Tue, 27 Dec 2016 11:29:39 +0000 By Violet Tembo THE Presidential Empowerment Initiative Fund (PEIF) has donated four cows to convicted inmates at Kamfinsa correctional facility. And Kitwe district commissioner Chanda Kabwe has implored Zambians to supplement Government’s efforts in caring for inmates countrywide, charging that everyone was a potential law break and bound to be convicted. Presidential Affairs Minister Freedom Sikazwe has asked convicted inmates pardoned by President Lungu to appreciate the gesture by being law abiding citizens. Speaking when he presented the cows to convicted inmates with various household assortments contributed by the stakeholders, Mr. Sikazwe described President Lungu’s gesture as testimony that convicted inmates were not outcasts. Mr. Sikazwe stated that congestion in correctional facilities in the country was one of the greatest concerns that was seriously worrying President Lungu. He indicated that one way of trying to decongest correctional facilities was through release of convicted inmates on special Presidential amnesty. […]
