Saboi Boasts Of Having Provided For Owas Mwape ‘She Has Nothing Except Chancing’

ZAMBIAN songbird Saboi Imboela has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that she drew up a memorandum of und-erstanding on sharing the properties bec-ause she realised that her husband Owas Ray Mwape would remain with nothing as most of the things in the house belonged to her.
And a witness told the court that an Elgrand vehicle Mwape asked him to collect from Dar es Salaam was registered in Saboi’s names.
Mwape, a prominent Zambian actor, who featured in local movies The lawyer and Suwilanji, is in court on allegations of forgery and uttering a false document.
During cross-examination by Mwape, who is representing himself, Saboi, when asked why she wrote an MoU of the things she got from the house said a lot of things were hers and if she got what belonged to her, he would remain with nothing.
When further asked if she was married, the court intervened before she could answer.
“Accused and your wife, I am not here to hear your marriage issue.
Stick to what we are here for,” magistrate Obbister Musukwa said.
When referred to a letter she wrote to him dated March 10, 2013, where she indicated that she had bought the vehicle for him, Saboi told the court that the letter clearly indicated that she bought the vehicle for him and the children so that they do not suffer.
She also said she signed the entire cheque book before she left so that Mwape could only append his signature when making payments.
Asked where she signed the cheques from, Saboi told the court that she signed the cheques in the bedroom while sitting on the bed.
She said she also signed some documents relating to the Toyota Carina which was in her name so that Mwape could sell it.
Saboi told the court that she and Mwape were the signatories to the family business.
And Chanda Edwin Sinkala, from Integrity Trading Company limited, an agency specialist told Lusaka magistrate Obbister Musukwa that some time last year, he was approached by Mwape to collect the vehicle in question on his behalf from Dar-es- Salaam.
Sinkala said the documents accompanying the vehicle were all in Saboi’s names, and the vehicle was successfully delivered to him.
He told the court that about one to two months after he delivered the vehicle, Mwape contacted him and informed him that the vehicle had been impounded by the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA).
Sinkala said the vehicle was impounded because it went beyond the stipulated period under which it was supposed to be registered from the time it arrived in the country.
He said he started the registration process with some documents he was given from Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA).
Sinkala said since he was not authorised by Saboi to register the vehicle, he asked Mwape to ask his wife to write the authorisation letter.
He said he was later given the authorisation letter which had his wife’s names, including her signature.
When cross-examined by Mwape, Sinkala said he took the documents to RTSA and not Interpol.
Sinkala could not remember the exact dates on which he travelled stating that he made several trips to Tanzania and collected many vehicles.
The case was adjourned to June 4 for continued trial.