HAD MWEETWA NOT ORDERED MUNDUBILE’S ARREST, ACC WOULD NOT HAVE SUMMONED HIM – LAWYER CHISANGA
By: Thomas Afroman Mwale
Tonse Alliance President Brian Mundubile’s Lawyer George Chisanga has charged that his client would not have been summoned for questioning by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) had Information and Media Minister Cornelius Mweetwa not allegedly instructed police to arrest him over claims of payments for undelivered road works.
Mr Chisanga has appealed for professionalism among law enforcement agencies, clarifying that the Mporokonso member of Parliament association was in Line with his association Bill Trust And Ommen companies he claimed performed their contracts to the satisfaction of Government with available evidence in the forensic report on the matter and account reports.
He stated that the firms performed their contracts to the satisfaction of government, citing available forensic and financial reports as evidence.
The lawyer further stated that the Road Development Agency (RDA) and the Ministry of Local Government conducted an assessment, with a ministerial report presented before Parliament by Garry Nkombo, which cleared the firms.
He said that, as it stands, government owes the firms and not vice versa, expressing surprise at why the Commission would question Mr Mundubile over transactions whose documentation, he says, proves his innocence.
Mr Chisanga described the development as a witch-hunt aimed at derailing Mr Mundubile’s candidacy ahead of the general elections.
Earlier, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) announced that it had recorded a warn-and-caution statement from the Tonse Alliance President regarding the manner in which road construction contracts were awarded in Northern, Eastern, Western and Central Provinces.
According to ACC Acting Head of Corporate Communications, Chilufya Chisanga, the contracts were awarded between 2014 and 2020 at an estimated value of over K1.5 billion
Chisanga is being disigenious. Mweetwa never ordered the police. Mweetwa under the law has got no authority to make such an order.
What Mweetwa did was remind the Police as to why they had failed to do their job. It is their duty to INVESTIGATE. That is all ACC and the Police do. Its up to the DPP to Prosecute.
Chisanga should also be arrested for misleading and spreading lies.
We have too many people who pretend to know the law instead turn the state into a lawless state. We need responisible leaders who set the nation on an moral upright path. If Chisanga had an ounce of integrity he would distance hinself from Mundubile. Why hasnt Mundubile sued Kambwili who brought this out to the public for defamation? He also dared tge state that they will find him clean…what is he sacred of? What makes Chisanga run to the press to make a statement if he knows he is clean.. ma kelpo…mwajaila…let the law prevail
Imwe ba Chisanga…you cant have your cake and eat it. Double tobela ya chilamo ba Chisanga.
Whose interest do you serve? As MP you job is to uphold public interest. How come you now seek to act as Mundubile’s lawyer?
You are conflicted here. You can both say you represent the interest of the people you were when you are busy protecting yourselves in a matter where you are acused of “embezelment of public funds”. This is why you find yourselves compromised in enacting laws that deter corruption and seek public office.
There should be a law preventing those in leadership, their families and or companies from obtaining contracts orders from public institutions.
Here are Chisanga and Mundubile who are public officials who are now at conflict with tge very institutions they should be bolstering. Can we trust that they will serve Zambians or themselves?
Bwana, you think before you talk, do you know that had CK not said it, Mweetwa would have had no grounds on which to remind the Law enforcement Agents. So the whole issue is with CK and not with Mweetwa.