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President Hakainde Hichilema says he has engaged traditional leaders to ensure that no one is protected while called to account over corruption matters.
Hichilema therefore expressed happiness that the traditional leaders had agreed to inform him once some of the corrupt people reached out to them to seek cover.
He was speaking when he addressed parliament on the Progress made in the application of National values and principles on Friday.
“We have been engaging traditional leaders to make sure that none of their subjects or a particular chief would run to them when they were called to account over corruption because this was the habit of the past,” he said.
Hichilema said earning money through corruption was a sin and that the people who engaged in it must give account.
He said there should be no sacred cows in the fight against corruption because the government was focused to fight the corruption of the past, present and future.
Hichilema said people had been complaining that the UPND was not fighting the present corruption but what happened in the last 10 days spoke volumes were the president’s own appointees had been caught up with the law.
“Past corruption you are on your own, present corruption you are on your own and future corruption you are on your own, no one is safe,” he said.
He warned people not to call the fight against corruption selective and ethnic based as it did not border on those lines.
Traditional leaders during a meeting at House of Chiefs in Lusaka with President Hakainde Hichilema where they discussed matters of national importance and the key role traditional authorities play in development and resource optimisation.
“If you took public money you did not take it for your ethnic group you took it for yourself and you must face the law on your own,” Hichilema said.
Hichilema said the money lost to corruption was way too much and that it must be fought at all cost.
He said some business men were in the past supplying air to the government and sending invoices and complaining that suppliers were not being paid.
“It will not happen, you can complain as much as you want,” he said.
Hichilema indicated that the audits for suppliers were on and establishing strange things and in the next few months the public will come to learn about it.
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