GOD IS EXPOSING WHAT WAS HIDDEN – MALANJI
.…as ACC decision to allow former Foreign Affairs PS to keep K37 million angers CSOs
Ndola… Wednesday July 16, 2025 – The Consortium of 11 Civil Society Organisations on Governance has questioned how over K37 million of suspected illicit funds can be left in the hands of an accused person.
And the consortium has expressed deep concern and outrage at recent revelations that expose alarming weaknesses in Zambia’s fight against corruption.
On Monday, Daily Revelation published ran a lead story where former Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) director general Thom Trevor Shamakamba told the Ndola High Court that former Foreign Affairs permanent secretary, Dr Ronald Simwinga, was asked to forfeit only K23 million out of the over K60 million “unexplained” funds in his bank account because the commission had decided to turn him into one of the key witnesses in a prominent case before the Economic and Financial Crimes Court in Lusaka.
This is in a case where Shamakamba has sued, for libel, Daily Revelation Editor-In-Chief Patson Chilemba, former ACC board member Dr O’Brien Kaaba and Daily Standard Multimedia as first, second and third defendants respectively, demanding US$500 million compensation for alleged damages to his personal and professional reputations.
Meanwhile, former Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Malanji has said the revelations from the Ndola High Court is an intervention of God, exposing what was hidden.
Mr Simwinga was a witness in the Malanji case before the Economic and Financial Crimes Court and denied, in cross examination, ever having a non-prosecution agreement with ACC, that he had never forfeited in excess of K20 million to the State and that he could not confirm ever being in possession of K60 million in his bank account.
And reacting to Shamakamba’s submission in court, consortium chairperson Isaac Mwanza stated that the revelations were disturbing.
“Equally disturbing is the disclosure by the former Director General of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) that an accused person in a corruption case, Dr. Ronald Simwinga, was allowed by the Commission to surrender only K23 million out of a suspected K60 million in exchange for becoming a state witness. This decision sets a dangerous and unjust precedent,” Mwanza stated.
Credit: https://dailyrevelationzambia.com/acc-decision-to-allow-former-ps-keep-k37m-angers-csos/
This shows that the regime is persecuting opposition via crooked means. Perjury is a crime, let us see how the courts proceed. Let us see if justice has a face under the rule of Hakainde.
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It’s a mistake to assume that every lawyer who has passed law practice exams at Zambia Institute for Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE) can handle prosecution of corruption. White collar criminal prosecution is very hard work and only the DPP’s chambers has lawyers who have the appropriate experience. Many of these big-name defence lawyers cannot handle prosecutorial work.
Nearly every prosecution in Zambia is handled by the DPP chambers. Very rarely do police prosecutors handle cases and the cases they handle are those in which police catch criminals in the act. What’s your point about defense lawyers not being able to handle prosecution? How is that relevant here?
I agree,and I have always advocated for one of these under utilized new universities like Paul Mushindo to be converted into specialist institutes to offer advanced law enforcement programs Crime in Zambia is ever getting more sophisticated.We urgently need to modernize our crime fighting methods
This is disheartening and if it is true, heads must roll, an inquiry has to be made as to how such a decision was arrived at. Because such a decision defeats the very foundation of the anti corruption fight
Shamakamba shouldn’t have sued. He who comes to equity must come with clean hands. The allegations that Kaaba raised against him and the Solicitor General were that they were cutting deals with suspects and getting kick backs.
How else can you explain letting a suspect have 37 million? They probably got 5 million in their law firms and agreed not to prosecute.
Also, his claim of half a billion dollars in damages is laughable. I am sure the former ACC director thought he would settle out of court after he filed his statement of claim. Let him see this case through