Congolese jailed for forgery

THE Livingstone Magistrate Court has convicted and sentenced a Congolese national to nine months imprisonment for uttering false documents.

This is in a matter in which Joseph Jama Kaluba was charged with uttering false documents namely the Zambian Passport contrary to section 352 of the penal code chapter 87 of the laws of Zambia.

When the matter came up for facts before Magistrate William Banda on Monday morning, Jama Kaluba pleaded guilty to the offence.

Statements of facts are that on a date unknown but between October 2015 and January 18, 2015 while in Zambia being a foreign national, Kaluba did fraudulently obtain a Zambian Passport No. ZN 505041 with intent to acquire employment at DAEWOO, the company constructing the Kazungula Bridge.

The convict further used a Zambian document namely a green National Registration Card (NRC) bearing different names which he presented to government officials when he was obtaining the passport in Ndola.

According to the extracts from the National Registration Card (NRC) details, the names that were appearing in the system were Kaluba

Matima Jama as the correct names of the convict and not what he was claiming.

He was arrested by the Immigrations Department together with an unknown Zambian female, employed by DAEWOO at Kazungula Bridge where he working as a security guard.

However, the Zambian national who now is facing the charge on aiding a foreign to engage in employment without the law was released on a police bond and would soon appear in court.

In his mitigation, Kaluba Matima Jama pleaded with the court to exercise lenience on his as he was a first offender.