Zambia is full of good people and bad people. At one side, there are good businessmen like Dr. Rajan Mahtani who has been constantly trying to contribute to the economic and social development of Zambia. On the other hand, there are individuals like Sakwiba Sikota who has no shame in using his power to engage in criminal activities. Recent news that broke the Zambian online and offline media was the involvement of prominent lawyers in a huge money laundering racket. The agency investigating this scheme is FIC (Financial Intelligence Centre) which also released a list of the names suspected in mass money laundering. One of these names was Sakwiba Sikota, the legal counsellor for the Ventriglias and owner of the law firm Central Chambers. It is suspected that most of these high profile legal counsellors are laundering money for President Edgar Lungu, who is notoriously known as the Dictator of Zambia.
As per the reports, the amount involved in these illegal schemes has reached almost USD 1 billion dollars. This staggering amount is a clear indication of the mass corruption at highest level of Zambian corporate and government offices. It is therefore, time for the Zambian government to take strict action against these repeat offenders.