An Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) acting Senior Investigations Officer testified in court on Tuesday that the house located in Eureka whose reinstatement value is K8.6 million for which she arrested former Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo and wife Wanziya Chirwa is not owned by the accused persons.
In a continued trial before Lusaka magistrate Slyvia Munyinya where Kampyongo and Chirwa stand charged for being in possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime, ACC officer Zangiwe Mulenga produced a contract in which Mr Jon Van Blerk offered Mr Kampyongo and his wife the property at the price of US$330,176.
“The ACC also received information from the Financial Intelligence Centre-FIC-alleging that Honorable Kampyongo and Wanziya Chirwa had built a house in Eureka way above their earnings,” she told the Court.
Ms Mulenga said after being allocated a case by Miyoba Sikazwe, she went to Eureka where she met Mr. Jon Van Blerk and interviewed him and he confirmed that indeed he had sold a property to Kampyongo and Chirwa.
“He told me that they made a part payment of US1,400 and the total amount of the property was US$330,176 and he gave me a contract of Sale to that effect,” she said.
Asked to confirm whose has ownership of the House in question is, Ms Mulenga said the property is owned by Jon Van Blerk but she decided to charge the accused persons because they had made a part payment of US1,400.
Mr Mulenga said the other properties owned by Mr Kampyongo includes undeveloped land valued at K1.6 million and a house in Multi Facility Economic Zone valued at K860,000.
Earlier, another ACC witness from the Payroll management and Establishment Control Department was at pains and admitted that both Kampyongo and Chirwa legitimately earned additional allowances during the time they served in government and that the same allowances have not been computed and presented before court.
PERMIC Assistant Director Personnel Administration Humphrey Silupya told the Court that Kampyongo’s gross payment from September 2012 when he was first placed on the payroll to May 2021 when he was removed from the payroll amounted to K6, 211,971.16 while his net payment is K3, 607,100.92
He also told the Court that Chirwa who worked as a Planner, received gross payment of K1,180,823.86, while me t payment is K1,314,973.33 from April 2010 to December 2022.
He also told the Court that the amounts do not include payments made to Chirwa from 2005 when she joined government to May, 2010 nor the allowances she was paid for 1 year when she went to work from Netherlands.