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By Nation Reporter

THE Patriotic Front (PF) has written a letter to the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier in which it has listed an array of governance and human rights issues including the shrinking democratic space, deteriorating human rights abuses, the total breakdown of the rule of law and schemes to exterminate the Patriotic Front, the country’s largest opposition political party.  

Given Lubinda, the PF vice president has also informed President Steinmeier that President Hakainde Hichilema has turned Zambia into a police state in which the police have been arresting and detaining opposition political party leaders and keeping them in prison without being charged.

Mr Lubinda has informed President Steinmeier that President Hichilema and his government have been scheming to adulterate the Constitution by expunging running mate and the 50%+1 as well as elongating the presidential term to seven years from five.

In a three-page letter dated November 2, 2023, Mr Lubinda said police brutality under President Hichilema had become the rule while the doctrine of the Separation of Powers had completely been dispensed with. He stated that under the UPND government, the Legislature and the Judiciary had been completely compromised and were operating under the instructions from the Executive, thereby rendering the governance system completely devoured. “Under Mr Hakainde Hichilema, opposition political parties are not allowed to assemble and have public political rallies or demonstrations because the UPND government resents dissenting views. Under President Hichilema, opposition political parties are not allowed to have indoor meetings and in Zambia today, civil society organisations leaders are arrested for simple cases such as hate speech and speaking against President Hichilema,” Mr Lubinda said.

By MICHAEL MIYOBA

THE Zambia Police Intellectual Property Unit (IPU) has arrested Mike Bwalya Chibale, aged 45, of Silverest area in Chongwe for dealing in counterfeit KoPa replica jerseys.

The IPU has seized 89 suspected counterfeit replica jerseys from Tich ‘B’ Investments shop which belongs to Chibale in Kamwala area of Lusaka, Football Association of Zambia Communications Manager Sydney Mungala confirmed in a joint statement issued with Zambia Police Spokesperson Rae Hamoonga. 

They were valued at K40, 050. 

Chibale is expected to appear in court soon for selling fake KoPa branded jerseys.

He becomes the second person to be arrested for selling fake replica jerseys after a Chinese was sentenced to nine months imprisonment with hard labour for selling fake replicas in February 2018.

Meanwhile, FAZ General Secretary Reuben Kamanga has cautioned all traders deceiving the public by selling fake products to watch out. 

“May I take this opportunity to warn all traders, who are deceiving the public by selling counterfeit products to desist from this vice as the law will soon visit them,” Kamanga said. 

“The Football Association of Zambia is the rightful holder of the replica jerseys branded KoPa which is legally registered.”

Kamanga encouraged people to buy authentic products being sold at FAZ and authorised dealerships.

By NATION REPORTER

IT is not possible in Zambia that over 200 heavily armed police officers can protect a social retreat, unless organs of government have a vested interest in the event, Kamfinsa Member of Parliament, Christopher Kang’ombe has said.

…after Speaker Nelly Mutti announced renegade PF Mafinga lawmaker as opposition Chief Whip

By NATION REPORTER

DAY three of continued rumpus reigning in Parliament yesterday saw Patriotic Front (MPs) yet again walk out of the House shunning the Vice President’s question time after Speaker of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti went for Opposition Chief Whip Stephen Kampyongo, threatening to eject him from the House.

By NATION REPORTER

EXPELLED Patriotic Front (PF) Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa yesterday took a sacrilegious ride in Parliament when he blasphemously claimed that it was by God’s grace that he had returned to the opposition front bench in the House after one year of having been relegated to the back.

…for gross misconduct and violation of the Constitution

By NATION REPORTER

FIFTY-SEVEN Patriotic Front (PF) Members of Parliament including some Independent lawmakers shall next Wednesday move a motion to impeach Speaker of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti for committing an array of constitutional breaches that include gross misconduct in the manner she has been presiding over proceedings of the House.

…the former ruling party yesterday went round three embassies demanding that they stop financing the decimation of Zambian democracy

By NATION REPORTER

THE Patriotic Front (PF) yesterday went on a wild-goose-chase and stormed the European Union (EU), the British High Commission and the United States Embassy in Zambia seeking for intervention in the State-sponsored confusion within the party which has so far seen expelled Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa stage a coup against his own leadership.

A Utah State University professor and her team has found a possible solution for treating age-related macular degeneration, one of the leading causes of vision loss for older adults.

Research led by the University of Minnesota Medical School identified a new pathway to combat cardiovascular disease. The study was recently published in Nature Cardiovascular Research.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have led a phase 1 trial of a new drug that delivers potent radiation therapy directly and specifically to cancer cells in patients with advanced prostate cancer. The clinical trial showed that the “radiopharmaceutical” was well tolerated and demonstrated promising antitumor activity, according to a new study published on Nov. 2 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.