NOT TRUE THAT NEW GOVT HAS SHIFTED THE ACC TO STATE HOUSE. IT HAS NOT BEEN SHIFTED TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, RATHER IT HAS BEEN THERE EVEN UNDER THE ECL REGIME FROM 2016
THE impression being created that the new dawn government has shifted the Anti-corruption from unknown office to the office of the President and State House to be specific is false and to large extent political malice.
Gazette No 836 of 2016 placed the *Anti-corruption Commission, Anti-finnacial and Economic Crimes Commission, CSC, HRC, JSC, LGSC, TSC, ZCSC, ZPSC, ZSIS under the Office of the President.
Clearly, under the revoked Gazette Notice No. 836 of 2016 to pave way for the new Gazette Notice No 1123 of 2021, the office of the President housed the Anti-Corruption Commission and other agencies above outlined.
In essence, the office of the President had the following statutory bodies under its charge under the Gazette Notice No 836 of 2016
Anti-corruption Commission, Anti-finnacial and Economic Crimes Commission, CSC, HRC, JSC, LGSC, TSC, ZCSC, ZPSC, ZSIS among others.
The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) and elections still remain in the Office of the Vice-President even under the new Gazzette Notice No. 1123 of 2021 but reporting to the President since the Electoral Commission of Zambia Act mandates it to do so.
The Honors and Awards which was housed under the Office of the President under the old Gazette Notice No 836 of 2016 has now been shifted to the Office of the Vice President.
So before people are mislead others and accused the President HH and his Govt of shifting the ACC to his office with a narrative that he wants to control the ACC, i thought, as a governance guru, put the records very straight like a Lozi man’s unironed jacket.
The truth is that ACC from 2016 has been housed in the office of the President.
What we need is to find a smart way of making these institutions independent by devising a transparent way of identifying, recruiting, ratifying and terminating people heading these offices.
I submit
McDonald Chipenzi