WHEN one carefully examines the facts emerging from the ZRA vehicle scandal, one uncomfortable truth stands out: somewhere, somehow, a crime was committed. If the account given by ZRA employee Mulopa Kaunda is anything to go by, an illegality clearly occurred within the disposal of government vehicles. On the face of it, there is little doubt that procedures were abused, documents were manipulated and innocent names were dragged into a transaction that should never have happened in the first place. What also appears reasonably clear is that the purported buyer of the ZRA vehicle and the alleged recipient, Archbishop Alick Banda, did not interact in any manner that would ordinarily result in such a transaction. The suggestion that a junior...