MOST MINISTERS, HH AIDES WILL GO TO JAIL, WARNS SILUMBE
MOST serving ministers and State House staff will be jailed for corruption and abuse of office related offences if President Hakainde Hichilema loses power after August 13 general elections, Leadership Movement (LM) president Dr Richard Silumbe has warned.
In an interview with The Mast yesterday, Dr Silumbe said Zambia needed to reset its national agenda by decisively dealing with the corruption taking place in government and not selective justice as the case was now.
He said corruption under the United Party for National Development (UPND) was rife and destructive to government service delivery.
“Just look at what is happening in the Ministry of Health, we still have no answers about the 68 medical containers found at some parking lot in Makeni. Zambians are waiting to hear what happened. This matter has gone quiet because the person behind it is someone powerful and close to State House,” he said.
Dr Silumbe said if the crime was committed by someone from the opposition, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) would have made a huge case of it.
He said apart from the Ministry of Health, deeper corruption was at the Ministry of Agriculture in the procurement of fertiliser, seed and other farm inputs.
Dr Silumbe said what was shocking and troubling was the shielding of government officials involved in illegal activities.
“This is troubling, especially for our farmers. This government has no interest in the poor people; no wonder all they can do is to punish farmers in the manner they did last farming season. Don’t you wonder how this country, during the farming season, the market of farming implements is flooded with fake fertilisers, fake seed, fake chemicals and fake everything? I wonder whether this leadership is not aware of the corruption at the Ministry of Agriculture that allows for that,” he said.
Dr Silumbe said Zambians were being shortchanged as high levels of corruption allowed mines to be handed to foreigners
“Go to that office at Cadastral at the ministry and you will be shocked by what happens. Corruption is real. Sadly, our people have lost land and mines through corrupt activities at the Ministry of Mines,” he said.
Dr Silumbe warned that when LM assumes power, it would tackle both past and present corruption regardless of the people involved.
“Unlike our friends in the UPND who look at who has committed what crime, with us in government, it will not be about retribution but the rule of law.
No wonder we are saying that most of these ministers will be jailbirds when they lose power in August. Let them steal now and eat because time to account for theft of public resources will come soon,” he said.
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This is pure malice and hatred.
If you have evidence, just go to police and get them arrested. Not tomorrow, today. Making noise on social media is just waisting time. Go to police with evidence.
Even now they can still go to jail, just report them to police and they will be picked and arrested basing on the evidence that you have. If you don’t have the evidence, then you are just making noise and we are not interested in listening to you.
WE AS A COUNTRY HAVE NOW MORE EXPERIENCE IN HOW GOVERNMENTS OPERATE AFTER GOING THROUGH NOW FOUR POLITICAL PARTY GOVERNMENTS. TODAY PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT A MEMBER OF PF COMING TO RULE THIS COUNTRY AGAIN, I CAN TELL YOU ONE FACT, TODAY PF CADRES ARE BUSY SHAPPENING THEIR PANGAS. THE MOMENT A PF MEMBER IS ANNOUNCED AS PRESIDENT OF ZAMBIA, THE FOLLOWING DAY, THEIR WILL BE CADRES IN MARKETS, BUS STATIONS, SHOP CORRIDORS AND EVERYWHERE ELSE WHERE MONEY CAN BE GENERATED, AND THEY WILL COME WITH SHARPENED PANGAS. NO PF ASPIRING CANDIDATE HAS THE BALLS TO STOP THEIR OWN CADRES FROM DOING WHATEVER THEY WANT, ALL PF ASPIRANTS KNOW THIS, PF CADRES CAN NEVER BE CONTROLLED ONCE A PF MEMBER BECOMES PRESIDENT, THEY ARE CAPABLE OF DISCIPLINING THEIR OWN BOSSES WITH SLAPS, IT IS UPTO ALL WELL MEANING ZAMBIANS NOT TO ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN, YES UPND SHOULD BE TAKEN OUT BUT NOT TO BE REPLACED BY ANY PF MEMBER BECAUSE THAT WILL BE A DECLARATION OF UNRULINESS, WE ARE ALL AWARE OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN.
If it’s true with evidence, let them get jailed, i won’t care, unfortunately there’s no change of government going to happen yet, may be after 2031