{"id":185116,"date":"2024-11-22T12:09:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-fugitive-zambian-mp-banda-arrested-in-harare\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:09:39","slug":"zimbabwe-fugitive-zambian-mp-banda-arrested-in-harare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-fugitive-zambian-mp-banda-arrested-in-harare\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Fugitive Zambian MP Banda Arrested in Harare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Police have arrested Fugitive Zambian Member of Parliament for Petauke Central Emmanuel Jay Banda who escaped from<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\">Chipata General Hospital in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Banda had allegedly been renting a flat in Harare before authorities picked up information about his whereabouts, leading to<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\">his arrest on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">He is currently detained at a police station in Harare awaiting relevant legal procedures and possible extradition to Zambia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Banda faces charges of aggravated robbery, attempted murder and escaping&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411220125.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested Fugitive Zambian Member of Parliament for Petauke Central Emmanuel Jay Banda who escaped from Chipata General Hospital in August. Banda had allegedly been renting a flat in Harare before authorities picked up information about his whereabouts, leading to his arrest on Tuesday. He is currently detained at a police station in Harare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00530650:003d70777998ce49befe790168673ade:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,4304,8127,18632,500,257,254,881,4396,4686],"class_list":["post-185116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-banda","tag-fugitive","tag-harare","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambian","tag-zimbabwe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00530650:003d70777998ce49befe790168673ade:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}