Petauke Central Member of Parliament Emmanuel Jay Banda, who faces aggravated robbery charges, has escaped from lawful custody. Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Jack Mwiimbu, announced the news during a media briefing.
Mr. Banda escaped from Chipata General Hospital Sunday evening around 22:00 hours, where he was receiving medical treatment.
“I would like to inform the nation that around 22:00 hours, the Member of Parliament for Petauke Central, Jay Banda, who was in our custody at the Chipata Correctional Service, has escaped from lawful custody,” said Mr. Mwiimbu.
The escape occurred despite being guarded by two Zambia Police officers and three officers from the Zambia Correctional Service. Preliminary investigations revealed that Mr. Banda escaped through the window of the ward where he was receiving treatment. “He escaped lawful custody using the hospital window; how he did it is a matter that is still under investigation,” Mr. Mwiimbu added.
Mr. Banda was committed to the High Court for trial for aggravated robbery, a non-bailable offense, and was under the custody of the Zambia Correctional Service at the time of his escape.
Mr. Mwiimbu has called on local and international security agencies to ensure no safe haven is provided to Mr. Banda, emphasizing the need to find him safe and alive. “We appeal to the local and international security agencies to ensure that there should be no safe haven for the fugitive,” he stated.
Action has been taken against the officers responsible for guarding Mr. Banda, with the five officers now in police custody assisting with the investigation. Mr. Mwiimbu described the escape as an unfortunate incident and assured that the due process of the law would be followed.
Inspector General of Police Graphel Musamba has appealed to the public for any information regarding Mr. Banda’s whereabouts, encouraging people to inform the police freely. Zambia Correctional Service Commissioner General Frederick Chilukutu attributed the escape to negligence by the officers on duty.
Mr. Banda allegedly jumped through a window of the premium ward on the third floor at Chipata Central Hospital. Police have since launched a manhunt for him. He was remanded at Namuseche Prison in Chipata while awaiting his High Court appearance for aggravated robbery and attempted robbery cases.
Lets find lasting solution for our electricity crisis…no more wasting time talking about Politicians…..lets develop Zambia…
JJ is not such a criminal you have unleashed notorious anti-robbery squad to blast bullets through the “fugitive”.
And why ask neighbouring countries to be on the lookout for him as if he’s a dangerous criminal or someone who is implicated in state sabotage.
The Electridity crisis is here for 18 months ++
Wait is is soon going to boil ………
We importing at a high cost and the minister predicting a 6% growth ??
Sad for those who have a brain and have to listen to this nonsense
How does a person with a criminal record become an MP. I thought people are vetted at party level. It’s is clear that he has been daring the system for too long.
And in 2020 what did Lungu do when JJ Banda mobilised armed PF cadres and stormed Lusaka Central Police where they beat up some unsuspecting officers on duty and got away with an undisclosed amount of money, belonging to one of the officers.
The incident happened after the C5 anti-robbery squad shot and killed a suspect earlier, who happens to be a relative to Banda. The suspected robber died after sustaining four bullet wounds.
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@Tikki, Jay Jay or whomsoever is a criminal. Being a politician has no relevance on this!
Where were our corrupt police? They left him for more profitable beats-to go conduct roadblocks Kekekekekeke!
I wonder what Nkana MP Binwell Mpundu will now say, what tiktok video he will make/circulate.
Meanwhile, JJ is filling the airwaves and grabbing headlines!
He’s been picked up by the police.
The guy could easily have been let to escape so that he can be killed while trying to escape. The whole thing beats the GREAT ESCAPE.
Why HH order the arrest of this man? Why so much interest as if he’s the only person accused of attempted murder?
No one is above the law and no sin is greater..
And we expect Zambia to develop having such morons as lawmakers…we expect Zambia to find lasting solution to our electricity crisis having illiterate Bandits in Parliament
He’s probably already in Malawi, that’s if indeed he’s escaped. Maybe they’ve abducted him again to go and finish him off. However, if indeed he’s escaped then the message to Mwiimbu and HH is that not everyone in their ranks agree with their idyotic escapades. Isn’t a waste of human resource to allocate 5 officers to guard 1 Jay Jay? They’re supposed to be guarding drugs at ZAMMSA that are being stolen everyday!
There’s too much tribal hatred in Zambia.
They preach national unity but what they do is the complete opposite. There’s no way the whole state machinery can concentrate on one single person…no way.
The JJ Banda case is a total misuse of authority. We placed our faith in UPND by voting for them, but they have turned out to be lawless creatures only interested in looting and taking revenge on their opponents. Meanwhile, we the people suffer. Their political end cannot come soon enough for Zambia.
All efforts and money wasted from the time
At Maina soko to transportation to chipata
As well as five officers guarding one person
And the end result is he escapes?
Police IG and Correction service IG went over 500 kilometres in Chipata to inspect the window where JJ is alleged to have escaped from. Isn’t the inspection supposed to be done before placing the person in the facility. They did not check for mbulikishilo.
And yet that window has always been there kkkk
Where are the chiefs from the Eastern Province? I guess they are financially sponsored & are cowards.
Chiefs in NWP are not happy with what is going on.
Too much power in one man’s hands is dangerous, you voted hyenas to rule of goats and see now!!!!
It was Tayali, now JJ, why can’t there be tolerance with these fat cats / politicians kanshi? Why this extent of hatred & vengeance? Are we not all ZEDIANS?
JJ is a criminal…….
You want violent criminals to be free ??
Checking window after the escape, Police I G and Correction service IG
All the way from Lusaka just to see the window.
Is JJ such a high profile criminal that even the Police IG and Correctional Services CG could fly to Chipata at tax payers expense to go and see the window through which the ‘escape ‘ occurred. We all know JJ was tried and fined for the same crimes.
hh & his upnd ( UPND= Unpopular, Propaganda, National Disaster ) must go, they waste time in petty issues instead of pushing economic development
Its a 5 year mandate badala………
Meanwhile ,
Forwadee 2031………..
UPND means Unpopular, Propaganda, National Disaster
kikikiki NOT TOO FAR OFF THE MARK
JJ has managed to free himself from the dictatorship of UPND, now it is Zambia’s turn to free itself!!
Kaizer Zulu, Chilufya Tayali, JJ Banda. Find these criminals and cage them. They are not above the law. We need sanity in our politics
So one eyed! Why mention only “criminals” in the opposition? What about criminals in UPND? Like Kakubo? the ministers ACC is meekly investigating And the minister who poured Kachasu down the throat of a minor?
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JJ is a violent criminal……….
Even the violent PF dismissed him………
He violently assulted a journslist , urinating in his mouth………..
He and other thugs attacked and captured lusaka police station, the police HQ……….
He has beaten police officers in public……
He faked his abduction , waisting police time, falsely accusing GRZ of involvment…….
Cage the thug , or if he is armed just shoot him……..
Zambia will be a better place
viva upnd viva kikikikikiki, zwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa upnd zwaaaaaaaaa. When a tribalistic mind seats on the throne…the nation goes tribalistic, backwards and mad
Does he have such a small voice or is it just a facade since he ended up recording the conversation he had with Sylvia ‘ma ambulance’ maroads…..from qwewe
He will be classed as a mental patient kikikik
All for nothing
Our neighbor Zimbabwe sent 67 government officials with the vice President in a private jet to the Olympics…i haven’t seen a single Zimbabwean athlete participating at the games….just how much money did the government spend?????…and this is the country we’re supposed to work with to find lasting solution to our electricity crisis….i wish Bukina Faso was our neighbor
And the Chinese man building right in middle of a busy road….and we think the Chinese are in Zambia to help develop Zambia….the Chinese are in Zambia to destroy our economy and champion corruption….A Chinese man will never engage in corruption in his own country China….because they know that corruption is a cancer that destroys our economy
@ Spaka
I agree with you 100%…JJ is a bandit and he should be sent to Jail…and i also want a Zambian to go China and start building a block of Apartments in the middle of a busy highway
Ba ZP babatusa imbindi. How could someone who underwent an operation 2 days earlier escape from 5 policemen?? It seems JJ is smarter than our officers. And why did Musamba and his counterpart from Prison services drive or fly 600km to go and just look at a window?? The police command is surely full of junkies.
If JJ genuinely escaped, he must have been assisted by people in the system meaning the abused police and intelligence are not happy with Kainde.
JJ Banda has feed himself from the chains of HH, It is time Zambians freed themselves from UPND stagnation
@ Spaka
JJ is a violent criminal……….
Even the violent PF dismissed him………
He violently assulted a journslist , urinating in his mouth………..
If that is true then let him pay the price 70 X 77 how can he do such a thing to a fellow human being sure and you people you are busy supporting such a criminal. What if he did that to your relative how can you feel and you call yourselves christians! What a joke! That is the very reason why we worked up at 02:30 hours to ensure that Paya Farmer was not near the corridors of power any more in 2021 and we will repeat it in 2026 and as long as you do not repeant you will remain in the dust bin forever where you belong.
This is beyond comprehension, jumping from a third floor window and still alive and on the run?
Some of these jigsaw puzzles don’t make sense.
I think the Police helped him.
How can they be happy when it’s not them who initiated the arrest?
The guilty are always afraid. He ran therefore he is guilty.
We don’t know the truth.
Jj case is very confusing. So who abducted who. He was abducted . He mentioned abductors I head but the arrested him for 2015 case. So the abduction was to make him answer the 2015 case
@Chrystal Clear. The arrest of JJ was ordered by the president at a press conference. So police are not doing it as per normal but obeying the appointing authority. Who knows these guys could have deliberately let him escape because they don’t have their professional reason to hold him in the so-called lawful custody.
The imprisonment of Hon JJ Banda was illegal because it was based on crimes that had already been settled by our courts. Has the executive decided to override judicial processes in Zambia?