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(LUSAKATIMES) RB’s former private secretary defects to PF, calls for lifting of RB’s immunity

RB’s former private secretary defects to PF, calls for lifting of RB’s immunity
TIME PUBLISHED - Saturday, January 7, 2012, 5:50 pm

Rupiah Banda’s former Senior private secretary Rapson Chilufya has defected from the opposition MMD to join the ruling patriotic Front party. Mr Chilufya said that he has left the MMD because of its undemocratic tendencies a situation he said has also caused division within the party.

Mr Chilufya was speaking at a press briefing this morning where he called on the lifting of his former boss’s immunity, saying that there would be nothing strange if the immunity of the former leader is lifted.

He said that lifting of Mr. Banda’s immunity whom he described as a fairly good leader would allow the former head of state to clear his name from any allegations of corruption leveled against him.

The former private secretary further called on all the law enforcement agencies to ensure that they prosecute all the former leaders that will be found to have engaged themselves in corruption at the expense of the Zambian people.

Mr. chanda who also served in the Levy Mwanawasa government in similar capacity noted that the late president was determined to fight corruption but that fight against corruption lost political will when Rupiah Banda became president.

Labels: LEGAL IMMUNITY, LEVY MWANAWASA, MMD, PF, RUPIAH BANDA

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