Macau Business
7 March 2020
Zambia dazed by wave of mysterious gas attacks
AFP
All the woman remembers before she passed out was an
overwhelmingly pungent odour that suddenly filled her living room while she was
watching television around midnight last month. She managed to jump off the
couch and peer through the window to see four men running away from her
family’s house in the Chawama township of Zambia’s capital Lusaka. Shortly
after that the 27-year-old collapsed, becoming yet another victim of a wave of
mysterious gang-related gas attacks that has sparked widespread panic in the
southern African country over the last three months. […]
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This is a representative selection of articles on the gassing scare.
Lusaka Times [Zambia]
28 January 2020
The suspect in connection with the gassing of
residents with unknown chemicals has been arrested
The neighborhood watch of Mutenda community in the
outskirts of Chingola District on the Copperbelt province have apprehended a
suspect in connection with the gassing of residents with unknown chemicals. […]
Lusaka Times [Zambia]
28 January 2020
Police gun down suspected criminal found with
Chemicals in Chingola
Police in Chingola have gunned down a suspected
criminal who was found with unknown chemicals believed to have been used in the
gassing of residents in the area. […]
Lusaka Times [Zambia]
11 February 2020
Zambia Police warns public after they attack a suspect
accused of gassing households
The Zambia Police has appealed to members of the public
to avoid at all cost taking the law into their own hands in the advent of the
prevailing alleged gassing of households in Lusaka. Police spokesperson Ester
Katongo […] dismissed information circulating that nine people have died in
Lusaka as a result of gassing and has urged members of the public to ignore
such information and treat it as false news. […]
Lusaka Times [Zambia]
12 February 2020
Kanyama Compound residents apprehend two suspects
allegedly behind gassing houses
Residents in Kanyama Compound in the early hours of
today apprehended two suspects alleged to be behind the gassing of houses and
descended on them beating one to death while the other one was rescued by
Police Officers on Patrol. It is alleged that the suspects were seen spraying
an unknown chemical through a partially closed window at some flat in the area
and when the occupants called for help, members of the public descended who
they caught after running away from the scene. […]
The Mast [Zambia]
12 February 2020
Gassing incidents sparking mob attacks worry police
The Mast [Zambia]
14 February 2020
Lusaka mobs kill more ‘gassing’ suspects
ANGRY mobs in Lusaka have continued attacking and
killing people suspected of being behind gassing incidents that have caused
panic and unrest in the capital city. Meanwhile, police yesterday arrested a
14-year-old boy of Luangwa compound in Lusaka who they say went to Northmead
Primary School and sprayed a chemical substance in a Grade 7 classroom. Police
announced that three people were attacked and killed in Kanyama and John Howard
areas in the early hours of yesterday, bringing the total number of fatalities
since Wednesday to six. […]
Lusaka Times [Zambia]
14 February 2020
There is no evidence of ritual killings in Zambia –
Deputy Inspector General Kapeso
Zambia Police Deputy Inspector General for Operations
Bonny Kapeso has said there are no ritual killings happening on the Copperbelt
and in Lusaka or anywhere else in the country. He said no report of ritual
killing where body parts have been removed for ritual purposes has been
reported to the police anywhere in the country since the gassing of houses were
first reported in Chingola. […] Mr Kapeso says disclosing the chemical
criminals are using to gas people is dependent on medical personnel concluding
investigations on the chemicals submitted to them so far. He said Police are
not medical professionals to disclose the chemical that people are using to gas
houses. […]
Lusaka Times [Zambia]
15 February 2020
Gassing reports decrease – Zambia Police
[…] Zambia Police spokeperson Esther Katongo said […] Police
recorded two evident cases which happened between 01 00 hours and 02 00 hours
in Chipata Compound in Lusaka in which two households were sprayed with a
chemical substance. She said in both circumstances, Criminals are reported to
have gotten to the rooftops of the houses, lifted iron sheets and sprayed the
chemical inside houses. […]
The Mast [Zambia]
16 February 2020
Mambo’s claim govt behind gassing incidents to create
anarchy reckless, says PF
PF Lusaka Province Secretary Kennedy Kamba says Bishop
John Mambo’s claims that the government is behind the spate of gassing citizens
have been experiencing in a bid to create anarchy and defer the 2021 general
elections is reckless. […]
The Mast [Zambia]
17 February 2020
Mobs attacks mental patient on gassing suspicions
A VIOLENT mob in Katende area of Chongwe yesterday
brutally beat up a mental patient they suspected was part of criminals who are
gassing people. […] From Wednesday, 12 people have been killed by mobs in
Lusaka on suspicion of being gassers. The gassing incidents which started in
Chingola on the Copperbelt spread to Ndola and North Western Province before
coming to Lusaka. […]
Lusaka Times [Zambia]
17 February 2020
Mobs lynching innocent people they suspect to be
“gassing” culprits
The Mast [Zambia]
18 February 2020
GBM’s silence on gassing makes him an accomplice –
Katuka
A CITIZEN’S arrest will be effected on Geoffrey Bwalya
Mwamba if police do not take him in for questioning on the recent spate of
gassing attacks in the country because he knows the perpetrators, says UPND
secretary general Steven Katuka. In a statement yesterday, Katuka said Zambians
have always had strong and compelling suspicions that the PF regime was aware
of the people behind the ‘ritual’ killings and gassing of citizens. On Sunday,
Mwamba said he had known about the gassing scheme for the past five years and
would report the offenders to the police. […]
The Mast [Zambia]
19 February 2020
HH gassing claims surprises Lungu
The Mast [Zambia]
19 February 2020
Enhance security in schools to prevent gassing,
Andyford
PEOPLE’S Alliance for Change (PAC) has urged school
authorities especially in Lusaka to beef up security in their respective
schools amidst the increased gassing of schools in the capital city. […]
The Mast [Zambia]
20 February 2020
PF needs to come clean on the gassing attacks –
Akafumba
GASSING escapades are a PF gimmick to divert Zambians’
attention from their plunder of national resources, says NDC vice-president
Josephs Akafumba. […] “What puzzles me is the source of the gas, the type of
gas used, and who the supplier is. Because poor Zambian youths cannot afford to
purchase such type of chemicals that are allegedly being used, because if they
are that cheap then we would have known the sources or suppliers of such
gasses.” […] The PF have crafted a narrative framing UPND leader Hakainde
Hichilema to be behind the gassing attacks. […] Hichilema on the other hand has
squarely blamed gassing attacks on government. […]
The Mast [Zambia]
21 February 2020
PF INVOLVED IN GASSING…the regime wants to create
anarchy – Kalala
JACK Kalala says there are strong signs the PF regime
is involved in the gassing of citizens to create anarchy and lay ground to
declare a state of emergency so as to arrest political opponents. […]
The Mast [Zambia]
22 February 2020
WE HAVE LEADS…very soon gassing culprits will be
arrested, says Wina
VICE-PRESIDENT Inonge Wina has told Parliament that
the government has “some leads” on people behind the ongoing gassing incidents.
[…]
The Mast [Zambia]
26 February 2020
Can deployment of soldiers stop gassing attacks?
The gassing attacks have really exposed the
incompetence of this Patriotic Front government. It’s laughable for the
government to fight these attacks with Zambia Army deploying its tanks on the
streets and in the compounds. Who are the tanks going to destroy? Equally, it
doesn’t make sense to be flying around Zambia Airforce jets in the fight
against gassing attacks. Who are these jets going to bomb? The militarisation
of our cities, towns and compounds is not going to stop the gassing attacks. It
is simply going to irritate the population. This is a matter that needs police
investigations and not the deployment of heavy military weapons and troops. […]
The Mast [Zambia]
28 February 2020
Security wings should quickly find the masterminds
behind gassing
By Tuesday Bwalya
I am lost to find words to describe what is happening
in our country; the gassing of our innocent Zambians especially school going
children is shocking and defiles logic. […] I have also been wondering, what
could be the reason behind gassing people even in the day. Schools are being
gassed in broad day light. I think the idea is to instill fear in our people.
The gassers are not killing and drawing blood as it was speculated when the
gassing started on the Copperbelt. I think it is just about inflicting and
instilling fear in our children in schools and colleges. […]
The Mast [Zambia]
6 March 2020
EXPECT MORE SOCIAL PROBLEMS…Zambians living under
economic apartheid -Kabimba
RAINBOW Party general secretary Wynter Kabimba says
the gassing ‘mystery’ must be analysed from the dimension of the current
economic meltdown in Zambia. […] He wondered what the aim of gassing was. “Is
it to kill the people? Is it just to incapacitate them so that they can steal
from their homes? What is the objective? […]
The Mast [Zambia]
7 March 2020
GASSERS WILL BE CRUSHED, BURIED – LUNGU
AFTER months of hush, except his Facebook and
off-the-cuff airport runway remarks on gassing, President Edgar Lungu used
Parliament yesterday to tell perpetrators of the vice that they will be
“crushed and buried.” […]
[The following articles from the Zambia Daily Mail require registration.]
Zambia Daily Mail
26 January 2020
Police arrest 7 in Chingola
POLICE in Chingola have arrested seven people in
connection with gassing incidences in the mining town. […]
Zambia Daily Mail
28 January 2020
Gassing suspect killed
A MAN suspected to be part of the group terrorising
residents of Chingola by spraying unknown poisonous substances has been gunned
down by the police. […]
Zambia Daily Mail
29 January 2020
6 Copperbelt families sprayed
SIX families in Lufwanyama have been sprayed with a
poisonous substance by suspected criminals as Kalulushi residents yesterday
pounced on three suspects and left one for dead. And a five-month-old baby
survived the gassing incident while a pregnant mother is admitted to Kitwe
Teaching Hospital after suffering a similar traumatic experience. […]
Zambia Daily Mail
10 February 2020
More Lusaka residents gassed
NINE members of one family in Lusaka’s George Township
yesterday became the latest victims of an apparently well-orchestrated scheme
of gassing people in homes at night. And 32 pupils at Lumanto Boarding School
and nine residents of Chikabuke village in Lufwanyama have been gassed, barely
a week after 38 pupils from the same school were gassed while they were asleep.
[…]
Zambia Daily Mail
11 February 2020
Police unwrap gassing chemical
POLICE have cracked one of the most challenging
puzzles in the last few years after establishing chemicals criminals have been
using to gas tens of people across the country. While keeping details of the
chemical close to his chest, Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kanganja said
yesterday that his men and women have full knowledge of the drowsing and
sometimes fatal spray. “Disclosing the contents of the chemicals may mean
giving information to other criminals.” […]
Zambia Daily Mail
12 February 2020
13 gas suspects nabbed
POLICE have arrested 13 people in connection with the
gassing of residents in Lusaka and Copperbelt provinces. […]
Zambia Daily Mail
13 February 2020
2 gassing suspects killed
ANGRY mobs yesterday killed two men, one by burning
and the other by a beating, in separate incidents but both linked to suspicions
of the victims being involved in the gassing of residents. […]
Zambia Daily Mail
14 February 2020
Kapata detects politics in gassing
THERE was uproar in the House yesterday when Mandevu
Member of Parliament Jean Kapata (PF) said gassing of people in various parts
of the country is politically-motivated. […]
Zambia Daily Mail
22 February 2020
Mastermind nabbed
POLICE have arrested one of the masterminds behind the
gassing of citizens which has caused consternation and led to many deaths in
the country. […]
Zambia Daily Mail
24 February 2020
Gassing double tragedy
THE bane of blind participation in mob justice has
become a double tragedy for a man who took part in killing a gassing suspect
who turned out to be his uncle. […]
Zambia Daily Mail
2 March 2020
Gassing saga: Stakeholders call for end
[…] Over 511 crimes related to the chemical spraying
of poisonous substances on households have been reported to police, with over
1,687 people falling prey. […]
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