Five Chinese nabbed

THE Immigration Department has apprehended five Chinese for failing to comply with conditions of their employment permits.

Immigration Department public relations officer, Namati Nshinka, said the five were apprehended at United Quarries Limited in Lusaka.

Mr Nshinka said the operation was carried out after a tip that a female Chinese was working as a cashier, a position reserved for Zambians.

He said a Tu Renhua aged 53, whose employment permit was issued under United Quarries Company Limited as a Quarries Management Specialist, was found working as a cashier at the company.

Mr Nshinka said Ms Renhua was eventually apprehended after initially refusing to emerge from a locked cage-like room which seemed to have been intentionally modified to conceal occupants.

He said the other five Chinese were also apprehended during the operation after it was found that they too were in abrogation of conditions of their employment permits.

“Pu Hong 52, Ai Hui 50, Wu Chunsheng

53, and Tu Chunhua 50 were apprehended for working at United Quarries Limited when their employment permits were issued under Datong Construction Limited,” he said.

Similarly, he said, Yu Kang aged 60 was also apprehended for working at

United Quarries Limited while holding an employment permit issued under Codeco Zambia Limited in Luanshya.

Mr Nshinka said the number of persons apprehended for immigration-related offences within two days was 42.

Meanwhile, Mr Nshinka said the Kaoma Immigration Office on Wednesday secured the conviction of a 26-year-old male Tanzanian Jummane Tengi for unlawful presence in Zambia.

He said the suspect was apprehended on August 27, 2021 following a tip that he was a suspected illegal immigrant.

He was formally arrested on August 30 after it was established he was a nonZambian and had been staying in the county unlawfully between 2018 and August 27, 2021. Mr Nshinka said the suspect was fined K60, 000 or in default three months simple imprisonment.