Lawyer Wapona Kita grills Buluma in Fuel Contract case and proves her phone was tampered with while at ACB
One of the defence lawyers, in a case in which former Minister of Energy Newton Kambala and others are accused to have influenced awarding of fuel contracts, has demonstrated in court that former Nocma deputy chief executive officer Helen Buluma’s phone was tampered with while in the hands of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).
The other accused are Alliance for former presidential advisor Chris Chaima Banda and Democracy president Enoch Chihana.
The lawyer, Wapona Kita, while cross- examining Buluma today in court produced photos of Buluma’s iPhone 11 that he took when defence team inspected the phone on February 15, 2022.
The photos show that the contents of the phone then, in particular the recordings, are different from what is in the phone now.
According to the photos, by then the phone had 53 recordings while the phone now has only three recordings.
The photos also show that recently deleted photos were two by then but on the handset now, there is nothing on deleted items.
The photos also show that there was no folder named Case NOCMA by the time of inspection but now on the phone there is that folder.
“We are wasting each other’s time. What is clear is that your phone has been tampered with,” said Kita.
In her response, Buluma could not say anything on the tampering of the phone but only said that the phone was surrendered to the Bureau in September 2021.
Kita also produced a photo of a simcard that the phone had in February 2022. The simcard looked different from the simcard that is in the phone now.
Buluma then conceded that the contents were indeed different.
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