(LUSAKATIMES) Guy Scott roasts George Kunda

Guy Scott roasts George Kunda
TIME PUBLISHED - Thursday, January 5, 2012, 9:05 am

VICE-PRESIDENT Guy Scott has challenged MMD chairperson for legal affairs George Kunda to substantiate claims that the Patriotic Front (PF) Government is using the fight against corruption to intimidate former leaders.

Dr Scott said Mr Kunda’s accusations were baseless and meant to divert attention from the fight against corruption. The vice-president said the Government had seized cash, bicycles, motor vehicles, hotels, houses and several other properties suspected to have been stolen.

He wondered whether seizure of properties worth billions of Kwacha could be intimidation when former leaders who acquired them had no capacity to finance construction of high-class buildings.

He said the country witnessed one of the most expensive campaigns in the history of the country, undertaken by the MMD.

Dr Scott said instead of making accusations against PF, Mr Kunda should help explain how the MMD acquired the resources.

Mr Kunda on Tuesday told journalists that the PF Government was vindictive and targeted former government officials to silence the opposition.

He urged the former leaders to brace for hard times as the Government was seeking to arrest and victimise them.

But the vice-president said Mr Kunda should speak with facts and explain what security wings should do where cash, bicycles and other properties were being recovered.

The former vice-president also said the Government has set up commissions of inquiry to get to the bottom of questionable transactions.

“Let Mr Kunda say whatever he wants to say but the fight against corruption will continue. The Katundu (property) is there. It has been recovered but we don’t know where it came from,” Dr Scott said.

He said the Government has never fought the MMD from inception as alleged by Mr Kunda and that President Michael Sata had embraced every political party in the governance of the nation.

He said the appointment of MMD MPs to positions as deputy ministers was part of the plan to promote unity.

Dr Scott said if President Sata was president for PF members only, many people who served in the MMD would not have been involved in the governance of the nation.

[Times of Zambia]