Lebanon backs Zambia’s corruption fight stance
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HONORARY counsellor of Lebanon in Zambia, Hussein Safieddine has said his government supports President Michael Sata’s stance on fighting corruption and that Lebanese in the country engaging in corrupt practices would not have his support.
Mr Safieddine said corruption should be discouraged and fought vigorously because it encouraged poverty.
“As a community of Lebanese nationals settled in Zambia, we wish to come up in full support of the Government’s fight against corruption, which is an unacceptable vice retrogressive to the economic development of a country,” he said.
Police in Ndola on Wednesday recovered 28 tonnes of copper cathodes worth K1.1 billion stolen from a truck which was in transit from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Tanzania and 14 people, among them four Lebanese, were arrested in connection with the theft.