Zambezi FM Radio DJ- Journalist Convicted of Bribery

THE Livingstone Magistrate’s Court has convicted and remanded Zambezi FM Radio Disk Jockey (DJ) and journalist Danny Anakene for offering a K4,000 bribe to Livingstone town clerk Vivian Chikoti as an inducement for her to allocate him a piece of land.
This is in case in which Anakene,39, of house number DNB 111, Dambwa North in Livingstone, was facing one count of corrupt practices with a public officer.
Anakene on a date unknown but between November 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012 in Livingstone, corruptly offered K 4,000 to Ms Chikoti, a public officer with Livingstone City Council (LCC) as town clerk as an inducement for her to allocate him a piece of land in Livingstone.
In his judgment delivered yesterday, Livingstone resident magistrate Chinkashi Chilingala said the prosecution had proved that Ms Chikoti is a public officer and there is no doubt that LCC is a public body.
“I’m reluctant to accept the excuse by the defence that the money was meant to pay for the plot that he had not applied for and none of his relatives had applied for one. It is not possible for a person who did not apply for a plot to attend interviews,” Mr Chilingala said.
He said Anakene in his evidence conceded that he never applied for the plot and could not under normal circumstances attend the interviews.
“I don’t believe the accused that the money was part payment for the interview fees and that the remaining amount would be deposited in Ms Chikoti’s personal account as appreciation,” Mr Chilingala said.
He said Anakene’s defence is a mere afterthought because there is no logic in him appreciating something that he never applied for.
“I am satisfied with the prosecution’s evidence. I, therefore, convict you of corrupt practices and convict you accordingly and mitigation and sentence will be on March 30 this year.
“In the meantime, you will be remanded in custody until that date,” Mr Chilingala said.

Posted by Editor on March 15, 2015. Filed under CRIME. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

12 Responses to Zambezi FM Radio DJ- Journalist Convicted of Bribery

sichone

March 15, 2015 at 7:26 am

Sad story.
Ziggy

March 15, 2015 at 9:46 am

Plots are very cheap my dear why paying so much anyway sorry
jobreaker

March 15, 2015 at 11:35 am

come on that story is last years
Czar

March 15, 2015 at 1:32 pm

A certain muppet will soon comment on this issue saying its PF to blame because “when us in UPND come to power, it will be heaven on earth. No one will get sick, die or commit any crime”.
major chileshe

March 15, 2015 at 1:36 pm

We in ndola are all behind thevleadership of edgar lungu and are happy wit tha way he is runnin the country
- HIM
  
  March 17, 2015 at 3:23 pm
  
  come on soja! this z not a good forum to express how yo apriciate thoz dat pay you more monies for not fighting any war
cliff

March 15, 2015 at 3:00 pm

Iwe chileshe we know u worship him so much,bt this is a wrong page,atase!!!!!!!!!
New Educated Zambia

March 15, 2015 at 3:11 pm

Danny was just following through what he has seen happening since september 2011. It is no lie that in order to get land, one has to fight with PF cadres and bribe their way through. This is what a leadership based on illiteracy and lack of vision leads to. Illiteracy leads to high corruption levels. We have incompetent people in charge of public offices. Let us vote for the UPND to ensure we clean this mess that these chaps have created
chichi.

March 17, 2015 at 10:32 am

I wish 2 commend the town clerk of livingstone for not accepting that bribe,also am begging judges 2 exercise leniency 2 this fellow.
HIM

March 17, 2015 at 3:28 pm

pliz honest and learned judge, we hav not heard of the sentence you hav given to the public officer town clerk so that they go and finish their deal in prison
new educated Zambia

March 15, 2015 at 11:49 pm

After pleas by the smart pipo of Zambia to change my blogging conduct I have now decided to contribute positively to our beautiful country.FYI I was just hired by UPND to smear campaign & deliberately discredit the PF government to ruin their public reputation. In fact prior to Jan 2015 polls Muvi TV was given K2.5 million rebased to promote political propaganda against the PF Party to manipulate & influence opinions in favour of UPND. Even the exaggeration of EL sickness by ZWD is a systematic attempt by UPND to shape perceptions of the pipo & hoodwink them so that they fall out of favor with PF in the coming 2016 polls….
Sikiza

March 16, 2015 at 9:52 am

Mwamwimamo chikala nez he is an employee of mv tv