INCARCERATED former finance minister Katele Kalumba’s wife has lamented that her husband’s five-year sentence is a death penalty considering his health condition. Dr Kalumba’s wife has further lamented that her family has faced stigma for the last several years due to the corruption case. In December last year, the Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Dr Kalumba and three others who were convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment with hard labour for corrupt practices on May 26, 2010. In an interview, Dr Kalumba’s wife, Lumba, who is also appealing to President Hakainde Hichilema to pardon her husband due to his ill health, lamented that her husband might get an early death if not pardoned. “What is important for me...