By: Ollus Ndomu
Barely a month and some days after losing power to the once most insulted, underrated and tribally spoken United Party for National Development -UPND-, the Patriotic Front -PF- officials have their growls hitting heaven’s ceiling as investigative wings put their toll on alleged looters of public resources.
Earlier this week, the PF’s newbie vice president Given Lubinda told local journalists that the ongoing revived corruption fight was targeted at the former ruling party’s big wigs.
After attending a questioning session by the Drug Enforcement Commission -DEC- today in the capital Lusaka, former PF Media Director and National Youth Chairman, Antonio Mwanza, said the new government is using state institutions to fix his party explaining that many of its leaders were living in fear.
In his maiden parliament address, Republican President Hakainde Hichilema emphatically promised to fight corruption and graft which his predecessor Edgar Lungu normalized to consolidate his illegal third term bid.
Speaking at media briefing yesterday, outgoing PF Secretary General, Davies Mwila, alleged that his party was not enjoying coverage by the country’s print and electronic media.
Mwila, a once political pride balloon said his party would rely on private media as it rebrands to bounce back in power in 2021.
His comments have been greeted with sharp reactions from Zambian social media users on the basis that during the now disgraced Lungu’s reign, various private owned media houses were shutdown for merely covering the opposition, a narrative which President Hichilema has changed few weeks of being in power.
Following the eventual fall of the PF government which renowned Zambian constitutional lawyer, John Sangwe, describes as a rogue of criminals, former high ranking government officials have come under probe with the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission -ACC- pursuing 87 corruption related cases involving politically exposed individuals who allegedly syphoned public money, mineral resources including the highly sold Mukula wood.
