The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested two government officers for corruption and abuse of office involving over K1.5 billion.
ACC Public Relations Manager Timothy Moono disclosed in a statement to ZANIS in Lusaka yesterday that Mwala Katundu, 33, and Emmanuel Gabby Nguni, 53 both of Lusaka have been arrested in connection with rehabilitation works at Livingstone Central Prison.
Mr. Moono said Katundu, a Quantity Surveyor with the Ministry of Works and Supply, Buildings Department, was arrested for one count of abuse of authority of office for certifying that rehabilitation works at Livingstone Prison were fully done when in fact not.
His co -accused Emmanuel Nguni, An Assistant Director Monitoring and Evaluation at the Ministry of Home Affairs was arrested and charged for two counts of corrupt practices by public office and one count of abuse of authority of office.
Nguni is alleged to have received K5 million cash gratification from Yolomino Mbewe, the Director of Choice Build Ltd, a company contracted to conduct works at the Prison for facilitating the award of the contract.
He is also charged for directing a total amount of K7 million be paid to the company without following laid down procedures.
Nguni is further charged for corruptly accepting or receiving a total of K86 million cash gratification as an inducement or reward from Yolomino Mbewe for having facilitated the payment of alleged extra works at Livingstone Prison amounting to K700 million.
Both Nguni and Katundu have denied the charges and have been remanded in custody and are expected to appear in court.
The arrest comes in the wake of investigations the Commission has been conducting in the manner rehabilitation works at the Livingstone Central Prison were conducted and certified complete.
Choice Build Ltd was in 2009 contracted by the Government of the Republic of Zambia to rehabilitate Livingstone Central Prison at a total contract sum of K3.4 billion.
However by the end of the purported execution of works which was a contract period of 28 months, and at the time the contractor was about to hand over the works to government, it was found that the works were incomplete and the Government had paid a total of K4.1 billion which includes the unapproved K700 million .
ZANIS
Catch the thieves. Jail them and throw the keys. This is how these people have undeveloped Zambia…shaaaa.
Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.
They will be freed after about a year of back and forth to the courts. This is the perception we now have of the justice system: moribund.
THESE SELFISH FELLOWS SHOULD BE CAGED AND PAY BACK. THIS INCIDENCE IS JUST A TIP OF ICEBERG. MOST GOVERNMENT WORKERS AS WELL AS POLITICIANS IN THE RULING PARTY ARE BUSY STEALING EACH BLESSED DAY THEY GO FOR WORK. ZAMBIA HAS NOT DEVELOPED ANTI FRAUDULENT SYSTEM WHICH ACCOUNTS FOR EVERY PUBLIC MONEY RELEASED FOR PROJECT DEVELOPMENT. ZAMBIAN LEADERS ARE THIEVES. THEY ARE NOT HONEST IN SERVING THE PEOPLE OF OUR LAND.
When the VP says we have many Mambalas for Civil Servants, ati iyo he is witch hunting
We have always seen this issue coming; our colleagues have become wealthy in a very short time, owning properties when in fact their earnings are not commensurate to their wealth. Worse, so do not have professional practices that they could point as the source of their wealth. No tax records and all. Now, who said education is a key factor in stoping pilferage? We always ostrocise the “uneducated”;yet they are more pasionate about developing this country. Such a shame to the quantity surveying (cost engineering) profession.
Let Mbewe pay back what he has been doing to his works of not paying them, sorry to my boss construction team are endangered people your works and life are on life line too bad.
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