A female Zambia Wild Life Authority (ZAWA) police officer was brutally killed by poachers, while another male officer is battling for his life in Kabwe general hospital with deep wounds in the head.
Both Central Province Police Commanding Officer Simon Mpande and lower Zambezi area Ranger William Soko confirmed the incident to ZANIS today, adding that the sad development happened on Tuesday afternoon around 14:00 hours at Lualaba game check point in Mukubwe area.
Mr. Mpande said, after the suspected poachers killed the officer and wounded the other, they abandoned the vehicle with bundles of dried game meat and fled.
He said a fire arm belonging to ZAWA, also went missing.
And Mr. Soko, who described the incident as unfortunate, named the deceased female officer as Esnat Paundi 38, and the other who is admitted in Kabwe General Hospital as Stanley Ng’andwe.
Mr. Soko further said the killers were still on the run and that they were not known.He added that the relatives of the deceased had already been informed and that the body of the late Paundi was lying in Kabwe General Hospital mortuary.
Ng’andwe, who was not be able to speak much, told ZANIS that he was still in great pain.
A medical doctor at Kabwe general hospital George Chipulu described the condition of Ng’andwe as improving saying he was responding well to treatment.
Too sad to lose gallant woman.
The abandoned vehicle used in the illicit activity is enough clue to help track down the perpetrators of this heinous crime. It smacks of terrorism!!!
Aponyeni mundende pliz very fastele………………………………….
This is backward thinking really. Yes there’s unemployment etc, but trying to get rich by killing a poor woman officer is very unforgivable. This is why the death penalty in this country must continue. I hope the police will make sure that these i.diots are brought to book and hanged until pronounced dead. May the soul of the poor woman rest in peace.
#3 Carbage Kapuba
Why Chilala the serial killer (210 perished) was spired the death sentence??? travelled from Lusaka to Ndola in 10mins. If this kind of transport could be used by the public there could be no congestion at bus stops and railway stations.
Why was Chilala spared from the death sentence after murdering 210 people??
Publisize the number plate of the abandoned vehicle and we will give you clues
Were these Zawa officers properly trained?
#7. They could have been properly trained. But, another question is- in this year and age of technology, are they properly equipped? These are the things people are complaining about when a president aseyafye nge nda yapacinena wasting all the financial resources which would have gone into buying equipment for such hard-working men and women. Further more, the useless NCC did not deserve state-of-the-art equipment almost at the end of their useless convention for which the equipment was just used for 1 or 2 days. Those squandered billions could gone a long ways in arming such officer with state-of-the-art technology, in a similar way the police force should.
I wonder why people continue to buy game meat from unlicenced porchers. Please demand a permit or licence before buying game meat lest you eat and sponsor those criminals to murder your own sister. Where do these these same criminals hire weapons from and what is been done about weapons in circulation?
#8 but you are funny, hahahaha, you ve made my day. at aseya fye nge nda yapa chinena, hahahaha, hehehehe,hohohoho,huhuhu
May the Lord God watch over the family of this fallen patriot. A woman stood up got a job as Zawa officer and got murdered by sissy little wimps. As she was defending our heritage as God has commanded, we are the overseers of everything that creeps and craws that’s not human, ne penfu shonse. CID and the Zambian federal officers should act promptly on this matter and bring closure and arrests. Good morning!
to say the killers are not known, is lack of seriousness, those people left a vehicle, that is more than enough to give the investigators of that murder clues to find the killers