By Isaac Zulu
Tom Shamakamba has said that the Anti-Corruption Commission will not act on allegations of corruption that President Hakainde Hichilema is being greedy and using his positions to advantage his companies in public contracts, describing the same as assumptions.
In an interview with Daily Revelation, Shamakamba, who is Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) director general, was responding to assertions that African Life Financial Services Zambia Limited, a consultancy company that has been awarded a contract for the environmental protection fund management by the Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development and is said to be linked to President Hichilema.
He said that he would want lead an Anti-Corruption Commission that is professional and not engage in speculations.
“I don’t know anything about that. You do your investigations. Is it the President who went for the tender procurement? Do you have evidence? Those are assumptions. Those are speculations. The Anti-Corruption Commission will not act on assumptions. Let’s not operate like that. No! No! Let’s be professional,” Shamakamba said. “There are procurement procedures. Have you established how those procedures were followed? You should take time to establish how those tenders were awarded.”
Shamakamba said that recently a certain leader of an opposition political party made a statement to the effect that the Anti-Corruption Commission never investigated Thabo Kawana, which he said is another speculation.
“Do your investigations then come to my office. Not muletampa ilyashi mumwela. The other person recently said that ‘ACC never investigated Kawana,’ and yet we had investigated that matter. And I told the PR department to invite that leader of an opposition political party to come through to the ACC and read the file so that at the end of day he even holds a fresh press conference and say ‘I was actually misleading that ACC did not investigate Kawana.’ Let’s stop engaging in speculations,” said Shamakamba.
