Mon, 29 May 2017 11:30:15 +0000 By CHIKUMBI KATEBE UNSCRUPULOUS people are using the names of cabinet ministers on social media to swindle innocent citizens up to K100, 000. Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Development Ronald Chitotela has disclosed that many people have contacted him over a Facebook account offering them money under a secret empowerment project by the government. He said some people were told that they required to pay US $250-US $500 as advance payment or subscription fees to be joined to a housing project or agricultural empowerment fund to be enlisted for agro-loans. “I have received numerous phone calls from members of the public asking me on the progress of the housing project fund where they already sent money for listing. “And I am also aware of some people who went to Sino Hydro where they claimed that the Minister of Infrastructure had sent them to collect K100, 000. There […]
