THE Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has sentenced former Lusaka Province minister Bowman Lusambo to three years’ imprisonment after finding him guilty on two counts of possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime. The ruling was delivered by Chief Resident Magistrate Davies Chibwili, who on Monday last week, convicted Lusambo. He noted that public service was not a place to join and become rich in a very short time. Despite the state’s earlier application for Lusambo to be treated as a second offender due to a previous corruption conviction, Magistrate Chibwili ruled that he should be considered a first offender in this particular case. During mitigation, defence lawyer Charles Changano asked the court for leniency, noting that one of...