By NATION REPORTER
BARELY weeks after being fired by President Hakainde Hichilema, Lilian Siyuni, the former director of Public prosecutions (DPP) has had had her former office raided and searched by state agents looking for unknown documents.
According to impeccable sources within the National Prosecutions Authority (NPA) law enforcement agents raided the former DPP’s office last week searching for unknown documents.
Efforts to get Ms Siyunyi failed as by press time, her mobile phone was unreachable.
The sources however said that search warrants had been issued for the search of her former office and that the state agents would soon be proceeding to her residence where they are scheduled to conduct another search.
The sources said the law enforcement agents have been instructed to conduct a search at her house but the sources said the reasons for the search were not known apart from saying that the State had embarked on a witch-hunt against her.
The sources said although the former DPP was reported to be out of town, State agents would go ahead with the search just like they did with her former office.
Efforts to get Ms Siyunyi proved futile as her mobile phone went unanswered.
President Hakainde Hichilema fired Ms Siyunyi before the Judicial Complaints Commission (JCC) could complete hearing an array of allegations and complaints against her from a horde of individuals that included the Drug Enforcement Commission .
Ms Siyunyi has however challenged her dismissal and has filed a petition before the Constitutional Court seeking among other reliefs an order that the JCC hearing against her was null and void.
She argues that the allegations against her were supposed to be prosecuted by the Attorney General as the chief legal advisor to the government.
Mrs. Siyunyi is also seeking an order of the court that the decision by the Commission to hear her alone in the absence of her lawyer, which led to her suspension and eventual dismissal by President Hichilema was unconstitutional and in direct breach of article 144 (4) (a) of the Constitution of Zambia.
