FORMER Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) Chief Executive Officer Mateyo Kaluba and six others yesterday appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to 41 charges of abuse of authority and attempting to export Mukula. Kaluba is jointly charged with former director of the forestry department Ignatius Makumba; retired brigadier general Gilbert Wails Mulenga of the Zambia Army; and Never Njobvu, former executive director at the Office of the President special division. Others are; ACK General Dealers proprietor Ackson Tembo; Bruce Aongola, executive officer at the Office of the President, Special Division; and ZNS director of operations Colonel Maliwa Muwanei. The accused are charged with two counts of abuse of authority of office and 39 counts of attempting to...

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