Immigration Clean-up Operation Nets 56 Foreigners Over Illegal S3X

An immigration clean-up operation has netted about 56 foreigners facilitating illegal s3x in casinos at approximate N500 charge.

The clean-up exercise illegal s3x was conducted on Friday, with revelations that perpetrators included 13 Chinese, seven Vietnamese, three Cambodians and one Venezuelan.

The Immigrations Public Relations Officer in Lusaka, Namati Nshinka, told The Zambian Observer that the swoop followed weeks of investigations adding that the perpetrators had been detained,

He said the investigations followed allegations of particular casinos believed to be facilitating prostitution activities.

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Men of the Zambian Immigration, he added, as a result raided Galaxy and Xing Long Casinos located at East Park and Zambezi Malls.

Immigration clean-up operation led to the arrest of suspected girls used in the illegal sex operation alongside their clients waiting to be entertained.

Citing Initial investigations, he said the casinos would lodge the girls in secluded rooms, where with the payment of up to K 11,000 (approx. N500), they would be entertained by the girls.

According to the reports, Nshinka added that thirty-two of the 56 apprehended had permits and were released on condition that they report to Immigration Headquarters on Monday for further immigration formalities.

On the other hand, the other 24 were detained after they failed to produce documentation proving their legal immigration status in Zambia.

Human tracking he said, could not be ruled out of the act, he said, adding that investigation was continuing in the matter.

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He discloses that the Immigration Department cannot rule out human trafficking and Investigations into these cases are ongoing.

There was a buzz in the media in 2020 when photographer Chellah Tukuta published a video on his Facebook page where he alleged that Information Minister Dora Siliya, is of low morals and a pimp.

The latter filed a defamation case against the former, adding a counter that though she may be single, divorced and has had failed relationships but that those did not mean she was a prostitute.