Chiluba could go free if he returns the loot

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NDOLA: Zambia's former president Frederick Chiluba has not had it easy in the past six years, with the Task Force on Corruption saying he could be set free if he returned what he is alleged to have stolen. This is the second time that such an olive branch is being extended to Chiluba by the government.

As early as 2002, President Levy Mwanawasa advised Chiluba that the criminal charges against him could be dropped if he returned 75 percent of what he is alleged to have stolen during his 10-year reign.

This was after former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo came to Zambia to broker "peace" between Mwanawasa and Chiluba. 

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