There’s need to uplift, protect the Anti-Corruption Commission – Ziba

ACTIONAID Zambia country director Nalucha Ziba says there is need to protect and uplift institutions such as the Anti Corruption Commission. Commenting on former minister of health Dr Chitalu Chulifya’s letter to the Attorney General and the Anti-Corruption Commission in which he is demanding US$50 million damages over what he terms as “malicious prosecution”, Ziba said ACC was mandated to investigate and prosecute issues of corruption. “The demand letter which has been served on the ACC by the lawyers of Dr Chitalu Chilufya is that, the former health minister [it] is, agreed has the right to redress from the courts of law, however there is need to protect and uplift institutions such as the Anti Corruption Commission whose mandate is…...