THE settlement agreement between the Anti-Corruption Commission and former Infrastructure Minister Ronald Chitotela makes sad reading. The people who were drafting that document need their own day in court because they abused their authority of office. We are not lawyers, but one does not need to be a lawyer to understand that this settlement agreement was a scam. What is even more discomforting, in fact, is that even the owners of the agreement have basically vacated it and they want to pursue actual justice. In our understanding, the only way the Anti-Corruption Commission was going to waive prosecution was if Honourable Chitotela admitted the allegations or charges leveled against him. But what we see in that document is that there...

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