By Wilfred Zulu

API/APN in Zambia – Ndola–Zambian police have arrested three Chinese nationals for allegedly theft of more than $1 million worth of copper in the mining town of Ndola, 360 kilometres north of the capital, Lusaka.

The incident comes barley a month after a Chinese couple was caught being for being in possession of suspected stolen copper.

Police also found copper cables belonging to a national telecommunication company hidden at a small mining company belonging to the three.

The recovered copper is suspected to have been stolen from Zambia’s largest copper company, Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) – majority owned by London-listed Vendatta Resources Plc , Canada’s First Quantum Mining (FQM), Kansanshi Mining, Plc, and Mopani Copper Mine (MCM) – a joint venture of Swiss firm Glencore International AG.

The anti-copper theft squad acted on the tip-off from the public. They raided the Chinese firm, Boaxing Mining company  in the company of security personnel from the mining firms that have lost copper in the past.

Copperbelt regional police chief Antoneil Mutentwa said the copper was buried in the disused smelter. He said the three would appear in court soon.

And Government has expressed sadness at the development saying the theft of copper amounted to economic sabotage.

“This is economic sabotage and Government is losing revenue in taxes because of such activities…This is not the type of investors this country is seeking,” said provincial permanent secretary Jennifer Musonda.

Copper is Zambia’s major foreign exchange earner and the mines are also a main employer.

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Benazir Bhutto (Left photo) who is the former Pakistani prime minister has been placed under house arrest by the Pakistani government.

Bhutto return recently from self-imposed exile after signing a deal with President Musharaf to drop corruption charges against her. Her return was seen as a deal that would strengthen democracy in the country, but now things seem to go against her after she called on the masses to demonstrate today against the government that had lifted her corruption charges.

Observers say Bhutto is loosing ground and her popularity in the party she has led for many years. She is however still popular because she is riding on the party that had her fathers blessings from the start.

It now remains to be seen if the government will decide to carry on with corruption charges against her after all. It is also a fact hanging around her neck that should she now leave the country in the near future like she did recently when she left for Dubai, she may not be allowed to enter the country.

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Nation Story by DAVID MUGONYI in LONDON
Publication Date: 2007/11/09 

Bishop Gilbert Deya is to be returned to Kenya to face trial for claims that he was involved in baby-trafficking, a London court has ruled.

The ruling was been given by Carol S.R. Tubs, a district judge in Westminster magistrate’s court, who heard arguments by the state and Mr Deya’s defence team last week.

But the final decision on whether Mr Deya should be flown back home to face trial now lies with the Secretary of State (Foreign Minister) to whose office the verdict has now been forwarded.

The court has been hearing the extradition request from the Kenya Government, which is seeking to try the controversial evangelical preacher.

During the hearing which began on Wednesday, the Kenya Government alleged that Mr Deya stole five children between May 1999 and December 2004 and tried to pass them off as his own.

He is accused also of conspiracy to murder a police officer in Kenya. 

However, his lawyer, Mr Ben Cooper, said his client is a victim of a political vendetta by the Kenya government because of his criticism of it.

On Thursday, the judge in his verdict said: “Having reached the conclusion that Mr Deya’s extradition will be compatible with the Convention Rights within the meaning of the Human Rights Act 1998, I must send this case to the Secretary of State for its decision whether Mr Deya is to be extradited in accordance with Section 87(3) of the Act.”

Immediately after the ruling, Mr Deya’s elder brother, Amos, said they would appeal saying the case could not end in a magistrate’s court. 

An angry Mr Deya stormed out of the court building 30 minutes after the ruling and declined to talk to journalists.

When asked to comment on the ruling, Mr Deya who was accompanied by family members and friends said: “Wacha ujinga wewe (stop being stupid) I don’t talk to journalists.

Nation: Can you comment about the ruling?
Deya: Who are you?
Nation: I am a reporter with the Nation.
Deya:I don’t talk to journalists!
Nation: Please comment.
Deya: Have you heard me? I do not talk to journalists!

After the ruling, Mr Deya held a meeting with his lawyers and barristers and family members and friends where a decision to appeal was reached.

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Related stories published earlier by API/APN:

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  • THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DIVISIONS THAT LED TO THE BREAK UP OF ODM, AND THE ROLE OF BISHOP DEYA
  • Raila Odinga’s association with the wanted Bishop Gilbert Deya
  • Bishop Deya’s influence on Raila is mounting
  • Bishop Gilbert Deya tells Apn by Phone that ODM-K has promised him to become Kenya’s High Commissioner to London

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Here below is a full report by KHRC on untraceable persons in Kenya. Click the link below and study the report.

reportkenya.pdf

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<By Leo Odera Omolo

API/APN in Kisii, 8/11/07

One more nasty incident occurred in central Kisii district yesterday when unruly youths ambushed and attacked an ODM convoy of motor vehicles with stones and other lethal missiles.

The stone-throwing incident took place in Kituitu Chache constituency. It involved the ODM Presidential running mate Wycliff Musalia Mudavadi.

The incident occurred near Nyakegogi market. Mudavadi convoy had snaked on Nyakoe Marani road and branched off at the junction of Marani Kegogi and Marain-Nyakoe-Rioma junction when it ran into ambush.

Mudavadi escaped unhurt amid hails of stones aimed at his convoy of sleek cars and other vehicles ferrying parliamentary aspirants, supporters and ODM security details.

Also in the convoy were several ODM leaders and local branches officials. They were on their last leg of two days intensive search for presidential, parliamentary and civic seats votes in the area. The group was attacked by rowdy youths suspected to be supporters and sympathizers of PNU President Mwai Kibaki’s party.

The assailants sprung into action just as Mudavadi was preparing to address the crowd of people who had surged forward to greet him.

But unknowingly to the attackers was the fact that there were dozens of private ODM security details in several Nissan vehicles as well as Mudavadi armed bodyguards who swang into action giving the attackers thorough beatings.

Scores of the attackers were beaten senselessly and knocked to the ground. Others took to their heels and run into nearby bushes and banana plantations with ODM youths in hot pursuit. The riot police also joined the mellow and saved Mudavadi and his colleagues.

Two of the attackers were grabbed by members of the public as they attempted to flee and beaten up mercilessly before the police saved them. They narrowly escaped lynching by the enraged members of the public while the police took them into custody.

One was beaten and left bleeding profusely.

This was the second incident involving the ODM luminaries in the Gusii region. The first such incident occurred two months ago in South Mugirango Constituency in Gucha district when the area former MP Omingo Magara in the company of William Ruto a member of the ODM Pentagon and a former Eldoret North MP came under arrow and spear attack

The two were accompanied by a parliamentary hopeful on ODM ticket in Nyaribari Chache constituency whose immediate former MP is the Roads and Works Minister Simeon Nyachae, Mr. Chris Bichage the three were hurt and hospitalized.

It happened when Nyachae was conducting a Harambee funds drive for the youths in South Mugirango at a place called Nyamarumbe.

A group of well-drilled youths armed with crude weapons like rungus, bows and arrows had earlier been paraded before Nyachae and other MPs from Gusii region. The youths belonged to the outlawed ‘’chinkororo’’ outfit.

There is a big battle between the ODM Presidential nominees Raila Odinga and the Ford People’s Party leader Simeon Nyachae. The two Nyanza’s political giants are battling for close to 400,000 registered votes in Gusii region.

Nyachae’s party had won all the seats in the 10 parliamentary electoral constituencies in Gusii region in 2002. But this time around that majority is likely to be cut by half given the fact that Raila Odinga has made major throad into Gusii region in the recent past. There are signs that ODM is the party of the day in Gusii land. Mudavadi later addresses the now calm crowd as if nothing nasty had happened.

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API has received reliable information on a plan that is encrypted leading to possible assassination of Raila Odinga, ODM presidential flag bearer.

This is very disturbing and cannot be ignored because the threat is real. The planners involve some of the present active Kenya politicians, connecting them to the Athur brothers who are still angered by Raila’s revelation of their secret deeds when they moved into Kenya, before being deported by the Security Minister John Michuki.

Assassination planners did not expect that one of their own would leak the plan to take Raila’s life before the general elections taking place on 27th December in Kenya.

What a shame that people should plan to take someone’s life simply because he is getting popular and may become the next president of Kenya.

Who killed Dr Robert Ouko?

When the coup attempt of 1982 took place, Ouko started fearing for his life and he told that to a few people in Kisumu. When he was in Oslo a few months before he met his death, he expressed fear of what was about to come and indeed he was right because it came to pass�in a way that those who know everything and those involved in the planning had arranged.

The people who were involved felt Ouko had outgrown his shoes and become popular, a thing unacceptable to power brokers at the time.

Why is Raila being targeted now?

Raila has become a threat in the same way Ouko was and this is not about to be allowed to happen. Those involved in the plan are very serious about it and they will not stop unless the government stops them.

President Kibaki has been left in the dark by those who have engineered that plan. They want to please the president and ensure that the power remains where it is at the moment, but not caring what the president thinks about their strategy to eliminate Raila. Unless something is done as soon as possible, our source says that the plan will be executed even if it means sabotaging campaign helicopter that fly him around.

Such an act will not be good for Kenya and the Kenyan people. This shows how desperate power-hungry people are, and how far they are willing to go.

More details will soon be revealed as we receive them, especially on those who are the main actors, the people�we intend to expose by naming them and the places they held the meetings to strategize their move on the elimination of the presidential candidate.

This is a sad day for Raila because the threat is real and those who love him must now protect him well in order to stop the marching killers from reaching him wherever he is..

End/ 2007

Copying the US school style shootings, a lonesome student in Finland has killed 8 persons in his school and took his own life.

Before his death in the hospital, the killer shot himself but did not die on the spot. Rushed to hospital for treatment, he later died.

Finland, in Scandinavia is known to be a very peaceful country, but now it is evident that school killings spread rapidly around the world.

Analysts are of the opinion that most of the killings are inspired by movies that encourage violence.

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