that they saw two people fighting inside as the truck was moving.
Several residents rushed to the scene to loot the cooking oil but a quick action from Kazungula Police and Kazungula District Commissioner Pascalina Musokotwane restrained them.
George Kakoma who witnessed the accident, said he was driving near the truck in question when he saw the driver and a female passenger fighting after which the truck flipped and threw the cooking oil to the ground.
Mr Kalomo said it was unfortunate that the driver could engage in a fight with another person while the truck was moving.
“This accident was caused after the two had an argument. When they started fighting, the female passenger held the steering after which the truck went off the road.
“The lady then came to my car and asked for help to be taken to the police as she feared to be beaten again,” Mr Kakoma said.
And Ms Musokotwane, who was found at the scene, said the truck failed to negotiate a curve and flipped after which the boxes of cooking oil were thrown into the nearby bush.
Ms Musokotwane urged residents to avoid looting products from a misfortune situation.
Mr Banda later worked with the police and Ms Musokotwane to recruit the same residents to load the cooking oil into the truck after which he gave them some bottles of cooking oil.
Zambia is still importing Saladi? 50 years after independence!!!
NO WONDER KWACHA NAI LUNGULA.
That is what pipo are saying. We import everything. Instead of making nice tar roads in mutendere so loafing youths can walk nicely, use those eurobond monies to put up a oil processing plant So those loafing youths have jobs and pay taxes.
good point patrick. and thats what can win the PF votes. not roads which only serve the purpose of expensive sidewalks
Peter njobvu, I strongly belive PF know that factories and manufacturing plants will save the country but how will they corruptly enrich themselves from those? Building expensive roads is an easier option for corruptly awarding contracts and enriching them selves in the shortest time. That is why they are he’ll bent on roads for loafing youths to walk on….
We love politics and showing off a lot in Zambia.
Look at how shopping malls are springing up everywhere…. in Zambia thats a sign of real development. I have nothing against shopping malls, but they just confirm that we are a net consumer nation… so we import everything to fill the shops in the malls neglecting our own manufacturing industries.
Therefore we borrow and consume and then borrow more and consume more……
Development, the Zed way for sure
Comment: it’s not saladi bt cookin o cil. It wil continue not until we build more industries.
She was holding to a steering? facing forward? Then it wasn’t a fight, but a fuuucking scene.
I think that lady was a local. I suspect the driver did not pay departure fee for services rendered… lol!!
we import a spoon, toothpicks, tomatoes and toilet paper. Jubilee, Jubilee-hopeless
The funny thing is that oil itself is imported in retail form bottled….in other countries they import it in tankers and bottle it in there countries in factories; what is Bo Lubinda doing in Agriculture?
Stealing.
Why are we surprised about the importation of cooking oil. Even the process of bottling in Zambia is more expensive than just importing the bottled stuff. On the matter of the driver fighting with his female companion, some sanction needs to be made provided he gets a fair hearing and the witnesses definitively put him on the spot.
A Foreign Investor came and built a Cooking Oil Plant in Zambia. He started producing, but due to poor quality cheap imports, he stopped producing, and rented his Plant to an importer, and our leaders see it fit to blame others instead of seeing what they do wrong.
In Zimbabwe, we have the same situation. The imported products esp from South Africa, are cheaper that the locally produced products.
Mind you, cheap imports are kiiling local industries and depriving the youth from gaining employment and the much needed skills.
Ukutermwa amahule bane.Mwakulafwa
I thought there was a ban on imports of cooking oil?
They can’t ban anything, they signed trade agreements with everyone.