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Ex-ZAF Officer Shoots Wife Dead
KELVIN CHONGO, Lusaka
A RETIRED Zambia Air force (ZAF) officer has allegedly shot his wife dead after a marital dispute.
Colonel Pandala Banda, who is also a lawyer, was in turn severely beaten by his son and some relatives leaving him bed-redden in hospital and under police guard.
The incident has left family and church members of the couple in shock as they revered the two as a model couple.
Lusaka Province commissioner of police Charity Katanga confirmed the incident yesterday while University Teaching Hospital (UTH) authorities said Col Banda is being treated for injuries sustained in the beating.
“We had a shooting in the early hours of yesterday between 01:00 hours and 02:00 hours in which a retired Colonel Pandala Banda of Chamba Valley shot and killed his wife Vivian Ilukena,” Ms Katanga said.
She said the body was taken to UTH mortuary around 02:00 hours after her daughter Chilivwe reported the incident to the police.
She also said Col Banda was beaten up by his son and family members.
Col Banda runs a law firm called Pandala Banda & Company in Lusaka’s Rhodes Park.
Chelston Police Station chief investigations officer Nelson Shayenga said Col Banda is under police guard at the UTH.
“This is a serious case that borders on murder and police will ensure that the law takes its course. It is shocking,” Mr Shayenga said.
And UTH assistant public relations officer Natalie Mashikole described Col Banda’s condition as stable.
Mrs Mashikolo said in a separate interview that Col Banda was admitted to UTH in the early hours of yesterday.
“He is admitted to UTH for head and soft tissue injuries. His condition is stable,” Mrs Mashikolo said.
He said Col Banda is being nursed by his relatives under police guard.
The funeral is at Col Banda’s residence in Chamba Valley phase two.
Meanwhile, a close associate of Col Banda, who withheld his name, said he is shocked with the news that his friend allegedly killed his wife with a gun.
“Anyone can testify that the Colonel always told us never to point a gun at any human being unless an enemy and only when the situation is threatening,” he said.
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gumu gumu
October 29, 2015 at 8:40 am
If u can tame a woman u can tame any animal on earth.killing is no solution.
SCAW
October 29, 2015 at 8:47 am
wat happening children of God!Natina
spear ngozi
October 29, 2015 at 8:57 am
Too bad,i came to know col paul pandala banda in 2006 when his firm was at impala house,but,am not very suprised because the man has a hot temper.
soswe takwata imilimo
October 29, 2015 at 9:01 am
True…i remember that temper when he taught business law pa NIPA in 2001
one tim
October 29, 2015 at 8:58 am
very sad situation god help us
Mosquito
October 29, 2015 at 9:01 am
Iwe ka NEZ gather your facts right. This man discovered that the first born was not his, after confronting the wife, quarrel ensued and he shot and killed her.It is a sad story though.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 29, 2015 at 9:03 am
I think tumfweko pf machine are now deleting my comments. Pressure ka.
Onyx power @vampiros
October 29, 2015 at 4:11 pm
This is not zwd~upnd where comments are deleted. Keep on answering to your own comments.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 29, 2015 at 7:56 pm
you must be an idiot. Cant you see that mosquito was replying to my earlier comment which has been deleted? you fool kiki
Trump team
October 29, 2015 at 9:01 am
A story like in nolly wood. Discovery and investigations sought of murder story.Crime of passion or murder so foul.Sad we all dream of killing our wives but we just hold it in.😢
weluzani
October 29, 2015 at 9:02 am
colonel gone bananas. asupuka nyabwa
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 29, 2015 at 9:02 am
Thingd are bad for employed soldiers under pf. What more those who are retired? The pf has failed to offer both financial support and mental support to those that have served their country. Add to this poverty this is end result. Rip
AT A DISTANCE
October 29, 2015 at 10:24 am
Damn..anyone would think u have a mental condition.kekekeke!
Deborah
October 29, 2015 at 9:03 am
Atase, I’ll withdraw the legal service I offer his firm. The guy comes out so academic kanshi chiwelewele. Just like UNZA/CBU student who stone vehicles and damage property when aggrieved. EDUCATED FOOLS. Even marketers @ Soweto have better scope as they resolve their problems maturely.
Trump team
October 29, 2015 at 12:05 pm
Going by your uncoordinated rants your hubby or whatever will soon do you with a bazooka😃
Harder Than The Rest
October 29, 2015 at 9:03 am
May he repent n seek God for forgiveness..!!
Pwetete mpi
October 29, 2015 at 9:05 am
The colonel is a disgrace to the entire defense forces.why shoot a wife.he was supposed to be launched into Isis fighting in order to exercise some range skills not in a bedroom.I sentence him to death by firing squad.
Mwine Mushi
October 29, 2015 at 9:09 am
Secrets are not good. When he married this woman, he was made to believe the pregnancy was his. It is painful to discover that a full grown child u ‘ve regard as yours is not actually yours. WOMEN SHOULD LEARN TO BE SINCERE.
Cholwe
October 29, 2015 at 9:14 am
What is happening in this country? Where are we going? God help us
Kingdom Values
October 29, 2015 at 9:21 am
Rumour has it that he discovered that the first born is not his child, and this is a grown up person he has regarded as his child all the years. Life is unfair for women, when a women discover their hubby’s secret children, they get depressed – recover – forgive. But when it is the other way round, they are killed.
Rooftop Zulu
October 29, 2015 at 9:43 am
The woman was unfaithful. That is a painful thing to bear.
LET THERE BE NO SECRETS IN MARRIAGES, OR ELSE WE WILL FINISH EACH OTHER IN DIVORCES AND MURDERS AND GOING INSANE AND STIs AND FINALLY MISSING HEAVEN.
kashimbi
October 29, 2015 at 10:13 am
I challenge you to prove to us that men are always faithful in marriage, why didnt he divorce her if he felt betrayed..?
Pchise
October 29, 2015 at 11:33 am
Its really sad, for him to have reacted in that way killing his wife, they should have soughted the matter in a good way, coz these things happen in marriages sorry
billionaire
October 29, 2015 at 9:31 am
sad, he was a good law lecturer at NIPA.
sela tubombeko
October 29, 2015 at 9:49 am
sad indeed, may th good Lord comfort th bereaved family in this tym of grief….but wat was th cause? we nid fact not rumour ya 1st born
Fact
October 29, 2015 at 11:05 am
Some women have a way of getting on your last nerve bamachilamo benangu. Women learn to tone down,be faithful and submissive to your husbands to avoid such.
Trump team
October 29, 2015 at 12:13 pm
UPND will ensure that retired sodiers do not kill there spouses to resolve marital disputes as we will put spies in your bedroom and make sure that you will be economically stable since such conflicts are more correlated with economic conditions as per research our cited researcher Professor. NEz Beng, MA, BA Eco, MSc in general and in particular☺
honest girl
October 29, 2015 at 12:37 pm
Kikikiki at Trump team you have cracked my ribs man tamumfwa
Kamangoche
October 29, 2015 at 1:31 pm
But who let the cat out of its bag after so many years?
James Bond 007
October 29, 2015 at 2:36 pm
Its so sad. The woman is to blame. She cheated on the husband. Its unfortunate that she has died.
pufi pupu katufi
October 29, 2015 at 3:21 pm
I pufi pupu Katufi is deeply humbled by this misnorma. The truth is that the whole family is now shaken especially that the killing was in range of the children. I had a very unfaithfull fiancee as well and I only knew of her unfaithfullness after marrying her. But as pupu I decided to find the way out of depression or anger I also had a fling of girlfriends. I slept with over 100 girls and now I feel my anger is gone for the sake of my kids I am staying with my wife, but I make sure that I either seelp in the guard house or in the sitting room. Its sad and I knlw how anger propagates when you discover otherwise about your partner. May her soul rest in peace and may colonel pandala soul be foriven by God cause he will never be th same again the death of his wife will haunt him forever.
Comment
October 29, 2015 at 4:55 pm
Ine I can just ask for my money back. Ukuchitamfya nokushala neka indenyenga amaule nama condom. Ukutembwa ifyupo nififine.
one tim
October 29, 2015 at 7:35 pm
but trump team you are crazy and have made my day kik ki ki
APONCHA WARRIOR
October 29, 2015 at 10:44 pm
even if there was an issue of infidelity on the part of the wife,holding her at gunpoint, and thereafter pulling the trigger,was not a solution bwana.you’ve created a double tragedy for your family;their mommy is late,there daddy…um maybe a life sentence!!!
APONCHA WARRIOR
October 29, 2015 at 10:48 pm
even if there was an issue of infidelity on the part of the wife,holding her at gunpoint, and thereafter pulling the trigger,was not a solution bwana.you’ve created a double tragedy for your family;their mommy is late,there daddy…um maybe a life sentence!!!!
rodrick mwa
October 29, 2015 at 10:48 pm
sad story indeed .
APONCHA WARRIOR
October 29, 2015 at 10:50 pm
even if there was an issue of infidelity on the part of the wife,holding her at gunpoint, and thereafter pulling the trigger,was not a solution bwana.you’ve created a double tragedy for your family;their mommy is late,there daddy…um maybe a life sentence!
OP
October 29, 2015 at 11:28 pm
before wisdom and knowledge, a man has been given five senses called common sense. men be serious u mean u can’t tell by looking or even by smelling that the child is not yours? I have never been disappointed in my life but I have been surprised so many times
pretty one
October 30, 2015 at 12:23 am
**fatherhood is an opinion,motherhood a fact!
Ghetto
October 30, 2015 at 2:05 am
Cage the idiot.