POLICE in Chinsali district in Muchinga Province have intercepted another vehicle carrying prohibited immigrants.This is the second time in four days that alert police officers in Chinsali have intercepted prohibited immigrants.
Muchinga Province Police commissioner Remmy Kajoba confirmed the development in an interview in Chinsali today.
Mr. Kajoba said 11 Ethiopian nationals were intercepted at Nambuluma police checkpoint around 23:00 hours last night aboard a Toyota Prado registration number ABC 8709 driven by male Ibrahim Lungu of Lusaka.
Mr. Kajoba said the prohibited immigrants were en-route to Lusaka.He added that the prohibited immigrants and two Zambian nationals are currently remanded at Nambuluma police station and will appear in court soon.
The other Zambian intercepted together with the prohibited immigrants has been identified as Lemani Phiri of Lusaka.Police said initial investigations indicate that the prohibited immigrants were picked from Nakonde.
On Sunday this week, Police in Chinsali in Muchinga Province intercepted 12 prohibited immigrants who were in transit to Lusaka.
The prohibited immigrants were intercepted at Nambuluma police checkpoint around 04:00 hours.They were intercepted aboard unregistered Toyota Regius belonging to a named schoolteacher in Serenje district of Central Province.They were also picked from Nakonde border.
The 12 who included 8 Banglagesh and 4 Pakistan nationals aged between 22 and 35 years are currently remanded in custody at Nambuluma police station.
The Immigration department in Nakonde also arrested 11 Somali nationals who were also in transit to Lusaka on Saturday last week near Kalungu Village.
The 11 are currently detained at Nakonde police station.
Nakonde district commissioner James Singoyi on Saturday last week complained about increased crime rate in the border town.
Mr. Singoyi said the district has in the recent past recorded an increase in murder cases, house breakings, drug trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking as well as theft of motor vehicles.
He was speaking in Nakonde when Secretary to the Cabinet Dr. Rowland Msiska paid a courtesy call on him at his office.Dr. Msiska was on his continued tour of Muchinga Province checking on developmental projects and programmes being implemented by the Government.
The permanent secretary for administration at Cabinet Office Mrs. Anna Mwitwa – Mwewa, Finance Permanent secretary in charge of Economic Management and Finance Felix Nkulukusa, Muchinga province Permanent secretary Charles Sipanje, and Director public service management division at Cabinet Office Mr. Sekwiba Lubasi, among others, accompanied Dr. Msiska on his tour.
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Zambia is a hot bed. Its only Zambian’s themselves who think otherwise.
If it is a hot bed, what the hell are you doing there? Besides, these guys were just using Zambia to transit to RSA. Osazimvesa bwino!
Baikata bapompwe. Too many somalians in zambia.
HOT CAKE MOTHER ZAMBIA.
Warning to you guys who buy tuma 2nd hand cars from Japan. Ati Regius. Do not just pick, pick ati mupangeko isha fuel. Mukafwa icanyongo.
11 people muli Pajero and expected not to be stopped? kweni bali ipamba, . My worry is many more have gone through these checkpoints.
Most of these guys are enroute to South Africa.
When they get Zambian passports, they pretend to be Zambians until they get into Scandinavia and throw away the passports at the entry point to become asylum seekers from Somalia
HUNDRED OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM INDIA,PAKISTAN BANGLADESH ARE ENTERING ZAMBIA EVERY MONTH AND ZAMBIANS PASSPORTS ARE READILY AVAILABLE ON THE BLACK MARKET FOR 10,000USD. IN EMMESDALE ALONE THERE ARE MORE THAN A THOUSAND ILLEGAL INDIANS STAYING THERE AND MOST OF THEM ARE HOLDING ZAMBIAN PASSPORTS. THE IMMIGRATION SHOULD RAID EMMESDALE MOSQUE DURING FRIDAY AFTERNOON PRAYERS AND THEY WILL BE ABLE TO PICK UP OVER HUNDREDS OF THESE BOGUS INDIANS WITH FAKE ZAMBIAN PASSPORTS AND FAKE WORK PERMITS. THIS IS NO JOKE, ITS 100%POSITIVE.TAKE MY WORD
In Zambia no one cares, people are too busy with nchekelako pursuits. This country will be lost in years to come due to our own carelessness as Zambians.
for sure carelessness indeed we need to secure our country for our children wake up call to GRZ its time or never
This is an old syndicate and the person who is the mastermind in nakonde is greame.even these police officers know and they have been getting 150usd per head only that this time greame short changed them so kufilila munsenga bonse
I have just seen a news item on ENCA. 6 Pakistanis have been gunned down in Michells Plains Cape Town in what is believed to have been an attempted robbery. What spooked me is the huge number of Pakistanis that were demoonstrating in Cape Town. One wonders how welcoming some of these countries are to foreigners. How self can one feel in Pakistan, Somalia, India, Nigerai etc These countries always tend to be insular but their citizens are always the first across the border into other countries.
Its no secret that if you have money to pay out bribes you can do anything in Zambia. Poor work Ethics is whats killing this country. If you work for immigration and you are not building ,your colleagues will look at you as if you are not normal. This culture of brown envelopes starts from the top. Research shows that Subordinates behave as their superiors. if we could clean up there we would see some tangible change.
why are the zambian drivers arrested in both cases? There is no requirement to ask whether people you are picking are zambians or not. Let them go please.
So Zambia Police are now doubling up as Immigration Officers? Unless Police are working together with the immigration officers and the arrest is prompted by the immigration officer, then the arrests are illegal