Saturday, January 08, 2011

Kazabu urges sustained calls for abuse of office reinstatement

Kazabu urges sustained calls for abuse of office reinstatement
By Florence Bupe
Sat 08 Jan. 2011, 04:01 CAT

IT is a fallacy for anyone to feel comfortable over the removal of the abuse of office clause from the Anti Corruption Commission Act, says Luxon Kazabu.

In an interview, the former Kitwe mayor said those that supported the removal of the abuse of office clause from the ACC Act should know that nothing had changed as far as people’s demands for the law were concerned.

“They may have changed the law but Zambians have not changed,” he said.

Kazabu urged Zambians to sustain their demand for the abuse of office clause to be reinstated in the ACC Act.

He said it was saddening that the government had gone against the wishes of the majority Zambians who were opposed to the removal of the clause from the law.

He said the suggestion from the government that the Penal Code could be used to follow up cases of abuse in the public sector was not good because the Penal Code was inadequate and ineffective in addressing the problem.

“We know that there are so many cases that have been brought under this code but in most cases, the culprits have gone scot-free,” Kazabu said.

“On the other hand, we know of a number of people who have been successfully convicted under the abuse of office clause, simply meaning the clause was an effective instrument in the fight against corruption.”

Kazabu said the removal of the clause was retrogressive to the corruption battle but stressed that Zambians would not go to sleep over the matter.

The government last year removed the abuse of office clause from the ACC Act despite opposition from a wide section of the public.

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