Zambia Police public relations officer Rae Hamonga says the recent cleanup operation conducted in Chibolya compound has brought sanity in the area.
Mr Hamonga says residents and the general public as a whole are now conducting their errands peacefully.
He has disclosed that recently a man identified as Joseph Masowe was arrested after being found with sachets of marijuana.
He said Mr Masowe, who is currently detained at Lusaka Central Police, will appear in court soon.
The Township is notorious for banditry and drug pushing and has been a no go area for the police for a very long time.
Recently , armed police embarked a cleanup operation in the Township and arrested over 299 people who were found with several narcotic drugs such as cannabis.
Two people has since been jailed and president Micheal Sata has since commended the police officers for carrying out a successful operation.
WHERE ARE HEALTH INSPECTORS IN THIS COUNTRY? HAS HEALTH INSPECTION GONE TO DOGS IN OUR COUNTRY? DO THEY NEED FOREX TO CARRY OUT HEALTH INSPECTION EVEN WITHIN ZAMBIA? IS THAT AN ABATTOIR OR RUBBISH DUMP (PA CISHALA)?
I think Cannabis is less harmful than that abattoir.
What a sad seen, a goat had a wonderful life back in rural area, and come to end its hands on the hands of those PF thugs?
Both. An abattoir and rubbish dump, that is! People think of nothing going there to buy meat in that filth.
Great job by Zambia Police for pacifying Chibolya ghetto but this is not a long term solution. What is happening in Chibolya and other shanty compounds is a symptom of a system that has failed majority of the citizens.
The real clean up for those shanties is to erase the whole area and relocate all the people to Mumbwa. Drug dealing is not only the activity going on there. The place is not even habitable hence the need to erase it period!
The Observer,spot on !! mwaiche