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Fishermen Beat Up ZAWA Officers
Four officers from the fisheries department and Zambia Wildlife Authority -ZAWA are admitted to Kabwe General Hospital.
The officers were beaten up by a group of fishermen in Lukanga Swamps in Kapiri Mposhi as they tried to enforce the annual fish ban on Monday.
The officers’ efforts to arrest the fishermen however incensed the villagers who later ganged up and beat them up before grabbing two guns from them.
Five villagers have since been arrested in connection with the fracas and are remanded in police custody.
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on February 22, 2012. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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Bola
February 22, 2012 at 5:07 pm
These Chaps dint they hear when President Sata, allowed Poaching..Good lossen for u boys
FTJ
February 22, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Too bad. May justice take its course.
keyser soze
February 22, 2012 at 5:24 pm
u online administrators suprise me, how can print media be informing us before u do. and you still hav the balls to put up the aticle and call it breaking news. shit was in the the papers this morning dah! do u even take time to pick up papers in the morning
Bream
February 22, 2012 at 5:57 pm
What’s the charge? Hope no one passes sentence before they appear in court.
Fles fis! UMWINA LUAPULA!
February 22, 2012 at 6:04 pm
You cant play with a fishermans way of life.That is the way of survival and to feed their families.LIVELIHOOD.pasopo ba zawa!
Child of the Sky
February 22, 2012 at 6:04 pm
A hungry man, is an angry man. Approach in such cases matter. Enforce by persuasion or by force.
KU NGUMBO FWEBO EKWESU
February 22, 2012 at 6:23 pm
I risk my life everyday pa mumana to feed ten hungry mouths and you should come with your crazy bans.Come back again and more of you will land in hospital!
BK
February 22, 2012 at 7:35 pm
Gents think before you act,those officers were ok there were doing there lawfull and rightfull job coz when fish finishes where can they go when there just mere fishermen.
Mandingo One
February 22, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Kumu ponona pachukulya pena,bushe twakulalya Zawa ifwe?
songha
February 22, 2012 at 7:52 pm
the villagers were damn wrong. what these people forget is that the fish ban is for their own good. if the same fish was to extinct in their water sources who will suffer? definitely its them and not the ZAWA or fisheries officers. lets think people.
BLAISE COLLINS MBULO
February 22, 2012 at 8:19 pm
THOSE OF U SUPPORTING THE DAMN FISHERMEN,U PROVE ONE THING 2 ME,U R NT SCHOOLED AND I PITY U 4 NT UNDERSTANDING THINGS.IT SEEMS U JUST LIVE 4 YOURSELVES,U CNT EVEN THINK OF YOUR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN.POOR SOULS.
Kapotwe
February 22, 2012 at 8:22 pm
This is a good example of why we need free education. Too bad for the ZAWA officers but I urge you to relent.
Tonga Bull
February 22, 2012 at 8:51 pm
what is wrong with some zambians, do they not understand what fishing bans are for. those fishermen should be beaten heavily by police to pump some sense into them.
your uncle
February 22, 2012 at 8:57 pm
NINE TUBULU NOMBA KWENA ABASHILA BALILUFYANYA PAKUPUMA BAKAPENDA MABBULA.
why why
February 22, 2012 at 9:34 pm
Let the fishermen lot in jail so that this sends a message to would be offenders. Viva ZAWA niggaz.
Savage
February 22, 2012 at 10:22 pm
zambia doesn’t have a population like china to finish the fish from our big rivers so just pannel-bit those zawa charps.By the way,is the fish complaining? Or did it tell zawa that it wanted to mate?
John Bull
February 22, 2012 at 10:45 pm
Why should our country have fish ban while the countries we are sharing with the same rivers are busy fishig? Come on zambians we should reasonable, we busy exporting fish from the countries we are sharing with the rivers. Fish ban ubupuba
Tim
February 22, 2012 at 10:57 pm
Have you herd the new Handymans unique showroom on great east road will be open on the 1st march. I am told it’s to die for. Apparently nothing like it in Africa . I am dying to get in. Lots of specials on the opening so we must go clean them out
Nzengo
February 22, 2012 at 11:45 pm
The president acted foooolishly by releasing these thugs from prison.
Uncle Dizzy
February 23, 2012 at 12:11 am
Fishermen are idiots. The fish ban is for their own good. Ba kolokombwa! Sha! No man shall live on fish alone.
Umurebel
February 23, 2012 at 6:59 am
a gud lesson for ZAWA
SANSIKIZO
February 23, 2012 at 7:22 am
IF IT IS WRONG FOR ZAWA TO ENFORCE FISH BAN FOR PURPOSE OF LETTING THE SPECIES TO BREED AND ALSO ENCOURAGE POACHING, WE MAY AS WELL ALLOW DISSOLUTION OF THE ENTIRE ZAWA.IN OTHER COUNTRIES WILD LIFE IS HIGHLY PROTECTED TO AVOID POSSIBLE EXTINCTION OF SPECIES. BECAUSE OF UNCONTROLLABLE POACHING,”INAMA SHIMBI NGE MPOMBO SHALIPWA MUNCENDE ISHINGI MUNO CALO CESU” KULYA NO KULINGA!
gaga
February 23, 2012 at 9:34 am
I think along time ago, people killled wildlife or fished for home consumption purposes now wonder wildlife was nicely regulated. but today its about commercial, imagine killing an elephant for two ivories, but if it was for consumption, it could feed for a week. Same with fish, if it were for consumption by fishermen, i thnk it would be okay, but the problem is it is for selling and they will try to fish as much as they can, using ububa (poison) which kills together with eggs. they use mosquitoe nets which also captures along very tiny small fish that are not grown yet. so yes, i think i am fine with fish ban. ala mwebantu, tekulesha ukuloba, fwebantu twalishupa, isabi kuti lyapwafye bwino so, twayamba nokucita import from china. napela mayo.
Dynamic
February 23, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Fisherman mukali!
Enoch
February 23, 2012 at 2:31 pm
It is very vital to understand that laws and regulations are put in place for the benefit and betterment of the locals so that they (locals) too can pass on the benefits to the next generation.Now if these villagers are going to brutalise people that are their to enhance their wellbeing then they need to be met by the wrath of the law.When one performs an ilegality it is an ilegality and there can be no justification to for instance say one performed the alleged ilegality to redeem themselves from the shackles of poverty.
Ba Bossy
February 23, 2012 at 3:32 pm
This is an area of concern POVERTY! please reasearchers GRZ ministries of finance, Agriculture, Local government come up with alternative programs such as fish farming game ranching to empower these people.This will create employement and more money in the pockets smartely…
Peter Bungane
February 23, 2012 at 3:56 pm
What kind of fishermen were these to have disarmed ZAWA officers in that manner. I think the Ministry responsible for the Fisheries should intervene in the matter, this is not a laughing matter and the law should visit those thugs. I am appalled that such a thing has happened.
NKANDU
February 23, 2012 at 4:51 pm
pliz no fighting.fihermen r wrong here.
NGONI KING
February 23, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Sometimes jungle law is good for such pipo like the dull fishermen and those supporting them just kill them there and then without wasting tax payers money keeping them in prisons and driving them to courts.
kazanga wakazanga uko
February 23, 2012 at 6:59 pm
bbbrrrrrrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Trade China
March 9, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Effectively import products from China at very competitive price.
Find a qualified manufacturer in China.
Find right Chinese business partners.
Have their own office in China and run their business by ther own.
Be your representative in China for your business in China
safely mulala
March 25, 2012 at 11:20 am
Beating zawa officers is not acceptable.Fishermen should understand the aim of fish ban.