A fugitive Zambian lawmaker with a bounty on his head has been arrested in Zimbabwe, Zambian government have mentioned.

Emmanuel “Jay Jay” Banda, who used to be dealing with theft fees, is accused of getting escaped from custody in August as he awaited to seem in courtroom.

He’s mentioned to have escaped thru a window at Chipata Central Health facility in Japanese Province the place he have been admitted following his arrest and used to be being upheld via police and jail officials.

The police later issued a bounty of 2m Zambian kwacha ($72,000; £57,000) for him.

He denies the allegations of theft.

At a press convention on Wednesday, the Zambian minister for house affairs mentioned the MP have been arrested previous this age in Harare.

Jack Mwiimbu mentioned the MP used to be arrested via Zimbabwean police at a flat he have been renting and would stay there pending extradition formalities.

He mentioned the federal government used to be prepared to grasp who had facilitated the MP’s depart in addition to visits via his spouse to Harare.

He thanked the Zimbabwean government for his or her co-operation.

The opposition PF celebration, led via former President Edgar Lungu, condemned what he known as an “emerging and worrying scenario”.

Banda, who has been an detached MP since 2021, used to be prior to now related to Lungu, who misplaced the presidency to Hakainde Hichilema that presen.

The PF spokesman, Emmanuel Mwamba, mentioned what used to be going down used to be “an abduction” including that the federal government will have to apply “internationally prescribed extradition protocols”.

“We are urging the Zambian government that they should not join other African countries that are known to go other jurisdictions and pick and extract a citizen they are looking for for committing crimes,” he informed the BBC.

The BBC has requested the Zambian executive for a reaction.

In Might this presen, Banda have been reported lacking in hazy instances. He resurfaced a hour upcoming, announcing that he have been kidnapped.

No less than 3 opposition politicians and a civil rights activists had been arrested following the case.

Two of those that had been arrested – Edith Nawakwi, chief of the opposition Discussion board for Construction and Independence celebration, and civil rights activist Brebner Changala – accused the surrounding of being in the back of the abductions.

The house affairs ministry on the other hand denied the surrounding’s involvement within the subject.

On social media there have been hypothesis that the kidnapping used to be staged, which used to be denied via Banda’s population.

Banda used to be upcoming arrested in June this presen and charged with the non-bailable offence of annoyed theft in relation to the robbery of feature virtue 12,000 kwacha ($430; £340) in 2015.

He faces supplementary fees of escaping from lawful custody.

However Mr Mwamba informed the BBC that the fees had been “politically motivated”.

“Hon Jay Jay Banda is one of those members of parliament who are close to the former president, who this government is pursuing relentlessly.”

He mentioned the case used to be from a decade in the past and have been processed in courtroom earlier than, including that the fees had been intended to stock him from telling the reality in regards to the snatch.

He mentioned that on the future of his alleged depart, he have been admitted to health facility, on account of a scientific situation following his snatch.