DÉJÀ VUWE have been here before.Thirty years ago in 1991, a barrage of corruption allegations besieged ruling Dr. Kenneth Kaunda’ United National Independence Party (UNIP). Accusations ranged from selling copper and cobalt surreptitiously resulting in huge kickbacks that were stashed abroad.By the time elections came around towards the end of the year, Coppergate, as it was then known had taken its toll. UNIP lost dismally to the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD). Subsequent investigations dismissed the claim of widespread pillage, but it was too late, the damage had been done. It is ironic that some of Kenneth Kaunda’s harshest critics and accusers, those who were in the forefront accusing him of being a ruthless dictator leading a cabal of copper and cobalt thieves, became over time his most ardent supporters and disciples.Ten years later in 2001, the same people who accused KK of heinous crimes, turned their turrets against second Republican President Dr. Frederick Chiluba whom they accused […]
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