Today 15th April, 2025, at Panari Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya members of prosecution services, investigative agencies, asset recovery agencies and anti corruption bodies including regional asset recovery and anti-money laundering networks adopted the Nairobi Declaration of the African Asset Recovery Practitioners’ Forum (AARP). Members of the Forum are national institutions with an asset recovery mandate.

At the same gathering a Charter was signed by the members to operationalize the formation of the African Asset Recovery Practitioners’ Forum.

Zambia was represented at the Forum by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mr. Gilbert A. Phiri, SC and Mrs. Monica Mwansa, Deputy Director of of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC)