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Chungu leaving the magistrate court in Lusaka
Chungu leaving the magistrate court in Lusaka

Former Zambia Security Intelligence Services – ZSIS- Director General Xavier Chungu has been ordered to pay 500 million kwacha for breaching his bail conditions when he fled the Country four years ago.

Mr. Chungu has been ordered to pay 500 million Kwacha within 14 days or face a 6 months imprisonment.

Ndola High Court Registrar, Jones Chinyama made the ruling in Lusaka on Tuesday.

This was despite Mr. Chungu’s explanation that he fled the Country because his life was in danger.

He informed Mr. Chinyama that he was tipped off and advised by his colleagues in the intelligence to flee as his life was in danger.

Mr. Chungu said he returned from his self imposed exile to clear the charges leveled against him as he felt his life is no longer in danger.

Earlier Chungu asked Mr. Chinyama to exercise his discretion to reduce the 500 million Kwacha bail saying his properties had been seized by the state and that government had not yet paid him his terminal benefits.

But Mr. Chinyama refused to reduce the bail saying he does not have such discretionary powers.

Chungu fled the country while on bail four years ago.

211 COMMENTS

  1. And that will come from blandered resources. Jokes, jokes, jokes. This guy will soon walk to his freedom, what a shame for Zambia.

  2. i wander wat gave him the confidence to come back home?life no longer in dager or charges to be dropped soon.Wat a shame for Zambia as we continue to mourn mwanawasa :((

  3. # 6 very good point. XC tell us, is your life no longer in danger or are the charges are to be dropped soon?

    Well done ba nka’mba ba Chinyama. At least you will get money for the judicial employees or 6 months free labour. Send him on my farm.

  4. The i)d)i)o)t) knows he is free. Fine can he tell us why now his life is not in danger? For “F”s sake what is K500 million to this moron?

    What a mickey mouse country Zambia is! Another muppet will do the same afer all you only get to pay K500 million.

    It hurts to see a chap in Kawama sent to prison for stealing inkoko and ye when he is hungry and a plum this this get away with money we all know he wont even pay.

    Nshakabwele ba makaka.

  5. icho icho icho, chisokone chisokone chisokone
    unip’s power, s’power, s’power s’power
    ushasokone mwana wandoshi.

    UNIP is back in State House.
    Zambia twasebana.
    We thought UNIP was gone for good.

  6. The fees are just too high, where does the court expect him to get such type of money. He may just be jailed /:):d:((:-w

  7. Chungu is generous.for him to have made an effort to come back,he is sure his case will be dispposed off.wait and see.

  8. Ichipango chaku Luapula is watching how its people are being treated. Chungu’s life was in danger because Mwanawasa was a cheat. Mwanawasa abused is powers and office of The Presidence. We now want to have all the charges that Mwanawasa and The Post Newspapers raised in Parliament and in The matrix of Plunder article respectively revisited. Welcome home bawensu.

  9. People what is K500 million to Chungu?

    By the way he wont even need to pay it. Not when Nyama Soya is president.

    Ask yourselves why he is so quiet.

  10. guess this is a lesson to you guys in power. Don’t think when you’re there you have the right to abuse your power, even if these guys escape justice, God will judge them accordingly. Enough is enough. :-?:-w[-(

  11. # 19. How come you chased your own Chiluba when he came to campaign for RB? Is he not one of you or your forgot him? Today you want to rap about watching how your people are being treated when you denied your FTJ and your subjects chanted in favour of pabwtoooooooooo. [-x

  12. As intellingence Chief, he was responsible for the murders of among others Paul Tembo, Wezi kaunda, and who knows, Ronald Penza to name but a few. To relinquish his blood guilt, all he has to pay is peanuts compared to the lives he took away. Crime pays!

  13. Chungu’s friends such as Gail Ruskosky of Systems Innovations is still at large. I am sure he will bail him out. The Task Force on Corruption has never attempted to pursue this guy who is American. They used to donate computers at St Clements, Ndola Trust and Ibenga.

  14. According to what i have gotten from this article.Is that Chungu should have been in prison as he was still facing charges,until proved guity or innocent.But he could not be under gurd by the police because he was on self exile into other countries.So as far as the courts are concerned it has to be treated as if he was on bail.And looking at the period Chungu has been out the estimated amount for the period is K500 million.So despite Chungu having to pay this money,he wil have to face the charges to do with plunder.Thats my understanding, and not that when he pays k500milion,then he will be let free no guys.

  15. Reading between the lines,he is actually saying..LPM was the threat to his life now that he is gone he can come back. does this sound personal btwn LPM and CHUNGU?as we already know the task force was to deal with specific culprits (selective justice)

  16. Chungu do not worry just get the account number for the government and i will send the US$ 100,000 cash on Thursday. It will come from the Emeralds that i got from ZANACO [-x

  17. #26 That is the way it should go. But the fact the he came back makes me suspect that he will walk away free from all his charges otherwise why should he come back. Food for thought. Remember Chiluba’s broad smile during RB inauguration.

  18. $110,000USD! Peanuts for Chungu! Let him pay and avoid the 6 month jail term then keep his a%$ in jail during the pending charges since he is obviously a flight risk! 🙁

  19. Chungu will soon be aquited his job was very complicated even dishonest levy ate and benefited from him. I don’t c the state allowing chungu to defend himself using classfied intelligence info they might get expossed in a lot of ways including rigging. FTJ’s case is still on over 5yrs now. No intelligence chief has been delt with this way. Sorry dear bloggers………imwe mukalila fye lyonse.

  20. I have a feeling he will join FTJ being sick.he will go to RSA from time to time for check ups, even if he goes to prison he will be discharges to get medical help.eventualy the case will die off slowly practically FTJ is a free man

  21. Chungu will soon be aquited his job was very complicated even dishonest levy ate and benefited from him. I don’t c the state allowing chungu to defend himself using classfied intelligence info they might get expossed in a lot of ways including rigging. FTJ’s case is still on over 5yrs now. No intelligence chief has been delt with this way. Sorry dear bloggers………imwe mukalila fye lyonse until zed is genuinely cleaned.

  22. Ba Chewe ze biggy I have been waiting for you for so long.I have a friend who is callingv himself UNZA MOJO.Ba chewe I need your help he is pro RB just becoz RB increased their allowances,they are even calling for Sata to be arrested.I told him that Ba chewe ngabaumfwa ulelanda pali our Sata he will deal with you.Aletalika aini

  23. Pipo the smile of Chungu is enough to tell us something.The dude will be declared not guilty very soon.What is K500,000,000.His fellow plunderers will pay for him.

  24. just go for the 6 mouth and leave like a man on holiday.100pin u.s dollar ba kamba just buy the all prison inclunding ba officer in charger.after all he will just save 4 mouths :d/

  25. :)>-thats chump change man,let him pay 1 billion kwacha for all the millions of dollars they got from this country,zambia is not a poor nation,thats a big lie:d

  26. mwana mukwasu RB ndiwe umufumu bambo. when a good or righteous leader leads people feel secured. even the accused return because they see a grand father spirit in the matured leader. zambians it was not a mistake to elect Banda. from chungu’s freedom and security in banda i see something gud about RB which self righteous Mwanawasa never had. am responding to the common question y has chungu returned and y is chiluba and vj among the rest excited. it is because of the Grandy love and this is our best leader. For this Banda mwana wakwitu umodzi kumawa tiyende pamodzi ndimtima umodzi….

  27. Tasks Force is misguided and was a way to selectively punish certain individuals at the sametime a vote of no confidence in our common ZP by the late presido. Do u need a tasks force to arrest a thief? This gives u an idea of the manipulations whist playing to the galary.

  28. #44 that shows he didnt have trust in the ACC. i think if the ACC was effective,there was no need to come up with the task force,if need be we have ba shushushu zambian FBI/intelligence

  29. I watch people here make all kinds of comments I just wonder why people find time to make comments sometimes on what they dont have slight understanding.
    When Chungu just came people here amde all kinds of comments such as “I smell a rat”, “RB is corrupt” and all. But of course certain issues you dont comment too much even when you see people blunder.
    What is clear is that very very people understand how government and the intelligence works.
    Sometimes, and in fact many times you have to ‘appeal’, i.e. create ‘friendship’ with a thief in order to carry out meaning full investigations or corner them to a meaningful progress.

  30. #44. Mwanafumu
    I totally agree with you. The task force and the whole idea of ‘fight against corruption’ was not a broad concept. In other words it did not befit its description.
    It was a targeted approach to reach cerntain people. This is why corrupt practices grew to levels untold during the same period.
    It was merely a task force to deal with some of those who were in office between 1991n and 2001

  31. The shushu boss cannot go to jail. It was all planned. Xavier doctored the elections in exchange for his freedom and dropping of all cases…

  32. #51 cont’d..
    though of course to remove the suspicion we had a few others that took office after 2001 such as Nyirongo being persued. but not much was archived in these matters. what was spent on the exercise was by far more than what has been recovered.
    Of course we know that recovering what was stollen is not the primary aim of corruption fight exercise, but the bigger picture of that of deterrence. But the latter is not archievable when the fashion of fight is that of targeting individuals. This because it simply becomes a project which will have a life span and the general view will be that of “The fight does not concer me”. hence the high rise in the scurge as we have seen.

  33. Please, please forgive Chuungu for all his troubles and acussations that have been levelled against him. Why must he be charged such money when his terminal benefits have not been given to him.

  34. yawe Maestro wakaba ulyelede ku unka ku nkuta,ulijisi mali kondibuhya,for a change tiwamba ha HH.thats good danti akatale amakani a HH.

  35. look at the man, the man is smiling, all that court thing is just for show..rb has forgiven chungu..FTJ AND OTHER THIEFS

  36. #57 have manners,when you write in benba or nyanja no one calls you names,do you even know what suntwe means.behave.i dont want to unleash the unprintables

  37. HE SHALL FACE THE CHARGES HE RAN AWAY FROM AFTER HE PAYS THE MONEY OR SAVES 6 MONTHS IN PRISON. THAT IS SEPERATED FROM THE INITIAL CHARGES HE RAN AWAY FROM. PERIOD.

  38. My name sake is cool as ice! he is my kind of guy. his is a life movies are made about in holly wood. just wait and see how smoothly he is gonna wiggle out of this case! already the govt has already weakened its case by strining a deal with Moses katumbi oc congo. Very soon actually the state will enter a nolle prosequi! i will bet will kwacha with anybody over this!! :(|)

  39. #26 you are right ,K500m is only for the breach of bail .Most of the comments above comes from people who write for fun.Some of these guys even say ‘LT todays headlines are boring’ you can imagine.

  40. Chungu intends to return for polls By Mabvuto Phiri: Wednesday November 30, 2005 FORMER Zambia Security Intelligence Services (ZSIS) director general Xavier Chungu has disclosed that he intends to return to Zambia in order to participate in politics to ensure that President Levy Mwanawasa is voted out of office.According to an interview broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Network Africa programme, Chungu said it was unfortunate that President Mwanawasa was dragging former president Frederick Chiluba to court on corruption charges regarding an intelligence account that Chiluba had no access to or control over.

  41. 56. suppergal, ayoo ngameni pele ulya mudaala Chuungu uyandika buyo kumulekelela nkambo kakuti inzintu tazili kabotu. Hena basicisi babona mbulikuti Chuungu uyakwaajana kuli mali ngaeledde kubbaddela aaya.

    Uyamuntu Chuungu muntu wa-Leza alimwi uyandika kulekelela. Kolanga buyo mukwasyi wakwa mbounyongene calino. Bakaintu bakwe bakafwa, ibana cita naabatene yi.

    Eyi ndeo ya-corruption, tili kabotu pe nkaambo itandaanya biyo bantu baniini. Ino chinzi nchatamani makani alimunkuta a ba-Chiluba? Ababantu balibuyo kutusobanya. Mebo ndiyanda lusumpuko mucisi kwiinda kusobanyisigwa kuli mazuba aaya. kopona cibotu ooko. Calino, ndicili Maestro Hhehhehhehhe.

  42. **== sort him out, his life has never been in danger……… he was told to say that by RB’s govt as part of their plan to wipe the slate clean.If his life was in danger, why didn’t he seek political asylum???? Zambians, plz wake up!!!!~X(

  43. This says alot about RB and the MMD have sold their soul for power.I can predict that this will be the begining of the end for MMD.I have always said that we the pipo have a big role to play in how we shape our country.There are so many of us who stand by the fence and we are responsible for turning the chik for slaping over and over again. Chungu knows exactly what he is doing and he knows that we know but we are too timid to say anything or do anything.Shame on all of us

  44. You guys need to get over it! This is the world we live in today and it will be going on tomorrow and for many years to come. Some of you posting on this wall have your own skeletons in your closet(s). You are just lucky you have not been caught (yet). The “big dogs” enjoyed life…may have been at the expense of average Joe’s like us…but like I said, oh well! This is our position and that is theirs. Corruption is here to stay worldwide! Given the chance to do what they did, you would do the same thing. You are just mad you never got the chance. Those who got caught and are doing time…same goes…Its time fore them to serve. If they do not…let them be happy go lucky!!! :-@

  45. Obviously he came back with the assurance of Shriek
    Zambian please remember that Shriek got the presidence by shear luck and he ll sleep with anyone he thinks ca help him cling to power in this case being Hefty Jay (so called FTJ) and his cronies eg Chungu!

  46. Chungu really is a street dude,I mean he is so smart that he runs the streets of zed,no zedian can match with him,thats what i call reservoir dogs,the man is excellent,criminal mind from the cradle,FTJ trained.We need such people as presidents to help in manipulating the economy and perhaps legalise drugs and prosititution,and to help build more bars, brothels and close prisons,schools and hosipitals.Farmers will no longer grow maize but weed.Weed will become zambias staple food.Vote chungu 2011

  47. “Deputy Minister in the office of the vice president, Gaston Sichilima, has annoyed UPND Moomba constituency Member of Parliament, Vitalis Mooya, for teasing hunger stricken villagers in Southern Province.

    Mr. Mooya’s anger follows remarks by Mr. Sichilima on MUVI TV News that poisonous wild fruits and roots could prove to be a good energizer for hunger stricken villagers in moomba constituency.”

    Source: ww w. muvitv .com/ news/ Dec2008/ 9thcnews1. html

  48. “have not received my terminal benefits”….we are supposed to cage theives and reward them! this is riduculous…!

  49. Why should he pay because the same money will be pludered by Nchito and family. so what the hell are you doing? Courts in zambia should closed and use the one in Libya.

  50. Send him to prison. Most of the chaps in there have had no ladies for years, he will help. He is sure to help help while he is sourcing the K500 0000 from what he plundered. Ndiye ring leader wamene uyu. After paying that amount. lock him up in cells while you continue to investigate what he has done with the loot. Soon his CD4 count izakwela, then aza ululula. bwanji vo kamba kamba ba chinyama? mwakangiwa?

  51. #42-POINT OF CORRECTION. MWANAWASA WAS NOT A GREAT LEADER PRODUCED BY ZAMBIA AS U PUT IT. HE WAS PRODUCED BY FJT.

    THANK YOU

  52. Every blogging on this page,Can anyone of define corruption in more broader perspective? When u done ,then look at ur so called mwanawasa and what he did.

  53. Mwanawasa was very short of a leader, he could have easily brought about anarchy in country cos of his practice of nepotism(corruption).

  54. This was not a bail case, he has been convicted of skipping bail (contempt of court) and sentenced to a fine or in six months in jail.

    The prosecutor will have to re-arrest him (since they stayed the original charges when he fled) and charge him agian, then he can apply for bail. In normal circumstances he can never make bail because he has a record of flight so he probably will not show up again.

    The reasons why the cases were stayed is they were joing charges with Chiluba and others, so it was impossible for the state to proceed prosecuting charges with the absence of the co-accused. They can now join the charge (more delays) or proceed with separate trials for him.

  55. Quote:

    Mr. Chungu said he returned from his self imposed exile to clear the charges leveled against him as he felt his life is no longer in danger.

    End quote.

    Is Chunge saying Levy was ploting to kill him? The govt needs this man. He is the one who can hlp solve this case. Only fellow plunderers would have wantedhim dead.

  56. #91, great stuff! you are a Knight indeed. your last paragraph, Quote:

    The reasons why the cases were stayed is they were joing charges with Chiluba and others, so it was impossible for the state to proceed prosecuting charges with the absence of the co-accused. They can now join the charge (more delays) or proceed with separate trials for him.

    Could be the explanation as to why the other plunderers would have wanted him out of the country

  57. #93/94, yes that’s why the others were happy he fled because the crimes were being tried together so they thought there would be a mistrial because an important co-accused would not be available to defend himself and by default they would all be acquited.
    However, the state was smart. They dropped all the charges (nolle prosequi) and re-arrested the remaining accused with amended counts excluding Chungu’s participation. As it is Chungu, has no charge pending in court apart for this contempt conviction, the Task force are legally allowed to recharge him separately or enter a nolle in the ongoing cases and re-charge all of them like before. Joint charges would likely be the best to prove.

  58. Very interesting! I hope Chinyama’s ruling set a precedence to would be bail breachers. We don’t care were he gets the money, we should uphold the Laws of the Land and make people understand that a bail is a privilege and can be revoked at the judges discretion. Plunderers will never cease to amaze us. Now cage Kafupi!!!

  59. #26 Chewe
    That’s my understanding too. X.C still has cases of plunder to answer.Paying the half a bill does not necessarilly exonerate him from further prosecution. 😮

  60. #87, if we were to follow your reasning, there would be no prisons coz all murderers, rapists, robbers, in short, all criminals would be let to go free coz everyone has sinned. Also, no one would be fined or charged for road traffic violations. Imagine the chaos.

  61. #43 Sorry Zed,
    Just wait and you will for sure be sorry yet not for Zed but for your Rupiah.Honestly H.E Banda has been and will most likely be the most useless leader Zed has ever produced.Man, come on, can’t you see this guy is corrupt? If people with charges of corruption are all smiles,people who rig elections are all smiles,all the crooks and all those with scandalous cv’s are all smiles, what can you deduce from that? However, they should know that,according to Ecclesiastes, everything has its own time, Zed will one day be ruled by an honest and well-meaning person(leadership that comes from God) and the likes of VJ,RB,XC…will find their lives unbearable.Zedians will then smile.

  62. Chungu needs to be probed and made to reveal who was behind his death threats. For him to say friends he worked with warned him about an eminent assassination, says a lot about our Special Branch chaps. Those that enticed him into breaching the bail contract must also stand trial. Fair is fair.

  63. Seven years of Mwanawasa rule, a qualified lawyer, should have been enough to prosecute these corruption charges. Mwanawasa also let without telling the world what exactly Chiluba plundered. Common knowledge does not match with the allegations without implicating Chiluba’s first vice president in all these cases, who happens to be Mwanawasa.

    To save Zambia embarransment from the international community, and tax payers money, these case true as they may be in a sense, must be clossed, as they were raised in bad faith coupled with the spirit of political persecutions

  64. Let him hang with his brothers; chiluba, kabwe, chungu, bulaya, musonda, katele and other Bemba criminals – the list is endless. Zambia was going to be a better place without Bembas. There is no difference between Bembas and Nigerians and congolies.

  65. 8-x LPM was a greater leader because he helped expose these dangerous criminals. i have no kind words for thse selfish animals. let them be taken to hell.;;)8-x^:)^@-)

  66. Iwe Mwale! Wabo ku tobela imichila ya mbeba. Anyhow, I appreciate you have brought out the real tribal problem, the persecution that the corruption cases were coupled with.

    If leaders in Zambia continue dividing the nation, wait and see, our once peace loving nation is sitting on a “time bomb” of genocide, or atleast civil strife.Have you checked how the kwacha has within weeks been tossed up, back to $5000? Do you think this has to do with one single tribe of bembas, or you mean to say the donors are bembas too…!

    I hope Lusaka Times will start sensoring some of this divissive language as from Mwale# 108 and #107

  67. I do not accept Mwanawasa was such a great leader in light of expossing corruption charges. Even a dog in Zambia knew Chiluba’s government was corrupt.

    To be honest with you, Mwanawasa has compounded the situation of corruption cases in Zambia, because evidently, he targeted a certain people(bembas and his enemies), simply for political expediency.
    More that ever the country has been divided between tribal lines after Mwanawasa.

    This is dangerous, and the future of Zambia is headed to doom, if this tribal vice is not addressed with the emergency it deserves…!

  68. Iwe Mwale don’t talk like that.Bembaz ni zee don’t forget that so far Richard Sakala is the only plunderer who has been sent to prison for stealing.No bemba has been sent to prison with hard labour.I forgive you,am sure Mbeba Zinakuononga that’s why RB is ever dozing.Mind you RB will never rule Zambia nicely without the support of ABEMBA.Too much Idleness mwe vakuChipata.

  69. He had intellingency from the intellengency wing that his life was in danger and he escaped from his home which being guarded heavily 24hrs.Now where has got information that his life is no longer in danger.

  70. Am so happy guys,Chelsea won last night and we are in the last 16. Maestro boyi that deputy minister in the office of the vice president angered me,and i voice out on his sentiments,i was the first person to call unza radio and condemed him. I said that was an insult to the poor Zambians eating those poisonous fruits. Imagine,how could he say that there was nothing wrong for them to eat such,as long as they got some energy.Can that man eat those fruits himself?nonsense!

  71. Am sure quite a no. of you talkers do steal from your employers and also connive with suppliers. You know kabolala nipa kuboko

  72. just arrest him so that he becomes an example to the rest.why exercise linience on a planderer.let him not walk to his freedom.why has chiluba also gone to SA?Claiming his condition is not ok and that he stay there for some time?zambian these people are blindfolding us wait and see. :(:o[-(

  73. ALL OF YOU LT WRITERS ARE JUST WASTING TIME THINKING THAT CHUNGU WILL BE PROCECUTED, NOT ON THIS PLANET. NOT WHEN RB IS STILL THE PRESIDENT. ZAMBIANS!! WE LIKE TALKING TOO MUCH. MAYBE WE NEED WHITES TO COME AND RULE US.

  74. This is why we will always remain underdeveloped. Do you think fellow zambians a person with five senses(as we believe) can come back just to face the trail that easy way? The question we should ask is; What did this (Banda) Government agree with Chungu? There is definitely something that they assured him if not that they already shared the stollen money. I feel sorry for us zambians. where is the anti corruption? The media? Who can surely help us investigate why Chungu came back? Its not good at all.

  75. KULZ, YOU DONT UNDERSTAND THE COUNTRY YOU LIVE IN, TELL ME HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE CONVICTED DURING THE MWANAWASA REGIME? THE LAW IS FOR THE POOR,WAKEUP MAN. THIS IS ZED! just concetrate on makin your life better.

  76. #113, have you head of this phrase: NO PLACE LIKE HOME? When this civil war you are wishing starts, you will surely find it. Who thought Chungu will ever come back?

  77. Ifisela pa ZED! :o. You behaving as though we do NOT know that the chp has just come home to join his newly announced team of dribblers! Spare us the details of your bragged about demands. Mulepingula esho amipela kale!!! Anyandule!

  78. Episode 1
    CHUNGU ORDERED TO PAY 500,000,000.00 KWACHA ONLY FOR JUMPING BAIL

    Viva H H man who will not allow the judiciary to be corrupt

  79. Y IS IT THAT HE HAS TO COME BACK WEN RB IS IN POWER.AND AFTER HEARING THAT THE MAN HIMSELF LEVY IS NO MORE.PIPO DO U THINK THAT CHUNGU WIL B CHARGED OR NOT o-+

  80. :)]Hello, Capitao. Reserve a space for Chungu so that he sleeps one mbambo at Chimbokaila he informed me that his pension has not been paid for him to pay the K500metre.=))

  81. Chungu looks sick and very poor, alafwa before going to prison. Kubulaya wabwela so small, where u homeless in Europe is it in Mozambique?

  82. Why do you want the man jailed you Zambians? Leave him alone.

    Just go and enjoy your full English breakfast.

    Ho Ho Ho!

  83. Pa zed something will happen and a bigger lesson shall remain for muya-ya. Too many things taken for granted. **==**==(~~)

  84. I think This man should have been made to pay more. and how dare he says he has not been paid his benefits!!!!! for what??? plunder of our resources?????????????!!!!!!!:-w

  85. Chill bloggers. Zambians do not worry about themselves why do you keep kicking yourselves about them?

    Ho Ho Ho! Bambi you don`t even sleep. 24/7 on here for people who are happy and not bothered.

    Going to give out sweets. Ho Ho Ho. Just had my breatkfast. Full English breakfast. Ho Ho Ho.

  86. Whether some people like it or not Mwanawasa, despite his shortcomings, is the greatest Zambian president to date. Bembas are complaining
    that LPM was targeting only thieves of Bemba origin. This is simple to understand because they were the high profile thieves and plunderers. They thought because one of theirs was in power then they could just “natola fye” the resources of Zambia. Chungu and his fellow thieves and plunderers should be severely punished.

  87. #94 Dark Knight (correct me if I am wrong). So should the state enter into nolle prosequi on the others currently charged separately; in order to charge XC jointly it would be like starting all over again? How many years will this case/cases take? Justice seems a misnorma in this case?

  88. go for six months mudala. Monthend of february you will be out. the other charges you can play the chiluba tricks. Abena Zambia they easily forget. Use the system to your advantage mudala. ask me, i know what i am talking about

  89. People said Kaunda had blood on his hands, but certainly not Mwanawasa. Is Chungu telling me that Mwanawasa wanted to kill him and now that Mwanawasa is no more Chungu’s life is not in danger anymore. He would be the only one named to have been killed by Levy.

  90. #94 Dark Knight – second question so what was the Moses Katumbi connection to this case and why did the state withdraw and give Katumbi back his “property”?

  91. Ni gimick chaabe iyi, these guys think we dont know their plans. They called him back and pretended to be hard on him and yet all this is an arranged thing. He is already at his home, go and check if you think its a joke.

  92. Don’t pay the 500 million ba chungu. save the 6 months jail term after all it is half a year. U can use the 100 million for survival in the cell and enjoy the rest when u are out.

  93. Lets start to forgive. All the Bloggers here are cuprilts one sort or another. Only that our various crimes are not known yet or made public. Chiluba Must return Regina to Mr. Mwanza and be forgiven. Chungu must return waht ever he has in his possesion as stollen money or asset and be forgiven. If zambians are generous enougth in mercy. Chungu can go free on repentance

  94. How did you expect LPM to catch the big fishes, when he did come into power through the same route and comeup with the defence that there was no prove that election were r…. wake up zambians.
    I would also like to ask this question which has been bothering me for a long time now.
    Can some1 tell me who came up the idea of choosing the sucessor for the outgoing president when his term of office expires?
    I strongly believe that this will be the cause of trouble in our beloved country in the years to come. Because most sucessors who are choosen are bootlickers of out going presidents.

  95. #157 you are right. If I had a choice of paying 500 million and going to jail for six months. I would go to jail for six months and put my 500 meters in the savings account come out and enjoying it with interest. This systems looks so outdated. Both options are supposed to be equally painful. I expected something like 5 years in jail. That is how doctored cases look. Something fishy in this case. 500m can’t equal 6 months in jail, come on. Did the judge just dream up the figure? To just put it in perspective 500m is almost twice the President’s annual salary with allowances included and is that equal to 6 months in Jail? Something fishy here. There is willy dealing going on here

  96. I would go to prison for six months, come out and enjoy my K500 million! The system knows that. This guy should be caged. In China they execute such people because it is treasonable offence. What they plundered could have gone a long way in improving our health and education services. Shame on Chungu nad FTJ!

  97. Maestro Hhehhehhehhe mudaala, oyu xavier welede nkuunga ku ntolongo. Kuti abaddele mali manji ayandika cilantondeya kuti wa kabba ngabwini makani.Nkani yaka daala aya kanga Sichilima yandiciima maningi otuu tulumbu tuyeya kuti bantonga banyama bamusonkwe hena?

    Leza waka tupa mano abulimi nokuba kuti tai loki inhula kucisi chesu. Kuti nikwali miyobo imwi ku ndindi nibali manidde ku nzala bonse. Atu bambile batonga balibambile kulonga nokuba kuunga kubalumbu nkoiwa inhula na zyasumpa zintu.

  98. #159. LUSAKA
    I am not sure what you mean here; whether you are talking about republican president or party president.
    If you mean State/republican president then I must say that the criterion is already there; the president is chosen by way of national presidential elections from individuals that will have been chosen by their parties to stand on party tickets.
    If you are talking about criteria in individual parties then that is a variable which may not be the same from party to party depending on their respective constitutions. But generally majority of the parties use the ballot to elect their party presidents who in most cases become their republican presidential candidates.

  99. why should xaviour be punished when the friend who helped him to escape has not been pursued. I feel the two have all jumped the bail.

  100. # 165-Vinobs.

    Mudaala, muli bakali! Mwaiyasa mulinsho. Takwe chiinda wawo, munene. Atujatane andiswe tobaku Chuundu. Tutanoyowi bantu bayeya kuti mbibalachisi cha Zambia.

  101. This scoundrel has built a mansion of a house right in Zambia which is tantamount to a White House.Where do you think bloggers this man got money? From his stipend? Nay!!

    He even has the audacity to bark about his ‘benefits’! The government should just channel this package to the Ministry of Health, to buy medicines for the sick Period

    [-x

  102. logically one would assume that the very”colleagues”who warned him to flee for is life now advised him to come back.the courts shud demand for these”colleagues”to come out in the open and let the nation know why zambia has suddenly become a safe haven for this criminal.we are wastin alot of taxpayers money on the prosecution such criminals.thailand prosecuted and found its former prime minister “thaksin” within a year; here its 6 year and we are still waiting we are such jokers.

  103. #150 blue blood. Food for thought. When LPM found out that one his pilots was from Mansa he stopped using him. What does that mean to you?

  104. #12 Who are you calling ba makaka? All the citizens of Zambia I suppose.

    Let me say that I am extremely saddened by the Zambians in the diaspora. On what basis are you insulting all Zambians, iwe kolokombwa!! We don’t depend on you, and in case you have forgotten, we happen to have a system of justice here that has ensured that we have never had bloodshed since independence. If you want kangaroo courts, you can set them up in the country that has thankfully given you self imposed asylum. Please stay there, nabu kwindi bobe.

  105. #43. Sorry Zedi honestly you dont know what you are talking about and you dont have the right answer for chungu`s coming back am sure you benefited from these plunderers.

  106. Does this mean he still got loyal “colleagues” in the intelligency. This guy is bad news. They better treat him with care :-ss

  107. Guyz i have carried out a research and its sad that most of our friends are pretending to be outside Zambia but they are all very much in Zed including Maestro,Sarah Jones, Sarsh,Baby C and the rest. To me this has just comfirmed that you are selfish and not proud Zambians. get real cause everyone here on the blog is very much in Zambia. ^:)^

  108. This is when he’ll see who hia real friends are. He’s a tough man and has had training. He can brave prison for 6 months! Richard Sakala managed.

    Face the consequences. Didn’t he realise he had a K500m bail surety that he’d have to pay if he fled. This global recession and people starving and complaining about mealie meal prices. His arrogance will highlight the extravagance and decadence of the FTJ/Sata era. How can a Director of Intelligence, a civil servant accumulate such wealth and condone abuse of the Zamtrop/intelligence account?

  109. Rashid Jones, you mean people are pretending to be in another country and they’re not? Why on earth would anyone want to do that. Well I guess it’s the same as those who have an American accent but have neither been to America nor attended the American school.

    Brothers and Sisters, be proud of your roots. Some people yearn to know where they came from (African American/West Indians) and yet some of us are embarassed. I Love Zambia and I’m proud to be Zambian and that is why I love Mosi, because we’re Truly Zambian (get it)!!

  110. Chungu is putting up a facade that everything is okey with him, but looking at his pictures before exhile and now you can clearly tell that he is in problems. What ever monies he stashed away semm to be out of his reach now.He cant freely acces it. His accomplices seem th have rehabilitated themselves while he remained a fugitive. Time, events, reality and reflection have a way of making people became unstuck. Shortly chungu will be revealing information in free flo like diarhea.

  111. #15, And what is wrong with UNIP after what we saw of Chiluba and Levy. Unip built the schools that taught you to read, otherwise you would be sherperding goats instead of washing old people’s napkins.

    Wasebana kunshi, kuma napkins? If you continue to hate your country while abroad, your country will hate you back. Learn from the Jewish diaspora to love your country – Muntu wa pumbafu iwe…. :d/

  112. fellow bloggers or comrades in cyber space may u please answer this question:If X.F.Chungu- as the magistrates put’s it, has to pay K500,000,000.00 for skipping bail or in default will be imprisoned for 6 months…My question is what will happen to the other case in which he is alleged to have committed with AFSL, the second republican president, attan shansonga (who is still at large), etc, to defraud the Zambian people. :)>-..4give my reasoning

  113. Chungu is right. He worked in Inteligence and he knows how ‘politically affected’ prisoners are treated. Have you noticed that anyone who has been imprisoned for such offences ends up sick after release? Only those who refused to eat food in prison like KK, Sata and Chungu himself have remained healthy. Shamwana, Kapwepwe, the Solos etc, Mungomba are all dead or ailing. The communist trained security forces all over the world poison people with dioxines, polonium etc. It is not always HIV/AIDS you know. Chungu knows the system.

  114. iwe #25 are u a scoba we did not have computers pa st clements then our brother x chungu donated computers then today uleponta iwe he introduced u to computers there for i call upon all fomer st clements boys to put our hands together to raise the 500m :((

  115. #186, those cases are still pending but he is presumed innocent until proven quilty. That is our system and we should respect it. Not aba ba nkusa who are saying kill him, kill him before he is convicted. The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind.

    They key in every system of jurisprudence is that no innocent should be punished for something he /she did not do!!!
    There are to many kangaroos on this blog. And if these are the ducated people of Zambia, I shudder to think about the ignorants…

  116. 165. VINOBS a 168. Son of the Land! ndali amuswaangano. Anyhow, mebo ndibona mbulikuti ababantu ba-MMD bakakilwa. Nkabela, bayandika kubalekelela boonse bantu bobasobanyabo nkaambo cilainda kugwasya kuti mali baatola mukusanina bantu bali aanzala.

    Nchenchico ncheambila kuti ababalekelele bantu mbuli ba-Chuungu aba-Chiluba calino. Mpoona imfulumende iiya kuboola impya mu 2011 inga yasola naatikabi ya-MMD party.

    Umwi yakati, ‘mulandu tauboli’. Kwakaambo kaako, inga twabona bati kacibweze ino mu 2011 mbobaya kubeleka atwaambo twankuta ootu. Ndamwaika calino. Mupone cibotu. Icifumo mabala ndiya ku-cisi cabama Geremani nkabela ndaakulibambila lino.

  117. No 127 the media especially the post who were known for digging deeper are not digging deeper anymore. They have been paid for 3 years in advance to cover and campaign for Sata up to 2011 shame O.

  118. #190. MR.PANIO
    I don’t understand your reasoning. This man fled the country under LPM’s watch! Did LPM fire anybody because of that? I think we make too much of LPM as a saint, but I think he too has a lot to answer for in Chungu’s case. LPM’s first election was won with Chungu’s help so he must have benefited from, if not helped, Chungu’s escape. The man has returned to face the law under RB’s watch and how is it RB’s fault? Please do not let hatred cloud your judgment! ‘O judgment, thou hast fled to bruitish beasts and men have lost their reasoning!’ Shakespear.

  119. I have been out of circulation for a while – could someone tell me where has he been living for the last four years? 😕

  120. Chungu is a criminal – period. He may have assisted Levy or not but that too is criminal. He could have helped his cause if he had challenged Levy while he was alive to prove that if Levy thought he was a saint there were people who criminally helped him to be president. Levy was straight because he knew if he did not take the presidency, the criminals in Chiluba were going to give it to another criminal and the country would have suffered. For this reason alone, I think Levy was Godly in every way. He set the record straight and told you whoo the criminals are and put it on record in Parliament. What more can on person do?

  121. Watch the space for the Judicial drum bits…Injunctions,stay of excutions and adjournments.Things have been going wrong generally.

  122. zambianas we are just being played by these politicians .chunugu is never going to set foot in prison for the things he is alleged to have done.let just work hard and make our money.

  123. The deal here is not to pay the K500mill, go to prison for 6months…. and then get released…. and that will be it. Kaput…!! and then hello to the real dosh..!! Watch this space:-?

  124. #173 Seen It Before, Are you trying to prove that LPM stopped the pilot who hailed from Mansa because he (pilot)was Bemba? LPM might have had some intelligence on the guy, especially if he was also Chiluba’s pilot. You cannot take chances with some of these people. Chiluba did the same by removing people from a number of positions. That is how we ended up with Chungu as Intelligence chief and demanded blind loyalty from him. Little did we know that it included taking orders in plundering the resources of the country. People from certain parts of Zambia should NEVER be trusted.

  125. what a country ,surely you want to let this man to have freedom after run away from the country . for sure you need to sort out this man without fail , because these they dont think for to tomorrow forgeting that they got cildren to benefit from this country.let him pay that k500million. :((

  126. hello my fellow zambians, greetings from the uk. can someone kindly explain to me where is dr saviour chishimba? i had been following the story after the caused a scene at the hight court last time. i was very shocked when i read that he is back on good terms with micheal sata. Can someone explain to me what is going on?

  127. Chungu does not look like a person who has been in custody. What the hell is happening in Zambia? Levy must be turning in his grave. But, we need to be serious, if this guy gets away with it Zambia is finished internationally. People are watching you going to bed with Nigeria and letting off thieves like Chiluba and you think they will help you with their tax payers’ money. You must be joking – Obama will show Africans economic prudence and will demand it in return for any help Ameriica may wish to give. Wait – Mugabe will be Obama’s first project.

  128. Bwezani KK you people. he was simply the most objective leader. Levy tried it but Chiluba killed him. Bring back Levy and Levey for Zambia’s prosperity.

  129. #25 You are misinformed and made a wild accusation. Mr. Gale Ruskosky was the head of an American Company called System Innovations, Inc. System Innovations negotiated legal binding contracts with the Government of Zambia to provide security systems for The Zambia Intelligence Security Service Head Quarters, State House, Cabinet Building, Vice President’s Residence and MOD. The Zambian government defaulted on payments to System Innovations for installation of a security system at the Airport. System Innovations received only the money that it was contractually owed by the Goverment of Zambia. No employee of System Innovations took any bribe or payment from the Gov’t of Zambia!

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