DRUG Pusher: WOMAN Nabbed In Pakistan, Wrong Identity

ANGELA Busanga Chikoti, the 33-year-old Zambian woman reported to have been arrested at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Pakistan in August for drug trafficking, is as free as a bird and going about her normal life in South Africa after all, her father has said.
The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) reported on Friday Ms Chikoti was arrested as she allegedly tried to smuggle 950 grammes of heroin with a street value of US$86,000 or about K500 million.
Mr Bennedict Chikoti says his daughter has never been arrested in Pakistan, and that she is decently married in South Africa.
A distraught Mr Chikoti said at the Daily Mail’s Ndola office yesterday he communicated with his daughter in South Africa on Saturday and that she told him she is not the one who was arrested in Pakistan as reported.
“I am the father of Angela Busanga Chikoti, the names that are reflecting in your yesterday’s Zambia Daily Mail lead story…. The true Angela Busanga Chikoti is not affected; she is married in South Africa to Mr Kaira. I talked to her yesterday (Saturday). She is safe and not the one involved in the matter,” he said.
Mr Chikoti said his daughter lost her passport last year in South Africa and reported the matter to the relevant authorities in that country.
“It is clear that the person caught could be the one who stole the passport from Angela,” he said.
He appealed to the DEC to investigate the matter to clear his family’s name from the disrepute the reports have caused.
Mr Chikoti, a former diplomat to China in former President Frederick Chiluba’s administration, said his daughter used to welcome Zambian women, who used to travel to South Africa in her home.
He said the family sold the Pamodzi house given in the story as his daughter’s residence in 1990 when she was 15 years old.
But when asked how the arrested woman knew Pamodzi township, Mr Chikoti said most of the Zambian women who visited his daughter in South Africa travelled from Ndola.
“As a family we pray that this young lady is not executed in that country, so that she can come and face the law in Zambia and clear the damage she caused to our family name,” he said.
Mr Chikoti appealed to DEC to apply diplomatic plea for the arrested woman not to be executed so that she can face the law and clear the Chikoti family’s name,” he said.
He said he will be seeking an audience with DEC today to find out who the actual person involved in trafficking is.
And DEC acting public relations officer Samuel Silomba refused to comment on the latest twist to Ms Chikoti’s story, saying the commission has to investigate the matter further, KANYANTA KATONGO reports.
“How does the commission believe that the father of Ms Chikoti is saying the truth? We have to investigate and get the truth,” Mr Silomba said.
He asked the reporter to send a press query so that he can respond with more information.
The arrest brings to eight the number of women apprehended in foreign countries for trafficking since January.
The DEC and women’s movement have expressed dismay at the continued arrest of Zambian women trying to smuggle narcotic drugs into the country despite the intensive sensitisation on the dangers of the vice.

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9 Responses to DRUG Pusher: WOMAN Nabbed In Pakistan, Wrong Identity

escz

November 7, 2011 at 9:10 am

OK. tables have turned around…kekkekeke! Its too much with these women.
dodo

November 7, 2011 at 9:14 am

Too bad mr chikoti, if its your daughter. Imagine the other son of yours is still in court for stealing money at ndola dhmt and now your daughter awee chabipa kwena!
Wanu Ngwee

November 7, 2011 at 9:21 am

WE SAID IT BANE, THIS COULD JUST BE ONE CASE OF A LOST OR STOLEN PASSPORT, BUT THE MAJORITY OF CASES ARE THOSE OF NON-ZAMBIANS OBTAINING ZAMBIAN PASSPORTS FROM OUR ISSUING AUTHORITIES, LET’S ADDRESS THIS MATTER!
Hidden Object

November 7, 2011 at 10:44 am

I think Mr. Chikoti is saying the truth because if the daughter’s passport got lost in South Africa, then the stealer is Zambian from Ndola, it means she just stole the passport. Anyway the authority should investigate more to have the truth.
Chax

November 7, 2011 at 12:45 pm

Some Zambian women n their ‘love’ for money…disgusting! It won’t be long before we are rated like Mexico, what a shame.
themba

November 7, 2011 at 3:30 pm

How does it become wrong identity if Ms Chikoti was nabbed with the stuff elo we have so much about our women in Pakistan, fyabufi ewo baikete
UMU D

November 7, 2011 at 5:14 pm

TO STOP VOKAMBAKAMBA I THINK DEC SHOULD BE SHOWING PICTURES ON TV WHENEVER THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF A DRUG PUSHER IS ARRESTED.LET THEM OBTAIN A PHOTO OF A SUSPECT NA MA COMPUTER EKOYABA U JUST WASTIN TIME UKUTALIKANA FYA BUPUBA ALA!!
AKRRAL

November 8, 2011 at 8:27 pm

No matter, you make more complex features to our zambian passport,it is bound to forgery.Because the source is not prevented or subjected to complex features unless we change NRC.LET US DEAL WITH NRC,and IMMIGRATION should seem to work not the sleepy immigration officer we have.

Zanama chairman and MMD chirman Kalongakanono of kanyama can claim to be zambian from Luapula and immigration could not act—–SHAME IMMMIGRATION
Kwame

November 16, 2011 at 3:13 pm

The passport has never been lost or stolen and the father never spoke to the daughter because she’s not in South africa please men!why lyn