Jere(left in red hat) and Eugene Mapuwo( seated
third from left) during a rally to drum up support for UPND
The Anti-Corruption Commission in Livingstone has arrested a Member of Parliamentary for Livingstone Constituency Mathews Jere for abuse of authority of office.
Mr. Jere aged 45, of house number 231 Highlands, Livingstone, has been charged with one count of Abuse of Authority of Office contrary to
Section 21 (l)(a) of the Anti-Corruption Act No. 3 of the Laws of Zambia.
Particulars of the offence are that on dates unknown but between 1st August, 2013 and 31st October, 2014, Mathews Jere, whilst he was serving as a Councilor for Mwalibona Ward in the Livingstone City Council, jointly and whilst acting together with other persons unknown, did abuse authority of his office by allocating plots of land to themselves on property number LIV/4051 a matter or transaction concerning the Livingstone City Council, a public body.
Mr. Jere has since been released on Bond and will appear in court on 25th March, 2019.
This is according to a statement issued by Timothy Moono, the Anti Corruption Commission Public Relations Manager.
Meanwhile, the Drug Enforcement Commission in Lusaka has arrested three Ministry of General Education officials for money laundering activities involving over K2.7 million.
DEC Public Relations Officer Theresa Katongo revealed that the three stole K2, 717, 471.50 from the ministry account by raising different cheques in Lawrence Phiri Bwalya’s name, which were later cashed over the counter at a named bank.
Mrs. Katongo has named the trio as Lawrence Bwalya Phiri, 46, an accountant of Civic Centre area in Lusaka, Eliya Mwale 41, of house number 238, Chamba Valley and Vengi Sinda, 58, a standards officer residing in Olympia Teachers’ Compound.
She said on dates unknown but between 1st January, 2014 and 31st December, 2016, jointly and whilst acting together with other persons unknown, the trio being employees of the Ministry of General Education stole K2,717,471.50 from the Ministry’s account by raising nine (9) fraudulent cheques in favour of Lawrence Bwalya Phiri on different dates and later encashed them over the counter at a named bank in Lusaka”, she said.
She said the trio has been slapped with five (5) charges namely forgery, uttering false documents, fraudulent false accounting, theft by public servant and money laundering, contrary to the laws of Zambia.
Mrs. Katongo said the suspects have since been released on police bond and are expected to appear before the Lusaka Magistrate Court soon.
“According to the 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index released by Transparency International on Tuesday, Zambia remains among the world’s most corrupt countries, with a rank of 105.” So we all know the increase in corruption apart from the $42m trucks is due to UPND including HH’s privatization saga and those Kasama mansions….
Its actually the opposition who are escalating the corruption index. And you say they are the govt in waiting.
What de ffuchk!!! You fuuuucking Alarmists!! That case was in 2013.
I doubt a PF MP would have such negative publicity.
But then again all Zambians are thieves
Thanks
BB2014,2016
That’s strange …
We are still waiting for Brain to be charged with drink driving on arrival at KKIA from Morningside Elite Hospital where he is being massaged on his bruised arm….there is that minister with por.n.o on his phone still no arrests
Mukula being sold on the dead of night ?Inyatsi mansion ?? A $4 million shed called a toll gate ?? $1 million/km roads , $1.2 billion 360 km dual carriage , $260 digital migration, being billed for an airport to cater for a 14 fold increase in passenger numbers ? ……
Can you imagine a Moonga or Mudenda MP in Kasama, Mansa or Chinsali and yet UPND have a Jere in Livingstone.
For this political witch hunt to stick the ACC must investigate all plot allocations done by PF councilors as well in Lusaka ,Kabwe and the copperbelt.
I think this is pure selective corruption investigations instigated to paint UPND black. This begs the question: why was he allowed to stand as an MP without the ACC and ECZ vetting him thoroughly. What is surprising is that those involved in the social cash transfer saga are still enjoying their freedoms. Non of them have been investigated by toothless ACC because they are PF. Fire truck tenders and poor roads tenders all have to be investigated by the ACC.
If PF pursues this case, then a pandora’s box will be opened into massive historical PF and MMD illegal land allocation. Its only fair that happens.
However I m not…
If PF pursues this case, then a pandora’s box will be opened into massive historical PF and MMD illegal land allocation. Its only fair that happens.
However I m not condoning any form of illegal land allocations but merely seeking fairness in the way such cases are handled across the political divide. If UPND MPs can be pursued on such offences, I expect the ACC to pursue PF cadres who are currently involved in illegal land allocations.
We must demand an audit of all the tenders and Land allocations issued by PF.
Now that Kalaba has resigned from PF will start investigating him.
Lungu and his stooges are thugs in government and they must be booted out immediately.
My IP has been blocked again!!
@Jay Jay, seriously Kikikiki,
That’s really laughable!
@Nostradamus
Kkkkk Kkkkk
Maybe its because I asked them why they keep censoring the names of those chaps in the PF Media Team!!
@Jay Jay, you must have run out of bundles, dude!
@Ndwii – I meant my laptop or my Wifi IP…With my phone they can not do it as Networks use various available Satellite networks at a given time in obit..Moreover People dont use top-up or pay as you go SIM cards here (they will just laugh at you when you say that here take note). Its far cheaper to get a SIM card only contract with limitless bundles and talk-time.
@Ndwiii….that was funny kkkkkk
Money laundering is fraud.Wanting to make dirty money clean.So if there was no effort to make money acquired fraudulently look clean that is not money laundering.
@Adedos 2021 – In this case one of the accused built porsche Flats on his legally obtained plot and then he put these flats on rent and started generating clean cash.
DEC started investigating the source of the money he used to build flats??? His salary from the time started his employment in Govt could not support the cost of building the flats. There was no record that he obtained a genuine Bank loan to build the flats; and that is how they discovered that there was a fake cheque cashed that enabled him to build the flats that were legally registered on Title.
THIS IS PROPER MONEY LAUNDERING.
The ACC should look into Chanda and other PF Scum bags and investigate whether the building projects across Lusaka were acquired genuinely .
Its really laughable …no wonder the Acting ACC Director is wondering why people have stopped reporting to the commission.
What were the law enforcement agencies doing from 2014 to date??? I smell a rat here.
Gathering evidence. It is called due process. They cannot just do things like the do in Lealui my home or Kaoma or Solwezi. They have to follow the law. Also the need to investigate the PF secretary general, with is nonsensical comment in Kabwe two years ago.
If the ACC were serious with their task by now the case for having private prisons would have been very strong.
Mufu – do you know how a Private Prison operates? A private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place in which individuals are physically confined or incarcerated by a third party that is contracted by a government agency…you think that is cheap? You cannot look after pupils at a Boarding School or at UNZA you think you can afford to lease out a private prison…some construction companies also operate Design Build and Operate contracts which cost minimum $250 million
Jay Jay – You obviously missed my point, but thanks for the free lecture.
When you have a president who does not deny that he is a corrupt theif, every civil servant sees nothing wrong with being a corrupt theif……
Lungu has been called a corrupt theif many times……let’s hear him deny this.
You want the president to come to your level by answering each and every frivolity puked by bitter losers.
The problem to call Lungu corrupt is void as long as the person blowing the trumpet of to condemn Lungu has more proved cases of swindling and striping govt resources like kambw and kainde
@Ndanje. Yes!!! Not to my level but to get things done! For the simple reason that we voted him to power. We expect him to make his government work. Have you ever tried getting something by service providing sectors of his government? You have to know somebody to accomplish anything or give a kani chekeleko. A Prezident puliz, wanyeka mudzi!
There is no leader in the world who accepts accusations that he is a corrupt theif like lungu does,
…WTH , even CK sues those who try to publicly call him a rail theif…
Look at these pompwes above ati you want him to deny everything ???
They are forgetting when lungu was called the richest man in Zambia we had all statements from statehouse at how upset lungu was at that accusation ?? But when he is called a corrupt theif , he is silent ,
ehhh ndanji ??
Meanwhile DEC has arrested 3 from min. Of gen Ed. For stealing K2.7million. Bwalya, mwale, Sinda. I wonder what our President Will say according to these statistics.should he be asked to apologise when he says?
Is there a PF MP or Equity party MP in Livingstone?
Dirty reporting from LT, how many MPs are there in Livingstone?
Kikikikikiki….so you think that opposition are immune from corruption and other criminal activities? Well, I feel vindicated now, I have said before that corruption in Zambia knows no political party boundaries. Especially civil servants, they are encouraged to steal by their parties in order to show corruption in government which is portrayed to mean PF. Let the law takes its course……you trib.als think no one should touch any of your trib.als, ati ni victimisation.
On.the other hand could be a set up. Trib.als scheming to put a trib.al as MP, isn’t Jere a nsenga which Trib.al Hacks is on record to hate?
Ba Jere is such a let down.
He could not keep a clean sheet to show the Tonga and Lozi not to be tribal.
Bupuba ba Jere! Genetically-in-born thieves?
WHY kanshi?
Spaka, what is theif? Do you mean THIEF?