PARLIAMENT heard yesterday that the Patriotic Front (PF) Government has no intentions of reconstituting the defunct Task Force on corruption as existing investigative wings were equal to the task of fighting graft.
Justice deputy Minister Ngosa Simbyakula told the House that the Government would use the combined skills of the existing investigative wings to fight corruption.
Dr Simbyakula was responding to an oral question by Kamfinsa Member of Parliament (MP) Moses Chishimba who asked whether the Government had any plans of reviving the Task Force on corruption.
The Parliamentarian in a follow-up question asked what mechanisms the Government would use to fight graft to which Dr Simbyakula said the existing investigative were adequate to fight the scourge. “The existing institutions are quiet adequate. We shall use the combined skills from the law enforcement agencies to fight corruption,” the deputy minister said.
Bahati MP Harry Kalaba (PF) asked what measures the Government had put in place to avoid parallel setting up institutions to fight corruption to which Dr Simbyakula said there were existing agencies the state would use.
The defunct Task Force on corruption was abolished by the Rupiah Banda regime and last week President Michael Sata Task Force was just a money spinner for the so called prosecutors who were getting K100 million per month and only managed to secure three convictions in
seven years.
[Times of Zambia]
thank you, too much money was wasted on this task force and it all amounted to much ado about nothing
simply because task force is a legal thing which will be held accountable for witch hunting, mis use of public funds and efficiency
as of now police, prosecuters and pf cadres cant be held accountable for forcing former govt officials out of houses with matchets, or for not finalising bail so that opponents can enjoy jail or for mistreating any perceived enemies…
the previous task force was in trouble because of accountability troubles, spending more than retrieved and the whole country could track the little progress in the wrong direction
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