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Corrupt Chipata RATSA Officers Arrested
A FEMALE traffic officer Friday fumed and threatened to smash cameras of journalists who were covering the arrest of five Chipata traffic officers at the Anti Corruption Commission Chipata office.
The traffic officers, who were found with unreceipted K3,000 and K500 receipted at a police checkpoint by Eastern Province minister Malozo Sichone on Friday, were formally arrested by the ACC around 13:15 hours.
As ACC officers and senior Legal Aid counsel John Phiri were escorting the five officers, one of the accused was not pleased when she saw a group of journalists filming and taking pictures of them.
“Nanga aba! Tizaviphwanya vima camera; nivaupuwa (what about these? We are going to smash the cameras; that’s foolishness),” she exclaimed.
Later, all the accused traffic officers went back to the ACC office to avoid being photographed by journalists.
After realising that the officers were hesitant to walk to the police station because of the journalists that swarmed the place, ACC officers decided to take the officers in their Land Rover from the ACC office to Chipata Central Police Station, a distance of less than 200 metres.
And ACC public relations manager Timothy Moono confirmed the arrest of the five traffic officers in a statement yesterday.
Moono stated that the five officers, namely Felix Chalamba, 39, of plot number 4911 Kapata township, Cletus Lungu, 34, of plot D 64, Mthilansembe, Malumo Sitwala, 40, of house number G94 Fifth Street Kapata, Abigail Samatunga, 25, of Chipata police camp and Exildah Kabanda, 34, of flat number 6, former GRZ flat Kalongwezi, are charged with corrupt practices by public officer contrary to section 19(1) as read with section 41 of the ACC Act No. 3 of 2012.
Particulars of the offence are that the five on September 13, 2013, at Chipata, being public officers, namely police officers in the Zambia Police Service’ traffic section, jointly and whilst acting together corruptly solicited K180 cash gratification from Samuel Phiri and did in fact receive K60 as an inducement or reward for themselves in order to release a motor vehicle driven by the said Samuel Phiri, which they had impounded for overloading, a matter or transaction that concerned the Zambia Police, a public body.
In the second count, the five officers are charged with possession of property suspected of being proceeds of crime contrary to section 71(1) of the forfeiture of proceeds of crime Act No. 19 of 2010.
Particulars of the offence are that the five, on the September 13, 2013, jointly and whilst acting together, were found in possession of K3,000.00 cash, reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime.
By press time, the five officers were yet to be released on police bond awaiting court appearance and further directives from the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Posted by Editor
on September 21, 2013. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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zemuntu
September 21, 2013 at 6:36 pm
first to comment. dancing and singing. am a very luck man today. the devil is a liar. am first to comment. thank u jesus
Zodwa
September 21, 2013 at 7:18 pm
primitive ape
Mwata Kapale
September 21, 2013 at 6:48 pm
I hope the traffic officers in kitwe can be investigated..there is too much corrupt in kitwe especially among taffic officers..please please ACC kitwe get to work!!
Yello Jenalist
September 22, 2013 at 6:24 pm
And the ones in Kabwe mwebantu!
Paul
September 21, 2013 at 7:06 pm
The police traffic section in kitwe are so corrupt that they can solicit money from the president.
Oscar
September 21, 2013 at 7:29 pm
the least corrupt rtsa if not corrupt, a rtsa mazabuka. I appreciate for wat you did to me ,may God bless the entire rtsa mazabuka.
havasimbi
September 21, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Zambezi in northwestern is even worse. We beg the ACC to track these pompozi. They get money without receipts
BMK
September 21, 2013 at 7:33 pm
Hehehe dats a gud lesson to da officers, ba ratsa nd ba police learn to do yo job honestly to avoid such embarasment. (Emutengo nala kwata apa nomba apa wa ba RATSA) singing
Gaddafi
September 21, 2013 at 7:35 pm
“Ngawaipaya chula naiwe ukaya chula” singing **
Meaning (when u kill a FROG u will also suffer @ JUDGEMENT time ).
mmc
September 21, 2013 at 7:47 pm
slap them acordingly it is true they ar corupts elements.
neutral observer
September 21, 2013 at 8:14 pm
tumfweko report objectively. There is a big difference between RATSA and trafic section of ZP. So according to znbc, it was traffic police offices who were arrested and not ratsa officers
Day walker
September 21, 2013 at 8:19 pm
Let them learn from this IRS too much of them, you can’t move 100km minus meeting them
kino
September 22, 2013 at 1:04 am
Echilelenga bale ponena namufimbusu bafikala..
zungu
September 22, 2013 at 3:53 am
Z.R.A officials in Chingola too,they have belt mansions along kabundi road and new Chingola central area using tax returns money.the guys where slim but have big tummies and more than 2 girlfriends,
temwa
September 22, 2013 at 4:52 am
Can the president of Zambia act quickly to save the image of the traffic police? Remove all of them. Proffessionally train more RTSA officers. The traffic police must just be manning their offices and processing cases that must be committed to court. They r stinking rotten with corruption.
toties.
September 22, 2013 at 5:03 am
Dr. Solomon Jere, could you substantiate the recieving of moneys by traffic officers using admission of guilty forms. Are the General Government receipts. Can u tell the nation how such monies are banked? Stinking police traffic.
tru to the word
September 22, 2013 at 5:09 am
Let them be jailed. Twanaka nabo. I miss my Dad(Mwanawasa), MHSRIP. He hated corruption. He did away with roadblocks and check points just to save the image of the Zambia Police traffic.
Trywell
September 22, 2013 at 5:16 am
Zambia police traffic? Rotten. One chap in Lusaka, a bit stout and medium height,brown in complexion(as a result of jaribu), is so pompous that he mounts roadblocks in the industrial area single handedly. When he achieves his loot, he quickly disappears. I have found him twice.
sitondekwa
September 22, 2013 at 7:13 am
this is scenario happening everywhere in this country its not only in chipata sometimes when i look at it criticaly i do not blame these officers but the government at large because of poor conditions of services to police officers they are poorly paid civil servants and this is criminal situation they are found there is a need to adress this issue at a higher level because it is affecting every zambian we are seeing road accidents every day its quiet complicated bane but my appeal to the government is to see to it they do their best on such issue
Yello Jenalist
September 22, 2013 at 6:26 pm
The fact that you have poor conditions in your job doesnt entitle you to robbing innocent citizens.
peter
September 22, 2013 at 7:20 am
Friday the 13th for the officers indeed
iwe sure
September 22, 2013 at 8:28 am
1. My appeal to the Home affairs and transport ministers is to amend the ambiguous traffic fees
2. Can RTSA issue a statement or an advert to warn the public about how the original government receipt book looks like because the receipts these guys issue at check point is suspicious
3. 99% of the collected cash at most check point is pocketed by the traffic officers
Please help us the people of zambia. I believe someone senior in GRZ has seen this comment
Tribalist
September 22, 2013 at 8:43 am
The only problem is that those thieves will be let free and yet that is what they have been doing all the time they are on the road block. Can the government make this as the example by firing all of them. This is what is happening even here in Lusaka. They are known and the government just watch them and the are now doing that with impunity. Corruption is too high in the police especially Traffic police, and as long as you late them they will go on and on.
x
September 22, 2013 at 10:06 am
This is an extremely disappointing event though not surprising. However, the sad part is that the IG will not act on this rotten vice that has encroached the Police Service Traffic Dept for an unceasing time frame. Merely arresting those Officers won’t help the situation may be just shutting these Officers in their Officers may help. They can’t do or let alone survive without corruption. In some cases, each Traffic officer own up to 5 Spacios how can this be. It is also easy to investigate this matter, but someone has deliberately decided to turn a blind easy. Let RATSA run these check points only then shall we have sanity. They’re more honorable than ZP Traffic Officers, in fact they’re respected by Traffic offenders than ZP Traffic. IG fire those Officers and act firmly to rid our good Police Service of these undesirable elements.
bon
September 22, 2013 at 2:09 pm
The battle btn traffic police and RATSA is over the powers of arrest which RATSA is desperate to get, the traffic officers in chipata errored bt by now its known who the masterminder was, police is a big organisation existing In every country but the country can do without RATSA.If police were to swing into action alot of RATSA pipo can be arrested. Things should be gotten in a better way I see no reason why the two should work against each other, alot of Zambians are unable to see this bt thats what it is.
Bull
September 22, 2013 at 2:15 pm
You editor, it is RTSA (Road Transport and Safety Agency) and not RATSA( Rats Association)
Let me also say this
September 22, 2013 at 2:26 pm
ACC, do you have to be shown how to work by the Minister?
Thank you Hon. Malozo.
ACC officers are just too inept. That establishment needs to be recapitalised with fresh human capital that is devoid of the OLD civil service mentalinty existing there. Please bring in fresh blood by retiring the current crop of officers, from top to bottom. Who says corruption is difficult to fight in Zambia? It is them who make it difficult by their inpet behaviour.
Kalok
September 22, 2013 at 2:35 pm
This is what happens when you have too many archaic traffic laws in place. One of the first that MUST be scrapped is the ridiculous reflectors law. ALL modern cars have INBUILT reflectors BOTH IN THE FRONT ON THE HEADLIGHTS AS WELL AS AT THE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Using this archaic law makes policemen profit unfairly especially on unsuspecting drivers. For those of us brave enough to argue they shrink but not after a very, very hard fight!!
baby police
September 22, 2013 at 3:11 pm
to bad for them atleast they have bought cars,but the final judgement is yet to come for them
humphrey ngandwe
September 22, 2013 at 5:27 pm
surely officers gvment busy increasing ur salary and u busy stealing frm pipo
humphrey ngandwe
September 22, 2013 at 5:31 pm
policemen is ability to them pleas people in authority do samething
RTSA PUBLIC RELATIONS UNITY
September 22, 2013 at 5:46 pm
RETRACTION
The Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has learned with compunction that TUMFWEKO ZAMBIA NEWS and ENTERTAINMENT Posted a story on September 21, 2013 with the headline, Corrupt Chipata RATSA Officers Arrested.
The content of the story and headline are not factual and accurate.
We wish to advice TUMFWEKO to get their fact rights and retract there headline and apologize to the Agency and the Zambian people for misleading the public before we take legal action.
We wish to state that the officers in question are not RTSA officers.
As RTSA, we strive to serve the public with honesty and integrity.
Our policy is to have a corrupt free transport sector.
Take this as official notification.
ISSUED BY
THE PUBLICITY UNITY
ROAD TRANSPORT AND SAFETy AGENCY
RTSA
RTSA PUBLIC RELATIONS UNITY
September 22, 2013 at 5:46 pm
RETRACTION
The Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has learned with compunction that TUMFWEKO ZAMBIA NEWS and ENTERTAINMENT Posted a story on September 21, 2013 with the headline, Corrupt Chipata RATSA Officers Arrested.
The content of the story and headline are not factual and accurate.
We wish to advice TUMFWEKO to get their fact rights and retract there headline and apologize to the Agency and the Zambian people for misleading the public before we take legal action.
We wish to state that the officers in question are not RTSA officers.
As RTSA, we strive to serve the public with honesty and integrity.
Our policy is to have a corrupt free transport sector.
Take this as official notification.
ISSUED BY
THE PUBLICITY UNITY
ROAD TRANSPORT AND SAFETy AGENCY
RTSA
RTSA PUBLIC RELATIONS UNITY
September 22, 2013 at 5:48 pm
RETRACTION
The Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has learned with compunction that TUMFWEKO ZAMBIA NEWS and ENTERTAINMENT Posted a story on September 21, 2013 with the headline, Corrupt Chipata RATSA Officers Arrested.
The content of the story and headline are not factual and accurate.
We wish to advice TUMFWEKO to get their fact rights and retract the headline and apologize to the Agency and the Zambian people for misleading the public before we take legal action.
We wish to state that the officers in question are not RTSA officers.
As RTSA, we strive to serve the public with honesty and integrity.
Our policy is to have a corrupt free transport sector.
Take this as official notification.
ISSUED BY
THE PUBLICITY UNITY
ROAD TRANSPORT AND SAFETy AGENCY
RTSA
Susu
September 22, 2013 at 7:49 pm
Wat retraction imwe ba Rtsa. U o the same naba zp. U thnk we dnt knw wat u do? Kabwe Rtsa oso nids serious ova haul. Baiba pafula. This tym they’ve evn engaged agents who collect/solicit on they behalf. Tht cop whoz task is 2provide checks n balances has instead joined the bandwagon. I rily pity my country.
Analyst
September 22, 2013 at 9:59 pm
Zambian Govt and zambia police, learn from Nigeria. The soldier who was filmed on a phone camera and posted on U-Tube was instantly fired. Fellow zambians lets use these camera phones to teach them a lesson& save ourselves. The minister will never do this again.