{"id":70165,"date":"2018-10-10T08:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T06:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=70165"},"modified":"2018-10-10T08:34:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T06:34:02","slug":"lake-of-stars-fire-victim-gets-k2-7-million-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/lake-of-stars-fire-victim-gets-k2-7-million-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake of Stars fire victim gets K2.7 million compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Audrey Kapalamula:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70168\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ansel-zabula.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70168\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ansel-zabula-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ansel-zabula-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ansel-zabula.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">COMPENSATION\u2014Makawa and Nico officials handing over the cheque to Zabula (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nico General Insurance Company on Friday presented a settlement Cheque of K2.7 million to Ansel Zabula, one of the victims of fire accident that occurred on September 29 2018 during Lake of Stars Arts and Cultural Festival held at Kabumba Hotel in Salima.<\/p>\n<p>Zabula\u2019s vehicle, Mazda Demio registration Number CA963, was among four vehicles that caught <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/food-for-thought-for-lake-of-stars-on-fire-accident\/\">fire and burnt<\/a> to ashes at the festival.<\/p>\n<p>Nico assistant General Manager, Zalimba Makawa, said the vehicle was insured under a comprehensive insurance cover, hence it was the company\u2019s responsibility to take care of their client\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Our aim is to put our customers in the same financial position that they were enjoying before that loss happened. The regulator, Reserve Bank of Malawi, gave a directive that claims should be paid 14 days after signing of claim vouchers. But here we challenged ourselves and curtailed the period to seven days,\u201d<\/em> Makawa said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking after receiving the cheque, Zabula expressed gratitude with the settlement that Nico has provided after the loss of his vehicle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI have been with Nico for all over two years and our relationship has been good. I am very happy because it\u2019s a huge loss but they have bailed me out. Others have completely lost out,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unconfirmed reports indicated that fire started after rear tyres of one vehicle were in friction with grass which led to the car catching fire and spreading to other vehicles .<\/p>\n<p>Lake of Stars Festival Spsokes person Zilanie Gondwe told <em>The Daily Times <\/em>recently that the festival does its best to consider contingencies and health and safety.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe encourage camping which sometimes has cooking camp fires. Food vendors and hotel engage in open fire cookin; therefore, we understand and aim to seriously mitigate the risk of fires at every festival,\u201d<\/em> Gondwe said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Audrey Kapalamula: Nico General Insurance Company on Friday presented a settlement Cheque of K2.7 million to Ansel Zabula, one of the victims of fire accident that occurred on September 29 2018 during Lake of Stars Arts and Cultural Festival held at Kabumba Hotel in Salima. Zabula\u2019s vehicle, Mazda Demio registration Number CA963, was among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70169,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70165\/revisions\/70169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}