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PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu greets party members using the Patriotic Front (PF) symbol upon arrival at the 58th Copperbelt Mining, Agriculture and Commercial Show in Kitwe.
PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu is this Wednesday morning expected to officially open the much awaited Lusaka National Park to the public.
President Lungu is also expected to unveil the memorial monument at the facility. The monument is a tribute to wildlife police officer (WPOs, village scouts, as well as the men and women who have lost their life during the course of duty.
According to the programme for the event that was released by Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) public relations officer Sakabilo Kalembwe said the president will then proceed to witness the release of some wildlife from the holding pen thereafter he will proceed to the rhino holding pen.
The Lusaka national park is a smallest protected area in Zambia and newest park to be established and was gazetted in 2011.
The sanctuary becomes Zambia’s 21st and smallest protected areas. The opening of the park is as a result of a project that started in the early 1990s and the government through ZAWA and its cooperating partners have invested a substantial amount of money into the project that is now ready for the public.
The facility is located about 30 kilometres south-east of Lusaka central business district and has seen the 33 kilometre park perimeter being fenced off to keep animals within the park and prevent encroachment from neighbouring communities.
The park has water points for animals constructed and are supplied with water from 15 boreholes that have been sunk around the park.
ZAWA has spent over K5 million to put up various infrastructures in place before the park officially opens.
The expenditure involved animal translocation, purchase of heavy equipment, grading of access and loop roads, drilling of boreholes and water reticulation system.
Mr Kalembwe said the park would have activities like camping, walking safaris and bicycle riding, among others.
There were problems in that area where the park is located, among them was major illegal quarrying leading to serious environmental degradation.
Since the formation of the park, the catchment area of the 6,700 hectares has changed from a bare land to a thicket with proper ground water and soon to be an economic spinner that would contribute to the gross domestic product through tourism.
And ZAWA has introduced some exotic wildlife species from South Africa in Blesbok – a large antelope species with features and stunning horn formation and Nyala which is similar to common impala.
Other species include white rhinos, giraffes, elands, hartebeests, zebras, sables, kudus, blue wildebeests, waterbucks, black lechwes, impalas, pukus, bushbucks, reedbucks, warthogs, one pangolin, and axis dears.
President Edgar Lungu is welcomed by Former Southern Province Permanent Secretary Gladys Kristafor at Harry Mwaanga Airport in Livingstone.
President Edgar Lungu says he is aware that some people who were not appointed as District Commissioners are disappointed but he has urged them to cooperate with the newly appointed District Commissioners to enable them deliver services to the people.
President Lungu said it was his prerogative to appoint and disappoint but warned that working against the newly appointed District Commissions to make them fail was tantamount to making him as the Head of State fail.
“I have the power to appoint and disappoint. Those I appoint work hard, those I did not appoint cooperate with the DC’s because, if you don’t and they fail then the President fails,” he said.
The President said this today on arrival at Livingstone’s Harry Mwaanga International Airport ahead of the opening of the High Level Ministerial Meeting on Landlocked Developing Countries, at Chrisma hotel.
He was welcomed by Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Minister, Yamfwa Mukanga, Commerce Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe, Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba, Southern Province Permanent Secretary Sibanze Simuchoba and Senior government and Patriotic Front party officials.
And President Lungu acknowledged the importance of PF members saying they formed the foundation of the ruling party.
“You are important as you form the foundation of our party and I am here because of you. Therefore, we should continue working together in peace,” he said.
Mr. Lungu said it would not be in anyone’s interest to frustrate the ruling party and government as such efforts would not prevail.
The Zambian government together with United Nations Office of the High Representative for Least Developing Countries, Landlocked Countries and Small Island Developing states (UN-OHRLLS), and development partners are holding a three-day high level ministerial meeting on the special development challenges faced by the world’s 32 landlocked developing countries.
United Nations Under Secretary General and High Representative for Least Developed countries is in attendance and the meeting is expected among other things, to review and identify opportunities and bottlenecks in landlocked developing countries in relation to implementing the 2014 Vienna Program of Action (VPoA).
President Edgar Lungu shares a light moment with Secretary General of UNCTAD during the High level meeting on the follow up to the second United Nations conference on Landlocked deveoping countries in Livingstone. On the left isUnited Nations Under Secretary General and High Representative of UN-OHRLLS Gyan Chandra Acharya and on the right is Minister of Transport Works Supply and Communications Hon Yamfwa Mukanga.
PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has urged fellow Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) to double their efforts towards improving their trade competitiveness for them to fully integrate into the global trade circles.
Mr Lungu said there was need for LLDCs to redefine their development paths as espoused in the the Vienna Programme of Action (VPoA) adopted last year in November at a summit held in Vienna, Austria.
He said it was regrettable that a larger part of LLDCs group had remained excluded from both regional and global trade.
Mr Lungu was speaking in Livingstone at Chrismar Hotel when he officially opened the United Nations (UN) Conference on LLDCs.
Senior government officials, United Nations representatives and the private sector from across the globe are attending the conference to discuss concrete measures to effectively implement an ambitious action-plan that aims to put the world’s 32 LLDCs on the path to sustainable economic development.
The three-day meeting is a follow-up to the Second United Nations Conference on LLDCs that was held in November 2014 in Vienna, Austria, where UN Member States adopted the Vienna Programme of Action seen as a development blueprint for the LLDCs for the next decade.
“More than 20 per cent of the 450 million people in LLDCs live below the poverty datum line and their lives are characterised by hunger, malnutrition and disease, among others.
“We can never change our geographical position of being landlocked, however, our unwavering tenacity to confront the inherit challenges we face to propel us into a trajectory of accelerated sustainable development necessary for the transformation of the lives of our people,” Mr Lungu said.
Mr Lungu said a larger part of LLDCs group’s share of the global trade at the end of 2013 stood at paltry 1.2 per cent.
He said the group had a further challenge of diminished industrial production and value addition.
Mr Lungu said Zambia values the partnership with all stakeholders who were collaborating with landlocked countries.
He said the country, in partnership with landlocked and transit country neighbours in the region and with the support from development partners, had established transit corridors to boost trade.
The corridors include the Nakala Corridor linking Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the Indian Ocean as well as the Beira road Corridor linking Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.
Mr Lungu said competitive trade demanded adding more value to commodities and it was the reason that Zambia, as a country and collectively through Southern African Development Community (SADC) had emarked on an industrialisation strategy to ensure adequate value addition to create quality jobs.
He underscored the need for the UN Office for South-South Cooperation to fulfil its pledge and commitment to establish facility centres in a number of LLDCs for purposes of technology transfer.
Transport, Works, Supply and Communication Minister Yamfwa Mukanga said the opening of the conference by President Lungu signified the importance Zambia attached in addressing challenges affecting LLDCs.
Mr Mukanga, who is the chairperson of the LLDC Ministerial group, said the conference was a platform for sharing best practices as well as experiences and initiatives and come up with concrete actions in implementing and monitoring the VPoA.
“In the past 10 years, LLDCs gave made gains in developing transit transport infrastructure and in enhancing trade facilitation.
“We, as a group of LLDCs, have improved our share of the world trade over the past decades,” Mr Mukanga said.
UN Under-Secretary General for LLDC Gyan Chandra Acharya commended the Government of Zambia for hosting the meeting and the warm hospitality accorded to delegates.
Mr Acharya said the presence of President Lungu during the conference was an honour as it demonstrated Zambia’s strong commitment as chair of the group of LLDC to the VPoA and its effective implementation.
“I commend Zambia’s infrastructure development and trade initiatives, trade promotion initiatives and other sustainable development initiatives,” he said.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Secretary General Mukhisa Kituyi said the challenges facing LLDCs were not insurmountable.
Mr Kituyi said concerted efforts of LLDCs, like the successful story of Botswana, could lead to sustainable results.
“I think the challenge of this conference is how to find substance that these challenges facing LLDCs are not insurmountable.
I hope that after this session, most of the remainder of this conference will be addressing questions like what are the actual policy and strategic decisions necessary to bring life into the promise of VPoA,” he said.
Others who spoke during the official opening session were co-chair of the group of Friends of LLDC Per Thoresson, World Trade Organisation (WTO) director of development division Shishir Priyarshi, International Trade Centre (ITC) deputy executive director Dorothy Tembo, director of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) regional service centre in Africa Lebogang Mmotlana and Florisvaldo Fier who is High representative general of South African’s leading trading block , MERCOSUR.
North Western Water Supply and Sewerage Company Limited (NWSSCL) is concern with the manner in which the local authority is allocating plots along the Solwezi River upstream before the abstraction points.
NWSSCL Technical and Maintenance Manager John Chilufya said this has caused siltation of the Solwezi River and will also affect the quality of water being supplied to the residents.
Engineer Chilufya was speaking in Solwezi during a stakeholder consultative meeting for water users today.
Mr Chilufya explained that the company was experiencing high maintenance expenses on pumping equipment due to siltation.
He urged the local authority to engage stakeholders when allocating land to avoid conflict of interest.
But Town Clerk Venture Kafula said the local authority was not aware of allocating plots to any residents along the river.
Mr Kafula said the Water Company had discussions before with the local authority on the matter where it was explained that the plots in question were not given out by the council.
Unknown people have sub divided the upstream banks of the Solwezi River which is the main source of water supply in Solwezi district.
Former labour Minister Austin Liato with his wife and sympathysers at the Lusaka magistrate court
The Supreme Court has upheld the two-year jail sentence with hard labour imposed on former minister of Labour and Social Security Austin Liato by the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court for possession of K2.1 million reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime.
Supreme Court judge Mumba Malila yesterday sentenced Mr Liato to 24 months imprisonment with hard labour. The sentence will run with effect from yesterday.
Mr Justice Malila, sitting in Ndola yesterday, further ordered that Liato’s farm number number L/Mpamba/44 in Mwembeshi, and the K2.1 million which was in his possession be forfeited to the State.
Liato was on July 23, 2013 convicted and sentenced to 24 months imprisonment with hard labour by the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court, which also ordered that his farm and the money, which he had buried on the property, be forfeited to the State but the sentence was later quashed by the Lusaka High Court.
The State appealed to the Supreme Court on grounds that the High Court erred in law when it held that to prove reasonable suspicion under section 71, the prosecution had to show a link between the source of the money or the accused to possible criminal conduct among other grounds of appeal.
Mr Justice Malila, in his judgment, states that: “The money was buried underground in a chalet at the convict’s farm and the top was sealed with concrete. This raises a lot of questions on whether the money was gotten legitimately.
“This court holds the view, therefore, that the money was ill-gotten as no one would conceal money the way the convict did even if one had lost faith in the banking system in the country.”
Mr Justice Malila added: “I therefore set aside the judgment of the High Court and uphold the conviction on accused by the lower court. I direct that the convict serves the 24 months imprisonment with hard labour with effect from today. I further order that the property be forfeited to the State,” Mr Justice Malila said.
Liato’s wife wept uncontrollably after the judgment was passed in a fully packed courtroom.
Liato was charged with possession of property suspected to be proceeds of crime contrary to section 71(1) Act number 19 of 2011 of the laws of Zambia.
On November 24, 2011 in Lusaka, Liato had in his possession K2.1 million, which was reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime.
Lands minister Ngimbu receiving a present during Youth Day celebratons in Solwezi.
GOVERNMENT has charged that structures built on illegal land will be demolished in order to curb lawlessness.
Land and natural resources minister Christabel Ngimbu said Government will tolerate people acquiring land illegally.
“We shall not allow people to get land illegally. Any structure that is built on illegal land will be demolished,” she said.
Recently, over 30 houses were demolished in Chinika industrial area in Lusaka after an investor, Tesno General Dealers, executed a court order to remove them from the area and demolish their structures.
Meanwhile, the Taskforce on Illegal Land Allocations and Acquisition is investigating about 173 complaints regarding illegal land activities received from across the country, according to a statement released by the Task Force spokesperson Moses Suwali.
Taskforce Chairperson Colonel Panji Kaunda said that of the 173 complaints, 50 are from Lusaka while 123 have been drawn from various parts of the country.
Col. Kaunda who is also Home Affairs Deputy Minister stated that the Taskforce will not hesitate to demolish structures built on land illegally acquired.
“No one is authorized to buy or sale land which is illegally acquired and anyone found wanting will be prosecuted,” said Col Kaunda.
He has warned members of the society to refrain from buying or selling land illegally acquired other than from established authorities such as Ministry of Lands or the local Authorities.
Col. Kaunda said that illegal acquisition of land as treated as stolen property and anyone who buys or sales illegal land will be guilty of stolen property and prosecuted by the courts of law.
Pieces of Land under investigation include Illegal structures built on the ZAWA buffer zone in new Kasama, Obama area, NISR land in Silverest Area and several properties invaded in Lilayi area among others.
Meanwhile, Col. Kaunda has revealed that his Committee has plans to decentralize the Taskforce on Illegal Land Allocation into other province in the country.
He said that the idea of decentralizing the Taskforce will greatly help to curb illegal land activities across the country as people would be easily reached out.
Col. Kaunda revealed that the decentralization process would be embarked on when funds are available.
The Taskforce on Illegal Land Allocations and Acquisitions was launched on 23 July 2014 with the mandate of curbing all illegal land activities that have rocked the country.
The Taskforce whose other objective is to enforce the legality of authenticated land ownership comprises three mother ministries which include the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Lands and natural Resources and the Ministry of Local Government and Housing.
The Human Rights Commission (HRC) is saddened by the killing of a 37-year-old albino woman in Lundazi District.
Charity Zulu of Kalumbu Village of Chief Magodi was last week brutally murdered by four unknown men who also left her 42 year-old husband Robinson Nyirongo unconscious.
The woman had both hands cut off and several teeth extracted while her husband was left for dead.
HRC Director Florence Kabwesha said in a statement released to ZANIS in Lusaka today that it was disturbing to hear the report of Ms Zulu’s life being terminated in horrifying circumstances where her killers cut off her limbs and other body parts.
“The Commission is gravely saddened by the killing of a 37-year-old woman living with albinism in Lundazi District, Government should prevent its citizens and stop the cruelty against innocent people with albinism,” Ms. Kabwesha said.
Ms. Kabwesha said the act seriously violates the norm of respect for the right to life, the integrity and security of a person.
She appealed to the Police to ensure that the culprits were brought to book and punished in accordance with the law.
Ms. Kabwesha said it was extremely unfortunate that grisly acts were occurring in Zambia, a Christian nation saying all well-meaning people should condemn the heinous behaviour.
She said the Commission was aware that people with albinism have been targeted and many killed in neighbouring countries and other parts of the world for and their body parts sold for rituals.
She said albinos have the inherent right to life like all other human beings and must be protected against violence of all forms such as cruelty.
“All human life is infinitely precious that it must be protected at all times and no one should be arbitrarily deprived of it. It is important that Zambia remains a country where all the citizens feel respected and safe enough to freely enjoy their rights,” she said.
She said the police and the community must work together to ensure the country does not see an upsurge of the macabre killings.
The HRC Chief appealed to Zambians not to condone violence and discrimination against people with albinism.
On June 13 this year, Zambia would join the rest of the world in observing the United Nations Human Rights Council which is expected to adopt a resolution marking the inaugural International Albinism Awareness Day.
“Let us raise awareness of the indignities and violence faced by people with albinism. This is a call to all nations by the United Nations Human Rights Council which recently adopted a resolution marking June 13, 2015 as the inaugural International Albinism Awareness Day,” Ms. Kabwesha said
Zanaco’s four-point lead at the summit of the FAZ Super Division table will be tested on Wednesday when they host Red Arrows in a Lusaka derby at Sunset Stadium.
Unbeaten Zanaco face the last team to defeat them in the league after losing 4-0 in Week 30 last November at Nkoloma Stadium.
“We are going into this game to fight to collect maximum points although it won’t be an easy game,” Zanaco coach Mumamba Numba said.
“Last season we beat them at home and they beat us at their home ground.
“So we have a reputation to protect at home especially at home that is where teams have to win league games.
“If we can collect maximum points in our home games the possibilities of challenging for the title are high but if we drop points at home then it will be very difficult to challenge for the league title.”
Zanaco go into their match against Arrows on 24 points, four ahead of second placed Zesco who are also in action on Wednesday when they host Nkwazi at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola.
Zesco return to league action after a three week break and still sitting in second place despite a lot of activity outside the top five bracket of the table since they last kicked the ball on May 16 when they beat National Assembly 1-0 away in Lusaka.
The defending champions took leave because they had over five players away on Cosafa Cup and Under-23 duty.
And just like Zanaco, Zesco too are unbeaten this season after ten and eight games played respectively.
A win for Zesco and a draw or loss for Zanaco will see the former move within at least two or a point of the latter.
But Zesco will be without their Zambia trip of goalkeeper Jacob Banda, midfielder Kondwani Mtonga and striker Jackson Mwanza.
The trio is away on Zambia duty ahead of Saturday’s away friendly against Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.
Sepp Blatter has stepped down as FIFA president just a week after he was reelected for another four-year term in the midst of a corruption scandal that has rocked World football’s governing body.
Blatter, 79 has called for an extra ordinary elective congress.
Below is his speech from Tuesday’s briefing in Zurich:
I have been reflecting deeply about my presidency and about the forty years in which my life has
been inextricably bound to FIFA and the great sport of football. I cherish FIFA more than
anything and I want to do only what is best for FIFA and for football. I felt compelled to stand
for re-election, as I believed that this was the best thing for the organisation. That election is
over but FIFA’s challenges are not. FIFA needs a profound overhaul.
While I have a mandate from the membership of FIFA, I do not feel that I have a mandate from
the entire world of football – the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and
love football as much as we all do at FIFA.
Therefore, I have decided to lay down my mandate at an extraordinary elective Congress. I will
continue to exercise my functions as FIFA President until that election.
The next ordinary FIFA Congress will take place on 13 May 2016 in Mexico City. This would
create unnecessary delay and I will urge the Executive Committee to organise an Extraordinary
Congress for the election of my successor at the earliest opportunity. This will need to be done
in line with FIFA’s statutes and we must allow enough time for the best candidates to present
themselves and to campaign.
Since I shall not be a candidate, and am therefore now free from the constraints that elections
inevitably impose, I shall be able to focus on driving far-reaching, fundamental reforms that
transcend our previous efforts. For years, we have worked hard to put in place administrative
reforms, but it is plain to me that while these must continue, they are not enough.
The Executive Committee includes representatives of confederations over whom we have no
control, but for whose actions FIFA is held responsible. We need deep-rooted structural change.
The size of the Executive Committee must be reduced and its members should be elected
through the FIFA Congress. The integrity checks for all Executive Committee members must be
organised centrally through FIFA and not through the confederations. We need term limits not
only for the president but for all members of the Executive Committee.
I have fought for these changes before and, as everyone knows, my efforts have been blocked.
This time, I will succeed.
I cannot do this alone. I have asked Domenico Scala to oversee the introduction and
implementation of these and other measures. Mr. Scala is the Independent Chairman of our
Audit and Compliance Committee elected by the FIFA Congress. He is also the Chairman of the
ad hoc Electoral Committee and, as such, he will oversee the election of my successor. Mr.
Scala enjoys the confidence of a wide range of constituents within and outside of FIFA and has
all the knowledge and experience necessary to help tackle these major reforms.
It is my deep care for FIFA and its interests, which I hold very dear, that has led me to take this
decision. I would like to thank those who have always supported me in a constructive and loyal
manner as President of FIFA and who have done so much for the game that we all love. What
matters to me more than anything is that when all of this is over, football is the winner.
Reuters reports that Sepp Blatter rocked the world of soccer on Tuesday by unexpectedly quitting as FIFA president in the face of a corruption investigation that has plunged the game’s governing body into the worst crisis in its history.
Blatter, 79, announced the decision at a hastily arranged news conference in Zurich, six days after the FBI raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested several FIFA officials and just four days after he was re-elected to a fifth term as president.
Blatter said an election to choose a new president for the deeply troubled organization would be held as soon as possible. A FIFA official said that could happen any time from December this year to March of next year.
“FIFA needs profound restructuring,” said Blatter, a Swiss national who has been a dominating presence at FIFA for decades.
“I have thoroughly considered my presidency and thought about my presidency and the last 40 years of my life,” Blatter, speaking in French, told the news conference.
“I decided to stand again to be elected because I was convinced it was the best option for football.
“Although the members of FIFA gave me a new mandate, this mandate does not seem to be supported by everyone in the world.”
Blatter’s decision was immediately welcomed by his most prominent critics.
European football federation chief Michel Platini, a French former international soccer star, said: “It was a difficult decision, a brave decision, and the right decision.”
Greg Dyke, chairman of the English Football Association, said it was “good news for world football”. He then asked: “Who got him? Who shot him? What happened between then (when he was elected) and now?”
“We haven’t had a squeaky clean president for many, many years,” Dyke told Sky Sports.
FIFA, which Blatter had ruled since 1998, was left reeling this week by the announcement of a U.S. investigation into alleged widespread financial wrongdoing stretching back for more than two decades.
Swiss authorities also mounted their own criminal probe into the award of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively.
The U.S. Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Brooklyn had no immediate comment.
The office of the Swiss Attorney General, which is investigating alleged criminal mismanagement and money laundering at FIFA, said Blatter’s resignation would have no effect on its proceedings. It said Blatter himself was not subject to investigation.
While Blatter was not mentioned in either the U.S. or Swiss investigations, there had been widespread calls for him to quit, mostly from Western nations. Some major sponsors also expressed misgivings about the impact of the scandal.
An unidentified man secures a mosi lager at a beer den in Livingstone
The 50% increase in clear beer excise tax has significantly affected the profitability of Zambian Breweries which has seen the company record a 25 percent loss.
The excise tax which was increased on 1st January 2014 coupled with sharp depreciation in the kwacha saw the company’s profit after tax fall from K175, 478 million to K131, 837 million.
This is according to the company’s final results for the year ended
31 March 2015 released on Tuesday.
‘Disappointingly, our poor financial performance compelled us to declare 122 positions redundant in the year and the resultant costs of this exercise are reflected in our overhead costs for the year,’ the statement read.
Its mainstream 375ml Mosi, Castle and Carling Black Labels volumes declined by 23% in the first three quarters of the year.
The firm majority owned by SABMiller said the significant decline in volumes following the excise related price increase in January, and the growth of the economy offerings, has confirmed how sensitive Zambian consumers are to price increases and how important affordability is in the current economic environment.
‘We mitigated this decline by aggressively launching a 750ml bulk economy offering in Mosi and Castle in the last quarter and by driving our economy brand, Eagle. In addition, we took the difficult decision in the last quarter to reduce the price of our 375ml Mosi, Castle and Carling Black Label packs from K6.5 to K6,’ it said.
‘While our volumes recovered to some extent to record a smaller decline for the year of 8%, the measures we took to achieve this have significantly impacted our margin.’
It said as a result of the volume decline, our barley crop requirements were cut back to 8,000 tons for the year adding that in previous years, it contracted 12,000 tons on average.
‘Our beer has become the most expensive in the region owing to the higher taxes, and competition from smuggled beer is now a more credible threat,’ the statement read.
It added that more smuggled Castle Lite is now sold in Zambia than Castle Lite sold by Zambian Breweries Plc.
‘This demonstrates a genuine loss of revenue to Government and is a major threat to our business.’
‘We are pleased to report that soft drinks showed a healthy performance and grew 10% on prior year on the back of improved availability and a real focus on market trade execution.’
It added, ‘We continue to engage with Government and key stakeholders on how we believe we can contribute more to the economy by way of investment, employment and tax under a 40% clear beer excise regime rather than the current 60% regime, and are encouraged by Government’s willingness to consider all the issues put before them.’
A-Sixty five year old woman of Likamba village in chief Imonga in Sioma district of Western Province has died after being attacked by an Elephant.
Western Region Zambia Wild Life (ZAWA) Commanding Officer Gryton Kasamu disclosed the incident to ZANIS in an interview in Mongu today.
Mr. Kasamu said the Woman met her fate when she was coming back from her field where she went to collect Pumpkin leaves for relish around 09:00 near Sioma National Pack last Sunday.
He has identified the name of the deceased as Manyando Mwiya 65 adding that following the development, fear and panic has gripped the residents in the area.
But Mr. Kasamu has asked the people in the area not to panic as the ZAWA Office has deployed more Police Rangers to the area to curb the strayed beast to ensure that the lives of people are fully protected.
Human Animal Conflict in Western Province is a common due to the many National Packs surrounding the area such as Sioma Nangweshi, Kafue and Liuwa National Packs.
FILE: Dr Guy Scott with Dr Rajan Mahtani Chairman of Zambezi Portland Cement during the Handing Over 129 houses of the Chiwala housing Project by Zambezi Porland Cement in Ndola Rural on 15-01-2015. Picture By Eddie Mwanaleza/ Statehouse.
Finance Bank Board Chairman Dr Rajan Mahtani has resigned from his position following his arrest earlier today.
Board member William Nyirenda has since been appointed to act as Board Chairman.
In a brief statement, Finance Bank confirmed that Dr Mahtani graciously stepped down from his role with immediate effect.
‘Dr Rajan Mahtani was this morning charged on an alleged offence on which the state had previously issued a Nolle Prosequi dated 30th April 2012 and the Office of the Attorney General had a written undertaking that the matter was permanently closed,’ read the statement.
It added, ‘In view of this unfortunate development, Dr Mahtani has graciously stepped down with immediate effect as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Finance Bank Plc and Mr William Boli Nyirenda, S.C, a present member of the Board has been appointed to act in is stead.’
Left winger Kelvin Mubanga has warned that Zambia must be cautious when they face Cote d’Ivoire in the final qualifying round of the 2015 Under-23 CAF Championship in July.
Fighton Simukonda’s Under-23 team on Sunday booked a date against the West Africans after seeing off Botwana via a 3-1 aggregate score-line at the first round stage.
Zambia will visit Cote d’Ivoire for the first leg match on 17th July before the Lusaka return leg scheduled July 31.
In an interview, Mubanga of Power Dynamos said the Under-23 must remain focused as they tackle Cote d’Ivoire.
He scored one of the goals when Zambia beat Botswana 2-0 on Sunday to advance.
“It is wonderful to score a goal and help the team to qualify to the final round,” Mubanga said.
“We just have to be focused against our next opponent Ivory Coast so that we can qualify for the Senegal championship.
Our aim is to qualify for the championship,” added the ex-Nkana player.
Winners will qualify to the Senegal finals to be held from December 5-19.
Top three teams from that tournament will qualify to the 2016 Rio Olympics in Brazil.
File:Dr Rajan Mahtani Zambezi Portland Cement Chairman
FINANCE bank proprietor Rajan Mahtani has been arrested by Police in Lusaka for forgery.
Dr. Rajan Mahtan was arrested this morning for two counts of forgery Contracry to Section 344chapter nine of the Penal Code Cap 87 of the Laws of Zambia.
In both counts, Dr. Mahtan is alleged to have jointly and whilst acting with other persons unknown forged a Transfer of 500,000,000 Shares from Zambezi Portland Cement into Finsbury Investment Limited purporting that the forms were dully signed by the Directors of Zambezi Portland Cement when infact not.
In a statement released in Lusaka this afternoon by Police public relations manager Charity Chanda, the offences are alleged to have been committed on 12 December 2006.
Dr. Mahtan has been released on bond and will appear in court soon
