5 YRS IMPRISONMENT IS LENIENT, MAGISTRATE TOLD GBM
… I’m using you as an example to ministers not to take advantage of positions
Lusaka Magistrate Stanfod Ngobola has convicted and sentenced former defence minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba also known as GBM to five years imprisonment with hard labour for corruption related charged.
And the court has fined Mwamba in count nine to a fine of K50,000 in default of nine months imprisonment.
In this case, Mwamba was facing eight counts of conflict of interest, one count of money laundering and 15 counts of being in possession of property suspected to be proceeds of crime.
Speaking in mitigation following the conviction, Mwamba through his lawyer Kelvin Bwalya Fube asked for leniency.
“As accepted by the prosecution, and your own acknowledgement, the accused person is a first offender. Before we discuss your discretion, I want to bring to your attention that the accused person is a married man. He has five children that have blessed him with 13 grandchildren. Today, he is sitting at the age of 65 years plus,” said Bwalya.
“The incidents leading up to this point indicate clearly that he had been a law abiding citizen with no criminal record. He has run businesses in this country and as alluded to as the witnesses especially those from the bank.
Daily Revelation
JMC
Mr. Davies Chama, the former Secretary General of the notorious PF gazed into his crystal ball and saw all this coming. He knew what he was talking about.
Ministers and other government officials in the current regime must heed this timely warning. You are not in those offices to enrich yourselves.