FORMER RTSA chief executive officer Zindaba Soko has been freed of a forgery charge by the Lusaka Magistrates Court.
The National Prosecutions Authority is undesirous to prosecute Soko on allegations that he forged a dead man’s National Registration Card (NRC).
Soko, a transport consultant was freed of the criminal charge through a discharge which was entered in the case pursuant to Section 88(a) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC).
Principal resident magistrate Irene Wishimanga informed Soko and his co-accused that they were set free and discharged them.
Soko was jointly charged with Ibrahim Mbongo, a student and Kelvin Smith Kisambira a businessman.
It was alleged in the first count that Soko and his co- accused between January 1 and 17, 2023 forged a Zambian National Registration Card number 355428/10/1 registered under John Tembo purporting to show that it was genuinely issued by the Department of National Registration, Passport and Citizenship in Lusaka when in fact not.
In the second count it was alleged that Kisambira on July 6, 2023 knowingly and fraudulently uttered the forged National Identity Card to Catherine Chibwe, a banker at FNB Bank, Chilenje, Lusaka.
And in the third count it was alleged that Kisambira and Mbongo between January 1, 2023 and July 31, 2023, possessed six point of sale machines which were suspected or believed to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained.
By Mwaka Ndawa
Kalemba April 9, 2024.
