Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Chiluba now wants his money back

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Former President Frederick Chiluba
Former President Frederick Chiluba

SECOND Republican president Fredrick Chiluba has said he will claim his money, which he kept in the Zamtrop account now that he has been acquitted of charges of theft.

Dr Chiluba said that he would go to Luapula Province to tell the people to vote for President Banda because the incumbent has shown that he is a uniting force in the country.

Speaking at the celebratory church service for his acquittal at Bible Gospel Church in Africa (Bigoca) yesterday Dr Chiluba said he would ask for his money because he had been cleared by the courts of law.

Dr Chiluba said he was advised to keep his personal money in the Zamtrop account meant for the construction of the Institute of Democratic Studies because some of his friends who donated towards the project could have given him money laundered from drugs.

He said even before he was taken to court, three financial institutions – the Bank of Zambia, Grant Thornton and Price Water House Coopers audited the Zamtrop account and told the Government that there was private money in it as well.

Dr Chiluba said he wondered why he was accused of stealing the same private money when it was a known fact that he was undertaking a project to construct the institute for democratic studies using the money that he sourced from his friends and well wishers.

He said the US$500,000 he was accused of stealing was equivalent to petty cash for State House.

Dr Chiluba said the reason he was taken to court was a spiritual warfare and not legal because of his decisions to declare Zambia a Christian nation.

He said it did not make legal sense for the courts of law to find his wife guilty first of receiving stolen goods and not the person accused of stealing.

“How could all the three institutions that audited the Zamtrop account conceal theft if at all I stole the money? Why find a person who received stolen property guilty before you do so to a person who stole,” he said.

Dr Chiluba who quoted the book of John Chapter 8:32 from the Bible said true to the scripture in the verse the truth had come to pass adding that truth did not come from newspapers or television but from the Holy Book.[quote]

Dr Chiluba told a packed church that included Matero Member of Parliament Faustina Sinyangwe and visiting American pastor Ralph Snook that he had received offers from Angolan and Zimbabwean spiritualists who wanted to assist him win the theft accusation case but that he declined because he knew that the truth would come to pass that he did not steal.

He said there was no way he could accept spiritual intervention in his case because he is a Christian who believes in God.

“Shall we decide to leave the one who created the man who administers charms made from trees or taken from underground when there is a supreme being who created all these? No ways. We chose to honour God and put the matter in his hands,” he said.

And Dr Chiluba said Zambia as a country was getting back together under President Banda’s rule.

He said he would go to Luapula Province, whether they like it or not, to tell the people in that province that President Banda was the right man for Zambia.

He said first Republican president Kenneth Kaunda left the legacy of One Zambia One Nation but that when he left a new era of tribal politics emerged.

He said Zambians were beginning to practice politics of regionalism that was now fading away under President Banda’s leadership.

Dr Chiluba urged Zambians to help President Banda create an environment where everyone was free to express their different views.

He said the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation had set the country apart in God’s favour and was certain that other African leaders were rejoicing with Zambia.

And Bigoca overseer, Peter Ndhlovu said Dr Chiluba’s victory was not only for his family but the Church as well.

Bishop Ndhlovu said God saved Dr Chiluba from dying because He wanted him to live and see change in the country.

“Sir, the devil wanted to see you in jail but God said no. At the day of judgement of your case, people were saying this case is difficult but in my heart, I was saying nothing is impossible with God,” he said.

And New Generation Party (NGP) president, Humphrey Siulapwa has urged Zambians to accept and respect the court’s judgment on Dr Chiluba.

Mr Siulapwa said at a Press briefing yesterday that Zambians had no choice but to accept the court’s verdict on Dr Chiluba since they had waited for the judgment for more than seven months.

He said that his party had accepted the judgment and that people should not be misled by the media on the issue.

He said the Government should not appeal against the judgment, adding that the Task Force on Corruption should also be dissolved while the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and the Drug-Enforcement Commission (DEC) should be strengthened.

He said Dr Chiluba had a right to claim his immunity since the court had declared him clean of all the allegations.

Mr Siulapwa said the London High Court judgment should not be registered in Zambia because there was no way a Zambian president could be tried in a foreign court.

He also said his party supported the Government’s idea to regulate the media if it failed to regulate itself because it also had to be checked.

[Times of Zambia]

172 COMMENTS

  1. Well Mr Thief, my home village which has no clinic, decent primary school, lets not talk about secondary school would be happy to have that State House Petty cash. To some of us $500 000 is still a lot of money and do you know how many clinics, primary schools & boreholes we can dig in that petty cash. Only somebody who stole $46m would call $500 000 petty cash. I doubt even Warren Buffet would call $500 000 petty cash

  2. Give to Caesar what belongs to him and to God what is rightfully his. Isn’t that what the good old Book says? Peleni mwaice amahalf yakwe ba *****.

  3. Chiluba is now taking his ‘luck’ too far.Acquitted by a magistrate and he’s acting like he’s been exonerated on Judgement day itself.I’ve seen today’s POST headline which indicates that the task force on corruption will lodge in an appeal today.No wonder kafupi wabufi wanted his immunity back so soon.I wont be surprised if the task force is disbanded or shaken up coz RB wont take the appeal lightly.

  4. Well it has been a week indeed. Our party first president is right about the money in Zamtrop account. This is a well documented fact that when he finished the first two terms after gallantly serving the people of Zambia he wanted to build a democratic Institute of studies near acades and he mobilised funds from well wishers and these funds were kept in Zamtrop account. It is just fair that he gets back the money and as MMD we did the right thing in ensuring that he cleaned up his name through the courts of law and he has been cleared. Time to move on. Fred Mmembe’s lawyer friends can make money elsewhere after all they have a Zamian Airways case coming up in court. They can make money there. Lets stop this robbery of the national treasury in the name of plunder cases. Enough please

  5. Well shrek give the man his dues, the concequences of acting before you think, lets see where you will get U$500,000 to kafupi. or did you think he wont claim his money????

  6. There he goes again with his tricks. We told u people of Zambia. And now he wants to steal the lttle that we have in the Zamtrop account which is for the Country of Zambia and not an individual like. How can someone who reasons well keeps his money in the Account for the country.It’s like they are working together with RB. I now wonder why someone dropped the cases for this, I hope they are not in a company of stealing the remaining cash . Can God help us. Where are we going now. It is a pity to see how innocents souls suffering for the interest of some individual who only see were there are. Guys can u try to be serious in our country.

  7. This was a calculated step by Rupiah Banda so that Kafupi can campaign for him. Please fellow Bembas, dont listen to that short thief, he is taking you for fools, he stole, but because no one cares about the well being of your children, thats why he is pretending to be innocent. Dont even let him fool you again. Please someone get rid of these thieves…Chinyama shame on you….you will never be the same again.

  8. That is a whooping £304 000! Now that is a lot of money for petty cash you i d i o t! The only losers are those that pay tax to this hopeless country!

  9. He has been cleared, so? Give him back his money, house, cloths, shoes, coat, chair, bed, all his shit. Give it back Zambia.

  10. #9 Boot fimofimo. Ask yourself this. Is a sitting President allowed to receive gifts in his own capacity? Answer is NO. When KK left office he did not take anything except his clothes. So for Chiluba to claim that he put his own money in ZAMTROP account is just a smoke screen. Please dont just support any how. As I have said here before Chiluba is my tribes man almost a relative but that does not make me blind to the fact that there was abuse of office during his tenure.

  11. The man has been cleared, so? Give him back his money, house, cloths, shoes, coat, chair, bed, toothbrush and all is other s.h.!t please. Time to move on. We still have plenty on our plate.

  12. The man has been cleared, so? Give him back his money, house, cloths, shoes, coat, chair, bed, toothbrush and all his other sh!t please. Time to move on. We still have plenty on our plate and very little time.

  13. You people surprise me,someone stole from you and now you are saying give him the money? Wait until we change government and you shall feel the wrath of the PACT! All of you who are against us will see that we meant real development not this “taka taka” kind leadership without any direction, mission statement or vision! It’s very difficult for a judge even if he knows some one stole to convict him….after all he is a self proclaimed master dribbler….with the support of RB capital(ha ha ha ha)…….next time we shall use the LIE

  14. I meant the LIE DETECTOR and not a human judge who is flesh and blood and can be prone to corruption as well!

  15. Its not yet over…read todays Post, Nkole is still appealling. Iwe KaChiluba, don’t be too fast. And to think this is the guy we had as President for 10yrs!! He thinks $500k is petty cash, just imagine how much he must have stolen, ma mamamama, we really had put a mouse in a basket full of groundnuts….

  16. Mwabapanya ba mudala (kalulu tupile. no way. KALULU njenjele welcome back). You can hear now! He will talk now. He definately sounds more brilliant than RB. I WILL NOT BE SURPRISED IF RB APPOINTS THIS MAN AS VICE PRESIDENT. It is a big political turn. The power has been unleashed. We can hear the Zambian political foundations shaking. That is Dr. Chiluba! He is back in town.

  17. If they give him back the money then we shall know that RB is a very very corrupt. But I hope they are not taking us for a ride because we shall surely rise and stand up against this level of incompetence and corrupt pracrices. It only took 3 UNZA students to loot Kabulonga supermarket before KK was removed from power. So we know it has been done before and it can be done. Watch the space!!!

  18. Jones Chinyama failed to understand that once anyone, and I mean anyone including the so-called president, deposits money whether genuinely earned or not, in a Government account, at that very moment that money becomes state funds. You can not draw that money the way you draw from the ATM, no!! KaChiluba ruled with so much impunity such that everybody around him, the Army Commanders, ZAF Commanders, Prison Service Chief, ZANACO MD, Head of Intellegence and many more, all have cases to answer or hav been found guilty.Nomba ninshi ulikamuntu kamusango shani kanshi?!!! The least we deserve as Zambia is for this little midget to STFU and forfeit his stolen loot to GRZ. He shouldn’t tempt Zambians, thinking we are fools. Maybe those advocating for him to get his money are but certainly I an’t

  19. Zambians, Beware of Kafupi. That man talks too much and most of it is rubbish. Ask him about the arms dealing in DRC and the $20 million. Ask him about the Callington maize scandal. Ask Edith Nawakwi the finance minister when Kafupi started stealing. Ask Edith why she had to leave the Finance portfolio. That man is a crook.. If you need the truth.ask the British Government who even found him GUILTY. THAT MAN IS GUILTY> GUILTY> AND IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD> GUILTY>

  20. Why was he using Zamtrop, don’t presidents have their own accounts? If he was aqcuitted where did Regina get the stolen funds?!!

  21. Kafupi deserves some rest.He is a tired man.Look at the develpment that came to Zed under his rule.Ba Levy f**cked up by wanting to send him to jail and that was a seller out to the MMD which was the party he really that put him in power. Ka Nkole ka Tax force,stop your personal vendettaz on Kafupi coz you wont go anywhere with your London case.Give him back his money.

  22. I think it is high time we started talking about matters that are affecting the common man in Zambia. Let us talk about employment, health, and other development issues. There is too much politics in Zambia.
    How can FTJ be talking about ‘his’ money? The man should first disclose who gave him the money. FTJ mentions that the Zamtrop account was audited by, among others, Grant Thornton. Grant Thornton was headed by HH. May be HH can tell us the source of that money. Fellow Zambians, remember that this is the man who had the so-called presidential fund with which he kept his cronies happy? Did anyone audit how that money was spent? And apiece of advice to FTJ: please leave the people of Luapula province alone.

  23. But why did this man decided to put his personal money in Zamtrop account, didn’t chiluba has his own account??? the fact that chiluba didn’t put his money in his own account but decided to put it in Zamtrop it means that was stolen money, under normal circumstance no man can choose to put his or her money in somebody’s account unless the money was acquired through dubious means. acquitted or not to me Chiluba is still a theft.

  24. People of Luapula dont even listen to this one Chiluba?? What development did he do in Luapula during his 10 year rule—Nothing. He even failed to build a small house at his home village Musangu. Only if people in Luapula benefited from Chilluba’s rule can they listen to him.. PLEASE CHASE HIM WHEN HE SHOWS HIS SHORTNESS THERE.

  25. #31 tawakwata amano olo tauli umuZambian…..what development did kayama kobe bring to ZED?!! The Industrial and manufacturing base was wiped out during kaChiluba’s rule, ask anyone from Ndola which was once called the industrial hub of the Cbelt……Chiluba just brought wako ni wako , washala washala and sansa nabo type of politics, so what development are talking about? Giving someones wife $300,000 as pocket money, but kalya akamuntu kanshi kasakala kapangwa shani??

  26. Looks like the government and RB are putting the blame on mwanawasa and they dont want to have anything to do with the case.SHAME! and its proving to be a victory for them and making the task force look like it had no case against kafupi,meanwhile these are the same people who brought taskforce in the first place just that RB was not there then

  27. The donors will hit Zambia very hard for poor court judgement on chiluba’s case. I encourage them to withhold their funds for por governance and interfering in the court cases by sitting president. We are going 360 degrees back to Sodom and gomorrah, that is Chiluba. Why cannt people ask themselves why the economy was doing better under Mwanawasa than Chiluba. Financial discipline is the key and with this loud mouthed Kafupi who has been allowed to talk everyone is in trouble. Am sure KK knows now that RB is very dull and wants to eat with both hands. He is a hypocrite who is concerend with personal glory at the expense of development. Why are thse people starting to hate Sata and HH so much? it is not about reuniting the country but their dirty activities known when they are gone.

  28. It is worrying that the current Zambian president is being praised by a thief. Zambians will do themselves a great favour by voting RB out of office in 2011.

  29. FJT Chiluba cannot be fooling us that he was earning an extra income from his well-wishers when he was president.
    This BIG time crook and thief has to know that whatever gifts / presents he received in his official capacity became government property.
    What we all know is that money in government bank accounts cannot be private money at the same time.
    Can this thief give us the names of the well-wishers who donated money to him in his personal capacity?

  30. I agree with #27. The question we are asking is how porous is our judiciary even not to see the contradiction and gaffes caused btn chiluba’s and regina’s judgement which now chiluba is captalizing on??A layman in law like me and like many bloggers would agree with me expected chiluba to go in automatically following regina’s outcome…was the stolen property coming from someone else and not chiluba? we need to know! secondly, his accomplices are all in but him is out. honestly we dont need calculus to unpack this math…either people making up these political syndicates are so dull that they fell to proof read their schemes or they deliberately leave it hanging because they think zambians are too dull to punch holes into it…time will tell. Viva revolution 2011

  31. Ba Chiluba Ba Chi Colour kwena ba samwa. This guy really thinks Zambians are fools.
    Now hes just comfirming that RB indeed had a hand in the outcome of the court case. Guy i dont believe in witchcraft but limbi ka mudala eka ipeye LPM and meanwhile we are thinking it was just a stroke.

  32. This Chiluba is a very arrogant and proud little fellow who thinks he is too smart and clever. He makes a lot of irritating noise and does not seem to realise why he should apologise to the Zambian people for all the damage he caused. I do not agree with people who say he should be given the money and forget. This will set a wrong precedent. As for Humphrey Siulapwa, what can one say, indeed Zambia is free for all.

  33. This midget really is an i d i o t! What an insult to all you Zambians working hard and paying tax only for this midget to coma and call it petty cash! We saw MPs resigning for claiming as little as £2 500. Here you are people a short man calling £304 000 pettey cash. May be we should speak to Gordon and Obama to stop donating to this country..

  34. Why go to Luapula to campaign for RB, what has he done to deserve it. Why now, after the court judgement. Suddenly RB is a unifier, how? Any examples?

    If FTJ is not regionalistic or tribal, is he going to other provinces as well other than Luapula to tell them that RB is for unity? If he only goes to Luapula, is that where people desperately need to unite, as a nation?

    This shallowness cost the nation when this man was President. Please think thru stuff before you speak.

  35. Which Luapula Provonce is he talking about? Last time (2008) he came but his visit had no impact on the voting pattern. By the way, how can he get involved in active politics? Dont give him his benefits then

  36. On this one zambians lets prove our worth. People in other countries respect our intelligetia and prolific calibre. If govt will go ahead to give him money then we should demand proven sources of this money by way of documentation. Even the zamtrop acc had deposite and withdrawal guidelines which must b availed to all of us to see. i dont think its an open pu-in get-out acc like a personal acc which picture chiluba is trying to portray to all of us. By virtue of RB tolerating this nonsense from chiluba it means he is an enemy of levy’s antigraft vision & all of us…he must not be allowed to campaign using levy’s legacy. Let him use chiluba’s legacy of nchekelako. I hate those hopeless days, I hate them with every piece of my heart. at some point copperbelt was almost dead and nobody…

  37. how can youclaim to be a child of god when you are living in sin witn regina , according to the same bible whicch you keep on referring to it tells you that your marriage to regina is not recognised by god that you are leaving in sin becuase you cuased regina to divorce her husband , and you were committing adultry with her before the divorce

  38. FORMER president Frederick Chiluba yesterday said God allowed President Rupiah Banda to be President to create an environment in which the judiciary would freely decide on his corruption cases. And Chiluba said it does not make legal sense that he has been acquitted, while his wife Regina, who is charged with receiving stolen property from him was found guilty by the courts. Our courts are rotten beyond human understanding such that even a thief himself is now mocking them that it doen’t make sense his wife is found guilty while him.

  39. The bastard is suddenly healed and develops careless talk! It shows what he has for brains, chicken sh**t. Luapula people are not your people and they are not the only people who decide who becomes President!! Iye, ubupuba………………. Luapula people shamed you last year, they told you that they cannot be fooled including your musangu village if that is truly where you come from!

  40. He said it did not make legal sense for the courts of law to find his wife guilty first of receiving stolen goods and not the person accused of stealing.
    CHILUBA SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. WHAT DO OTHERS SAY TO THIS???????????????//// CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS?????

  41. Everybody knows that Chiluba is a thief.He stole millions of dollars as evidenced in the London High Court landmark jugdment pending admission in our courts.The acquital of Chiluba was engineered by RB ,in his “wisdom” to protect the institution of the Presidency coz he might as well fall victim.Now how will it help us sending the man to jail coz whether we like it or not,the man has gone down in history as our former president? Let us deal with this matter in a Zambian way without external pressure just like Americans have left Bush free despite serious War crimes and Crimes against humanity he did commit.Let us make the presidency more transparent so that we dont have a recurrence of the FTJs.

  42. The Govt should not only pay the US$8.5 Million but also pay reparations for malice in the criminal case. Eight years was a long time for people not to make up their minds on Carrington maize saga and the arms deal. Nkole and his handlers have received a slap in the face. Pay up or else………………

  43. We want our money back. FTJ tell us where you took our money or who gave that money and under what circumstances were you given such huge sums?

  44. this criminal let him keep barking. He started with immunity now it’s money he needs back. He is forgetting that he sent KK to jail with his full immunity. Why didn’t he just open a different account that mixing gvt money with what he claims came from welwishers. He is truelly a black sheep of the family.

  45. rain or no rain come 2011 MMD is picking the seat once again.you see the forces at play now……….the money will be dished out to the poor of the luapula province and thats how MMD will scoop the province believe me you. i said it before Zambia is poor interms of hunger and not brains………..hunger is the biggest factor that triggers corruption. mwanya bane

  46. Did shortie declare that income? Has he paid tax on it? Isn’t the state entitled to get what righfully belongs to it? Are the powers that be asleep so they don’t realise what they gotta do? So many questions and no answers. Come on ZRA, wake up!

  47. Chinyama Jones, the so called judge, can you respond to chiluba’s question, why is the recepient (regina chiluba) found guity of receiveing stolen property and free the person who gave her the same stolen property? Shame on you Chinyama

  48. well, since the court aquitted Chiluba, it’s only fair that he gets his money back, there is nothing anyone can do about it. the main culprits in this whole saga are Max Nkole together with Nchito who meserably failed to get a conviction, there should be made to account for all the moneis they recieved for a case they knew where bound to loose. There are the thieves, There have stollen billions by pretending to prosecute when infact they knew there had no case.

  49. Nchito should be locked up expecially with his involvement with the now quiet ZA scandal, He is a fake lawyer who’s only mision is to make quick bucks from the govt, shame on you. How can you fail to have Chiluba convicted and just accept the rulling at once after 8 years of trail. How much did you make from this process, ZRA investgate this guy.

  50. $500,000. What petty cash! I didn’t know we had a lot of money in Zambia if we can have that much for petty cash in for State House alone. I am not surprised that the Ministry Of Health had K27 billion for petty cash. I wonder how much RB has for petty cash. Chiluba pliz help us by being quiet. You can’t put your own money in a co-operate account. I know that myself because I am involved in managing a co-operate account. If I put my own money in that account,from whatever source, it’s not mine anymore. I know that and as a result I can’t do that, no matter how much authority I have over the account.

  51. I pitty the poor people in Bigoca that Chiluba was tricking. I know there are a lot more who are dazzled by Chiluba’s bull**** that will be making the loudest noise for him. As for me, I am too clever for Chiluba. The trouble is that we have a lot of people in Zed who think they can buy their way into God’s bossom by being “LORD! LORD! masters. Deitrich Bonehaofer calls it “CHEAP GRACE”. In Zed people think if I make the loudest noise in church and offer the largest sum for collection then I hace God’s grace. No wonder Chiluba is a saviour of some of these little churches. He certainly makes huge finacial offers. They need to keep him around and shower him with CHEAP GRACE slogans.

  52. As long as Zambian are poor and not empowered we will continue seeing such cases. The whole government system is corrupt because everyone wants to benefit himself. There is competition among these gvt official whose has the biggest masion in Chalala and whose driving what car. So there is still a lot of theft in the gvt circles. One man accussed together with Kapoko has killed himself. He used to work for MOH.

  53. I wonder what the leaders of this same churxch he was using to make sucha stupid statement think. Too much bootlicking. Thats why the catholics have more credibility because they would allow such a useless chap making a mockery of the poor people from the floor of their church. I guess these BIGOCA guys are hoping ka Kafupi kalabachekelako. Shameless pipo indeed.

  54. leave the man alone ala, tamukwete ifya kuchita… Tax payers have paid huge sums of money to lawyers etc and what ve we gained as a nation nothing! Just wasting taxpayers money for 8 yeras imwe wantu please!

  55. Now this is the same chap who took the UNIP HQ away from them despite it having been built using donated money. I am sure that there is a contradiction somewhere.

  56. Chiluba and RB are thieves.Where does Chiluba get the courage to speak all this shit?.This man should just die and all you who support him are brainless fools.Zambia is in a mess,and we let criminals free like this?

  57. Ba Connie u ve become an expert in paediatric and criminology…. u can call FTJ a thief! and u go outside zambia and say my former president is a thief yangu tata lesa, nensoni tamukwete!

  58. Given a platform by churches yet again Shows you how desparate these churches are in Africa. As long as he is tything the midget is no criminal.

    Yet we claim we worship him more than the west! Kokulila #66 I agree with you. These churches are desperate for umutulo/tythe and the would do anything to welcome Spoiler Kapenda in his hey days as long as he is giving them money!

    The gulf will always get bigger between the west and poor countries like Zambia because of this.

  59. #9 For your information, Chiluba was not given money as an individual but as holder of the office of the President. If he remained a call boy or union leader he would have got no donation. The man is so greedy and unrepentant to the point of even failing to reason.

  60. Mubwezelene kalapu please!
    This whole thing has been a farce from its inception.
    The chap was handed a not-guilty verdict. He has the right to claim what’s lawfully his seeing that he’s got a clean slate now. The judicial system is to blame and nobody else.

  61. I agree with you number 44. FTJ should realise that the donations he got then were as reason of the office he held and not as FTJ. Kafupi sure, why do you antangonise the Zambians in your manipulation of events. Go to hell FTJ. KABWALALA

  62. Give him back all of it now now his money, his wife, his buildings, his party, his boats, oil wells, yes all of it!!!

  63. Yaba, the circus continues! Now he is ready to campaign for Nyamasoya……mmmmm. Luapula pipo, pliz don’t vote MMD, kafupi is bootlicking and doesn’t care about you. What did he ever do for the province or the country when he was in power? How about we add Pastor to Dr. Chiluba? Pastor Dr. Chiluba!

  64. Ka chiluba ukuyufwa. what did you do in Luapula province where you come from? Nothing just shut up wilatusebanya iwe kabwala, u neglected that place when you were president, closed mansa batteries and you never paid people their terminal benefits. So what is it that RB will do in Luapula?

  65. HUMPHREY SIULUPWA is one major disappointing SELL – OUT!!! 100% LOSER. What really does he stand for? Who is he representing? In prison, these are the guys that get sodomized. Him together with the kleptomaniac midget he’s supporting. Chiluba the little prick ass dwarf deserves nothing but the guillotine.

  66. Titus Mpundu ‘Chiluba’ Kabolala, you have just stolen my powerful article about your thefts in conjunction with LT. You don’t own Luapula. Bible Gospel Church is your pesonal Church which you created with brown envelops you used to give them. The same goes for New Generation Party and Siulapwa uwapwa.

  67. Titus Mpundu, You cannot fool Zambians all the time. Your time has come and you must go to jai. move directly to jail. Do not pass. Monopoly instructions state.

    Lwapula is part of Zambia and has free people of whom some some went with you to Kawambwa Secondary School in August 1960 like B.Y. Mwila who has already confessed to Winter Kabimba the lawyer that you are not related. Bye bye!!! Bye byeeeee!!!!

  68. I have never seen a man as shameless as FTJ.The man has the courage to attend a christian gathering and claim for money he stole from the people of Zambian people.All before the eyes of the almighty.What a country……

    In other countries FTJ would have been a corpse lying in the streets riddled with bullet holes.He is very lucky he lives in Zambia.

    When Jerry Rawlings came to power,he just said we are cleaning up and starting afresh.You all know what happened to the corrupt Generals.He did not spare a single one of them.Look at where Ghana is today.

  69. With FTJ’s aquital, expect more holy talk by born agian brothers & sisters. There is time for everything. The case of theft is now history the rest is now mere debate.

  70. When will the son of Diana Kaimba the 1943 Mwense Musangu village prostitute who slept with Chabala Kafupi to concieve and produce the Zambian misfortune of Titus Mpundu and his late twin sister?

    Bishop Peter Ndhlovu of Bible Gospel Church, if it is a true church at all, do you know the man you are dealing with or you just want his money to exist? Ndalama zinapaitsa mwana wa Mulungu Jesu. Mwanvela baba?

  71. Ba Chiluba … you can not have your cake and eat too .. . you are taking the people of Zambia for Granted … first we have a lot of question sabout your aqcuital and now youare teasing us about the money we are supposed to pay you back com on man…

  72. Thank u Magicroundabout #80 for agreeing with me. Zambia is in trouble.

    Somebody fill me in on petty cash! What does that mean? Were Chiluba’s well wishers his personal well wishers and not the nation’s?

  73. I despair at my Zambia. Honestly speaking this is the lowest ebb in the country’s history, we are doomed. I am agreeing with Dambisa Moyo in her call for all governments to stop aid payments to Zambia immediately (our foreign debt is now $2m. Did we learn nothing from the HIPC episode!!!). We claim to be hungry, but when someone takes advantage of us we sit on our a$$es, we are surely the dumbest people on earth. Zambia is headed for civil strife, I’m certain of it, our present path is not sustainable. The political landscape is becoming more and more polarised and soon the only recourse to try and even the field will be violence. I feel myself being drawn to acts of vigilantism.

  74. Chiluba wants his money back and yet we are still building him a house!!! What is this nosense!!!! He stole from us by whatever means and now he wants us to pay him when we shall build him a house costing K7 billion. Shame!!!

  75. Chiluba is not being honest about the Zamtroop account, this case was long overdue and now he goes free even when he knows deep down his heart that he is not clean. There is something going on between RB and FTJ nowander the acquittal. Why did FTJ really interfere with the Zamtroop acc? He claims he put his money there, can he really come up with the people who donated that money and for what. This man has misled many and am afraid he is still misleading masses again. Anyway the blame just goes back to our judicial system!

  76. All of a sudden this Chiluba is appearing everywhere looking healthy, what happened to all that pretense about being sick. Looks to me like RB is seeking advice from Chiluba on how to steal the elections again, this is just the beginning. I wish the opposition could be serious.

  77. The Jackal, the guy is cheeky enough to freely admit that those donations might have come from drug dealers!!! Read the article again. How do we have a head of state laundering money through a national bank account? Come on people, do you like being laughed at? We (collectively) are simply dumb!!

  78. ESU Nursing School director commits suicide
    Written by Bivan Saluseki
    ONE of the directors of ESU Nursing School in Lusaka, Joshua Ushibantu Simpaya, has committed suicide.
    Simpaya, who was an employee of the Ministry of Health, committed suicide on Saturday around 09:00 hours and the funeral is at his home off Chilumbulu Road near Looters in Lusaka.

    Police spokesperson Bonny Kapeso yesterday confirmed Simpaya’s death.

    Kapeso said Simpaya is believed to have drunk a poisonous substance.

    Simpaya was being investigated over billions of public money which were paid to the nursing school housed in Chudleigh, Lusaka.

    The school is reported to have received over K7 billion just in 2008, on the pretext that it was training government nurses, midwives and clinical…

  79. I am shocked that there were no demonstrations this time over Chiluba acquittal, remember the demonstrations we had going to parliament to make sure this guy would go to court. Zambians are we weak, is it hunger, lack of hope. Just seating by and being taken for granted while one man makes all the decisions that affect us daily really puzzles me.

  80. Continued! From The Post Newspaper! ………and the continuous training of health workers through workshops.
    But investigators said that amount of money to a single and private institution was more than what the government and legitimate nursing training institutions ever received from the ministry.
    Most government nursing schools are lying in a state of disrepair and are run under deplorable conditions.

    That’s not just Kapoko’s accomplice but Chiluba’s too!!! What do u think?

  81. Whisper: I know where to get it. But now that his accomplice has died of the substance he might be wary of it. But I know what to do. The short man likes tujilijili so we can either overdose him with utujilijili like the Chongwe man or mix the SIBSTANCE with utujilijili. What do u think!!!!

  82. BaChiluba,let the dust setlle,why are you in hurry?You are now moving faster than the speed of light.Give us a break we are sick and tired of your wrong deeds.Sympathy at church ,now is the order of the day.

  83. #Chiluba had an account in Ndola which he forgot about and a man wit a similar name was accessing that account until one day he got caught

  84. jack’s wife.

    please don’t tell me that you are refering to our…….as shriek. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!! You have made my day.I can now go to the library peacefully.

  85. What would $500,000 petty cash do for UTH? How much equipment would it buy? How many doctors and nurses would it pay? How many bedsheets , gloves, disinfectants would it provide? This money can help ZAMBIAN PEOPLE and is not petty cash. If Zambia does not value the usage of $500,000 how can it develop itself as a country. Does any one realise what a difference it would make if applied to the right sectors in the economy. In Luapula? How many teachers would it pay?What local businesses or farms would it develop? Our father in heaven is a God of order ,read and study the bible the word of God and check out Jesus character he showed us the truth about Christianity….actions must match words

  86. SOME PIPO ARE VERY SICK ON THIS BLOG. IT IS ADVISED TO STAY CALM OR RATHER CONFINE THOSE BIG MOUTHS AND EMPTY HEADS….IF YU KNO THAT YOU ARE A SICK *****. CHI N#9.MMD Chief Bootlicker. YOU ARE MAD, ILL TREATED,ABUSED BY YO MMUUDID. I HAV BEEN FOOLLOWIN YOU FOR A LONG TYM *** ****. I WISH U A REVOLUTION AS WE CONTINU DWELLIN IN A LOST LAND LIKE ZAMBIA. I DONT KNO HOW U FOUND YOSELF IN THAT CLEAN LAND AS YO FLAG SUGGEST SO. WAKE UP, WE ARE RUNNIN OUT OF TIME U FU

  87. Iwe Matworld, do you not read before you write? That was never his money! At best it was donations from outside for a particular project (which I serioulsy doubt), with which Titus Mpundu was proposing to build. It is ridiculous that we now have people like you who want us to return the money to him, WITH interest?! Do you put money into your employers account for safe keeping? Go and try it my friend and see what the response is when you try and withdraw it.

  88. why should he go to Luapula to tell people to vote for RB? which means RB helped him out te? Kwena shalifula imbwa pa zed

  89. #118 fuseki

    Maybe you are new on this blog even if you claim to have been following me. If indeed you have been following me, you would know who am. It ‘s no secret that I work for the embassy here and I was deployed by the MMD govt, just like alot other people deployed in Zambian missions abroad by the MMD govt. UNIP used to deploy UNIP members during their time. My friend Zambia is a democracy if your PF wins an election, which by the way they never win in my life time, they are free to recall me back and deploy their people here and I will gladly go back to Zambia and pursue my plan B if that fails follow plan C. Elections is the only legitimate way to come into power. So beat us at the polls and not threats on the Internet. That will not cut it. Keep dreaming with your Internet…

  90. all you people calling Chiluba a thief there is something wrong with you. You are so dull. Youn’t know that the COURT has declared him NOT GULTY. So whats your problem, face it. And that money is his money. He was raising it for the Institute. It must be give to him including the structure which was grabed from the man because of vindicative Levy. that man was evil, someone picks you up from the garbage and gives a presidency and you pay him by hounding him until you die shame. And all the prosiperity he saw was as a result of major decisions made by Chiluba. What new thing did Levy do tell me. Give me a break

  91. Fair let him just reveal the source and for what reasons they gave such amounts of money. What was in it for them? Why didn’t he contest the FTJ institute seizure….Task force is also too sleepy or is it there are other forces that make them ineffective. Our Judicial system is something else. Chaps are found with dagga and get 5years at a very fast rate when some cases take 8 years. Petty cash is a small amount of discretionary funds in the form of cash used for expenditures where it is not sensible to make the disbursement by cheque, because of the inconvenience and costs of writing, signing and then cashing the cheque.

  92. Issues of stealing just need to be dealt with Mafia style.You steal from the Godfather(The Zambian people),hitmen are sent to sort you out.End of story.

  93. I saw Tetamalilo ywo days ago, if he comes back to Zambia as a passenger on South Africa Airways, he would have performed a resurrectious act of biblical proportions. Since he is a feeble being like all of us, my bet is that he will within the next week or two expire and arrive back home classified as “cargo”, e.g. remains of fimo fimo! At lease he will be loaded in one of his ka Tetamalilo and shipped to Kolwezi. I wonder who between Kunda and Mlongoti is next. It’s about time these sicklings stopped talking about 2011, the future they will not see.

  94. Abena kafupi I think this now is an insult to the Zambian people iwe ka litol*… how much was your salary when u were presido and how much do u want? What a shame. remember O.J. he initially go away but see where he is now? Just shut the f*** up little man…

  95. Zambians wtf did he amass this money? not even the US Prez gets that kind of loot..anways he stole this money!!!!!!!!!!!

  96. It makes me wonder, is this man still OK upstairs? Some wires must have short circuited lately. Let the guys from CHAINA plus MA check him out thoroughly.

  97. Mundia fye: how dumb are you? Can you not read? When people make a donation, they aren’t giving you the money they are giving it toward a project, that money was not his! Zambia is the way it is because of you and your kin!

  98. Ofcourse he right to think 500,00$ was loose change this is a fool who had 1billion in the budget set out as Presidential Slush Fund……money no one talks about……where is the auditor general accountant general to explain this wanton waste of money…

  99. I know this issue of Freddie is contentious and polarising but in all fairness this man won the case and it is his right to get back all that was taken into evidence. Unless they say they are appealing the case, then they can still hold personal items that they took in. If they are not showing signs of appealing the case, some questions might beg to be answered. What do they intend to do with the items that are his? With regard to money in Zamtrop, I think Freddie should forget about that money. Zamtrop is a govt entinty and no sane person deposits their funds using such entinties. How does Zamtrop account and substantiate their disbursement of funds to Freddie? Awe apapena baFreddie batena.

  100. we Lambas say ” akanua kamilandu kene ka ifisulula” there you go now he will sue the government to calaim “petty cash”. So the government has this luxiary while people are suffering? mmmmh how much does a hospital linen cost mmmhhhh ….what about sterile gloves ..mmmmhhh or Nurses and other medical personel need a raise… WAKE UP and SUT UP Ba Shi Castro you have ruined peoples lives. The pastors of this church advise your member Shi Castro do not look at how much the “petty cash ” will benefit your church. All you church members celebrating think twice.

  101. ” Dr Chiluba said he was advised to keep his personal money in the Zamtrop account meant for the construction of the Institute of Democratic Studies because some of his friends who donated towards the project could have given him money laundered from drugs.

    Ehhhhhhhh…

  102. ” Chiluba said he was advised to keep his personal money … because some of his friends who donated towards the project could have given him money laundered from drugs. ”

    The president had friends in the drug business? And they gave him ‘donations’? I remember the use of ‘donations’ to Chiluba’s projects from the Vulture Fund saga, in which he helpfully pointed out outanding debt to vulture fund ‘investors’, so they could buy them up and sue the Zambian government for the full amount.

    If drug people gave Chiluba ‘donations’, they gave him bribes – in exchange for what?

    My guess is that there are a host of crimes out there that Chiluba has not been convicted of yet.

  103. Quote “Dr Chiluba said he was advised to keep his personal money in the Zamtrop account meant for the construction of the Institute of Democratic Studies because some of his friends who donated towards the project could have given him money laundered from drugs”.

    A sitting president receiving laundered money and he sees nothing wrong with it. If fact, he reveals this in church and the members listen. We have problems in our country. He admits that some of his friends were drug dealers and he actually had their dirty money put in a Government account. Something is just not right here. He needs to explain more and Zambia needs help.

  104. Eagle one on one and MrK: this is exactly what I have been saying. How is it that no one is questioning this revelation? Chiluba knows he is above the law because we are too dozy to even question. Zambia is doomed we have journalists who don’t know the meaning of the word investigative, we have judges who don’t know the first thing about law and everyone is being bought by thick headed numbskulls. The lunatics have taken over the asylum!! When Chiluba dies I will rejoice.

  105. I sensed something was iffie when LPM started building a house for Chiluba.Maybe he was sure FTJ was going to be sured but upon realising his limitations he dragged the case himself.Why would people like Katele or Katumbi be free and guaranteed that none of them would be persecuted?Maybe somewhere along the fight for corruption went wrong or he found himself envolved in the very things he was fighting.Like Nawakwi said the whole process went wrong when only one person was targeted.Chiluba is making the loudest noise because Levy’s govt has been found wanting e.g the MOD scandal which has by now lost all the relevant evidence.God help us

  106. Chiluba Kafupi..ituri Pigmy. Just shut up and enjoy your freedom while it last. Dont annoy us otherwise we shall take the law in our onw hands.

  107. Huge problems in zed, why would a normal person say that the money given to him could have been form drug dealers? Then why did you accept the money since you had those suspicions? No morals at all. FTJ wife grabber and his BFF who has a wife who is younger than his gran kids.Pitiful

  108. Petty cash! Does he know that the USA president Barack Obama gets paid $400,000 per year and that it used to be $200,000 until recently. Besides all gifts donated while in office are considered public and the president cant keep them ,money included, unless it is used for campaigning and to pay staff.

  109. What is amazing is for a person who knows what they did and go around as if he did no wrong and being given a platform in church. If Chiluba was humble and knew that he was not completely innocent he would shy away from speaking in churches…

  110. Chiluba should be ashamed of himself he cant call $500,000 as petty cash. Is he trying to tell us that he didn’t care how much public money he spent when he was in office as president? God of all when will you liberate poor pipo of Zambia from these unfair justice and treatments by so called African leaders.chiluba must be really sick.

  111. In all civilized countries the world over, ALL gifts, presents and donations received in while in office by a head of state are gifts, presents and donations to the STATE and not to the Individual holding the office at the time. And upon leaving such office, they revert to the State. Worse still, if such gift are in any way, shape of form tainted with the slightest suspicion of having been spuriously gotten, as clearly in this case, they they most definitely are forfeited to the state. Period. No matter which way you sugar-coat it, Mr. Chiluba, those are and will remain ill-gotten wealth till the day you die!

  112. Have you noticed how Mr. Chiluba’s health has so dramatically improved int he last one week he has been cleared of his one case? The man no longer seems to be in the obviuosly faked pain he led the nation to believe he was in for the past eight or so years? Praise be to Banda!! You have performed a miracle!

  113. Dollar C-Liar Banda @ #148, Chiluba not only has Banda to praise for his miracle healing, but the corrupt judicial system as well!! Now he is free to attack the judicary too for having found his wife guilty! What chick!! Going by his fractured reasoning, then all his former generals who have been convicted should also be set free!! This little thing is not onkly sick in body, body in the head too! It will take more than the corrupt so-called church leaders he has surrounded himself with to save his soul this man.

  114. On “He said first Republican president Kenneth Kaunda left the legacy of One Zambia One Nation but that when he left a new era of tribal politics emerged… He said Zambians were beginning to practice politics of regionalism that was now fading away under President Banda’s leadership.” Who then brought tribalism in Zambia ,because it is Mr Chiluba who toom over from former President K.D. Kaunda and hence his own words point at him? On the regionalism issue,how is it fading away? Is it because Mr Chiluba is going to convince Bembas (Bemba Speaking people) in Luapula that what he was supporting (even by supporting Mr Sata MC (Grade 2/6, unknown) in 2006 elections was wrong by it being tribalism)?
    Good that the brother is telling the Nation what he did to Zambia.

  115. Following on Good that the brother is telling the Nation what he did to Zambia. I hope Mr Chiluba FTJ (Grade 8/9?, Degree from Warwick?, Honourary Doc. from Malawi) will give a fully detailed press conference or interview on why he did not choose Mr Sata MC as his successor in 2001 when he opted to wake up late former President Levy Mwanawasa from sleep in the night/early morning to become Zambian President under suspicious means.
    Like I wrote before, 2011 elections will be very impressive and I am watching the revelation of all past MMD dealings carefully.
    As for his claiming God brought Mr RB Banda, God will show.

    Have a blessed day.
    _
    Matthew 6:33 + KJV Bible
    But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all things shall be added unto you.

  116. Whoever let this dog out of its cage made a fatal mistake. I really can’t stand his talk. I’m no lawyer but surely I fail to understand why FTJ wasn’t convicted. Even I’m no lawyer but I sure can convict him just based on this nonsense he is spitting out in this article. Surely Chiluba is daring and asking ‘legitimate’ questions, albeit poking fun ata our judiciary system. He is bragging and trying to tell us he stole more than $500k (I equally wowndered why he was charged with such a ‘small’ amount). He is also saying he actually should have been convicted because the recipient of his loot was convicted. And finally he is saying RB had had a hand in his acquittal. And his excuse for storing money in Zamtrop doesn’t make sense, and is he saying the money was donated by drug…

  117. Rather than appealing, I reckon the entire Task Force must disband and fire itself for failing to convict this outright thief. How else will they justify their existence when they have failed to nail to the cross the very target they were set for in the first place? I don’t care whether the judge or the President had had a hand in this acquital but the Task Force should have provided an overwhelming evidence against Chiluba, evidence that should have withstood any form of manipulation! After all these long 8 yrs they ought to be ashamed of themselves. If really there is corruption involved in their entire system and process, then appealing is a sheer waste of time and money – 2 valuable scarce resources in Zambia at the moment!

  118. Only people with eyes can see what is happeing. We are in trouble. They are organising themselves to storm Luapula which RB needs so much that he is ready to sleep with a snake. During Umutomboko ceremony did u now that a brand new 4×4 baloon vain was showered to the chief and did hear Chriticles Mwansa’s speech. Munzi wapya. Tapali icenu its10-0. Chiluba,Chungu, Katele and The Reble FP MP’s will be attaking. Mwaivela????????

  119. We are watching with interest the arguement of the Appeal.. Mr Nkole you have made us proud again. Let us see what the DPP will do. I am sure Rupiah has been exposed and we cant wait to show him the door and then lock him up together with Chiluba.

  120. This is why, I could not return to zambia to live… People can get away with murder if they want to . Zambia is Corrupt. It Sad , the poor people of Zambia, May the real God please help you, those wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing, your time is coming.

  121. If Chiluba is now supporting RB, so what about SATA , how was for Chiluba six months ago.
    My Question is WHAT is SATA saying about THIS HAPPENING.

  122. Chiluba is just a liar & must shut up! Making all those insensitive jabs at late Mwanawasa (“God” made Banda this & “God” made Mwanawasa that) would only make Zambians angry about Chiluba, the thief!! We are already angry about this whole shameful acquittal, which I for one suspect was fixed. Chiluba now makes allusions to tribe, yet wants us to be fooled that others are the tribalists: for chasing an acquitted thief? Chiluba is the one who’s divisive, & I’m sure he does this to win sympathy from people for his self-created plight. Chiluba to claim “his” money? Give me a break! Whose money? The whole idea makes me sick! This case clearly depicts the rotting state of current Zambian (“judicial”) politics and crippled decision-making processes. SHAME!

  123. Give him back his money why should it only be CHILUBA to be investigated:: how about KAUNDA how about MWANAWASA, and what will happen with RB when he leaves office. just be reasonable and considerate, some of you got those houses in his chapter. CHILUBA oppened the minds of ZAMBIANS to look beyond Zambia: for business while KAUNDA kept you in a bottle closed from the outside world what a shame :In KAUNDA erra you cannot talk about a passport it was apipe dream business was only for INDIANS SORRY, I DONOT WANT TO REMEMBER ANYMORE ABOUT THIS MANS RULE

  124. If u don’t understand how governments operate shut up!!!!!! This is Africa, Obama had a tough time in Ghana to drive his point. It’s another heart trick goal from FTJ. Just give him his money, it’s badly needed in Luapula for 2011 and forget about Obama’s hand.You dark skinned forgotten people of the dark continent day dreamers. You call $500,000 pet cash. Shame upon you………….

  125. Aba Bantu, God help us please, Chi 162, your father never worked mu parastatal so shut up. aka ka kafupi namanje people have not recieved their terminal benefits because of his mismanagement of funds.Dont forget he was the chief executive as president and he knows exactly who stole what. you dont see why aba bafik@@@l@ are major shareholders in many of these coperations that are doing okay now but were once parastatals. BA SATANA NAIWE KUMO.

  126. Whisper,

    What Zambia needs more than anything, more than morality in public office, more than privatisation, more than foreign investors, is good governance. Zambia needs to have strong checks and balances on anything from public financing to donations to politicians.

    The way to achieve that, is to have very strong, independent civil service organisations that can easily stand up to political pressure, and can easily bring cases that get politicians convicted when they stray from the law.

    We need a professionalisation of the civil service and parastatals, a strong reduction in the number and depth of political appointments to the civil service, and legal powers for civil service organisation, and constitutional protection.

    We need to strengthen democratic institutions.

  127. These guys are playing zambia really well. The regina case is nothing to them, they will sort her out real soon, wait and see. aren’t you all seeing her around with Chiluba, which prison is she in? It’s all a make-believe game. Chiluba is out, regina is out, RB stealing with them, that 500, 000 is soon theirs as they share it tog. Where have u ever heard someone receiving legitimate gifts and keeping them in state accounts? where? only when the funds are illegitimate and one wants to hide them – a curtail! God help the poor of the poorest that we are now!

  128. ALL THOSE SURPOTIN THA LITTLE THIEF YA ALL COWARDS AND U TRUELY DONT NO WAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT,JUST SHUT UP AND CONTINUE THA BOOT LICKING STYLE

  129. Lusaka rumour mill says civil society has changed tack. They now say if Chiluba really did have US$ 8-9 million in the ZAMTROP account can he:-

    1. Declare all his income and assets and swear on oath of the veracity of this declaration.

    2. Pay all the taxes on this same money as all income including gifts and contributions are considered taxable in Zambia.

    3. Pay all fines and penalties on the same income if he did not pay the taxes on the same income.

    4. Clearly identify and produce proof of the source of this money. They say if he is innocent and the income is genuine not stolen heshould do the right thing and pay hs taxes like all upstanding citizens. Reasonable request don’t you think ?

  130. bane dobo baletoba bamudala aba yikali sana,perspective is lost he’s completely out of tune he’s in a parallel universe,wow ………………..

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