The Ndola Magistrate Court has charged former Defence Minister George Mpombo with one count of issuing a dishonoured cheque amounting to K 10 million.
Appearing before Ndola Chief Resident Magistrate Kelvin Limbani, and facing one count of issuing a dishonoured cheque contrary to section 33 sub-section 01 of the National Payment Act of the Penal Code of the Laws of Zambia was George Mpombo 55, a farmer of 05 Katonte farms in Masaiti.
Magistrate Limbani said the facts of the offence were that on 18th December 2009, Mpombo with intent to defraud, issued a cheque to Colwyn Limited of K10million on an insufficient funded account at Standard Chartered bank which rendered it defraud.
When asked to take his plea Mr Mpombo pleaded not guilty.
Magistrate Limbani adjourned the case to March 17, 2010 for the commencement of Trial and March 5, 2010 for Mention.
The former Defence minister had initially preferred to have the deliberations of the Court proceedings translated in Lamba but failed due to non availability of a Lamba interpreter in Court,
The Magistrate further granted an application by Defence Counsel Bonaventure Mutale to dispense the personal attendance of the accused during Mention on March 5, 2010 .
He explained that the accused would be involved in Parliamentary duties since Parliament would be in session at that particular time, adding that the accused was an Area Member of Parliament for Kafulafuta constituency.
Magistrate Limbani further extended Mr Mpombo’s police bond.
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in the first place why lend money to mpombo- a man who wears fake goat skin shoes?? you should be ready not to get your money back. the suit he has on in the pic was borrowed from bwezani. i wonder why he keeps looking down at his manhood aswell. dont tell me he borrowed that aswell:))
Amapolitiks mwandini, ala yabupubafye. All instructions are coming from plot 1. I know its all to do with revenge over what GM has been saying about your corrupt govt. But remember RB that your days are numbered. 2011 pepi sana. Whatever you sow, that you will reap. If you sow hatred and vengeance, you will reap it. If you sow love and forgiveness, you will reap it.The matter was settled outof court, why the fuss about this now. If Mpombo was in govt it wudnt have been an issue.Stop persecuting the pipo opposing govt. Thats what democracy is all about.
#1 your posting is distasteful.
I thought the money has been paid back already … so the state with have prove Mpombo intend was to defraud the MMD yes man….?
Ma rubbish in Zed …..
zed man ati how voyi? wadyela ? oh i forgot mudyela che ma aids uko ku sasaflika
MM BIN ADAM
Pipo like you amaze me.Any one who has followed Mpombo will know that the man has himself to blame.Mpombo was probably the worst of the lot of the family tree.These pipo with Mpombo in the forefront were divided cabinet into one part family tree and the other for the rest.And when LPM died the family tree lost its clout and because Mpombo had dedicated himself to blind worship of LPM together with other members of the family tree they found themslves isolated.So there are no politics issues at play here it is merely Mpombo paying for his foolishness.And why does he now want to use Lamba in court what happned to his Grade 12 vocabulary.
straight forward case . .. . . .Did you have money in your account. No
Why did you issue a cheque. …eeeh i was expecting money from well wishers like sata, and mmembe.
and i asked findley to hold on the chq.
But you issied the chq to a company not findl…But thus his company
OK JUST LOCK HIM FOR SIX MONTHS
Why this case has been allowed go this far is beyond my comprehension…The man has paid the K10m he owed his mate in Ndola. Why is RB an interested party?? This RB & his MMD are more confused than I initially imagined.
Why this case has been allowed go this far is beyond my comprehension…The man has paid the K10m he owed his mate in Ndola. Why is RB an interested party?? This RB & his MMD are more confused than I initially imagined.
politics………..
prison is for the poor only…:d/
#8 Abwenzi – I fail to understand your reasoning. Even if Mpombo paid back the money, he had already broken the law. It’s like if you steal someone’s phone and then take it back, if that person is aggrieved they can still sue you for theft. That’s simple logic and that’s exactly the spirit of the law as stipulated in section 33 (1) of the National Payment Systems Act of the Laws of Zambia. Mpombo should not even seek sympathy by asking for a Lamba interpreter because now is the time for him to use those misplaced bombastic words.
Whilst in chipata as a Farmer, RB issued cheques that were dishonoured to a businessman of Asian origin.Instead of focusing their attention on how best to move the country in terms of attracting FDI,job creation,improving the drainage system in cities and towns,they are busy trying to get even with their colleague by bringing up such rubbish.There are similarities between Mugabe and Bwezani.Is it because they are both Zimbabweans by birth?Kapoko’s case happened on RB’s watch but look at how slow they’ve been on the case but how fast they,ve been on Mpombo.s case.Doen,t this tell you something aboutBwezani’s mindset?
Good Afternoon
Am I the only one who has the feeling that this case is being blown out of proportion? A bounced K10 million cheque is pure trivia compared to some $60 million state funds that went missing by you know who.
The important questions is how many defrauders are enjoying stolen money out there while this poor man is getting exposed over failing to pay his debt?
#10, You have made my day. Your posting and the gravatar are JUST A MATCHING. lol
#10, You have made my day. Your posting and the gravatar are JUST A GREAT MATCHING. lol
Latcheting accounts and writing bad checks on a dry account is criminal tantamount to economic sabotage under the banking Act of the laws of Zambia. This a law which Mpombo wittingly sponsored and enacted in the house of legislatures at Manda Hill.With him he had moved 2 proposals in 2006 at the peak of his gloving vocation.
(1)-His First proposed bill under Mwanawasa in 2006 was the Degree clause for Presidential candidates
(2)-The second one was this Banking Act which went through into the laws of Zambia now challenging to stop latcheting accounts .He should revisit his bills.The Presidential degree clause is famously called the Mpombo Act.
This knowledge is way beyond the ever busy insulting PF kaponyas
VJ is well known for issuing dishonoured cheques and having his properties repossessed but this doesn’t mean he is a criminal.Yes he might have been involved in drug peddling in the past but thats a different issue.As a person, he speaks a lot of sense than Bwezani.In both the MMD and the PACT, there are some very intelligent chaps who speak a lot of sense but the majority have cadre mentality like Patiot and Senior Citizen.Please lets move the country forward by focussing on real issues.No one is bigger than mother zambia.Its the only country we’ve got so lets stop behaving like we are in transit.68% of our population live below the poverty line and only 20% have access to electricity and we are still busy trying to settle old scores.I am neither MMD nor the PACT but I want to see sense
VJ is well known for issuing dishonoured cheques and having his properties repossessed but this doesn’t mean he is a criminal.Yes he might have been involved in drug peddling in the past but thats a different issue.As a person, he speaks a lot of sense than Bwezani.In both the MMD and the PACT, there are some very intelligent chaps who speak a lot of sense but the majority have cadre mentality like Patiot and Senior Citizen.Please lets move the country forward by focussing on real issues.No one is bigger than mother zambia.Its the only country we’ve got so lets stop behaving like we are in transit.68% of our population live below the poverty line and only 20% have access to electricity and we are still busy trying to settle old scores.I am neither MMD nor the PACT but I want to see…
guys, how does VJ come into this. I thought the story was about Mpombo the monkey
Why is valuable court time being wasted when serious matters can be heard before over clogged court rolls. the money has paid the K10million he owes. Shouldn’t his bank where the account is held have taken measures regarding this issue. Am just worried police resources are being used to appease Mr RB on a score he needs to settle within his MMD
Guys, politics aside please let us focus on real issues.Fire starts with a spark.The French never thought Rwanda nor Ivory Coast could disintergrate to such chaos.The British never anticipated the chaos in Sierra Leone.Abijan was the Paris of Africa and peace was taken for grantedJust look at the DRC next door.Both Bwezani and Sata should be in retirement.The conditions are right for a civil war in that country.An Hungry man is a Angry man.Go to places like Chibombo, Shangombo,Buyombe and see first class poverty.There are people who have never tasted coca cola for almost 20years and you’ve people at plot one busy doing nothing to help these people fight poverty.But for as long as we’ve ass lickers like Patiot and Senior Citizen blogging at taxpayers expence at the embassy in usa, we…
Defence Counsel Bonaventure Mutale will now rip all the little money Mpombo is left with. the chap has less than K10m thats why the cheque bounced. Now all his NCC allowances, Gratuity and his little maize harvest will go to Defence Counsel Bonaventure Mutale. worse stil, a guity verdict will be read against him despite those huge amounts to the Defence Counsel Bonaventure Mutale. These Lawyers have no mercy for anybody. After the guity verdict, they will persuade him to apeal, after the apeal they will persuade him to file injunctions, all this time they will be sucking him till the last drop of his saliva. my advise to mpombo is as follows; Consult richard sakala before you pay Defence Counsel Bonaventure Mutale. This is very sad indeed!
Imwe just because a person steals a car and only returns it when he hears the cops are on to him, does that mean he is not a theif?
Although payment was done after Findlay reported the matter to the police, a crime was already committed, in terms of the National Payment Act. Whether payment was done is only a mitigating factor, and not a defence.
Stop mixing politics with the law.
If Mpombo had honoured the cheque, we would not be here, but because he failed to honour his cheque, as law maker he should have just said YOUR HONOUR AM GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! However, please mitigate my sentence, because I paid the amount at issue upon hearing a docket was opened.
atleast Mpombo even knows how to use a cheque, he cant be compared to RB( soya nyama) who sends out brown envelops flying to who ever he wants to decieve. this really sucks
Mponbo didn´t know anything bout his cheque book reasons been that he might not be having a secretary and hey…….whatsup withthe lamba thing?
no lamba plz………..go back and finish your unfinished with the Ministry of Defence and that of Education.
Mwisho ba Mpombo – This is govt machine. You will lose this case. Please use bombastic words so that the case can be much better and interesting. You are paying for exposing RB and the MMD. Mwilaba ba Mwisho a ma laws. Fraud is a 18Months to 36Month in prison. Good luck but the poor like you are always in prison.
Mpombo is a comedian zoona, how honestly did he want the case to be presented in Lamba? as an MP did he fail to speak English this time or its just that he could not remember any of his dictionary bombastic terms, hah lol.
Anyway there is no substance in this bounced cheque case compared to millions of dollars lost at MOH,let justice prevail leave Mpombo alone and arrest every body who has stolen money from government
Its not debatable, Mpombo has broken the law, and he cannot escape punishment. But this is such a trivial case for Plot 1, and the entire Judicial system to be involved in. The bounced cheque saga i believe was settled between Mpombo and Findley. I honestly don’t not think Mpombo intended to defraud Findley as stated by Magistrate Limbani. This case as definately been blown out of propotion as observed by Nina Chali and many others. Plot 1 must focus it’s attention on improving the lives of Ordinary Zambians. If only the President would exert the same pressure and effort to conquer his rivals for the betterment of Ordinary Zambians he would be my Man…
Why is this chap in the picture he looks as though he has just become of age? Kwati Chisungu still wainting for the elders to show her how to manage himself henceforth. Chisungu or its a grip of shame?
This Mpombo chap.He kept throwing missiles without having any shelter for himself. The worst is yet to come.He must get ready
Bt we shud be able to call a spade a spade mpombo has a case to answer frm th accountant point view its unethical accordind to th parliament finacial Act so let th th law take its course coz th same mpombo he is aware of th consequence of such action he did an he has been questionin th govt operations in terms of checks and balances so let him also be able to account th checks an balances individually,lastly let th law tak its course an no intervention frm th executive to yield justice.
Do not judge Mpombo my friends, that is prejudice or chauvinism.:d/
Months ago I said the anger in Hon Mpombo would land him into problems. That spray of anger has touched many people who are out to settle scores with him. Before we realise it, he will have another case, then that will be the beginning of the end of his career as a politician. He will be consigned to history as a man that miscalculated his steps in political life. And the monkeys at the Sun in Livingstone will have the last laugh!!!!
This is political machinery at play. We hope that Chipata female teacher who was receiving a salary long after she left teaching at one of the schools in the bundus of Chipata will also be taken to court. Otherwise it is pure double standards.
#11, I have no issues if the law takes its course & applied fairly. The complainant accepted the money & withdrew the case after payment was made in cash.So police could have closed the docket. Speaking of fraud, RB’s wife continued to fradulantly receive a monthly salary way after she stepped down as a teacher after the husband moved to plot 1. If you want to know more why RB is clinging on to power, he was on the brink of bankruptcy thanks to late president Mwanawasa he was given a new lease at life. How many of his businesses bounced or failed to honour cheques? The man still owes ZRA millions in unpaid company taxes. That’s why insiders who know the Zambian Airways saga are using RB’s cases as precedents because the law shouldn’t favour the elite few. Wake up man these RB’s are…
“The former Defence minister had initially preferred to have the deliberations of the Court proceedings translated in Lamba but failed due to non availability of a Lamba interpreter in Court”
Is this playing to tribal sympathy? mmm. Very cheap! Lamba is not an official language and Mr Mpombo, former Defence Minister is not illiterate! But to prove ‘intent to defraud’ will be the sticking point in this matter. This is bad law and Mr Mpombo will be a free man soon. My quarrel with these ministers and former leaders is why do they get debts from individuals? This goes to probity in public office!
#35 Blue Blood
It is not an employee’s duty not to receive payment. It is the duty of the employer to ensure termination of payment. If the employer finds that one has been paid erroneously, the employer has the right to demand back the money. On the othe hand, the fact that a payslip was issued does not mean that the teacher received the money! I was paid for 11 months after I left a certain ministry, but I did not receive the money because the bank account was disabled.
#13 Nine Chale
You disappint me. There is no such thing as blowing things out of proportion when it comes to the law. The people blowing this out of proportion are the media. I only say that it is bad law because ‘intent’ is difficult to prove. Someone has to check the account to prove that Mr Mpombo ‘knew’ that there was no money in his account at the time the cheque was issued. The people blowing this out of proportion are the ones who are applying politics to it. As #16 Senior Citizen says, it was Mpombo’s act, so let him taste his own medicine. Sata was imprisoned without bail for motor car theft. These guys make the bad laws not knowing that they will the victims of the same some day!
Viva Mpombo! Yes it has been a criminal act under our “laws” but every jackal knows instructions are coming from RB. Watch out, support Mpombo
Issuing a bounced cheque is the matter for the banks and any government legislation. How many mps, or governent minister are owing people outside and giving bounced cheques the list is so long. Let us see how this trial goes. The list will be produced in due course. This is a political witch hunt but you will not succeed. The debt has been paid what next?
Issuing a bounced cheque is the matter for the banks and not for any government legislation. How many mps, or governent ministers are owing people outside and giving bounced cheques the list is so long. Let us see how this trial goes. The list will be produced in due course. This is a political witch hunt but you will not succeed. The debt has been paid what next?
This man is an MP and in his cinduct he must always show honor and integrity. That is why he is referred to as “Honorable”. This should serve as a reminder and lesson to all the people in public office that integrity, honesty and accountability should be principles on which these so-called lawmakers should abide by. Whether instructions to prosecute are coming from plot 1 or not, no one forced Mpombo to attempt defrauding his counterpart! Let the law take it’s course. No one should be above the law!
Mpombo is finished. What will happen is that he will get a criminal record and therefore he will not be eligible to stand as an MP. He may not go to jail but he definately will get a suspended sentence and that will mean he is a convict. He may think he si clever but the system is much more cleverer.He may say what ever he wants but his time is up. He misfired.
#44 Do you think people in Zambia care about background checks? If they care, alot of people would have not been in parliament or public office, instead Zambians still vote for criminals they know very well, thats why Zambia is not developing. so Mpombo will still be bouncing back.
Who has charged who? Who is prosecuting? Is it the Magistrate?? I do not understand? Did the bank report the matter to the police? Why has the bank been silent on the matter?
2 and others: Are you suggesting that RB persuaded Mpombo to borrow that money? If so then RB must be some kind of god to be everywhere and in everything, the perfect leader.
This case is not about politics,issuing of cheques against insuffiecient funds is so rampant in this country resulting in some companies to stop accepting cheques.I donot see R.B’s role in this case.
RB’s role might not be easily seen but its the inuendos that stink. From what I hear the cheque was issued on the understanding it will be held until when the account is funded. There might have been a breakdown in communication and the cheque presented. The regular thing to do was the bank to close the account and since GM paid back the money immediately the matter should have been closed. I ask what I asked in another forum, which is lesser evil, someone dishonouring a cheque and paying back immediately or someone closing his companies without paying off his workers for decades? Bwezanis companies Allenwest and Robert Hudson still have to pay employees more than 10 years on. And he has the means now. Lets play a fair game. GM, I dont like your politics but I support your position
Fellow Blogars politics in Zed is really dirty. RB was broke 4 eing appointed VP y levy, he was even planning to move to the teahers quarters 4 he was apointed VP. One day he will pay back. King combra, hold on to that mistress’s payslips so that dockets will be opened one out of offie.
Ba LT, Do magistrates charge people?