TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TI-Z) says although ACC has the right to withdraw a case and to re-strategise, it needs to be careful as it risks people losing trust in it due to back-and-forth actions. On Monday, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Director General Tom Shamakamba said the Commission’s decision to withdraw the honeybee corruption case from court was a strategic move in readiness for something new. In an interview, Tuesday, TI-Z chapter president Sampa Kalungu said the withdrawal of the honeybee corruption case from court had disappointed many people. “The Honeybee case, when it got withdrawn, many people got disappointed. It had been peddled as a case with clear evidence that it was going to be easy to prosecute. But it was...

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