Former Council Secretary Rodger Musonda has been jailed for two years for corrupt practices and forgery.
Musonda, was yesterday 27th May, 2009 convicted and sentenced to jail by Mkushi Magistrate Betty Malupenga.
The sentences will run concurrently with effect from 27th May, 2009 and Musonda has since been imprisoned at Mkushi State Prison.
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) spokesperson Timothy Moono said this in a statement yesterday.
Musonda who was facing six counts before magistrate Malupenga, was convicted on two counts of forgery contrary to Section 342 and 347 of the Penal Code and sentenced to two years imprisonment on each count.
Further, Musonda was convicted on three counts of Abuse of Authority of Office contrary to Section 37 (2) of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Act and sentenced to one year and six months imprisonment with hard labour on each count.
Musonda was arrested by the Anti Corruption Commission in 2008 and charged with two counts of forgery and four counts of Abuse of Authority of Office.
In the first count, details are that Musonda stood charged with forgery of Minutes of the Special Plans, Works, Water Sanitation Committee in which he had purported that the Committee did meet on 20th September, 2006 when in fact it did not meet. As a result of the forged minutes plots were offered to among other people, himself and his wife Artress Musonda.
In the second count, Musonda stood charged with forgery of minutes of the Special Finance and General Purposes Committee in which case he had purported that the Committee did meet on 15th September 2006 when in fact it did not.
As a result of the forged minutes loans were given to, among other people, himself.
In the third count, Musonda stood charged with abuse of authority of office for giving himself an additional loan of K10million without approval from the Special Finance and General Purposes Committee. He gave himself the loan on the basis of the forged minutes already mention in Court Two above.
In the fourth count, Musonda stood charged with abuse of authority of office for offering plots to, among other people, himself and his wife Artress Musonda at a time when the Ministry of Lands had withdrawn the Land Agency from Mkushi District Council. He offered the plots on the basis of the forged minutes already mentioned in Court Two above.
In the fifth count, Musonda stood charged with abuse of office for applying to himself and personally approving for himself an additional loan of K5million without the Special Finance and General Purposes Committee’s approval or the approval of the Council Chairman.
Magistrate Malupenga found Musonda guilty on the above-mentioned five (5) counts and but acquitted him on the sixth count.
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Bushe kanshi when will Chiluba and Regina go to prison? instead of being in prison they are wining and dinning at state house, shame!
The whole country need scrutiny and therapy pantu iliko bad !
unlike the woman in the other story,this one deserves it.you cannot be this selfish as a leader,i wish he was given 15yrs so that the message is sent to council employs that corruption will not take anyone anywhere better than the prison..
Zambia needs prayers, all the time we hear bad things happening.
Let the nut rot in jail. My prayer is that the chap should be turned innto a ‘jail mpompo’ while we remain feasting on his arrangement out here in his own bedroom and bed so that he learns a lesson that stealing and other corrupt practices are sending the country backwards. THIEVES DONT DESERVE LENIENCE. LETS CAGE THEM!!!!!
#2 Walanda bwino, if they can’t be convicted for other offences, at least we have seen section 37 of the ACC Act has worked on Musonda why not on Chiluba.
This is how it started in Zaire before the country went to the sewers. Zambia is going in that direction.
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