Henry Kapoko, the chief protagonist in the financial scam at the ministry of health has been denied bail for the second time.
But seven ministry of health suspects linked to the scam have each been granted half a billion Kwacha cash bail.
The six who include, Deputy Director Able Katongo, Senior procurement specialist Anthony Mwila, an accountant Royd Onde and internal auditor Justine Phiri.
Others are assistant director for administration Nobert Peleti and principal accountant Zukas kaoma.
The seventh suspect who has been granted bail is Lusaka businessman Fredy Chileshe.
Lusaka Magistrate Kenneth Mulife has ruled that the seven will remain in custody until they pay the bail charge.
Magistrate Mulife has also ordered the suspects to each provide two government working sureties who occupy managerial positions.
He ruled that the working sureties will also be charged half a billion Kwacha each in their own cognisance.
Magistrate Mulife granted bail to the seven suspects on the basis that the offences they are cited for, though serious are bailable.
He denied Kapoko bail on grounds advanced by the state that he had attempted to flee the country.
The matter has been adjourned to June 30, for mention.
[ZNBC]
Iye kapoko. Wilaiba Daddy
This is very unfair, they are all suspects and you haven;t convicted anyone to give bail to six others and deny kapoko, you mean the human resource manager can steal money without the acountant knowing. r.u.b.i.s.h. zambian judges who work under instructoins.
Elyo yakaba , why are thry even trying to apply for bail, these pipo have the billions they stole and can buy passports just like that , please dont grant them bail.
These thieves derserve this. Innocent souls are suffering coz of their selfishnes.
B Lt T, it weekend and iam not in the mood for ma rubish, why dlete comment?
#2 He had attempted to flee the country so bail can not be granted to him on those grounds
Even if they are granted bail K500 million isn’t an amount an average person has lying around to pay for the bail. The other 6 or 7 will probably marinate in the jail cell because the amount is too high.
# 2 Obama
Its not that Kapoko is convicted. its only that he tried to fle the country at some point. so the court uses discretion coz how sure are you that he wont flee when he is bailed. we cant lose this criminal, he needs to lead us to his other big fishes
So this is what i wanted to say , they must not be granted bail ,cos they will use the money they stole to buy passports to leave the country.
Kapoko tried to flee the country that is why he has been denied bail. They are trying to avoid what happened to Chungu. Lelo lelo Kapoko in for it!
#Obama, please read the news before commenting, this guy wanted to lekamo lubilo, mati, that why bail has been denied.
I kno they have this amount of money but they wont pay coz they kno it will just show the court they stole. So to plead not guilty its beta to rot and pretend they got no monies. Awe mwandi ine nshakwata uluse ku mpupu
Where the hell are they going to get half a billion bail. In other ways they have been denied bail all of them. I feel for you. Jele is not a nice place to be at especially iyapa Zed. Am sure Rudo is asking herself why she did it.
Ba Lt where are our comments nishani. kapoko ni bululu
By the way, can we be given the latest information on the truth about why people like Dr Miti and all those mentioned in the document the ‘K27 billion’ scandal are still walking the streets free. Is there an attempt to sweep the dirt under the carpet and only nail Kapoko?
Ok mwebantu I feel for these guys. Bail of K500 million awe sure kya shupa pa Zed.
Ukawalala does not pay. You should not have stolen so much Kapoko wamona nomba ifyo waleta to your family.
am sori kapoko, i didt knw it was going to end like this.. i wish i never went to ACC.
Ukawalala does not pay Kapoko we all want to be rich but your ways of making money are not worth it. By the way your lodge is tip top for Zed standards (saw the pictures).
kAPOKO,too bad man but you guys are merciless when it comes to raping public resources.Now you will now howmit feels to be raped
Nothing unusual about your being denied bail Kapoko.U tried to flee and the court is jst being coutious.ULIMBE MWANA.U think anyone is happy being poor.UZA CHUCHA MWANA!
Excerpts of Dr. Miti’s letter to Rupiah –
“Your Excellency Sir, first and foremost, I would like to apologise for taking time off your busy schedule to write to you as the President and as the father of our nation,” . “You have come to know my family, particularly my mother whom you met before she passed on. I was also privileged to meet your mother before she passed on. I write this report with a broken heart having lost my dear mother and after a month my young brother whilst my wife is in a wheelchair. It has been a distressing year indeed.”
Excerpts of Dr. Miti’s letter to Rupiah –
“I would like to assure you Mr President from the bottom of my heart and in remembering my mother that I am not in any way connected to the scam that has happened in the Ministry of Health and I am not and have never been in any way connected to Mr Kapoko either formally or informally,” Dr Miti stated. “Generally, he has been a junior member of staff who never reported directly to my office. I am as disappointed and frustrated as you are and look forward to appropriate disciplinary action to be meted out to all those that have been involved in this financial scam which has eroded donor confidence with some of them withholding future funding to the Ministry of Health which is extremely unfortunate.”
What criteria does the courts use to determine what must be paid for bail ? 500 million each in cash, please. Just tell them you have denied them bail than fooling them like that.
Excepts of Dr. Miti’s letter to Rupiah –
“People have only concentrated on negative criticisms but they don’t look at the many positive things that have taken place in the Ministry of Health during the period,” Dr Miti stated. “I have been traumatised and sometimes embarrassed over things I had not done and people always jumped quickly to wrong conclusions. These kinds of criticisms and insults similar to the ones you are currently experiencing as father of the nation. The beginning of our late president’s term of office was just as rough and I see a similar trend towards you Mr President.”
Who paid for Sata’s Helicopter? maybe you know beta
Excerpts of Dr. Miti’s letter to Thandie’s husband –
“My only involvement in this was that I wrote ‘FYA’ which is an abbreviation for ‘For Your Attention’ which is generally used in the civil service whenever one is referring to a new document to a subordinate officer in this case my directors and does not in any way mean approval of payment.”
This are simple GRZ employees so where the hell have they got 1/2b kawcha? To me a bona fide case has been eshtablished by the accused themselves.
Dr. Miti’s defense
“I have also noticed that some payments had been made much earlier even before the
documents came to my office for my attention. In other words, payments were corruptly made before I even had a glance at the letters from these corrupt institutions. This is extremely irregular,” Dr Miti stated. “I have only been able to discover these because now the supporting documents and payment vouchers have been attached and when I look at the dates, payments were made before I marked these documents for the attention of the directors to review and advise me accordingly.”
thats the price kapoko.you thout you where on your fathers farm.enjoy jere.
That Child may have survived, if that medicine was available. MAY YOU ROT IN JAIL AND HOPEFULLY NO-ONE DELIVERS MEDICINE FOR YOU ESP ANTI MALARIA MEDICINES
Dr Miti stated that his juniors abused public funds when he was busy sustaining the health of the late president Mwanawasa.
“I have also noted that these payments and saga or scam took place when I was seriously engaged in sustaining the health of our late president and it was during the time our late president was indisposed in Egypt and finally in France at Percy Military Hospital where he finally passed on. Mr President you would recall that at that time I was frequenting and meeting with you at Government House when you were our Vice-President,” Dr Miti stated. “It would appear that these senior greedy officials took advantage of my busy schedule to bleed the Ministry of Health. Words cannot describe how embarrassed and annoyed I am and I am sure the same applies to you going…
conclusion –
“Finally, I pray to the Almighty God to continue blessing you in your work as President and father of our nation and indeed the First Lady,” stated Dr Miti. “I also pledge my total support and loyalty to your administration and zero tolerance to corruption for now and in the future.”
Meanwhile, well-placed sources disclosed that Kapoko is being sacrificed because of his perceived links with the opposition Patriotic Front.
“There is an attempt to shield other people involved in the scam,” the source said. “Kapoko is just being sacrificed. Now they are treating him badly in prison, he is sleeping next to the toilet.”
Dr Miti pledged his support to President Banda’s fight against corruption.
“Finally, I pray to the Almighty God to continue blessing you in your work as President and father of our nation and indeed the First Lady,” stated Dr Miti. “I also pledge my total support and loyalty to your administration and zero tolerance to corruption for now and in the future.”
Meanwhile, well-placed sources disclosed that Kapoko is being sacrificed because of his perceived links with the opposition Patriotic Front.
Iwe #2 the courts have a right to deny anyone bail if they have established that the accused will flee the country….Kapoko was the master mind of this rubbish.
Dr miti;s letter has a smell of fish ,But he denies being a fisherman himself. Well lets ask the river if he ever stepped in them.
Lets stop wasting time,Dr miti was supposed to write to the courts and not the president.And if its true that kapoko stole that much,then who stole the rest? I hate the stupid political systems in zambia in trying to make one person look bad in oder to win pipo’s confidence.Is itt not just bcoz kapoko is related to Sata and that he is allerged to have sponsored his past compaign?Quit this crap and lets face the reality.Nowonder we are not progressing as a nation.
ukulya bwino kula letelela, now you see BaKapoko you are muchifungo.
please give this man his judicial right.Stop abusing him.
Lt i hate to see my efforts go in vain.Where are the comments i earlier forwarded?I suspect you are MMD as well
Wamona nomba Kapoko. Am sure you used to do zimya neighbour and now your wife is being embarrased.
This is a great lesson to would be offenders. Look gentlemen, K500m each is nothing to these chaps, they have loot much more than that and caused seriously embarrassment to all of us Zeds by destroying our motherland’s name to donors. More so that many pipo have gone to the grave all because of these internal enemies? These chaps deserve nothing but jail (at least 60years in prison). K27b could ve vaccinated so many babies and could ve empowered our peasant farmers with fertilizer they very much are in need of.
Miti should equaly join kopoko and group its not fair to have them rotting in jail while miti is busy writing silly letters to his friend shrek for protection..
Katongo, chileshe ,kapoko kaoma, mwila gezzzz A gang of bemba thieves………. Nothing tribal only fact.
Kapoko must get used to prison food; half a billion is affordable considering that K27 billion vanished in these guys custody
I wonder why the women of nowadays can’t see from the wealth accumulated so fast that there’s something fishy going on. They don’t talk to their husbands and ask how he can all of a sudden accumulate such wealth? They are only interested in the money. And that’s what they are in love with. There’s no way a woman who loves her husband would sense something wrong and not act. Let her go through the suffering. Sorry!
Even wives of ministers. They don’t pump some senses into their husbands heads? It’s being irresponsible women. We could play a better role in families/society.
Kapoko you may have just been a small fish in the pond of corruption maintained by MMD but small or big you are a fish. your pomp has landed you where you are, and this happened to Richard Sakala. The best you can do is to hand over the stolen property back to the pipo of zambia and ulula those you swam with. if you cant then ROT in CELL!!
This man is probably safer in jail, I mean, who has the 25b kwacha..???? Why are we only focusing on the 2b kwacha. Am I missing something here?
Mary Kapoko needs company especially now that it’s getting cold. Henry must be helped by any loving Zambian. We must not be stinge especially that the commodity is between our….selves.
#45, I understand what you are trying to say, but women in Zed are also told to respect their husbands and trust their judgement and never call anything in question. If you do, then you are being insubordinate and will be threatened with another wife, girlfriend and considering marriage is hard to come by most women have no choice. I am not faulting Mrs Kapoko, I actually feel sorry for her. With as many girlfriends as Kapoko had, i wonder how many times he spent a night at home with his wife. In any case let Kapoko rot in jail.
Woman of Substance, Dr Miti’s excuses in the letter are so lame. Its only hare brained Rupiah who would believe such nonsense. “Sustaining the health of our late president”, negro please! Dr Miti just man up, and stop insulting our intelligence.
And the plot thickens!!
At the same time, they say prevention is better than cure. I think men should learn to differentiate between nagging and caring. So, where are his girlfriends? Gone. That’s how it is. He can go to his girlsfriends when the wife talks, but when his ass is out of work, it’s the wife to be there for him. Very sad indeed!
Are u telling me these monkeys deserve bail anymore than kapoko? Double standard crap!!
Misapplication of the law. The law must not have favors as it seems like right now. Dora Siliya, a criminal, may be worse than Kapoko is now a Minister to deal with other people’s children’s education. Who is pulling strings on Kapoko apart from RB? What will we do to RB once he leaves office? That will be the day independence stadium will witness the first firing squad.
# 43 Ba Sesheke. Muleinchindika, what ever you are you are tribalist, a fool, you where not taught properly and you will remain stupid for the rest of you life. how many of the other tribes do we see as having jailed for stealing is it only bembas. You must also know that people from Luapula and central province have bemba names and yet they are not bembas. Wechipubawe!!! Uluichindika kuti naisa kuuma ngole angala.
#54 stop cursing and the spare the brother the pain of his childhood.Why being so emmotional? Anyway to some extent the man is right…in that the majority are bembas.But lets use this blog wisely than cursing and insulting.Cool down brother for iam a bemba as well
imwe kadoli katapa some people are just underage respects children’s rights thats some how like plagarism of some ones body!!!??!??!LOL
ala kwena ba katongo as old as he is stealing.wat can u teach us ur children.it is so embarrassing that even newspapers from the U.S know about that!!!!INFACT THE MOST LEADING NEWSPAPER!!!!it is sad and think about the people in the villages that are suffering in compounds> ITS A BAD SIGHT!!!
kapoko na libido yalipwa,mwaiche walachulapo.lolela first.imagine all the posh beaches you used to take care of and buy posh cars are been screwed else where now for the same money you used to give them.mwachuleni mukwai
imwe ba LT mulaliamo muli kapoko.that’s why when we talk hard of him you threaten to moderate our postings otherwise i dont care LT i love you like a cup of tea.
Sad Nation all together. I wish a bit more justice could be mated on kapoko….like any body else, he deserves the best. Not what he is getting now. Any way, we shall wait and see how things move…
Interesting times indeed. The next investigation will be about the source of bail monies! koma yakakana manje…. ‘coz K500m is not child’s play, so you can’t be silence about its source.
My avice to RB: Sir, this is time to act, to show your comitment against corruption; let the ‘sacred cows’ face the music, then and only then will you get credibility from the Zambians. Let this gentleman who is trying to corrupt you by writing a ‘nursery-style love letter’ be subjected to the suffering he has caused to the dying masses. Imagine Mr. President, somebody writing a letter mentioning toilet to you! What an insult! By the way, I am talking about Miti, your Excellency Sir! We are all waiting for action. I am reliably informed that some important files at the MoH are already missing! Let Kapopo talk, I am sure he will mention Miti, even though Miti lied by saying he did not know Kapopo! Sly Simon Miti, you have gone too far for too long.
Ndekeni nemmwine naliwina! lyonse mulelandafye pali ine (Miti). Naibilefye ishinono, check my assets, they are genuinely ‘stolen’. Please stop your noises, because even RB knows how unfaithful I am! Na Kapoko nshamwishiba, nshaishiba noko abomba! Please leave alone in my brokenness!
Man oh man. Kapoko is a smoke screen. Having worked for years in the civil service, to move that much money, most senior directors and the PS must be involved. If the PS did not know, he is incompetent to work as PS. Chapwa!
why just kapoko and the rest…we are forgetting ftj…do the same and dont be selective .its the same justice.
This offence, albeit bailable, is so heinous and for all I care, no bail shoul be granted. This bail thing in Zambia is being abused, look at thieves like Chilubas, Jeojagular Musengule, Kayumba etc, they are all free men destroying all the evidence. Zambia is indeed a doomed country where a tast of democracy has male all go beserk.
KAPOKA BALAKUPOKA IFYUMA WEMBUSHI WHE!
Iyo bail kwena , nimpiya, where would one find it, unless Kapoko munobe. Belemikanda ba swine, ifwe tulechulafye ukubomba for ages to make ends meet, imwe mwasenda impiya ya panado, nakumulu ,mukayapya.
Mupose na ma key yaku cell pa Victoria falls where no diver can reach
kapoko shld root in jail.and i will take all his girlfriends.that thief used 2 pip////////damn
chi sesheke who told u bembas are fi kabwalala.its jst those thugs who dont have mercy on poor.live ur life
rudo u have brought shame on the women folk.we are trying by all means 2 empower u bt instead u even receive de dosh.u knew it was being stolen.
imwe mwandine fi kabwalala there busy using our resources into ama rubbish I go to work everyday and sometimes come home @ 23:00hrs just to pay tax and then I find that instead of it being used to help my relative someone is getting it and taking their child to baobab when i take my child to vera chiluba is rubbish FUSEKI!
mary kapoko was my wife then that thug grabbed her frm me becoz i ws poor.bt nw am happy so paid dosh frm my own sweat
L et us face the law squarely, we should not only concentrate on ka Kapoko a small thing in this terrible scam. Ka Kapoko is a nonentity ,what we want is the big fishers.:maureen, Miti, Chitowo and friends. Kapoko stole 1.9 , who stole 25.1? Miti should be in as well. Bonse tuli bana banshiwa…batata nabamayo balifya and our families are poor because of these thieves. Why should Miti be more orphan than us who are young? What a lame excuse from Ba Dr.Miti. Let him go in period.
Lt you are becoming usless . why are you protecting MIti …is he your relative?
ZP Dr Miti naeve nimbava ,kawalala wa muntu, mulongeni why is he panickng
Kapoko zala boyi, iwe you know your destiny ,a long term jail sentence, elo inda( lice mu chizungu) shapa Zed mu Chimbokaila prison ,shikakumfwa bwino mwandi
Now for a person who works for the government to be charged 500 million bail..it means he can have access it…guess where it all came from..this is useless..they are suppose to all have everything frozen so they dont have anywhere to get bail money from… If a 500 million can easily be accessable the the 27 Billion that stolen isnt that significant either
awe ba miti shld also in he deserves itno mercy on him.what abt those 32 others wat are the stil waiting the shld also root in jail.i laughed like no man’s business when i read im de newspaper dat kapoko received a tooth brush frm maiko zulu.
Miss Daisy I have a feeling you might be my neba. I see a cute lady across my street pipo say she is from Zed. I will talk to you one day , tulelosha ba chipopolo ngaba balusa
The Zambian justice system is rotten and operates selectively,the poor who steal chickens are punished without mercy and rich thieves go scot free even after being convicted.For as long as RB is president Miti will not be arrested.Remember RB is part of the Mwanawasa corruption,when Miti stole RB took a cut after all he was Vice President.The MMD government needs to be removed by any means necessary even if it means shooting them!!
What the fack!!
Fack you LT for deleting my comments,damn you MMD!!
Please forgive me!
let the judges do what they know best.
mulenga–newcastle upon tyne so your remark on amai busa you have your own rights to speak I KNOW but you shouldn’t insult amai busa she was just probably joking about the mary thing it was me who wrote it because I didnt want to be traced so I used amai busa’s name I am soooooooooooooo soorrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy for the inconvinience caused!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…
helllllllllllooooooooooooooooo
This purely shows that the chaps stole the money, how is it possible for a civil servant to pay K500m for bail? No civil servant can afford that kind of money even after retirement. This is really embarrassing to see money being wasted in tis manner when it could have been used well to improve the health sector in the country. These chaps must face the wrath of the law!