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Mobile phone licence and ZA saga at the heart of my attacks, Siliya

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MINISTER of Communications and Transport, Dora Siliya says she will not relent in performing her duties as minister despite attacks from The Post Newspaper because of conflict of interests.

Commenting on attacks from the POST, Ms Siliya said the attacks were personal and would not stop her from protecting tax payers’ money from going to a few selfish individuals.

“I know where these attacks are coming from. The attacks are because I refused to grant some organisation a mobile phone licence and also because of the Zambian Airways saga.

“My message to them is that I shall continue doing what is right for the Zambian people,” Ms Siliya said.
The minister said she would not allow a few selfish individuals to hold Government to ransom through publication of incorrect media reports.

Ms Siliya has since appealed to Zambians not to be swayed by unauthenticated information on Government dealings, saying the truth would soon be known.

“The crusade against corruption should not be selective…the truth shall soon be known. Some people portray that they are holier than others when they are the same people after tax payers’ money,” Ms Siliya said.

She urged the media to be responsible in order not to mislead the country through lies and incorrect facts.

Ms Siliya said the continued misleading of Zambians through incorrect media reports was worrying.

And Ms Siliya said Government was owed a lot of money by Zambian Airways, saying the money could be channelled towards revamping operations of ZAMTEL.

She said she was also hopeful that the Ministry of Justice would soon conclude discussions on the possibility of establishing a commission of inquiry on how the US$6.5 million loan directors of Zambian Airways got from Development Bank of Zambia was spent.

“As the minister responsible, I am hopeful that the commission of inquiry will soon be put in place so that we know how tax payers’ money was spent because some people think they are clever when they are the exact opposite.

“I shall continue to challenge them even if they continue to fight me,” Ms Siliya said.

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248 COMMENTS

  2. Yes I smell a rat from the Fred Membe’s side. Madam just spill the beans so we know the truth. I find it had to believe that a newspaper can run editorials on the same person three days back to back as if there is nothing else happening in Zambia. I think the POST is just bottom fishing here to help clear up their mess. When are you taking them to court over our government money, madam

  7. #3 Zambia. I think the Post has fought many battles in the past and they have come out victorious. They have the tenacity, experience, information sources… Remember Chiluba is a thief story

  8. “The crusade against corruption should not be selective…the truth shall soon be known. Some people portray that they are holier than others when they are the same people after tax payers’ money,” Ms Siliya said. [END QUOTE]</strong.

    We all know the saying, if you live in a glass house, don’t throw rocks.

  9. And Ms Siliya said Government was owed a lot of money by Zambian Airways, saying the money could be channelled towards revamping operations of ZAMTEL. [END QUOTE]

    I think this statement is very right. The money could have been used to revamp ZAMTEL and even Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia. To add salt to the wound, this company wants us to throw more taxpayers money to it when the money can be used elsewhere. No bail out period. We shall start flying ZAMBEZI AIRLINES.

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  10. #2 Papaj, Writing back to back editorials on an individual is neither here nor there. If it is the public interest then let it be so. They have done it on Chiluba’s third term bid, Chiluba’s plunder matrix, VJ Katumbi story that lead LPM to fire VJ etc. I think the Post is just being consistent

  11. Madam , Membe ? Am sure u fightin a lost battle. Look at reverand ask her wher she is ? Just tel us who RP capital chaps are and deny that Henry Son of Rupiah s not involved tell us and tel us u followd tender procedures or shut up. dola is smatter than us lets wait n see.

  12. it’s pity zambians like sensationalism that’s why they buy all the crap that FRED MMEMBE publishes.the guy is a con hiding under the guise of a free press exposing corruption yet he is an interested party who gets cross and uses his tabloid to tarnish images of those denying him big deals.it was the same story with levy who was called all sorts of names until he was compromised to stard defending zambian airways and everything rosy began to be written about him.the guy is a big blackmailer wake up zambians and stop being misled by chaps who want shortcuts to riches.

  13. I think that Dora might have a point here. Membe is seemingly trying to be too clever. I really doubt it, if his hands are as clean as he trys to potray them. However, one fact we cannot forget is that Membe has also been a champion of the freedom of speech. He has in the past managed to bring out a lot of critical issues that an avarage Zambian cannot bring out against pipo in power. Like Lenin/Stalin he is also now using the good cause he has been fighting against for his selfish interest, hence he must be checked and stopped at all costs.

  14. The death of Mwanawasa has obliterated Fred Mmembe.The chicken are falling.He hoped he could pull it on RB as he did to Mwanawasa with a kitchen sink strategy. Its not working for him. All his kitchen sink throw-ups reactionary “journalism” is my wall of fame has cracked.Its the ZA saga whose debt to Development Bank of Zed is subject concented pursuit.

  15. I am afraid that I see Dora seeking a contest with Mmembe. She does not seem to understand that the relationship between the shareholding of the Post Newspapers in the failed airline and the Post Newspapers limited as an independent entity with a separate Board

  16. Iwe Dora ask Chiluba about the Post they don’t just write for the sake of writing they have insiders that inform them.Even your secretary should be watched,

  18. The post has lost all GRZ incentives on its print material it imports in the new balanced and competitive market order.GRZ has revisited the mandatory policy of all Departments receiving Post copies as a contract and placing all GRZ print media adverts therein.To all its push for loans, there no more GRZ guarantee.No surprised with these kitchen sink throw-ups.But they have a limit when some chooses to pull a plug.

  22. Cheap language from minister. 1. Dont perform GRZ as if you are doing stuff in your kichen. You do not just decide not to grant this or that. Follow procedure and dont potray things like you have absolute power. If these guys (Membes) are wrong, take them to court. Dont west money on enquiries. 2. Your failure to run NCZ should not be blemed on other comapnies. 3. If only one company applied for the tender (which I doubt), you could have simply readvatised. Why the hurry. Is Zamtel your company?? Why dont you try and pull better deals than ones that are so open!

  23. Its a pitty we have lost it as a nation. We have put pipo with no ideas to decide for us. I have lost hope in my country at least for the next two and half years to come. I personally dont see any hope for this country. The current leadership we have is not worth the salt to stimulate growth in any thing. We have our selves to blame for voting the way we did. Look at Tazara, its just a matter of adjusting the rates upwards which the former MD Depressed for him to lease the wagons and then sublet. Do i name the company?? Ms Siliya must try and take Mwiya( former tazara md) to court first since the anti graft drive isnt selective. Former VP Lupando and some chap Called FM are in it.

  24. Using a newspaper to throw mud at people who have denied mmembe business (and rightly so) is not only unprofessional but downright sickening. Someone should give mmembe some ARVs so that he can maybe stop having these bouts of verbal diarrheoa. Freedom of information should come with responsibility. There is a difference between informing the masses and insulting perceived enemies. Mmembe when are you going to stop making us neauseous? And those supporting mmembe, just wait until you are the subject of his insults, we shall see if you will still think he is right

  25. Brother Chewe, why are you not in church. This time the SDAs are at church. Leave internet or maybe you are both worshipping and blogging.

  26. By the time 2011 comes, you guys are going to mess up big time. If things are so trick for you, put it on autopilot and it works.

  34. NAPSA Director General was fire last month because of the same and the guy has fled the country to German.Let us not be selective in persuing the LAW. Let ACC visit her if she is found wanting which i believe so. Where fred is right or wrong, all we want to know is whether Harry is involved in RPC. Are we going to hide in emergences to help us single source a seller for a company as big as zamtel. No, No, No. Zamtel is just too big to be handled by Dora and since when di Dora become an expert in that field.ZNTB procedure are there to involve proffesionals…

  35. What I do not believe is that M’membe is a fo.ol. What people do not know is that a lot of people take these government documents to him. Connect these issues, what is happening to Dr Anthony Mwanaumo, once a dedicated civil servant at Planning Division of the Ministry of Agriculture lately at FRA? He is in soup. Who brought out the issue? The Post. M’membe may get bruised because he is not in government, but in the final analysis, Dora and them will be hurt even more.

  41. HATE FRED M’MEMBE OR LOVE FRED M’MEMBE. HE CANNOT BE COMPARED TO ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL’S LEONARD KANTUMOYA AND HIS MATE AT THE TIMES, JOHN PHIRI. I DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY LICK, BOOTS OR BUTTS, FOR FOR THEM TO PLAY GOVERNMENT PR ROLES. THEIR TIME WILL ALSO COME, MWAPYA BAKAPALA, MWAPYA.

  43. Dora and lupiya are together and they should be investigated. Zamtel can make money on its own without the influence of the Government. Govt gets alot of moeny from this company and the only way is let it operate without any influence. Where do they take money that they get from ZNBC, Zain & Mtn. Bwezani is using Dora bcoz of her being a woman she is weak to manipulate. I even wonder it seems dora has more power than Minister of Finance bcoz that is no Walk over area if i was Lupiya and what he needs to know he& the sons will be sorted out.

  44. The Post publishes stories where they have 100 percent information, Dora should take care because these people can even have her confidential mails. The Post never lose fights, one day they will tell Dora “where are you?”

  47. Goodmorning bloggers.

    I can’t relate to the situation, so I have no comment. I’m just watching Dora’s cute face and reading your comments.8->

  48. what we want is people who know what they are doing if Post is wrong let us know if Lupiya let us know nad the best is for them to face us with open eyes and we will see who is not telling the truth.

  49. #34 walasa.We dont care whether Membe is right or wrong.what we want is Dora Sily to explain why she wants to single source a buyer for a PUBLIC COMPANY.

  50. It is not good enough to just cry wolf. Dora needs to explain to the nation why Rupiah Banda’s sons are getting involved in these privatisations. She also needs to explain why ZDA and the Attorney General are being left out. Bringing up the Zambian Airways issue is a smoke screen and as we have seen, some people on this blog have already bought into this diversionary tactic. My only criticism to The Post is that they lack the killer instinct of a great newspaper. Too often they make accusations but fail to provide the smoking gun.

  51. 43,44 Spot on. Zambians, lets look beyond Fred. Apparently, he is the only one in this nation with the privilege and capability of bring out such information to the masses.Look at how RB and Dora where supprised at the leak of information from Malila and supprisingly enough, Malila did not deny the contents of the leak even when he said he did not leak it.

  53. #51 You are right. No one else seems better placed to give us a running commentary on the activities of this grubby cabal that seems to be operating in government.

  57. Dora is trying to tell us she is so patriotic that following procedures is not in the interest of the taxpayer.I think her day is coming to join Chifire at the lower ranks.”Power” seems to have gone into her head.

  58. Both The Post and Dora are right. Everyone who has followed recent events knows that The Post has a grudge against Dora and they will do whatever it takes to bring her down. On the other hand, events in the past 19 years have shown that The Post fight all their public battles using a potent weapon called the truth. They almost always have their facts right and Dora faces imminent public humiliation. What’s different in this case is that, whereas The Post fought previous battles solely for the purpose of informing the masses, they are now fighting for their own business interests.

  59. Well, we also know she has a bone to chew with the Post because they fished out her bigamist illegal alien husband McSuud and had him deported that’s why she now wants to get even with them for resultant “lost se*ual services”. Anyway, I would advice her to ask FTJ who was even more powerful than her about the perils of tangling with taploid papers because sooner than later, she will cry!!! Further, she should explain why she decided to act contrary to the Arttoney General’s advice on the disposal of ZAMTEL?

  60. #58 Rogue Trader, yours is the most sober analysis of the situation, for now. At least you did not go to Jolly Fisherman last night.

  61. Bloated with semi-squinty eyes like Pakasa Makasa’s daughter and claiming to be beautiful, atase! Dora is urgly, period. If she thinks she is a beauty, then even my brother Geoffrey Lungwangwa can rightly claim to be a “pretty boy”.

  62. Whatever personal interest the Post News paper has against Minister of Communication and Transport will not produce any tangible benefits to our nation.
    However, I wish to resound my concern over the privatisation of Zamtel,contravening the contractual procedures in awarding evaluation contract to a foreighn company known only by the minister and his superiors should be condemed by all loving Zambians.There fight should not shadow us from the reality on the ground ,Tender Board was expected to champion to awarding of evaluation contract of Zamtel.From the hapenings at the ministry, we can pre conclude that there conflict of interest within the authorities.

  65. It is sad that Zedians no longer fear the Law, they seem to enjoy breaking it cos they know it will just take a few of their ill gotten money to oil hands of the corrupt Police, Judges,politicians, Journalists and Lawyers to enjoy everlasting evil peace. It will take a bit of time but time will eventuary catch up with them even after they died, the good law will vist them in the Grave.

  66. Dora & RB, be reminded that no one is above the law. Ask Gladys Nyirongo and Chiluba about this. You cannot run national affairs like you would a valentine’s night out. We are watching and monitoring you.

  67. Luapula Fish

    Great to hear that you are good my brother.No Problem Iam still trying to do one or two things then I will let you know when to start the practices.I want it to rock.

  68. Mmembe and Siliya are both wrong and they are all acting like criminals. Our country has fallen victim to people like these two characters that is why we are not developing as we should. I personally don’t think Zamtel should be privitised to anybody, telecomms business is growing because of the internet. I believe that someone big is pushing Siliya and Banda so that Zamtel goes into private hands. On the other hand, Mmembe has abused his position and now uses his media and other links for personal gain. Both Mmembe and Siliya are selfish criminals that don’t deserve any good. Zambia deserves better and we can do without such types of people. Let them fight each other out, truth seekers.

  73. #65 Bemba Bull

    Not all Zambians are notorious law breakers. You will always have those that bend the rules but I think most of them try to live innocent lives.
    Let’s not also forget that harsh circumstances make people prone to crime. Equal opportunity for all is the best way to fight corruption.

  75. LATEST: Simon Kabanda(Post Columnist) appeared on ZNBC NCC programme and was paid K500,000 for transport which he refused saying he livesless than 2 km from the mass media and therefore does not need that much money. He has called for the dissolution of the NCC which he has labeled as a money-making venture. VIVA SIMON.

  76. Ubwalwa!! German Beers ! Nomba ine am just nursing my hand over !!

    Nine Chale I drunk like a fish yesterday :o:o:o:o:o

    Weizen , Vodka … awe mune lelo ni Kopfweh!!

    ~X(

  78. Jam@co

    This is unfair why only Dora when Ine nacikutumina pa lucelo ka mail.Nafulwa. ~X(~X(~X(

    Nine Chale

    Mwapoleni kanabesa?

    Happy Valentines.@};-@};-@};-@};-I wouldn’t mind Rose ya black kaili ifwe noo-+o-+o-+So a black one will be great.

    I have failed to comment on this topic katwishi ayini.

  80. matworld
    We are patiently waiting

    Personally I have not been dissapointed by the current administration coz I did not expect anything better. 😕

  82. Luapula Fish

    That is why I have failed to comment of this topic pantu These guys Batubepa pafula. 8->8->8->8->

  83. #73 Nine Chale

    Sorry if i sounded like saying all Zedians are Bad Law breakers and criminals, but you will agree with me that its sad that the Law makers and those that are empowered to enforce the law are the major culprits. It leaves very few options for Law abiding citizen to report such Vices in case they stepped on the time bomb! It is a question of looking over your shoulder to report a crime, in case you reported it to the boss of the criminal ring, who may map out a plan to silence you depending on how much incriminating evidence you have.

  84. Jam@co

    Greetings. It’s a weekend, you can swim as long as you don’t drown.:)>-

    Matworld

    Happy valentines. I hope you find a black rose to make your day.
    Ine nomba na ya mukulya ka lunch…I’ll see you later gentelemen!:-h

  86. Mr Fred mumembe from Chinsali thought that together with his conmen lawyers who gave him leakage at ZIALE would enrich themselves and buy CELZ at a price of a song. These guys are thieves, worse than Chiluba. It takes a thief to know the other. Let the veil be removed over Zambian Airways for borrowing without collateral – its criminal.

    By the way let Fred tell Zambians how much he paid to clear his hummer wih ZRA and who sold him that car!!!!

  87. SILIYA HAS TO BE VERY SMART IF SHE IS TO USE MEDIA TO FIGHT M`MEMBE.SHE WILL HUMILIATE HER SELF IN THE LONG RUN. HOPE SHE GETS RIGHT ADVISE…M`MEMBE WILL REDUCE HER TO NOTHING JUST TO SHOW HER THAT HE CAN DO IT.HER POSITION IS SHORT LIVED BUT M`MEMBE WILL TORTURE HER EVEN AFTER SHE IS OUT OF THAT OFFICE..

  91. I think post has infoormation about Dora.Don’t conderm the post.It helps us fight corruption.Tell me how many cases Daily mail or times have fought?Give credit where it’s due.The post deserves respect.Dora is corrupt with Banda. I had a feeling before the post came up with such allegations against Dora.Dora is just a journalist who doesn’t know how information travels.media has programmers and people who track information whereever it goes.Ask CNN u’ll know what happens.Some ministers don’t know anything.Who knows maybe she was even using the phone when she making deals or mails.Media dosen’t come up with a story without information.Viva post

  93. Who is this Dora Siliya? Is she the same girl who used to work for ZNBC? Someone told me she was once an ambassador? No wonder she has issues with The Post. How come RP was the only sole bidder for Zamtel? It seems she is now taking issues personal – The Post, Zambian Airways, Ministry of Justice, the media. Why can’t she face the music now that she has the tune. Viva Fred Mmembe, Viva the Post…

  95. Even as Musonda, formerly of ZANACO, goes into prison for ‘following orders’, we have a woman who is prepared to do just that!

  96. #7
    i agree with you. even if she was to take the post to court nothing of importance can come,i cant remember how many cases the gov. has lost because of the post.Abena Fred balicenjela…..nabeshiba efyo outcome ikaba thats why bakoselele pamuntu umo..

  97. I had interaction with Minister Dora when she worked at ZNBC. She discharged her duties to the highest level of integrity and she is certainly not a person who misled people the way Fred Mmembe and the group do. In this particular incident based on my personal experiences of both Ms Dora Siliya and Mr. Fred Mmembe of Post Newspapers, I hold Minister Dora to be a person of higher professional integrity than Fred.

  98. The truth in the end will be victorious. This Dora woman is an amazing piece of work and her ambition to be at the top will be her unmaking. She has twisted the truth and imbedded some nice lies of Mmembe to try and shift focus on her corrupt practices. Former Mrs Fulatya (possibly explains why they divorced) is one over ambitious person but going about it the wrong way – she should consult Reverend Nyirongo in prison on “Consequence of Abuse of Office”. The writing is on the wall and the people she is trying to protect will go unscathed as she pays the penalty on her own. If she has ears let her yield to advise and do the right thing.

  99. Facts
    Irespective of her aplauded performance at ZNBC, the facts still stands that they have contravened the Tender procudures by awarding a foreighn private firm to carry out evaluation of Zamtel disrespecting the legal duties of Zambia National Tender Board.

    We care less about their personal battles as they will yield nothing to feed the chronically empoverished Zambians.

  104. Dora must simply answer objectively the allegations of corruption.Did she or did she not single source RP? Looks to me that the issue of M’membe and Zambian Airways are supposed to be seperated. I am not prejudiced but I have a feeling that Dora has been caught on the track to corruption.She has messed up too much and one wonders why she even has the guts to answer back.National airports Corporation Radar system directive to cancel a tender duly awarded:Is is true or not? It is time Dora resigned to pave way for an inquiry.Morally she is a liabilty and will make RBs govt appear to be condoning corruption.Let her go!

  105. #86 Hammer is very cheap car.U think mwembe can’t buy it?Even me i’ll buy it when i come to zed.The fact is that Dora wants to sell Zamtel to a foreign company.why not to let zambians who have money buy shares in it?Nowonder we fail to develop a country.Let zambians have shares in these big companies in order to develop.A foreigner will never do anything 4 zed.Dora wants to sell zamtel in order to gain money.Do u know how people make money?Dora is doing like what happened to Illinois Governer who wanted to sell Obama’s seat.He was biding for the seat in order to gain .Same to Dora,she wants a company with more $ to give her to buy Zamtel.Zambians be careful.we’re still sleeping

  107. Help me obtain 10,000 postings to petition Rupiah Banda to relieve Dora of her duties.Is she a sacred cow? What happened to the zeal to fight corruption?
    LT help me get the 10,000 postings to petition Dora to step down voluntarily or RB to fire her please.

  111. I can punch a million holes into dora’s story…these assertions sound childish to me. tit for tat on tax payer’s money? no way.

  113. No. 107 Ganjaweed, to call a female minister a cow is gender insensitive. Possibly, both Dora and post are in a personal bitter argument. Let this unfold. This is the only time that when two elephants fight, the grass benefits. Lets remain as low as grass as we encourage the two to tangle. :d/

  117. #36,
    Umutende Ba Chewe,
    There are some impostors present on this blog.
    Just closely look at the flags.. The flags are very different though same colour.(my flag has more distinctive 5 stars and much brighter)
    I also can’t get any meaning from that statement anyway.I know you were responding in view/presuming that the statement is from my homestead
    Can see someone is a cute hubby, Haaahhhhahahhh :)>-=))=))=))=))

  118. Dola and you friends. Please give us a break. We know that you guys are always sharing our money among yourselves. Membe also chanced and got something. Now you are telling us that truth will be known soon? when are we arresting you thieves?

  119. Tonga Bull
    Looking at my past LT experience, I see nothing wrong about calling female minister ‘a cow’. Dora is a public figure subject to criticism and should learn how to deal with it.Other male ministers have been insulted and called bad names on this site and you never lebelled it as gender sensitive . Thus it become emperative to vividly understand this simple term ‘Gender’

    Our Hon Minister of Communication and Transport has errored reflecting on the happenings at the ministry.The only way to escape jail is to resign and distance herself from these matters.

  120. I am just trying to imagine what hights Zambia would have reached had Dora given the mobile telephone company the license to operate. For Zambian airways thats another issue on their part i can say they misused money. Then For Dora to just be refusing things anyhow and to do only what she wants thats abuse of authority. She is talking about post like Fred has some shares in Zambian airways and possibly a freiend of Kavindele, Since Kavindele is the one who wanted Vodacom to start operation he happens to be Director. If their is any beans let her spill there is nothing she can do she knows it.Post has data.Lets watch and see what next.

  122. I think the corrupt people in theses organisations are
    Have been rattled and are frightened by what appears
    To be a tough talking Communications and Transport
    Minister.

    One has to ask why there is so much talk of corruption
    On the minister’s side when all she has done is asked a
    Company to value Zamtel’s assets so that in the invent that
    Government decides to sell, we the tax payers can get a good
    Deal; She has also asked the Ministry of Justice to look at the possibility of
    establishing a commission of inquiry on how the $6.5 million that the
    Zambian Airways directors got from DBZ was spent; she is also looking to
    Make National Airports Corporation more efficient.

    I don’t know if my

  123. I don’t know if my bloggers Have been to Lusaka international airport lately. But there is nothing international
    About it, so dissolving the board is a good start because they should have been sacked A long time ago. If Lusaka and Zambia are to be prosperous we need someone to make some
    Bold steps towards that. So if it means upsetting a selfish few, that’s fine by me (don’t know what
    Everybody else thinks?). Moreover, if they do not have anything to hide, why are they complaining?
    Do they have something to hide?

  124. The Post has a definite conflict of interest due to membe’s business dealings. The wonderful thing about all this is that the truth will come out and Fred will get caught up as well. its time we stopped hero worshipping a criminal that is membe. its just that the politicians are also thieves just like membe and so he takes advantage of that but when innocent people like Gladys Nyirongo start going to jail, membe will soon get his come uppance. Nyirongo is a sacrificial lamb. the one who should be inside is Maureen mwanawasa and her late hubby

  126. Has there ever been such a time as this when the POST have a real issue upon their back? Previously, they have been the aggressors without any real ulterior motive behind them. IS IT THE SAME THIS TIME? The Zambian Airways saga needs to be put in perspective to make reasonable opinions on this matter. Time only will tell.

  128. Can Dora tell the nation if Zamtel is just about that she can not spare some time or just a month to follow tender procedures

  129. Can Dora tell the nation if Zamtel is just to close that she can not spare some time or just a month to follow tender procedures

  130. The extent to which the POST went in attempt to salvage and rescue ZA must be put in context. They went as far as backing a non entity as Mangande as well as went on to back SATA whom they have criticised endlessly previously

  131. The fact that THE POST have ‘issues’ themselves must give any reasonable person room to question thier motives in this case. Time only will tell.

  132. Fred might be wrong but atleast he bring some issues to our attention. Those hidden document about RP capital group can not be discussed in neither times or daily mail

  133. RP Capital Partners of the United Kingdom??? Who has heard of them?? What do they do? Are these some obscure chaps Dora met while studying in UK?? Come on chaps let us be serious with national matters..

  134. The sudden outbursts of attacks on RB a person whom they have never for once criticised even as the then VP is something to take note of. Mwanawasa had certainly compromised with the POST and they found it convenient to use him, even get away with huge debts accumulated under his very nose. As far as we are concerned the veil has been lifted on the ZA Directors and the only thing to remain is the actual consequencies of the their abuse and hypocricy to be opened to the public. Hypocricy because the same are the ones who have ‘championed’ the fight against corruption!

  135. The POST have issues beyond the ZA saga and the public who have been unsuspecting and faithful followers of them will yet recieve another side of their percieved heroes. Time alone will tell.

  136. The protection and compromise under the Mwanawasa regime gave them over and they became susceptable to the very temptations they had been fighting against- corruption and greed. The untimely death of the President caught them off guard and their scheme to survive mearnt that they had to suddenly groom under successor suiting their predicament- Magande but at the same time fight off any possible rival in their case RB.

  137. The TASK FORCE has been a convenient partner in everyway to the POST until the demise of the late President. What is the evidence of all this? Where are these fights coming up so suddenly and why the focus on these particular people RB AND SILIYA? Are there no other issues to write about?

  138. Ba Dora!!
    Membe is tested and tried. Just tell us 1. Did you ignore the legal advice from the Chief government Legal Advisor? If so why? Is LAZ also confusing us on this matter? Is it true that you have over ruled the ZNTB on Lusaka and Livingstone airport’s radar equipment? Ministers have come and gone including presidents ask Kaunda and others? Why is the Chief Government Spokesman quiet on this one? WE SMELL A BIG RAT!!!!!! MUFUNA KUBA CHABE…Stop dragging the Zambian airways and post newspapers into your misleading web of…..Nkole where are you?

  139. As they have always done The Post will, even this time, surely deepen their digging. Dora will need tonnes dustmasks to survive the unrelenting shovels

  140. Dora nikabolala period. Why did she choose to be quite over the mobile story until now whan she has been implicated in a story involving Nyamasoya’s son. Why did she not spill the beans and not wait until she was attacked on a real issue. This lady is all but too arrogant with stealing.
    However, all and sundry are distracted and talking about The Post and not the single sourcing of an astronomical amount of money to the tune of K10 Billion. This country is a shame to say the least.

  141. Dora seems to stand her ground. If you read this story well, she seems to know what she is talking about and is taking the bull by its horns.
    Mwandi uli mwanakashi Dora. Banono, as long as you are saying the truth.
    The truth always sets one free.
    Ba uze. :-@=d>

  143. 138 and 139
    You have made my day you two. This is what all sane, forward and sober zambians need to ask and get answers about. Good bloggers imwe the two.

  144. SATA has suited their scheme perfectly well. SATA has added another dimension to their scheme and unsuspecting cadres blindly urge on their vice by blindly swallowing anything spit at them as long as it suits their Political goals. This was a desperate alliance and the price of this colluding between them and SATA was perhaps a very high one. A marriage of convenience indeed! The battle this time has another angle to it on their part- debt, a huge debt with no grz backing to ease the burden.

  145. Men failed to put M’membe down, but uyu mukazi you will start dancing. All those who still thinks Fred is doing is business with clean hands , mwalapapa.

  146. We care less about their confrontational battles ,our national resources are abused at the expense poverty striken Zambians
    The Minister and her stanceless President have commited a very big crime ,for reasons known to themsevels they have also disrespected Tender Board and contravened National Tender procedures to award a contract to a foreighn company to carry out Zamtel asset evaluation

  147. What security guarantee did Mmembe and Mutembo give to be given US $6.5 Million of tax papers’s money from Development Bank of Zambia? Enock Kavidele has millions of Dollars worth of assets yet he was turned down for a US $4.8 million loan from the same DBZ for his North Western Railway project? I had to link him to some US institution here to easily land the money he has invested in the project.A Commission of inquiry head by Dr.Kamoyo Mwale an international investigator in white collar crime must be engaged.Ngande Magande must be interrogated to explain under what terms the US $6.5 was given to Mmembe project withour collateral to the Government.Under explain how money will be recovered.

  149. Can somebody tell me of a corruption free country, society, system? It doesn’t exist! The key thing is the treatment that it is given to it. The Post are doing what is expected of any whistleblower – exposing those who abuse the trust bestowed upon them as stewards of the public’s resources. Despite all the political pressures and the associated risks that could have been faced, The Watergate story, which led to the resignation of disgraced US President Richard Nixon made reporters Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward and the Washington Post famous. The Dora Siliya/Zamtel story will, I am sure, make Fred Mmembe and The Post famous once more.

  155. WHATEVER THE CASE, PLEASE DORA LOOK AT THE PICTURE ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE POST, THE PIC OF REV. GLADYS NYIRONGO ENTERING CHIMBOKAILA, SAD INDEED.

  157. The simpletons saying putting a few millions of dollars into Zamtel would revamp it, don’t know what they are talking about. Dora is corrupt and misleading.She says the gov just wanted to evaluate Zamtel when they actually have an agreement with RP to find a buyer. . . Only the president’s son is benefiting from this.

  158. Dora, why are you trying to deflect our attention from the real issue here? All we want to know is why you have not been open enough with regards to the selecting of RP Capital to value ZAMTEL’s assets? Don’t waste your time answering back to you critics. The Zambian people want to know why you are ignoring transparency with the ZAMTEL issue. We need answers. We want to know where out money is going

  161. If Fred Mmembe has commited crime, let the gov take him to court. We are tired of these liars telling us that he has done this and that when they can’t do anything about it. What we are interested in is Zamtel and they its privitisation is being done. It reeks corruption. shortcuts. Selfishness. Theft.

  162. Dora is corrupt and RB is protecting her because his sons are benefiting from all this. This my prove to be the most corrupt government we have ever had. . .

  163. Dora mixing isues is not the best way to answer the Zamtel saga so leave out ZA and the mobile phone ‘something’ out of this. You don’t run national affairs as if it were your home. Don’t make decisions alone for Zedians. We have ZNTB which is tasked to select who to jobs for the GRZ packed with a lot of capable people. Do you want them be getting paid for nothing? If your answer is Yes, better still abolish ZNTB. And this fighting, if The POST exposes your underpants; size, type, color and how they stink, just blame yourslf my dear.

  164. Between Siliya and The Post, I would trust the latter! Our govt has cheated us many a time, I don’t have much of the faith in RB; he has messed up a great deal. Who knows, maybe he is after some money!!!

  165. This membe seems to be hiding behind the post to perpertrate shady deals. If anyone challenges him or gets in his way , they are attacked by the post. That is why RB is silent, he is scared of the post.
    Membe is abusing his position as owner of the post his deals should be put under the spot light. Ask your selfs, why has the post stopped its personal attacks on RB ?. Has his silence got something to do with it ?

  166. LT happy Valentines to all your staff,you are such a blessing in my life.Now that I have wished all your staff happy valentine,you should also do me one favour.Please Iam begging you in Christ Name Give us some letest News the current ones are makins us stop thinking.Please LT ^:)^^:)^.

    Matworld

    LT award winner for:-j:-j:-j:-j:-j

  167. Matworld mudala!! Happy Valentines… I was out buying stuff.
    Now am back

    I have failed to comment 8->8->

    Dora wampwisha amano =p~

  172. Those are last kicks of a almost dead horse,they are very strong.Dora ni kabolala and she should not smear her feaces on innocent and hardworking Mmembe.

  173. Ba Cutey/wifey
    Tenzelipo just that Iam tired nankhani iyi.

    Happy valentine to my good friend Tafini kaya ngandiye Zina iyi naibala.

  178. RP Capital partner’s is a boutique investment firm/bank formed slightly over two years ago by a few guys who used to work for Merill Lynch & have very small operations in europe & the US..How the government selected them out of all the reputable investment firms is a story i’d love to be told.

  179. 3RqU happy Valetines!!

    Dora you are a beautiful Mama.

    :d

    Ine I just printed the Pic and it is now hanging ku Bedroom.

    Does anyone know the husband or boyfriend yaba Dora? Ine I am in Love with this woman. Cyber relationship

    😡

  181. ZESCO UNITED 3 MAREMBE FC of kenya 1

    Zesco has gone thru to the next round with the goal agregate of 5-1

    Keep it up boys

    We watched the game and it was nice. Bravo P SIMUKONDA.

  182. Dora the explorer, i know you can shallow but don’t bite more than you can swallow . if you have information that can exonerate you don’t swallow it , spit it out. there are other things out there that you can shallow!

  183. According to the Zambia Daily Mail, Fred Mmembe had recently applied for a mobile phone license and was turned down. Hence the venomous attacks on Dora babes. The TRUTH shall soon be known and if Dora, RB & team have pulled some shady deals, then surely justice will find them, as it has with Rev Nyirongo! Mmembe has lost whatever little credibility he had and everyone now knows him for what he really is, a shady little character!

  184. This GRZ have only one solution to solving problems: that is to imploy simple lies they learned in the foreign ministry. Presido and Dora come from there.

    1. Change passports to make money for GRZ at the expense of Zambians
    2. Travel to many countries so they can grow maize to feed us
    3. Give a foreign company to quickly evaluate Zamtel
    4. Cut visa fees for people coming in the country and increase passport fees for Zambians.
    5. Be cautious at the boarder post….

    bla bla….bla.. just wait for the next. That is all they know…
    4.

  185. **==
    Dora. Do not listen to defamatory individuals. Contiue doing your best that you have so far demonstrated. My only hope is that you have been honest. God bless you.

  186. It is difficulty to convinve them that those cheap foreign policy they have mastered are not even near to any solution and what we need as a country. Now they stack with another foreign policy issue of maize (GMO) right at the boarder: Guys you just wait and see

  187. It surprises me how people could listen to the rantings of siliya. Nyirongo is in today. her time will come. the post are not sending her to do irregular things, they are marely informing us. there is no axe to grind. Siliya need to be fired. if not 2011 is coming and she shall answer under an unfreindly govt. pay back shall come.

  188. Dora and company are reacting and soon shall squim. The Post do not relent. Look at the shameless and childish way they are draggining in everyone. pushing the govt papers into it. when the simple fact is they are wasting our taxpayers money through their corrupt ways. Let RB come clean by firing her. But that wont happen as they Are a team.

  190. #59. Meebelo Mubyana, not only are your comments so factually wrong, but also regrettably reflect the general tendency by most on this blog, that is, you refuse to analyse things on their merits and don’t want to be bothered by facts. Dora never went out with your so-called bigamist illegal alien husband McSuud. Had you bothered to look for the truth, you’d have quickly established that it was in fact a ZNBC-TV girl called Constance Chisonta who was associated with your McSuud. But since the truth to you and many like you on this blog is alien, it is more convenient to just dive in and blog blindly.

  191. RP capital partners of the UK, like the consultant image builders. What ‘s the beneffit for Zambia. Stealing us clean, why we watch and upplaude.

  192. Continued…You also seem to suggest that regardless of what the truth is, we should not take on the likes of the Post because they are “more powerful”. I am no fan of Dora, Rupiah Banda’s government or indeed the MMD, but I find Zambians like you who lack even a semblance of analytical ability but feel knowledgeable on every subject under the sun quite nauseating. And you hope Zambia can advance with this kind of personal hatred so ingrained in the whole national fabric? Please Zambians, get rid of this hatred of everyone except our own tribe that has invaded our nation or else we’re lost as a people.

  193. ‘“The crusade against corruption should not be selective…the truth shall soon be known. Some people portray that they are holier than others when they are the same people after tax payers’ money,” Ms Siliya said.
    She urged the media to be responsible in order not to mislead the country through lies and incorrect facts.’

    Good data Ms Dora Siliya. Between you and the POST Newspaper, the Undereducate’s current moutpiece and Imagebuilders, I trust you although I know that your way of doing the tender business with RP Claymans or whatever they are called was not correct.

  194. 193. Maestro Hhehhehhehhe continued.

    Please Ms Minister Dora Siliya and President Rupiah Banda make sure you deal with the POST Newspaper severely accordingly so that they can start presenting real truths instead of Imagebuilding of the Undereducate through terrible alliances.

    I will be waiting for the truth you have promised us. For now all the best Ms Dora Silya and the President RB Banda Administration.

    On the otherhand, can we please have the fight against corruption extended to our PRESENT TIME and not only the former President Chiluba era.

  195. Dora, sounds like you treating this issue on a ‘tit for tat’ basis. Mind you, you are working for Zambians and everything you do should be interest of us the citizens. For this reason, you should by all means follow procedure and take the post newspapers to court. If they have broken the law and you can back it up, then pursue the matter. Quote: “I know where these attacks are coming from. The attacks are because I refused to grant some organisation a mobile phone licence and also because of the Zambian Airways saga”. Fine then name and shame them and highlight how they have broken the law. :-w

  197. I am independent.
    Ms Siliya, how did RP Capital know about ZAMTEL? Did you advertise for a company to valuate ZAMTEL assets? The guys at PostLink may be bitter but they will get you if you have put a foot wrong somewhere else.

  198. Ms Siliya, You also said that someone offered you money. Did you report them to Anti Corruption Commission? If you did not, it never happened so we will ignore that statement.

  199. #97 I am inclined to agree with you. I may add that it’s refreshing to see someone who will not fold their tail to mmembe. This guy was okay informing the public on many issues of public interest like bulaya, ftj, etc but that was pre-2008 election. Enter 2008 elections the guy has become a monster. Like other bloggers have said, mmembe is no longer serving the public interest but the personal interest.
    Rather than brush aside dora’s comments on him, he should have declared interest in these matters, as he should have done over Zambian airways too. The bottom line for me is that it is sad that mmembe has become so untrustworthy that the public has lost an unquestionable source of information

  200. #190 you are correct and many would believe #59 if you did not offer a correction. And sadly that’s how we destroy each other instead of building our nation.

  202. Interesting views Family,

    please feel free to meet and deliberate at our forums,

    zambiana.proboards86.com/index.cgi

    stay blessed,

    Julian

  203. Go for it Dora, dont let those ‘big lawyers’ with small brains ‘defile’ you. You are doing a great ‘job’ !!

  204. #202 Pastor J , you are a pain in the A,$,$ !

    Jam@co, goodnight, this Pastor J gives me serious period pains !!
    See you Mailo

  206. Imwe musiyeni Dora.
    Sazayamba noyenda ku chimbuzi muzanu.
    Every dog has its own day.
    If its the post or Dora erring in this issue, soon the truth will come out.

    They say you can run but you can’t hide., or is it the other way round? >:d<>:d<:-ss<):)

  207. Fellow bloggers, dora is not so dull. She understands the risk of prison. For her to take on mmembe she is standing on fairly solid ground. mmembe knows this too and his defence includes intimidating dora and rb.

  209. I went online to check for R P Capital Group – the website I found talks about it being an alternative investment company. Normally, such companies would have comprehensive websites. Seems the company was only founded in 2004. Can someone confirm if rpcapitalgroup dot com is the company awarded the contract. If so, …!!!

  210. @ # 204. Ba Dr Maureen

    My bro,

    there’s no need to disrespect women with such foul utterances,

    now you’re allowed to disagree with me, but leave the sisters out this, this is meant to be family friend site and nowadays kids have internet access.

    Take heed Life and Death lay in the Tongue, speak blessings and blessings will follow you

    you my bro are not being ‘cool’, but are simply hitting below the belt.

    Again you’re allowed to disagree with my little post, or better still skip it and not read it.

    have a blessed weekend

    Julian

  211. It still seems zambians (or is it you bloggers) never really understand where Fred is coming from. Watch this space, you will see what will happen to Dora!!!!!!

  212. Xenophobes in sexism here

    I have spotted all Xenophobes deeply entrenched in sexism wrecking your lives. Be careful with Fred Mmembe’s malicious life. The Chap is a certified Gay aging with incorrigible hatred for successful smart women and family men of all shades. He grew up in a broken home hence his incorrigible hatred for every father-figure.

  213. Is this other Nyirongo in the making? Wait. Things will surface that you just hold your chins like you are a funeral. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. How come she is telling you that the truth will be found out soon. Why not tell us what she knows right now? Soon our jails will be full of our so called leaders. What a shame.

  216. Zambians who side with Dora Siliya are so shortsighted could have voted in RB into power. It is this kind of short sightedness that is detsroying this country. Ask yourself a question, did RP capital ever compete with anyone for that job. Where are the tender procedures? What has failure on her part to follow procedure got to do with Fred Mmembe? Shame on you lilly livered Zambins.

  217. # 86

    I know of an ordinary businessman from Western Province who owns a hummer. Can’t even be compared to Fred Mmembe’s outfit when you comapre. Even you can buy it if you are zealous enough. I want buy it as well some time in 2011 just to say I did it whilst on earth. The fact is that Dora Siliya is on the frying pan, and she is wanting to look where to jump from the fire. That’s why she’s now sabaila ling. Don’t allow any one to sway your opinion on the POST stand on Zambia. You have absolutely no other forum for highlighting the failures of government. Don’t shoot inot your own foot, you will kill your children.

  218. #212

    Will it have to take a gay to change the corrupt face of Zambia because straights like you care less. Why don’t you leave him to do what he knows how to do best, and do want you know best. If you lived in Zambia you would experience the relief that POST have given to freedoms of Zambians, which you will never manage for a century in the diaspora. Let us put matters in perspective. I write to Fred Mmembe to act disproportionately to Dora Siliya.

  219. # 216,217,218 Zambia Prophet…Im totally with u on this one..walikwata amano…when i read some of the comments by other bloggers they really shock me. I really wonder whether they hav a heart for Zambia and whether they want our country to develop…Anyway just as well they are in the diaspora and they can remain where they are…We need to be progressive and not retrogressive! :o:o

  220. Remember the zambia shall be saved prophecy???
    we are living in those times and God fights for us.Ladies and Gentlemen on this blog every man has a weakness and we should learn to give credit were it is due!!! Memmbe as a human may err,but look at the cases that the post have managed to bring to the attention of the public ,insult him as you like but in zambia he is like the two Post jounalists of the united sates who managed to bring down President Nixon on the watergate scandal with the help of Deep Throat.He is not rigteous but atlleast he knows what he is doing!!!
    Imagine the President Protecting Dora on issues like the zamtel Saga,Zambia National Airports,and so many more.

  221. My free advise to Dora is to humble herself otherwise she is messing up big time on the very important issues,honestly all of a sudden she is an expert!!! only time will tell and that pretty face in prison it will be a worst of natuarl beauty…

  222. Yah, How i wish Dora could read this good news! Dora,this is not reading news at ZNBC.its a ministerial position, You are representing the zambian people. We know you are not a politician and you were just picked. The best person who knows how is the late. Its to early for you to take it personal. Fred is beyond the Fred you see. you cannot bruise him in any way. He is just telling us the truth. Where is Rev. Nyirenda,or Silvia Maseba? Do you think you are more clever than them? When issues become heavy Rupiah will drop everything on you. Stop uttering these useless statements that will land you in problems. ZAMTEL is a big company.

  223. If you can’t account for any kwacha you recover from these so called plunderers,how can you say you would use the money you cannot see to Revamp the economy? You chaps are wrong people in Government. Time will tell.

  224. These events are really interesting but sadly at the end of the day we will never know who has carried the day between Fred and Dora.We need another neutral party to tell us the truth.Fred has been compromised.

  229. Thats what happens when you put someone in Govt and give her a good post just because she is the ‘best friend’ of MMCI

  231. #230 – YES ITS TRUE CHECK WITH THE WORKERS AT THE POST. ALL ADVERTS ARE NOW TO BE PAID FOR IN CASH,NO MORE CREDIT TERMS AS THE HEAT IS HOT FOR BRO. FRED –ECONOMIC DOWNFALL LOOMING!!

  232. This lady is quite craft I can tell from the way she writes. Why bring the Issue which are not there. Is Zamtel operations or poor perfomance depends on NAC2000. ZA is owing Nac2000 and this is normal as the two are interdependant. Zamtel and ZA are very far apart. This Politics of destrying each other is tipical of a Black Man.

  235. One thing if the post is noble in doing and saying. To me they have a Ground to survival as the support for them is quite Big.

  236. From what I understand reading the comments of Lubinda today in the paper the problem is that this RP Capital who is supposed to valuate ZAMTEL are also interested in buying parts of ZAMTEL later. How is it possible to let a company value the piece they want to buy later without undervaluing it? Why was the tender process not followed? And who told this RP Capital Chaps to contact DS or her ministry?

  237. Long live the post Long live fred m’membe from 1991 to date you fought for zambia where you were wrong you have never been ashamed to apologise and compesate.Dora if the post is wrong surely they will apologise,however they have never started an issue without facts as blogged out earlier by other bloggers.But certainly the post have a duty to protect the interests of zambians than politicians apart from LPM.please the POST protect and save in the interest of its 2600 workers as as national security mind you airports,communication and enegy are too strategic and sensitive to place in private hands.ZAMTEL can stand again on its own with good managers and all the govt debt cleared.

  238. 236 I have read Hon Lubinda’s comments in the Post that RP Capital is also interested in buying Zamtel. Difficult to tell but I have read dora’s full ministerial statement which is also reproduced in the Sunday Times today. It does not mention what Lubinda has attributed to dora’s statement, unless the statement has been adulterated.

    This country mwe bantu,whom are we going to trust? Someone please tell all those with agendas including fred to declare interest and shut up so that we get to the truth.

  239. 237 Show me the Post’s apology for its rubbish in the run up to the 2008 elections. I mean the Post’s attempt to impose a leader on us under the pretext (blatant lie is the word) that it was the wish of LPM, or its connection to the ZA saga, or its miserable attempt to launder a certain politician who they have themselves condemned in the past, or etc etc etc.
    Wake up, this is not the same m’membe of the Post fame whose opinion was unquestionable. This is a new, capitalist and vicious m’membe riding on the back of what used to be the Post.

  240. yes please zambian people use your heads. Why would mwanawasa a supposed anti corruption man appoint Dora and RB and today the Post should say these people are corrupt. have you noticed how Post does not talk about the mwanawasa presidency. Its always chiluba and RB. It is so obvious that if they talk about LPM then it will include them. RB should just spill the beans chibe chibe. This nonsense of Post and membe must stop. If it was FX time the system would have sorted out membe by now. Zamtel problems started because of LPM’s relatives who were appointed as MD and were useless

  241. I pray the people’s eyes will open up and see the real membe. Dora if you are reading this stand strong do not give up the fight just make sure you do things right and get Zamtel privatised. Also sort out national airports quickly. appoint boards based on merit not relations

  242. Dora my Friend..Please heed legal advice..always seek a second opinion from other lawyers ( e.g your friend Maureen Mwanawasa)..thats what friends are for..I wouldnt like to see you go in like Gladys Nyirongo..I mean with a second degree from Cambridge…you can definitely do better!!! Stop being used as a pawn ..start to apply your mind like a university graduate..wilatusebanya

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