Zambia: Cracks Emerge in Hichilema’s Bold Anti-Corruption Platform

The president’s dissolution of the anti-graft unit’s board raises questions as senior officials fall under the corruption spotlight.

Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema dissolved the board of the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) board on 18 July. The Presidency said this was ‘to renew the [ACC’s] sacred mandate’ after claims that the commission had been captured by senior state legal team officials accused of graft.

The move came just days after Dr O’Brien Kaaba, an ACC board member,…