Africa-Press – Zambia. ACC director general Tom Shamakamba says Citizens First leader Harry Kalaba and former ambassador to Ethiopia Emmanuel Mwamba are not the only ones that have been issued with restriction notices in the area where they reside.
And Shamakamba says he will state what will happen to the Honeybee case involving former health minister Chitalu Chilufya. Addressing journalists at his office yesterday, he said other people in the area where Kalaba and Mwamba reside have been issued with similar notices. The ACC this week served restriction notices on the properties of Kalaba and Mwamba located in Lusaka’s Makeni.
“I am confirming that they are not the only persons in that area where those properties are where restrictions have been placed. There are also other people who own properties in that area where we have placed restrictions. But for purposes of ongoing investigations, I will not disclose the names of other people unless they themselves come forward to you,” he said. “When ACC is investigating issues of property we are interested in how you got it. And please this notion of saying, ‘no State House or what’, it is not there. These complaints came from outside, from citizens like you. We were given information and started following. It has nothing to do with President Hakainde Hichilema as people are insinuating. Individual Zambian citizens alerted ACC.”
He said ACC was not issuing restriction notices for the first time and that where it is found that there is no reasonable suspicion the notices are dropped.
On the Honeybee case involving Dr Chilufya where he has since been discharged, Shamakamba said: “There is an issue going on in relation to the same matter and once what we are doing is over a position will be taken as to which direction we will go. As to what we are doing that I cannot disclose for investigations purposes.”
He also said ACC was not investigating the UCZ Synod as has been rumoured. He said investigations have since been instituted to establish the source of such rumours.
“And definitely once they are arrested, the law will take its course. Investigations have been instituted against those circulating malicious information,” warned Shamakamba.
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