THE IMMIGRATION department at Nakonde in Muchinga Province has intercepted and arrested 27 Ethiopians for illegal entry into Zambia.
Nakonde District Commissioner James Singoyi has confirmed the arrest of the illegal immigrants in an interview in Chinsali today.
Mr. Singoyi said the 27 were found hiding in a container of a truck registration number ARF20 and Trailer Number T806 belonging to Dando Company of Dar-es-salaam in Tanzania which was carrying an assortment of goods en-route to Lusaka.
Mr. Singoyi said the 27 who are all males aged between 15 and 48 years were intercepted at Ilendela Village about 18 km from Nakonde border following a tip off from members of the public.
The district Commissioner said all the illegal immigrants are currently detained at Nakonde police station and will appear in court soon.
Mr. Singoyi has since commended the Immigration officers or being alert and has directed them to intensify patrols to ensure that no illegal immigrants are allowed to enter the country adding that illegal immigrants are a danger to the national security and should therefore, not be allowed to step into the country.
He has also appealed to the police manning check points along the Great North Road to be alert and check thoroughly for any illegal immigrants or goods that could have entered through the Nakonde border.
Efforts to get a comment from Immigration Public Relations Officer Namati Nshinka failed by broadcast time as his phone went unanswered.
Just go to these compounds, there are thousands of illegal immigrates running shops and every month end govt officers get oiled from them. 27 is far fetched number.
May be the CBU lecturers?
Why arrest CBU lecturers? Those Ethopinias were going for interviews in Kitwe.
Pirate Invasion!
please leave our new lecturers alone,some can use taqua bus.How do u know maybe its a cost serving measure.
kekekekekeke, you have made my day
Yes, they were on their way for their practical engineering interviews at CBU. Immigration must have respect for expats!
By the way one of the interviewees hijacked a plane to Geneva; he is taking up the aeronautics professorship at CBU after his court appearances…
Ethiopians whether Learned or not are known for such behaviour especally in Europe. If 10 of them come for seminars or work shops, 7 of them wont make it to the third day, they will alreday have gone before you notice!
That Pilot risks Twenty years in Jail wasted life!
hahahaha nplz leave da pipo alone….
naimwe u in da u.k or america as economic refugees.
Whats the sentence for human traficking? C
Headline is misleading ba LT. It should read ” Prospective CBU lecturers arrested at Nakonde border” kekekeke
It’s not the first time. A few years ago another group was arrested at the same border also hidden in a container. God knows how many have passed our borders. Most attempt to head down south to Africa. Those that don’t make it disappear somewhere in our Southern African countries.
“… were intercepted at Ilendela Village about 18 km from Nakonde border following a tip off from members of the public”.
“Mr. Singoyi has since commended the Immigration officers or being alert …”
Why commend the immigration officers when these CBU lecturers passed through the border without the immigration noticing. Commend the members of the public.
They have the most beatiful girls in AFRICA not ng’anga zapa ZED, more especially Tongas and a Lozis eh too ugly look at inonge,nkantu luo ,fostina singangwe to mention but a few
Stup!d Anyoko!! and you think Nkandu Luo is Lozi, Tonga eeh??
@anyone
Mutale Nalumango, Nkandu Luo, Masebo,Kaseba are these bembas beautiful ?Bembas women are the ugliest in Africa. Most beautiful women in Zambia are Kaondes and Luvales Chapwa…Back to Ethiopias illegal immigrants,Jail them as our fellow zambians are being jailed in other countries like Botswana,Congo Etc.
They should have just let them be, bachinjako blood mu Zambia. Twakwatako imbuto shaku Ethopia.