THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday interviewed former Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services Chishimba Kambwili for over nine hours over allegations of corruption and abuse of authority of office.
ACC public relations manager Timothy Moono said in an interview that the commission interviewed Dr Kambwili in line with the continued investigations into the former minister’s alleged corrupt practices.
Mr Moono said Dr Kambwili was also interrogated over allegations of abuse of authority of office when he served as minister. The interview was also based on his acquisition of property beyond his past and present emoluments.
He said ACC will in the next few weeks announce the findings of its investigations and the way forward.
“We called him in this morning, and as you are aware, the interview is a follow-up to the investigations we are conducting. After this, the next stage will be to assess what he will say and thereafter a decision will be made,” Mr Moono said.
Dr Kambwili was interviewed from around 09:30 hours to around 18:00 hours.
And when contacted, Dr Kambwili said the ACC wanted him to explain how he acquired his wealth which the commission feels is to
And Kambwili says there is corruption in the PF government and those who are corrupt will answer when the time comes.
Kambwili was speaking to journalists shortly after the seven-hour long interrogation by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) ended at 17:30.
“It leaves much to be desired with our kind of politics in Zambia that if politically you differ, you want to use the arm of the law to fix others, that’s not the way it should be,” Kambwili said.
“We must learn to be honest with one another, If you don’t want to work with somebody, it’s better to tell them that ‘I don’t want to work with you’ other than bringing in other arms of government to intimidate those you feel you don’t like.”
“And for your own information, there is corruption all over, everywhere. In the street, in government and those who are corrupt know themselves and when their time to answer comes, they will answer but it is very very unfortunate to point at clean men like me, very clean, politically, economically, very clean that they are corrupt,” said Kambwili.