THE President’s office is not immune to corruption, therefore, it is absurd that we don’t have laws that compel a Head of State to declare his assets, says ACC board chairman Musa Mwenye. And Mwenye says people like him who question suspicious wealth and assets of some public officers are not enemies of progress. Speaking during the 2023 Zambia Anti-Corruption Conference organised by the Transparency International Zambia (TIZ), Monday, Mwenye said it was absurd that the ACC board and officers who handled corruption cases were requested to declare their assets when the people they were responsible for investigating did not do so. “In this country since the 90s, there’s never been any legal requirements for a republican president to declare...

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