‘Remove the specks in your eyes,’ Imboela cautions UPND govt to weed itself of corrupt officials

National Democratic Congres(NDC) president, Saboi Imboela, has alleged that the failure to seal the corruption leakages by the ruling party is because of their concentration on past illegal activities.

Imboela observed that the fight against corruption by the United Party for National Development (UPND) was focusing more on the Patriotic Front (PF) while leaving the tap of corruption leaking in their own administration.

“Even the Bible says you can not takeout a speck in someone else’s eye before you take out the one that is in yours,” she said in an interview on Saturday.

Iboela said that the corruption cases in connection with the Sugilite mineral should be an eye opener to security operatives to look into the corruption involving some members of the current government.

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She said when the first case of Sugilite came to the fore, it should have been an eye opener because the UPND official who was involved alleged that there were some ministers who were involved and some foreigners.

“After the suspects revealed the people who were involved, the state and investigative wings did not move in to investigate and secure the Sugilite hence the theft of the precious mineral continued,” Imboela argued.

She clarified that she was not advocating that the corruption in the past should be ignored but that government should first seal the leakages of corruption in the current administration before they could focus on the past corruption.

She also advised that president Hakainde Hichilema should stop traveling in the name of trying to restructure the debt when the money to restructure the debt was in the country in the minerals that were being stolen using state machinery.

“The President is like a parent who is busy gallivanting around leaving his children reaping the country of its resources,” she said.

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