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Why they are here
Zambia's third president, who turned the state's own machinery against corruption — starting with his predecessor, the man who had picked him.
Levy Patrick Mwanawasa was a successful lawyer who had served as Frederick Chiluba's vice-president and resigned in 1994, saying he could not work in a government he considered corrupt. He survived a road accident in 1991 that left him with lasting speech and mobility difficulties, which opponents used against him for the rest of his life.
Chiluba chose him as the MMD candidate in 2001 and he won narrowly, in an election the opposition contested and observers criticised — so he took office with a weak mandate and a general assumption that he would protect the people who had installed him.
He did the opposite. Within months he went to parliament and asked it to lift Chiluba's immunity from prosecution, which it did, and the state pursued the case that produced the 2007 London High Court judgment finding that Chiluba and associates had conspired to defraud Zambia of tens of millions of dollars. He created the Task Force on Corruption, prosecuted ministers and officials, and sacked people in his own party.
The economy grew strongly on his watch, inflation fell into single figures for the first time in three decades, and Zambia reached the completion point for debt relief, which wrote off most of what it owed. He also broke with regional convention by criticising Robert Mugabe's conduct in Zimbabwe out loud. He was re-elected in 2006 and died in office in 2008.
Chiluba chose him as the MMD candidate in 2001 and he won narrowly, in an election the opposition contested and observers criticised — so he took office with a weak mandate and a general assumption that he would protect the people who had installed him.
He did the opposite. Within months he went to parliament and asked it to lift Chiluba's immunity from prosecution, which it did, and the state pursued the case that produced the 2007 London High Court judgment finding that Chiluba and associates had conspired to defraud Zambia of tens of millions of dollars. He created the Task Force on Corruption, prosecuted ministers and officials, and sacked people in his own party.
The economy grew strongly on his watch, inflation fell into single figures for the first time in three decades, and Zambia reached the completion point for debt relief, which wrote off most of what it owed. He also broke with regional convention by criticising Robert Mugabe's conduct in Zimbabwe out loud. He was re-elected in 2006 and died in office in 2008.
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