We’ll not condone violence - Katanga
…Nigeria's Okonjo-Iweala makes history as head of WTO
WE will not entertain political violence before,during and after the general elections, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Charity Katanga has warned.
Ms Katanga also said police officers would soon be trained in various stages in readiness for the August 12 elections.
Ms Katanga assured that the service was ready to police the 2021 general elections in the same way they it had done in the past elections.
“We policed the 2011general elections, we also policed the 2015 general elections and in 2016. We will again police the 2021 general elections,
“I want to assure you that will work as a team to ensure that political violence is not entertained,” she said.
Ms Katanga was speaking yesterday when she paid a courtesy call on Central Province Minister, Sydney Mushanga, before touring Central Police Division to appreciate the operational challenges.
Ms Katanga said 2021 was an election year and more was expected of the police service in ensuring that the country held peaceful polls.
“Starting March through our cooperating partners, officers will be trained at various stages so that they are prepared for the general elections,” she said.
And Ms Katanga he said the Zambia Police Service would engage political parties and the media on the need for a free, fair and credible elections.
GENEVA - Three months after the Trump administration rejected her, former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received unanimous backing on Monday to become the first woman and first African director-general of the World Trade Organisation.
A self-declared “doer” with a track record of taking on seemingly intractable problems, Okonjo-Iweala will have her work cut out for her at the trade body, even with Donald Trump, who had threatened to pull the United States out of the organisation, no longer in the White House.
As director-general, a position that wields limited formal power, Okonjo-Iweala, 66, will need to broker international trade talks in the face of persistent U.S.-China conflict; respond to pressure to reform trade rules; and counter protectionism heightened by the Covid-19 pandemic.
In her acceptance speech at the WTO, she said that getting a trade deal at the next major ministerial meeting would be a “top priority” and also urged members to reject vaccine nationalism, according to a delegate attending the closeddoor meeting. In the same speech, she described the challenges facing the body as “numerous and tricky but not insurmountable.”
A 25-year veteran of the World Bank, where she oversaw an $81 billion portfolio, Okonjo-Iweala ran against seven other candidates by espousing a belief in trade’s ability to lift people out of poverty.