Zindaba Soko, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA), has been acquitted of forgery charges after the state withdrew the case against him.
Soko had been facing charges of forging a National Registration Card (NRC) in the name of John Tembo, alongside Kelvin Smith Kisambara. The alleged forgery took place between January 1, 2023, and July 17, 2023.
The matter, which was being heard at the Lusaka Magistrates Court before Senior Resident Magistrate Irene Wishimanga, saw a sudden development when the state opted to withdraw the charges under Section 88 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The decision to withdraw the charges brings an end to the legal ordeal faced by Soko and Kisambara in relation to the alleged forgery incident.
In another development at the same court session, the case involving opposition Forum for Development and Democracy President Edith Nawakwi, who is charged with kidnapping and threatening to kill Pheluna and Milton Hatembo, was adjourned to April 15 for trial.
Nawakwi appeared before the court for mention earlier today, with the proceedings adjourned to allow for adequate preparation for the upcoming trial.
It’s chaos as all over…in their efforts to impress their god they bungle even clear cases.
UPND is a very vindictive government
This is what you get for getting a useless government in power. Haimbe has his pants down and let us see what his tribesman is going to say. We are waiting for HH to show us the graphs.
Graphs are very difficult to understand let alone produce. I dont think the likes of Hamasaka even know how to read them. So they have abandoned the idea of graphs. I dont know about gloves
Wasnt a train stuck on a level crossing as it ran out of Diesel ???????
Just shows the literacy of some Zambians a relatively simple operation
Surely this highlights whats happening in the police service and courts ??
Judging by comments the question should be are we even ready or able to run this country ourselves ?
The state will be embarrassed again or they will withdraw the case. Hakainde and his UPND boys should be the ones to be in the trial box on this one. Witnesses will come out to testify against Hichilema and his call boys.
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Zambians don’t pay attention to facts, Soko was arrested for forgery and corruption by the Pf Government a few months before Pf itself was thrown out of power by Zambians. Facts must matter especially in a country which calls itself CHRISTIAN.
Check your facts, this case was brought up by the new dawn in August last year. It is not the charge he was facing under PF.
The problem with UPND they thought running a country is like running a cattle farm. The country has the constitution and has the law. They cooked up cases for every CEO in key institutions. ZRA, RATSA, ZP, ZAF, but the law has a way of coming back at you. The law even waits for its abusers to get out of power and comes back to bite,
when are we going to have another graph session from state house illustrating how they have increased fuel and mealie meal prices?
He has just been released from the forgery case . Other cases still remain.