POLICE have charged and arrested Robert Kalimi aged 53 of Silverest area in Lusaka for the offence of theft of motor vehicle.
The suspect who is also a Member of Parliament for Malole Constituency is alleged to have sold the motor vehicle, VW GTI Golf registration number BCC 6524 belonging to a woman only identified as Kitenge of Ndola.
In a statement issued by police deputy spokesperson Danny Mwale,the motor vehicle was given to Mr Kalimi after an agreement with the brother to the complainant a Ms Kitenge for temporal use only as he was working on his vehicle which was involved in a Road Traffic Accident last year.
Mr Mwale said The MP allegedly decided to sell the said vehicle to a man only identified as Musakanya of Lusaka at K60,000 when the actual value of the motor vehicle is said to be K449,000.
“The matter was reported to Police by the complainant and immediately investigations were instituted which led to the recovery of the vehicle from Mr. Musakanya who after interrogations disclosed that he bought the vehicle from Honourable Kalimi in March this year,” he said.
Mr Mwale said Mr Kalimi is detained in Police custody awaiting court appearance.
