{"id":25919,"date":"2022-07-05T21:58:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/it-is-difficult-to-fight-corruption-with-weak-institutions-of-governance"},"modified":"2022-07-05T22:20:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T22:20:21","slug":"it-is-difficult-to-fight-corruption-with-weak-institutions-of-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/it-is-difficult-to-fight-corruption-with-weak-institutions-of-governance","title":{"rendered":"It is difficult to fight corruption with weak institutions of governance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>CHAMA North PF member of parliament Yotam Mtayachalo says it is difficult to fight corruption with weak institutions of governance. In a statement, Mtayachalo said there was need to eradicate corruption, tribalism and nepotism in Zambia.<\/p>\n

\u201cCorruption, tribalism and nepotism are the biggest enemies facing Africa today including Zambia and unless such vices are eradicated, we shall not achieve much in terms of economic development. Further, I have heard politicians in the ruling parties pledging that there shall be no sacred cows in their fights against corruption, but I wonder how they can fight corruption with weak institutions of governance,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u2018\u2019And as such pronouncements are just a window dressing exercise in absence of effective state institutions of good governance which are truly autonomous. Therefore, the so-called fight against corruption shall not bear much fruits as long as politicians drive this agenda because the probability of biasness against their political foes is very high.\u201d Mtayachalo said it was unfortunate that some people are always investigated after leaving office.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a fact that people are mostly investigated when they leave office, which is a clear indication that these law enforcement agencies are toothless bull dogs and dance to the tunes, to those who control the instruments of power. I\u2019m looking forward to see a president who is genuinely committed in fight against corruption by putting in place state institutions of good governance which are truly autonomous, have teeth to bite and their heads have security of tenure, because currently power does not reside in the law enforcement agencies as the real power resides at State House,\u2019\u2019 Mtayachalo said. \u2018\u2019Therefore, these institutions merely dance to the tunes of the President and most often they target political opponents, overlooking the real corruption taking place in the public service and private establishment because presidents in Zambia and Africa as a whole have too much powers than state institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said there was need for people to be investigated while in office. Mtayachalo said it is not right to only pursue people after they have left even when the law backs investigators.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome Presidents in Africa have abused their powers by abrogating their constitutions with impunity but go scot-free until when probably they leave office, which in my view, undermines the fight against corruption and good governance. Unless if they can be investigated and prosecuted while holding office like the way it is civilised societies then we shall be moving in the right direction, but this can only be realised when we build strong and independent state institutions of good governance failure to which we shall continue to change governments frequently,\u2019\u2019 said Mtayachalo. \u2018\u2019But we shall be singing the same song even fifty years from now and we shall continue taking former presidents and former leaders to various courts of law which is costly and time consuming because white collar crimes are highly sophisticated. That\u2019s why you will never hear the President of USA or UK just to mention but a few saying they will fight corruption because it is not their roles but it\u2019s the role of institutions which our friends have built to do their job they were created while politicians preoccupy themselves in governing the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zambia. CHAMA North PF member of parliament Yotam Mtayachalo says it is difficult to fight corruption with weak institutions of governance. In a statement, Mtayachalo said there was need to eradicate corruption, tribalism and nepotism in Zambia. \u201cCorruption, tribalism and nepotism are the biggest enemies facing Africa today including Zambia and unless such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-25919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nIt is difficult to fight corruption with weak institutions of governance - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"CHAMA North PF member of parliament Yotam Mtayachalo says it is difficult to fight corruption with weak institutions of ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/it-is-difficult-to-fight-corruption-with-weak-institutions-of-governance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It is difficult to fight corruption with weak institutions of governance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CHAMA North PF member of parliament Yotam Mtayachalo says it is difficult to fight corruption with weak institutions of ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/it-is-difficult-to-fight-corruption-with-weak-institutions-of-governance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-05T21:58:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-05T22:20:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_1-62c4b8e04c4c0.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"546\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/it-is-difficult-to-fight-corruption-with-weak-institutions-of-governance#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/it-is-difficult-to-fight-corruption-with-weak-institutions-of-governance\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"It is difficult to fight corruption with weak institutions of governance\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-05T21:58:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-05T22:20:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/it-is-difficult-to-fight-corruption-with-weak-institutions-of-governance\"},\"wordCount\":562,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/it-is-difficult-to-fight-corruption-with-weak-institutions-of-governance#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_1-62c4b8e04c4c0.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/it-is-difficult-to-fight-corruption-with-weak-institutions-of-governance#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/it-is-difficult-to-fight-corruption-with-weak-institutions-of-governance\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/it-is-difficult-to-fight-corruption-with-weak-institutions-of-governance\",\"name\":\"It is difficult to fight corruption with weak institutions of governance - 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