Five suspects accused of vandalizing and stealing equipment at the cancer diseases hospital in Lusaka have been granted two million kwacha cash bail.
Lusaka Principle Resident Magistrate Alaidah Chulu used her discretion in granting the five bail further ordering them to present two working sureties each.
The five could not take plea as the Director of Public Prosecutions-DPP- has not given prosecutors consent to proceed to trial.
Magistrate Chulu however explained the charge to the five suspects.
The five suspects have been identified as Maxwell Mwale, Jeremiah Ntalasha, Emanuel Silupumbwa, Steven Matoka and Evidence Chilufya.
Mwale and Ntalasha have also been charged with one count of breaking into a building committing a felony.
The duo allegedly broke into the Zambia institute of diplomacy studies and stole among other things two DVD players, four computers, one safe, one cash box and sixteen books valued at over thirty five million kwacha.