Other ministeries to be investigated as number at health rises to 32

Chief Government spokesperson and information minister Ronnie Shikapwasha says Government will extend forensic investigations of corruption to other government departments and ministries.

He said effective measures aimed at extending forensic investigations of corruption to other government departments and ministries have already been put in place. He said the move taken by Government to extend forensic investigations of corruption to other arms of government will ensure that the plunderers of national resources and perpetrators of other corrupt practices are brought to book.

He said Government, through the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and other law enforcement agencies, is working tirelessly to ensure that it gets to the root cause of corruption in government. He said Government will ensure that perpetrators of corrupt practices are brought to book in a bid to ensure that there is transparency and accountability in the utilisation of public funds. Further he said Government will ensure that it fully supports the efforts taken by law enforcement agencies to clean up ministries and government departments as corruption was frustrating government efforts of attaining the goals set in the Fifth National Development Plan (FNDP) and the Vision 2030.

And a combined team of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and Zambia Police officers swung into action last week and detained 32 Ministry of Health employees