ZAMBIA: President says his hard anti-corruption stance makes him unpopular

PRESIDENT Michael Sata says his hard
anti-corruption stance has made him unpopular among some ‘powerful’ corrupt
elements in the country.

Addressing Zambians living in Switzerland, France and a few from Germany at the
residence of Zambia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva,
Encyla Sinjela, on Friday evening, President Sata said some Zambians in the
Diaspora, in their quest to access land, were contributing to the furtherance
of corruption back home.

“We are working extremely hard and we are becoming unpopular because
corrupt people are very powerful,” said President Sata in response to a
question from a member of the audience who wanted to know the current levels of
corruption in the Ministry of Lands.