Security beefed up for judges in Cashgate cases
Security has been beefed up for some judges handling Cashgate-related cases amid concerns of threats to their lives, The Nation has learnt.
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale and Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) deputy director general Reyneck Matemba confirmed on Tuesday that the courts have enhanced security of some of the judges.
However, the two could not go into details for fear of compromising the security arrangement.
During the conviction of former Ministry of Tourism assistant director Leonard Kalonga for his involvement in Cashgate last week, High Court judge Fiona Mwale refused to walk about 200 metres even with police escort, for fear of her life.
In March this year, in the shooting case of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo, Kachale accused the defence of employing ‘mafia-like operations’ to intimidate State witnesses.
This is bad news that even our esteemed judges are under threat! Can these thugs be jailed as quickly as possible so that we can live in peace in this only place we call home? Is this a sign that even police security cannot be trusted? …and then we have the case of Njaunji which the police is failing to conclude let alone arrest even a single suspect! Maybe am reading too much but there is every reason to believe that we are dealing with mafias here as DPP Kachale once said.