The Drug
Enforcement Commission has arrested a 30-year-old maid for being in possession
of 700United States
Dollar counterfeit notes.
Particulars of
the offence are that Rose Nikisi, 30, of Ng’ombe Compound, Lusaka, on 12th
September 2012 did possess $700 United States Dollar counterfeit notes which
she presented to a named Bureau de Change with intention to change the said
notes into kwacha equivalence.
Ms nikisi has since been charged with possession of
counterfeit notes contrary to section 358 of the Penal Code, Cap 87 of the Laws
of Zambia.
Meanwhile, the
Commission in Luapula province conducted a special operation over the weekend
and arrested 19 people for trafficking in 32.5kg of loose cannabis and 15.3 kg
of cannabis seeds.
In a related
development, the Commission in Nakonde district has arrested and jointly
charged Emmanuel Sambo, 22, alias ‘Mike Samuel Simukonda’ of Ntindi village and
Jonathan Hilary, a Tanzanian national of Kinjala in Dar-es-salaam for
trafficking in 61 bundles of miraa weighing 25.8kg.
And in the last
two weeks the Commission has arrested a total of 167 people for trafficking in
various quantities of Narcotic and Psychotropic substances.
All suspects
will appear in court soon.
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