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Court convicts police prosecutor
By
Our Reporter - 15-08-2002 |
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The Mzuzu Chief Resident Magistrate’s Court recently sentenced Police prosecutor Paul Martin Khungwa to five years imprisonment with hard labour after finding him guilty of receiving bribes.
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) assistant director Victor Banda said in a statement on Tuesday that the court found Khungwa guilty of receiving money from Moses Nyirenda as an inducement to discontinue criminal charges levelled against him.
Khungwa has so far been granted bail pending an appeal in the High Court, acording to Banda.
In a related development, the ACB last week also arrested a former Soche Hill Secondary School teacher Cusco Muonja on allegations that in 1999 he solicited and corruptly obtained money to illegally admit students to the school.
Muonja has since been released on bail on condition that he, among other things, pay K3,000 cash, produce two “satisfactory” sureties not cash, surrender his passport or any other travel documents to the ACB.
He was olso ordered to report to Mulanje police once a week and that he should not leave Mulanje without the authority of the ACB director.
In the wake of Khungwa’s conviction and Muonja’s arrest, the ACB is reminding “all public officers to discharge their public functions in a manner exemplifying integrity, honesty, diligence and observation of professional ethics.”
ACB further advises teachers and headmasters to follow properly laid down procedures when admitting students.
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