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Kambwili under probe for using public funds to run adverts congratulating himself for obtaining a degree

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MINISTER of Youth and Sport Chishimba Kambwili displays a copy of the 2014-2018 Luanshya District Strategic Plan, as District Commissioner Harold Mbaulu(left) and Luanshya Mayor Nathan Chanda Bwalya (right) and Town Clerk Alex Mwansa looks on during the launch of Strategic Plan at Luanshya Civic Centre grounds
File:MINISTER of Youth and Sport Chishimba Kambwili displays a copy of the 2014-2018 Luanshya District Strategic Plan, as District Commissioner Harold Mbaulu(left) and Luanshya Mayor Nathan Chanda Bwalya (right) and Town Clerk Alex Mwansa looks on during the launch of Strategic Plan at Luanshya Civic Centre grounds

The Anti Corruption Commission has disclosed that it is investigating Sports Minister Chishimba Kambwili for alleged abuse of office.

ACC Public Relations Manager Timothy Moono confirmed during a quarterly briefing this morning that Mr. Kambwili is alleged to have directed the Ministry of Sports to advertise congratulatory messages in the Times of Zambia and the Zambia Daily Mail for the Bachelor of Arts degree in public administration he obtained from Copperstone University on the Copperbelt.
[pullquote]The Commission does not need permission from anyone to investigate any public officer [/pullquote]

“I wish to confirm that the Commission has opened investigations against the Minister of Youth and Sports, of course we do not disclose details of the investigations in order not to jeopardize them but I can state here that the investigations have to do with the adverts that were caused to run in the Daily Mail and the Times of Zambia congratulating Hon. Kambwili for obtaining a degree from Copperstone University,” he said.

Mr. Moono has also disclosed that ACC has commenced investigations on former Tourism Minister Sylvia Masebo for alleged abuse of office.Ms. Masebo is alleged to have directed Zambia Wildlife Authority to pay for accommodation for witnesses who testified in the Roydah Kaoma tribunal that was probing her for professional misconduct.

Mr. Moono has revealed that the commission has recorded warn and caution statements from PF Pambashe MP Ronald Chitotela and his Mwansabombwe counterpart Rodgers Mwewa.

He added that investigations regarding abuse of office against former Permanent Secretary for administration at cabinet office Anne Mwewa have reached an advanced stage.

And Mr. Moono has clarified that ACC does not seek permission from the appointing authority when investigating Ministers.

He explained that the commission only appropriately informs the head of state before they commence any investigations.

“What we are required to do is appropriately notify the appointing authority in this case, State House, that we are investigating some of his officers. I think this is what some members of the public are construing to mean we need to seek authority from the President. This is not true. The Commission does not need permission from anyone to investigate any public officer,” Mr Moono clarified.

69 COMMENTS

  1. Ba Kambwili nimwe, why get so excited over a BA? People is Zambia are getting degrees like sweets.

    • cage this beached whale that has more bad cholesterol than brains

      I hope the efforts that we are seeing with ACC of investigating serving ministers, deputy ministers and other govt officials can be supported by all Zambians that want to see corruption being seriously and vigorously fought.

      its a way of holding leaders to account

    • Is it not only last week that this very MP was claiming that he was excluded on the list of “Useless PF MP’s”? I mean what else does one say when you have Ministers either directing or approving a ministry to spend money publishing congratulatory messages aimed at them? Well if Sata did not have you on that list, then he also confirms just how useless he is as well.

    • Why Copperstone University and not UNZA?
      But Kambwili is useless, why advertise for such a university, who owns it, maybe its PFs?

    • In fact Kambwili was better off without a degree, now he becomes useless.
      Let Sata stay “uneducated”, what and does he need a degree?

    • Kambwili hoe, I told you HE President Sata will challenge you to be useless as well. It is no rocket science that he has approved your being investigated. Let us see how much clear you are according to your claim of not being useless.

    • kambwili is very proud of himself for nothing , a fired is on his way , i got bachelor in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING and AUTOMATION in CHINA nothing to be proud of myself them finding ways to work and help mother zambia in what we are lacking but hahahahaha ba kambwili just obtaining Bachelor of Arts degree in public administration oh my GOD poud to hell,wait SATA is coming to fire you ,you talk to much man

    • BA studies promote critical thinking skills that most engineering studies don’t teach. BA degrees are beautiful for their capturing human behaviour be it in the arts, social, psychological, economic, business, political. They help paint a people’s soul, something unique no other nation has. Call it a differentiator. USA is most fzmous for its culture penned by BAs. BAs and sciences complement each other, any economy needs both. So dont go thinking u got an engineering degree u r better, do some CRITICAL THINKING first. Forgot, u were an engineer. In fact, the most prominent and vocal citizens usually come from arts, humanities. They can ARGUE their thoughts in public engineers cant. Dont make them better, society needs both

    • @Nostradamus
      why not UNZA?… Kambwili is sharp, he knew that if he went to UNZA,,, HH was going to be invited and he(HH) would come and lecture him.kekekekekeekek! worst! also to be lectured by President Kawakwi! and if he (Kambwili) failed at UNZA, those boys at UNZA dont have no `respect` they can run an advert saying `Kambwili na pona`

      so better and good for Kambwili pa corner university ku CB donchi kubeba

    • Is this a joke or what? If the investigative wings are independent, why then is Wynter Kabimba’s alleged corrupt practices not being investigated? You cannot fo.ol Zambians anymore. Even the Corrupt Anti Corruption Commission Public Relations Officer is just being diplomatic by claiming that the commission does not need any permission from Sata before investigating any of his fellow corrupt PF chaps. The truth is that Sata shields his cronies from being investigated. Ms Wandi is always scared to institute investigations on anyone perceived to be connected to Sata. She (Wandi) has failed to resign on moral grounds because she is also eating from the same pot of the PF corrupt idio.ts. The whip will crack one day and all those who have eaten from the Zambian pot illegally will have to pay.

    • Questioner, everytime I gravitate towards UPND, I hear plans of retribution and I move back and stay on the war. Kambwili, Chitotela & Mwewa are all PF mps and ministers. They have broken the law and are being investigated under the same PF GRZ. This is how it should be. Your all are corrupt attitude is wrong & will yield nothing.
      So bwana, get a life & stop sounding mad at the world, including yourself.

    • Ba Kudos imwe!!! Since P.F. took over running Zambia, our beloved country has turned into a corpse, like your profile picture.
      Get real, a lot of corrupt officials are NOT Investigated by Sata, coz he still needs them. Once they outlive their usefulness to Sata, like Kambwili & Masebo, they will be thrown to the Scrapheap! If P.F, is transparent & NOT Corrupt, why were G.B.M’ haulage contracts ripped up after he was no longer useful to “The Cobra”??

  2. excited with a paper dubiously obtained, assignments done by paid people who research and write for him and he just signs………from a questionable private University….? CONGRTULATE YOURSELF….LOL!

    • When Sata said his ministers are useless, you thought it was a joke right? These are the signs for all to see. The next question will be how come there are still serving?

    • When Sata said his ministers are useless, you thought it was a joke right? These are the signs for all to see. The next question will be how come they are still serving?

    • Copperstone University should have just given this hippo an HONORARY degree in DISASTER MISMANAGEMENT!

      With HONORS in stupidity in making USELESS statements!

    • that is the reference we used to attach to sata before 2011 elections, now the results of such a warped assessment criteria is exposed. by the way what works has kambwili done you claim to have seen?

    • Ba Matipa,
      Kawili and HEMCS are two different people with two different agendas thus, how he does things now is different from how the president did things before. Kambwili is a Minister who does what he does for the people and to show his boss that he can do a better job than the useless ministers (to keep his Job) while the president worked a tone harder so he could convice all of you to give him a Job. I dont think Kambwili is stupid enough to play Mr Bean? I dont trust this but I know he works harder than some Kabimbas. What work has Kabimba done apart from painting every one black in the party? Go to C/B, you will see how things have improved, Look at Disaster stadium, havent you seen the touch of Kambwili?The only reason people are being spiteful at him is because of one man!

    • my sister cindy, I live on the C/B in a town I will not mention, to say the least it is a disaster. even the much publicised dual carriage between chingola and kitwe the contractor is just ‘kuwayawaya fye’ corruption at its best. besides you have not specified what kambwili has done as a reference for hard working!

    • I have seen this man being taken away by mine police he used to steal copper in Nchanga. He just talks to much, him and cobra are one and the same useless, Chapwa!!!!

  3. kekekeke, mwebena Zambia, please ulechita congratulate banenu……….no one noticed ati ba kambwili is a degree holder so kufisenda personal ati let me congratulate myself!!!! man of action…..where is your wife, she should have done the needful.

  4. Kambwili is among the presidential hopefools and kabimba will use any opportunity to weaken them.this is politicaly engineered by kambwili`s enermy.

  5. Mr moono ,your diplomatic language is not true,state house will have to give a go ahead or not…thats permission.without permission means no consent to the appointing authority,like in USA a month ago the CIA was probing the senator heading the intelligence committee,upon her discovery she asked for the findings and asked for an apology which the CIA director refused to do.thats a clear no permission example.

  6. Icho kambwili ! Ngabekishiba shani ? Ok ngachachine walilufyanya mudala.Balekulonga uno mwaka.

  7. Copperstone University? What a useless university. just by the dilapidated railway line where my uncle was living. Assignments done by the same lecturers. Please Kambwili you should have registered at UNZA, CBU or Open University and the Australian university in Lusaka.

    Copperstone University is nonedescript please.

  8. Academic exercise,toothless department. You can only do a good job after someone has left the government or party. Example on GBM and Kabimba.

  9. This Kambwili had on fb page that he had an MSc from the UK just when he became a useless minister for a useless party in the useless govt. The fb account went dead and started saying he has an MSc from a university in Kitwe (Not CBU) but one which is housed in a big house around town. Now the same man has just obtained a Bachlors degree. with my MSc i cant go backwards to go and obtain a BSc neither can i go and do another MSc its a waste of time in my view, lateral progression.
    Kambwili niwe didnt, just live with

  10. That headline……. ROFLAMO!

    And the detail…… he’s got a BA…… finally…….. from where?

    Now just so I get this straight……… Kambwili is the “useful one”, right?

    Sorry, still laughing!

  11. These are the effects of the brain drain.We have ministers with such low self esteem they need to congratulate themselves for earning a first degree at age 40+ in the newspaper! 80% of intelligent Zambians have left Zambia. The 20% left are not in leadership positions because they can not work with the Kaponyas in power.

  12. But why go to the media to sound the trumpet about obtaining a 1st degree at that age? This is unbelievable indeed!! Its how articulate you become that can reveal that you have a degree NOT sounding the trumpet in that way. I just hope that we’ll begin to see change in you how you handle national matters.

  13. interesting, the things these people are alleged of are easily justifiable and will happen to be legal…Its another waste of tax payers money. At least that’s my opinion. When Masebo was hiring those people she was Minister and its likely she can direct that, it will be said she was doing her duty for government. Did you expect that she would pay for witnesses herself while doing a gov job, and representing gov.. For kabwili a similar situation. He gave directions as minister, it would have been the same thing if Kabwili was going to publish congratulations messages to the President for whatever the occasion.. Look at it this way if the minister is able to overturn ZEMA about something that is environmentally dangerous. What more those simple things of the two alleged people

  14. Copperstone University? What os this? If a BUFFOON Kambwili can given a certificate then…. this place is not worth even calling a Kindergarten.

    • For Kambwili, a name has to be a sentence so that everyone is in the name: National Heres Disaster National Lusaka Stadium……..This kind of intellect is non intellect and hence, an advert for oneself for the first BA degree……..you are just a useless kambwili

  15. “What we are required to do is appropriately notify the appointing authority in this case, State House, that we are investigating some of his officers. I think this is what some members of the public are construing to mean we need to seek authority from the President. This is not true. The Commission does not need permission from anyone to investigate any public officer,” Nonsense! You DO need permission. The same is true about seeking permission to hold any gathering by the opposition parties the law says ‘notify’ but what actually is demanded is ‘get permission’. Stop lying you toothless i.diots.

  16. Congratulating himself over a dubious degree from some questionable university? This tells a lot about this boastful chap. He can only be a minister in Zambia where they boot-lick and worship the appointing authority.

  17. That is exactly like mr Bean sending himself a christmas card because no one has thought of him, and being very happy after receiving that card. Is there any further definishion of being useless than this?

  18. So he was a Minister for Foreign Affairs without a degree, no wonder he was moved out to sports area where he can be entertainment. Good luck Zambia

  19. Since when did we ever hear about these misdemeanors by public officers except during KKs time?
    Its like nothing ever happened during the entire 20years of MMD misrule!
    The truth is successive regimes have been sweeping this dirt under carpets.

    Why do you think judges blocked Judge Chikopa?
    Why do you think RBs kids took their heels?

  20. Ninshi aba ba ACC basoba milandu – to probe!! leave the man alone are you jealous of him. There’s a saying that he who does not appreciate on few or little things will never appreciate even on plenty or bigger things. Congrats MR KAMBWILI!

  21. Renowned economist, Professor Jeffrey Sachs of the USA became a full professor at Harvard University at the age 28. Now ba Kambwili towards retirement age that is when he obtains his BA at a University whose accreditation is not clear, and he blows the loudest vuvuzela.

  22. All the overzealous politicians you have been seeing behave as though they are Chilufyana’s biological children and have become very irritating to the masses are going to be sacrificed one by one. Remember GBM, Masebo, and now Kambwili? It’s not about true fight against corruption but a laundering move of Sata himself. That’s why he has been calling them useless and by 2016, he will have an almost totally new team to go the polls with and try cheat the massess that he got rid of the corrupt from PF as he continues chewing big time at RDA with his son Mulenga. Then Mmembe will blow his vuvuzela the loudest that Sata is really allergic to corruption by the way he has fired his overzealous cabinet ministers one after the other. Watch the space

  23. The Youth fund investigstions started October 2013! The used youths got 100% and gave 50% back. They have not agreed to testify.

  24. Zat is what am am saying, i have instructed ACC to look at them. Instead of working they are chewing like me. Now the pipo dont see development they look at me and my family forest and see only chewing. Ba fikala. Useless ministers.

  25. BA ACC , we told you that KA MBWILI. Is the most corupt person in Zambia . You just don’t want to investigate him . The offences he has comitted on the copperbelt does Not warrant any officer to investigate . Just go to Mining companies , councils more especially LUANSHYA the fance you see was single sourced , Nathan CHANDA and Kambwili THE MAILONI BROTHERS. PLOT GRABBING PROPERTY GRABBING , The copperbelt cabinet office has been intimidated it awards the The MAILONI brohers any thing they want . Every body in PF dances to their tune . Monno be careful the way you handle this case otherwise you will loose you job for touching Government trophies. Twachula kuli Kambwili Naka little Nathan Chanda.

  26. Atase Chi Kambwili is a Mbuli!
    Cage him.
    Demote him for getting a degree, with his coppertson degree he is now fit to drive graders in Luanshya

  27. Of course that is what Zambia has been reduced to! No civilized country can have Kambwili`s caliber as Minister. It`s really unfortunate for Zambia.

  28. If private universities in Zambia start offering degrees to questionable politicians then this will signal the demise of such institutions. Some residents in Riverside’s residential area of Kitwe are not amused by Copperstone university authorities who are renting a house at Plot 4685 Jambo Drive to accommodate their noisy drunkard students. Now they have offered a noisy politician some kind of BA degree to a politician who has demonstrated complete lack of intellectual capacities.

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