IG responds to assertions linking police officers to bribes in gold scam saga

By Staff Reporter

Police sources have told Daily Revelation that officers at KKIA have been ordered by Musamba to write reports on what transpired during the gold scam incident, amidst assertions that several officers received bribes from the detainees. bribes from some detainees

Well placed sources said that officers have been writing reports over the incident at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (KKIA).

“Morning, kuno niyozanda bazungu (there is trouble here at the Airport). The officers who were at the site first including some of our bosses, were given some bunch of dollars each as a bribe to allow the jet to fly out. But after after it became untenable to do so they tried to return the bribes but the foreigners refused saying the money is not even half of what they got. So as we speak, the I.G has instructed every officer who was on the site to write a comprehensive report. However, all the officers are saying they surrendered what they were given to the bosses,” police sources said. “There were a lot of police officers and ZAF officers who were there on the night this scandal happened, including some police heads.”

Sources said some officers who received the bribes surrendered the money to their superiors who indicated that they would use it as evidence in court if it went there, but they however, returned it to those who bribed them, who in turn rejected the amounts as it was less than what they had been given initially.

“Immediately the jet landed, no one disembarked on the actual night around 23hrs but instead some people who came on Mahogany started taking some luggage there and that raised some suspicions and that’s how officers intercepted those who tried to take their extra luggage in, leading to the ensuing drama. So as officers tried to see what was in the plane, those inside locked the doors then the drama unfolded and more man power was called in and the ZAF boss plus our commanding officer quickly reacted to the scene,” sources said. “It was at that point that some officers entered inside the jet and discovered what was happening and in trying to cover up with no way out, they ask officers to get a bunch each. During that period, there were some misunderstanding amongst the officers as some were for the idea that they get the money while some had fears and so for the police who got, they surrendered it to our bosses.”

Daily Revelation called police IG Musamba and asked him to comment on information that his officers at KKIA received bribes from detainees.

Responding, Musamba said: “Who? Who told you that? No, no, no, no, I am not in the seat to give, you know who to see for that. Nobody issued that instruction.”

“Wait a minute. What are you saying? No police received received bribes. So you ask Mr Nathan Banda, he’s the one in charge of that. And no police officer received any bribes,” said Musamba and immediately hung the line.