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Best Home Lodge asks employees to stay away

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27 employees at Best Home Lodge have been asked to stay away from work by their management without any payment almost five weeks after the ACC raided the premises.

Although the lodge remains open, no single client has been there since the ACC’s visit, resulting in the workers seeking legal guidance and an explanation from the management.

The workers had been reporting for work until a few days ago when management advised them to stay away.

Some employees said since all the bank accounts for the lodge had been frozen, it became difficult to even get their salaries.

“Some of us have worked for a long time at the lodge and we cannot just leave like this. We need to be paid something for us to find our way out,” one of the workers said.

Former Ministry of Health senior human resource officer, Henry Kapoko owns Best Home Lodge located in Lusaka’s Roma Township.

Mr Kapoko was arrested for obtaining money by false pretences involving over K1.9 billion. He appeared in court and remains in custody after the magistrate’s court denied him bail.

And four people in Lusaka are registered as the owners of ESU Nursing School Limited, believed to have benefited from the K27 billion scam at the Ministry of Health.[quote]

The shareholders of the school of midwifery in Lusaka’s Kalundu area include Barbara Ushibantu, Dorcas Siafwa of Kaunda Square, Miriam Phiri of Longacres and Edwin Ushibantu who was registered as secretary.

According to a search at the patents and companies registration office, the school started with a nominal capital of K400,000,000 in 2003 and 50,000,000 shares.
{Times of Zambia]

23 COMMENTS

  1. “ever since no client has visited the lodge” when times are good friends are many. After all the fun the guy had its down to nothing, its very difficult to build a good reputation, i hope the message will be sent to all thieves.

  2. These chaps stink with dirty wet evils. See now the innocent workers at the lodge eba kapiilamo nomba!

  3. that is what these bunch of thieves are doing to poor zambians who think they are messiahs from heaven who have brought them jobs. i bet many more are yet to suffer like those poor employees.

  4. Turn this Lodge into a Public Health Care Facility or better still a GRZ College. Nangu fye drop in centre for street kids mwe…

  5. Kapoko you are evil, your long hands have made these innocent employees to get away from work. You deserve a heavy punishment.

  6. The innocent Zambians are now suffering. Bwezani and company what measures have you put in place for such employees ? It is not their fault that they got jobs in the private sector because you can,t give them any as boma. Please help these people with jobs or better still take over the lodge as govt so that these guys can continue supporting their families and not go to the streets for further illegal activities

  7. Ba Pompwe you are now making families suffer because of your selfishness. All goverment finish your investigations quickly so that the owner of the lodge can be cleared and people should go back to work.

  8. Corruption will be seen as normal as long as the man who normalised corruption in GRZ is not locked up. That is FJT. Until he is behind bars, pipo in GRZ see him being driven around in Mercs even after he has been found with questions to answer and are not fearfull of that vice.
    Me, i will never forgive FJT for cutting down the ever green trees at both round-a-bouts at either end of lusaka and replacing them with baren dry fountains. It sounds petty but my heart bleeds each time i see those fountains…

  9. iwe kapoko ufwile ukuzala bwangu nabantu mwali nabo. iwe you are behind bars and dr manda is now saying you didnt give him a cut, is that true mudala? say it out so that you dont suffer alone. what about brian chituwu, he was health minister then and very close to dr miti. dont be a sucrificial lamb man

  10. What about a different view? May be Kapoko was just doing his business. Is there a law stopping civil servants from running a business? And why should Kapoko’s businesses be disqualified from supplying services to govt institutions, especially if he was not part of the procurement decision making nor the accounting team? May be his businesses provided competitive bidding. So we have to wait and see what happens. But of course if he somehow got any public funds without providing the required services/supplies, then the long arm of the law should deal with him accordingly. For now lets not jump to comclusions. I think that the amount of ‘stolen’ money may not be as high as we have been told. Whay are the charges indicating so little moneys compared to what we ve been told? I

  11. # 9 you are right, its better they make it a government lodge so that those employees can continue sustaining their families. What about those nursing students, were they transferred to some other nursing schools automatically? or whats happening to them? koma nzelu zanu imwe Kapoko!!!!!,

  12. #9 + #15 YOU ARE BOTH WRONG… No personal property should be grabbed and turned into govt property without court order. Thou shall not steal. I justify managements decision cos the accounts has been frozen hence they can’t pay their monthly salaries if they continue working.they should wait until the case is cleared if the owner will be found guilty they will loss whatever they worked for.. (salaries incured b4 closure) But they can bull the owner for wages after being realised.

  13. pay them from the frozen accounts.they deserve their salaries+benefits imwe!they were “legal” employees in a “legal” entity that was acquired “illegally”.aaaaaaaaaah izavutako pangono!

  14. No#13 Kc you have stired up emotions in me I had forgotten how beautiful and comforting those trees were. They made the weary traveller rejuvinate in the shade provided by God’s magnificent creation. If I were to take control of Lusaka Province as Minister I would bull doze those glaring attrocities of fountains. That FTJ should indeed be locked up. Then all those liitle snakes shall tremble and disappear.

  15. too bad for the 27 casualties, I hope something can be worked out to get them some kind of severance pay

  16. the 27 should be paid, Best Home Lodges has money!

    Funny how only one man is being charged for 1.9 billion, and yet 27 billion went missing! what happens to the balance!!?? Should we just write it off!?? Zed is just a complete mess. This is so so annoying! Worse still RBB is busy travelling and having a nice time. He cant even say anything sensible. Yangu!

  17. oo,
    1,9 billion is just one case of the 27billion.so, some more cases are still coming that will add up to make the 27 coz this loot was stollen in different transactions.so as the so called ” your burlys” say chill.many more cases are coming.by the time this guy will be jailed all the monies will be in the pockets of his lawyers and he’ll be abandoned.remember how kashiwa bulaya was ditched by mumba kapumpa in the end.

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