The former campaign manager of Zambian President Frederick Chiluba has been murdered in front of his horrified wife, Reuters reported on Friday, quoting his lawyers and family. Paul Tembo, 41, was due to give evidence on Friday at a tribunal investigating corruption and abuse of office by three cabinet ministers.
“The killers forced their way into the compound, roughed up Paul, led him to his bed, made him lie on it and then shot him in the back of the head,” Mr Tembo’s lawyer Mutembo Nchito told Reuters. “They made his wife watch,” Mr Nchito added. Tembo headed President Chiluba’s re-election campaign in 1996 and led a failed bid by the president to extend his time in office to an unconstitutional third five-year term.
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