By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE –
ST IGNATIUS Catholic church priest Father Charles Chilinda yesterday testified how a 32- year -old man of Gabon Township in Chirundu, who impersonated him twice, apologised to him at Kabwata police where he was detained.
This is the second time Dylan Biemba is appearing in court on similar charges having been convicted three years ago and sentenced to two years on a similar offence.
Biemba is in the new case, facing one count of obtaining money by false pretences.
It is alleged that Biemba on December 8, last year obtained K500 cash from Chirundu District Commissioner Maxwell Siamalimba, by pretending that he was Fr Chilinda asking for financial assistance.
When  the  matter  came up for trial before magistrate Wendy Chibesakunda, Fr Chilinda narrated that towards the end of December last year, he received information that Biemba had been apprehended by police.
Fr Chilinda said he was invited to go to Kabwata police where Biemba had been detained. Biemba apologised to him for his wrongs.
He said he knew about the second  issue of  Biemba impersonating him through Mr  Siamalimba who called him to find out whether he was indeed the one requesting for financial assistance from him.
Fr Chilinda said he denied asking for money from Mr Siamalimba but when he was told the name of the person behind it, he remembered
Biemba as he had in the past approached him requesting financial help.
According to details, Mr Siamalimba lodged a complaint with the police that on December 9, 2013 he had received a call from a person identifying himself as Fr Chilinda asking for financial help to clear some goods.
Having heard some rumours of a person who was impersonating Fr Chilinda, Mr Siamalimba called the priest to find out whether indeed he was the one who had called for financial
help.
Fr Chilinda denied ever asking for financial help from anyone but before long, Biemba called the DC and informed him that he had since solved his problem.
However, a few days later, Biemba again called the DC using Fr Chilinda’s name and asked for help purporting that he had a funeral.
He later gave Mr Siamalimba an account number which he alleged belonged to his nephew in which he was supposed to deposit K1,000.