Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema had a torrid time to have his letter to the Anti Corruption Commission received and stamped on when he visited its Headquarters Thursday morning.
In his letter, Mr Hichilema was urging the ACC to speed up its investigations on the 48 Houses and provided evidence that will help the Commission to expedite the investigations.
But when he arrived at the Commission Headquarters, Mr Hichilema was met by scared ACC officers who refused to receipt his letter.
The officers kept referring Mr Hichilema from one office to another while the people working in the Office of the Director-General reportedly ran away from the office upon seeing Mr Hichilema and his team.
In the process of waiting, some unruly PF cadres mobilised from Kulima Tower Bus Station attacked Mr. Hichilema’s team injuring three in the process.
After an hour-long wait, Mr Hichilema’s request letter was reluctantly stamped on and left the premises shortly after giving some interviews.
“This morning we went to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to deliver a letter regarding the 48 properties whose owner has not been identified to date. We would like the ACC to continue investigating this matter to its logical conclusion. It is a matter of public concern and we shall ensure we keep it in the public space,” Mr Hichilema said.
“However, we regret to inform fellow citizens that we struggled to have our letter delivered to the ACC as all officers took to their heels when they saw us, and we don’t blame them for this.The levels of intimidation by this Government are unbelievable. This is the reason why all civil servants in our government will have the protection of tenure. The civil service is there to safeguard and serve the interests of the public and not to run away from these responsibilities that citizens hired them for at great cost.”
He emphasized, “We shall continue pursuing this matter until we have answers. Let us all stand together and root out corruption in our society, this cancer is eating us all, alive.”
Well, this confirms the ACC in its current form is moribund. I hope those senior officers will not cry when they are terminated for incompetence, which this described behavior clearly is.
When the cat is away, rodents and rats foreplays everywhere and around about
Don’t get me wrong, I am not literally saying he is a cat and rest are k.o.s.w.e.s.
I believe it now. This is fake news. Kikikikikikijukija most likely he is moving around with his panga boys threatening the hell out’a fishes in Chongwe River and ACC general workers as they clean offices. By appointment or not he has found favour in bo Inonge’s busy schedules amidst ECL’s love of a jet and midair flights.
Maybe he dreads commiting another motorcade rage when the grand guru is home.
He has surely found his feet and squeezing himself everywhere and around feeling presidential when ECL goes out on national duties.
I have to commend HH on this one. He has shown courage and tact.
He has also help reveal the gross abuse and intimidation that civil servants are suffering under PF. For people to be scared to recieve a letter from a cirizen is quite astonishing. And who tipped of the PF cadres at Kulima tower so that they came to attack people?
This also shows the hypocrisy of some people on this blog who want to pretend like they are not aware of all these evils.
They try yo come out as being educated and intelligent but we see through their duplicity, despite their empty high minded view they try to potray. We all know that most of them turn a blind eye to the corruption in PF because they benefit from it.
So, clearly the 48 houses belong to the president, how else do you explain the behavior of the ACC officers! Zambians please let us not allow this shameful act of corruption take its root in our country. No wonder the outgoing British ambassador has been frustrated by the conduct of our political leaders in running the affairs of the country.
Siliya Dora in a lonely against fake news. Media houses ought to survive, but how?
A vice that should be fought from both angles – those in Government and those in opposition have taken chilling opposite stances of making us believe that fake news can only be fought from the Government side the rest are passangers. Truth of the matter is that political parties form Government.
Fake new in the context of ACC officials scampering at the sight of one double h is vivid in this case. I wonder, but yes the ACC is a public institution and so I Thorn in the Flesh expect it to have some form of Security Protocols that ordinary members of the society including double h ought to follow. In that security protocol, appointment schedules, cameras – CCTV , log books, system of ops and the…
… the likes ought to be fundamentally enshrined.
If really double h stormed the ACC, did he go there with cameras from prime TV a UPNDEAD media team rolling or what? If indeed some officials ducked the rolling cameras how can a reporter misconstrue that scene to officials running away from double h?
I see a serious Security breach at the ACC offices that could or should result in some charges and dismissals. I see a staged media stunt bent at validating this fake interpretation of the scene also classified as fake news. I feel for Dora, a loner, in the Zambian fake news fight era. The rest of the media houses are cementing it. The path to self regulation is wishful thinking.
Must be tiring giving yourself those up-votes MR. Thorn. Rest a bit then give yourself 20 more.
Just unearthed a fake news exhibition scam dude chikondi. Turns out LT isn’t ZWD.
No hard feelings.
Let’s roll.
@thorn in the flesh you are a bore with your lengthy blogs, get a job, focus on your work, or attend to a customer whatever it is you do. But mate quit writing this psycho s**t its annoying. No one here likes PF. If you think this is fake news, provide us with your real news instead of speculating. Why you reading if its fake news chi color?
Iwe ka @thorn in the flesh so ulelanda bonse pano tatwakwata amano and you the only one who can sniff fake news? uletekanta ka chi color, this ain’t your site.
Usually I stay mute on psychos like you but kutiwambelesha scumbag iwe. I don’t blog but just comments. LT blogs.
Isa tuchite so, if that cap fits the correct narrative my nigga, go clean your soiled pants and hung indefinitely. I know kids like you can’t stomach the truth musundila pabulo. It is not my fault that you loathe PF. I like seeing things a little bit deeper with a critical eye. So STFU worse still GFYS. Just saying.
So Lungu has decided to keep quite on this matter? How many ACC officers have been fired? PF leadership is a true shame to our democracy. It’s embarrassing.
Can the ACC justify why ordinary Zambians should respect them, and continue to fund their toothless empty investigations? Obviously they know who owns those houses and are scared to death to name him. They’re are a disgrace and traitors. Are they not supposed to protect innocent citizens from the claws of selfish corrupt politicians? Most likely these houses belong to corrupt Lungu. That’s why they’re scared to name him. I mean come on. There’s no single one of you brave enough to just come out and name the thief behind those houses, even if it’s gangster Lungu? You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. History will judge you harshly. You traitors.
Hahahaha… And they go back to their desks in fancy suits looking like CIA analysts. What a joke! What a sham of an institution! Disband it and lets use that wage bill to plant trees.
I see this excites every living cell in your body. Be rest assured, timid double will go back under his bankerbed when ECL’s plane touches the ground from Hiroshima.
We have just uncovered this tactic.
When the cat is away, kwindis watch TV having a go on that remote control sitting in that sofa with a 4 corner posture while eating popcorns.
FAKE NEWS.
Even if that letter about 48 hours is delivered and investigated, who is going to benefit and what benefit to a poor Zambian. HH wake up and start addressing real issues. Foolish Zambians have even stopped working but wasting time on trivial issues. Ask yourselves, are the 48 houses going to reverse the current bad state of economy. I am working very hard and I don’t feel the impact of this economy.
Really? Are you serious?
@3.1 exactly.
That’s my man. Wasting time on such issues will eat a person to the very core…
You are an educated moron. This is key to governance.
Henry, with your kind of attitude, Zambia would be sold one piece at a time, and you would be okay with it. As long as they don’t sell the whole country in one transaction. You’re a disgrace and maybe even part of the bandits behind these houses. Shame on you.
HH KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE CIVIL SERVICE APART FROM THE THEORIES HE LEARNT IN UNIVERSITY. TH CIVIL SERVICE IS PRACTICAL NOT THEORETICAL
GRZ civil service is practical in protecting and perpetuating lungus corruption, yes we know….
Lungu has corrupted all systems of governance in Zambia
He issued a 48 hour ultimatum which elapsed since since. Empty ultimatum. Extremely impotent.
Next he must storm FIC offices to offer a kudos letter. What do you think?
Well done HH! But what happened to the 48 hours ultimatum you gave President to find the owner of the 48 apartment? Or is it contained in the letter you delivered to ACC. I am interested in the ultimatum – the or else part …
They are sending K47 gun toting C5 officers to deliver a call out letter to BUFFOON CK but have lamentably failed to find an owner of 48 houses…you have a lazy President who is unconcerned only wants to accrue airmiles and tour the globe like a small boy yet there are pending reports on his desk. This is the organisation PF wants FIC to fall under shameless crooks.
They are sending K47 gun toting C5 officers to deliver a call out letter to BUFFOON CK but have lamentably failed to find an owner of 48 houses…you have a lazy President who is unconcerned only wants to accrue airmiles and tour the globe like a small boy yet there are pending reports on his desk. This is the organisation PF wants FIC to fall under shameless crooks
For such important institution like Acc ,Zambia police , Zambia army Directors and Generals must be appointed by parliament or independent commission set by parliament .
Amend the constitution on that one and hell, you will spark another debate.
Ikanifye ganamwikuta tute nembalala na chibwantu.
No go area basa.
Mwaliba ifya bupuba mu Zambia!!!!!
No in your thick skull.
Hehehehehe…….people do not even want to be seen entertaining or talking to HH for fear of losing their jobs. What a rotten society! On the other hand we have a senior government official saying it is of no use fighting corruption as it is waste of time and money. My foot! So people should just be stealing and building 48 houses without questioning their source of income
Fake news
The ends are justified but the means are too political, playing to the gallery! Why can’t the CSO’s take it up and remove the political stench out of the noble event? Why do we seem to celebrate political solutions to everything even for issue’s that are purely moral? I move that we are too political and hence failure is not too far! Let’s separate issues for what they really are, and tackle them accordingly.
Yo want to politicize everything. That’s the brutalization of civil behavior everywhere.
Me it baffles me when people say an opposition leader is ‘Playing to the gallery’ what the heck do you think politics entails? You think Sata lining up with a container for fuel was coz he really had no fuel in his car? Shall we grow up bane.
Please deliver to the thieving wanna be lawyer who stole from a widow, because houses belong to his daughter and they are busy pretending that they can not find the owner….
There goes another kwindi with information yet he can’t make the case for it.
Pure and wild insinuation. Prove it.
So if HH was illegally involved in the privatization of state enterprise, why would ACC scamper when they see him instead of arresting him?
All to play for when the cat is away.
It sounds Fake News.
Kikiki!!! Ati provide evidence and when evidence comes their way people scamper from offices in all directions like headless chickens. Dictatorship at its worst. What about delivering it to those who say we should provide evidence???? If they wont run away also!!! kikiki!!!
Disaster!!!
Fake article, fake news.
Double h is scared of the ACC because all an ACC official sees in him is a fat P and R and I and V and A and T and I and Z and A and T and I and O and N A and G and E and N and T.
@Thorn in The Flesh are you sure you are alright?
You sound deranged and desperate today brother thorn. How about you prove that this is fake news instead of useless dull assumptions ayi mudala? Coz this was on Prime TV News as well, switch from ZNBC once in a while, it will open that head of yours a bit more.
@C
Ask, is double h alright not that? Better still are you yourself screwed by this fake article?
Then we can have a conversation. Obviously you want me to fit into your narrative.
@Dudelove
Read @1.4 and 1.5 we have that figured out. Let’s have a conversation when you’re done reading. You can be smarter than that. Like I said, this was pure staging.
@Thorn in the buuttt – you my friend have a lot of time on your hands. what do you exactly do in your life? Your ways just are enough to explain why your country is one of the poorest in the world. Go on! Stoop to the new lowest with your insults. We await…..
Mr.HH did you give them notice earlier to your visit
If the program was arranged ACC officers definitely wouldn’t have failed to
attend to UPND leaders.
Officers may not come to attention to Mr.HH for best reasons of procedural matters.
This my opinion.
Prime TV cameras were rolling, naturally, what do you expect.
The only generator of real news is Dr. ECL POTROZ currently.
HH is a citizen like any other. Is it procedure to first call and make an appointment with ACC before going there? You have done this before?
how much are other people paid for commenting foolishly without thinking. for those who really have zambia at heart knows who is to blame and have an ever lasting solution in 2021 come elections .the problem will be fixed anyway.
HH is doing exceptionally well as a media director for UPND just like Sunday in the other camp.
Am a little bit sceptical about his purported evidence cause the way I’ve known him, he would have revealed the information the very moment he laid his hands on it.
All the same, job well done.
Yes!!!
Staged scene just like the sesheke bush marathon stunt.
Fake news.
Zambia as a country is rotten and that is that
fooli.sh you hahaha
Why has it taken double h this long to find owner? Usually very efficient.
I leave it there!
We can only conclude that those houses belong to tasila lungu or lungu himself……….
no political thieving ally would be worth such silence on lungus part.
If the owner was not lungu himself or tasila but a PF minister or statehouse ally , lungu would have let a kangaroo court decide to declear the thief innocent , like what happened to chitotela
Now you’re talking bo Spaka.
Let’s nail this.
SAD VERY SAD OUR MOTHER ZAMBIA WHERE ARE WE GOING.
ACC officials physically running away from their offices to avoid receiving evidence.
HONESTLY,THE ACC HAS GONE TO THE DOGS.
Bwana HH? What happened to the 48 hours Altimatum you gave Lungu? Was it just an empty threat ? Have courage Sir and follow up on your altimatum. There is no need chasing after those little boys and Gilrs at ACC. You already gave your Altimatum to their boss. Why go and start harrasing the little ones again!!! FOLLOW THE BIG ONE !!!
Apparently the owner is Jameson Duduzane Lungu Kamwendo Munjila
Bitter Hakiende h and his inherited under 5 gathering has been very busy and it’s good he is out in the field but his “tactics” are outdated, summer kabimba, post Membe, great bag of Maize all ridiçuled police call outs etc and even dared police. Whilst he is at it he had better get to the bottom of how his vuvuzela got land in forest 27 and also I want to serve a petition for an accelerated investigation in who bought the institutional Lima Bank MDs official house when Lima Bank was closed. So continue with seeing the log in that mans eye hikala panshi per you cadre vuvuzela
When you are called dogs you cry foul, the last time I checked dogs did not care about theft and corruption.
How shameful that PF sycophants on this blog continue to deny, deny, deny and defend the indefensible. They know the truth but choose to look stu.pid through their irrational diatribes in the face of glaring corruption and a failed regime. They stand on mountain tops and demand that if anyone has evidence that may help the ACC, they should hand it over – then they scamper like startled squirrels to the tree branches when presented with something. Be reminded that your unparalleled appropriation of resources, and for others, the picking of crumbs from underneath ECL’s banquet table, is unsustainable. History is replete with the likes of you, who finally meet their Waterloo.
It’s actually a one man PF media army pretending to be many people. Zambians are way too smart to accept this level of corruption.
He’s also busy upvoting all his comments.
Sunday Chanda for you
Sunday Chanda AKA “ Thorn in the flesh” is working overtime here.
HH just tell the Nation the truth and stop bitting about the bush you are acting like a comedian.Bashimwana just tel us the truth.
HH always has evidence that he fails to produce. Zambians are still waiting for the pre-marked ballot papers for the elections that HH lost. When is he planning to present? If read the so called letter to ACC it is filled with social media humor that ha been circulating even since the 48 houses news came up. If one is serious in finding the owners of the 48 house why no start with Lusaka City Council, then Zesco even the construction companies. There is so much poverty and laziness in Zambia to an extent were owning 48 houses is a crime.
What ACC naimwe ba HH vote seeking? If you are serious about seeking votes, why not deliver letter to state house? They will deliver letter to ACC if it exists.
Oh sorry the occupant was not available, you mean that underfive boy HH is so impatient that he can’t wait?
I haven been away from home for some time but the way i see Zambia is in wrong hands all the institution are full of people who are ready to steal at any cost even Banks have now joined i recently transferred money to fnb Zambia to my sister’s account after 5 days the money was not there i waited 10 days nothing.
One month nothing they kept on saying there is no money after three months they reversed the money with no reason and took K4000 from K20 000 this kind of stealing everybody is so comfortable with stealing one of my friend is also crying the same thing fnb is holding his my he transferred for the father what’s really happening there.And when you call the support there are totally not aware what’s going on they will say we get back to you and they will never and that phone…