.KAPOKO

By CHARITY MOONGA –

THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has taken over the management of properties seized from former Ministry of Health human resource manager, Henry Kapoko.
The properties, among them, a lodge and houses in posh residential areas, were seized by the ACC in 2009.
The ACC seized five properties from Mr Kapoko in 2009 during the course of investigations into the Ministry of Health’s K10 billion inquiry.
ACC public relations manager Timothy Moono said in Lusaka yesterday that his organisation took over management of the five properties with effect from August 26, 2014.
“The Anti-Corruption Commission has with effect from August 26, 2014 taken over the management of seized properties from Mr Henry Kapoko, the former human resource manager at the Ministry of Health,” Mr Moono said.
Mr Moono said the taking over of the management of Mr Kapoko’s properties came in the wake of the court ruling by principal resident magistrate Exornobert Zulu made on August 27, 2014.
This is in a matter in which Mr Kapoko is facing 69 counts of theft, theft by public servant, failing to account for possessions reasonably suspected to have been stolen and money laundering contrary to the laws of Zambia.
The seized properties are property number 3775, at House No. 25, Manda Hill Road in Olympia Lusaka, property number 7791 of Buluwe Road, Woodlands Extension in Lusaka and property number subdivision B of lot 3325/M in Ibex Hill, Lusaka.
Others are property number 13947 off Mulungushi Road, Roma in Lusaka trading as Best Home Lodge and Property number 13949, off Mulungushi Road, Roma also in Lusaka which is a double storey building and is incomplete.
“These properties have since been tendered as exhibits in Court,” Mr Moono said.
He said that on August 27, 2014, the court ordered that the ACC should continue managing the properties, including the collection of rentals until the matter was disposed of by the courts of law.
Trial of Mr Kapoko continues.