THE Lusaka magistrate’s court has set November 18, 2013 as the date on which it will deliver judgement in a matter in which deputy Youth and Sports Minister Steven Masumba is charged with forging a diploma in technician accounting.
Director of local courts, Wilfred Muma who sat as magistrate set the date after Mr Masumba closed his defence yesterday.
Masumba, 31, of NAPSA Housing Units, Ibex Hill, is charged with one count of obtaining pecuniary advantage by false pretences.
But Masumba’s last witness, former National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA) Examination officer Clive Kawana insisted yesterday that Masumba’s statement of results was correct and genuine because he signed it.
This was contrary to the testimony of NIPA registrar Kanyembo Wina that he was the one who signed Masumba’s statements which highlighted that the minister failed his course and as such he could not graduate.
While the State alleges that Masumba failed this basic accounting course, the deputy minister produced before court a statement of results signed by Mr Kawana which indicated that he amassed 82 per cent in basic accounting level one while in level two he obtained 72 per cent and not 38 and 57 per cent as was alleged.
Mr Kawana, 58, now a lecturer at Lusaka Vocation Training Centre confirmed to the court that he was the one who signed Mr Masumba’s statements and not Mr Wina because he was at the time, the only one charged with the responsibility of signing the results.
Please PF clean up,too many issues within your house.Mr president can you take the driving seat , what we are seeing in the party isn’t pleasant at all.
Hahahahah, Steven!!
Examination officer !!! Mmmmmmmh Clive Kawana is a liar, the official authority of NIPA in this case is the registrar not Examination officer or otherwise.
Therefore, what was said by the NIPA registrar Kanyembo Wina is on sold ground. The rest is an exercise of cash on Masumba’s part……..
This case is going the same way as Namulambe’s. If that was not the case PF would not have risked poaching Masumba and then appointing him minister. The state had a solid case against Namulambe until the judgment was decided in a backroom deal. Namulambe’s and Masumba’s defections were about personal survival from incarceration.
With our PIG-type of governance where the Judiciary panders to the ruling party I will be surprised if this case goes against Masumba.
Muma all people know even Masumba knows that he forged his Nipa certificate no matter what you say .Masumba is a fraud,forger +++++ who doesn’t know this boy.Manipulator ,Liar ,deceptive,masumba should be dropped as a deputy minister kwasila and be jailed for forgery.
He was told that he will be arrested if he doesn’t resign as MMD MP hence the noise he started making denouncing MMD,the post knows start creating lies against people to gain political mileage.
The boy is a crook liar stupid and *****.
Wonder why Sata can tolerate this nonsense in his govt.The dancing he portrays is to cover up his misdeeds.
Pf will dump masumba after this verdict watch the space.
Another ACQUITTAL
Masumba will be found guilty but he will be aquited by the suprime court. Watch the space
If he slips through this one…… i will be in shock for there is no contest, this guy is a gone, who has the audacity to even believe otherwise?
Meant to say this guy is gone.
Examination officer Clive Kawana is a liar, the official authority of NIPA in this case is the registrar not Examination officer or otherwise.
Therefore, what was said by the NIPA registrar Kanyembo Wina is on sold ground. The rest is an exercise of cash on Masumba’s part……..
38% ,dull minister kekekekekeke. Go 2 unza I think he won’t even clear any hundred series courses. Let him study dancing at breakpoint. Veeery dul.
Mr Clive Kawana waonekela mudala. Learn to tell the truth especially in courts of laws. Speak the truth and the truth will set you free
Muma should also arrest Clive Kawana for lying as an examination Officer .Masumba should go please.Cleanse the house PF .
With PF masumba is a free man.
Masumba busy dancing everywhere like he has no case. Hope he is not found guilty
Integrity in PF seems to be a rat race. It is a dodging of brooms from one cover to the next. Eventually the broom does win, especially if escape doors stay closed!
What Masumba is good at: passing examinations, no. Dancing yes. Why do you think the man takes to the floor at every opportunity?
Why all this delay on a simple case which was supposed to be cleared sometime back? Whether Kawana or who ever signed Masumba’s document, we need to ask fellow former students who graduated the court to check on whose incriptions are their on their documents during Masumba’s time does it carry Kawana or Kanyembo. Simple question is who signs on the transcripts is the Registra or the examination officer? There is a puzzle here and PF wants to favor their own person as they did to Mpongwe MP. By the way what has happened to Kapiri MP who was found in a malpractice during broad day light with money? Has his seat been nullified or not?
Masumba has nothing to offer to Zambian masses the man is a waste of time .Nothing tangible comes out of Masumba mwebo just a small puppet
Whoever was prosecuting this case is a joke. Marks can be changed by the person preparing the results lips and the registrar or examinations officer in this case could have signed without checking. I doubt that he was that meticulous. The prosecutor should have asked for the examination scripts for the courses in question.
Why the hell ask for a statement of results? The answers sheet tells you the whole truth,it is in his own hand writing.
Ni answer sheet. Please find it alah!