FORMER Attorney General Musa Mwenye says Zambians should forget about the fight against corruption if asset recovery is the Anti-Corruption Commission’s only goal. In a statement shared on his Facebook page, Thursday, Mwenye said corruption could not be fought without punishing offenders and deterring would be wrongdoers. He argued that the rewards of corruption were so high that to deter it, the aim should be to punish would be offenders and make the process unpalatable enough to far outweigh the benefits. “If asset recovery is the Anti-Corruption Commission’s only goal, then, we can just forget about the fight against corruption. You cannot fight corruption without punishing offenders and deterring would be offenders. The rewards of corruption are so high that...

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