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Original Post Date: 2010-09-08 Time: 14:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
A LUSAKA man convicted of aggravated robbery and murder yesterday confessed to killing former president Kenneth Kaunda’s son, Wezi.
Moses Mulenga told the Supreme Court sitting in Ndola that he robbed and murdered Major Kaunda and that he was not hired to do so but did it out of banditry.
This is when Mulenga, 41, appeared before the Supreme Court bench sitting in Ndola yesterday comprising Chief Justice Ernest Sakala and Supreme Court justices Lombe Chibesakunda and Marvin Mwanamwambwa for appeal against his conviction and sentence.
Mulenga appeared with Amon Banda, 43, for appeal against their conviction of robbing Major Kaunda and murdering him.
Facts of the case in the charge of aggravated robbery are that Mulenga and Banda on November 3, 1999, in Lusaka while jointly acting together and armed with an AK47 assault rifle, robbed Major Kaunda of a Toyota GX Land Cruiser, registration number AAL 5948, valued at K80 million, and during the act used violence to retain the said property.
Mulenga and Banda were also charged with murder and facts were that the two, on November 4, 1999 in Lusaka, murdered Major Kaunda.
They were sentenced to death when the Lusaka High Court found them guilty on July 25, 2003, but they appealed against both the conviction and the sentence. When the matter came up yesterday, senior Legal Aid counsel Kelvin Muzenga said he was appearing for the second appellant, Banda and that Mulenga would represent himself as he had something to inform the bench.
Mulenga then told the court that he deeply regretted the matter over which he was in court and to clear his conscience, he was abandoning the appeal.
“My conscience cannot allow me to go ahead with this appeal because everything that the judge in the lower court found I had done, I did,” he said.
Mulenga said he took part in the stealing of the vehicle and the shooting of Major Kaunda, adding that he did it out of banditry and that no one sent him or hired him to do so.
Mr Justice Sakala asked Mulenga if he had consulted widely before he decided to drop the appeal and Mulenga said he had and that he did it because of his troubled conscience.
As for Banda, Mr Muzenga said the trial judge misdirected himself when he convicted his client based on uncorroborated evidence.
He said the trial judge relied on the evidence given by three witnesses, who were the taxi driver that drove the two to Major Kaunda’s house, Major Kaunda’s wife and a third witness.
Mr Muzenga said Mrs Kaunda was traumatised at the time she was identifying Mulenga and Banda and therefore gave weak evidence while the other two witnesses were accomplice witnesses who had interests to serve.
The State counsel, Ms Phiri urged the court to uphold the conviction for Banda because while the other two were suspect witnesses, it was an odd coincidence that the two could identify the same people as Mrs Kaunda who had no interest to serve.
The judgment on the appeal was reserved to a date to be announced later.
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Original date published: 8 September 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009080380.html?viewall=1