Opposition United Natioal Independence Party (UNIP) Copperbelt Provincial Chairman, Oliver Kabange has been arrested by the immigration department over his nationality which is still being probed.
Investigative wings say Mr. Kabango is not a Zambian but a Congolese national
born in the Democratic Republic of Congo) DRC in 1963 and has been branded a
prohibited immigrant.
Mr. Kabango 44, a mining engineer at Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) is currently
detained at Kamuchanga open air prison in Mufulira.
 The opposition Copperbelt Provincial Chairman contested last years September
2007, tripartite polls as a parliamentarian for the Mufulira Central seat under
the joint alliance, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA).
Sources handling the case say Mr. Kabango entered Zambia in 1993 and managed to
acquire a Zambian passport and National Registration Card (NRC).
The sources disclosed that Mr. Kabango claimed that he was a Zambian born at
Kashiba District in Mwense in Luapula Province, but such chiefdom does not exist.
 The sources noted that Mr. Kabango’s arrest has nothing to do with his ties with
the opposition party, UNIP.
 The sources said Mr. Kabango’s nationality has been under scrutiny for several
years now and the immigration department has managed to extract and ellicit key
details on this issue.
 The sources said Mr. Kabango was born in DRC, educated and grown up in Belgium.
The investigators say no Zambian has actually come forth to claim that they know
Mr. Kabango.