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Former Executive Director of the defunct Access Financial Services, Aaron Chungu, says he will not appear before the Task Force on Corruption for questioning.

Mr. Chungu who has confirmed receiving a fresh call-out from the Task Force, says he can only comply if the notice was from constitutionally mandated law enforcement agencies.

He said at a media briefing in Lusaka that he is ready to comply to call-out notices from agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Commission, the Anti Corruption Commission, and the police.

Mr. Chungu said this is because such institutions are constitutionally mandated law enforcement agencies.

And Task Force spokesperson,Victor Makayi, told ZNBC news that the Task Force will issue a comprehensive statement on the matter later.

Last Friday, the Task Force issued call-outs to former Access Financial Services Directors, Faustine Kabwe and Aaron Chungu for questioning.

Mr. Chungu and Mr Kabwe are currently facing charges of Corruption and Abuse of Authority of Office and Plunder of Public Resources.

They are jointly charged with second Republican President, Frederick Chiluba.
[ZNBC]

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100 COMMENTS

  7. you guys put the task force in place and now that it is working against you dont want to recognise it what a shame ! you used to cheer when others were before the task force .

  8. This game is called Politricks…..he knew that it was tym he could come back and play with the law agencies.The laws they set up only carter for the common man but for those who have had been in power or still in power,these laws are there for them to be broken and they walk scot free while enjoying their plunder

  9. 7, 8 I can see the ignorance of some of you bloggers. This is not Xavier Chuungu. its the other mecenary who had long sticky fingers at Acess Finance.

  10. Nine Chale, wainvera nkhani mwana? the former intelligence chief has spoken. Infact he told those officers who went to his house off and chased them. 😮

  11. There we go, now the GOVT has to hire more lawyers to prove before the judge that the Task Force can summon somebody and with seven adjornements before the judge can make a ruling ..what can I say more money into the lawyers’s pockets from government coffers. Another classic delays tactic by the plunderers till jesus returns and the tax payer continue being ripped off. Just dump these cases or set up a Tribunal. KK never took this long on those MANDRAX dealers . He sorted them within a year..what is wrong with MMD?

  12. There are three things we need to know;

    1)How much money was allegedly plundered,
    2)How much money has been recovered and
    3)How much money has been spent on the Task Force.

  13. Mugabe has been there too long for any good he might have been doing. Depart, Bob, and be done with you. In the name of God, go!!!!

  14. #8 Its no Xavier Chungu but Aron Chungu Aron has been around in the country and its Aron Chungu who has been summoned don’t mix them up.

  20. #10 Rasid, naimvera nkhani, but I give up on LT for today. I’m going back to help wifey with Xmas preparations or else I get a red card for sitting around the computer all day. Cheerio…

  21. Viva Aaron, how many times are they going to summon? well done =d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>^:)^^:)^^:)^^:)^^:)^^:)^^:)^

  22. Lady Chiza’s legs are right, some bloggers are soignorant , read the full story before commenting!!

    Now lady Chiza, your legs may lead us into temptation!!:d/:x:-?:)>->:)=))~:>:o)

  23. I cant believe this? Who is Aaron Chungu to defy a call out from the State? Which law is he using? Something needs to be done, these plunderers are taking the Zambians for a ride.Where does Chungu think the Task Force officers come from? Its from the same institutions he mentioned ie Zambia Police, ACC, DEC.The Task Force was formed to enable the three wings deal with plunder cases as a team.

  27. #22,These bloggers dont have time to read the contents of the topic coz batamangila kunkala number one. Very childish and shallow minded chaps.

  28. LPM formed Task force and he is no more so the task force as well should be no more, obvious thus the understanding of Chungu. we are watching

  31. Nkole wa Mapembwe
    Umfwe milandu
    Chiti chiti chamutunga mulinso
    Chamulenga umona ukupompa

    Kwenda kushintuka
    Menso mumbali
    Panshi apa pali
    Imikuba ya tata umwanda

    Good afternoon bloggers!!!!!!

  32. Girly…

    please am so sorry to bother but update me on todays top story in the post,i might just be interested in buyin the post newspaper.

  34. Aaron Chungu is certainly using a zombie lawyer, who will share his money but won’t get him off the sharp hook.

    The President is mandataed by the Constitution of Zambia of 1991 as amended by Act No. 18 of 1996 to create offices and he did create the Task Force on corruption which has already prosecuted him and recovered billions of Kwacha for the Government.

    This after thought by Chungu of refusing to recognise the Task Force, is a feeble time wasting device. He has failed to understand that the most important thing for him to do is to clear his name by proving his innocency in court, regardless of who is prosecuting him.

  35. PROBLEM IS LPM WANTED TO STOP CHILUBA FROM ACTING AS PRESIDENT SO HE DID NOT GIVE HIMSELF TIME TO STUDY THESE CASES HENCE ALL THE CONFUSION YOU ARE SEEING

  38. G baby

    I actually just took a glimpse of it as I drove past but its something about three judges withdrawin from presidin over Xavier Chungu’s cases….Wonder y…

  42. #40 Daniel you are playing with words. LPM was the President. The position is not some invisible phenomena. If you dont know, currently in Zambia the President(sitting) is stronger than the law and what ever he does will not be questioned until he is out of power like what happened to FTJ. So can you say money was misused by the Presidency so FTJ should not be prosecuted.

  44. I told yu that ears that do not listen will roll into the rubbish pit with the head. such ears do not understand the meaning of the word ‘medicine’. This is especially so when the word is pronounced by lips, which these ears would not like to hear that they have been seen eating, drinking, laughing, kissing, smiling and doing all the simple things of life that lips do. The only thing such ears like about such lips is to hear them cry. For all other sounds they make irritate such ears and the head that bears them. And so these unfortunate lips must survive to say some day: “We said these things, but those ears there on the rubbish heap would not listen to us. Listen to me

  45. Man Kunde,rashid Jones, Matworld,FMC,Pinkly,Nine Chale. Real Baby C, Ba Moze,sweet thang,Sarah jones, Babie,cutie. you guys rock :x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x

  46. I pity 36 and 37. At any rate, royal ears ought to accept to listen, even to lips they do not like. But even if they will not listen, they must still be told. The lips of the Oracle must speak to royal ears, even when they know such ears are deaf. That was why when the rock would not respond to the hyena’s greetings, the poor animal said to the rock, “Respond you may not want to, but you have heard me all the same.”

  47. Girly, Spectator, Maestro,Zoe, you also rock. please keep it up =d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>

  48. Gentlemen, dont quote chaos if the ground you are standing on is shaky. That ground you are standing on when it moves, will leave you behind

  50. The cases have taken too long. He has again been called for questioning, are there fresh cases? Task Force please make progress ala ulupiya mwalya naimwe mu ma allowances lwafula.

  51. I thought the task force consisted other law enforcement agencies like the ones he mentioned. maybe that has changed. this is a serious food for thought for RB and his colleagues. Lets check the legacy that they promised to keep or is it continue.

  52. We must stop wasting court time for guys who are in remand to be attended to. The govt, it seems have not done their homework of how to handle these plunderers. They keep parading them for show off and wasting court time. Chungu and cohorts will keep playing around with the govt knowing our laws are weak. Judges are busy excusing themselves from handling cases. Are they paid for running away from cases or what. This is a circus as some people rightly observed.

  54. Lady Chiza´s
    Thanx a bunch for the correction nut all the same,the point remain the same.It´s all about Politricks of Poverty

  59. #53. i hop they aint related. this name [Chungu], is becomin synonimous with corruption. watch out for the Chungu next door….

    Lady Chiza’s legs, i luv ur literature!

  60. Too much money has been spent on the task force. shuwa all this time not even some progress in some direction whatsoever. come on NS (Nyama Soya) disband this posse ! thats why ba chungu has become emotional now and he was quoted asking an LT reporter ” i am tired guys. kuti waumfwa shani, waingila, wafuma, waingila nafuti…ala chilakalipa “

  61. I guess Lady Chiza Legs are stunning, out of curiosty, what about the face!!!??? 😡 and the brains even. They matter you. :d

  63. Kwangala baleangala ba RB. Aaron Chungu knows that RB is a joker no wonder now he is failing to heed to call outs.
    Can someone tell Mpombo that this is an issue worth meeting with force and not people who want to demonstrate over mealie meal prices. This govt is fond of misplaced energies and we need to direct them to areas worth meeting with force like diversifying our economy and not just yapping and yapping like Teta.

  64. # 25. RUPIAH
    That is what is happening. With PLM, the only place these thieves could be seen was at the courts or in hidding.
    Gents, no matter what it costs, these pipo shouild be harassed to the end. The benifitual precedents set by these court cases can not be measured in money.
    it will be intresting to see how far RBs pretences in fighting plunder go.

  65. A. Chungu is now reminding me of former President Solobodan Milosêvic.

    Let us see how the Task Force on Corruption will respond!

  70. This whole corruption thing is a waste of money. We have simply made the lawuers rich. What benefit has gone to an ordinary Zambian? 7 years of no results yet the lawywers have got so rich that they own airlines. How much money has been retrieved? How much have we paid the lawyers. What is the balance of the two. Any profit (or loss)?

  71. The moment you allow yourself to be directed by immotions, you make mistakes, BIG TIME. This country has a constitution which we put in place for a very good reason. Let us all follow it!!!!

    Every person is innocent until proven guilty. Before you take someone to court, do your homework well. Please be reminded again that what matters is what happens in court, not what you read in The Post or what you hear from friends.

    Why, why should it take so long, to convict if there was overwhelming evidence that these people plundered Govet resources.

    Justice delayed is justice denied. This is now persecution and not prosecution. In the mean time our competent prosectors are getting richer.

  72. I just hope that those prosecuting will not be tried for plunder of Govt resources themselves one day.

    Where there is a cost, the question of cost benefit kicks in undebated. This is what is also called “getting value for money”. When I spend I should get value equivalent to what I spend.

    Seven years and counting, NELYAKWANAMUNGWA.

    Twafweni, are we spending on these cases for what it is worth? Nalimo there is more than what meets the eye?

  73. Congratulation Aaron. There are no second class citizens in Zambia. Let Task Force provide basis of their legal existence. This is fair question. Otherwise all the money spent on Task Force will be considered theft. There are a lot of illegal things that Mwanawasa did. We are also going to charge the task force along side, Mwanawasa and others for stealing the copper and oil profits in collusion with multi nationals. We have the evidence. This is what has brought the economic meltdown in Zambia.

  74. Thieves are now growing bolder and bolder with their tails sky rocketing in defiance of the system. Banda should know that it is his authority this tinkers are challenging. Had I been him, I would buddle this stinking thieve in Chimbokaila until he learns to respect authority.

  75. Lady Chiza’s “imikonso”, my head doesn’t entertain the devil, but it seems every turn you make has innuendos, inviting people to join you in bed, I begin to wonder who is in commune with zedevil!!

  76. SO WHERE IS COST SAVING? ABANDON THIS CASE AND SET THOSE CROOKS FREE AND STOP ALL THOSE GIMMICKS. WE KNOW THEY ARE ALL FREE, YOU ARE JUST GIMMICKING. SAVE MONEY IN THE WAY YOU ARE TRYING TO SAVE BY NOT HOLDING THE AFRICA CUP.

  77. Whatever the result in these cases (Chungu, Chiluba etc etc), the delay has itself jeopardised what would have been a conviction to set good political standards. The delay has been too telling for there to be any sort of fair trial. Justice in this case, irrespective from what perspective you are coming from, has been truly denied (to the accused and to the good long suffering people of Zambia)

  78. its good that chungu is reacting in that manner. Even me I can. Bloggers think of it almost 8 years!!! nothing has hapened. The layers are getting paid heavely for 8 years. What we hear are only call outs ..nosense for 8 years no conviction? How can you explain it?? shansonga they transported him back to Uk…do they really have brains???

    Let the money be used for Ubunga coz they have failed. 8 year…only in zambia.

    Chungu tell them to jail you just now than for them getting fat on you pretending they are working.

    Nosense. :-?:-?:-?

  79. Follow the law.No emotions here.If he needs to be locked up so be it.All these are signs of incompetent lawyers and judges.Shame, we have no role models in our country.Rotten and wicked people

  80. How can a thief be allowed to dictate the rules of his prosecution? Beat this amn and all other plundrers until they surrender our money. we have wasted far too much time and kept them at our expense. Beat Chiluba, Chungu and co until they surrender. They will all cry in Bemba ati mwalanjipaya fye.

  81. Aaro Chungu is right the Task force is illegal and have no right to summon anybody who knows the law, let them summon the cowards not the likes of Aaron Chungu a brave man. Viva Chungu the bastards have no mandate to summon anyone apart from the police,DEC & ACC, lelo Nyama Soya takuli ulufyengo pa zed nomba Cabbage alifwa takuli

  83. Thieves are now growing bolder and bolder take his ass to jail then interrogate him if that is what he wants. :-w:-w

  86. iwe lady chiza, ule bomfya ici bemba; BUSHYE, kuya sendama nangu kuya mukulala? Twe be pantu amano yobe yapala uku chengelesha!!!

  87. DONORS have pledged to fulfill their budgetary commitments in next year’s Budget despite the global financial crisis, Finance and National Planning Minister, Situmbeko Musokotwane has said.
    Dr Musokotwane said on the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) television programme, “National Watch” monitored yesterday that donors contributed 25 per cent of Zambia’s national Budget.A Nation of Beggars when are we going to grow and stand on our own.The Americans,the British owe us nothing and they are not required to fulfill their commitment.

  88. Govt illegal activities unveiled by Chungu brothers. No more Levy dictatorship. Xavier Chungu left Zambia because in Levy’s govt, Levy himself with his myopic law knowledge would have ordered Paramilitary to go to Chungu’s residence to haul him in. Thank God he is no more.

  91. tired of the so called task force they anti doing anything tangible. except enriching themselves with BMZ, Mansions at the expense of tax payers. its high time nyama soya did away with them, just scrap it all. twanaka nabankelenka. period!!!

  92. Lady Chiza’s legs, are u still sleeping? I’d luv to come and join u – and c just wat yor legs are made of…:x Gdmorning gal

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    In what appears to be a coup d’etat, a spokesman appeared on TV Tuesday wearing a military uniform and read the statement saying the government, including the constitution, courts and the parliament had been dissolved. He did not state his name or his rank.

    The announcement comes just six hours after officials declared the death of Guinea’s dictator, Lansana Conte. The constitution calls for the president of the National Assembly to be sworn in as the country’s next president.

  97. Nothing wrong with challenging the legality of an institution. The
    Task Forces establishment still remains in question – it has been
    raised before. It is not constituted in the same way as the Anti-
    coruption commission or the Police. It is a creation of the Presdient who has general power to create an ‘office’. But should it
    have the same powers as other institutions created directly by
    Parliament? Summoning powers, arresting powers etc? Not anyone can simply call anybody else to appear before them. Besides if what Aaron
    Chungu is being summoned for is synonymous with what he has already been charged with, he may refuse on that ground.

  98. Tumotumo utuma organisations tuntembafye mwe. Thats y abena aaron nabakana. Lekeni ACC ikabasove, ACC is more credible.:)>-

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