Police in Chilubi have arrested former Member of Parliament, Obvious Chisala for allegedly breaching the Electoral Code of Conduct.

Both police sources and District Electoral Officer, John Mwanza, have confirmed the arrest of Mr Chisala.

Mr Chisala, who is also former Community Development Deputy Minister, has been charged with conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace together with five of his supporters.The accused have since been transferred to Samfya district where they are expected to appear in court today.

The former MP, who is re-contesting the Chilubi seat as an independent candidate, is together with his supporters alleged to have attempted to disrupt a PF rally held at Chifwenge area on Wednesday that was being addressed by the PF candidate, Rosaria Fundanga.

District Electoral Officer, John Mwanza, has appealed to all the six candidates contesting the Chilubi Parliamentary seat to conduct peaceful campaigns.

The Miss All Weather beauty pageant organised under the Treat Her Like A Lady campaign, which is pioneered by Heathen to Brethren (HB2), has attracted nine contestants who will battle it out for the K5,000 prize money at the grand finale next week.
H2B founder Lee Mulapani told the Weekend Mail in Lusaka that Diana Lungu, Edna Kalumba, Jannette Jasmine Tatalias, Josephine Mutale, Mary Stephen, Ndanji Nakamba, Precious Mubanga, Sellah Chiminsa and Thoko Emma Changufu will be contesting for the Miss All Weather crown at Bongwe’s Big Bush in Lusaka’s Roma on 9th July.
“The ‘Treat Her Like A Lady’ campaign has been on the road in search of beautiful young ladies to be ambassadors and the voice for teenage girls and women across the length and breadth of our beautiful country Zambia and beyond. Each one of these ladies is beautiful in their own way and represents a particular type of girls/women. Supporting them will help create a better world for teenage girls and women,” Lee said.
The Treat Her Like A Lady campaign is aimed at creating a better world for women believing that every woman has the right to be happy.
“Imagine a world where every husband is faithful to his wife, respects her, appreciates her and puts in genuine effort just to put a smile on her face… A world where every child respects, honours and appreciates their mother… A world where there is zero gender based violence. That world is possible. Heathen to Brethren (H II B) is here to make that world a reality,” according to its official Facebook page.
Lee amplifies more on the Miss All Weather pageant.
“[The] Miss All Weather is a beauty pageant aimed at promoting beauty of all shapes and sizes, under the ‘Treat Her Like A Lady’ campaign. This year’s pageant has nine ladies of different shapes and sizes competing for the K5,000 grand prize and the Miss All Weather 2016 crown,” he said.
“Our main objective is to help women and girls know their worth, know themselves and know their valuable place in the world as leaders and world changers. That way, cases of gender abuse will reduce. Each finalist will showcase how a lady ought to dress and still look beautiful despite the weather type [winter, autumn, summer and spring].”

The guest judge will be the current Miss Zambia Michelo Malambo. There will be great musical entertainment by some of Zambia’s best mix DJs and performers.

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Police say it is a blue lie that Post editor Fred M’membe, his wife Mutinta Mazoka and deputy managing editor Joseph Mwenda were roughed up by the police on Monday night.

As new evidence of The Post newspaper’s financial misdemeanors emerged, an eye-witnesss has challenged Mr M’membe to state categorically if the police or anybody else beat them up on the night the trio defied police orders not to enter The Post premises on Bwinjimfumu road which had been sealed by security personnel.

A police source at the scene described as a ‘‘complete lie’’ allegations that the three were harassed, saying that they voluntarily came forward to be arrested.

“I was at the scene all the time and at no time did the police respond to the verbal insults and provocation by Mr M’membe. The officers behaved professionally and all the allegations of harassment and brutality were a lie,” the witness said.
The Post newspaper reported yesterday that Mr M’membe, Mutinta and Mr Mwenda were roughed up and beaten by law enforcement officers when the trio tried to enforce a document purported to originate from the Revenue Appeals Tribunal for the police to vacate the premises and allow Mr M’membe to operate.

The eye-witness explained that neither M’membe, his wife Mutinta nor Mr Mwenda were beaten as they voluntarily surrendered themselves to be arrested.

The witness said in fact Mr M’membe and his wife ‘‘joined in the arrest’’ after Mr Mwenda was apprehended following his unlawful entry into the building where he was seen switching on a computer at a desk he was sitting before police switched off power supply to the building.
The witness said Mr Mwenda had secretly entered the premises and locked himself in the offices where he was seen switching on computers which forced officers to respond by cutting power to the building. Mr Mwenda’s move was seen by the police to be an attempt to utter electronic information, against a warrant of distress issued to the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) for the recovery of unpaid taxes by the newspaper company.

Earlier, Mr M’membe tried to force a ZRA official to sign a forged document purported to have been issued by the Revenue Appeals Tribunal to restrain ZRA from continued occupation and locking up of the Post newspaper premises in an effort to recover their money.
This was almost one week after ZRA effected a Supreme Court judgment to enforce a warrant of distress against the newspaper in an attempt to recover over K53 million owed to the institution.

“They (the trio) roughed up the (ZRA) director at his home, trying to have him sign the order; and this startled the director who later informed his friends about the impromptu visit at his residence by Mr M’membe, and he was a little taken aback over his safety and security.
“He felt that there was a risk on his life and he made a few phone calls to his friends over his security that M’membe and Mr Nchima had actually gone to his private residence, over the ZRA action,” he said.

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UPND presidential running mate, Geoffrey Mwamba said his party will improve access to clean drinking water in Serenje District once elected.
Mr. Mwamba said he is aware that the people of Serenje especially in rural areas have limited access to clean drinking water.

He said access to clean drinking water is key to maintaining good public health.Mr. Mwamba was speaking during a rally in Serenje District where he went to drum up support for his party’s candidates in the district.

And Serenje UPND aspiring candidate, Clarrisa Chikamba said she will pay more attention to empowering women and the youth.Ms. Chikamba said the plight of women in Serenje especially marketeers has been neglected.

President Edgar Lungu has re-named Luapula University whose procurement process has commenced after the late second republican president Fredrick Titus Jacob Chiluba.

Addressing multitudes of people at Musangu village during his ongoing tour of Luapula Province the Head of State said the memory of Dr Chiluba needed to be honoured because he made great contributions to reintroduce plural politics in Zambia.

This is according to a statement released by State House Press Aide Amos Chanda.

MMD Deputy National Secretary and MMD Mongu Central aspiring candidate Mr. Kamwendo Kamuti has charged that former MMD Vice-President Michael Kaingu should not mislead the nation that he ditched the MMD and defected to PF, but that he was invited by President Lungu to be a minister while still a member of the MMD.

Responding to an article carried in the Daily Nation of Thursday 30 June, 2016, headed ‘WHY I DITCHED MMD’ in which Dr. Kaingu claimed to have defected to the PF because Dr. Nevers Mumba was power-hungry, Mr. Kamuti expressed shock and embarrassment at the remarks by Dr. Kaingu. Mr Kamuti said Dr.Kaingu was exhibiting a ‘short memory’ when the correct position was that he had initially been removed as Vice-President by NEC due to gross indiscipline and reverted to being an ordinary member of the party.

[pullquote]Dr.Kaingu demanded K50 million (un-rebased) before he could consider being part of the campaign team[/pullquote]

He explained that when Dr. Kaingu and Mr. Vincent Mwale were invited to be ministers in Mr. Edgar Lungu’s administration, they were members of the MMD and the first thing they both did was contact Dr. Mumba for his approval and thanked him for allowing them to be appointed as Ministers.

He said this matter was widely publicised because Mr. Lungu had publicly explained that he had first contacted Dr. Mumba on the matter before making the announcement. He said that some members of the public may also recall that later Dr. Kaingu was one of the people filmed on ZNBC joyfully embracing Dr. Mumba at the Day of Fasting and Prayers at the Showgrounds in Lusaka, showing that there was peace between the two.

Mr Kamuti wished the nation to know that Dr. Kaingu had exhibited a lot of indiscipline during his tenure as Vice-President, warranting his demotion to ordinary member and had even refused to campaign in the Mangango by-election in Western Province, demanding to be given K50 million (un-rebased) before he could consider being part of the campaign team.

Mr. Kamuti said it was therefore most unfortunate that Dr. Kaingu could now turn around and claim that he had ditched the MMD because Dr. Mumba was power-hungry, which is very regrettable. He said these are the types of immoral politicians who are denting the image of politicians.

Police have confirmed that the women’s movement led by NGOCC Ms Engwase Mwale this morning presented a petition at Police Headquarters against women’s rights violation in a video circulating on social media.

The video shows a middle aged woman who has since been identified as a resident of Kafue being abused by a gang of men in the night.

The petition was handed over to the Inspector General of Police, Mr Kakoma Kanganja by Ms Mwale who called on the police to bring the culprits to book.

The Zambia National Women’s Lobby has said it is appalled by the behavior of the young men who sexually assaulted a young woman in a video clip that is circulating on social media.This is according to a press statement released to the media by Zambia National Womens Lobby chairperson,Beauty Katebe.

We cannot find the rights words to describe the actions of the young men captured in the video save to say that their actions constitute a gross violation of human rights which should not be tolerated in Zambia, the statement read.

Such acts of barbarism should not be allowed to go unchecked in Zambia and all citizens have a duty to act against such behaviors from the young people in our communities.

We further urge the police to intensify their efforts in investigating the matter and bring to book all the people that were involved in dehumanizing the lady in question.

Meanwhile Police deputy spokesperson Rae Hamoonga says that police have been able to locate and interview the woman who was sexually assaulted by seemingly drunk men.

Deputy police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga said in a statement that, “police have made head ways in the investigations and we were able to locate the victim and interviewed her. Furthermore our police officers are on the ground looking for the perpetrators. Investigations are ongoing,”