Former Transport and Communications minister Dora Siliya has been granted K50 million cash bail with two working sureties. This is in a matter in which Ms Siliya is charged with two counts of abuse of Authority of office following her arrest and subsequent detention yesterday by the joint government investigative team.
Ms Siliya who spent a night in the cells at Woodlands Police Station appeared before Chief Resident Magistrate Joshua Banda in Lusaka this morning for plea, and denied the charges.
In the first count, the former cabinet minister is alleged to have directed the cancellation of a duly awarded tender worth 9 million Euros for the supply, delivery, installation and commissioning of the Zambia Air Traffic Management surveillance Radar system to Thales Air System SA of France.
And in the second count she is alleged to have accepted a free offer from Selex Systemi Integrati S.P.A of Italy for the repair of a Radar head at the Lusaka International Airport without following procedure resulting in the government losing close to K2 billion.
Her lawyer Sakwiba Sikota in applying for bail told the court that it was unnecessary for the Task Force to deny his client bail with impunity. He said Ms. Siliya has complied to all the summons of the Task Force and has presented herself many times she has summoned for questioning stating that he did not therefore see the reason why the investigative wings refused to grant her bail.
Trial in the matter has been set for 7th, 10th and 11th May 2012, and 26 state witnesses are expected to testify.
QFM
Dora, how was your hotel room? Did your leg get used to your new room. Get ready to spending your nights there. The soft bums wil be tough bums. Anyway you were warned. And for the current ministers ensure the prisons are renavated otherwise…
hey zambia resembles a police state now.shocking cases!
Wish you good luck ba Dora.
K50 million bail is not enough. these people should pay back what they took from the poor.
when they say 50 million kwacha bail it doesn’t mean that you have to pay no. you only pay that if you jump the bail.
One day in the cells.
Mwapusukeni mukwai!!! but be assured you will be back there sooner than later..not surprised that you paid ZMK 50 million(cash) bail without any difficulties
50Million is pocket change to Dollar..Am glad that Dora has finally appeared for mention. Obviously the DPP has determined that there is enough evidence to convict this criminal. Now dollar has to contend with Nchito who is far much smarter than her. wapya Munzi
Another comedy. It will be bail, bond, bail, bond, bail, bond, bail, bond until acquittal
Hang on, iam on my way to see you. You cant leave now.
#1 you are jst frustrated with life man get life
Tashichela mumo, from “smart Dora” to “filthy Dola”, from no visitors in my room to no visitors near the toilet.
Petty jealousy, Go Dora. you shall be our President one day. Take these arrests as a publicity stunt to make you popular
Mwalelya bonse? She will be your president alone.
Tashichela mumo, from “smart Dora” to “filthy Dola”, and from “no visitors in my room” to “no visitors near our toilet”.
Fyatile taumfwa,wansekesha.
:o ms dora dnt wori too much,just face d challenges to becme an hero,because sucess comes with challenges,bewise in decision making,gudluck at may trails
I like your coment but
Bum!
Dora we love u mama.God il bring justice
#.8, well spoken @ 26 state witnesses are expected to testify. One of them is HB the fugitive. Speed up the process.
Hater keep hating and Dora will be smilling. I like her stance. Go Mwana Mwandi!
We are fighting corruption by talking all those who single sourced to court. Meanwhile there is nothing wrong in my relative renovating my official without any transparent public tender.
**===d>:)):)) it’s not over you better prepare another 50million!! ah ah ah ah ah ah!!
have a correct name and you wont face the law, new justice system in place.
But why is she still miss at her age? Is it still of her bed wetting problem? How manytimes did she change her dippers in the night? Ooooops she wiwied on an inmate.
PF by the way you should thank people like Dora as their actions helped propel HE President Sata into Plot 1
So, she also used that ka toilet? Maybe she held on to it until she came out..
twalyamo 50million elo zachepa ka.did she become blind?
let her face the law.balisamwa saana ba ngwele.we will see now who is smart between ba dore chisusu na bantu baibila money.face the law *****
Let the trial begin. and she thought she was smart,
50million bail for Dora is not enough,she is supposed to pay more than 200million.Its mistake that she is out.Ha,ha,ha,ha even demanding to be in cells with slippers and glasses.Who told her that law breakers should be treated with kid gloves?When we are taken to cells or jail the law should not look at health status or what ever, we should all be treated the same.I have seen alot being to cells in much worse situation than dirty Dora.I hope her prayers were received by satan.
He who seeks equity must come with clean hands,who knew Dora ,can one day be on the other side ,let alone insulting the ex husband in public ,God bless you Chisha ,Dora life is fair ,the sun shines on everyone ,the rain ,rains na pa ndoshi …..Lesson learnt people ,i know if she is my relative or i used to dine with i can feel sorry for her ,but awe mwandini let justice prevail ……..smart Dora sorry but aweeeee iyeee.Ati “Sata is a mental patient “‘ iye imwe sure uyumwana
Lets hope the arrest of Dora will not be considered as illegal by the next government. PF may reep what they are sowing one day. I see Dora having the last smile….., Witch hunting is different from fighting corruption. I wonder how witch hunting will bring food on our tables, let fools celebrate on petty things, am worried as unemployed youth…..
Fertile time for the bachelor of liars (lawyers) in Zambia now. Time to milk the MMD corrupt bastards. Smiles are all over the faces of my former ruin and new res monks who did Law and running their law firms. I should have gone for law as this Engineering degree i otained is not bringing money at the pace I wish.
Those charges are no different from single sourcing renovations of state house. The International community are watching and know this is not about corruption but vindictiveness. Besides, I would have done the same had I been minister at the time. She saved the country money and is now being incarcerated for such a good deed to the nation. It would have been wasteful to throw a unit that’s repairable and spend millions of dollars buying a new unit. She made an excellent executive decision as far as I can see. Â
Why is Dora looking like she spent the night at a funeral home? Maybe those jail cell bugs, ate her soft bums and she didn’t sleep? Or is it maybe she was praying all night long for her bail to be granted? Or maybe she’s been humbled enough now to realize that, the “hour has come”?Whatever her story is, she sure does look a hot mess. I don’t even think she had time to “wash up”…eeeewwwwyyuuu!
Ok, but k50m bail is plus two working surities is reasonable. Dora is not going anywhere anhtime soon. I will follow this case and many others with keen interest. Have you heard waht Dora’s stupit son said today? Useless boy that one!
Is this the woman Ruphia once called smart? She forgot one thing, all days are for the thief, only one for the owner. Hope she will be able to prove her innocence.
…and in other news, Meanwhile, police sources said as Siliya, who insisted to enter into the cell with her slippers on, was entering the cell at around 16:50 hours, she audibly complained as to why there were no seats in there.
“She was saying ‘there are no seats here and you people know that I have got a leg problem’,” the sources narrated.
OK BA LT MODERATOR, YOU’RE STARTING TO ANNOY ME WITH THIS “APPROVAL” SHIT. WHY ARE ALL MY POSTS PENDING YOUR APPROVAL? and yes, am SCREAMING AT YOU!
God I miss Lucy Sichone
There is no vindictiveness here,Sata has continued from were Mwanawasa left off,RB was a fake and his reign was a sigh of relief to criminals,now we back on track.Dora needs to pay for her transgressions against Zambia.This woman was arrogant and a thief.She should have remained a news reader
at ZNBC,this time she could have risen nicely to senior position,but she rushed leaving er colleagues at ZNBC,now we know how she used her bums and bottom power to wrggle her way to the top.
Cowards and classless people, fighting a woman. Good luck Ms. Siliya!
she will be jailed
Zambians! you are busy manufacturing your future president. remember all of them go through a similar odeal. It is however a sad thing if she really did what she is being accused of. If she did she should face the law. Those in power should also know that they are busy creating there future path. As someone has said, please let us renovate our prisons because we never know who will go there next. Prisons are like hospitals!!!!!
Yaba Chi Dora after sleeping in the cells, chifwile chachi bainda. Banigambila Stooooggga, navela mushe ati nizisamale neka mayiweee
@43 Mojito, you’re a fool, LMAO. Funny but that’s the ka song I was humming too when I commenting on here. Over night mu cello, hah si vintu!
The charges do not inspire me.
i dont understand how “administrative actions” taken in course of one`s duties can amount to a criminal offence. i thought as a minister, she had an operational framework to execute govt policy at the time. To the extent that we cant prove that she had pecuniary advantage from her actions, how is it abuse of authority of office. I thought if there were any adminstrative lapse, which could have resulted in govt losing money, why not administratively surcharge her. Why so much hate, malice and vengeance???????????????
I wish i was in cells with dora,kuti walya.
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