DEC UNEARTHS FISP SCAM

The Drug Enforcement Commission -DEC- has uncovered a scam in Luapula province, in which suspected stolen Farmer Input Support Programme -FISP- inputs are being repackaged, with intentions of smuggling to neighbouring countries.

The DEC has since arrested three suspects, in connection with this scam, as they search for the fourth suspect, identified as Agrippa Njamu, who is on the run.

The commission has also seized over 5 hundred kilograms of D-Compound fertiliser, 4 point 9 tonnes of Groundnut seed and 6-hundred and 10 kilograms of Soya Bean seed.

Two motor vehicles, a light truck, and a Toyota Allion which are believed to have been used as instruments of the crime, have also been impounded.

DEC Spokesperson, Theresa Katongo has confirmed in a statement availed to ZNBC news in Lusaka.

Ms. Katongo explained that the scam was unearthed in Senama and Kasasa compounds of Mansa, Luapula province, from where the seized items were also found.

She added that preliminary investigations have also revealed that the seized FISP agriculture inputs belonged to the fugitive suspect, Njamu, of house number 89, Mutende Site and Service in Mansa.

Meanwhile, the commission in North-Western province has arrested a Headteacher and an Accounts Assistant at Kasempa Boys Secondary School, for alleged theft of and laundering 27-thousand 5-hundred kwacha.

Ms. Katongo has identified the suspects as Chalton Kangasa, aged 56, the Headteacher, and Willie Mulenga, aged 50, the Accounts Assistant.

The suspects together withdrew, for personal use, the money from the school bank account, which is designed for expenses, relating to boarding supplements and food stuff for the pupils.

Ms. Katongo said this was done under the pretext that the funds were payments for advance salary, tuition advance and settling in allowances, without due regard to Ministry of General Education Financial guidelines.

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