IT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO RECOVER STOLEN PUBLIC RESOURCES THROUGH AN AMNESTY
By Chileshe Mwango
Development activist Wesley Miyanda has charged that it will be difficult to recover stolen public resources through an amnesty extended by investigative wings to those who might have amassed the wealth dubiously.
Mr. Miyanda tells Phoenix News that the exercise should be accompanied by aggressive steps from the security wings because not everyone involved in plundering national resources is faithful enough to disclose whatever they stole.
He has since appealed to the Anti-Corruption Commission- ACC-, Drug Enforcement Commissions –DEC- and the Financial Intelligence Center-FIC-to ensure all suspects are followed and investigated thoroughly so that whatever belongs to Zambians is returned.
Mr. Miyanda has also urged heads of investigative wings to also be cautious with officers’ assigned investigations of plunder of national resources in the previous government to avoid recurrence of the acts.
Recently, Vice President Mutale Nalumango advised people that may have acquired wealth illegally to make use of the seizure agreement provision in the constitution to return whatever they might have stolen.