LAWYER IN COURT OVER FORGERY:

CHARLES MUSONDA writes A LAWYER and a housewife on Tuesday appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court over alleged forgery and uttering false documents. Before Lusaka Chief Resident Magistrate Lameck Mwale yesterday were Billingtone Mosha, 45, of Olympia, and Elizabeth Nkonde, 48, of Avondale both in Lusaka. In the first count Mosha and Nkonde are charged with forgery and particulars of offence are that between August 9, 2015 and December 30, 2015 they jointly and whilst acting together with intent to deceive or defraud forged a power of attorney purporting to show that it was genuinely granted by Nkonde Theresa Chileshe when in fact not. In the second count Nkonde is charged alone with uttering a false document and particulars of offence are that between the same dates she knowingly and fraudulently uttered the same power of attorney to the Commissioner of Lands. In count three the two are jointly charged with alleged forgery and the particulars of offence are that between the same dates in Lusaka they jointly and whilst acting together with intent to deceive or defraud forged a power of attorney purporting to show that it was genuinely granted by Nkonde Theresa Chileshe when in fact not. In the fourth and last count Nkonde is charged alone with uttering a false document and particulars of offence are that between the same dates in Lusaka she knowingly and fraudulently uttered the same power of attorney to the Commissioner of Lands. The case was scheduled for commencement of trial yesterday but the State did not have witnesses before court, after which the matter was adjourned to June 23, 2020 and the two accused persons’ police bond has been extended. Before another court, Lusaka lawyer and former Commissioner of Lands Nathaniel Inambao is today scheduled to appear before Magistrate Judith Chiyayika in a matter he has been charged with allegedly forging a dead man’s will. It is alleged that between January 26, 2018 and June 30, 2018, with intent to deceive or defraud, Inambao and a legal assistant Mubanga Chibonga jointly forged the Will for the late Dominic Chimfwembe and uttered it to his widow Carol Musonda whom the latter married after divorcing with his first wife, Beauty Kafwimbi. The Sun