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Kitwe jerabo, Chile 1 shot dead by wife

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Police in Kitwe have confirmed that notorious Kitwe Jerabo Richard Chileshe, popularly known as Chile 1, has been shot dead by his wife.

And police have arrested Annie Monta, 30, Chileshe’s wife for killing him and she has been detained at Riverside police station.

Copperbelt police commanding officer Sharon Zulu confirmed the shooting Saturday morning.

The late Chileshe and Monta resided at House number 26 Nzozi Street, Riverside in Kitwe.

“The shooting occurred at around 01 hours when the deceased came home and later picked up a quarrel with his wife and in the process, he was shot at on his left side of his back and sustained a bullet wound on the right side of his chest where the bullet came out from,” said Zulu.

“A Pistol 9mm taurus by make, silver in colour, serial number THR 43651 was used. The victim sustained a bullet wound on his left side of the back where he was shot at and on the right side of his chest where the bullet came out. He was rushed to Progress private hospital and later to Kitwe Teaching Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The body of the deceased has since been deposited to Kitwe Teaching Hospital mortuary awaiting postmortem. The firearm with one empty cartilage was recovered from the scene, arrest made.”

Shepolopolo-Cameroon Set For Grudge Showdown at 2022 Womens AFCON

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Shepolopolo are set for a grudge showdown with Cameroon at the 2022 Women’s AFCON in Morocco following Friday’s tournament draws that were conducted in Rabat.

Morocco is hosting the 12-team tournament from July 2-23.

Bruce Mwape’s side are in Group B together with the team they beat to 2020 Tokyo Olympic qualification when they overturned a 3-2 away loss to win 2-1 at home in Lusaka that saw Shepolopolo qualify on away goals rule.

Cameroon and Shepolopolo will not wait a minute to settle their score and meet on match-day-one on July 3 in Casablanca where they will be based.

Tunisia and Togo complete Group B whom Shepolopolo will face on July 6 and July 9 respectively.

The latter dates will both be debut meetings and also a first against a North African senior side.

But Shepolopolo U20 played Egypt in 2008 in a Chile 2008 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup preliminary stage qualifier drawing 2-2 in Lusaka and 1-1 away at Ismailia that saw the North Africans advance to the second stage.

Meanwhile, the top two teams from each of the three groups plus two best third placed sides will advance to the quarterfinals.

This is going to be Zambia’s second straight WAFCON campaign after making a group stage exit at Ghana 2018 but it will be their third tournament outing since Namibia 2014 where they also made a preliminary stage exit.

Fighting a Woman with Her Hands Tied Behind Her Back


By Sakwiba Sikota

They say that boxing is a savage sport but I know things which are not sporty as they are more savage than boxing.

Boxing began in the Bronze Age in Sumerian Iraq, Babylonia and Assyria. Later in Ancient Greece, competitions in boxing were held for the enjoyment of the people and in 688 B.C it was introduced as an official Olympic sport. There were no knockout rounds and two men would box and fight until the other could no longer go on.

DAVID VERSUS GOLIATH

The early boxing contests didn’t have weight limits or much in the way of gentlemanly rules for the safety of the combatants. There were no weight limits meant that larger fighters could compete against smaller combatants. David versus Goliath type of contests was common and no one showed any mercy.

Quite often, matches only ended with the death of the boxer that lost. With the fall of the Roman Empire, Christianity became prevalent and this pressed pause on boxing for some time.

BIRTH OF BARE-KNUCKLE BOXING

In the 18th century boxing returned in London as bare-knuckle boxing was born in 1681. The first case of bare-knuckle boxing is when the 2nd Duke of Albemarle Christopher Monck put together a fight between his butler and his butcher for the entertainment of his guests.

MODERN DAY BOXING

Boxing has seen some rather savage bouts. The match that comes to mind is the Holyfield-Tyson fight when “Iron Mike” took a bite of Holyfield’s ear.

There was also the infamous low blow by Andrew Golata against Riddick Bowe. This is the Night Riddick Bowe and Andrew Golota Caused a Riot in New York arising from the controversy of Golata’s repeated and continuous low blows.

Imagine if George Foreman had behaved unsportingly like Tyson and Golata in the “Rumble in the Jungle” fight with Mohammed Ali. If Foreman had first tied Ali’s hands behind his back and then proceeded to go back in time when boxers fought bare knuckled throwing wild haymakers including even even blows below the belt. The result of that fight would have been very different. Foreman would have won a very unfair fight.

THE ZAMBIAN FIGHT SCENARIO

The past few weeks we have seen a fight that makes the savage sport of boxing seem like a “Kumbaya” campsite fireside singalong. The Director of Public Prosecutions has been hammered by law enforcement agencies, the Minister of Justice and even the President.

The three have challenged the DPP to a contest and have already declared themselves winners of the contest. The match officials were all recently appointed by the people challenging the DPP.

DAVID VERSUS GOLIATH (REVISITED)

We may have to revise the verses in the Bible that relate to the battle between David and Goliath.

There has been a savage bare-knuckled, no holds barred onslaught on the Director of Public Prosecutions. It is like a David versus Goliath battle. Imagine if Goliath had brought “tag-team” partners to fight little David. Imagine if the giant had brought Mary (not the Blessed Mother of Jesus but one who clearly had it in for David) together with a minister to fight David. We probably would not have the verses relating to the David v Goliath battle in the Bible.

The whole controversy was sparked by a leaked confidential letter written by the DPP. After that there was a steady stream of leaking of complaints which were supposed to be confidential to the JCC. Even the DEC complaint was leaked to the press.

The leaking of the letter and the complaints was like Golata’s steady stream of low blows.

After publicly berating the DPP on all public media, she has not been able to answer back as there is the Oath of Secrecy gagging her. This Oath of Secrecy can only be waived by her challengers.

The refusal to waive the Oath of Secrecy makes Mike Tyson’s bite to Holyfield’s ear look like a cuddly smooch to the ear. The refusal to waive the oath of secrecy the DPP has to operate under ties her hands up and make it near impossible for her to defend herself. Those attacking the DPP are therefore FIGHTING A WOMAN WITH HER HANDS TIED BEHIND HER BACK.

Zambia and DRC sign Cooperating Agreements to Start Manufacturing Electric Batteries

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Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have signed cooperating agreements to start manufacturing electric batteries.
The agreement which includes the clean energy sector will explore minerals rich in both countries which are key raw materials in the manufacturing of electric car batteries.

President Hakainde Hichilema said that the signing of cooperation agreements between Zambia and the DRC to start manufacturing electric car batteries is key to poverty alleviation on the continent.

President Hichilema said that the agreement has removed shame from Africa which has been known as an exporter of raw materials.

He said that yesterday’s agreements prove that his attendance at a DRC economic forum was the right decision as it gave birth to yesterday’s event.

The President however said the signing is one thing and emphasized the need to actualize the agreement.

Mr Hichilema says Africa has for long been viewed as a source of raw materials but the narrative is now being changed.
The President thanked the DRC government for staying the course and providing leadership over the initiative.

And DRC President Felix Tshisekedi said the two countries are home to at least 80 per cent of minerals required for the production of electric car batteries.

Mr Tshisekedi said Zambia and the DRC have decided to be masters of their own destiny. He said the agreement will create a value chain for the production of batteries for electric cars which will be key to the economies of Zambia and the DRC.

The DRC President said yesterday’s event was a good example for all African countries to unite and promote economic unity.

Mr Tshisekedi said Africa’s economic power will be advanced with such initiatives which will create jobs for many youths.

Africa Confidential: President Hichilema Spending too much time on distracting battles over PF’s treatment of him

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The Africa Confidential reports that President Hakainde Hichilema gave a long and emotional press conference on 25 April further cataloguing his persecution by the previous government – which many critics believe irrelevant to the current political situation – while making vague promises about his government’s programme.

Almost everyone agrees that Hichilema inherited a disastrous economy nearly bankrupted by corruption and political patronage. But even friends of the government complain he is spending too much time on distracting battles over the previous government’s treatment of him. For them it diverts attention from his programme, especially attempts to counter the conduct of appointees of his predecessor President Edgar Lungu, such as Director of Public Prosecutions Lilian Siyuni Shawa, and the liquidatorof Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), lawyer Milingo Lungu (see Box).

Hichilema’s team sees this campaign as crucial to honouring its election pledge to root out corruption. But his concentration on President Lungu’s past sins has been so great it risks, as the local newspaper News Diggers put it, ‘making criminals looks like they are victims of persecution’.

Hichilema and his team are too immersed in micro-management of the state apparatus and are failing to lead on the big picture of government as the end nears of the honeymoon he has enjoyed with the electorate after winning a landslide in August’s election, insiders say (AC Vol 63 No 1).

Instead of eliciting sympathy for his personal battle with endemic corruption and sabotage, not forgetting the 127 days he spent in detention on Lungu’s whim, Hichilema should be facing the rising cost of living and concerns over restructuring the debt and corruption. Commentariat and public alike are impatient at his failure to provide a clearer direction after promising massive job creation, lower cost of living and free education in the election campaign (AC Vol 62 No 20).

Hichilema spoke, seemingly off-the-cuff, for two hours at the press conference – which started one hour late – confirming a long-noted tendency not to prioritise key issues, ranging instead across many topics, and promising great things under each heading.

The speeches, like this one, often end with listeners still wondering what issues top his agenda (AC Vol 62 No 23).

This, the first press conference since last September, bore an only limited resemblance to the pre-briefing summary issued to media, which listed key topics such as the economy, mining, health, education, agriculture, and corruption.

Even supporters showed their disappointment at the performance. Activist Laura Miti, a Hichilema appointee to Zambia’s Human Rights Commission, tweeted ‘Could you apologise for keeping the nation waiting?’, and academic and activist Sishuwa Sishuwa, a vehement opponent of Lungu, also tweeted on the extreme length of the event: ‘The only positive thing about it is that it has ended!’ Many are now tired of the President’s assertions that the kind of freedom media and citizens have now would not have been possible under his predecessor.

Some commentators even detect a note of resentment of the public and press for not thanking him enough for not resorting to repression, and for honouring the rule of law. Thendertones of aggression in the speech were very unsettling,’ said one local analyst. ‘Trying to say that they could have used power to be thugs and we should be grateful they didn’t is an extraordinary narrative,’ he added.

Supporters of the government say Hichilema is only suffering from presentation problems. The climate has changed, they insist. Civil servants are more professional, party activists are less prominent, and even the traffic police have stopped extorting drivers at roadblocks. People, they say, are happier, and relieved to be free of the oppressive atmosphere under Lungu.

Full Report: https://www.africa-confidential.com/article-preview/id/13917/Hichilema_accused_of_%27losing_focus%e2%80%99

President Hichilema is Not Spending Public Money on his House – Nalumango

VICE-PRESIDENT Mutale Nalumango has said that it is not true that the State is paying for extra security equipment, electricity, road and infrastructure upgrades being done at Present Hakainde Hichilema’s residence – Community House.

A story is circulating o social media that President Hichilema is rehabilitating and improving security facilities at his personal house using public funds.

But Vice-President Nalumango said it was with his personal wealth that President Hichilema built Community House and that just like any other house owner, he needed to rehabilitate, expand or beautify his property.

“It is not a secret that our Republican President Mr Hakainde Hichilema made his wealth long before he started asking Zambians to trust him with the country’s top job. With personal wealth, he constructed his house which he named Community House due to his communal and humanistic approach to politics,’’ she said in a statement. ‘’Just like any other house owner, he needs to rehabilitate, expand or beautify his property and he is doing so without any degree of abuse of the public funds or state power. It is therefore not true that the state is paying for extra security equipment, electricity, road and infrastructure upgrades being done at his house.”

She urged citizens to protect President Hichilema from bitter individuals.

“We urge all progressive Zambians to protect our President and defend him from enemies of progress. God bless our President,” said Vice-President Nalumango.

And Vice-President Nalumango has said that there is a need to ensure that every Zambian’s home has food on the table every day.

Mrs Nalumango said that this can be done by creating an environment that puts incomes in citizens through affordable ventures and enterprise development.

She has called for rethinking agriculture as the engine that can unlock the much-needed resilience and wealth creation opportunities.

Mrs Nalumango says the party has delivered in the eight months it has been in power on free education and equitable delivery of the Constituency Development Fund and won the hearts of Zambians.

She was speaking during the launch of the UPND strategic plan 2022 to 2026 in Lusaka yesterday. The UPND Party has become the first political party to have a strategic plan in the country.

Mrs Nalumango said the strategic plan captures the vision of the party and informs the direction to be taken to achieve people’s aspirations in the next five years.

Meanwhile, Democracy Work Foundation Regional Director and Chief of Party AUGUSTINE MAGOLOBONDO, who joined the event virtually, said the plan speaks to how to be inclusive and be financially sustainable.

And, UPND Deputy Secretary-General GETRUDE IMENDA said the party is determined to implement what is outlined in the strategic plan.

Where was the Zambia public-private sector partnership when manufacturing was dwindling?

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By Edward Chisanga

Dindi opened the gate and shouted, “Uncle, here I’m. I wanted to surprise you. Those who make appointments to visit you are not really nephews or nieces. Real nieces and nephews don’t. For why should they?”

I too shouted, “That’s fine. You come in. But you will pay for breaking the family rule.”

“How uncle?”

“Well, I have a sizzling economic puzzle in my mind. You know that the President launched the Public-Private dialogue forum this week? And the President believes that the private sector is an engine of economic development. Is it?”

“Yes, I know that he did launch. But I doubt that Zambia’s private sector is an engine of economic growth. I mean, what economic indicators are we using? I think what we ought to be saying is that the private sector is supposed to be an engine for economic growth. But in the past and today, its performance cannot be equated to engine of economic growth.”

“So, what economic indicators can we use to understand our private sector’s contribution to economic development or not? What makes you underrate our private sector so much?”

“Public-private sector partnership has been there the last fifty years. We used to hear about meetings between the two all the time. Kaunda had this partnership, in which the private sector listed all their challenges, expectations and needs. We saw manufacturing in the economy although state-owned blossom. As Figure 1 below shows, manufacturing value added in the economy as a proportion reached its highest peak of about 36% in 1992. Yes, the state-owned enterprises flourished much more than the private sector in terms of championing value addition. In most countries in the world, in particular in Asia with which Zambia shares many things such as culture, economic challenges, etc in common, it is the private sector which champions manufacturing. In Zambia, the private sector has, for many years failed to do that. Zambia’s private sector has failed to take Zambia’s manufacturing back to its peak of 36% proportion in the economy. “

“I agree with you nephew. It is inconceivable that Presidents coming after Kaunda never fostered manufacturing. Since the proportion of manufacturing in the economy fell from 36% in 1992 to 10% in 1996 to 11% in 1996, there has been a continuous downturn, reaching 8% in 2020. Surely, during all this period, the public-private sector partnership has been around. This private sector is always blaming government for its failure to compete regionally and internationally. Does it mean that all previous governments never knew how to support private sector?

“It’s clear uncle that Presidents that came after Kaunda fell short of focusing on manufacturing, hence consigning our country to the level of non-competitiveness. Zambia’s share fell from 36% in 1992 down to 8% in 2020. But look at the other African countries in Table 1 below. Their shares are quite magnificent, implying the significant role of manufacturing in the overall economies. These are the countries likely to benefit much more from the Africa Continental Free Trade Area because they export value added products compared to ours which exports primary commodities. These are the African countries that are surging while ours is backtracking. Although their actual exports of manufactured goods is still low and not as significant as those for South Africa, whose share of manufacturing value added in GDP is only 12%, and exports more advanced manufactured goods, they are potential champions of the future.”

Table 1: Top Sub-Sahara African countries’ manufacturing value added in GDP in percentages

2020

Eswatini

31.0

Equatorial Guinea

20.7

DRC

19.6

Central African Republic

19.2

Mali

18.2

Uganda

17.5

Morocco

17.2

Egypt

17.1

Senegal

17.0

Lesotho

16.3

Cameroon

15.7

Tunisia

15.3

Togo

14.6

Burundi

13.8

South Africa

12.9

Zambia

8.0

Source: Unctadstat

“Finally, nephew, I see you also have this image of a graph below. What exactly are you showing?”

“I’m trying to translate the manufacturing in the economy into exports, to see the robustness of Zambia’s export value addition drive. Experts like the United Nations (UNCTAD) tell us, ‘A country is dependent on commodities when these account for more than 60% of its total merchandize exports in value terms.’ UNCTAD is not alone. Dani Rodrik and Margaret McMillan, two famous experts on Africa once wrote, ‘The larger the share of natural resources in exports, the smaller the scope of productivity-enhancing structural change. The key here is that minerals and natural resources do not generate much employment, unlike manufacturing industries and related services.’ Now look at the statistics of Figure 2 below showing the share of Zambia’s exports of manufactured goods in total of all product that we export to the world. The bottom line shows the share of manufactured goods while the top line shows that of primary commodities. What do you think?”

“It is clear that Zambia’s share of exports of primary commodities or non-value-added products is a whooping 90%, meaning manufacturing products are minimal. Again, it shows the under-performance of our private sector. Tunisia’s share of exports of manufactured goods in total stands at 81% and Viet Nam’s share is 87%. These are countries whose private sectors are seriously integrating in global value chains while we are not. They don’t lobby for public-private sector forums in order to advance. Perhaps their governments are fully focused on supporting them.”

“Thanks a lot my nephew as usual. Your insights are quite helpful. I agree that our private sector must quickly move from exporting tomatoes, potatoes, maize, eggs, vegetables, etc. Even those that boast of being Kings are only kings in Zambia. Let them extend their kingdom outside Zambia. More importantly to me, where are the indigenous black Zambians in the country’s private sector? What do they produce? What do they do? They spend more time chasing politics and importing posh cars while Indian, Lebanese and Chinese Zambians are selling steel or exporting the few manufactured goods. To me, a private sector that does not export, or sells within Zambia manufactured goods is as good as dead. Perhaps Zambia should open an Embassy in Viet Nam strictly for learning manufacturing. After all, Viet Nam has overtaken Africa in exports of manufactured goods.”

Shepolopolo Beat Botswana in Friday Womens Friendly

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Shepolopolo kicked off their two-match friendly dates against Botswana on Friday with a home win at Woodlands Stadium in Lusaka.

Zambia beat Botswana 1-0 but it took until the 84th minute for the deadlock to be broken through an Ochumba Lubanji goal.

Shepolopolo coach Bruce Mwape team was wholly home-based with at least five regulars in the starting lineup led by defender Lushomo Mweemba and midfielder Mary Wilombe who captained the team.

The two sides are back in action on Monday at the same venue.

Shepolopolo and Botswana are using their two friendlies as preliminary preparations ahead of their 2022 Women’s AFCON campaign in Morocco from July 2-23.

137, 129 applications received for the 11,276 positions for health workers

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The Civil Service Commission has announced it extended the period of data capturing by District and Provincial Health Offices by five days from 21st to 25th April 2022 to ensure that all applications received in the recruitment process of 11,276 health workers are captured.

The district and provincial health offices commenced the data of the application capturing on 13th April 2022 and were scheduled to conclude the process on 20th April, 2022 but could not do due to the huge numbers of applications received.

Statistics of applications received according to the Commission from various provincial and district data capturing sites indicate that a total of 137, 129 applications have been received with 48, 920 accounting for professional cadre positions which include persons living with disabilities.

Speaking at a media briefing, Commission Chairperson Peter Mumba said because of the five days data capturing extensions, all other activities that were scheduled to take place post data capturing have been adjusted accordingly.

And Mr Mumba who gave the distribution of applications received per province said in the spirit of enhancing fairness, transparency and preventing a conflict of interest, officers in the various human resource management sub-committees will be reshuffled during the screening and shortlisting of applicants.

Speaking at the same briefing, Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary for Administration Dr George Magwende said the government is committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is transparent.

Applications received Per province are as follows:

TOTAL NO. OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED

CENTRAL 15,445
COPPERBELT 24,497
EASTERN 10,721
LUAPULA 9,538
LUSAKA 31,106
MUCHINGA 6,777
NORTHWESTERN 9,423
NORTHERN 7,215
SOUTHERN 13,269
WESTERN 9,138
GRAND TOTAL 137,129

Legalize Kachasu

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By Dickson Jere

I got an invite for late lunch with former President Rupiah Banda. He wanted to introduce me to “a very interesting” man whom he had met while in Atlanta Georgia in 2012 after he left office.

“You should listen to him attentively. He has great ideas,” President Banda said ahead of the lunch at his Lilayi house last year.

The three of us sat for a sumptuous lunch on the patio.

The “very interesting” man looked ordinary even though he was suited for the event and came with a laptop – ready for the presentation to me and the former President. The topic of discussion was power generation and biofuels in Zambia to help end load shedding.

Chiluwata Lungu is a Zambian professor based in Atlanta. He is a lead Combustion Aerothermal Engineer working for General Electric (GE) Power in the US. He is a genius who is also the man behind the Zambia Robotics – the team of young engineers that has taken the world by storm. Check them on CNN Inside Africa programs and have won awards internationally. Lungu is an expert in the manufacturing of aeroplanes and jet engines. He knows his stuff!

So, his take was that the brewing of Kachasu in Zambia should be encouraged. He believes the “Kachasu Project” can be a game-changer for the country and create employment for the youths and women, especially in shanty compounds.

“Kachasu is composed of ethanol which is a biofuel used for petrol,” he said, adding that it can also be used as fuel for cars.

“We need to change our mindset and perspective. Instead of looking at Kachasu as alcohol for drinking, we should look at it as a biofuel to power our economic growth,” he said.

The professor had figured. A drum of Kachasu is appropriately 200 litres and currently costs about K200, which translates to K1 per litre of Kachasu. But if sold as ethanol, it will cost K5 per litre, which is five times more than what the brewers get in compounds.

“We have a cheaper and greener locally sourced supply of fuel and Zambia can become a biofuel leader and exporter,” Lungu said while giving Brazil a good example of the country making money in biofuels.

As an expert in combustion, he said he is able to adjust most of the gensets in Zambia to start using Kachasu as fuels. It is very simple to do, he believes, given his experience.

“Kachasu is 20% ethanol biofuel, a green fuel alternative for petrol/gasoline,” he said.

“Imagine if our mothers and grandmothers can make Kachasu and ethanol biofuel in their backyards, what more can we do to transform our great nation if we put our mind and collective efforts to it,” he said.

After a three-hour lunch, I was wowed!

“Kana Nzelu Ku Munthu aka…” President Banda said to me after the presentation.

Last week, Prof Lungu got in touch with me even before the current Kachasu debacle broke out. He promised to take me to his farm in the Mungule area once he returns to Zambia to showcase how his genset will be powered by Kachasu.

So, my thoughts are – Just legalize and regulate Kachasu as a biofuel in Zambia!

NB. Prof Lungu is the man behind the Zambian Institute for Sustainable Development (ZISD), which also has a girls’ football team.

Nakacinda denies defaming the President of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema

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Patriotic Front (PF) party Chairperson for Information and Publicity Raphael Nakacinda has denied defaming the President of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema, in the Solwezi Magistrate Court.

However, in the second count of expressing or showing hatred, ridicule or contempt contrary to the Laws of Zambia, Mr Nakacinda has not taken a plea as consent is being sought from the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP.

Appearing at a tight guarded Court, Nakacinda 43, who looked to be in high spirits, was ushered in around 10:40hrs.

Mr Nakacinda has been granted bail of K25, 000 in his own cognisance with three working sureties at 100, 000 each in their cognisance and one of them should be based in Solwezi.

Principal Resident Magistrate Tamala Kakusa granted bail and currently, the defence team led by Lawyer Noel Simwanza is organizing his way out.

He is set to appear for Mention on 31st May 2022 while a trial is pegged for 8th June.

Meanwhile, according to the Court indictment, Mr Nakacinda who is a resident of Kafue District in Lusaka Province, is said to have committed the alleged crimes from Solwezi.

Court Bailiffs on the Copperbelt have seize Lusambo’s properties in Ndola

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Court Bailiffs on the Copperbelt have seized a vehicle and household property at the house of Patriotic Front (PF) Kabushi Member of Parliament and former Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Chilosha Lusambo in Ndola.

Mr Lusambo who once served as Copperbelt Minister was dragged to court by Ndola businessman Clifford Kasonde over a debt he accrued from 2019.

The property has been seized over a debt of K278, 000 that Mr Lusambo allegedly owe Mr Kasonde.

A check by reporters at House Number 68 on Kabelenga Road around 09:00 on Friday morning, found bailiffs parking the property in one of their vans as two uniformed police officers kept vigil at the premise.

Some people were seen moving property among them beds and chairs from the house to the van.

The law-maker allegedly failed to pay the said amount despite several appeals to settle the debt accrued from 2019.

Mr Lusambo rents the house which was pounced on from Zamtel.

A man found at the residence told journalists that the bailiffs forced their way into the house after jumping over the perimeter fence.

Mr Lusambo promised to visit the house and issue a statement on the issue.

Thursday Pro’s Hit List: Chilufya in Danish Cup Action

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It was semifinal Thursday our overseas-based stars who had domestic and continental dates on the night.

=DENMARK
Midfielder Edward Chilufya had a good day on Thursday with Midtjylland who beat Vejle 1-0 away in the first leg of the Danish FA Cup semifinals.
Chilufya came on in the 64th minute for Midtjylland four minutes before his teammate Anders Dreyer scored the winner.
The final leg is set for May 5.


=SCOTLAND

Rangers were in Germany on a UEFA Europa League semifinal, first leg assignment where they lost 1-0 at RB Leipzig in a match Fashion Sakala came on in the 69th minute.

=ENGLAND
Striker Patson Daka was also on European duty when Leicester City hosted Roma in a UEFA Europa Conference League semifinal first leg match that ended 1-1.
Patson was an unused substitute.

Red Arrows Wary of Napsa Stars in 2022 ABSA Cup Final

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Red Arrows assistant coach Kalililo Kakonje says they will give it their best shot to complete a double this season when they face Napsa Stars in Saturday’s 2022 ABSA Cup final at Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka.

Arrows head into the ABSA Cup final a week after clinching their second-ever FAZ Super League title with a game to spare that left outgoing champions Zesco United to settle for second best, also with a match in hand.

And now on Saturday, Arrows have an opportunity to get their debut double after failing to do so in 2004.

“I think pressure will always be there in football. If you look at Napsa Stars; for me, they are also looking at getting a double after they have already getting promoted this season to the Super Division,” Kalililo said, and who is also Arrows goalkeeper coach.

“So going into this fixture, both teams are going into this game hoping to end this season on a high.”

Arrows face a Napsa side that has not only made an instant return to the FAZ Super League following their demotion in the 2019/2020 season, but also reached the ABSA Cup final after beating two big top-flight sides.

Napsa eliminated 2015 winners Green Buffaloes on post-match penalties following a 1-1 draw in the quarterfinals.

They also did the same thing against 2018 champions Nkana in the semifinals after the match ended 0-0.

“We are both looking to end the season with two big achievements so we are going into this final wanting to win it but we must also understand what Napsa Stars are capable of doing,” Kalililo said.

“They even eliminated two very good Premier Division teams in the competition so we understand what they are bringing to the table and we have prepared adequately for them and hopefully we will get the result tomorrow.”

Eddie Black drop his first single for 2022 titled ‘Mystery man’

Eddie Black released his first single for 2022 titled ‘Mystery Man‘ on his birthday, April 29th. The song was produced by Peezey Cables at Mangishi Audio Studios.