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Ministry of Education lost entire 2014 textbooks budgetary allocation due to court processes

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Permanent secretary Chishimba Nkosha
Permanent secretary Chishimba Nkosha

The Ministry of Education lost the entire 2014 budgetary allocation for textbooks amounting to K60 million due to various court processes.

This came to light this morning during the signing ceremony for contracts for the supply and delivery of school textbooks for Grades 2, 6, 9 and 11 based on the revised curriculum to respective schools countrywide.

General Education Permanent Secretary Chishimba Nkosha says apart from the budget loss, the ministry also lost fifteen months in floating the other tender for the supply and delivery of textbooks for both pupils and teachers in Grades 2, 6, 9 and 11 based on the revised curriculum to respective schools countrywide.

Speaking at the same event, Book Publishers Association of Zambia, Chairman, who is also Oxford Press Country Coordinator, Anson Banda says learners in Zambia deserve access to quality education if they are to be useful in society.

Mr. Banda says publishers will always be there to see to it that they publish books according to syllabus and work together to address challenges faced by learners in the country.

The contractors awarded contracts include; Gray Matter Zambia Limited, Book World Africa, Book Hut Zambia Ltd, MK Publishers Ltd and Oxford University Press.

10 COMMENTS

  1. This is what PF are doing to our children!

    Gross incompetence and dereliction of duty. The result of employment of carders instead of qualified people that KNOW HOW TO DO THE JOB !!!!

    That is PUBLIC MONEY that has now been wasted instead of benefiting the people it was supposed to!

  2. Thats PF for you, all they did was just to tell us in two paragraphs. Did not bother to explain in detail. The money is lost thats it, so we have to borrow from China to print textbooks.

  3. This is what should be headline news…this depriving the future of education…is just skin cringing and then Lazy Lungu will visit a school next week ask why there are no textbooks!

  4. How was the money lost ba PS? Did it go to paying for lawyers, was it stolen, did it go back to central treasury because it wasn’t used? Ba PS clarify your alarming statement. $5.8m is such a huge amount of money.

  5. Do these PFoolish morons really expect genuine suppliers of text books to stand by while fake PF cadres get the contracts at 4 times the normal prices and then they go back to the genuine suppliers to get the text books? Established suppliers have invested for years and cannot afford PF to disrupt their business with corrupt supplies. It is good that some people are suing and blocking these corrupt contracts.

  6. This article is poorly written, ambiguous, incoherent and raises more questions than answers. For instance, what’s meant by “various court processes?” And was the money lost or just unused? Whatever this article is saying, one thing is clear: our leaders don’t seem to realize the importance of education in our country. For our democracy to work we need to have an educated populace. There will be no progress in terms of development, if a large portion of our fellow citizens remain uneducated. Pay extra attention, especially to our children’s education for they are tomorrow’s leaders. Otherwise, countries around us will be progressing and developing, while we remain stuck, if not retrogressing. So, please prioritize education for our children.

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