By Daily Revelation Editor
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has cautioned Mporokoso member of parliament Brian Mundubile regarding the manner in which K1.5 billion road construction contracts in Northern, Eastern, Western, and Central provinces were awarded between 2014 and 2020.
The ACC last Friday summoned Mundubile for questioning in relation to an ongoing investigation.
In a statement, ACC acting head of corporate communications Chilufya Chisanga stated that the commission had since recorded a warn-and-caution statement from Mundubile concerning the manner in which the road construction contracts in the named provinces were awarded to companies in which he has an interest.
The day after Mundubile was warned and cautioned, it was also reported that PF faction leader Makebi Zulu was briefly detained at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (KKIA) as he made his way of the country.
Firstly, we are not against the law enforcement agencies investigating or even arresting any opposition leader as long as there are sufficient grounds warranting the same.
However, such law enforcement operations would only earn public support if they were founded in honesty and a genuine effort to fight crime in the country. Without any genuine effort from the LEAs, then public anger must actually be directed towards the agencies for abusing themselves, or allowing themselves to be abused by those in power.
If there happens to be any wrongdoing on the part of Mundubile, we urge the police to actually go full throttle and make him accountable. But one wonders; where have these law enforcement agencies been all this long, to have only realised now that Mundubile allegedly committed something in the past, which demands earnest investigations now? When did they start investigating Mundubile for that offence in the first place? Why is the same only being brought to light now that he has been anointed as the Tonse Alliance’s presidential candidate and is traversing the country to garner support?
Something clearly isn’t adding up here. These state institutions must surely not be allowed to be used as attack dogs by those in power to go at their opponents in the opposition. Zambians were generally hopeful and firmly believed that they had turned a corner from the abuses experienced during the PF and other preceding administrations. Actually, Hichilema himself promised so. However, there is a clear mismatch between his utterances and what is on the ground. He clearly is not creating a good legacy for himself as he will be remembered for the same abuses and excesses that costed his late nemesis Edgar Lungu public office.
If Mundubile is being asked to account now, how about those others who also benefited from the same road contracts and are now ardent supporters of the ruling UPND? If the ACC efforts are genuinely founded in the desire to fight corruption, are they also going to visit the other alleged beneficiaries?
If someone is believed to have been engaged in wrongdoing, are you going to wait as a law enforcement agency for their political trajectory to be known before swinging into action? Is this how a serious administration should fight corruption? Is this how a country which should not be defined as a banana Republic should fight corruption? What a circus! However, the only sad aspect about this whole circus is that it’s eating into the very fabric of how a normal nation must behave.
If Mundubile is being called to account, then let all the others who are believed to have benefited from these road projects be called to account, whether they are now part of the ruling party or the opposition. There should be no sacred cow in a nation that is serious about fighting graft. Chapwa!
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By Daily Revelation Editor
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has cautioned Mporokoso member of parliament Brian Mundubile regarding the manner in which K1.5 billion road construction contracts in Northern, Eastern, Western, and Central provinces were awarded between 2014 and 2020.
The ACC last Friday summoned Mundubile for questioning in relation to an ongoing investigation.
In a statement, ACC acting head of corporate communications Chilufya Chisanga stated that the commission had since recorded a warn-and-caution statement from Mundubile concerning the manner in which the road construction contracts in the named provinces were awarded to companies in which he has an interest.
The day after Mundubile was warned and cautioned, it was also reported that PF faction leader Makebi Zulu was briefly detained at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (KKIA) as he made his way of the country.
Firstly, we are not against the law enforcement agencies investigating or even arresting any opposition leader as long as there are sufficient grounds warranting the same.
However, such law enforcement operations would only earn public support if they were founded in honesty and a genuine effort to fight crime in the country. Without any genuine effort from the LEAs, then public anger must actually be directed towards the agencies for abusing themselves, or allowing themselves to be abused by those in power.
If there happens to be any wrongdoing on the part of Mundubile, we urge the police to actually go full throttle and make him accountable. But one wonders; where have these law enforcement agencies been all this long, to have only realised now that Mundubile allegedly committed something in the past, which demands earnest investigations now? When did they start investigating Mundubile for that offence in the first place? Why is the same only being brought to light now that he has been anointed as the Tonse Alliance’s presidential candidate and is traversing the country to garner support?
Something clearly isn’t adding up here. These state institutions must surely not be allowed to be used as attack dogs by those in power to go at their opponents in the opposition. Zambians were generally hopeful and firmly believed that they had turned a corner from the abuses experienced during the PF and other preceding administrations. Actually, Hichilema himself promised so. However, there is a clear mismatch between his utterances and what is on the ground. He clearly is not creating a good legacy for himself as he will be remembered for the same abuses and excesses that costed his late nemesis Edgar Lungu public office.
If Mundubile is being asked to account now, how about those others who also benefited from the same road contracts and are now ardent supporters of the ruling UPND? If the ACC efforts are genuinely founded in the desire to fight corruption, are they also going to visit the other alleged beneficiaries?
If someone is believed to have been engaged in wrongdoing, are you going to wait as a law enforcement agency for their political trajectory to be known before swinging into action? Is this how a serious administration should fight corruption? Is this how a country which should not be defined as a banana Republic should fight corruption? What a circus! However, the only sad aspect about this whole circus is that it’s eating into the very fabric of how a normal nation must behave.
If Mundubile is being called to account, then let all the others who are believed to have benefited from these road projects be called to account, whether they are now part of the ruling party or the opposition. There should be no sacred cow in a nation that is serious about fighting graft. Chapwa!
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