A WITNESS has insisted that she received K1,050,000 cash from Chief Mukuni which she used to buy her house in Libala. This is in a matter in which former First Lady Esther Lungu is jointly charged with two police officers James Phiri and Lee Chisulo as well as Kapambwe Lungu and Catherine Banda with theft and theft of motor vehicle charges. Elizabeth Phiri, a herbalist, had previously narrated to the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court how some armed police officers allegedly beat her and former president Edgar Lungu’s niece, Catherine Banda, while demanding for a “parcel”. The witness testified that she was later taken to Lungu’s house in Ibex Hill where the former Head of State disclosed to her that the parcel...