The Anti-Corruption Commission building in Zambia, highlighting efforts to combat corruption.
President Hakinde Hichilema has taken the extraordinary step of firing the entire board of the country’s corruption-busting body, after they themselves were accused of corruption, which they deny. It comes days after the head of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Thom Shamakamba, resigned from his post. Both he and the country’s solicitor-general – Marshal Muchende – were accused of taking kickbacks.The whistleblower is a man called O’Brien Kaaba – who was once a board member of the ACC. He said the same “immunity deals” under the former governing party, the Patriotic Front, were now being “used under the current government in a manner that shows no commitment to fighting corruption”.