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5 UNZA Students Arrested
FIVE University of Zambia (UNZA) students in Lusaka have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a riot in which four police officers were injured.
The officers were injured by the students who also damaged two police vehicles.
Lusaka Province commissioner of police Lemmy Kajoba said in an interview yesterday that the five students were arrested on Tuesday night for allegedly taking part in the riot.
“They started the riot after 18:30 hours and blocked roads where they also lit fire. When police officers moved in to contain the situation, they started fighting them,” Mr Kajoba said.
The students are said to have rioted over Minister of Youth and Sport Chishimba Kambwili’s statement that he would deal with them if they dared him over the takeover of the Commonwealth Youth Centre.
The arrested students are detained at Chelston Police Station and will appear in court soon.
Mr Kajoba said police are keeping vigil at UNZA although the situation had eased off yesterday.
Recently, UNZA students attempted to take over the Commonwealth Youth Centre building and the houses that were occupied by its employees.
The students locked the building and drove the Sports Council of Zambia bus around the campus.
The Commonwealth Youth Centre was built in the 1970s and according to the University of Zambia Students Union (UNZASU), a memorandum of understanding that was signed in 1975 provided that the structure would be handed over to the university when the Commonwealth closes its activities.
According to UNZASU, the centre was officially closed last year but is wondering why it is being used by the Sports Council of Zambia for fundraising ventures when students have no accommodation.
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on October 16, 2014. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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Judge Joe Bidden
October 16, 2014 at 8:58 am
Ninshi UNZA yalipwa nomba you now have only 5 students rioting. .. and 4 policemen injured. … te one on one fye ba police nabo nibakuwe fye bafikala
Trixy
October 16, 2014 at 9:17 am
If the MOU was indeed signed, then the students have a right to demand the handover of the building to them. Building new schools, universities and hospitals is of no use if we are failing to revamp the already existing ones. A health and educated nation is a developing nation….Ask America or South Africa why they have free education and free medical facilities (unless those who wish to take their kids to private schools and hospitals respectively).
pets
October 16, 2014 at 9:46 am
let the student go coz the police deserve they fate
Emelia mwale
October 16, 2014 at 10:04 am
Balepanga ifyabupuba ninshi bali pa bursary.y do u imitate others abafuma kuma rich family,be jailed lwenu
Green
October 16, 2014 at 10:17 am
Thats a Damn.Futures are lost.Forgive them for they knew what they were doing but u chose to give them a boma ni boma muscle
muntu
October 16, 2014 at 10:28 am
Let them graduate in kafinsa
Trixy
October 16, 2014 at 11:02 am
Just coz they are on bursaries doesn’t mean they cannot speak when things are wrong…UNZA students from time in memorial are the ones who make the Government accountable for their wrong doings…Others are too scared to talk lest they compromised the jobs they are in or the relationship with a certain Government official, etc.
IF NOT
October 16, 2014 at 12:18 pm
There better ways for UNZA students to air their grievances than rioting and forcing motorists to divert from their usual routes. fyabupuba fye bacita.
chiz~man
October 16, 2014 at 12:57 pm
Imwe bafikala give them that was an agreement,naiwe Kambwili chabashani kanshi amano yaa mbwili~mbwili fye!!!
Trixy
October 16, 2014 at 1:21 pm
For sure forcing motorists to divert from their usual routes or damaging property belonging to innocent people is wrong. The problem is that African leaders rarely respond positively to peaceful demonstrations.
UMWAUME
October 16, 2014 at 5:24 pm
That was not the issue worth rioting for. It just shows that we have wrong people at our universities due to leakages at grade 12. I thought they were suppose to be called intellectuals. Only less than 50 students could have been accomodated there.The issue should be to push government to build more hostels, increase number of students on bursaries etc…not those silly and idiotic issues of Kambwili abcd….Jail them without mess.
jane mulembwe
October 16, 2014 at 5:27 pm
ninshi kanshi fi monko imwe,ama yami fuluganya!
jane mulembwe
October 16, 2014 at 5:43 pm
fi monko imwe pala baba pa level,behave your bloody selves