Replace FIC leadership, Finance Minister told

7+( Zambia <ouths in the )ight Against &orruption Z<A)A& has written )inance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe to urgently replace the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) leadership if the integrity of the institution is to be safeguarded.

Z<A)A& executive director, Maurice Malambo said the current practice by ),& of releasing raw intelligence to non security stakeholders and the general public defeated its purpose.

In a letter availed to the Daily Nation yesterday, Mr Malambo said Zambia should guard against the politicising the fight against corruption.

+e said it was public knowledge that the existing coalition involving some civil society organisations and political parties had teamed up to discredit Government and Zambia to the international community under the guise of fighting corruption.

“We hold the view that the current leadership at the Financial Intelligence Centre, both the board and the administration has conducted itself in a fashion that defeats the purpose and legal mandate of the organisation, thus the urgent and inevitable need to have them replaced as a safeguard measure as egards to the propriety of the institution,” he said.

Mr Malambo described as a failed attempt by some civil society organisations to engage in a name and shame campaign.