DESPITE leaving secondary school with unresolved issues with the Examination Council of Zambia, and later taking to the steering wheel for a career, a taxi driver of Chinsali chose to manage the very teachers he failed to learn from.
As a self-appointed Human Resource Officer, Joseph Bwalya, 35 issued a transfer letter to a rural teacher of Shiwang’andu District’s Kasangala Primary School and transferred him to an urban school in Mpika at a modest fee of K3500.
The excited teacher armed with the transfer letter wasted no time and loaded all his household goods and family in his spacious white Toyota Ipsum car bought from a Bay Bayport loan for a new life in town.
However, his offloading to at ‘his new station’ in Mpika was foiled by the District Education Board Secretary (DEBS) offices who identified the forged letter and asked him to transport his furniture back to his village.
For his mischief, Taxi man Bwalya along with his accomplice Elias Mweshi, a 54-year-old employee at the DEBS office have been arrested by Chinsali Police.
In confirming the incident, Lizzy Machina, Muchinga Police Commissioner confirmed that Bwalya and Mweshi are in custody awaiting a court appearance.
Commissioner Machina said the duo have been charged with forgery and obtaining Money by false pretenses.
©Kalemba May 30, 2021
