Archive: 25 February 2022

25 Feb 2022 | Mwenya Mofya

Mumbi Phiri, Lungu’s barber get murder charge

POLICE have arrested and jointly charged former PF deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri and former president Edgar Lungu’s barber Shebby Chilekwa for one count of murder. This is in a matter in which Lawrence Banda […]

25 Feb 2022 | Chamuka Shalubala

Mutati highlights need for electronic IDs

MINISTER of Technology and Science Felix Mutati says government intends to create an electronic Identification which will result in enormous economic benefits. And Finance Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane says the ID will improve government’s ability […]

25 Feb 2022 | Julia Malunga

Suspects conceal evidence when we announce our investigations – ACC

THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) says it has stopped announcing when individuals are being interrogated because this was jeopardising investigations. In an interview, ACC spokesperson Queen Chibwe said pieces of evidence were sometimes concealed once people […]

25 Feb 2022 | Chamuka Shalubala

6 died in flash floods – Nalumango

VICE-PRESIDENT Mutale Nalumango says six people died in the flash floods which Zambia country recently experienced. And Nalumango says DMMU has so far spent over K29 million on providing humanitarian assistance to flood victims. In […]

25 Feb 2022 | Julia Malunga

Some civil servants may have been planted to bring down UPND govt – Mposha

MINISTER of Water Development and Sanitation Mike Mposha says there is a huge possibility that what government sees as errors could be the work of people who are not happy with the progress being made […]

25 Feb 2022 | Dorothy Chaponda

Court reserves judgement in Lusambo’s election petition appeal for May 26

FORMER Lusaka Province minister Bowman Lusambo has urged the Constitutional Court to set aside the Ndola High Court’s decision to nullify his Kabushi parliamentary seat. Lusambo has asked the court to instead uphold his election […]

25 Feb 2022 | Julia Malunga

Whatever may have been paid to Honeybee has to be retrieved, it’s a scandal – MoH

MINISTRY of Health Permanent Secretary for Technical Services Professor Luckson Kasonka says Honeybee is a “non-starter” and the Ministry will not pay anything because the contract was cancelled. Honeybee Pharmacy Limited’s lawyer Tutwa Ngulube recently […]

25 Feb 2022 | Dorothy Chaponda

ConCourt rejects Malanji’s request to produce his G12 certificate

THE Constitutional Court has refused to allow former Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Malanji to produce his grade 12 certificate as evidence in a matter in which he is challenging the nullification of his Kwacha parliamentary […]

25 Feb 2022 | Julia Malunga

We haven’t yet decided whether or not to prosecute Lungu’s ADC – DPP

DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lilian Siyunyi says her office is always put in an awkward position when an accused person goes to court and yet the docket is with the Law Enforcement Agency. When […]

25 Feb 2022 | Chamuka Shalubala

If bigamy is removed from Penal Code, it’ll still remain an offence under Marriage Act – Haimbe

JUSTICE Minister Mulambo Haimbe has denied allegations that UPND has taken a position on polygamy by seeking to decriminalise bigamy. Giving a ministerial statement in parliament, Wednesday, Haimbe said the Zambia Law Development Commission had […]