Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

The following are news highlights in Zambia's major media outlets on Friday.

-- Former Zambian President Rupiah Banda said there was need for more development-oriented banks in Africa to meet the continent's vast development financing needs.

Banda said Africa was in an era in which its financial institutions have grown and modernized to fulfill their mandates.

Banda, who was speaking during the launch and rebranding of the Trade and Development Bank, formerly known as the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank in Ethiopia, said the bank should do more to close the financing gap in Africa. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- Zambia's transport and safety agency has impounded about 2,711 vehicles following the introduction of an operation compliance exercise recently.

The Road Transport and Safety Agency recently launched an operation compliance exercise aimed at enhancing compliance among motorists and was mainly targeting road tax, fitness certificates and insurance. (Daily Nation)

-- Zambian police have been given a greenlight to establish an air wing and officers will soon be trained to operate under the wing.

Kakoma Kanganja, the Zambia Police Inspector-General, said establishing an air wing was under the Zambia Police modernization program. (Times of Zambia)

-- An opposition party in Zambia intends to launch a #BringBackOurMoney campaign aimed at petitioning Zambian President Edgar Lungu to give all those who plundered the country's resources a one-month amnesty to return what was looted from Zambia. (The Mast) Endit