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| Jack Koch |
AFFIDAVIT
I, J.S. KOCH, SHERIFF OF THE HIGH COURT (SUPREME COURT) AND LOWER COURTS (MAGISTRATES COURTS) FOR THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, REGISTERED PEACE OFFICER AND STATE APPRAISER, MAKE THE FOLLOWING AFFIDAVIT IN POINT FORM.
1. I recently hunted with Ray Millican, professional hunter in Lupande Msoro, Zambia
2. I made 2 trips to this area and sent South African clients to hunt there.
3. On my last trip we had to leave a hunt while in progress as Professional Hunter Ray Millican became very sick and had to be rushed to hospital.
4. The buffalo hunt was stopped while in progress and Mr R Millican was carried to camp where I and his camp staff gave him medical treatment.
5. Mr Millican’s condition deteriorated and I realized that he suffered from severe heat stroke, his sugar levels dropped, his blood pressure was high and his tongue swelled in his mouth.
6. Due to his condiiton, we left the camp at +1 03H30 and rushed back to Lusaka his condition was serious and he would die should he stay in camp.
7. At +1 09H30 we were stopped at a large roadblock in Nyimba
8. We were kept in a police office for 2 hours without proper charge explanation nor proper police identification procedures.
9. Mr Millican’s condition deteriorated.
10. We were then instructed to go back to Chief Msoro – no reason given.
11. We were taken back by armed escort.
12. I was informed that my buffalo was being skinned and I can collect it.
13. Three game guards (unfortunately I don’t know their names) informed me the animal would be slaughtered properly. When Mr Robby Meyer came to collect the buffalo, it had mysteriously disappeared.
14. At Katete, Mr Millican became unconscious and we rushed him to St Francis Hospital.
15. The doctors were horrified that he was being ‘arrested’ in his condition and ordered the ZAWA game guard and police to release him.
16. The game guard refused.
17. I explained to the game guard, a Mr Khomo as I can recall that I am a client in Zambia and a Sheriff in the RSA. That his conduct was illegal and that I will contact the South African Embassy and Zambia’s Supreme Court and make a huge case against him.
18. I also stated that he has no authority to refuse a sick man proper medical treatment.
19. I then drove Mr Millican to Lusaka Medical Clinic.
20. All Mr Millican’s other vehicles, trailer, camp equipment and personal belongings were taken by ZAWA and the police.
21. Mr Millican only received medical help 9 hours later.
22. ZAWA, Chief Msoro and the Zambian Police had no authority to:
a) Arrest Ray Millican
b) Arrest myself Mr J.S. Kock
c) Arrest Mr Robbie Meyer
d) Confiscate vehicles and equipment
e) Escort us back to Msoro
23. ZAWA, Chief Msoro and Zambian Police failed to follow proper legal procedures required in civil and criminal law.
a) Failed to issue Subpoena’s
b) Failed to issue summons
c) Failed to produce warrants of arrest
d) Failed to have legal court orders to attach property
e) Failed to supply reasons for procedures
24. ZAWA, Chief Msoro and Zambian Police committed the following crimes:
a) Wrongful arrest
b) Kidnapping
c) Theft of property
d) Extortion
e) Duress
f) Putting the life of a sick man in danger
25. I want to report this matter to SCI, the South African Legal Institute and the South African Embassy but Mr Millican begged me not to.
26. His reasons are that he does not want to discredit ZAWA as he has future business with them
27. This matter will be referred to higher authorities should I receive no feedback. I trust it would not be necessary
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Ian Manning NOTES:
The hunting client, Jack Kock, recently contacted me as ZAWA has not replied to his affidavit and covering letter of 8 November 2007, asking that I publicise this matter in the interests of the future of the Zambian hunting industry, a future which a few rogue government officials and a chief should not be allowed to sully. I also happen to know the PH concerned, Ray Millican, who has over the years brought a great deal of business to Zambia.
Chief Msoro has taken powers which he does not possess and should clearly be brought before the courts. I would be saddened by this as our Landsafe Investment Trust system - accepted by the House of Chiefs, fights for chiefs to be part of a truly decentralized system in which they and their community, together with Government, have ownership of the natural resources on their land - guided by community landuse plans and a trust management structure. Msoro, by all reports, rides roughshod over his CRB, and appears to think that a PH working in his area for the concessionaire is somehow legally responsible for the pledges agreed to by - in this case, Mitchell Safaris. And then to order ZAWA officials and the Police to arrest Millican while gravely ill, and to have them obey, is a grave injury to due process. The action of the ZAWA Nyimba sector Liaison officer (A. Nkhoma) - a man who works in my area and whom I have found to be untrustworthy and a treacherous individual seeking to destroy where he can five years of our work with the community, is not only to be deplored but should require an inquiry leading to his dismissal. Is this the treatment we are to expect for our foreign clients, placed under escort with his gravely ill PH and driven off like a common criminal?
The letter written by the Senior Warden of the South Luangwa Management Unit of ZAWA to the Regional Manager of ZAWA on 29 October 2007 (which should appear on the picture being clicked), a unit funded by NORAD for two decades, is according to Koch - as his affidavit affirms, a farrago of lies and evasions.
