“WHEREBY, YOU ARE CURRENTLY THE NATIONAL CHAIRMAN FOR THE ZAMBIA NATIONAL FREEDOM FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION. BORN ON 12TH DECEMBER, 1938 YOU PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE AS FREEDOM DURING THE STRUGGLE FOR ZAMBIA’S LIBERATION, WHICH LEFT YOU MAIMED WITH A PERMANENT LEG DISLOCATION. YOU JOINED POLITICS AS A YOUTH IN 1955 JUST AFTER ATTAINING STANDARD SIX AND A YEAR LATER IN 1956, YOU JOINED THE PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION IN KASAMA. IN 1957 YOU BECAME BRANCH SECRETARY OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) AND CONTINUED WITH YOUTH MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES IN KASAMA. YOU WERE NEVER IN FAVOUR OF THE POLL TAX WHICH WAS A REQUIREMENT FOR ALL AFRICANS TO PAY AND CARRY PASSES ‘IFITUPA.’ AS A RESULT OF YOUR CONTINUED INVOLVEMENT IN THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE, YOU WERE ARRESTED AND IN DUE COURSE TRANSFERRED TO MUKOBEKO MAXIMUM PRISON IN KABWE WHERE YOU WERE FALSELY ACCUSED AND CHARGED WITH VARIOUS OFFENCES. WHILE CARRYING OUT YOUR DUTIES AT THE PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION, YOU RECEIVED TELEGRAMS FROM THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS OF NDOLA, KITWE AND MUFULIRA TO THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONER OF KASAMA TO VERIFY WHETHER THREE PEOPLE HAD PAID POLL TAX. IN PROCESS, THREE MEN WERE DETAINED AWAITING THEIR POLL TAX VERIFICATION THROUGH YOUR OFFICE. THE THREE MEN WERE EVENTUALLY RELEASED AFTER SOME INVESTIGATIONS.”
| Gender | Male |
| Province | — |
| District | — |
| Gazette No. | 1546 |
| Gazette Vol. | — |
| Gazette Date | 2022-10-21 00:00:00 |
| Posthumous | No |
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