Only the guilty are angered by HH’s corruption remarks – Aka

PRINCE Akashambatwa Mbikusita Lewanika says corruption has been there since independence. Commenting on the backlash which President Hakainde Hichilema has received over his remarks that a clique of thieves had been feeding off public resources since independence, Akashambatwa said the Head of State did not mention any names and therefore, only the guilty were angered by his words. “In the village, there are village announcers who can go round the village and start saying ‘somebody has stolen a chicken’ without naming names unless you are the guilty one. It is the same response when Levy Mwanawasa said ‘he doesn’t want corrupt people because they are dirty’ then others started second guessing that he was pointing to a particular group which...