Mr Maxwell Nkole died at his Foxdale Township home in Lusaka in the early hours of this morning after an illness.
Mr Nkole was appointed Chairperson of the Task force on corruption by the late President Levy Mwanawasa in 2005 and served until 2009 when his contract expired under the Rupiah Banda Government.
President Michael Sata then appointed Mr Nkole Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs in October, 2011, the position he held until he was retired in national interest in November 2013.
Mr Nkole is survived by six children and 10 grandchildren.
MHSRIP!
Zambia will miss you! i never knew you but it sound like you had your intervgrit and dignity! respect!
Mr nklole is my cousin. He is survived by 4 sons and 3 grandchildren. Edit please lusakatimes
Good riddance…..
Another thieve gone
some of the comments over the passing of mr Nkole make sad reading
its inhuman to mock the dead and hide in cyberspace to express you ignorance.
remember for as long as you were born you are assured of death….. in other words, you will never get out of life alive.
I hope Sata will attend this funeral of his Police Officer friend
Somebody please dig up his yard, he may have left the loot there!
and just why are people dying like this? Is there an epidemic I must know about?
Imwe naimwe tata tamwakeshiba ka epidamic kaisa pano chalo? Are you on another planet……. chilemoneka nika “Zip epidamic” kamusenda umukalamba.
m.h.s.r.i.p
Too bad.Rest peace yama
Plunderer fails to get salvation from stolen money!
You dont say things like that to the departed. Kama is a bitchh you.will be visited soon. That computer ismno hard place to hide from. God punishes. I promise you.
Mhsrip
Hakainde People are a problem with there talk
ati zip epidemic.care ful u cud b next.remember if u r not affected u cud b infected.
Rest in peace Mr. Nkole, you had suffered a lot.
Rest in Peace
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Bye mr nkole. I hope kampamba, chewe, mwansa and mervin get the strength that God can give them
. Mysrip
Hakaivotela Heka people only respect HH. No respect for the dead?
May the good lord keep you in heaven i pass my condoleances to your family.
fellow country men we have to respect the dead people.MHSRP
sad any relation to Akim Nkole, and where is Mr Akim Nkole
The ENGINEER,pls have respect for the dead!You must never forget that as long as you are a human being you will die no matter how long you live on earth.We are all on death roll the moment we are born.Grow up man!
The Engineer is a very bitter person. He may have had a difficult childhood. Remember, in politics there are no permanent enemies. We are still human beings, not sub species of humans.
The Engineer of feaces …… ignorant sana ma beach !!
rip bro
Maxwell Nkole was a principled man who never indulged himself in corruption and hence Mwanawasa worked with him so much to get rid of corruption. Therefore, to make disrespectful and mocking comments against him and his family is totally uncalled for! There are some people who deserve bad comments and honestly Mr Nkole is not one of those!
MHSRIP
Two things keep some people loyal to a Zambian President. The secret illness and the secret corruption he knows about them. Nearly every Zambian who is appointed and behaves in a ridiculous manner, like the vuvuzela Past newspaper editor, has some skeletons in their cupboards. They can only rise up against a decent and civil guy like RB and Levi, but a man who can call a Registrar of the High Court a ‘fake lawyer’ just for a simple breach of procedure, has a mouth that could easily tell the world who Chief Jumbe is sleeping with!
This is for Lusaka Times Editors. I know that you may wish every comment to appear on the comments box but I am of the view that you shud develop a system that allows every comment to be subjected to Editors’ approval. I know that in countries like UK (Sky News; Sky Sports & BBC), they will never allow any comment to appear on their media without scrutinising it and approval by Editors. Some of the comments shown in here on the death of Max Nkole are really disheartening to say the least. I am not sure if this is the Freedom of Information that media houses like yourselves have been asking for and that is to publish anything and everything. Can you imagine how the children to Max would feel with such bad comments! Can you please do something to retain the media integrity in this country?
Journalism ethics must be upheld by LT for sure! I hope they get this timely advice.
I myself would not express my views the way some here have, even if I knew this man in life and disapproved of him in some way. However, I’m totally against censorship as suggested by some of my colleagues here. If you don’t like a comment, vote it down guys. Everyone has a conscience with which they must live. Those who say negative things about this man, I’m sure they have their reasons. And if they are simply being malicious, they have to deal with their conscience. Nobody can lie to oneself.
Rest In Peace Max. The country has lost one of the most intelligent and dedicated Police Officers of his time. Stella Libongani and her Deputy Jere would do better to learn from this extraordinary former Super Cop.
Max was an excellent criminology masters student of mine, and a few years ago when he came back to Cardiff, he reminded me of my comment to him then that his interest in researching corruption and commitment to fighting it would get him into trouble. His courage and integrity should be a beacon for us all, and it was tragic that he did not have the opportunity of communicating the lessons of his experience for fighting corruption generally. I wish his family my condolences. It was a privilege to know and work with him for all too short a while.