PF Councillor Suspended for Gate-Crashing Eswatini Trip

A Chililabombwe Patriotic Front councillor has been handed a six-month suspension for forging documents that enabled her illegally travel to Eswatini on a Ministry of Local Government trip.

Kafue Ward councillor Jane Mutwale and council chief committee clerk Sharon Sisya were suspended for six months during a full council meeting.

It has been discovered that Mutwale was not among the designated officials to attend the program but connived with Sisya to forge documentation authorizing her to travel,

“The Council held a special Council meeting on Monday in which it decided that the Councillor be suspended for six months but for the Chief Committee Clerk her case has been forwarded to the Ministry of Local Government for guidance,” a source disclosed.

“Well it was only discovered that the two people forged and altered documents from Cabinet Office to allow them to travel, for now Ms Sisya has been given a summary dismissal but her case has been taken to the Ministry for further guidance.”

The duo’s act cost the government K97, 000 more in expenditure for the trip.