HOME Affairs and Internal Security Minister Jack Mwiimbu says no government official or State House staff is linked to the US$5,697,700 which was seized on a private jet. And Mwiimbu says all other wings of government should desist from making comments over this matter and allow the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) to handle it. On Tuesday, DEC announced at a press briefing that it had detained 10 suspects in connection to the chartered aircraft carrying dangerous goods including over $5 million, 602 pieces of suspected gold and five pistols. At another briefing, Tuesday, Mines Minister Paul Kabuswe said the mineral in question was not gold but other minerals like copper and zinc which were merely coated in gold. Speaking at...

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