CHIRUNDU UPND member of parliament Douglas Syakalima says it is not only ministers who hail from Luapula Province that have been caught up in the web of corruption, but the entire PF government. Last week, PF secretary general Davies Mwila lamented that it pained him that only ministers from Luapula Province were being targeted with corruption allegations. But in an interview, Syakalima argued that the entire PF government comprised of a den of thieves, and that officials from Luapula Province were not the only corrupt elements. “The law is blind and it doesn’t target anybody. It suspects a person who has committed a crime. If it happens that the people who the law is following are coming from the same...

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