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Home Affairs Minister Jack Mwiimbu says Pamela Chisumpa, a mobile money agent who was allegedly abducted is still alive.
Mr. Mwiimbu says a week ago, there were communication between Pamela and the relatives.
He says the police are failing to trace where exactly she is as the abductors are using different gadgets.
And Mr. Mwiimbu has noted with great concern isolated cases of attacks by criminals allegedly targeting persons operating in the mobile service subsector and stealing their property in various parts of the country.
Home Affairs Minister Jack Mwiimbu has disclosed that since the first case of suspected abduction was reported on April 16th 2022, Zambia police service has recorded a total of six (6) reports of suspected abduction.
Delivering a ministerial statement on the measures being taken to protect mobile money agents from abduction and other criminal activities, Mr. Mwiimbu says after investigations, four of the reports were identified as false alarms.
Mr. Mwiimbu says among the four suspects that were charged, one was charged for theft of the handset that was used to send the first video that went viral showing the victim on 18th April, 2022 and the other two were charged for theft in connection with one of the handsets belonging to Pamela Chisupa believed to have been in her possession at the time of her alleged abduction while the fourth suspect was charged for stealing the handset that was used to send the second video of the victim.
He says all the suspects are appearing in court.
And the minister says it is unfortunate that some unscrupulous members of the public have taken advantage of the reported incidences of attacks allegedly targeted at mobile money operators by faking their own abductions.
Mr. Mwiimbu says three women reported to have been robbed, raped while on a bus and later dumped in chibolya in Lusaka and their video went viral and after the investigations, the three women had fabricated their own abduction and that they have since been charged for the offence of giving false information to a public officer’ and are appearing before the subordinate court in Lusaka.