FDD President Edith Nawakwi says the imported wrong crude oil smacks of corruption of the highest order and has far reaching economic consequences for the country.
Ms. Nawakwi said both republican President Edgar Lungu and Energy Minister Christopher Yaluma should be held responsible as the importation of oil is under the preserve of the Government.
“This smacks of the deepest scam were our people have put money in their pockets and left the country to be injured. In another country the Minister of Energy and all involved would have been fired by now that is why am saying that this should be led on the door step of the Minister of Defence (the President). He is aware of what has happened, they are shrouding it in ‘we are investigating’ what is there to investigate? All of us have the reports and we all know what is happening at indeni.
This is like going in a market and buying salaula. They actually went shopping for salaula crude. No one should hound wink the Zambian people and say that the crude oil is faulty, faulty is the word you use on something which is not properly made so for anyone to use the word faulty is actually a confirmation that we bought salaula crude. Faulty products are usually auctioned as seconds.” Ms. Nawakwi said.
She challenged Government to tell the nation how the country ended up in this mess when there is a clearly spelled out procedure for procuring oil.
“We need to know the following; Who issued the contract of supply and to who?
Certainly the onus is on the Minister of Energy because we have been told that the supply of feed stock is the preserve of the Government. President Lungu and his Cabinet should come out in the open and own up to this scam.
When loading there is an inspection, we need to know who inspected the cargo. The inspections will confirm the content of what you loaded. When the ship sails from Oman as in this case you expect it to be on the Indian Ocean and many thing s happen at sea, some times ships are swapped or cargo is swapped so when offloading you need your Inspector to inspect and confirm that what they loaded in Oman is what is has arrived at the point of discharge when that is done you can discharge otherwise you can reject the cargo if it is not what you loaded.
The inspector is fully aware of this process so we need answers, who are our inspectors who inspected the cargo because it should not even have been offloaded.”
She explained the specifications of the feed stock suitable for the Indeni refinery.
“The Zambian refinery can only refine spiked crude which is a mixture of refined heavy crude (refined crude oil) and light crude oil because our refinery is made in such a way that we predetermine how much Diesel we get, Petrol, Jet A1 fuel and other products we need to get so we have to make a cocktail, when you say spike it means a cocktail of heavy crude and light crude oil.
The specifications of this Italian built refinery was made so that you put crude oil which will give us certain products now if you don’t have that then we have a problem. The pipe line was tailored to transport spiked crude if you don’t have spiked crude the pipe line will corrode as it has happened because they brought scam, the worst leftover and in the leftovers you have alot of acid.”
She outlined the repercussions of importing dirty crude oil by the PF Government.
“The consequences of the actions by this Government are the following; Damage to motor vehicle engines by the users of these products in due course because the hydro cracker is not able to pick out all the acidity from the products that will come out of that crude oil. They will not be able to treat it fully and remove all the impurities.
The second problem is that they will not get enough products even if you were to refine the remaining 115000 metric tons which is not yet processed. We are bound to have shortages and more price hikes of diesel and patrol because they will be taking out more heavy fuel oil than products. They will have huge stocks of heavy fuel oil. Maybe be out of 115000 metric tons even 50,000 metric tonnes will be heavy fuel oil were are they going to store it because most users have migrated from heavy fuel oil to electric fired boilers.
You will also see planes begin to redirect to other countries for refueling because the the don’t want their engines to be damaged by contaminated Jet A1 fuel.
The third problem is that the hydro cracker is not able to take products which are contaminated. It will burn and you will find that Indeni has to shut down every week to prevent the hydro cracker from burning, even the pipes through which they are pumping this contaminated oil will begin to corrode so they have to continuously replace them or clean them. Ideally they should run uninterrupted for 3 months or 6 months if they have done prementenace work.”
Ms. Nawakwi also noted that restarting the refinery is a big technical challenge which is costly and exposes the lives of engineers to grave danger.
“This country is exposing the young engineers to grave danger. You don’t start and stop the refinery every week. That process will cost Indeni K10million. It is never done anywhere in the world that everyweek you shut down and restart a refinery, it is technically impossible.”
Ms. Nawakwi was commenting on the importation of ” faulty crude oil” by government.
In other words Zambia’s ernegy crisis will worsen and this time round it will take us and put us back in position we were pre-refinery days. To crown it all, we get to happily for it!
Ba mwansakabinga! Mukafwa nempiya mwaiba shikashale.
This is what you get from voting chaotic thieving Bembas into power. Now we will be stuck at home without fuel, in the dark because there’s load shedding, probably with no food because the govt cannot set a floor price for maize, and in the meantime Chikwanda and his coterie of thieves will continue stealing the Eurobonds. #MonkeysInTheMaizeField
And I quote “faulty is the word you use on something which is not properly made so for anyone to use the word faulty is actually a confirmation that we bought salaula crude.” end quote. No wonder they after you with screaming headline mama, fakani malasha expose. HH warned months ago about electrical supply shortage looming cadres as usual hurled insults here we are. Mama Nawakwi is sounding another alarm instead of providing evidence that this cant happen they will hurl insults then when there is a fuel crisis Chama and Mumbi will divert attention to Tonga and Bembas being trib.a.list. Unfortunately this time round God will show you up for 2 major mistakes 1. accussing God (act of nature) for power shortage and 2. The blood of those cadres killed with no case is calling. Mwapia
Its up to Zambians to restore the nations’ dignity and its place to where it was before the onset yakuilshanya ati “Tefyo chali ifi twalikwete……… Nomba fyalubene pesa?” Zambia can still be the great nation that it “once” was. For now like it or not the nation is at the mercy of cadres and surviving on auto pilot. For a few good men none of which are currently in government, God has not allowed total destruction.
Now talk Kambwili and Chama you are the ones who talk the loudest – what have you got to say about the crude oil???? You are equally ashamed of what is happening in your government aren’t you? How about the eurobond that you will burden your grand grand children to pay? Mama mama you are really in a fix!
Should read,”We happily get to pay for it”.
Anyway, who will understand all this stuff in this government?
Yaluma is a nuisance. First it was Zesco. Now indeni. He could be looting in anticipation of an impending exit next year!
Dont single him out, its a group acting collectively
This is a very serious matter which we need government to come out clean otherwise many peoples vehicles will be damaged.
Who inspected the crude oil?
Who gave the contract for this supply?
Zambians is this the way the government will take the unwise urban dwellers for granted?
Come on country men this government has caused more harm to us.We need change next year.
What a coincidence!! I had a funny dream last night that a similar thing happened in an imaginary country called Dambia, the funniest part of the dream was that in that imaginary country some imaginary bishops praised the imaginary government and its imaginary leadership. I cant tell you how the dream ended because I woke up cause I had fallen off the bed laughing……. weird
No accountability in PF, any shi.t happens, they are all corrupt and don’t want to be exposed by making any one accountable
And yet, our “learned” Minister of Justice and his nursery SC’s in AG Chambers will cover-up all documentary evidence as “State Secrets”.
They are forgetting that Zambia has ratified UN Convention against corruption (2003) and hiding behind “State Secrets” amounts to helping and abating corruption.
But then, what you expect from the bunch of failed lawyers whose only qualification is theft and greed.
This is the worst scandal in PF. The Head of State must fire people otherwise, we will conclude that he is involved. How much more do they want to steal? They will die and leave Zambia and the Money. So what benefits do they get.
In the Bible – Ecclesiates 3: 1- 11 says there is time for everything on Earth. A time to be born and a time to Die.
I rest my case.
Yes it is bad, but Ba Nawakwi what about you and the Carrington Maize Saga? Anyway it takes a thief to catch a thief.
Mature people look at the current crisis and reflect on what has been revealed. Children say stuff like what you have said because it adds no value to sorting out the current problems. Be mature.
Cadres even after Antonio Mwanza corrected you that its “Carlington” and not “Carrington” you “carry-on” ha ha ha. Planks who cant even accuse correctly. Answer the issues she has raised and report her kaili since you know something.
That is where you people go wrong. Let us address the issue at hand. What has the carrington maize saga to do with oil today?
Terrible thinking indeed…………………………..She has explained as clearly as possible and only a shallow mind would disagree with her.
These issues have been talked about by opposition for a long time now, but the Govt decides to take a blind eye.
My Zambia i mourn for you…………………………..
And the docile Zambians will also have to pay for this one and by the way no one will get fired…really laughable!!
..KCM was instructed to return the toxic concentrate back to the suppliers….bcos of environment concerned….how are they going to dispose off the heavy fuel oil….its a scam..heads must roll
Heads will stay right where they are, this is Zambia under Pabwato
Mumbi Phiri can’t understand all these things and I would like her to challenge the learned Nawakwi on this issue like she did the last, bluffing. Thanks madam for the useful information you have given us, these visionless PF are taking us no where. IFINTU NO LUNGU 2016.
With all due respect to all other pre-school teachers, I hear Mumbi is a pre-school teacher so let me break it down to a language she is more familiar with gugu gaga gu indeni gugu gaga crude oil gu gugu damage gaga gu gugu gaga faulty gugu gaga gu gugu gaga import gugu gaga gu gugu gaga corruption gugu gaga gu gugu gaga indeni. I am sure now she understands….
Thanks Edith. We need to impeach this gvt.Nothing has ever worked since PF took over. All irresponsible,incompetent,corrupt to the bone party of criminals.PF has been a huge liability to the nation.We have lost a lot as a nation due to PF
Someone educate me. The “faulty” crude is already in TAZAMA pipeline & has gotten to indeni plant. What happens to this crude?How does it get pumped out, can it be reversed back to Dar? How does it get disposed off?
Meanwhile Kamwendo Munjila is off to Uganda like everything is normal.
I wouldn’t be surprised if one of these planks suggests pouring it into the Kariba to try and “raise” the water levels to reduce load shedding, just wait… This is the new normal. Meanwhile while we wonder about these pertinent things others will call us negative. Let me stop Zambia is the best country with the best economy and best leadership I am loving it.
As always the docile Zambians will complain, throw dust and be outraged for a day. When the time comes to vote they still vote for visionless ECL and the Political Failures. I wonder what-ever happened to the Zambian who could stage riots, take on the mighty KK regime and bring UNIP to its knees. Cry My Beloved Country
In short to summarise…Zambia n it’s citizens are a huge huge huge huge gigantic atm machines for some handfull politicians!!!!! Isn’t this labelled under TREASON?????it’s time we start practicing citizens arrest….believe me after they r rounded up…Zambia will b the best country on earth potentially…these fools are capable of putting Zambia on sale ..U never know…
We love our cold beer and football n women…N these days with load shedding I doubt if we get ice cold beers…so we are peacefull…we don’t believe in rioting like in kaunda times…so napapata dnt bring these issues of rioting….
Some of us who are trained in plant operations, management, and with a knowledge of sciences have seen much in our industries. Quality of products, even edible, is compromised. If you bring this up, you are ridiculed by others, mostly ignorant, and risk being rendered jobless. This country needs moral redemption.