Musokotwane is a respected economist who served in that role under President Levy Mwanawasa...
The roots of the stand-off date back to Zambia's third president Levy Mwanawasa when he decided in 2008 to end the Development Agreements (DAs) that copper companies had signed with the previous government (AC Vol 49 No 18 A hard act to follow)...
The government called in Michael Sullivan QC the British lead lawyer on then President Levy Mwanawasa's Task Force on Corruption who had doggedly pursued Zambia's second president Frederick Chiluba and managed to get a judgement against him for $58 mn...
Similar imbroglios surrounded the death of President Levy Mwanawasa in 2008...
The last two clashed with Nchito during his time prosecuting corruption cases under the late presidents Levy Mwanawasa and Michael Sata...
His latest illness has put pressure on the credibility of the presidency: two recent predecessors Levy Mwanawasa and Michael Sata died in harness while concealing the severity of their condition...
The Daily Nation's owner Richard Sakala a former press aide to the late President Frederick Chiluba was sentenced to five years in prison for theft of vehicles and corruption in 2004 after being prosecuted by Nchito when he was working for ex-President Levy Mwanawasa's Task Force on Corruption (AC Vol 43 No 17 Looking for clues)...
Zambians recall the confusion that governed the last days of President Levy Mwanawasa who died in office in August 2008 (AC Vol 49 No 18 A hard act to follow)...
Civil society organisations therefore have had much less influence over the constitutional review process than they did during the presidency of the late Levy Mwanawasa...
The economy has been growing since 2005 propelled by copper prices and supported by reforms carried out by the government of the late President Levy Mwanawasa especially its negotiation of debt relief...
After President Levy Mwanawasa died in August 2008 The Post and its allies pushed for former Finance Minister Ng’andu Peter Magande to succeed him as he had wished...
