Police in Solwezi have impounded three Volvo trucks belonging to Jama Transport and Farm enterprises of Ndola which were carrying over 70 tons of copper ore believed to have been stolen.
North-Western province Police Commissioner Eugene Sibote said the Volvo trucks registration numbers ACG 8610-ACG 337T, which was being driven by Saidi Mohammed 56, and ACP 332-ACM 2541T driven by Abdulai Mohammed 25, both Somali nationals were intercepted over the weekend along Solwezi-Kipushi border road.
The other Volvo track registration number ACP 3903-AAH 15360T belonging to Farm Enterprises was being driven by Abibi Assan aged 49 also a Somali national was carrying copper ore which was concealed in scrap metal.
Mr Sibote also disclosed that the three transporters have been operating without legal documents and had in their possession an expired mineral export permit belonging to the Shama brothers and a forged clearance letter.
He said it is believed that the three Volvo trucks which were carrying the copper ore did not pass through the Kipushi boarder point and this prompted the police to impound them.
Mr Sibote also said three other people that have been arrested in connection with the same offence are going to be jointly charged with being in possession of property believed to have been illegally obtained.
In a related development police in Solwezi have arrested three people of Mufumbwe district for being in possession of copper ore believed to have been stolen from Kalengwa mine and have impounded a Truck registration number ALH 4161 that was used to carry the contraband.
These Somali chaps are all over the world, running away, ostensibly, from al Shaabab,and other problems in their country. And wherever they are Somalis will be found engaging in all kinds of crime, and other illicit activities. And quite obstinate they are, these chaps, as if they are not ‘refugees’. In short, they are not good company.
You can’t be further from the truth!
This is a hatred comments which needs to be looked at where rule of law is practiced. i think you have heard that there is a law in some countries like Kenya and many others that if some one publishes such a comment to face the Ruth therefore mind twice before you write your comments.comment the events professionally . have you heard that the new president of Kenya is facing the same charges in ICC .am telling this that you know your position of the law ,and you are the other side of the law .
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No mine has since complained!! Let any company complain that they have lost….then cage the chaps!
No mine complains,give them their ore.
this story looks fabricated by Lusaka times because they do not have enough documents showing the same therefore i call the media to conduct themselves responsibly .this fabricated story can lead a mayhem to the country as we experienced before in some parts of the country . i tell you that you will go to court based on what you have spread in your web.
stolen from were?? who are thieves Zambians or Congolese? can a Zambian steal from Congo and leave their country freely ? you guys don’t move that’s why you suspect your fellow Zambian of stealing copper from Congo.I suspect they bought but have flawed papers from Zambia.
Howcome that the same picture used here appears on a similar story that LT flighted in February about copper theft in Mkushi area. One wonders what happened to REAL journalism in Zambia. DO NOT write articles without proper facts and research, you are embarassing us.