Four people, among them clergyman, died on the spot after the two vehicles they were traveling in collided along the Great North road in Kapiri Mposhi this morning.

And three other people died on Ndola road this morning when a Zambeef truck hit into the house they were sleeping in Kapiri Mposhi
today.

Police commanding officer Simon Mpande, who confirmed the accidents to ZANIS named the deceased clergymen as Rev. Simumba of All Saints Church and Bishop P.J. Siame, who was the driver, of St. Johns both of Kabwe.

Mr. Mpande said the other two include the driver of the unregistered
Toyota land cruiser James Chikumbi of Nakonde and Christine Banda of
Chazanga in Lusaka. He said the two vehicles collided at Mubalashi in Kapiri Mposhi and the surviving passengers sustained serious injuries.

Mr. Mpande explained that Mrs. Mutale of Dalas in Kabwe sustained a fractured right leg and arm while Mrs. Christine Chanda of Luangwa sustained a fractured leg.
This was after the driver of the land cruiser failed to negotiate a corner.

And Mr. Mpande said a ZAMBEEF truck this morning hit into a house at Chafunta trading area on Ndola road 30km from Kapiri Mposhi and killed three people.

Mr. Mpande named the deceased as Alex Hamukwala an elderly person,
Calen Musitini aged 3 and Malen Musitini aged one and half years old.

He said the bodies of the deceased are lying in Kapiri Mposhi hospital
mortuary while the injured are admitted to Kapiri district hospital.
Mr. Mpande called on drivers to observe road safety rules to avoid accidents.

ZANIS

Lusaka City Council (LCC) Public Relations Officer Henry Kapata says a total of 169 underage patrons that were recently apprehended for patronizing bars have been counseled.

Mr. Kapata told Zanis in an interview in Lusaka today that the juveniles were counseled by a combined team of LCC personnel, a clergy, and representatives from the Victim Support Unit of the Zambia Police Service.

Mr. Kapata explained that 69 of those that were counseled were 13 years old and the rest range from 15 to 17 years old.
He said after this exercise the LCC will get the necessary information from the juveniles because at some point they will be used as witnesses against the bar owners that allowed them to drink on their premises.

Mr. Kapata said the cases will be heard in camera and will strictly follow the laws that govern the rights of juveniles. He further said the juveniles will be allowed to go back to their respective homes during this period because they will have been reformed.
He said they will also help identify the bars that do not follow the rules of the land by admitting underage patrons.

And Mr. Kapata has appealed to the Grade 12 school leavers of this year to celebrate their completion with their parents at home in a peaceful manner. He said the local authority will not relent in arresting lawbreakers in the country in an effort to bring order and sanity in the country.

Recently a combined team of LCC police and the Zambia Police Service pounced on bar owners that were admitting and selling alcohol to underage patrons. The juveniles were detained at LCC in an effort to get them counseled.

ZANIS

The Ant-Corruption Commission (ACC) Director General, Godfrey Kayukwa says the institute has changed the way of fighting graft from investigations and prosecution to prevention.

Mr Kayukwa said the move is aimed at cultivating a culture where citizens will freely report corruptions cases to the commission.

He said the ACC has in its new approach also incorporated many institution in accordance with the new anti-corruption policy.

Mr. Kayukwa said this when he opened a three days training workshop for the focal point persons of the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) integrity committee in Lusaka today.

He said the fight against corruption needs to start with the prevention of very small issues adding that it becomes difficulty to control when it has taken roots.

He said government has attaches a lot of importance to the fight against as seen from the launch of the Anti Corruption policy which coordinates all efforts in the fight against corruption.

He said meanwhile challenged the integrate committees of the ZRA to spearhead and facilitate the process of preventing corruption by providing vital information to the public on the operation of the institution.

Meanwhile, ZRA Commissioner General, Criticles Mwansa has urged his staff to change the perception that the general public has on the institute being the the most corrupt in the country.

He said his staff should ensure that they operate professionally in accordance with the code of ethics to win the trust of the general public.

He has also said that ZRA has embarked on a program where they are working with the public on curbing corruption at ZRA adding that it has so far received massive response from the public.

He said this helped the public develop confidence in them adding that they have in the last eight months recorded 129 complaints cases with 85 percent of the cases already attended to.

He said there is need to create a corruption free environment which will make it hard for the staffs and the public to engage in corrupt practices.

ZANIS

Eight people died in Kapiri Mposhi district in the early hours of today in a road accident at
Mangala area along great north road.

Central province police commanding officer Simon Mpande who confirmed the accident to ZANIS in Kabwe today said the eight died at about 02:30hrs when a Scania Iriza bus belonging to Sumina company of Lusaka
rammed into a stationery truck.

Mr. Mpande said among the deceased eight people, were one woman aged 50 years and five males all from Mangala and a truck driver and a 14-year-old boy believed to have been a passenger on the truck and
another one passenger from the bus.

He said a co-driver of the bus, that carried 51 passengers, Dickson Mukuka 33, sustained a fractured leg while the rest of the passengers on the bus came out unhurt.

He explained that the truck overturned at Mangala area and covered part of the road and when the bus arrived, rammed into the trailer which went spinning and hit the villagers, six of them died on the spot including a woman.

Mr. Mpande, who wondered what the villagers went to do at the scene, said nine were seriously injured and some admitted to Kapiri hospital while others had been rushed to Kabwe general hospital.

Mr. Mpande said all the bodies of the deceased, are lying in Kapiri Mposhi hospital mortuary.

Meanwhile, Mr. Mpande has advised bus drivers not to travel in the night to avoid accidents.

He also urged villagers not to be so excited to rush to accident scenes unless they were called in to help.

ZANIS

The Committee of Citizens ( CoC ) Executive Director Gregory Chifire says his organisation needs a proper explanation of how the US$ 13.5 million spent on second republican president Fredrick Chiluba’s corruption case was used.

Mr.Chifire said this following government’s revelation of the amount used by the Task Force in Dr. Chiluba’s case on both local and foreign lawyers recently.

He expressed concern that the amounts mentioned were huge and Zambians deserved to know how they came about.He said it was surprising that former Chairperson on Task Force Max Nkole who was in charge of the case was disputing figures released by government.

Mr. Chifire was speaking in an interview with ZANIS in Lusaka today.
He said that the committee is in possession of the letters written by Mr. Nkole asking for the discontinuation of cases.

Mr. Chifire has therefore asked Mr. Nkole to come out clean because the committee and Zambians as a whole need to know how exactly the money was spent.

Meanwhile, Mr. Chifire has called for a thorough audit of the Task Force for Zambians to be able to decide if corruption was fought in a holistic manner.

Mr. Chifire observed that the huge amounts of money that were used could have benefited a lot of Zambians through social infrastructure.
He stated that the money could have been used to build about 210 medium sized schools and 126 medium sized health centers which could have benefited the Zambian people.

Mr. Chifire also expressed concern about what he called the luxurious lifestyles of former Task Force officials which is way above what they were earning.

He has called on parliament to pass legislation that will ensure that civil servants get to account for their assets by declaring what they own in a transparent manner.

Mr. Chifire also stated that there should be a law to compel civil servants to lead lives that conform to their incomes.

ZANIS