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DNA Equipment Commissioned By Government
THE Zambian government has commissioned Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) analysis machine under the theme “turn back crime”.
The Equipment was procured as a cost of K2.4 million and is in line with government’s vision and commitment to equip all government investigative wings.
Minister of Home Affairs Davies Mwila commissioned the DNA analysis machine on behalf of President Edgar Lungu.
He said the DNA analysis machine will play a critical role to deal with new crime trends in the 21st century.
Mr Lungu said “the interest of my government is to ensure that law enforcement officers requiring DNA evidence are served quickly in order to ensure that courts of law dispose off cases without delay”.
He said urged the inspector general of police to utilise the valuable resource to ensure timely analysis of samples and placement into a DNA data base of all cases analysed and results posted.
He also implored the high command and officer’s rank and file to look after the valuable and precious equipment properly by ensuring that it is regularly serviced.
Mr Lungu said only qualified officers should have access to the machine, abuse will not be tolerated.
He said he was aware that the police have a serious limited office space at police headquarters because administration and operational officers are accommodated there.
Mr Lungu said his government will therefore ensure the completion of the national forensic laboratory in Lusaka west in order to alleviate office space challenges.
He said his government has engaged Zamchin Construction Company limited to commence construction works of the national forensic laboratory situated in Lusaka West.
Mr Lungu said the project which will gobble the sum of K 115, 142,939.80 is expected to be completed in six months.
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mj banda
May 22, 2015 at 10:10 am
Nez can you dna be checked cos I feel you are related to Jonas Savimbi?
Isaac
May 22, 2015 at 10:28 am
One wonders if he is human at all. He is completely in own cocoon. In other ways, he is a parasite not only to himself, but also to his family and any other close associates.
New Educated Zambia©
May 22, 2015 at 6:35 pm
very foolish comments that do not help yourselves nor anyone else. Let us be serious and give comments that touch on the effect of issues on the common man at the bottom. silly pf cadres
Senior Baloteli
May 22, 2015 at 11:08 am
Women who lie about who is responsible for their pregnancies must be worried. Is it at UTH?
Red Umbrella
May 23, 2015 at 11:28 am
Human evolution pushes on, bringing intelligence, sensitivity and happiness and you sit there like a monkey in a cage, clutching your penis and dribbling your utterances like a retard. One the one hand I pity you, on the other hand I wish we could exterminate all people who hold opinions like yours.The sort of opinions that lead to women abuse.
flank dux
May 22, 2015 at 11:13 am
lwanya, girls be ready for this one now,lol
New Educated Zambia©
May 22, 2015 at 11:36 am
The issue is not just buying equipment and thinking you have solved a problem. Please tell me how many officers can even operate this machinery? There is a lack of capacity in the country to deal with such issues as for long we have not had such equipment or integreted it in our legal systems. It is therefore vital for the naive PF government to also make room for training and development in this side of things. Because just as we have seen in the past, this equipment will gather dust due to not being used and be another waste of money that we do not have. it seems the PF do not learn from their past stupidity. vote UPND
kakolwe
May 22, 2015 at 12:08 pm
For the second time ukufuma apo walushile virginity, walks ifyamano. When I got my 1st degree (Analytical Chemistry) I had an eye for the forensic dept kuli ba buju. Any avenue I sought to make an inroad failed. Now, we have this equipment & am sure govt may not afford me. But it is a good move so that I do not have sneak some pubic sample into RSA to prove the paternity of my next “outside catering” triplets.
poly
May 22, 2015 at 11:59 am
@NEZ, the said equipment was purchased in a package which included training.It is not like the way you bought your Nokia 1100 phone without a charger. This is Hi-Tech equipment and I would advise you to go and get finger-printed so that your finger-prints are not mistaken for Roy Mudenda’s.
pink toe
May 22, 2015 at 12:04 pm
Some people are thick headed. Just because the machine meant for checking motor vehicles is packed, they conclude that even this one shall be. This should not mean that all meaningful developmental ideas be shelved because of the RATSA machine. We have heart surgery going on on daily basis at UTH. The purchase of the DNA machine is another score. Please let this machine start being used so we can silence these baseless critics. Whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. The critics can be graded according to quality of subject and analysis.
kape
May 22, 2015 at 1:39 pm
ala kubabepa ubufi ati this pregnat is for this man and yet is for some one else be careful
New Educated Zambia©
May 22, 2015 at 4:24 pm
kikiki wansekesha
Hello Haters
May 22, 2015 at 4:19 pm
Bane mwikoselafye tugelo tubepesha ba guy @ ni mwana wako, ala naba kaboke, basakalanyongo basanswa, especially ifi ma rapist, wapya muzi just hope ba buju have engaged highly skilled personel, not ifyakwamba uku shitisha ama sample ya katundu iyo bane, pamulandu wakufwaya ukushita altezza.
New Educated Zambia©
May 22, 2015 at 4:25 pm
Maybe we can dna test some of these presidential candidates who claim to be zambian
mufetu
May 22, 2015 at 7:14 pm
Does it mean every potential criminal should start submitting there samples in order to build a DNA data base? Because to catch a criminal you need to match with the data base after collecting evidence. I advise you excited chaps to never take your kids for DNA test otherwise you will suffer from shock. Let sleeping dogs lie!
Red Umbrella
May 23, 2015 at 9:22 am
The trend of primitive Zambian men stripping women naked in public is not right and it should be stopped!!
Mobs of classless stinking men surround a beautiful woman and rip away her clothes until she is naked.
Primitive Zambian man be civilized its none of their business what someone is wearing.
Shame on these lowlifes, when did anyone’s dressing became another person’s business?
These savages are potential rapists who should rot in jail
The last time i checked God created us naked and in African culture women wore bark-skin “G-String” IMIBINDE & topless… Chitenge’S AND SALAULA WERE BROUGHT TO YOU BY FOREGINERS
Shame on you Zambian idiots!!
MERCY
May 23, 2015 at 2:56 pm
Yaba DNA,Will help to know who my father is
Let me say this...
May 24, 2015 at 1:13 am
This equipment is very welcome and government should be commended. We have been too dependent on RSA for DNA tests. In a country where remand prisons are more deadly than the maximum prison in Kabwe anything that will hasten court proceedings is more than welcome. Please look after that equipment and do not make it inaccessible to its owners; Zambian taxpayer.
Let me say this...
May 24, 2015 at 1:24 am
Criminals hide among genuine kaponyas (street traders) to commit heinous crimes. Beautifully dressed ladies are attacked because these social failures are jealous of them and the real men who are able to approach these ladies. The same thing is happening in politics where thugs hide behind politics to brutally attacks political opponents. What standards are they applying? This is not a Muslim country where individual freedoms are taken away with impunity. We are a Christian nation where the central guiding principles revolve around the teaching of christ: love and forgiveness.