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Kunda instructed lawyers to prosecute Chiluba, says Malila

Kunda instructed lawyers to prosecute Chiluba, says Malila
By Patson Chilemba
Sat 26 Dec. 2009, 04:01 CAT

FORMER Attorney General Mumba Malila yesterday said Vice-President George Kunda instructed the lawyers to prosecute former president Frederick Chiluba’s cases.

Commenting on the statement by government that Vice-President Kunda travelled to London for a case government had with Donegal International and not the plunder cases involving Chiluba, Malila said Vice-President Kunda served as Attorney General at the time the cases started.

“You know it’s difficult for me to say anything, extremely difficult, he Vice-President Kunda was Attorney General before me, and he is the one that instructed those lawyers obviously, yah. And I am not very certain when and how or whether he travelled for that particular matter when instructing the lawyers, or whether he had to sit down with them. I can’t recall,” he said.

Asked if it was the Attorney General who instructed lawyers to prosecute state cases such as the one involving Chiluba, Malila responded: “Yes, and he was Attorney General then. Yes, he was the Attorney General. The Attorney General is the one who contracts lawyers, lawyers to represent the state.”

Justice deputy minister Todd Chilembo was quoted in last Thursday’s Daily Mail as having said it was regrettable for Patriotic Front (PF) president Michael Sata to call for Vice-President Kunda’s arrest when he had nothing to do with the US $5 million that Sata was talking about.

His remarks came in the wake of Sata’s call for Vice-President Kunda’s arrest for alleged failure to account for the US $5 million paid to the London High Court during plunder cases involving Chiluba.

Chilembo asked Sata to get his facts right.
Chilembo said Vice-President Kunda travelled to London for a case the government had with Donegal International and not for the plunder cases involving Chiluba.

Labels: CHILUBA, GEORGE KUNDA, MUMBA MALILA

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