. Moono

By HOPE BWALYA –
THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has established that there was no abuse of office perpetrated by any Zambian official in the maize deal between Zambia and Malawi.
ACC public relations manager Timothy Moono said the case had since been closed.
Meanwhile, the Commission has taken interest in the alleged mismanagement of pension funds at the Saturnia Regna Pensions Fund (SRPF).
Mr Moono said this in Lusaka yesterday at the institution’s second quarter media briefing.
“The Commission has taken interest in the alleged mismanagement of pension funds at SRPF, because there is an angle of suspected abuse in the way the funds were being managed. We are making preliminary inquiries and checks to see how far we can go in that matter,” he said.
Mr Moono said the Commission was mainly looking at whether there was some criminality in relation with some abuse that might have occurred.
Mr Moono said the institution had also instituted investigations into the revelations by the Auditor General’s Report on unaccounted-for funds at the Solwezi Municipal Council.
He further said the Commission had concluded investigations into the alleged corruption against the former minister of Information and Broadcasting Chishimba Kambwili.
He said the institution was analysing the findings before the next course of action could be taken.
Meanwhile, the Commission had concluded investigations of the alleged mismanagement of funds at the National Youth Development Council (NYDC) involving the United Progressive People’s (UPP) party leader Saviour Chishimba, but is making clarifications on some of the findings before the next step of action could be taken.
The institution has also concluded investigations into the alleged abuse of authority at the National Savings and Credit (NATSAVE) Bank of which the case had been handed over to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for further consideration to give authority to prosecute.
Mr Moono said the Commission in the quarter under review received about 205 reports of corruption, of which 127 did not contain elements of corruption while 78 did.
Of the 78 cases, 40 were authorised for investigations, four were authorised for corruption prevention exercise and 20 reports had sufficient details of the corruption offence to warrant investigations.
The rest were referred to relevant authorities for administrative action while others were closed.