Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Nawakwi chalenges Finance Minister to publish the perfomance of the budget

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FDD President Edith Nawakwi
FDD President Edith Nawakwi

Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) president Edith Nawakwi has challenged Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda to publish the performance of the budget in the same manner that his predecessors published it.

Speaking in an interview with Qfm news, Ms. Nawakwi said that it will only be fair to the majority tax payers in the country if the Minister of Finance clearly states how much monies where allocated for each sector and how much has been used so far.

Ms Nawakwi noted that by doing so, the oppositions and the people of Zambia in general will have a clear understanding on how much was also allocated for the continued hosting of by elections in the country.

The FDD leader stressed that the minister of finance should do his work by simply publishing line by line for each ministry how much was budgeted for and how much has been spent so far.

34 COMMENTS

  1. This is a very reasonable request and should be one of the key perforamance indicators for any sitting MOF. These people are operating as if they are running a family kantemba with decisions being made without consultation.

    • How does she defect when she has been to school?she is a graduate you don’t know? She can’t fit in Pf. PF is for ancient graduates like alexander chikwanda and under achieving graduates like splinter kapimbe and kilometre sum par.you get it?

    • Nawakwi “knows“ stealing…she can see it from afar… remember she was in the `game` with abane FTJ!!!

  2. Ka miles sampa respond, thats why you fled the ministry of finance because you didnt want to be part of the mess

  3. I agree with Edith on this one.Thats when variances will be shown which the sitting MOF must explain. Infact, we need such information published on a quarterly basis.If there is no law to compel the sitting MOF to provide such infromation, its time such law was passed.

  4. sure!!… he should publish,,, well said!!! mama Nawakwi, They are forgetting that they are challenging someone who knows the game,,, and someone who stole with abane FJT… and know the lopholes…. game on!! lets see who is who!!!

    • inform the public on what? ask kawasaki if she was doing that when she was finance minister.all i can remember about her is indecent dressing in parliament.She was a toothless finance minister like siliwa airport radar, noisy and seximbwa.

      imforming the public? what public? Zambian sleeping(ZWD).
      Note that there is food for dogs and human beings.we will always update those who mean well the electorate in the villages.

    • Dear MMD DIE HARD LUSAMBO, your inability to clearly bring out your counter-views on such a simple subject matter and stay on course, but instead degenerate into name-calling, ranting and profanity, speaks volumes about you. I have a hunch you are a ‘beneficially’ of this budget overran.

    • Dear MMD DIE HARD LUSAMBO, your inability to bring out your counter-views on this simple subject and stay on course, but instead quickly degenerate to name-calling, ranting and profanity speaks volumes about your level of maturity AND level of capacity. A mature person would see sense in keeping stakeholders informed, and Lord and behold, Mr Chikwanda has just just seen sense and released budget performance figures. I suppose you are mad at him now, or will you go and hide in a cupboard like a minor?

  5. I wish people understood what a budget is. For goodness sake it is a plan and any plan will have variances which Edith understands very well. What was the performance of her budget when she was minister of Finance? Why does she want to deceive people when the only thing she managed in her budget is to give her Boyfriend FT J Presidential slush fund on time. People should not be jealous for nothing. Am disgusted with the behavior of these so called educated.

    • What jelousy Mr. HH!! is asking for accountability jelousy…These are national resources…Yes even if there are variances we need to see to what extent…

    • so in short you are saying you have absolutely no interest in knowing how the budget is being implemented and the extent of the variances therein so far? Is that what you are saying my friend?

    • @
      iwe…@@@@@
      nawakwi has done nothing wrong by asking the minister to publish, in fact those budget issues must be published in black and white `automatically` without people asking or fighting about them!!!!

    • I agree with you. The budget is a guide. People should give PF a chance to perform and I think they are on the right track right now.

      However, it will be great to see government expenditure against planned activities. This will give the PF an opportunity to refocus in the next years budget and for people to share some more ideas. The list the PF govt can do is to publish a ministry by ministry expenditure. Bravo PF, you already published your expenditure, but you need to go a mile further to give more information. You guys a doing a commendable job so far.

  6. This is the most reasonable request and should be supported by all patriotic Zambians. The PF government are stewards of the resources on behalf of the people of Zambia and are therefore accountable for the use of these resources

  7. Where is this yaping Chaps Sampa. Imwe Ba PF, you have now resurfaced. We were debating over airport taxes and you went in hiding???????

  8. @italian
    you think the can answer you… there are waiting for someone from `above` to issue a statement first,,, then you will see them react,,, typical of PF!!! They run away from facts and hide behind press statements

  9. I do not seem to understand why this opposition are saying that there is a budget over run. Mr Sampa has clearly indicated that the money they provided for in the budget for by- elections has already been spent. So they are now using the money provided for un planned expenses just like the by elections (Contigent Fund). This is a prudent management of the budget. Bana Wakwe wants to look at the performance of the budget, there is nothing wrong with that. She is just misleading the nation. The budget is just a guide of income and expenditure, definitely you can not spend on some thing you did not plan for otherwise the contigent fund is there to cater for that and there is no way you curtail democracy

    • Have you ever managed budgets my friend. You sound raw and inexperinced. Let those knowledgeable contribute.

  10. Can someone please advise whether at any point Ms Nawakwi did anything of the kind during her tenure? If she did , kudos, otherwise she should not expect a higher standard from her friends when in a similar position she could not reach those same “lofty” standards!

  11. I support Mama Nawaki’s suggestion !!! If the PF has nothing to hide, then let them bring everything to the fore and lay it bare so that analysts can interpret it the ordinary masses out there !!!!

  12. u people who are insulting Nawakwi on this one its u who are fools, bcoz she has a point and she is reacting from miles sampa’s lies that there is no budget overun when there is. even SATA’s response on budget overrun is not making any sense. sampa chipuba saana his calculation when he said by-election only costed 17bn its shows how PF are full of BUFI. ECZ told the nation that each by-election cost almost 7bn how can 10 by-elections cost 17bn as this chipuba miles sampa claims, u people be objective when posting some of your meaningless and useless comments on this online this is not PF site like the post newspaper where u want only pro govt comments

    • Mr Suntwe, if this is your understanding of constructive criticism then I would rather be a kolwe.

  13. Ba LT, there is a difference between moderating and sensorship. What have you done to my response to brainless # 19 Win ta mazyu or is Winter Maso?

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