The Zambian Voice have written to the Director General of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Rosewin Wandi, demanding an update on the case the commision was investigating involving Minister of Justice Hon Wynter Kabimba and Minister of Defence Hon Geoffrey Mwamba.
In the latter signed by Chilufya Tayali, the Zambian Voice reminded Ms Wandi that the people of Zambia had given her all the power and authority to investigate corruption allegations that are committed by the weakest and the strongest citizens in this country.
Below is the full letter
THE DIRECTOR GENERAL-ANTI CORRUPTION COMMISSION
P.O. BOX
Lusaka.
28/01/13
Dear Madam,
RE: DEMAND FOR AN UPDATE ON THE CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS CONCERNING HON WYNTER KABIMBA AND HON GEOFREY MWAMBA
The above subject matter refers.
We are hereby demanding for an update on how far the Anti- Corruption Commission has gone concerning the serious corruption allegations leveled on the Minister of Justice Hon Wynter Kabimba and Minister of Defence Hon Geoffrey Mwamba.
Between September and October 2012, the two Cabinet ministers accused each other of corruption and your Commission did indeed issue a statement that investigations in both cases were underway.
To our great dismay, Hon Kabimba went on rampage intimidating the ACC in an attempt to force the ACC to release their findings, failure to which he threatened to take legal action.
Both Ministers were summoned to appear before ACC investigating team. Hon Mwamba did appear before the ACC officers were he was interviewed on the corruption allegations leveled against him by His Justice Ministry counterpart.
When it was time came for Hon Kabimba to appear before the ACC investigating team all hell broke loose!
Monday, December 3rd 2012 a day that will live in infamy, as regards the unprecedented and brutal assault on our criminal justice system in Zambia, Hon Kabimba, did report to the ACC offices in the company of a mob of PF cadres.
The Minister of Justice demanded that he be interviewed in the presence of the cadres who had accompanied him.
ACC officers did inform Hon Kabimba, that interviews are not conducted in such a manner.
The combative and charged Minister refused to be interviewed in the absence of his disruptive and noisy supporters.
We believe that Hon Kabimba’s conduct at the ACC offices amounts to obstruction of justice which in itself is a very serious criminal offence under the ACC Act.
To our horror and disappoint, you have done nothing to bring him to book for his lawless conduct at the ACC offices, which if left unchecked will bring the ACC and law enforcement as we know it, to its knees.
Should we assume that the easiest way to escape serious corruption allegations and possible prosecution in Zambia is to rent a mob and intimidate the ACC into submission?
As an organization that is dedicated to good governance, transparency and accountability in Government. We demand to know why the ACC has seemingly grown cold feet in the investigation of the alleged serious corruption allegations leveled against Hon Kabimba.
We wish to remind you, that the people of Zambia have given you all the power and authority to investigate corruption allegations that are committed by the weakest and the strongest citizens in this country.
Nothing in your conduct should suggest to the country that Hon Kabimba is above the law or he is a sacred cow that is too holy to be made accountable for his actions.
If that was to happen it will put into motion events that will threaten the rule of law as we know it in Zambia.
It will be tragic, if the ACC is perceived to be investigating petty corruption and frightened to tackle grand corruption that involves Government Minster like Hon Kabimba.
To ensure that you do your job effectively, the ACC Act Cap 91 of the laws of Zambia gives you the security of tenure and insulates your office from the interference and intimidation that may come from the powerful in society.
We therefore see no reason, why you should not do your duties as enshrined in the ACC Act.
We demand that you give us an update, as soon as possible, on how far you have gone in your investigations concerning the grand corruption allegations leveled at Hon Wynter Kabimba and Hon Mwamba.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along,’ Eleanor Roosevelt.
Yours sincerely
Chilufya Tayali
This is beyond drivel type of reporting
Annoying and unwarranted
Who are these people again? (Zambia Voice)
Nonsensical and that is putting it mildly
Thanks
You are very foolish yourself. You can’t see sense in this?
The constitution making process has taken too long! Levy spent so much, Lupiya spent so much and now Sata spending too much. What is really wrong with our way of doing things? The money this process has consumed is far too much! In formerly troubled countries like South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola, the process never took this long for so much! Is our conscious really correct on this one? Suppose the creation of districts and province were subjected to such protracted long wait, surely nothing could have been done. We have too many unfinished political businesses but the constitution is the worst plunder process. Note, whatever you’ll come up with it will never be 100% holistic. When human wrongs become human rights your document shall not be valid. Do it now.
Still the same childish carer pretending to be a PHD student.That is why NIcky wants to damp you.Have you failed to see the points raised in the letter honestly?
She is afraid of early retirement a command from state house.
If Zambia looses to Burkina Faso, PF government & LT will be answerable, why annoy with these kind of leaders?
Well well well, the chicken are definitely slowly coming home to to do whatever. yesterday the Catholics demanded an updated on Judge Chikopa. I think I will throw in my two cents here.
I demand an update on the Commission of Inquiry on ERB, ZANACO, MONGU, ZRA and many more where Tax payers money was used for allowances on people like Kabimba and the rest. Why has the PF not moved with the speed they moved on ZAMTEL recommendations on the other commission of Inquiries , I demand an update as MMD Chief Bootlicker and Tax payer
We support the Zambia Voice sentiments. As Zambians in Diaspora, we urge the PF government to update the Zambian citizen on the matters of such nature. Zambian people voted for PF government on the premises that they will bring in transparency to matters of governing but the opposite is the truth.
On the same breath, we demand that the PF government update us on the status of judge Chikopa from Malawi. They can not bring in the judge from the other country indefinitely at an expense of the poor Zambian citizen who have suffered long enough.
I demand an update on K14 billion from the Nchito and Mmembe
The Wetlook woman was appointed by Kabimba,you are asking the wrong person.
She can pull a Mwanawasa on the dumbass
Why even talk about a toothless acc that only knows how to investigate the opposition leaders & ( shud point out that they only know how to investigate bicycle coruption.
Not forgetting charging pipo with a charge that will pursue all pf leaders to the grave, that is being found with property believed to be proceeds of criime
What the ACC doesn’t have is autonomy, so how can the ACC boss bite the proverbial hand that feeds her?
Written a written
Director Deneral
Reminder the Ms Wandi
That the that
yher
You can do betako than this……….just saying… .or hust daying
we are not in usa
Wapya Munzi Leloleo!!
oops daisy!”
I demand the ACC postal address be changed from to 50486 🙂
Darn blanx
There is lawlessness everywhere you look. Right in front of ACC, there is salaula. I dont know which entrance this wandi uses. She cant say anything. Twalimwebele twati the cobra will stop biting!!
how can he bit when he believes in sangomas,kenneth maduma’s father,mmbembe,nchito,chief satanists kk. what a dull president who has down looked the owner of this nation THE GREAT LORD of lords JESUS.the battle is the lords
I demand an update on the small group of people that attended the most anticipated rally of all rallies by the unpd in Kabwata yesterday. People were cheated by the Zambian watch IMBWA about the mammoth rally that never was there, except for a few so called upnd ferried from far flang places. Mwilaimweneshamo ba upnd ati you will ever come second in any given Presidential elections. Always third if you won’t go into distinction soon if you won’t change your under 5 chap.
i am not unpd,but i love my brothers coz they ve broken the ice.few or not few no one can stop them.and the world is watching.
They could not even show us the “big” crowd they had.
Sata….nists are quaking and quacking! The reign of these illiterate thugs will be short! God will deliver Zambia from these thugs! You go and stone people to prevent them from exercising their rights and then turn around to say the rally was poorly attended! Too much inbreeding amongst these Sata……nists that’s why they have IQs below 70! Certainly this will be the worst government in history when Zambia celebrates 100 years of independence in 2064. Honestly, Sata….nist should not be allowed to procreate otherwise Zambia will be full of !diots!
Like it or not UPND is the only opposition to PF. That is why when ever UPND speaks someone in state house has BP or a chimpanzee in Luapula has a viral overload and starts hallucinating. Just a reminder about 90 days send the dogs backing. The rally was held as promised. What about the 90 days promises. All we see is hunger imported into lusaka from poor provinces of Muchinga, norther and nluapula. What can people from poor provinces do for the country? It will ever remain poor.
Quite a disappointing state of affairs; to constantly have to prod and urge an organization to do the work they were formed to do is pathetic. LT,good job on publishing the letter and continually informing the masses. I personally have little confidence in the people at the ACC or police force. Prove you’re true to your mandate as the ACC then just maybe you can salvage your image among the citizens of Zed.
Don’t you all know that she is one of Kabimba’s trusted friends? She will do everything under her power to ensure that Kabimba escapes these charges even if it means letting Mwamba off as well.
Ministers accusing each other of corruption. Ati, ngaulefwaya ukwishiba ifyaikala ingwena pamumana kwipisha hippo… This is what we are now seeing fellow citizens of our beloved Zambia.
I demand an update on the allegations levelled at Kambwili for misusing taxpayers cash which he has been reported to give his family members and his many girlfriends.He has stopped yapping following the allegations which means there is something there.
This is a powerful letter. We need people/organisations like this one to make progress, or esle we will be stuck in the political quagmire.
Great letter indeed.
GOCLALVES UNDER IS DYING OF ENVY, HATE AND HAS LOST DIRECTION FOR YOUR OWN INFORMATION. IF YOU THINK UNDER FIVE WILL WIN 2015 ELECTIONS YOU ARE LIVING ON APES PLANET. THE REASON THAT UNDER FIVE IS PANICKING AND WISHING TO HAVE ELECTIONS SOONER THAN FIVE YRS BECAUSE HE EITHER DOES NOT UNDER STAND ITS 5YRS MANDATE OR SINCE HE HAS NEVER RUN FOR ANY PUBLIC OFFICE ON LOCAL LEVEL,PARLIAMENTARIAN, TAKING OVER A PARTY THAT WAS VIBRANT IN TUNE WITH THE MAGNITUDE AND THINKING HE RUN IT AS A COOPERATE ORAGANISATION, NOT UNDERSTANDING HOW TO FORM AND RUN A POLITICAL PARTY THATS WHY HE CAN N’T GET IT. UNDER AND BLIND FOLLOWERS HAVE A LONG WAY TO LEARN AND APPRECIATE THE POLITICS OF TOGETHERNESS AND NOT POLITICS OF CONFRONTATION, HATE, ENVY AND POOR TIMIMG
I feel sorry for you
Is your warlord dying in 2015 for the elections to be held in that particular year? Thanks for the information…….dear Sata…..nist!
Mmembe has already advised all Zambians to be patient. Some things take seconds, others take minutes others take days. He has further advised that you have to wait until 2016 before you can expect answers to the questions. ACC has to get permission from the President before they can investigate a senior government official, So, wait until 2016, when the President will give a green light to ACC. Dont worry about high mealie meal prices either. Wait until 2016.
Mmembe advises, and he is an honourable man, ‘whether you like it or not, you are stuck with this government UNTIL 2016!’ He didn’t stick with his marriage though! He didn’t stick with his ideas about Sata though. BUT, that IS life.
It is true. I do not like Nigerians at all. I hope that does not wait for 2016 for them to get out of the 2013 AFCON.
Poorly written letter. Nevertheless, important enquiry.
We await a progressive material response from the investigative wings as demanded in the letter.
ACC namumfwa tapali icigayo!andwee nomba asukeni
If you have a Justice Minister behaving this way towards an anti-graft institution then there’s no better way of describing the state of the judiciary in our country other than utter CONFUSION. This sort of behavior actually renders Wynter Kabimba unfit for this office!!!
Don’t forget that we are ruled by crooked,corrupt,uncaring gang who are busy amassing wealth behind closed doors. Mwamba said it all,the deceitful Nkoyaman Kabimba is pushing himself in every boardroom,the judiciary is worth than it was during the late……………….
It is true. How much will go into their pockets from the trillions worth LINK ZAMBIA 8000 project, Universities etc?
Clearly we are dealing much more on issue-based exchanges and far less on personality attacks and sadly at times, abusive discourse (err..insults).
It is refreshing to see that questions are being asked and being asked more freequently and openly from all quarters in our great nation. This is as it should be. Something will have to give in, maybe even sooner than 2016.
HH and Nevers, are hewn from quite solid material, rather hard to crack, much to the vexation of our friends in ‘power’.
That UPND managed to pull off that rally in Kabwata against all odds, is quite significant; it was not a numbers game at all, but about setting political precedence for all oppostion parties.
Now, what is LAZ doing about this Kambimba lawyer that has no respect for the law and a constitutional body such as the Anti-Corruption Commission? Is he also larger than LAZ?
No one is above the law.
If you are frustrated with what is happening in zambia please just leave, no one is forcing you to stay.So tongas can go to Zimbabwe and Lozis to Angola.I don’t have any probe with other tribes but i dislike tongas and lozis.
you are an imbecile just like your fellow monkeys behave..
Nonsense u are such an ***** embicile in fact
Dumb tribalist! No place for YOU in Zambia…
It is a psycho-cultural thing. Wandi, just like Libongani – inspite of all the powers vested in them by the People of Zambia through the laws have this psycho-cultural deficiency of “umuchinshi ku bakalamba.” (Respect to elders). What this means in our cultures is that anyone senior either in age or stature and authority cannot be challenged. It would take psycho-cultural deconstruction in the minds of these two ladies to act according to the law. I actually feel sorry for them because I dont think they sleep alright.
Now it is becos of the Psycho-cultural disability that is responsible for allowing the erosion of democracy, poor construction works, lack of inventions and corruption in business. The answer is a mental revolution towards FREEDOM!!
I demand an update on all charges slapped on Nevers Mumba. Buying carpets, furniture and spoons for the mission in Canada. Buying prisoners gifts on Christmas day. Visiting a certain chief without a police permit………
Am sure this update will soon come through… But expecting a genuine update on Wynter Kabimba is like expecting to squeeze water out of a rock.
This govt is behaving like a headless chicken. Indeed one would wounder which door Wandi uses when entering the ACC offices because the entire office is covered in Salaula.
Look at the stagnant water along the corridors of the shops along freedom way, greenish. The UNWTO delegates should surely come to see this sorry site.
This PF govt is a joke….empty statements and retrogressive acts…..
Cry my beloved country…
Winter kabolala write hand of king cobra.
If commissioners report to parliament than the president people would work with authority and not be scared to lose their jobs may be things would move fast. I am PF but if the new constitution still lets commissioners of most government wings fully report to the President naturally keeping a job in such an economy makes sense to please and listen or take instruction from State house
#17 Snake charmer: “Ngulefwaya ukwishiba ifya ikale ngwena (Crockdile) kwipusha Chiboko (Hippo”. This is a very powerful saying. Iam not Bemba, I just learnt it at School and no regrets because I still speak my mother tongue as much. This saying says it all.
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE IN ALL THESE FALSE ACCUSATIONS. THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL. THE ACC IS TRYING TO FIND A CASE AGAINST THESE INDIVIDUALS BUT THERE IS NONE. SO LET THEM BE FREE. WHOEVER HAS EVIDENCE SHOULD TAKE IT TO THE ACC. OTHERWISE KEEP YOUR M… SHUT. NOT BLAH…BLAH…BLAH OUT OF BITTERNESS AND JEALOUSY. WE ARE TIRED OF THIS STORY WHICH IS MOOTED IN ENVY.