A DIRECTOR for Clinical Care and Diagnostics at the Ministry of Health has told the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court that the Ministry has no record of any Zambian who died from consuming maize contaminated with aflatoxin. This is in a matter, where PF faction Secretary General Raphael Nakacinda is facing one count of seditious practices. It is alleged that Nakacinda, on August 21, 2024, uttered seditious words: “The UPND government is undertaking genocide against its own citizens. The government imported mealie-meal and maize contaminated with aflatoxins which caused the death of dogs and an uncertain number of Zambian citizens which is yet to be established,” when he featured on Millennium Radio. When the matter came up for continued trial before Lusaka...
