Opposition queries UPND over alleged attempts to cover up fraud in sale of Sacko Copper, Manganese Mine shares

Former Ambassador to Ethiopia, Emmanuel Mwamba, has reported some statehouse and senior UPND officials to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over Sacko Copper and Manganese Mine in Mkushi District.

Mwamba said he decided to report the officials from statehouse and UPND for bribery, corruption, cohesion and abuse of office involving activities at Sacko Copper and Manganese Mine in Mkushi District.

He said the change of SACKO mine to Ndalumba resources Limited amid these questionable activities raised questions rather than answers.

Mwamba said the offer of the Sacko Mine shares to senior UPND officials and the subsequent arrests of five youths that protested against State House interference and exposed the scam.

“There is too much intimidation of whistle blowers being arrested and shows that the government was trying to bury some corrupt activities in their court,” he said in an interview on Friday in Lusaka.

He said the subsequent dismissal of the Permanent Secretary, Nooya Lumamba were all victims of abuse of office and power because of the Corruption at the heart of Sacko Mine and State House.

Mwamba said it did not make sense that innocent people were suffering for the sins that they were trying to expose.

He said there was need for UPND national youth chairperson, Gilbert Liswaniso, and Lusaka province chairperson, Obvious Mwaliteta ,to explain how they became the owners of the mine.

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