FORMER Zambia Railways Limited (ZRL) chief executive officer Clive Chirwa has been found with a case to answer in the case of abuse of authority and failure to disclose interest.
Lusaka principal resident magistrate Obister Musukwa placed Chirwa and his co-accused, former ZRL director of finance Regina Mwale, on their defence to answer charges of abuse of authority leveled against them.
Mr Musukwa said in his ruling yesterday that the State had established a prima facie case against Chirwa and Mwale to warrant the court to place them on their defence.
Mr Musukwa said that after analysing the evidence from the prosecution witnesses and the submission filed in court, he was satisfied that the prosecution had proved its case against Chirwa and Mwale beyond any reasonable doubt.
This is in a matter in which Chirwa, 58, of plot 206/101, Ibex Hill, an academician, is in the first count charged with failure to disclose interest contrary to the laws of Zambia.
He is in the second and third counts jointly charged with Mwale, 50, an accountant of High Ridge in Kabwe with abuse of authority of office, after the duo allegedly authorised payment of K72,282,210 to Fallsway Apartments for Chirwa’s accommodation, an amount which was beyond his entitlement.
After the ruling, Chirwa and Mwale through their defence lawyer Mulilo Kabesha informed the court that they would give sworn evidence.
Mr Kabesha said while Chirwa would not call any witness and depended on his sole evidence, Mwale would call two other witnesses in addition to her evidence.
Mr Musukwa set August 6, 2014 as the date Chirwa and Mwale would open their defence.
State witnesses, including former ZRL board chairperson person Mark Chona, testified how Chirwa allegedly failed to declare interest to the board that Clavel Incorporation was his company.
The witnesses also disclosed to the court how Chirwa and Mwale authorised the payments of his accommodation to Falls Ways above his entitlement as CEO for ZRL.
This is what you get for being a key part of a conspiracy to trick the poor into voting Zambia into a failed experiment.
Same applies to Mpombo and Mulogoti.
Your faces like a missing tree snake. Mxxm.
Thanks.
My dear we warned you Sata is not a thing to trust, he just wanted to destroy your political ambitions, Thank God HH had a discernment and came out of that evil pact by sata(n). TB Joshua please where are u? Say a Ka prophecy
PF lead by Mutembo think God is crippled. They have gone about ending people’s lives. They are trying on GBM, HH, but you know what… Lesa ni Malyola. Look at your Sata, God has tested him, atleast he has been given chance to repent and people learn from him.
Clive Chirwa, be strong and have faith in God.
The Zambian justice system is reclaiming its respect.
Its good that Clive will have an opportunity in court to clear his name
Persecuting Prof Chirwa over rent money is truly an indication of how intellectually inferior Zambians are. This man came to help establish a modern railway network in Zambia which the country badly needs.If you haven’t noticed our roads have become one of the most dangerous in the region.Our roads are filled with huge foreign trucks which are responsible for a lot of deaths of Zambians on the roads.Revamping our railway infrastructure was what Zambia needed and would have really boosted PF.s image. Instead of transporting machinery,copper etc on roads this is supposed to be transported by rail.The trucks damage our roads.Productive time is wasted on our roads as we queue for miles on end behind trucks.A high speed train to tranport people would cut down on time wastage
The amounts you are persecuting Chirwa over are insignificant compared to the amounts President Sata has been spending flying in air ambulances abroad.I bet Kazimu’s medical bill in Milpark in 10 times the amount you are troubling Prof Chriwa over. The Zambian system is useless ,worthless and corrupt….
@ ex-moma
You call this persecution….. you ignorant moma
You go and steal the dollar equivalent of the monies Clive has been taken to court for and will be glad to hear you shout “persecution” when taken to a US court
For your information, prosecution is not based on the amounts involved but whether one broke the law or not. amounts come in much later
@Gen out of every thing I have said all you pick out and zero in on is the word ‘persecution’…Lets see how smart you are-tackle the issues I raised about our roads,accidents,foreign trucks and the modern railway infrastructure Prof Chirwa was going to spearhead.
@ ex-moma
If Clive had an interest to help contribute and revamp the transport system in particular, he could not have put his personal interests first.
He may be well educated and experienced but he proved that his interest lies elsewhere as evidenced by his conduct which led to a quick exit from the job he was given and consequently, the prosecution he is currently facing.
I agree that we need to move the heavy loads off our roads to reduce on accidents and improve efficiency and extend the life span of our roads as well.
As for the accidents on our roads, there are a myriad of factors. that include but not limited to driver training, poor signs and warnings, lane divisions, speeding, drink driving, defective vehicles, defective and unsuitable tyres from china
Are you saying the president has a case to answer? Yaba!
Same cooked cases and cooked formula they’ve been trying for ages to pin down RB with but failing.Don’t trust this PF govt of crooks.
Where are the HH hired assassins aka Mushota, Saulosi?
These are part of the Bemba cartel to keep looting spree continuing and are dead scared that HH will lock them up!
Did you seriously think anything would happen to RB if Chiluba more or less got away with it? Hounding KK, RB etc. is just politics . Also, RB is Sata’s friend. So don’t be fooled.
Well, at least the Court has given the duo an opportunity to tell their side of the story. Let us hear it, and then we can make a critical analysis of who benefitted what and from where.
We, the majority, know what to do come election time in 2016. Vote for ou twishibe!!!
This makes sad reading. Be strong Chirwa, i know you are innocent.
I also know that he is GUILTY for not declaring interest. Guilty as charged. Chirwa is going into “chilonganino” the mambala.
I hope not. There are just making a mountain out of an anthill.
*They are just making a mountain out of an anthill.*
……Thank goodness Mushota is listening to my advice. Way to go girl. Now let’s us get back to business and welcome Mushota to contribute after some other people have steered the discussion in the right direction.
What a shame! Sounds like the guy is a fraud.
Engineers are trained to invent. So if one has a Ph.D in engineering and still wants to earn a living on tax payers, then there is something wrong with them.
This is the case of Clive Chirwa, because if Chirwa was genuinely smart (international level) he would be enjoying in the private sector somewhere were they appreciate engineers, such as the U.S. He came to Zambia with weird ideas on how to resuscitate the Zambia Railways. The rest is history.
Some of us who knew it called him a fraud the moment he started presenting his fancy ideas as a way to loot tax payers money
Can you people wake up 4a minute! Someone is trying to bring plunderes of your tax to justice,instead of you complementing their efforts,you are completly burried and engulfed in bitterness and envy of other people’s succes and victory,and now you are bringing paralel points to the subject @ hand.
Remember CLIVE plundered the said monies during a period when ZR was redundant and he was “hired” to come and revamp it.so the monies in qeustion came direct from Govt coffers.
I’m with you and totally agree. Chirwa is a mambala, no two ways around that. He did not declare interest.
Let the rule of law take its course.
You guys are shocking.Haven’t you attended enough funerals of your relatives and friends killed on roads? Prof Chirwa’s plan was to bring in a modern train system which was going to benefit everyone,not just Zambians but our neighbours as well and all you can talk about is his rent money? Even if it was paid back in full today how will that help you? But if you had a high speed train between Ndola and Livingstone that would benefit all of us greatly.Think of it,you could attend a meeting in Livingstone in the morning at 9hrs -10hrs and be in time for a lunch meeting in Lusaka at 12hrs -14hrs and still be able to have dinner with your family in Ndola at 19hrs… doesn’t that sound attractive to you than talking of plundered tax payers monies that you don’t see. anyway?
@ ex-moma, if you really believe Chirwa was “going to bring” a modern high-speed train system to Zambia, please get in touch. I’d like to sell you a bridge in New York, tower in Paris, or maybe some real estate in New Kasama. Or perhaps you would prefer a diamond mine in Botswana? I have a lot of things to sell you and all are going at rock bottom prices – just let me know!
…..then maybe we can also discuss how Chirwa’s “promises” excuse him (…or any public figure for that matter) from following the rules?
@ Spuds guess you’ve never heard of the Brooklyn bridge in New York completed in 1883.Guess you’ve never heard of the Eiffel tower in Paris.Who pray tell do you think built these magnificent structures? It was engineers with a dream not cadres.I would trust an engineer with a dream and not a cadre with a 90 day promise of heaven on earth. Prof Chirwa would have pulled it off.Not alone but as the leader of a team of Zambia’s best Engineers. Who do you think built the Gautrain you enjoy in joberg? You think it was Zuma or Malema.No my brother it was engineers. nothing is birthed without first dreaming about it.Even your hero Sata knows that.
Good.
This crook Clive Chirwa is getting caught. May be jail will tame his psychotic ego.
He has such a big ego that he dared dream big for Zambia…and all Zambians can do is insult him as they continue driving on potholed roads built by the chinese. no wonder our country is where it is today.You deserve the infrastructure you currently have.
*****s. We still need our k14 Billion as well. It came from our taxes.
Disclosure is important. Performance is even more important. The most important is for the Board Room to remain clean of any chicanery.
If poor ZAMBIANS have been swindled of 14bn as per alleged,should this,therefore,act as license to everyone with swindling capabilities to do it with impunity? God forbid! What belongs to us must be given back to us-that is what the LAW OF RESTITUTION states.so let’s get back what Ba Chirwa stole from us and thereafter,persue OUR 14bn.
Those are self inflicted problems. He thought he was a champion in politics. the Divide and Rule concept has worked well on him. Poor Clive could not read the future. This is a lesson to politicians with monkey tricks
“Mr Kabesha said Chirwa would not call any witness and depended on his sole evidence.”
I wonder if he plans to put that on his CV next?
There are a lot of people that needs dragging to the courts of law and convicted yet they are protected by michale katongo. The list is endless.Katongo himself is getting a lot of tax payers money for doing nothing. He is has failed to build a state of the art modern medical facility and he is cherry picking those being sent for health tourism in South Africa when mothers are giving birth on the floor at UTH. His wife’s sister is raking tax payers money in Turkey despite being British
Finally justice will take its course and since Clive wont bring any witness it will be a fast trial indeed. I hope he has documents to support what he did and am sure he now remembers rejecting legal advise when he was so advised at the company. I feel sorry for the former Finance Director she tried to do as she was told even if her professional ethics didn’t allow her to. We also keen to see what the former CEO at NAPSA under RB will say when the bell tolls
All kawalalas should be prosecuted, and most of them come from one part of the country. What do their moms feed them? Shamuna shaaaaaaa
Cul de sac, holed up in Zed! Shame!
Truck owners don’t want this talk about diverting their cargo business to ZR.
They influenced all this. They looked for weaklings within the board to bring down Chirwa. If Chirwa was a Muzungu, the moneys paid for those apartments would never have been an issue! The only undoing on Chirwa’s part was the sole-sourcing without declaring interests and that is where they have fixed you bwana!
Lesson: if you know you are an Eagle, never make friends with the Chickens!
@ex-moma we all know how our transport sector is lagging behind. Particularly our Railway System and the tore that the heavy haulage are causing on our Roads everyday,infact, I happen to live along one of the bussiet Roads lead to a border and the influx of Heavy Machinery destined for the mines and other Industries in the country is very overwhelming.
This is the reason why the Govt is trying, although not to the best of its ability, to work out modalities and put in place a modern transport system like the one you have just “FANTASISED” about.
But this does not in anyway permit those that are charged with the responsibility to spearhaed such projects to loot the funds involved in the name of being EXPERTISE,TECHNOCRATS,ACADEMICIANS e.t.c hence exaggerate remunerations and allowances…
Bring back hanging, that is the only deterrent for these immoral psychopaths in Leadership roles.
People have been sent to jail for stealing a chicken. Let us wait and see how the justice system works in Zambia.
When Clive started the drivel about a new kind of rail system and underground tube trains my heart told me that this Prof would not pull it off. For starters he was just too educated to spearhead such a project and he spent too much time talking. It came as no surprise to me that he went the typical Zambian way of wanting more money before delivering and seeking a more than luxurious way of living. I have worked with serious enginneers like Mr.Bantubonse, Mark Chardwick and Hanson Sindowe to name a few. These men do more work than you hear them talk and have done a lot for Zambia. In grade one I was told”empty tins make alot of noise”. Thats Clive Chirwa for you.
Ba ex moma, since when did dreaming big become an excuse for breaking laws?
Like he says, “An engineer chews big chunks of garbage and brings out real solutions.” Go to the copper-belt university and see what he has done with the engineering structers. Dont just bwata bwata…