ANTI Corruption Commission (ACC) acting Senior Investigations Officer who arrested and charged former Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo and wife Wanziya Chirwa failed to turn up at court Thursday morning for cross examination by the defence as she is reportedly sick.
In the last Court sitting, ACC officer Zangiwe Mulenga testified before Lusaka magistrate Slyvia Munyinya that Kampyongo owns property which was K2,400,000.00 above his earnings.
The property includes a house in Eureka valued at K8,600,000.00 which she told the Court belonged to Jon Van Blerk and that Kampyongo only paid $1,400 (about K25,612 based on today’s rate) out of a total purchase price of US$330,176.
ACC had received a report from the Financial Intelligence Center that Kampyongo had built the house but ACC investigations discovered the house belonged to Jon Van Blerk.
Among the four properties Kampyongo is accused of owning above his income include bare or undeveloped land off Twin Palm road valued at K1,600,000.00, a property in Rockview, Multi Facility Economic Zone valued at K819,000.00.
Mulenga said the property at Forest 27 showed thatKampyongo had exchanged it with Sandra Ngwisha and there were no further investigations.
According to a State witness who is Payroll Management and Establishment Control assistant director-personnel administration Humphrey Silupya, Kampyongo earned a total of K3, 607,100.92 without including any other allowances he may have earned while attending to other government business. The National Assembly also told the Court that Kampyongo earned a total of K3,600,000.00.
According to the wage report generated by PMEC, Chirwa earned K1,314,973.33 in net payment from April 2010 to December 2022.
According to the testimony of Mr Humphrey Silupya, in cross examination, the figures for Chirwa do not include the earnings in salaries and allowances she could have made from 2005 when she was first employed by government to March 2010 as the data could not be generated by the PMEC System.
Silupya admitted that Chirwa had once travelled to the Netherlands where she worked for one year and could have earned additional allowances.
He said he does not know the rate that is used when she travelled out of the country.
The Court has since adjourned the matter to 1st February, 2022 for cross examination of Mulenga who is now unwell and the State is expected to close its case around that time.