Vice President George Kunda says most donors who had withheld funding following the financial scam at the Ministry of Health have started releasing the money to government.
And Mr Kunda has castigated some opposition Members of Parliament (MP) and their leaders for inciting donors not to commit funding to the government
The Vice President said the donors are ready to resume funding to government, adding that some have even started releasing the money they committed to government.
He said donors are impressed with the commitment the government has shown in fighting corruption in the country as evidenced from the number of agreements government has continued signing with them.
Mr Kunda said this in parliament today in response to questions from Members of Parliament during the Vice President’s question time.
He said government has been interacting with donors and continued to enjoy a warm relationship with them which he hoped would continue to grow from strength to strength.
The Vice President has further urged the Members of Parliament to be patriotic and stop inciting donors not to fund government.
He said donor funding is needed by government and even the MPs as it helps to provide services to people who are in need of the funds.
Mr Kunda advised them to instead help government influence the donors to commit the funds to the state so that the people may be assisted.
He has also wondered why some opposition MPs and their leaders have continued attacking government even when government has done a lot in fighting corruption.
“They are what we call celebrated critics, fault-finders who cannot find anything good in what the government is doing; they are hoping that by doing so they can find mileage” he said.
Mr Kunda said he has, however, assured law makers and their leaders that government will continue fighting corruption head on.
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Iwe chi Kunda, the only ones inciting donors to withhold funding is your joke of a government. Now shut up and think about what you will do when Saki gets your sorry job.
Ba Kunda even if I was your donnor I wouldnt give you a single penny if you cannot account for it , look at how you waste taxpayers money on useless things, fliying one dead mans coffin around the 9provinces 9billion kwacha. ministers visiting a sick man in france 10billion kwacha. what a waste when 10million zambians are languishing,sturving ,and dying of hunger. why give you money when you can waste it the way you do sorry sir
I have stopped posting on LT but this really is funny! Yeah Kunda more money to go into your pockect right?
You stupi.dy people want to continue stealing. You are even mocking the donors that they are happy with your corruption. I just wish I were your donor I would not give you not even a ngwee. You useless people who enjoy seeing masses of Zambians in abject poverty while yourselves and children are swimming in the money meant for these poor people. God one day will charge you. PLEASE DONORS GIVE MONEY TO THE POOR NOT TO THESE THIEVES.
Ba Kunda you are a very fun VP. No one has been imprisoned for stealing British tax payers money and you want them to continue finding your pockets. Not possible.
They only do it because they signed papers to say they have to. Ba Kunda kwati twamwasambilila shuwa?
What a useless, pathetic veep. What kind of lawyer is this guy?
Mr. V.P., What kind of country do you envision Zambia to be 10, 20, 30 yrs down the road?
With all the mineral wealth in Zambia, if well managed and prudently reoriented, our nation wouldn’t need to beg to run our health system. But what do we do! we allow foreigners to come in and take it all away for pennies, then we turn around and ask these same foreigners for ‘some change’ so we can provide “A JOKE OF A HEALTH CARE SYSTEM” to our citizens—IT IS VERY, VERY, VERY SHAMEFUL, SIR– and you should be ashamed as well—DONORS DO NOT OWE US ANYTHING, GET IT!
If govt is serious about fighting corruption, why in hell is Dr. Miti still doing outside the prison walls? I really feel for the small fish, like KAPOKO, in this whole ‘pretend game’ called…
Last part @ #8…….supposed to read:
If govt is serious about fighting corruption, what in hell is Dr. Miti still doing outside the prison walls? I really feel for the ‘small fish,’ like KAPOKO, in this whole ‘pretend game’ called “anti-corruption fight.”
Now that donors have started receiving funds to government, government workers have started stealing again.
#10. Sorry, I meant to say now that donors have started releasing money to government, government workers and officials have started stealing again.
Where is the windfall tax ? MMD Why not put pressure on these mining investors whom you have exempted to pay windfall tax ..oh and those South African countries who own most of the prominent companies in Zambia to give you donations. Even Iraq is using windfall tax for their oil resources and have demanded 85% of the people employed should be from Iraq. GDP is up where is all that money going?
Strat having initiatives of creating your own wealth, donor fundin gall the time, the next time they will take over your country or start dictating policies to you because you like handouts. Start manufacturing Industries, or anything but the idea is to start looking within yourselves. And stop your leadership from making unnecessary fruitless trips all the time. Start working …
# 13, Right on. You have said it all. This government should start making its own money and not going bowl in hand to donors all the time. Clearly Zambia has a largely clueless leadership when it comes to economic matters. Is it true that the current Zambian president is an economist? Maybe an economist on paper. Surely we have seen what sharp economists like Thabo Mbeki have done for their countries. I should think the Zambian president is not a sharp economist.