Transparency International Zambia has welcomed the conviction of Sports Deputy Minister Hon. Steven Masumba.
TIZ Executive Director Goodwell Lungu said the conviction sends a good signal in the fight against corruption that even serving Ministers can be brought before the law and made to account.
Mr Lungu said it is very rare in Zambia to have a serving Minister convicted of a criminal offence.
He has since commended the Lusaka Magistrate Courts for dispensing justice without fear or favor.
Mr Lungu also strongly advised the Patriotic Front leadership to always lead by example and to be accountable for their actions and remain above board all the time and learn from Mr. Masumba’s conviction.
The TIZ Chief has since called on President Michael Sata to immediately dismiss Mr Masumba from his deputy Ministerial Position.
This is contained in a news statement issued in Lusaka by TIZ.
The Lusaka Magistrate Court Monday convicted Mr Masumba on one count of obtaining pecuniary advantage through false pretences in connection with a NIPA certificate he allegedly obtained.
Sentencing for Mr Masumba has been reserved for Wednesday, November 20 2013.  Masumba who is Mufumbwe Member of Parliament (MP) will, as a convict, spend two nights in prison before knowing his sentence as the court ordered that he be sent to prison while waiting for his lawyer to mitigate on his behalf before the court can deliver the sentence.
[pullquote]“As if that was not enough he went further to apply for a job using the defraud certificate and even earned a salary from December 2005 to 2008 July at Lusaka business technical school,” Mr Muma said.[/pullquote]
Principal magistrate Wilfred Muma said in his judgment delivered in Lusaka earlier today that  that the prosecution had proved its case against Masumba.
Mr Muma said Masumba knew very well that he did not clear his accounting technician course and also did not sit for one of the subjects to enable him acquire a certificate and later on be eligible to graduate from the National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA)  He said there was no doubt in the mind of the court that Masumba fraudulently obtained the certificate from NIPA which he used to find employment for himself.
Mr Muma said Masumba induced and duped institutions such as the Lusaka Business Technical College by using a fraudulently obtained certificate.
He said that Masumba neglected to uphold ethical standards that each and every NIPA students were taught to honour when he noticed a mistake about his qualification.
“As if that was not enough he went further to apply for a job using the defraud certificate and even earned a salary from December 2005 to 2008 July at Lusaka business technical school,” Mr Muma said.
Mr Muma further said it was clear in the circumstances that Masumba induced the business school to believe that he had qualified when infact not.
“I have not found any aorta of truth in the accused person’s testimony. I therefore find the accused guilty and thereby convict him accordingly” he said.
Masumba ‘ defence lawyer who was representing Mutakala Lisimba later asked for an adjournment to enable her prepare mitigation.
Mr Muma adjourned the matter to tomorrow for mitigation and sentencing but ordered that Masumba be taken to prison until Wednesday as he was a convict.
Masumba, 31, was charged with obtaining pecuniary advantage through false pretences contrary to section 309a (2) c of the Penal Code as read with section 41 of the ACC Act number 42 of 1996.
It is alleged that Masumba between December 1, 2005 and August 2008 obtained employment for himself as an accounting officer at Lusaka Business and Technical College using forged documents.
hard to imagine Masumba dancing in jail
and where is Sata to rescue him, surely he
deserves rescue after all he has done for PF
His Ministerial appointment was made out of spite. Now imagine the economic costs to the nation i.e. Bye-election, Ministerial pay package.
@china
iwe china,, if a cadre, i mean a PF can be pangadi to death by his own, his corpse stolen, burried in secret away from his family and declared to have died of natural causes,,…. there is NO or very little hope for Masumba to be rescued and it seems he(masumba) is NOT known by either GBM group or Kabimba group.,
The sad thing is that i will miss his dancing,,
Masumba’s awaiting fate begs the big question; will he be disqualified as an MP because of this conviction of a crime of corruptly obtaining a qualification by false pretence. If not ,then that will be clear evidence of selective justice being perpetrated by the PF’s judiciary.
Opposition MPs’ seats were nullified and yet non of these MPs have actually been convicted or arrested for their offences.
Wow “Chapita mawa milo chili pa mzako “in action but this time against the PF.
I urge PF guys to be cautious with the interpretation of the law other wise they will get entangled in the legal web.
I did pa grade 12 and did natural sciences is this a crime no way
Acquit masumba
This is all because of hh
@Wanzelu Masumba is likely to exhaust his full offering of appeals (i.e. High Court and Supreme Court), which will be an addition cost in time taken away from these courts processing other cases. Once he applies he probably is allowed to remain an MP.
Now Masumba has proved by reasonable doubt that he is not witch. His witchcraft couldn’t work against magistrate.
@Ndobo: Masumba is deputy to Kambwili, and Kabwili & GBM are tight. The all conspiracy theory falls at Injustice Minister Kabimba who openly vowed to root out all GBM supporters, starting with Emmanuel Mwamba . My propaganda is correct, Sata will do nothing about this.
Mind you Masumba is MP from Mushala’s village, in fact a nephew to Adamson Mushala… Kabimba has got the untouchables now!!
If Masumba is not sucked then courts will find difficult to pass judgement on MPs whose seats were nullified.
Ubututu wanzelu
He wont be sucked he might get sacked though
Get some grammar lessons
Or and there is nothing nzelu about your utterance s just makes you look silly and obnoxious
@JO
kaya ndiwe muntu wabwanj.
Interesting revelations, do they need to Jail him or just revoke his certificate? He still qualifies for MP / Ministerial Role if he finished Grade 12. It’s unfortunate to see young MPs being involved in such. Thought we would encourage the young to take charge than the old Fox. Too bad Masumba.
At this rate, by the time we get to 2016, Sata would have reduced Zambia to the status of, “Africas Public Toilet No1”
And your basis other than !d!0(y is? Just follow the next events don’t be as useless as TIZ
TIZ is being selective in the way they are celebrating this conviction. Why can’t they speak louder for the prosecution of GBM and Winter?
I`m sure he will be fired tomorrow.Sata has done it before(firing someone with pending court cases).
Kaya!!!
He is as good as gone.Sata is not like Rupiah who kept Dora Siliya despite the public outcry. Masumba`s ride will surely come to an end if found guilty in the final verdict.
@Saulosi, you are next. You are not what you purport to be. We have taken time to dig into your life and what we have discovered is unbelievable. Soon we shall expose you. You dare challenge this comment, you PF laptop cadre. You are better off keeping quiet and leading your fructured life.
@Sondashi…ha ha ha.I can`t help laughing.If only you knew me my friend.I`m right now sitting in my air conditioned apartment overlooking the sea and sipping on a cup of coffee.Please brother i advise to forget about Saulosi.He is just an individual you have come to hate because he doesn’t share your opinions.Get a life bro.
Icho chi Sondashi.Instead of contributing to the story chena chayamba ama personal attacks.Twalikwata sana ifipuba pa zed kwena.
Saulosi remember that Sata appointed Masumba at a time when his DPP had already authorized prosecution. What does that say about Sata? I am sure that in the country where you live Masumba would not have been adopted as a candidate for PF and subsequently appointed as a Deputy Minister, while there was a court case pending. That is just good order and so to save the system an embarrassment such as this one.
No question.
My question is: Why Zambian women look at their hips when dancing?
LMAO!!! hahaha, you are a sick, SICK man nostradamus!
Where do you want them to look when dancing? to look at you?
Nostradamus, iyoo ulichinangwa! You should show up where Zambian women are dancing so that they look at you. Amano kwati ni gold fish.
Did he do that during pf rule?Demons,u are hipping every rubbish u pick using yo dirty hands on pf.
Nope, but he was appointed to a position of authority at the height of his case. All rubbish seems to have stacked itself on PF – nobody is heaping anything on them…
Who is next?
Self confessed lier who claimed to have a diploma in forestic but in fact not
” the gangsters who killed and buried an innocent child”
if teachers and pupild r expelled for exam malpractices a cheat shld not old public office by any chance.
sata has no regard for these people from “6” and he called them “mwalishalila nga amataco” ine nga naisa, nkamitangisha nga ulufumo. anyway, masumba can go we shall have bye elections in mufumbwe
we should take masumba back to grade 12, Nisungo uyo. I wander how analytical the people who put him on that position they are. they were simply chaffed by his simple english. I think we should start with his excellency the president to the bottom. checking where they got there certificates from. Don’t touch. ine ni 10-0.
Masumba, 31, was charged with obtaining pecuniary advantage through false pretences……..
Hahahaha, he has even forged his age. Masumba is NOT 31, he was a grade ahead of me. Come to think of it, this boy went to Kasempa boys in Grade 8 in 1993. If he is 31 as he claims, it means he was born in 1982, meaning he was 11 years old in Grade 8 (1993). It also means that he started Grade 1 at the age of 3. Even if he skipped some grades, this can not add up.
Chosen One, thank you for this useful information. So the guy altered the NRC as well. Another case pliz, probe the makishi dancer.
The chosen one…..I like your analysis. Its like this guys has forged almost every document that he has kaaa???
11 years in grade 8 is a possibility for a genius ! But this guy is definitely not a genius ! Otherwise he wouldn’t have flopped at NIPA !
He also forged his NRC. Ba ACC case yamoneka nayimbi. Masumba is a forger.
The law on fake qualifications should not only be punitive on the person cheating but include those accepting the fake papers like employers. The burden should also be on the person hiring to prove that the docs in their possession are genuine failure to which a heavy fine or jail be meted out.
Nsimbi. I think it will be difficult for the employer to prove anything because the certificate itself is genuine and not from matero. The problem is the way it was obtained.
what will happen to the students he tutored?
Luckily he was just counting their cash. I think you should worry at what happened to that cash. The students were being taught by qualified instructors – luckily.
they are fake students altogether.they should redo their subjects
Real G we should start the investigations with you because you do not know the difference between ‘their’ and ‘there’. Even your spelling of ‘wander’ is wrong as I know you meant ‘wonder’. The following sentence does not make sense at all ‘I wander how analytical the people who put him on that position they are.’
Hedei, a Oyaya! Kumekela chitundu chabene. Ati tyala bati!
@Saulosi why bring in RB? Comment on the issue ! What has the President for all Zambians done to you? Dora was and has never been convicted. Your ‘Tata Bufi’ has failed to appoint a tribunal over Maseebo which RB did on Dora. So just conentrate on drinking your coffee and if anything you can as well drink the entire sea!
Zioneke…..RB made a lot of mistakes in the few yrs he was a president.
We are all sinners and fallen let us help each other.masumba could have done this when he didn’t know.let us pray that god strength him
Kapempenukileni uko imwe na imwe nefyabupuba! Just let justice have its way and don’t misuse religion here!
Iwee Bruno……So you want Masumba to be let free after being convicted? Who are you telling to pray for such a silly thing? Pray on your own!! Masumba new very well that he didn’t deserve that small paper and yet you are supporting him. Ubu christu bwama shinsha tatulefwaya waumfwaa??
Am actually dumb founded that he was even holding such a position in Governmen for a more than Six months, how did he do it? Guys you are good in what you do to have pulled this one all the way to a Ministers Salary when Degree holders are languishing in poverty with a teachers pay? Only in Africa!
Meanwhile if you could fire that fraudster so we can get back to real issues!
@cindy
this is what will bring Sata down,,, Sata was a welcome change after RB but he might turn out to be crush change..,And RB appears to be an angel because of what is happening in PF
Most of these people are around Sata are hyenas with questionable baggages,,, and they are not telling Sata the truth or advising accurately,,, this masumba was NOT supposed to have been brought in,in the first place,, these are people you give other tasks very far boma if you owe them
If Sata doesnt act now!! the poor man may end up the most unpopular president Zambia has ever had,, the people around him are evil.. just look at the fight between kabimba and GBM,, the guy whose image is being battered most is Sata
@ Ndobo,
Really shocking!
I blame him (HEMSCs) alone, life is nothing but making choices so if he allows wolves to dine with him he must not blame someone else for letting them through the door because he had the choice to either throw them out or keep them in. I feel sorry for him because i actually wanted things to work out for him, never wish anyone harm not even the most liked person around, but honestly he is the final say and ignorance is not an excuse, shame on all those around him watching without sounding the trumpet to warn him about the deep hole under the covered ground. As for Masumba…. all for what a short period of merry making? what a wasted life! Too bad for his wife and children.
Let the one who awarded him the CERTIFICATE BE PROSECUTED also.
i like the guy being currently the youngest m.p in parliament. Be strong masumba its life u have have 2 accept.
The youngest? And you believe it? He is not 31, he should also be probed for faking his age
Young??????? We have been told that he is not actually 31. He was in G8 1n 1993.Do your calculations and you will find that he started G1 when he was 3.Is that possible??He has to be prosecuted for forging his NRC too.
headlines are incorrect, they shouldn’t read that he forged. this guy remained with 2 or so subjects to clear his diploma but the institute put him on the list of names of those who were graduating. themistake he made was he didn’t correct the institution to say had 2 more subjects to clear before he could graduate. he was dishonest.
When you present a K50 for a service worth K20, your change should be K30. But when the cashier mistakenly offers you K80 and you count through and accept it as your change, you will be called a thief.
@ Imprezza,
How is that even possble? It doesnt add up where on earth has that ever been the case? If one guy made a typing error were was the school adminstrator responsible for monitoring and awarding certificates? And what about the rest of those who were in the same situation? Something is not right here and am pretty sure this had been going on for some time meaning there are a thousand more sitting on highly paid jobs they dont even deserve, it’s about time Government recalled all former NIPA students to re-examine them afresh for of them are suspects, maybe the entire country is what can one say, that explains his character and behaviour!
All those with fake degrees are sweating in their pants. Some even call themselves Doctors (with fraudulant papers )when they are not. Time will catch up with them soon ……
They should also go after all the drivers who have forged licenses or no license at all that endanger our lives every day!
Ba Masumba buKaonde yaya ,too bad for you those who steal Billions of Kwacha don’t come near the courts of law later on spend a night in jail!Selective justice under Panga Fye(PF).
Ba THE CHOSEN ONE, why is it hurting you so much and denying that Masumba is 31years? You are too sure of his age, are you the mother??? lol
The chosen one has explained that Masumba was a yr ahead of him at kasempa ……and was in grade 8 in 1993.Now Mukulumpe, do your simple arithmetic’s.
Hurting? Come on! I have given you facts on the table. If you aspire for public office, people will scrutinise everything about you. Masumba is a public figure and his conduct and deeds ought to be above board. I don’t need to be a mother to know his true age, Masumba is my contemporary.
Very poor reporting!
Since Masumba is waiting for sentencing, why doesn’t LT at least tell us what the possible sentence could be? Dig deeper….. scratch the surface……? Nope, not here!
This is also a good one: “I have not found any aorta of truth”
Uh…… the aorta is what carries blood from the heart. Unless maybe the judge is also a cardiologist, I’m sure it’s an “iota” of truth he did not find. LoL…….
Masumba is an Idi**ot – FACT
Zed Govt Stinks of incompetency – FACT
Idi**ots area all incompetent – FACT
English is a simple language – FACT
Idi**ots cannot write English – FACT
Therefore, all of YOU are IDI**OTS who are not able to string a sentence together in English, yet most of you claim to have degrees. And don’t tell me that your degree is not in English language, because neither is mine and I can still write and articulate in English. IDI**OTS!!!
YOU SWINE!!
You are also an idiot-FACT.
What have you articulated? You have just spewed out nonsense! What does, “Idi**ots area all incompetent – FACT” mean? You are a proper dunderhead!
All the best Masumba as your case is not a life imprisonment matter..you shall come out and become a succesfull person again.
Best wishes.
Govt knew that Masumba’s qualification was fake. Issue is that politics were at play. Firstly, PF needed a foot inside NW Province. They took Elijah Muchima, Richard Taima and Stephen Masumba. Muchima noticed early what PF was up to and did not want to compromise his tribes mates etc and his own beliefs. He was dropped shortly after that. Richard Taima failed to deliver even the chief in his area hence the decision to use him, then dump him. Masumba delivered Mufumbwe chiefs but has failed to make inroads into NW province. Time is moving and he has not influenced any MP in NW Province to make the cross – so he has been used and is about to be dropped. He has failed to meet his KRAs. Also realise that as long as he is close to Pres Sata, team Winter wants him out.
Masumba should respect our education system and achieve every level genuinely without altering the process.Mune kusunsumanako petebulo for you to acquire what you wish to be.No short cuts bane mukapandapofye ubwanga if such acts and vices are left untreated.The law enforcement should firmly deal with him if proven guilty and i strongly appeal to the relevant authorities to start audit of ministers qualifications with immediate effect.Investigating should be put in place to sort out leaders with forged papers from matero issuing university where any paper can be sourced.
I will certainly miss his dancing and acrobatic skills.
Ba Luba Kaonde, TIZ is right on this issue. Their comment / statement is on the conviction of Masumba and not calling for his investigation. The Kabimba and GBM issue is another and not related to the issue on the table. Masumba’s conviction should send a strong signal to all crooks in PF that you can run but you can not hide!
I smell a rat h here with NIPA authorities…’am sure they knew that HE had not completed the course but went ahead to graduate him.what a SHAME! jah jah see dem come I n I conquerer.
@permalink uli chikopo olo kakopo, it is not his grade 12 qualifications in question. Once you are convicted you become a felony, you can no longer hold office as a law maker! azavina makishi marumba
All the dancing those years was about never been caught with fake certificate
A lie can go half way the world while the truth is still tying its shoe racees. Shame on Masumba
@ Defazio You mean ‘shoe laces’ ayi? Am just guessing.
Another Bye bye- Election in Mufumbwe to proof that it has full support.
Mr. Sata knew all these things before he appointed Masumba to a ministerial position. This case was there before. Mr. Sata chose to undo all what the previous Govt. was doing by just trying to undo even the things that were good. It is gratifying though to note that slowly he is settling down and going back to what he rubbished just when he ascended to plot 1. This includes the extension of KKI Airport. Any new Govt. that comes to power should not act without thinking, it is Zambia at stake not a political party so please good development plans should be carefully concluded. Zambia will not be developed by just printing Chitenge materials of political parties but by continuing on the development path that has been carefully thought out.
That’s why I consider all those MPs who cross from one party to the other as people who lack integrity!!
See how this boy Masumba crossed?
Shameless guy……….
All those pictures dancing everywhere? What do they tell you…….?
Okey I have judged mwandini……. and cilifye!!!
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