DRUG Enforcement Commission (DEC) Director General Nason Banda says his statement that it is more expensive to send criminals to jail than to seize their properties does not contradict President Hakainde Hichilema’s guidance on combining asset recovery with imprisonment. And Banda says DEC will investigate any alleged criminal activities, regardless of affiliations or when they were committed. Last Thursday, Banda said it was more expensive to send criminals to jail than to cripple them through the seizure of their properties. However, this raised the question of whether the DEC Director General was contradicting President Hichilema’s call to combine asset recovery with the imprisonment of corruption perpetrators. But in an interview, Banda argued that there was no contradiction at all. “Not...