• Former Livingstone Mayor, Town Clerk and Councilor sentenced to 18 months imprisonment with hard labour.
• They were arrested in 2018 by Anti-Corruption Commission and charged with 26 counts of corrupt practices.
• The sentences in all counts will run concurrently.

The Livingstone Magistrates Court has convicted former Livingstone Mayor, Town Clerk and a Councilor to 18 months imprisonment with hard labour for corrupt practices.
Confirming the development to Money FM News, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Public Relations Manager Timothy Moono said Milford Maambo, Ziwa Malila and Chabala Chanda, were arrested by the Commission in 2018 and charged with 26 counts of corrupt practices.
Mr. Moono stated that the trio have been convicted for offences that include corrupt offering of plots to land surveyors as inducement for demarcating land, corrupt acquisition of Public Property which they later sold, abuse of authority of office in the manner offer letters for illegally obtained land were issued without following laid down procedures.
He said the offences were committed in 2014 when the trio were in office.
“Milford Maambo, former Mayor of Livingstone City, Ziwa Malila Ziwa, former Councillor, and Chabala Chanda, former Livingstone Acting Town Clerk, were arrested in 2018 by the Anti-Corruption Commission and charged with 26 counts of corrupt practices.”
“Livingstone Senior Resident Magistrate Honourable Idah Mupemo convicted the trio and sentenced them to 18 months imprisonment with hard labour with effect from 16th March 2021. The sentences in all counts will run concurrently,” Mr. Moono said.