Human rights and governance advocate Undule Mwakasungula has described a move by businessman Ashok Kumar Streedharan suing Anti-Corruption Bureau ACB) Director, Martha Chizuma over leaked audio clip as mockery to Malawians.

According to Mwakasungula, the move is a direct threat to efforts in the fight against corruption by the ACB boss.

“The action taken by Ashok to sue the ACB director teaches us why she needs our support in the fight against corruption,” he says.

Mwakasungula further adds that this also shows how vulnerable she could be, if the nation will not stand and support her in this fight against corruption.

“This is pure intimidation and can never happen anywhere in the world but maybe only Malawi,” he notes.

According to him, many questions could be asked; why was the clip released by this ACB director close associate and what was the motive behind the secretly recording of the ACB director?

“Was this not a conspiracy by those alleged to be corrupt to run away from facing justice by embarrassing her, professionally in order to stop her from going after them?,” wonders Mwakasungula.

He notes that if Malawians can ponder and answer such questions then the country will know that

the ACB director is under attack by those who do not want to face justice from corruption.

“We should, therefore, not allow to sacrifice the ACB director in the hands of agents and perpetrators of corruption. If this happens it will be a big minus in the fight against corruption as that will mean giving victory to enemies of our country,” he states.

Mwakasungula thinks that it is also important for the ACB director to take to task the associate who released the recorded audio clip to the public as that will clear all the questions in view of the motive behind this recoding and leak.