MINISTRY of National Guidance and Religious Affairs permanent secretary Rev Howard Sikwela says the Church Empowerment Fund is not a form of corruption because no one will monitor who the beneficiaries will vote for in the coming election. Commenting on Archbishop Teleshpore Mpundu’s remarks that the Church Empowerment Fund was a blatant form of corruption, Rev Sikwela said the fund was not a bribe but a method of empowering churches that had been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s far from being corruption, as some people may want to think. It was last year when the church itself asked government to also consider extending the empowerment that was being extended to sections of the community. So, government decided to think...