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Government is covering up budget overrun – Saunders

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Political analyst Dante Saunders
Political analyst Dante Saunders

A Political Analyst says government should come up with better ways of covering up the purported budget overrun instead of refuting the truth.

Dante Saunders says the issue of the budget overrun is not a question of debate by political leaders but a fact.

Mr. Saunders tells QFM News that government should find a solution instead of running away from the fact by stating that it has enough money.

He says it is for the same reason that people do not agree with the decision to remove subsidies, accusing government of trying to cover up the budget overrun at the expense of the people of Zambia.

Mr. Saunders adds that the government of former president Rupiah Banda left a lot of money in the foreign reserves but that no one has accounted for how the money has been used since the former president left office.

He has encouraged Zambians should question how their money is being used by government.

9 COMMENTS

  1. Do the PF even know what proper budgetting is or are they operating like a village kantemba with no financial ringfencing?

    • Abena Enka, you and your relative Saunders are suffering from senile dementia. Please continue blabbing pointlessly while PF get on with the programme.

      When people start throwing around baseless inuendos, they are heading for a fall.

    • Our money has been spent like Ziwaya (fried cone by the PF).

      Ndalama zasila, now they are panicking, to an extent of offering non-cash payments to farmers. Fertilizer is not a legal tender to exchange for maize.

      What type of fertilizer are you going to give? There are some areas in Zambia which dont need certain types for fertilizer. What if I am a businessman, I buy maize in order to resell and my client needs maize, do you have a factory which converts maize to fertilizer?

  2. Dante Saunders a Political analyst, my foot? Since when did Dante became one? The man is a run-away puppet from Zimbabwe during the smith era and went to encroach in Ndola’s famous ma-coloured compound where he ended up as a ‘kaponya’ smoking chamba and mashabeen. Today he is an analyst? Only in Zambia can these things happen…

    • Have respect please. Whether he came from Zim or Uk or from the moon it does not matter. |What matters is the fact that the budget has been blown out by the PF. It does not require one to be an economist to see. Face the fact in an unbiased manner. But if you look at this as a cadre, it will be difficult for you to understand.

  3. Paradoxically,Zambia will use the Chikwada formula since knocking off a some zero’s from the currence has’nt worked.”Print more money and pump it into circulation.”It sounds like the next option. Community development funds has gone to relatives and girl friends of a named minister by the Kabimba Masebo team.GRZ is paying huge sums of money for Dick Masebo and Sibongile Mwamba.As a matter of fact sibongile should be behind bars for her reported drug offences.But ,Under UKWA, Sibongile’s case has gone cold and she has been secretly moved out of Zambia using tax payers money to escape justice.What has happened to her case is for every Zambian to speculate.May be the judges and police chain of command needs locking up for corruption so that Sibongile is free to have sex in Namibia.

  4. Brace yourselves for another by-election as Dora Siliya has lost her Petauke seat. Mamamama! what a country.

  5. Dante is spot on. We need to be told the truth because it is clear to us that the budget has been over-run. Will all the unbudgeted expenses, what else do you expect? Miseries!!!

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