INCARCERATED NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili’s application for bail, pending appeal, could not be heard yesterday morning as Lusaka Principal Resident Magistrate David Simusamba has adjourned the matter to Thursday for ruling. Magistrate Simusamba is expected to rule on whether or not Kambwili’s application for bail is competent before him and whether or not he can...

LUSAKA Magistrate Nsunge Chanda has ruled that former Zambia Airforce commander Eric Chimese’s emoluments are not classified material. This is in a matter in which Chimese is accused of abuse of authority of office and money laundering relating to properties in Ibex Hill and Lilayi. Chimese is jointly charged with Chita Lodge director James Chungu....

POLICE in Lusaka picked incarcerated NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili’s wife Carol and daughter Chanda at the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court, today morning, on allegations that the two misconducted themselves as officers were performing their duties. Kambwili’s wife allegedly slapped a police officer at the Court Complex in the fracas that ensued after one of her children...

LUSAKA Principal Resident Magistrate David Simusamba yesterday convicted and sentenced NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour on charges of forgery and uttering a false document. He has, however, acquitted him on the other charge of giving false information to a public officer. And after he was sentenced, Kambili thanked Simusamba,...

LUSAKA Principal Resident Magistrate David Simusamba has convicted NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili in a case in which he was charged forgery and uttering a false document to a public officer. Magistrate Simusamba has, however, acquitted Kambwili on one count of giving false information to a public officer. Passing judgement today, Magistrate Simusamba sentenced the NDC...

LUSAKA Principal Resident Magistrate David Simusamba yesterday failed to deliver judgement in a matter in which NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili is charged with forgery, uttering a false document and giving false information to a public officer. Magistrate Simusamba said he could not deliver judgement yesterday due to circumstances beyond his control. He, however, said it...

A CONSORTIUM of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have called on senior political leaders to abstain from endorsing messages that promote anarchy and intimidation. And the CSOs have urged the ruling party to return to the democratic practices the country was founded on by promoting peace and freedom in all aspects of the Zambian society. This...

HOME Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo has urged officers in the mobile National Registration Cards (NRC) issuance exercise to focus on the job and not to be swayed by distractors. Kampyongo was in Southern Province, Sunday, to inspect phase two of the mobile issuance of NRCs in that province. Speaking when he paid a courtesy call...

THE State has entered a nolle prosequi in a matter in which suspended Eastern Province PF youth chairperson Emmanuel Banda, commonly known as Jay Jay, and four others were accused of assaulting a police officer at Lusaka Central Police Station. But Banda and others were rearrested shortly after the case was discontinued. Earlier this month,...

A FARMER of Shicitaza Village of Chief Kaingu’s area in Central Province has dragged another farmer of the same area to the Lusaka High Court for allegedly accusing him of being a witch. Physical Muntanga, who has sued Humphrey Muntanga, claims that the latter accused him of being responsible for his illness and misfortune and...