ZAMBIA CORRECTIONAL SERVICE COMMISSION CLARIFIES NON-INVOLVEMENT IN NIXON CHILANGWA’S FUNERAL ATTENDANCE

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ZAMBIA CORRECTIONAL SERVICE COMMISSION CLARIFIES NON-INVOLVEMENT IN NIXON CHILANGWA’S FUNERAL ATTENDANCE



The Zambia Correctional Service Commission has clarified that it had no involvement or prior knowledge of incarcerated former Kawambwa member of parliament Nixon Chilangwa’s attendance at his late wife’s funeral.


This follows images of Mr. Chilangwa at the funeral which have been widely shared on social media.

Addressing the media in Lusaka this Morning, Commission Chairperson Evaristo Kalonga says such matters fall outside the commission`s jurisdiction and are solely handled by the Ministry of Home Affairs and the correctional service command.



Mr. Kalonga explains that the commission’s core mandate is strictly human resource management within the correctional service, including officer promotions, retirements, confirmations as well as staff welfare, and not decisions related to inmate movements.



Meanwhile, Mr. Kalonga also highlighted efforts to improve inmate welfare and decongest facilities, citing the construction of new prison cells in Senanga and Kaoma through Constituency Development Fund-CDF- support.

PN

6 COMMENTS

  1. This was purely administrative discretion. There’s no legal provision for temporary release from jail for a convict to attend family engagements. 1980 coup plotters were never allowed time out from jail to grace family functions by the UNIP government.

  2. So what is Mr Kalonga trying to tell the public? There is no story here, it is not within the Commission’s business or duty and those who have the duty did their job correctly. Some things do not make sense at all and it would have been best for Kalonga to just keep his mouth shut.

  3. There is only one person that makes such decisions in a police state. That person decides who gets arrested, who has immunity from getting arrested, and which convict that he himself has jailed can attend a funeral. Only one person.

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