WHY CAN’T CORRUPT AND INEPT CABINET MINISTERS BE FIRED?
WHY CAN’T CORRUPT AND INEPT CABINET MINISTERS BE FIRED?
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema recently took the extraordinary step of firing the entire board of the country’s corruption-busting body, after they themselves were accused of corruption, which they denied.
It came days after the head of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Thom Shamakamba, resigned from his post. Both he and the country’s solicitor-general – Marshal Muchende – were accused of taking kickbacks. Both men strongly denied the allegations.
Since the UPND came to power three-years ago, the authorities have been investigating a number of officials from the ex-Patriotic Front government accused of graft.