UPND WARNED. ACC will turn against you too

By NOEL IYOMBWA THE same state security machinery being set on the Patriotic Front will be used on the UPND when it leaves office unless this    witch hunt is stopped. This has been said by many opposition leaders including  Third Liberation Movement president Enock Tonga  and Pastor Peter Chanda of the New Congress Party. Pastor Chanda warned that when he forms government, he would ban the ACC because it only becomes active when there is change of government. He said this was dangerous because it becomes a tool of victimization against the previous regime as was being witnessed now. And Mr Tonga has also warned against politics of revenge and vindictiveness as they are retrogressive and do not add to the democractic dispensation in the country. He said  the  UPND  should be ready to   be investigated when they leave government because they will not be there forever  and whatever they are doing will be scrutinized. He warned against a vindictive witch hunt. Speaking in an interview Mr Tonga said that what the Anti-Corruption Commission is doing to investigate office bearers from the previous government is pure witch hunter because it has not questioned other political party leaders. He suggested that the  ACC and other moribund security wings  should also be investigated before they start investigating others because they have been quiet all along despite knowing their mandate but now that there is change of government, they want to become active. Mr Tonga lamented that the ACC was established to carry out the mandate to protect public resources but it has been toothless.  He said the current activities of the  ACC  were pure witch hunt as have only targeted the previous government leaders or people associated to them. Mr Tonga wondered what the commission was doing to start investigating matters after the change of government. He called for disbanding of the commission and its officers be investigated for possible abuse of authority.  Recently the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) announced it has received a total of 87 reports of suspected cases of corruption since the just ended general elections. Among the cases being investigated is the acquisition of a bank by a former councilor, a case which the Bank of Zambia has doused by disclosing that it was not aware of any such transaction.