KENNETH Konga is the latest former Cabinet minister in the MMD government to be in police books after being warned and cautioned over a multi-billion Kwacha hotel under construction near Kamwala, a semi-detached flat in Kabulonga and mining equipment in Makeni.
The former Minister of Energy and Water Development in the Rupiah Banda administration is the owner of the plush hotel on plot 30778, Dedan Kimathi Road, near the Inter-City Bus Terminus, a bulldozer G9G parked at a private property on Makeni road, and a semi-detached flat on plot 50E, Sable Road in Kabulonga.
The current selling price of a brand new G9G bulldozer is US$1,000,000 (K5 billion) and the used models are approximately US$425,000 (over K 2.1 billion) exclusive of tax.
Police have seized the properties.
Police spokesperson Elizabeth Kanjela confirmed yesterday that Mr Konga was cautioned in relation to abuse of authority contrary to Section 99 Sub-Section 1 of the laws of Zambia.
And police in North-Western Province have confiscated assorted goods worth millions of Kwacha from Mr Konga’s home in Chavuma.
North-Western police commissioner Eugene Sibote disclosed this to journalists at a press briefing in Solwezi yesterday, saying the goods are suspected to have been unlawfully acquired.
In the Lusaka incident, Ms Kanjela said a combined team of officers will continue with its investigations regarding Mr Konga’s property.
Mr Konga, who is MMD Chavuma member of Parliament, was earlier quizzed by a combined team of law enforcement officers at the former Task Force on Corruption offices in Woodlands Extension in Lusaka.
He was accompanied to the Task Force offices by his lawyer ,Sakwiba Sikota.
When contacted, Mr Konga could neither deny nor confirm the seizure of his properties but referred the query to his lawyer. However, Mr Sikota said his client was being questioned over a Hummer vehicle that was bought for him by Parliament.
“It’s sad that police are pursuing him over a vehicle bought by Parliament and it’s up to you to decide whether it is a witch-hunt or not,” Mr Sikota said before he cut the line.
Meanwhile, Mr Sibote said all the items confiscated from Mr Konga’s Chavuma home are believed to belong to the former minister. “We got information that certain items were hidden in Chavuma and following the reports, our officers went there and conducted a search of certain premises where those goods were hidden,” he said.
Mr Sibote said the officers managed to retrieve 55 sewing machines, 14 boxes containing pieces for tables, 22 boxes containing pieces for stands, eight motor bikes, 80 bicycles and 135 boxes each containing 50 small winding radios.
He said the recovery of items was part of the on-going investigations which the PF government instituted after assuming power in September. “The goods are enroute to Lusaka. That is why we haven’t off-loaded them. I just wanted my officers to rest a bit before proceeding,” he said.
Mr Sibote said some of the items were recovered from Mr Konga’s home while others had been hidden at the premises of a Mr Mukwato, a local businessman. He said Mr Mukwato’s premises were allegedly hired by the former minister.
“The items are in two police trucks and two Land Cruisers which are full to capacity,” Mr Sibote said. He said police officers were dispatched to Chavuma on Friday and got the items on Saturday before returning to Solwezi on Sunday.
The trucks have been parked at Solwezi Central Police Station. A host of former ministers in the Banda administration have now visited security offices to explain their new-found wealth as the new PF government prioritises the corruption fight in a country that is potentially rich but whose wealth rarely trickles down to the masses.
President Sata has vowed to U-turn the mismanagement of the country’s resources, starting by cracking a whip on former leaders alleged to have looted State coffers.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
Instead of focusing on development they busy investigating the former government,Move Forward and stop wasting your time to just destroy the name of the former ruling party.
Clean up first then start properly. Do you start eating from a dirty table just because there were other people using it before you? I assume you clean up first then set your meal!
Flavourboy dont saythings you dont understand. I await to see how the police will handle the motor bikes issue will be handled. i know why iam saying this. its from this i will see if PF is just politicking.
@FlavourBoy my man this kind of plunder is insanity and it must be stopped and money given back to intended purpose. If MMD failed to punish thieves PF will not stop. How can all ministers be found with motor bikes and bicycles
@ Flavour Boy,
Why focus only on development and let thieves go scot free? Dont you know that there is a direct co-relation between underdevelopment and and high levels of corruption? It is this kind of “I don’t care attitude” that is destroying our country where some people even go further to glorify plunders as if its something very normal. Leaders of the former government will have to be investigated to the logical conclusion, period!
Koma bafipe aba balevoboola icacine! It is my sincere hope that PF ministers are themselves not stealing pantu the PF may have a very short shelf life and the shoe will be on the other foot. I know that HEMCS himself means good nomba bakajanja alebomba nabo we doubt them.
this is good, arrest them and bring order to this christian nation. thieves shud be caged. ba konga kawalala
Tula twabane
Flavourboy, I think fighting corruption or clearing the air off corruption is developmental!
how will zambia develop if it is full of corrupt people?…@Flavour boy…. grow up and it seems you cant even define development…how can someone possess 80 bicycles when old men and women in the surrounding villages are even dying to acquire one……CAGE THE MAFIAS…..
Fighting corruption is one thing, but seizing property before you even confirm they were obtained by corrupt practices is another thing. This is why people are calling it a witch hunt. Proper procedures should be followed. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. But right now it looks as if anyone who served under MMD is guilty until they can prove themselves innocent. There are honest ways of making money and becoming rich in Zamba. Let us not lable everyone who has worked hard as corrupt and do what we do best by pulling them down! We should also look forward to having successful businessmen and women in Zambia who can grow the economy rather than dragging people down into poverty out of jealousy and malice.
We are not against people acquiring wealth, those who work hard surely should be successful but can you show me which businesses Konga ran to amass all this wealth? Its just logical!
Tip of the iceberg. People like this make normal law abiding citizens sick to the stomach. There’s no way he would amass so much wealth from salary alone. Some have tried to hide their tracks, But God will surely judge these cockroaches…..They don’t have a conscience! people are starving around them yet they carry on stealing.
PF Govt, please probe & cage them. We demand sanity.
:o:o…… inyooooo ukupapa!! even ba Konga. Let the long arm of the law visit them- this will deter would-be offenders… Nochi achi focus on development. Let’s also clean up the mess left by MMD; this is our starting point…
Does not sound a lot of money to me, If Nick and myself sold our flat I am sure we can lead the same life, this is a joke
Thanks
Are you deranged? That’s a lot of money!!!! more than you’ll ever see in your lifetime.
“Nick and myself sold our flat”
Are you married? You just a trolling fraud, you’re just a bored boy with nothing to do, get a life.
Mushota, ignore these sad people. They just don’t seem to get the humour in you. I love it. Keep it up :d
If you were a woman, I’d be so on top of you now!
We are in for it.Fighting western province and Northwestern including former govrenements officials that all this government has done since coming to power.no tangiable thing us Zambian can be proud of.My heart bleeds.what type of people are these? Diverting technocrats from their offical duties to petty issues.I wish and can ask from my fellow blogers .how can we govern our self without these rubbish politicians.They are just wasting our time.
I didn’t know that Maxwell Mwale and Dora were from North western and Western.
It’s a wrong approach in the so called fight against corruption! At the rate we’re going, we might as well arrest all successful business men out there. Afterall, they are the ones who were allegedly bribing these ministers? My point is, let’s first clean up our Govt internal financial controls instead going round in circles. We’re wasting so much time when the current ministers are also bush enriching themselves.
ati 135 x 50 pieces of winding radios and for who? who needs winding radios and why keep them uko ku chavuma and for what? if those were campaign material why did he not distribute them to the electorate?
But these ministers had extreme excesses zoona!! All these bicycles for what when you have hummers??? Lock up the *****s, this is taking pipo for granted.
#8 Lelo – This is called collecting evidence for further investigation and no one is saying they are quilty. In my view the Govt is even slower in apprehending these thieving basta ards. If you are not informed, these plunderers are busy asking other business men to hide their stashes of money and somehow thats how they are being reported by ordinary people. Dont you worry – once corruption has been removed, clean business and development will be fostered. For your own information we still have very good and honest business men in Zambia who should not worry about investigations. The ‘do nothing scenario’ should not be an option. If this is called witch hunting then it is very good witch hunting>
Good ba LT. This is evidence based reporting. Good work by Police Officers. This rekindles hope. Hope that we can turn things around. Hope that ‘thou shall not steal’ means just that. Now, let’s hope the prosecuting team act professionally all the way to the end and not bangle it up with technicalities. By the same token, it is equally important to investigate and bring to book PF members whose sudden wealth is disproportionate to their income. And the big question is ‘what measures are PF putting in place to make sure this type of shameless selfish stealing is not repeated amongst their ranks. The World is watching our Country to see how mature we are and how this plays out.
Those chaps must be probed and if found guilty cage them. Those of you who are aganst this probe must be investigated because you are the same guys who are hiding the stolen goods. Forward with the nation PF and don’t listen to those who have nothing to offer in the development of the nation.
This word “witch-hunt” is symptomatic of a limited vocabulary. It seems to be a new word some Zambians have learned and are using it at every opportunity to sound like they know some English. Even our learned friend Mr. Sikota seems to suffer from this borderline deficiency. Expand your vocabulary, ladies and gentlemen.
Hammer? bought by parliament for Konga? can someone enlighten me please!!
Ba mushota ka flat ka mapulanga ku scotland cannot be compared to the hotel that is in the picture. Mwa sula aka sushi akabola on this blog.
# 8 and 10. The pace has been very slow. I want also to think that getting property before they are proved guilty is the way to go and not the other way round. They can always go and prove that they acquired them through legal means.
# 6. Fighting corruption is development, indeed, but it seems some people here do not realize that. It is governance issue and is the biggest problem in Africa and poor Asia.
All MMD ministers seem to have a manufacturing plant for bikes, radios & motocycles. I get it, this was VJ best erection strategy… i know the man is old..Seriously RB and Co must account for every ingwee including GRZ paper clips. Oh yaa…paper clips…There is no big or small sin. Sin is Sin, just like stealing is Stealing no matter the size. Konga must ‘please explain’.
# 1,3,8 and 12 must revisit your comments because you are out of touch with reality. # 14 and 15 from UK and the rest on top knows what this means. I wish those with different views can sit down and re think before posting your ignorance. PF is doing the right thing and Zambia being a Christian nation, such things should not even be mentioned among you because you know very well that stealing is sin. PF, please Go foward. Every one found guilty must be caged.
Is a Konga a successful businessman? What sort of business is he involved in and for how long has he been in business? Has he had any inheritance to boast of? If the answers to these questions are in the negative then arrest the wanker! Cabinet posts are full time jobs and in a normal circumstance even your business can be affected, but if your business begin to thrive because of your position as a cabinet minister then there is something wrong with the system. corruption!!!! We have seen it in America, UK, Japan ,China and in African countries, it is endemic.
Oh, and as yo expand your vocabulary, let those of us who are serious with national affairs continue purging and cleansing our politics and society of filth and corruption. Let us investigate suspects, cage those where we find evidence, and free those who are proven innocent. Meanwhile, we know that as a family we will always have *****s who either dont understand what is going on or really dont understand what is going on, so we pardon you of your foolishness. We simply wont pay you any mind. Viva PF, viva MCS, viva fight against corruption, viva caging of plunderers and looters, viva fumigation of vermin… This is just the beginning… SERIOUSLY; CANT YOU MORONS SEE ANYTHING SINISTER ABOUT SOMEONE REMOVING THE ABUSE OF OFFICE ACT FROM OUR LAWS??? ARE YOU THAT RETARDED?
With all this rot, William can even afford to stand up and point a finger on the 90 days. it cant be achieved if on average every minister in MMD is worthy 2 billion minimum. We ain’t MMD which was printing money when it finishes in circulation. My Appeal to the PF government is to offer an olive branch to former minister to surrender all their doubtful riches. if its not working discard the 50 and 20 pins in circulation and make new notes in 3 months time. people will be compelled to spend all their 50 pins
Melody, they already asked them to surrender but want to pretend to be innocent at an extra cost to the Tax payer awe these people are selfish!
Fighting corruption should also address the existing loopholes because the same people that are in the forefront of the fight will tomorrow be the culprits. Let every public figure declare their assets and properly account for the source of funds for projects such as the one above. This is extravagance to the extreme.
well done pf, these former MMD *****s made this country poor, nowonder our youth cannot find employement. how can one person acquire all this wealthy? let them rot in jell and the assets fofited to the state.
mushota tawakwata amano
I repeat, this smells like oil money for Konga. Fuel shortages,refinery shut downs, give a contract to some little company to supply the country, pricing manipulations, a cut plus kick backs. You look like you are damn hard working and a great thinker. and yet you have just taken advantage of your position. Others look like dull chaps. The whole thing stinks to high heavens! A lot of such things happen. You build massions in Chalala, New Kasama, Kubulonga, you have a construction company, a farm and go to the bank to borrow a bit to cover up…………
that is why declaring assets before you go to parliament is important. Zambia must be a place of miracles, how can Mps get richer by 200% in 3 years of RBs rule ? No wonder we have full foriengers who think this is possible. The system is so corrupt, we need a small task force to keep an eye on these parasites. If an MP spends 90% of his time on a private building site, quizz him.
# 1 comment Iam sure you are not a Zambian!! Or may be you are part of the plunderers
The Mere fact that a Hammer was bought for this SERVANT of the people is enough to lock him up..Lets move forward.
ALL THESE ARE ‘BANYANDULE’! BANGWESE ZIKO PANSI! Thanks!
But where is Peter Daka kanshi?Before the election rumour had it that he was being investigated and it was only Rupiah protecting his fat ass.Now he has been too quiet can someone give us tu data.
Good contributions apart from #1 and Mushota (as usual)…….being brought to account is not witch-hunting, Konga just account for the things that you have!!!
Konga aleshitisha umusalu pa zesco when he was just a russian trained engineer (vegitable vendor).
COMMUNICATION NEXT TO WORKS AND SUPPLY IS ANOTHER CULPRIT MINISTRY……..SO MUCH CORRUPTION…. MINISTER PLEASE CLEAN UP THIS MESS AT THIS MINISTRY…CHAPS ARE STEALING DAY AND NIGHT WITH IMPUNITY…..ACC,DEC PLEASE FOLLOW THESE EMPLOYEES—- YOU WILL BE SHOCKED ON WHAT THEY HAVE COMPARED TO THE SALARIES,LOAND THEY HAVE GOTTEN…CRACKDOWN ON THE ACCOUNTS DEPT…IT IS A MESS……..POOR PEOPLES MONEY IS BEING SALAULARD WITH INPUNITY!!!!
‘@13backbencher———————————what do you mean, the govt has done nothing, we have to clean up this mess your mmd left. People like you and your criminal mps want to bring about tribal rifts so people like this konga can hide their crimes and stolen assests hoping the govt will stop investigating you when you cry tribalism. Please Sata lock them up only then will the current and future ministers detest from robbing our country. Don,t care which thief gets looked up for stealing from our people, be it my father, my brother, my in-law, bemba, tonga, lozi –look them up to set an example.—————witch hunt my black ARSE
#1, YOU ARE NOT SERIOUS? SO PEOPLE SHOULD STEAL AS LONG AS THEY STEAL BIG AND ARE GOING TO BUILD/BUY HOTELS TO CREATE EMPLOYMENT? REASONING YA MA ZAMBIANS. IT IS NOT EVEN SURPRISING TO HEAR THAT IN FACT #1 IS EVEN A PROFESSOR.
Keep it up Ba Sata follow up only North western , western, SP, and easterners former MPs siliyass,liyatoz,kongas and don’t witch hunt the bembas such as the katele kalumabas and known thieves like saviour bravo sata
@40 bitter Pharmacist ——————–please stop hiding behind the word witch hunt and tribalism, it has become a boring broken record, you must be one very bitter person to spit crap like that.PF don,t care about your tribal problems we shall get them one by one, even if they are wp,nwp,easterners jail awaits and we don,t give a f—ck we are in boma, boma ni boma
Go get him Mutembo son!
#17, AMAYAMA. YOU ARE SPOT-ON. I ALSO FEEL THE SAME. THE GOVT IS SO SLOW IN APPREHENDING THESE RBs. THE LONGER IT TAKES THE MORE THE LEEWAY FOR THE CULPRITS TO STRATEGIZE AND START DESTABILISING THE DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMS SO THAT THE GOVT PAYS MORE ATTENTION TO CONTAINING THE ‘RIOTS’, SO TO SAY.
No.37 Uwakwisano. There is no law in zambia that compels Konga to account for his property. It is you the PF who shud prove that he stole. The obligation is on you to build a case. If the case is weak, the judge will throw out the case with costs.
don,t worry even if he played it clean we, shall work on him, we shall get our confession boma ni boma. Remember the IMF chap in new york, he was big the world over, this one even if we throw him off a bridge, we can say he jumped……….then we shall ivestigate our us, and find he really jumped boma ni boma,
I might not smell a rat when it comes to 1) buildozer 2) hotel and 3) flats in Kabulonga coz any business minded person can aquire tthese items over time. What makes me question even the above three items are the 8 motor bike, 80 Bicycles etc. Surely one can not buy 80 bicycles for personal use, unless off course these bicycles were kick backs for the elections. If thats the case why are they still at the MPs Home??? I rest my Case
Drinks at champions n Mariotte next to city center
At the rate things are going , it would be wise for them to hold off their leadership election, it would save the mmd both face and money, because what would happen if their new party president is found to have been our of those stealing and abusing govt resources?? With a leader in jail that will be the end of mmd, just a thought, but then again who are we?? they know better
nawakwi is having the last laugh. she warned you konga over that shaddy oil deal you blockered in the far east. was that in the interest of the nation or in you and your family? well, how time move so fast, today you are in a messy you will not get out of. that useless lawyer sakwiba is just making good money out of you mmd thieves. we all know that you stole and will be locked up with or without uselee sakwiba. i will be back!
#21, THAT ANOTHER INSULT TO THE ZAMBIAN PEOPLE FOR THE WHOLE LOT OF THE GOVT TO BUY AN INDIVIDUAL A VERY EXPENSIVE MILITARY VEHICLE. OK WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER GOVT MINISTERS- WHY DIDN’T THEY BUY THEM HAMMERS AS WELL? SO, THE MMD GOVT WAS FULL OF EDIOTS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM WHO DIDN’T CARE ABOUT POOR CITIZENS TO BUY SOME MINISTER A HAMMER VEHICLE. I HOPE SAKWIBA IS ALSO NOT JUST TELLING LIES!
What surprises me is the wool they are trying to pull over our eyes.. why is police focussing on the previous regime only, when they need to be on top of the game and search the current one as well. No one is perfect and why wait 5 even 10 years, for them to come back and say we’ve held so and so and have seized so much.. that money and property they are seizing now should have gone to other developmental issues .. ZP please learn to nip things in the bud.. yaba8-|8-|
WHAAAAAT A GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!! I HOPE THE PROSECUTION PROCESS WILL BE SWIFT AND POSITIVE FOR THE POOR ZAMBIANS WHO SUFFERED BECAUSE PARLY HAD TO BUY A HAMMER FOR THE KONGAS OF ZAMBIA. I HOPE IT WONT JUST BE TOO ACADEMIC AND YIELD NOTHING FOR THE POOR ZAMBIANS. CONGRATS GO TO THE LAW-ENFORCEMENT WINGS AND PF’s INSISTENCE ON CLEANSING THE COUNTRY OFF CORRUPTION.
Boma ni Boma PF move fast please afford these criminals stiff jail terms or is it at HE MCS,s pleasure kambo makani yabicha——————Loving this man, these guys really thought our country was Zambia ltd and that they owned the company. You shall soon be kaponya,s ladys in jail and remember how you insulted the kaponya,s before the elections?? how l wish l could supply the same jailed kaponya,s viagra when you lot enter jail, no rest for your wrong holes
#26 YOU HAVE LEFT ME WITH MY RIBS BROKEN- I AM LAUGHING MY LUNGS OUT. “SERIOUSLY; CANT YOU MORONS SEE ANYTHING SINISTER ABOUT SOMEONE REMOVING THE ABUSE OF OFFICE ACT FROM OUR LAWS??? ARE YOU THAT RETARDED?”. TRULY, MOST OF THE BLOGGERS HERE ARE RETARDED. EVEN IF YOU WEREN’T BORN WITH ANY SHRED OF GREY MATTER- THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. THE REMOVAL OF ‘ABUSE OF OFFICE’ ACT COULDN’T HAVE BEEN MORE SUSPICIOUS.
Last evening on MUVI TV News, I saw a cancer patient (not for the faint hearted to look at!) who needed ordinary K300pin to get lab test results and comence treatment. The man was appealing to well-wishers for assistance, yet we have these Mps with billions of kwachas to even burry under the earth and keep at farms in chavuma and who knows where, to buy hummers and build hotels and apartments in neighbouring countries while the people who put these *****s in their positions suffer untold misery. God help us!
Last evening on MUVI TV News, I saw a cancer patient (not for the faint hearted to look at!) who needed ordinary K300pin to get lab test results and comence treatment. The man was appealing to well-wishers for assistance, yet we have these Mps with billions of kwachas to even burry under the earth and keep at farms in chavuma and who knows where, to buy hummers and build hotels and apartments in neighbouring countries while the people who put these *****s in their positions suffer untold misery. God help us!…
#27. OLIVE BRANCHES LONG FINISHED IF EVER WE EVEN HAVE ANY OLIVE TREES IN ZAMBIA. WE CAN’T CONTINUE DISHING OUT OLIVE BRANCHES AT ANY OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE CRIMINAL. YOU THINK AN OLIVE TREE DOESN’T NEED ITS BRANCHES TO HOLD LEAVES IN ORDER TO CONDUCT PHOTOSYNTHESIS? NO MAN! NO MORE OLIVE BRANCHES TO CRIMINALS. SATA HIMSEF, USED THE LAST OLIVE BRANCHES ON POACHERS AND MONGU ‘AR SONISTS’. SO TELL YOUR UNCLE THAT HE’S LATE. SORRY!
How will Mutembo feel when prosecuting these guys when his own thefts are still outstanding.
When you get things dishonestly you will lose them the easly.And how come one lawyer is being used by alot of MMD officials?
VIVA PF
Mult billion Hotel civil servant?
@ 1 Flavor Boy & @14 Big Pipe??? You are very Stu.pid, we know you, as your Parents stole in MMD, what unfairness when poor Zambians have nothing to eat. You are so selfish and evil. Just keep quite as we can publish your names. Fighting corruption starts by Investigating Thieves like Konga. Where the hell did he get the money to build a Multi-Billion Hotel??
He cannot justify the source of funds. Not even a Bank Loan. How they hell you think salary & Allowances of a Minister can build a Hotel.
Shut up and don’t contribute trush..
Kwena MMD became a party of thieves. This is the problem of putting people who had no jobs but mere party cadres in high positions, they end up stealing to get rich quick. And then we say that the country has no resources when some fools are pocketing millions of kwacha? This is taxpayers money but its dissapointing to hear some taxpayers say the government is witchhunting…really? Guys you should be offended this is crime on peoples taxes. This is the reason why people choose to leave Zambia because you get tired of being led by nothing but fools with small brains and no interest to serve the people!!
# 15 Zero Option I agree with you. Indeed PF govt is commended on this move and would wish can even go further to both current and past government officials involved in national plunder. To earn national support of this fight against corruption, investigation law need to be applied blindly without selection as any partisan application of the fight will remove credibility of PF govt over corruption stance.
good development that place is strategically located pliz pliz quickly quickly give it to everlyn hone college they turn it into hostels it will benefit millions of our children and grand children instead of one selfish thief.
How come there are no Bembas being arrested for theft.Since when have they become clean. SATA is trying hard to change the unchangeable perception about thieving BEMBAS by labelling every reach Zambian other than BEMBAS as corrupt.It wont work because these arrests or is it persecutions have no trace of illigalities committed by these men anywhere whilst in Government.
THIS IS POCKET MONEY
How come a lot of Cabinet ministers in the previous regime had more bicycles than relatives? Is this what serving the people mean in Zambia,all politicians are crooked.
I just hope that PF are not diverting attention whilst they are also busy stealing. Time will tell. I end here!
Hummer bought for him by parliament?????????????????????????
All Konga has to do is get his accountant to account for the resources. His tax returns should also show that he has been paying a lot of taxes, in which case he will be let off. But we know that these were all kick-backs from the oil contracts, which pushed up the price of fuel in the country.
I support the anti corruption fight but ONLY if it is applied to ALL including the activities of current leaders before and while they are in government. Mwanawasa’s corruption fight was doomed from day one because it targeted Chiluba and only Chiluba, some of his close allies in corruption have escaped the drag net and are in fact some of our leaders today. The people now being probed for corruption, are they not from Mwanawasa era? Corruption is corruption and the crusade can only succeed if it targets past, present and future leaders whatever their position today.
nice looking building compared to the one next to it. looks like a nasa space centre or some hi tech factory. definitely not cheap.
@62 mukame , agreed.
A lot of you bloogers are s tupid or back ward. Konga put his money to good use and you brand him a thief. Its like Zambians dont like to see fellow Zambians to prosper. Zambia will remain a poor country with this kind of behavior. Zimbabwe has four billionares and the least millionare is richer than the richest Zambian. Allow Zambians to invest within the country and contribute to job creation, just make sure they pay their taxes. Thats why successful Zambians like Costain Chilala dont want to join politics because most people dont know them and you will think they have stolen.
Zo ona the nation was rotten under RB, all this money went in wrong hands yet people where dying in hospitals which had no medicines, you cant go anywhere . as nalubamba advised RB must explain why he allowed all this in his govt. infact he must have stollen the whole zambia
I think the guy to arrest is the guy that put up that building next to Kongas Hotel. Dont allow people to build things like that . LCC, or is it PF, please demolish that ugly lookig building and tell the owner to build a modern one. The same should apply to simoson. They can use Kongas blue print. Fyo tuyanda fi, nice looking structures.
@ 65 JUA JUA: Please don’t insult Zambians??? Konga had nothing before being Minister, He never applied for a loan, neither can he justify source of Funds for these Projects. This is why Zambia will never develop as people are used to stealing.
Let him tell the people where he got the cash, simple as that. Don’t just condemn blindly. Be sincere and thank our Police for this. Nothing to do with PF.
Number 63, you are right. The fight for corruption should be extended to the current leaders of which most of them are from the previos regime and want to look like they did not steal because the now belong to PF. Below is a list of people that I think should account for themselves,
1 Nkandu Luo ( ICASA FUNDS) 2. Given Libinda ( USED CDF TO BUILD NAMAKAU HOUSE) 3. Sylvia Masebo ( Dealings at Min of Local Government , Farm Purchase) 4. Panji Kaunda( Lupenga air charters) and the big one himself, M C S for the disappearance of the stolen K2 billion from MMD convetion.
68 you are right, if somebody’s wealth is disproportionate to his known income and he cannot explain it then it calls for a probe, but like somebody else has said, for God’s sake probe everybody not just past leaders. Find out how even the current leaders got their riches too, they probably showed everybody else how it is done.
This minister was a wise man who invested his money instead of drinking it off or depositing it is off show accounts.
#65 JAU JAU – you sound dull with your assumptions. While Zimbabwe can boast 4 billionnaires, 95% of its populations live in abject poverty. Nigeria has the biggest GDP and number billionnaires and millionnaires in Africa but 80% of the population live under $1 a day. Would you possibly emulate that. While Botswana has no millionnares, 90% of its population is well catered for and corruption is contained. We should encourage development but discourage corruption. I am miffed by hero worshipers like you who praise thieves
And our people have to endure ZESCO’s load-shedding because of greedy selfish decisions by leaders like our former Energy Minister here, yet you are here defending them blindly whilst you are accessing your phone in total darkness due to a ZESCO power cut.
Its ironic how these MMD former leaders like Dora & Co.owned up to 50+ bicycles yet they are extremely overweight.
Plase king cobra cage these thieves. Zambians are going without food while these useless ministers a stealing with arrogance. What a den of thieves is the MMD. Nowonder Zambia is sufocating coz of these inspid thieves. You relations to these thieves, it wont work how much you talk, us the suffering Zambians will see to it that these thieves are caged for good. Stupiid people indeed.
Justice should prevail. If quilty to face the wrath face of law, however, selective justice must be avoided. We need all corrupt leaders to be brought to book without preferences or favors. chishimba kambwili was and is still involved in copper theft scandals- money from these vices was used to spear head campaigns for PF. His riches must be probed too. Everybody in luanshya knows about his dealings in copper theft ,i mean stealing the truck loaded with copper. You tell me if he is clean. Fairness of justice must be seen or it will breed havoc.
wow so in Zambia former minister in MMD government were driving hammer’s bought for them by parliament at the expense of massive poor taxpayers, what a rich country that selfish individuals have destroyed. koma ba mafia aba baleiba and this explains why people got tired of MMD, THANKS PEOPLE HAD SPOKEN THROUGH A BALLOT. LOCK THEM UP
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Have you seen what the Pf ministers have declared? How much is Namakau Hotel belonging to Given worth? How much is Willie Nsanda’s complex near Lusaka Airport turn off worth? What about Bob Sichinga’s Housing complex in New Kasama worth? Why not ask them to account? This is why learned people are calling it a witch hunt. It is not limited vocabulary to call a spade a spade. For the sake of showing wide vocabulary you do not call a spade a pitchfork. Hence you call a witch hunt a witch hunt!
MPs choose which vehicle Parliament buys for them and they pay back the loan. If Konga chose a Hummer there is no need to villify him. What is happenning is a witch hunt.
Who said we bembas are born thieves? Such a hotel in 3 months- thats smart !!!!!!!!!!!
Mushota you ignorance is appalling. Let me make this simple. Glasgow and London are different in size and economic activities. A flat in the city center of Glasgow will cost less compared to the same flat in the heart of London. Therefore you can’t do a direct comparison. Now Zambia and UK are also different. There is also the element of multiplier effect. If a guy has £10, don’t look at it as £10. It can be double trebled or increase 10-fold or even 100-fold depending on the hand in which it falls. So don’t look at things and just do a ‘buttock-by-buttock’ translation. Look at a bigger picture. May be I shouldn’t blame you since you are just a grade 7 who opens her legs for a job. You can’t see a big picture of a argument.
Leaders all Africa seem to get away with corruption. Unless it can be demonstrated that corruption does not pay, they will concentrate on enriching themselves instead of serving the people. Even those of us who are outsiders observers could see Banda and co. were stealing. If they can be successfully prosecuted, then well and good. My question is : is the existing system geared for such action or are we again going to witness remand, no witness, magistrate unvailable, furtehr remand, charges dropped?
By the way Mushota is the flat you are talking about one of those Victorian terraced type? You need to go back to Zambia and see real houses my love. You’ll then stop talking trash on this blog. I don’t intend to be that disrespectful but Scotland does n ‘t give you the best picture of smart people from the UK. It actually gives you the bottoms scale. Take a trip to other parts of the UK then you will know what am talking about. People up there are sheepishy. Nick is not an exception which is why he landed a you and lays you.
People are thieves zooona!
RB must be castrated first for allowing his ministers to steal so much so that i mary his wife.
Ku Zambia nako, Konga got money from those Somalian oil traders, he use the money appropritely to build you people a brothel (hotel), but mwakana. That is a clean looking building you want to breakdown. You even got a nice building for Institute of Democracy from Chiluba, and he died left it… Let those ministers build for you.
fuseke iwe.
Ati pa zed pali njala while bene konga bakuba ma million? Lets introduce SHARIA law and hung these bastards!!!!!
This is stealing without mercy, chinekeee! Confiscate the properties though I know they will grow legs and walk in other people’s account definitely not Govt coffers. From Kaonga to mulenga’s account. Chiwamila imbwa kuluma mbuzi…………
#6 nice try Mushota – its not working!
Looking forward to.
Ba Flavourboy @1, what name of the former rul;ing party is there left to destroy? Are you serious?
It’s sad to see some citizens rally with MMD, please, the guys were in power not you, defend no one.
AS THINGS ARE AT THE MOMENT ZAMBIA IS NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION BUT A CORRUPT
NATION PERIOD
It It is only those who are morally corrupt will not suppot what the PF government is doing.
Something wrong with Sakwiba Sikota! How do you defend the indefensible, even if it is money. Zibwelemo mudala. Tiza kugazela
I for one is loving what my president Mr. Michael Chilufya Sata and government are doing to bring sanity to Zambia, a beacon of hope for Africa as well :)
The Greedy vs the Needy….. 1% vs 99%.
It seems ok to seize people’s property , but this does not put money
In any one’s pocket , these people have to go court first, you don’t want a
Judge giving them their properties back, dollar is on rise,people still waiting
For job, come on PF be well balanced ,give the same attention to jobs
Zambia has a culture or is it the spirit of poverty. Any Zambian who becomes succesful is either regarded as a Satanist or corrupt! Zambia is still very much a primitive country. Countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa etc have a stock of indigenous succesful business people. Zambian is a entrpreneurial desert! Mushota might be a nutter but she is usually on message concerning Zambia although Zambians might not like to hear the truth. The Konga case is a situation in which the PF guys have made themselves believe that Konga cant have this type of property. Thus you have a legal situation that works backwards. Confiscate someones property then start investigating whether he committed an offence!
@105 IreenaIts very clear from what you’ve have posted that you know little about genuine businesses/ entrepreneurship. A genuinely successful person will proudly tell you passionately how they came about their wealth right from where they got their start-up loan, what they endured all which will be expressed to you with great enthusiasm.Now what can an individual who happens to be a politician in a very influential ministerial position tell you about his/her new suddenly acquired wealth, all acquired when he is in public office. To understand where I’m coming from you first have to know the difference between an Entrepreneur or Businessman and a Politician.There is a reason why Entrepreneurs & successful businesspersons don’t enter into politics BUT instead opt to lobby politicians.
@105 Ireena
You go out and observe then comeback and report that’s your homework!!
# 1 @Flavourboy, you are a 4ool. It seems as though, Konga is your father. Have you noticed how much riches this man has? And How many zedians are in poverty? We should not allow such a situation. SATA please arrest them all.