Sanday Chongo Kabange, AfricaNews reporter in Lusaka, Zambia
Wife of Zambia's former president Fredrick Chiluba, Regina Chiluba, has been jailed to three and half years imprisonment. She is alleged to have received stolen goods and funds suspected to have been diverged from the state into her private custody by the former head of state.
She faced six counts of receiving stolen goods. Regina was in the company of her husband, Fredrick Chiluba as she was led out of the court premises amid tight security and curious on-lookers.
However a Lusaka magistrate drop one count on grounds that the prosecution failed to prove that the vehicle she is alleged to have received was stolen from the state.
She was however, simultaneously sentenced two and half years on four counts and three and half years on one count. The sentence will run concurrently and this means that she will only serve three and half years.
Regina’s legal team has indicated that they would appeal against her conviction and they have since applied for bail pending appeal hearing.
