14 Government Officials Arrested For Corruption (Full List)

• No fewer than 14 government officials have been arrested for corruption.

EKOHOTBLOG reports that Zambia’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested 14 former and current government officials for offences related to corruption.

ACC said in a statement on Thursday that the 14 arrested include a former Southern Province Permanent Secretary, Sibanze Simuchoba.

It stated that the permanent secretary and two other officials were arrested for failure to follow applicable procedures in the manner they authorised the transfer of funds without the approval of the secretary to the Treasury.

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The statement added that 11 other officials from the Choma district were arrested for fraudulent false accounting.

Zambia Edgar Lungu

The 14 are expected to appear in court on November 3, 2021.

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