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No 1 www.diggers.news Monday April 3, 2017 Immigration stop Mubalama from Chirwa narrates how middlemen P2 P5 traveling to Angola with Dora Siliya duped govt in maize-gate scandal In a drunken state... Cop threatens to shoot Garry P2 Nkombo for resisting search By Joseph Mwenda Government will soon privatise Indeni Petro- leum Refinery, a move that may put an end to the country’s im- portation of crude oil. GOVTwas wasting money by in- aled on hisTO statement to of finishedSELL petroleum prod- pull out INDENIof the petro- ernment was exam- And in an exclusive in- volving itself in the importa- Parliament that by March ucts to the private sector. leum sub-sector be- ining the viability of terview, Energy minis- tion of petroleum products. 1, 2017, the government In his 2017 national budget cause its involvement Indeni Petroleum Re- ter David Mabumba told Meanwhile, Finance minister would officially surrender speech Mutati announced was unsustainable. finery and TAZAMA. Diggers! that the government Felix Mutati has back-ped- the procurement function that government would He added that the gov- ...continues on P3 2. Local News Monday April 3, 2017 ECZ raises security concerns around printing ballots locally By Sipilisiwe Ncube elections on the 25th of April, 2017. We have already done be any violence, as ECZ, we have put in place mechanisms Electoral Commission of Zambia senior public relations our voter education training and we have also done publicity to ensure that there is no violence during these elections. We officer Sylvia Bwalya says the commission has no problem with for the candidates as our mandate. Ballot papers for these by- have conflict management committees at district level and all printing the 2021 ballot papers locally as long as government elections arrived yesterday at 14:30 hrs on the emirates flight. the committees have been meeting in Masaiti and in all these has capacity to meet the required security specifications. And the arrival was witnessed by the participating political other areas where the by-elections will take place. We also And Bwalya says ballot papers for three by-elections to be parties. The verification process will follow in the presence of have political parties’ liaison committees who meet to update held on April 25 have arrived in the country. participating political parties and the stakeholders later on.” the political parties on what is happening,” said Bwalya. Recently, President Edgar Lungu pronouncement that 2021 She said the ballot papers would be deployed to various centres “We also expect all NGOs and the media that are going to ballot papers would be printed locally as government would where the elections would take place at an appropriate time. cover these elections to be accredited. Accreditation started recapitalize government printers. “We expect all participating political parties to abide by the on 10th march and will end on 1st April, 2017.” Commenting on the pronouncement, Bwalya said the electoral code of conduct, we don’t expect that there should commission had no objections as long as government had capacity to meet the required specifications. “The ballot papers have a certain quality and security specification which has to be met, so for as long as that is met, Cop threatens to shoot Nkombo, wife the commission has no problem with printing,” Bwalya said. And Bwalya said the ballots for council chairperson elections By Mukosha Funga The incident happened couple stopped over at guards the ZANACO in Masaiti District and two local government elections in Fuel attendants stopped in the wee hours of Petroda service station in ATM came and Ipongo Ward of Chibombo district and Kasamba Ward in a police Constable from Sunday (March 26, Lilayi area. demanded to search their Nchelenge District arrived yesterday at 14:30 hrs. shooting Mazabuka 2017) as Nkombo and “They stopped over just car,” the witness narrated. “Two political parties are participating in the Masaiti council UPND member of his wife were returning after midnight to put “Ba Nkombo refused chairperson election, that is PF and UPND, while PF, UPND, parliament Garry home from attending a fuel. Mr Nkombo’s wife and told him to get and UNIP are participating in local government elections,” Nkombo, following an wedding. was driving a black 4X4. away. The officer started Bwalya said. altercation at a filling A witness narrated to As soon as they stopped, threatening them, saying “The Commission is very much ready to conduct these station. News Diggers! that the this officer, Ngoma who he had the right to search any vehicle. So at this point Mr Nkombo got Immigration stop Mubalama from traveling to Angola with Dora Siliya angry because he noticed that his wife was getting team will go to interview scared by the officer. So his grandparents in he came out of the car Ndola since he said his and ba [officer] Ngoma mother died. He said his grabbed him, started mother’s name is Grace pushing him around. Bweupe. He also named This angered Nkombo one of his living parents who wrestled him back. as Maureen Bweupe The witness said officer who lives in America. So Ngoma then cocked his the issue is probably his AK47 rifle and aimed it father. Although he can be at Nkombo and his wife, Zambian by the fact that his ready to fire. mother is Zambian, there “The officer was still are issues surrounding charging at Mr Nkombo, the information that he but this time he raised used to obtain a Zambian the gun and threatened passport,” the immigration to shoot Nkombo if he source explained. resisted being searched. “He also said that Chief He was not saying why Mushili is his grandparent, he wanted to search the so the team will go, vehicle, he was just saying probably with him to it was his duty to search Ndola to talk to those any vehicle,” narrated the relatives.” witness. Asked why the charge had “Mr Nkombo’s wife was been resuscitated after really scared and she was being settled in court, the begging the Honourable source said it was normal to leave the officer Mark Mubalama at Lusaka Magistrates Court -Picture by Tenson Mkhala because the man wanted under a nolle prosequi. to take on the armed By Mukosha Funga passport. was surrounded by a the officers came from his “The court a entered a officer, but we tried to Immigration officers“The incident happened group of police officers. entourage to work with nolle, what that means help separate them.” yesterday stopped yesterday afternoon as the They were even laughing our immigration here to is that the matter can be When contacted, Agriculture Minister President (Edgar Lungu) at the minister saying stop him from flying out,” revived at any point if Nkombo said the officer Dora Siliya from traveling was on the [airport] ‘instructions from the top’. said the source. more evidence against the was drunk. with her boyfriend Mark tarmac welcoming Dora just stood there and “But Dora herself was accused has been found,” “My wife and I were Mubalama to Angola. Ethiopian Prime Minister she was so embarrassed allowed to leave, so it said the source. going home in Chilanga And Mubalama appeared [Hailemariam Desalegn]. because other passengers was just embarrassing When contact via from a wedding. My for questioning today When Honourable Siliya were watching.” for her that she ended WhatsApp for a comment, wife was driving and at immigration offices arrived [at Kenneth The sources narratedup travelling alone while Siliya responded with a she stopped to put gas despite his nationality Kaunda International that at that point, Siliya the boyfriend remained photo of herself in Angola in the car at Petroda dispute having been settled Airport] with the same arranged a lawyer who detained. She is in Angola with a caption: “Just Lilayi. After we stopped, in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Mark, some police and got Mubalama out of as we speak, but we don’t finished a courtesy call on a drunken policeman Court. immigration officers came where he was detained for know whether it’s official the Minister of Agriculture forcefully demanded to A Zambia National from where the President questioning. duty or private.” of Angola. Angola wishes search our car. It was Airports official, whowas and stopped them. “So after the lawyer spoke According to immigration a to learn how we have around midnight, he sought anonymity, They told Mark to show to the immigration guys, sources, Mubalama took developed the seed threatened to shoot at disclosed that Mubalama them his passport. The they released him but held himself for questioning at industry in Zambia which me and he cocked his AK and Siliya checked-in at minister was very shocked on to the passport. They 09:00 hours today. exports over 300,000mt in 47 and aimed,” narrated the airport on Tuesday but she told him to show also told him to report to “He was questioned over Africa. We are here to visit Nkombo. for a trip to Angola but them,” the source narrated. immigration this morning. the same nationality an Israeli farming project In this video, the officer is that immigration officers “After he produced the What was so embarrassing issue. He came at 09:00 which produces vegetables seen aiming his weapon at confronted the Minister Zambian passport, the was that the President hours and he was told that and cereals for exports the member of parliament and confiscated herofficers took it and got was here at the airport there is need to interview through outgrowth and demanding to search boyfriend’s Zambian him outside where he when this happened and his relatives again.

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