Former defence minister George Mpombo has been sentenced to 9 months imprisonment for theft by public servant, forgery and uttering a false document.
Chief resident magistrate Joshua Banda convicted and jailed Mpombo today after he found him guilty of the offences.
Mpombo was facing three counts of forgery, uttering false documents and theft of public funds amounting to K18, 000 which related to his failure to retire imprest.
In passing judgement , Mr Banda said a deterrent sentence would be appropriate so that other leaders would learn that when one was called to serve in leadership position they should do it with the highest degree of integrity and honest by accounting for public funds.
Mr Banda who said he was alive to the fact that Mpombo deserved lenience because he was a first offender and senior citizen who served in various portfolios including that of acting president of the country said that a highest standard of conduct was technical of a senior citizen.
Mr Banda said that the prosecution had proved its case against Mpombo who is also former ambassador to Nigeria because their evidence proved that Mpombo was a participant to the originating of fake receipts evident to his instructions to his driver to look for receipts from places where he did not even lodge.
He said that the fact that Mpombo had used another person to obtain the forged receipts did not absolve him from being accountable to the offence.
Mr Banda said that he found it difficult to believe the testimony by Mpombo in his defence that he was not aware that the receipts were fake because he was preview to the happenings concerning the issue.
He said that there was no Luangwa lodge as was indicated on one of Mpombo’s receipts which Mpombo submitted and that did not even pay anything despite having been given K10, 000 from his ministry but it was the ministry of defence in Chipata that had paid for his lodging at Luangwa house by way of a cheque.
But in his mitigation to the court, Mpombo ‘s lawyer Abraham Mwansa asked the court not to slap a custodial sentence on his client but consider other options of suspended sentence or community service because he was remorseful of his actions.
Oh Bragaddacio!
This is Political Brouhaha!
The Magistrate is a turncoat and probably a Kleptomaniac.
Free my Mpombo
Free George Mpombo,,, my Mandela
This is flabbergasting goobledygook from this lugubrious-looking magistrate! When Mpombo is emancipated he will launch a redress to ameliorate the blemish visited on his public countenance!!!! You rock, Mpombo!
ifiko ka Mpombo
Mwamona nomba ba Mpombo ukutwema ifyakutola fye. Lies never take you anywhere. You tried to cook lies against RB to buy your freedom unfortunately even that has backfired.
Sata VSTC has out smarted you just like he outsmarted Prof Chirwa. Both of you guys have the IQ less than Sata VSTC ‘s. Prof Chirwa might have academic qualifications but he is not intelligent enough.
Academic qualifications are acquired through 95% extremely dedicated hard work and only 5% intelligence. So having a degree or PHD does not necessarily mean you are intelligent. Evidence is there for all to see mostly in the PF government. There are have highly qualified people in PF who are not intelligent enough to shape sound and acceptable social – economic policies.
SATA. VSTC(Victoria Station Toilet…
No more presidential aspirations. Packed and forgotten. Let go bane. The way to go.
Mr Mpombo so you were also doing the donchi kubeba while condemning others of corruption
They all do it. Even with the current government we shall hear of the plunder when they leave office. We will come to learn of offshore accounts and the rest.
bombarstic words in prison, teach the prisoners
Ama receipts ya imprest yalishupa ukuchita balance. Ba Mpombo, you don’t write the same date on all the receipts. You should fight to have your name entered in the Guinness Book of world records because you are the first person to be convicted of this crime in Zambia where the majority of government employees present fake imprest receipts on a daily basis.
You need to steal real money like Liato
mpombo fisungu fisungu, what z next wth ur political party. walinyelele kutulilo mambala, wala chimona ni dont kubeba
Whatever happened to his allegations of RB and sons being involved in $100 million dollar arms deal?
They are still trying to translate his evidence to simpler English…
Ba Banda ati jail yabalanda. Rich people are not supposed to be jailed.
uttering a false document ?
Legal jargon!
The judiciary should be commended for jailing political heavyweights and it shows that prison is not only for poor people.As for Mpombo he has the right to appeal up to the supreme court if he is not satisfied with the magistrate’s judgment and he should not cry political persecution because his case was instigated by his former party MMD. In life people reap what they sow.Too bad for the old man.
Now that things are unfolding what about the current 2 deputy ministers who forged quotations and bought second hand vehicles as ambulances?
The Auditor General was on air to tell the nation that these ministers misapplied CDF in their constituencies but where is CARITAs,SACCORD and Transparency International on these theft by Public Servants serving as Deputy Ministers
bregadecx demagagu glll nu kuyfcghfxdhcgvjbkjl;
Cabipa mwinsho! pano ndishi ba Yawe Lesa wa mabumba bukumufumyeni.
Thz is political sammersault or embroglaria, mpombo im misin yo english, teach prison officerz plz
Ba mwisho, teach the prisoners political english. chabipa ba mwisho. mubeko strongu
Do they have enough prison room if they were to go after every check bouncer in the country? Clear cherry picking prosecution here..
What a joke? Nine months only. Yet Kapiri SALT thieves got years on their heads. Yes it depends on who you’re or wako niwako!! This Mpombostic bombastic was too loquacious in the first place, dah!! no big useless words when you want to hide your stupidity in uttering accounts. A small bravo to the Judicial system anyway!! Chimanjeni chikabenga cha ndlama. Let all those that benefited from Nchekelako like Mpombo’s driver ( big THANKYOU ) to come out and expose these VIkawalalas.
Sorry my magnanimous mpombostic friend!
They hung you on the smallest of things for which the entire flamboyant government and civil service is bracadociously guilty!
Don’t you have a good Lawyer to bail you out like Masumba?
Go and change your ways Mpombo or the rough ways of jail shall surely change you.They’ll hang you by your long beards,lol.