SUSPENDED Patriotic Front Eastern Province youth chairperson Emmanuel Banda, commonly known as Jay Jay, yesterday appeared before the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court in a case in which he is accused of assaulting a police officer with intent to steal. Meanwhile, there was a heavy presence of Zambia Police officers, who were securing the Court complex ahead of the said case. In this matter, Banda, who was on a wheelchair, is jointly-charged with four others with one count of aggravated assault with intent to steal. The accused persons in this matter are Banda, 35, a businessman of Petauke, Eastern Province; John Lungu, 26, a general worker of Garden House, Lusaka; Maxwell Pito, 20, a peasant farmer of Lusaka West; Moses Silyonde, 27,...
