Vice President Inonge Wina has hinted that ballot papers for the 2016 general elections might be printed locally.
Mrs Wina told Parliament this morning during the Vice President’s Question and Answer session that Government is currently modernising Government Printers and has installed state of art equipment to enable the firm print ballot papers.
She said there are only two components yet to be installed on the newly acquired equipment to enable Government Printers print ballot papers.
Mrs Wina further revealed that Government Printers is one of the firms that bid for the tender to print the ballot papers for the 2016 general elections.
She also dispelled assertions that President Edgar Lungu pressurised the Electoral Commission of Zambia into picking a Dubai firm to print the ballot papers.
Mrs Wina said State House did not play any hard in the Commission’s recommending the Dubai company to be awarded the multi-million-dollar tender.
She said the Commission is an autonomous institution that does not take any orders from any one.
“The ECZ has always decided where to print ballot papers and the President including myself does not direct where to print the ballot papers. The choice of printing in Dubai choice has nothing to do with State House or my office,” she said.
I don’t really agree that ECZ is independent. May be just on paper but in reality it will incline to support the government of the day. I will count up to 10 and then calm down. Let’s see where this is going.
It is very strange that before getting in power, PF advocated and pushed for ballot papers to be printed in Zambia, when they came in power, they moved the printing from South Africa to the UK and now to Dubai. WTF!!
Even if he tells them to go for Dubai firm it is ok.. he is the President and he makes decissions for all Zambians wherever they are and whatever political party they belong to… uochakalipa abule iliso apele imbwa!
The mother of all liars & the liar of all mothers is at it again!!! Telling us more PamaFi lies!!!
#chagwamustfall!!
Vote wisely 11/8/2016!! Vote Zambia Forward!! Vote UPND!!!
I thank you!!
Being chronic flip-floppers is a curse! PFools cannot even get their lies coordinated and consistent. With PF the truth is elastic and relative.
Oh come on people!!These stupid PF *****s cant for a moment be consistent. Dubai firm given tender to print ballot papers, now papers will be printed locally. How much will it cost for breach of contract/tender awarded to a Dubai firm. What sort of government is this?
@PM read it say recommended not contacted, even under 5 HH knows this when he blurted out innuendoes that Lungu will print paper…There will no breach of contract cost only in the imagination UPND/ZWD cronies as usual.
Anyway we expect ZWD/UPND to lose and cry … as usaul
Pm you are a dog.your fellow dogs told you a lie.the tender hasn’t been awarded yet you *****.
@PM OUR GOD GIVEN VP SAYS ‘MIGHT’ NOT WILL. MIGHT IS A SIMPLE PAST TENSE OF MAY. E.G I MAY GO TO LSK MR/MS PM DOES NOT MEAN I WILL GO TO LSK. BITTERNESS WILL NOT MAKE YO UP AND DOWN PARTY ASCEND TO POWER. PLEASE BE SOBER AND CALM.
YOU HAVE CLEAR CLUE WHO THE PEOPLES CHOICE IS…ECL
better to print in Zambia we Dubai? awe bukabwalala
madam vice president, on one hand you are saying ballot papers might be printed in Zambia on the hand ECZ has picked Dubai firm. Isnt this interfering in ECZ affairs?
Yeah how does she know that Government Printers might print the papers if she has no ‘inside knowledge’ of the ECZ operatiions? Even if they had the equipment and capability to print, she said it was a tender process, so it was not a guarantee that they would have been picked.
For goodness sake no local business can print ballot papers? This is strange indeed. Ballot papers don’t require any sophisticated biometric features at all. We can print newspapers and books so how come we can’t print ballot papers? Or even these are printed overseas?
And why would they cost millions of dollars? I’m not privy to ballot paper printing but surely the service shouldn’t cost millions of dollars… it’s just another way of getting kickbacks. What a stinking country this is.
Even if he tells them to go for Dubai firm it is ok.. he is the President and he makes decissions for all Zambians wherever they are and whatever political party they belong to… uochakalipa abule iliso apele imbwa!
Wrong… everyone (including Lungu) are supposed to be on the same playing field in an election. He stops being president when it comes to elections; he is just another candidate.
Even grand parent’s are now spercialised in stealing;munungu wahau
We all know Dubai is a play ground for Israeli dirty tricks companies like the one PF engaged.
Iwe, Israel and Dubai are the worst of enemies. Get your facts right
Get up to date with current affaires, what worst enemies?? Do you think dubai would be developed to the current level without israeli participation and aquence overseen by the USA ??? So pipo see an Arab country and just think of enmity between that country and the isrealis, FYI no Muslim country in the middle east that is a sworn enemy of isrealis will develop.
This is high level current affaires my friend.
Zambians have already made up their minds to vote PF out of power. Your own prophet says Lungu went to consult a sangoma last month yet Lungu has f00led some Christians that he is a God fearing man. Se here m.youtube.com/watch?v=gDqGUDDIg-8 May be the dark dot the prophet saw can explain why we have had so many bad deadly accidents like what happened under Sata.
Kashemoshemo kabuhaata; bolungu ni pf:::::ki:ma ci pa fieela
Correction..not Zambians, as Zambians are too smart to vote in Un Patriotic NeanDerthals. Only Neanderthals will vote for their own kind. Zambians will vote ECL back in power, FULL STOP!
Even if he tells them to go for Dubai firm it is ok.. he is the President and he makes decissions for all Zambians wherever they are and whatever political party they belong to… uochakalipa abule iliso apele imbwa!
The dull HH, Vernon Mwaanga and you Up and Down cadres shock me. Did you not see the tender for printing of ballot papers and a host of other electoral materials like solar lamps , chairs etc in the newspapers in February ?. Why did you not object at that point? Because as an international tender everyone from any part of the world is eligible to participate. I passed in the tender with an Indian outfit but we lost. Even today ECZ is running tenders for supply of motor vehicles and auditing services
ECZ received a number of bids from every where and the Procurement Team settled on the best bid ( namely the firm in Dubai)
By the way Dubai is far cheaper than South Africa . Those of us who do business especially printing have found that Dubai is cheaper and better than South Africa…
Hippppppo matuviii ;mumbi nyooo:dora distroyer of kwacha munu ‘ngu:::
sorry meant participated.
Up and Down Party please grow up. Read the newspapers and participate in these tenders.
By the way there is one for procurement of petroleum products by Ministry of Energy. Participate so that you will not allege that EL is using State House to hand out tenders.
Pf’s popularity has drastically gone down. The question of where ballot papers should be printed from just shows Pf’s fear of losing the coming election.
Low level thinking!!
Can someone make me understand this: After 50 years of independence we cannot surely print our own ballot papers with all the IT advancements in this modern world!!!Kwena Zambia yena patali where development is concerned!!
She says ecz is independent then adds goverment printers also bid and have new equipment,why was this put on open tender?