By OLIVER SAMBOKO
The new dawn administration will not relent in pursuing plunderers or leaders of the previous administration suspected to have committed corruption crimes against Zambians and still holding on to money and properties reasonably believed to be proceeds of crime, Vice-President Mutale Nalumanngo has stated.
Ms Nalumango said in Parliament yesterday during the question and answer session that anyone from the previous government who was still holding on to allegedly ill-gotten public resources would be brought to book.
Responding to a question in Parliament by Bweengwa Member of Parliament Michelo Kasauta, on when Government is going to recover the stolen public resources, Ms Nalumango said the new dawn administration was not going to use the political lenses in dealing with the recovery of public resources allegedly in the hands of leaders of the previous government.
She said Government was going to allow the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to deliver its full mandate by comprehensively investigating all corruption cases so that all those who would be found wanting should be prosecuted for their actions.
The Vice-President said Government gave an amnesty to all those who could have stolen public funds to take advantage of a clause in the ACC act to declare what she termed “their wrongly acquired worth” but no one had taken the opportunity to surrender what was not theirs.
She said new dawn administration had confidence in the ACC and believe that those that may have plundered public resources would be brought to account.
Mrs Nalumango said the government would not use politics to recover the stolen resources but that the relevant institutions were going to discharge their responsibilities to ensure that which was gotten illegally from the people was returned.
