Cart is empty POLICE in Lundazi have charged and arrested Lumezi District Commissioner Jimmy Phiri aged 50 of Magodi compound for Abuse of Authority of Office. This comes barely days after Luapula province Deputy Permanent Secretary was fired along with five District Commissioners for allegedly for being part of a transportation of minerals suspected to have been stolen. […]
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