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(LUSAKATIMES) Government to involve US Government in tracing authors of malicious Internet article

Government to involve US Government in tracing authors of malicious Internet article
TIME PUBLISHED - Monday, January 23, 2012, 3:05 pm

Government has hinted at involving the American Government to trace the authors of the malicious rumours that President Micheal Sata had been assassinated.

Home affairs minister Kennedy Sakeni has told Journalists in Lusaka this morning that the website on which the article alleging that President Sata had been assassinated in the early hours of yesterday had appeared is believed to be hosted in the USA.

Mr. Sakeni says investigations are underway and adding that the people behind such false reports are believed to be people that were defeated in the last elections.

But when told by QFM news that the Zambia police had not received any information on the matter, Mr. Sakeni expressed disappointment that the Zambia Police was waiting for State house to furnish them with information on such a sensitive matter which was already in the public domain.

And when earlier contacted, Zambia police spokesperson Elizabeth Kanjela told QFM that the police service had not received any official information from State house on the matter.

[QFM]

Labels: ASSASSINATION, KENNEDY SAKENI, MICHAEL SATA

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