Dr. Richard Silumbe to impose for a 35-year-jail-time on people stealing Zambia’s public funds
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Mrs. Marvis Kasongo Chisanga (Vice-Chairperson) and Mr. Nzovwa Mwela Chomba (Secretary); listen to Commission of Inquiry into Voting Patterns and Electoral Violence Chairperson Justice Munalula Lisimba (RTD) Wed 26 Sept 2018 Picture by Derrick Sinjela
By Kwilanzi News Zambia
As 15 months and two (2) weeks remain ahead of Zambians Voting, Leadership Movement Leader Dr. Richard Silumbe is advocating for a thirty-five year-(35 year) imprisonment with hard labour for anyone found misappropriated public funds in Zambia as it is a heinous crime against society.
With barely, 473 days before Zambia Votes on Thursday 12th August 2021, from today Saturday, 26th April 2020, Dr. Silumbe has told Kwilanzi News Zambia in an interview in Lusaka that the Leadership Movement considers corruption as a ‘Defilement of the State’ stressing that anyone who is found misusing public funds must be mercilessly punished.
Dr. Silumbe says once in power in his Leadership Movement Government, will Fast Track cases of individuals or civil servants and politicians found to have misappropriated public funds, as such omissions deserve a punishment equal to that imposed on a person defiling a child, to deter would be offenders.
Leadership Movement President Dr Richard Silumbe Press Brief Monday 13 April 2020 Chalala Lusaka pix by Derrick Sinjela
President Edgar Chagwa Lungu speaks to Electoral Commission of Zambia Chairperson Esau Chulu (L) after he presented the Delimitation Exercise Report to the Head of State at State House on Saturday, 15th February, 2020. The ECZ Chairperson was accompanied by Director -Electoral Operations, Royd Katongo. Picture Courtesy of Press & Public Relations Office, State House.
Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) General Secretary (GS) Canon Emmanuel Chikoya (Left) with Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Kryticous Patrick Nshindano (Centre) with State Counsel John Peter Sangwa (Right) at Gerald Shawa’s Prime Television in Zambia’s Central Province
Dr. Silumbe says no civil servant will be courageous enough to pocket public resources during the Leadership Movement reign and described the fight against corruption under President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s Patriotic Front (PF) as a joke, 67 weeks and 4 days before Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Board Chairperson Justice Essau Chulu and Chief Electoral Officer Patrick Nshindano conduct the Thursday 12th August 2021 Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government poll.
Dr. Silumbe says there is need for the Zambian government to be ruthlessly tough in addressing corruption issues which regrettably continue rob socio- economic fortunes of a country richly endowed with natural resources.
