FORMER Kasama Central PF member of parliament Kelvin Sampa says he is not in the UPND to enrich himself because if that was his trend, he could have been followed by the Anti-Corruption Commission. In an interview, Sampa, who recently joined UPND, said most of the people in the new dawn government did not have...

AZADI Investment Limited, the company that constructed the Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure Development is the same firm that built former minister Ronald Chitotela’s house “on loan”. And lawyer Noel Simwanza, who signed the Anti-Corruption Commission settlement agreement for the arrested former minister, says he cannot comment on the circumstances around the consent as the...

PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson Anthony Bwalya says President Hakainde Hichilema and everyone in his government fully understand and sympathise with the fact that Zambians are not where they want them to be. Speaking when he featured on Radio Phoenix's let the people talk programme, Friday, Bwalya said the Head of State wanted to make gradual, rapid improvements....

THE ANTI-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested former Ministry of Education permanent secretary Dr Patrick Nkanza for corrupt practices involving over K200,000,000. In a statement, Friday, ACC chief corporate affairs officer Timothy Moono said investigations established that in 2015, Dr Nkanza, willfully failed to comply with the applicable procedure relating to procurement in entering into a...

ACTIONAID Zambia has condemned the Anti-Corruption Commission's approach of signing settlement and immunity agreements which do not work in the interest of Zambians. Responding to a press query, ActionAid country director Nalucha Ziba said the organisation was concerned with the agreement brokered between ACC and former tourism minister Ronald Chitotela. She wondered how many more...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says he is concerned about the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine and wishes to see an end to the conflict. Speaking when he received credentials from Diplomats, among them new Russian Ambassador to Zambia Azim Yarakhmedov, Thursday, President Hichilema said there was need to work together to bring the war to...

FORMER agriculture minister Michael Katambo says the maize he bought from former tourism minister Ronald Chitotela is worth K575,000 and not US$406,000, arguing that he doesn't even hold a dollar account. According to documents given to News Diggers! by Chitotela's lawyers, the Pambashe PF member of parliament stated that he entered into a contract to...

FORMER agriculture minister Michael Katambo says he bought maize from former tourism minister Ronald Chitotela worth US$406,000 in his individual capacity, adding that the "clean" transactions went through the bank. On Tuesday, Chitotela sued the Anti-Corruption Commission in the Lusaka High Court seeking a declaration that his State Lodge property which was seized by the...

FORMER tourism minister Ronald Chitotela's lawyers have disclosed that the Pampashe MP has been charged with two counts of being in possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime and for being in possession of K500,000 his company allegedly received from Veil construction. And the Commission has given Chitotela back his seized property...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TIZ) has asked the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) not to abuse any legal provisions which allow them to take certain courses of action within the context of their investigations. And TIZ has wondered who authorised former tourism minister Ronald Chitotela's K100,000 settlement agreement and whether the same was arrived at after ascertaining the...