Africa-Press – Zambia. Mr Emmanuel Mwamba, the former envoy of Zambia to the African Union (AU) has challenged law enforcement to simply approach Mrs Esher Nyawa Tembo Lungu about apartments she owns, which they suspect to be proceeds of crime.
Ambassador Mwamba said its totally unnecessary to ´excite´ Zambians that an Esther Nyawa Tembo has apartments illegally acquired whom they don’t know and yet they know the registered owner as a political ploy.
“DEC saying, we have an unknown person in the name of Esther Nyawa Tembo is wrong because the whole country knows Mrs Esther Nyawa Tembo is the former First Lady,” Ambassador Mwamba said, “you mean the former First Lady or the former President cant build a block of flats?”
Ambassador said its sad to see the first family ostensibly being targeted over a mere block of apartments when an “ordinary Zambian can build similar flats or even more.”
Mr Mwamba decried the habit of “scandalising people” using the law even when you know they can afford to have the property they own, and doing it wantonly so without evidence.
In the case of the former First Lady Esther Lungu´s apartments seized by DEC over the weekend, Ambassador Mwamba challenged the DEC to state whether they did not have prior paper week to authenticate the ownership before going to the media to scandalise her and her family before even going to court, like the case has been in many other cases of so called “proceeds of crime” suspects.
He challenged the DEC to “simply walk up to the former first lady or the former President and ask about those flats not scandalise them in the media.”
Ambassador Mwamba, a vocal critic of the UPND government on a number of governance, rule of law and economic issues warmed that the ruling party ´risked´ decampaigning itself ahead of the 2026 polls if they deliberately and maliciously tried to ´crash´ their PF opponents without regard to law.
Ambassador Mwamba has described the ongoing probes against PF senior members as a targeted political fight to silence the party ahead of 2026.
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