THE Choma Magistrate’s Court has jailed former Choma Municipal Council town clerk Enock Kandingwa for 18 months for abuse of authority of office.
Appearing before principal resident magistrate Exhnobert Zulu, Kandingwa, 51, of House No 266, Namboard in Mongu, was charged with two counts of abuse of authority of office and was convicted on both counts.
This is according to a statement issued in Lusaka yesterday by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) public relations manager Timothy Moono.
Particulars of the offence are that Kandingwa, on dates unknown between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008 in Choma, abused his authority of office by acquiring unsurveyed land for himself in Chandamali without following laid down procedures.
In the second count, Kandingwa, on dates unknown but between May 20, 2011 and December 1, 2011, did abuse the authority of office unilaterally and in disregard of the Local Government Service Commission regulations by arbitrarily employing a named person at Choma Municipal Council.
Magistrate Zulu convicted Kandingwa and sentenced him to nine months imprisonment with hard labour on each of the two counts with effect from March 11, 2016.
The sentences will run concurrently. In addition, Kandingwa has been ordered to forfeit to the State property he acquired corruptly and pay K40,000 costs to the State.
Meanwhile, Mr Zulu has sentenced Killian Chibbunu, former chief community development officer at Choma Municipal Council, to two years imprisonment with hard labour for abuse of office.
Chibbunu was convicted on six counts of abuse of office.
He has also been ordered to forfeit to the State the land he acquired corruptly and pay K14,000 to the State as costs. He has further been ordered to pay K6,600 to the State on four of the six counts he was convicted on.
And the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a radiographer at the University Teaching Hospital to nine months imprisonment with hard labour for corrupt practices.
Magistrate Prince Mwiinga found Wilbroad Mwape, 39, of Plot 898 Kawama, Kabwe, guilty of corrupt practices by public officer, contrary to the ACC Act Number 3 of 2012.
Details of the offence are that on dates unknown between August 1 and 13, 2013, Mwape solicited for and actually received K200 from Julius Phiri as an inducement or reward to facilitate his quick ultra-sound scan.
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Meanwhile rupiah banda who has caused suffering of millions of zambians due to his corrupt tendency is now a free man who is even trting to bounce back to power. Under pf laws only work against the poor
Iwe NEZ choma council was under the control of UPND so that town clerk did not have powers to allocate himself land without the full knowledge of UPND councillors, so the whole Choma council(UPND) was corrupt. You claim UPND is not corrupt my foot!
Bakolwe basekene ifipato Zoona. So iwe NEZ its wrong for Rupia Banda to steal but okay for the master of Fremason..HH to loot?
facts are facts under the governance of PF much more than we see with the eye is going on. This is not a country divided into districts like america each being run by a governor etc. North, West, East or South we are under the rule of pwa fwa abbreviated as PF. So do not at all point a finger at the incoming humble party. Its the poor economy that is causing untold misery for Zambians. Those days with k20,000 you could have a Toyota Sprinter dot com landed and completely cleared. Today you need close to Kk60,000. How do I finance the shortage to clear this of course through corruption. Why? because of the failed economy, run by who…………………….PWA FWA aka PF
So in your feeble mind you think HH will come and reverse this in a twnkle of an eye? You must be a very dull and feeble minded old man just start preparing for you funeral since you said you were in you 70’s what do you want a sprinter for? Old man! Leave this battle to young pipo you are just stressing yourself for nothing!
Thank you for the typical PF attitude one characterised by I do not care attitude. Any feasible government in power should have a road map where we are now and how to get where we want to be and considering time factor as a critical component of the road map. I cannot divuldge to much on our party as I do not have permission to make certain public statements but to summarise in UPND we have a road map we have a plan, we have objectives in short we are an incoming government with a vision unlike pwa fwa which is on experimental basis such as increase mealie meal, reduce it, give student allowances, withdraw them, open university and then close it again. Currently its like we are in a lab. Just wait and see young Chovix you will enjoy come September this year, a government with a road map is patiently giving room for the others to leave state house and we objectively manage the economic affairs of the country.
UPND. As usual they always win before any election because they think social media and movie opinion polls are voters. Wait and see. This year you will be dealt a final blow and you shall scatter like sheep without Kachema. What suprises me is tbat you never learn from past failures. Reasons: You keep to your tribe and never get fresh ideas. wait and see!!