Kambwili released , meets bail conditions

Roan MP, Chishimba Kambwili at the University Teaching Hospital

A medical doctor from the ministry of health today presented to court Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili’s passport one of the bail conditions which the Roan MP failed to meet for him to be released yesterday.

Yesterday, Mr. Kambwili spend almost the whole day at the Lusaka Magistrates court complex trying to process his bail, but by 17:00 hours he had failed to meet one of the bail conditions,as his passport was believed to be in the custody of the Immigration Department who had grabbed it upon his arrival from South Africa where he had gone for medical checkups.

Mr. Kambwili's lawyers expressed shock today how the passport moved from the immigration department to the ministry of health , when it was confiscated from the NDC consultant at the airport in Ndola upon his arrival from South Africa.

One of his lawyers Gilbert Phiri tells Mutola Nkani that the doctor brought Mr. Kambwili's passport after Magistrate Mwaka Mikalile Subpoenaed the deputy director general of the Immigration Department to explain why the department did not submit Mr Kambwili’s passport .

And NDC Secretary General Mwenya Musenge has described Mr. Kambwili's release as partial relief.

He says the NDC has lost confidence in the state over how it has handled Mr. Kambwili's matter.

Mr. Kambwili was who supposed to be remanded at the Lusaka Central Correctional facilities after failing to meeting the bail conditions , could however not spend the night in confinement as he was still unwell and instead spent the night in the university teaching hospital under guard by two officers from the Lusaka central correctional facility.