THE story of Precious Namweemba Magande is mind boggling. This story is shocking and also alarming for several reasons. To start with, the name Precious Namweemba Magande doesn’t ring a bell in the mind of any ordinary Zambian but the story that she has to tell is straight off a script of a Hollywood movie. Precious is a self confessed criminal who pleaded guilty to the offence of theft in 2020. According to her, few months earlier she had gone visiting to a politician’s house in 2019 and she describes this politician as somebody who was in the Patriotic Front and also serving a senior government position at the time. Precious narrates that whilst at this house, she came across...

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