donors to the Health sector has affected many health developmental projects in the country.
Health Minster Kapembwa Simbao says the Ministry has failed to implement all its activities due to lack of adequate funding.
Mr. Simbao said in an interview with ZANIS in Lusaka today that the Ministry is currently depending on funding from the Ministry of Finance to carry out all its programmes.
He cited the construction of new health centers across the country as one of the big projects that the ministry has failed to realize as there is no money allocated for them in this year’s budget.
Mr. Simbao explained that the funding from the Ministry of Finance is not enough to carter for all the activities that the health sector has embarked on.
He further expressed concern saying the situation has paralyzed the operations of the sector.
Recently some donors withdrew funding to the Ministry of Health following the revelation of K27 billion embezzlement of the funds by officers at the Ministry.
And the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) and the Zambia Police have since launched investigations and over 10 people have been arrested in connection with the some scam.
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Now you know how inmportant the money is. let it be a lesson to next time put the donor money to good use
What else did you expect. With this confusion going on in MMD/GRZ the donors would rather sponsor monkeys to do more pissing on more of you.
It is important to mobilize local resources for development. We cannot forever base our budgets on others peoples pockets.
kaili mwaliba. Don’t even complain. what do you expect? you see people stealing and mulikeze! what a shame. you will per for you messes one day
Why are you acting surprised? You go to buy hearses and steal/misuse public and donor funds and you think the donors will be smiling? Abalechulilamo ni fwebo. Wabe ichimona! You are annoying me now.
This is the price we have to pay for the rampant theft and corruption in government.
These are the issues RB and his minins Teta and Mulongoti should be discussing. But I bet you, there will be no comment from either of these on such important issues. They are a waste of space, money and time. Vote them out please!!!
It’s amazing how when they were plundering, development was not being hampered!
What developmental projects?? 200million workshops?? msana ma bichi!
#8 yankee thats a good point! how come you chaps never complained when K27 billion went missing from your coffers? You seemed to manage quite well according to your standards- no medicines in UTH and around Zambia, no high tech 21century equipment in hospitals,underpaid nurses and docs and luxurious hearses and now we hear you are building a mourners shelter! You chaps in Zambia called leaders are hilarious! Please donors don’t fund Zambia. Just stop its not helping.
Why did the donors decide to do that? Balimona ubupuba bwacilamo.
Kapembwa Simbao should read Dennis Mumba’s report to parliament on the ZNOC saga again.
All the money you need for health is in Zambia. Sweep your house clean! Forget about the donors!
i dont blame the donors, hubby and i pay 46% intaxes and of which part of that money is what comes to zambia as donor funding yet it ends up in someones pocket, i hate to think that im sweating so much just to make someone get rich for nothing, the scandinavian countries are the major donors zambia has and if this continues, the poor and innocent will suffer while the politicians will go to RSA. its acually painfull. they have the right to protect their taxes.you should see how commited other countries are to their tax payers.not these pigs we have for leaders.
Rupiah lamentably failed to address donor concerns during the press conference. Instead, he sought to politicise the news conference by attacking opposition political leaders and castigating the private media(The Post). What a missed opportunity.
its sad that we pay 46% in tax and part of that money comes to zambia in form of donor funding just to make selfish individuals rich.wait until all these country slow the funding as the scandinavian and german are tsome of the major donors in zambia.they have the right to protect their taxes. not these ngulube we have for leaders.it hurts to see my sweat wasted.
Ba Moze # 5, awe mwakalipa yama, its really annoying bane what these guys are doing. And becoz of this saga aba basungu are now looking at us as if we are all thieves unitl proved innocent. Indeed icimona kwati mukusu wacipuba
RB has wrong people around him.His inability to see this compounded by corruption at all levels of govt has grossly diminished donor confidence.These donrors dont just pluck money from trees,it comes from taxpayer and they are answerable to them.
Our greatest mistake in our life time was to replace KK with ka Chiluba. We really jumped from the frying pan to the fire. The fella had no vision, no clue about leadership, no management concepts, no education, but potent with lies that mesmerised us all. He called intellectuals useless and Universities as white elephants that churn academic gibberish and said he cannot waste his precious time to even sit with them as their Chancellor. The fella is the worst human being Zambian has ever introduced in public life. Now everybody thinks being president is as easy as stealing money and people’s form 2 certificates. What a shame!!
#15 Imiti, Thanks mwana!
Our tax is enough to develop this country if put to good use. Only a fool can continue funding crooks.
The minister of Health should clean up his ministry before turning to crying Wolf. If i was a donor, the recent scams at the Health ministery in Zambia will tempt me to divert funds to other countries where the funds will put to good use.Mr Minister build health centres using the money the you ill – adviced wanted to use buying mobile clinics . Shame on you.
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“Don`t bite the finger that feeds you” ” Mwadya Mweka Daddy(MMD)” I wonder how such sums of money could have gone unnoticed at the Ministry sure. We are at the same time spending a lot of money funding these so called commitees on shinga na shinga year in and out following these culprit and getting back very little from the same commitees. How long will this surely go on? It is all the expense of you and me , THE TAX PAYERS.
Donors please squeeze harder so that their pockets become empty as the 2011 elections approach. Kapembwa is telling the thruth that the theft-projects are now suffering as they cant still from the MoH. The money there is now just enough to buy panado. This is good coz all the donor money was going into the MMD pockets. Well done donors and its our will and wish that you establish a big Monkey-zool in Zambia so that all your moneies are chanelled their. We need a lot of Monkeys in 2011 to teach these MMD-thieves lessons. Imagine Out here every peron pays tax , even those who just wash plates they pay tax. And this is the money which MMD steals , the money meant for the poor. DONORS WELL DONE.
On “Government says the recent withdrawal of funding by donors to the Health sector has affected many health developmental projects in the country” good it has so that you start thinking of allocating Zambian money only to the sector.
Following this development, what is the MMD’s plan to ensure such does not happen next year? By the way, please, MMD GRZ do not budget on money that does not belong to you.
Let the donors concentrate on developing their countries and follow what Zambian Dambisa Moyo (PhD,UK) has recommended. We are big enough for us to stop depending on donor aid and this situation should help us stop crying like babies for everything but deal with our Zambian problems alone as Cgrown up itizens.
Plan President Banda.
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The ministry of health has enough money to build what ever medical centres you want to build,if anything you don’t even want to build why didn.t you talk about building before the donars withdrew their help? you just want to steal.May God have mercy on you.you guys you have money to pay yourselves but have no monies to meet the medical needs,shame on you.lf you can steal 27 billion and reappoint people like Mabenga and Dora and your President is making unneccessary trips around the globe,then you have the monies to meet they health needs.may the donars not you any monies.DONARS DON’T GIVE THEM ANYTHING LET THEM LEARN THE HARD WAY.
We are all to blame we stay with these people who stole and we saw how they were becaming rich from nowhere yet we did not question we all just said “ziba zako” so every zambia should wake up and report such activities even if the call you name you are doing good to the country
They should not tell lies that MoH is suffering coz there is no change in the situation in the MoH this time without donors’ money and the time when the ministry was swimming in the donors’ money. The hospitals and clinics had plenty of PANADO which they have even to day. So the hospitals are not suffering. Kapembwa should just say that the MMD-pocket is now empty.
#25 Ady very true. What a shame!
WARNING TO DONORS: Thieves are waiting for your money. Look how they shield each other against prosecution. Do not trust this govt until it cleans up the rot! The big fishes are still untouched.
#17(The Intelligentia).I agree with you.thats why iam very wary of the idea Sata becoming president with his populist hymns which he know very well are practically impossible to fulfil.Once he assumes the presidency and doesnt fulfil any of his promises ,Zambians will be crying again.
Let them sucrifice their gratuities coz with or without donor monies to MOH,shortages of drugs is the talk of the day in hospitals & clinics. Can Teta & Mike convince the donors that the stolen money will be recovered or else no funds to steal.
A group of Monkeys are going pee some of thses goverment cheaps. They must be careful, even the monkeys are tried.
Well done donors! Simbao just like any other MMD politician has not said anything sensible. He said they should have withdrawn next year. Well, there’s gratuity instead. That’s also tax payers money. So use it for pressing need instead of pocketing it. Why should donors always be the people to answer zambian people’s calls. Let’s see if you can think.
i think abena bwezani they have been to witchdoctors and they have been advised to sacrifice the lives of zambian people if they want to stay in power…hence the hearses, mourners shelters etc..!
The minister should not just stop at complaining. He should tell us about his strategies given the turn of events.
the way we cry for this money, like we have a right to it. its like complaining ati u didnt watch the world cup coz your neighbour never turned on his tv.
Just use the money you wanted to use to buy mobile fimofimo to sustain the health sector. It is high time we started to develop from our own resources and not having the begging mentality.
While I have not fully followed Dambisa Moyo (PhD,UK)’s arguments properly or read her book entitled Dead Aid, I would like to ask the Donor community to come up with a detailed plan of stopping to give us Zambians aid completely with a clear time frame.
It is not good to just call for USA to pull out its military men from Iraq in a certain time frame and thus let the whole donor community start empowering us by leaving us Zambians alone to fund our GRZ activities.
It is a real shame that 44 years after gaining political independence, Zambia and Zambians are still depending on donor aid and that donor aid ends up ebing stolen or mismanaged by a few terrible individuals.
Therefore, let President RB show his socio-economic plan for Zambia.
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While I have not fully followed Dambisa Moyo (PhD,UK)’s arguments properly or read her book entitled Dead Aid, I would like to ask the Donor community to come up with a detailed plan of stopping to give us Zambians aid completely with a clear time frame.
It is not good to just call for USA to pull out its military men from Iraq in a certain time frame and thus let the whole donor community start empowering us by leaving us Zambians alone to fund our GRZ activities.
It is a real shame that 44 years after gaining political independence, Zambia and Zambians are still depending on donor aid and that donor aid ends up being s to len or mismanaged by a few terrible individuals.
Therefore, let President RB show his socio-economic plan for Zambia for 2010 without donor AID.
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Also, characters like president HH from the opposition must show us their alternative National Budgets with Zambian money only as we Zambians must begin to phase out dependence on donors.
We must starting from next year show that we are mature enough to handle our own business in the country — something called self-reliance for those who may not know in the MMD GRZ.
With this approach, donor aid show start going directly to serve Zambian people where GRZ will have no influence — the way Japan through JICA has been doing if I am not mistaken. This is becuase the current majority donor aid system is encouraging laziness and hampering innovation.
Have a pleasant day all.
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Dr. Miti, Simbao, Kapoko and their families are living well. Where is justice? and we dare call ourselves a Christian nation.
#40 Maestro,
I agree wuth you when it comes to oppostion parties presenting alternative budgets like the way Mazoka and Sichinga were doing it.I will be very happy to see a PF alternative budget that will change zambia within 90 days with the existing national income and NOT just the hot air.
43 Sharp Shooter greetings.
On a serious note, your “I will be very happy to see a PF alternative budget that will change zambia within 90 days with the existing national income and NOT just the hot air” is very very funny and I believe under the current leadership of PF such can not happen. Anyway, let me give them PF a benefit of doubt on this one.
Coming back to the whole news, I will be grad if more donors will with-hold their aid to Ministry of Health as a starting point and do this by announcing that they will not help us next year, 2010.
Such a move would allow the President RB Banda MMD GRZ Administration start thinking of how the convince voters in 2011 that they have a case to continue ruling Zambia.
Have a pleasant day all.
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These guys are jokers. Zed needs much tighter controls in government than at the moment. RB should be concentrating on such issues than chasing after The Post all the time. And forget your nationalistic fervor, we CANNOT survive without donor aid at the moment. Make no mistake about it. Till we make our economy stronger, widen the tax base, encourage industry and subsidise agriculture on order to stimulate it, we shall forever be dependent on donors. We need more investment in education, coupled with more entrepreneurship, and then a structured and efficient tax regime, that will also collect tax from the huge informal sector. And I am not just talking customs duty, but income tax, etc even on these briefcase car traders etc. It can be done with good planning and leadership!!
You think donors have no sense to continue giving you funds that you end up pocketing?
Wages of Kapokos sin is peoples our death. If you guys were straight in your dealings , you could have had controls measures in place to prevent Kapoko and his troops from looting the coffers. I am sure naiwe wine ka Simbao unadyamo na Miti, mwaliuma titus sangwapo We will get rid off you 2011 the only question is who do replace YOU and TETA with?
I am in agreement with most of the views shared. We can do it without donor funds. It s only that we have misplaced priorities when it comes to allocating the GDP of the nation. Less than 10% all together go to educ., health, environment, poverty reduction and clean water and sanitation. Less than 15% go to civil servants in all necessary payments. The rest of the GDP is swallowed by constitutional offices in many non important issues like allowances, privileges …… We ask donors what is obvious … Dev. Educ. and Health then we plunder what is meant for the needy as a result we remain ignorant, uninformed and in perpetual povert
Out of 177 countries, find below is Zambia’s cure Human Development Index and its trend since 1970:
HDI rank 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
165 Zam 0.470 0.478 0.489 0.477 0.439 0.420 0.434
Clearly, Zambia made progress from 1975 to 1985 under the UNIP GRZ. Sadly, ever since the MMD took over power in 1991 to data we moved to worse by 2000 but late President Mwanawasa LP and Magande improved on former President Chiluba FTJ’s failures a bit.
I am yet to notice how President RB Banda’s performance will be in 2010 though there will be indicators this year I believe from the UN.
Interesting is that troubled Zimbabwe is ranked number 151 far better than Zambia. With this, what has gone wrong with us Zambians?
MMD MPs why can you all resign?
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resign if you have failed to do the job
The truth is slavery was not about selling slaves alone. indebtedness is the worst of all forms of slavery. We have relied on donor aid for too long as a result of this a lot of criminals mascarading as Mp’s civil servants governement officials are all attracted to these institutions for personal gain. Why not reduce Mp’s salaries and perks and see how many of them will still reamain in govt. My humble appeal to all the donors is to stop funding all these projects, and we will see if Tetamashimba or shikapwasha will still be albe to shoot lip those scavengers.
Again and again, since the days of UNIP the MMD governments have done nothing to improve healthcare for the Zambian people. Every project in the MOH depends on donor funding! This is totally unacceptable. Is it because it is in our nature to use sickness for sympathy?I am glad that the donors have withheld their money. Perhaps for once we will wake up to raise our own resources for this sector of our life. Why are Zambians never ashamed to beg? There is a tendency to expect to receive as if we are owed.
Why are compalining we asked for it. Its disappointing to see begger u have assisted with ur hard earned cash spending it carelessly on sorts of usless activities like buzzing, gambling, womanising, buying falshy cars, flying around the world. You realise u re being conned what next apply the emergecy breaks. The authorities had it coming no wonder they bought hearses coz they had anticipated an increase in deaths. Already pipo are relaying herbs from traditional healers as a last resort. 2 lives have bin lost in Siavonga. There are still more to die. They get a cough and rush down South for cough mixture for us its departure lounge at UTH and other centres throughout Zambia. May GOD forgive the POWERS BE for they are drunk with Power and have stopped seing sense. AMEN
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If you are hungery,you need food.Ihe is no one in the world who is not hungery.