NGOCC Press Statement on State’s Compensation of Vespers Shimunzhila’s Family
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Friday 8th May 2020 By Engwase Banda Mwale THE Non-governmental Gender Organisations’ Coordinating Council (NGOCC) has noted the compensation by the State, of Kwacha five Hundred Thousand (K500,000.00) as settlement to the Shimunzhila family for causing the death of the University of Zambia (UNZA) student Ms Vespers Shimunzhila. According to an inquest conducted to establish the cause of death in 2018 for the then fourth year UNZA student, Vespers, the Coroner found that she died of asphyxia. The Coroner established that the asphyxia was as a result of the tear gas smoke fired by the Zambia Police into her room....