Government says it acknowledges high level of corruption in its public procurement systems.
Choma District Commissioner Mongoni Simulilika says expenditure on public procurements makes the process vulnerable to corrupt practices.
Mr Simulilika says the vulnerability of public officers to the vice is on suppliers of goods, public services and works.
He says corrupt practices affect public officers who carry out the procurement function on the other.
He said because the large amounts of money used in the process, officers entrusted on procurement of goods and services, are vulnerable to corrupt practices.
Mr Simulilika was speaking in Choma, Tuesday, when he opened a managerial accountability workshop for the Ministry of Education procurement staff and District Education Board Secretaries ( DEBS )from all districts in the province at Riverside Lodge.
He said it is a well known fact that government spends a lot of money in the procurement of goods, services and works annually and that the amounts spent are in trillions of Kwacha.
He said the people of Zambia expected quality services from public institutions like the education ministry as it has received a lion’s share of financial resources from government.
Mr Simulilika commended the Anti Corruption Commission ( ACC ) for conducting the workshop for the ministry to help address corruption in public sector procurement.
The DC said this will enhance the quality of goods, services and works which public officers are required to provide to the people.
He urge the workshop participants to fully take advantage of the workshop and discover points which are weak and open to exploitation for corrupt ends by public officers.
Mr Simulilika noted that prevention of corruption is less costly thatn dealing with deep rooted corruption, urging ACC to extend the workshop to all government ministries and departments.
Speaking earlier, ACC director for prevention and community education Kayobo Ng’andu said it is only through proper utilization of government resources that education quality can be enhanced.
How can you fight corruption when presidents has no integrity and our leaders lack morals and leadership personality.
How can govt fight corruption when leaders busy slaughtering women in the govt recognize bothels.
Goverment officers are poorly paid, so they suppliment through corruption,
It was Chiluba and his Janjaweeds Alliance who engendered stealing as a culture in this country. It’s a cancer which only Prof. Mukonge can surgically cut off from the heads of the likes of Katele, Francis Kaunda, Mabenga and Satanyokola etc. Many of Chiluba’s thieves leant their trade while they were tea-boys for colonialists like Sata-Mukulu. Now with Chiluba’s stinking “liberalization” of the economy, he and Mwaanga led the way in “kulya mabelo”, stealing mabelo of even wives of others while McTribouy tribbled Chiluba by scoring am Ashios Melu free kick in Vera. Thats how Parliament was turned into a brothel.
i agree to the fact that preventing corruption is cheaper than fighting it
Gentelemen! Ala corruption will never cease, worldwide!. Not as long as the gap between the rich and the poor exists. Even in Europe and America, only the poorer will queue up behind, the rich always get served first. The narrower the gap between rich and poor, the less corruption prevails!
How can we say that we prevent corruption when it is already deep rooted in the minds of our leaders?Just wait for the time for Mwanawakwi to finish. Don’t forget that in Zambia we have developed a habit of lifting up the imunity. so he will dance to the tune in 2011.The country is for Lambas and lenjes today.That is not good we are all Zambians. Give jobs to pipo who deserve them whether they are bemba or what.One Zambia one nation.
How do you expect corruption to cease when you have not gotten rid of sin?
Are they also including nepotism practised by Levy as another form of corruption? Men, Mwanawasa is really entangling himself in worse off web than his predecessors. What goes around, comes around. The champion of corruption has 90% of his family either in Cabinet or in Foreign Service. How can they fight corruption?
# 9 no ways he wiil see, his honour for being against corroption wiil come to an end .for wat goes up, must surely come to an end.
Gentlemen please can someone remind levy that in Zambia being a president is a dangerous job after retirement because thats when all your dirty deeds will be exposed, look at chiluba always faking that he is sick to avoid prosecution. what kind of judicial system do we have? it has become a kangaroo court were people in power use the courts to sort out opponents. Chiluba did the same, now its levy next it will be SATA! Kateka