Tue, 06 Dec 2016 13:17:32 +0000 By Gwendolyn Mchenga FORMER deputy permanent secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Communications Florence Chawela and three others accused of abusing the authority of their offices when they allegedly awarded a project Management services contract of a runway at Kasaba Bay Airport to N’gandu consulting Limited without following a tender procedures have taken a fresh plea and denied the charge. Chawela and others took a fresh plea in count after Lusaka Magistrate David Simusamba allowed the State’s application to amend the charge pursuant to section 213 of the laws of Zambia. When the matter came up, the state informed the court that they had an application to amend count one of the indictment pursuant to section 213 of the laws of Zambia. The prosecutor stated that she was only adding two words to the previous charge which were awarding and signing of which the new charge read […]
