MMD Chisamba Member of parliament (MP), Moses Muteteka has been found with a case to answer in a Lusaka magistrate’s court.
Principal resident magistrate Aridah Chuulu in her ruling yesterday said the prosecution had established a prima facie case against the defendant warranting the court to put him on his defence.
“The prosecution has established a prima facie case against you the accused person on the charge leveled before the court. I therefore put you on your defence after considering the evidence from all the witnesses called to testify in the matter,” Ms Chuulu said.
Mr Muteteka who is also MMD party national youth chairperson is facing one count of theft of a motor vehicle contrary to the Laws of Zambia.
Particulars allege that Muteteka on May 24, 2010, stole a motor vehicle namely a Mitsubishi Fuso light truck registration number ABX 3529, valued at K75 million, the property of Chibombo district (Chisamba Constituency) which he registered in his name.
The accused person pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The former MMD local government deputy minister was arrested on August 17 last year for the offence.
Through his lawyer Friday Besa, Muteteka said he would give defence on sworn evidence after his rights of defence were explained to him.
He said he would call four witnesses once he opens his defence and indicated that he needed time to prepare himself.
He was also arrested recently and charged with nine counts of corruption and abuse of office.
The matter had been adjourned to May 3 for opening of defence.
And ruling in a matter in which Andrew Banda is charged with corrupt practices yesterday failed to take off because the magistrate handling the matter was out of the country on national duties.
The matter which was mentioned by magistrate Wendy Chibesakunda was adjourned to April 9 this year.
This is in a case in which Banda, son to former President Rupiah Banda is facing charges of solicitation of a two per cent cut on all payments made by the Road Development Agency (RDA) to an Italian contractor Fratelli Locci.
In the first count, it is alleged that Andrew, being a public officer as first secretary at the Zambian Embassy in Italy and later deputy high commissioner to India, solicited and agreed to receive gratification from Locci amounting to two per cent of all monies paid to Frattelli Locci SRI by RDA.
It is alleged in the second count that Locci on the same dates in Lusaka, agreed to give gratification to Andrew amounting to two per cent of all monies paid to Fratelli Locci SRI by RDA.
theft of a motor vehicle is non bailable; is he on bail or police bond
If you look at the monies stolen by politicians and their cronies, it shows that we are a rich country and we deserve better than we currently get from govt.
Its entirely up to us to be proactive and push for better services.
We must refuse the non-availability of funds as reasons for mediocre service delivery
Why poverty in midst of plenty? the answer lies with us!!
This Andrew was also charging $500 to use statehouse toilet.What a pathetic family.
Lelo lelo, lelo akalendele, ine nshaliko nali kumabala, naba mayo……………………, Ifyakulya ubushiku fitulila kumalushi.
this should be extended to kitwe city council where Directors offered themselves utility vehicle and surrendered their own vehicles but leter they offered themselves to buy the same vehicles they surrendered
so where are all these bloggers supporting MM, we have said this one too many, MMD was reckless with tax payers money, dont forget that Locci has turned state witness which means these charges are not to be treated with kid’s cloves, what you see and hear is just the tip of the iceberg, I for one think Andrew is a good guy though he was badly influenced by what he started seeing during his father’s tenure in office, its like every time he turned his head everyone was receiving brown envelops…stealing become order of the day in MMD….pay the tax payers every cent you stole you greedy chaps…eishh
thats what happens with pipo who has no principals,moral and no heart for poor zambian pipo becoz they only hink about themselves.no matter how rich they are they always want to get richer on the expense of poor ordinary zambian.he is chewing he own chloroquine tablets
LET HIM JUST JOIN PF, WHAT THE HELL IS HE WAITING FOR?
AND ALL HIS CASES WILL GO AWAY IN A SHORT WHILE, NO SECRETS ABOUT THIS, HUMBLE YORSELF MR MP AND JOIN PF, THEY WILL FORGIVE U
What is wrong with this Banda family? Bwezani,Harry,now Andrew?The entire family is being accused of this or that.
That was MMD at its best! People stole money, some buried billions in the ground, one wonders how many billions were misdirected? And if Muteteka has to face the law then everyone else with such case should go through that, selected persecution is not fair. Bring all them to book!!!
I believe Zambians are intelligent to analyse issues splendiferously and arrive at a factiful verdict. The democratic ideals muted by MMD in the dispensation of multipartism are without doubt the most progressive new ideas as Zambians have gone through. They still remain so. We cherish the ideals of democratic governance and we should beready to defend these hard earned values for ourselves. Having said that it is orthodoxy Zambians being intelligent that MMD itself amd principles are not inspiring to the nation. IT IS INDIVIDUALS WHO WHILE IN MMD DISPLAYED UN DEMOCRATIC VALUES INCLUDING RB AND SATA.
The case of Hon. Muteteka is a torture and finding ways how to get rid of him from that constituency. So that they create a by-election, PF at work.