By Merlyn Mwanza
Party for National Unity and Progress Leader Highvie Hamududu says the same problem of caderism that characterised the PF tenure has continued under the UPND, “where you hear a youth chairman being given shares in the streets by the Chinese.”
And Hamududu has urged those in the UPND administration to provide a paper trail indicating the movement of the K65 million forfeited from Faith Musonda through the government system.
Featuring on Hot FM this morning, Hamududu said the fight against corruption was lost a long time ago when it became politicised with every successive administration accusing those they had taken over from of being more corrupt while ignoring the corruption existing amongst themselves.
He said what the country needed was to have autonomous institutions which could effectively fight corruption genuinely.
Hamududu said the current government was fighting the corruption committed during the PF administration but there was no movement on alleged corruption being committed in the UPND, and that the same situation where cadres were more influential during PF in having access to offices and unexplained increase in wealth share, was happening today.
“You hear a youth chairman being given shares in the street by the Chinese,” he said.
Asked on the back and forth involving the ACC and a leaked letter from the Auditor General’s office asserting that the commission has misappropriated K65 million forfeited from Chisela Musonda, Hamududu said if the money was deposited in the ACC account, the commission must show the country evidence of the deposits, saying the only thing that will stop the debate is to show evidence of the money trail rather than press briefings.
He urged parliamentarians to demand that Finance minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane show them evidence of the deposits.
And Hamududu warned that unless politicians change the manner they conduct politics in the country, Zambia shall not see any change.
He described the kind of politics as being too personal and toxic, arguing that after elections there must be a level of co-operation across the political divide.
Hamududu described Zambia as a country that was making a few steps forward and several steps backwards as there was no continuation of economic programmes with each administration seeking to start afresh after taking over.
