FORMER Energy minister Kenneth Konga said he will cooperate with investigative agencies as he is a public figure who should be accountable to the Zambian people.
Mr Konga, who is Chavuma Member of Parliament (MP), said in Lusaka yesterday that he would be available throughout the process and defend himself of any allegations through his lawyer Sakwiba Sikota.
And police have intensified investigations against the former minister, whose hotel and other properties have been seized by law enforcement officers.
Police acting spokesperson Rea Hamoonga said security personnel were on the ground to establish how the Chavuma MP acquired property.
Mr Konga’s lawyer Sakwiba Sikota on Monday said the action on his client was a witch-hunt because the former minister was capable of raising money to buy property.
He said Mr Konga had been MP in Chavuma Constituency since 2006 and was entitled to a car loan from the National Assembly.
On reports that police also seized a farm in Chavuma, Mr Konga said he had never owned a farm in Chavuma.
Mr Konga on Monday appeared before a team of security officers in Lusaka’s Woodlands area where he was questioned in connection with the source of funds used to buy three motor vehicles, including a Hummer.
Mr Konga’s luxurious hotel, located near the Railway Systems of Zambia station in Lusaka, was seized under the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Act to facilitate investigations on corruption.
Other properties seized were semi-detatched flats in Kabulonga and a bulldozer in Makeni.
He was warned and cautioned for abuse of authority of office.
Other former leaders under probe are former president Rupiah Banda over the Mpundu Trust account that is alleged to hold US$1million, former Finance minister Situmbeko Musokotwane, from whose residence 1,000 bicycles were seized.
The police have also questioned former Zambian high commissioner to Canada Nevers Mumba.
Dr Mumba is believed to have solicited for $122,000 from the giant mining company, Barrick Gold purportedly to finance a cultural event while he served as head of the mission in Toronto.
Just make your money Sikota, even when you very well that these cases you are defending are extremely bad.What capability are you talking about?
“…to finance a cultural event while he served as head of the mission in Toronto”. How do we trust this PF govt which still does not know that there has never been a Zambian mission in toronto. People with brains like Konga have invested in propety while the kaponyas just want to witch hunt everyone.
Bad and rotten to the core KK (K Konga). Good KK(K Kaunda)
Witch hunt the man is ready to defend himself muleisebanya Pofye Fi pf.
foooolish.
sakwiba’s business is booming… good for him. he should whole heartedly support the fight against corruption; it sure will translate into more money in his pockets.
that hotel was good investment. some of these mega structures in mega cities in the world where built with blood money. so HH is not a big fish. ‘if you are smart you swim with sharks’
The bicycle stuff is just nonsense! These bicycles, motor bikes, winding radios, lolipops etc were campaign material from the Chinese. Come 2016 the PF will be recepients of these same goodies. Wasnt Guy ‘swine fever’ Scott in China not long ago to formalise the relationship between the PF and the Chinese Communist Party? How do you take 3 months to investigate ‘bicycles’? Seems these duds have reached a dead end!
@ Ireena
Can you confirm even Motor Bikes came from China. There is more to it and we hope the people invloved will dig deeper
Yeah, they were donated to the MMD by the Chinese for use in the MMD campaigns. This is a dead rubber it wont go very far no matter how hard they kick it. The problem is that your Police are a bunch of amateurs. They went to Musokotwane’s farm where some 1200 bicycles were stored; they confiscated them and prematurely claimed that they were acquired through PUBLIC FUNDS. Now they have the difficult task of finding ‘missing public funds and linking them to the purchase of 1200 bicycles by Musokotwane’! A fishing expedition indeed! Clever Police or govt accussers first find missing money in a govt account and identify the people to whom it was paid. Good example is the Zamtroop account from which money was paid to various people and entities!
‘Police acting spokesperson Rea Hamoonga said the security personnel ere on the ground to establish how the chavuma MP acquired the property’. So these so called police do not even have evidence leading to anything on this Konga. They just grab his property just becoz he is rich and then start looking for evidence. shame
Energy minister= petrol dollars
#2 Tumelu, #4 mwine mushi, #8 Ireena and #9 Objective, please dont throw yo bunch of ignorance on this blog. Give space to people who morally and intellectually  understand issues to contribute.
Leave them you cadre idiot
Martin, why are you still waisting the time. Arrest the Ba-ger. We knew He can be a thief a long time ago. Each time he opened his mouth we were able to see the lies.
Mwine mushi, are you suggesting that POLICE is so dull that they are just wichhunting? If so, let us wait and see. Wina azalila.
no embassy in toronto!!!!
and surely is it corruption to earn a living and create employment like Konga?
if so then arrest GBM who supplies the army with mealie meal, beans and kapenta!
how do you first grab property from someone without any evidence of foul play just because he is rich??? anyone not in PF will now be scared to be rich, is that empowering zambians???
there are lots of corrupt individuals within and outside gov’t, why not arrest and seize over evidence than mere suspicion
it is innocent until proven guilty (but in this case konga is being portrayed guilty and has to prove innocence….because police have no evidence to prove guilt)
“He was warned and cautioned for abuse of authority of office.”
Is this an offense?
Why not just charge him with theft of public property, or receiving stolen goods, or just corruption if he was given as gift.
Mutembo Nchito is back. Watch out.
I’m suprised no Bemba has been persued for corruption.This is not familiar,it is un like the norm we know in this country.Whats up.
Under that charge, Konga will win this case unless Abuse of Authority clause has been put back. And if they have just introduced it , it will not be binding for old cases. Things like that are never back dated. Police , please find a new case.
Zedians, dont defend Never Mumba’s on the $122,000 when you dont know anything that transpired. For those of us who were involved in the organization of the culture event, we know that the money was not properly accounted for and Nevers hid all the account details from everyone involved.
Bloggers,
You don’t need rocket science to figure out this Konga issue. He is corrupt to the core and you only need to look at the supplier of petrol in the country and why its the most expensive in SADC.No body had the guts to ask this question till Sata came to power. As a result the fuel price has come down. Konga was extremely greedy with his “cuts” and had he stopped getting the cuts, just after the elections they wouldn’t have pinned him down. But he was greedy.Parliament can never give any parliamentarian a car loan of over half a million dollar as he claimed. Has anyone thought about why all the MMD plunderers are represented by Sakwiba who was skinnt so much that he failed to finish his Lodge in Livingstone. Best thing is to ivestigate Sakwiba for money laundering by DEC
Where did Konga claim that he was given half a million dollars by Parliament for a car? You are a lying PF cadre! Pants on fire! These Hummers you are sweating over are no longer wanted and are not been manufacture anymore by General Motors because they are gas guzzlers. These tractors are going for as low as $10 000. Zambia is still a very primitive country that is why people like you are overly excited by this rubbish!
From 1964 there has always been a “political road” from Chavuma to Mutanda which has never been built but promised every election year. Look at the state of Chavuma and see what the former energy minister did for his constituency.If he’d cared about his people why didn’t he build a hotel in Chavuma?He claimed it didn’t makebusiness sense, so who does he expect to invest in Chavuma if he as an MP couldn’t? I guess you now understand why Chavuna is extremely under developed.After 30 years it might develop into another Kapiri Mposhi
Konga is ready to tell the world how he stole the money. He has no choice but to corporate with BOMA.
Dora won’t cooperate? Anyway has no case to answer but maybe her son could have been involved in money laundering to have worth of Liato who chose to bury his loot!
PF are on a Fishing Expedition in Lusaka because all the the lakes in Luapula have been emptied of fish by the use of mosquito nets. PF are now fishing for men in Lusaka especially of the ex-MMD Minister variety. Honestly when are we going to hear about infrastructure projects in all the provinces, economic policy decisions and the like instead of the daily rantings about political enemies, Barotseland, confiscating property then investigating whether law has been broken. Ba mudala ba Sata is no Presidential material. He is just good as an opposition politician. Leadership qualities ki noto luli!
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