The Swedish and Finnish Embassies in Zambia have demanded that firm action is taken against officials at the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) who were responsible in stealing donors funds.
A notice from the Embassies and the We Effect project said the review was carried out KPMG (Finland) as a follow-up to the special audit that was finalized in February this year whose finding were shared with the Board of ZNFU yesterday.
The Embassies said some of the findings in the report are of serious concern and that the Board of the ZNFU has been advised to follow up on the findings internally as well as with Zambian law enforcement agencies so that possible fraudulent activities are properly investigated and appropriate action taken so that funds intended for the benefit of Zambian farmers are recovered.
“The cooperating partners are looking forward to see how the union of Zambian farmers takes this forward,” they said.
The Embassies stated that the next likely step is that the cooperating partners will individually request refunds of wrongfully spent funds, in accordance with bilateral agreements and the share of cooperating partners’ individual contributions.
“When suspicions of fraudulent activities occur under programs funded by the tax-payers of Sweden and Finland, it is of outmost importance that they are followed-up and acted upon. Sweden, Finland and We Effect have zero tolerance on corruption,” they said.
The cooperating partners will tomorrow hold a news briefing at the Embassies of Sweden and Finland where they will share details of the audit findings.
The ZNFU, the country’s most influential farmer organisation has been embroiled in a billion Kwacha financial scandal with is embattled Executive Director Ndambo Ndambo accused of diverting huge amounts of money into his personal accounts.
ZNFU is a small organization and it should not take anyone a lot of time to cage them.
Way to go. Other people’s money should not be so loved to the extent of misappropriating it…
After this you blame Govt. individual choices destroy communities, not Govt. ndambo Chipuba!
PF Ministers also need to refund their stolen salaries.
Edgar should also be carefull not to accept salary, he maybe embarrassed in end. Remember Chiluba.
I wholeheartedly support the stance the Swedish and Finnish Embassies are taking in claiming their money back. This is what happens when there is a lack of accountability and when corruption trickles from the top to the bottom. This is also embarrassing for the government at large as it shows a lack of commitment in tackling corruption. It was in the interest of our government to carry out an audit to ensure there is no misappropriation of funds.
HH WOULD have made a better Presdeint.
The Concourt vedict is invalid
My fiance and I was just discussing this and we believe hell will beak loose if HH is not given the keys
Thanks
Bb2014
Missappropreciation of funds is the normal in this country..they even refuse to resign once got…simply refer matters to court and police.
We have a President in Lazy Lungu who is already rich within just 12 months.
Mushota, nanomba fiance obe talakupa…….elekubomfyafe mambala uyo. Remember that you’re not getting any younger and very soon your assets will start sagging.
What disappoints me is where is ACC in all this? This idea of until a matter is reported needs to stop! Attitude of government towards corruption is showing in all this …first Kapoko and then this…and next some stupid blogger or cader will be saying we are sovereign country when these donors start demanding more from GRZ. I have never heard any strong statement from GRZ since this scandal was exposed not even from the opposition to pressure shame!!
YES! THIS IS THE WAY TO GO, DONORS. GET THE FUNDS NOT JUST BACK BUT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. AND THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT THE THIEVES ARE SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTED AND CAGED.
This is embarrassing, but necessary. Most likely, corruption will get worse in the next five years under ECL and PF. Remember, that ECL himself declared that he had K10.9million in assets in 2015. 15 months later, he declared that he now had K23.7million. In other words, how he had acquired K13million in 15 months no one knows, and no explanation has been given. A few months ago, his ministers and their deputies were ordered to vacate the offices they were occupying illegally after the dissolution of parliament. They were supposed to have left, but they illegally stayed in offices, getting paid taxpayer’s money with allowances. And this with impunity, with ECL’s full knowledge. The ConCourt ordered them to leave the offices and pay back the money they had illegally gotten. It’s…
(Continued)… great that the Swedish and Finnish Embassies have decided to take back their money, because what good is it if the money doesn’t benefit the intended target but end up in some guy’s large corrupt pockets? In any other country, where there is respect for the rule of law, a lot of people would have already been thrown in prison for less than this. For instance, former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, in the USA is serving 14 years in prison for corruption, a thing that he could have easily gotten away with had it been in many African countries, including Zambia. ECL doesn’t seem to have the motivation nor the drive to fight corruption and that’s not good for the nation. Corruption is a terrible cancer that can cripple a nation, and hold it back from development. It…
(Continued)… can permeate the whole society from the top down, especially if the leaders at the top don’t have a desire to deliberately fight it, or if they are even the ones being corrupt. If we are serious in Zambia about our fight against corruption, then we need to show it. Create stiffer penalties for anyone convicted of corruption, regardless of their office or status. Remember, no one should be above the law. The AAC needs to be strengthened , and trained in modern ways of fighting corruption. And when someone is arrested for corruption, the media should be allowed full access to the case, to follow the case and report what’s going on to the general public. And this so we don’t see someone arrested today, only to see them free the next day, with no consequences whatsoever,…
(Continued)… and no one even knows what happened in-between. As long as corrupt people don’t go to prison, the whole fight against corruption will be meaningless and a big joke. Again thumbs up for these two Embassies for doing this, thus bringing awareness to this cancer in our country. Next, we want to see a full investigation of what happened, and someone needs to go to jail, firstly for depriving the people that were supposed to be helped with these funds, and secondly for embarrassing the country as a whole.
Mushota, isakuno mwaiche tukulange not the way your boyfriend do it to you. Ule fwaika mwaiche iwe, come back to Zambia.
pf government uko. ba namwela ma Jameson ndalama.We are yet see a lot of shiiiti in the next 5 years of pf government under Jameson Vodka Chakolwa Wrungu…
Hm, uluse ba Mutototo Lol. Hate till you choke mambala kekekekekeke!!!
Mutoto on the contrary most officials in ZNFU are UPND members. Just check there.
WARNING: Do not feed the TROLLS…!
We start by asking Lungu were he stole the $2.3m in one year.
Extend this to govt institutions ,our money was wasted and stolen.this is a tip of iceberg of what is yet to come in the next five years.i feel sorry for my country.
The courts are toothless to say the least. the thieves are protected. I can see this case only solved in Sweden and Finland, then still nothing will happen in Zambia. Then respective Embassies will recall their Envoys.
What an embarrassment for one State house resident.
If lungu the president abuses public funds with impunity like paying ministers illigally after close of parliament , who cares if doonar funds are abused ?
Unfortunately with PF the message is clear, steal while you can…..
Mambala nasontapo no kusonta ati shanunkila. Wa kwisa uyu wine pumbafu?
Just as an observation, again we have European embassies initiating legal actions and seemingly law enforcers in Zambia have no hand. Is Zambia a free for all? It’s a problem when gov’t does not tightly control these donors and the recipients of the funds. Donor funds should be centrally controlled through the Agriculture Ministry between gov’ts and embassy donors. Further more the correct procedure for these embassies is not to hold a press conference announcing their enforcement in our country, but to take a complaint out with relevant Zambian law enforcers for the bodies concerned. These whites are running wild in Zambia trying to buy poor black Zambians for land and trade for their countries. A new gov’t just came in and already before inauguration the whites that we’re…
These whites are running wild in Zambia trying to buy poor black Zambians for land and trade for their countries. A new gov’t just came in and already before inauguration the whites that we’re hoping their cabal would win, are on the war path.
Initially funds were routed through GRZ accounts, but then the funds were misapplied/misdirected. Then donors started transferring funds directly to entities like ZNFU, where misappropriation has continued. So eventually the donors will stop assisting and the targeted recipients will continue to suffer. It is sad that corruption has become a norm in Zambia.
@Patriot Abroad, @Bufi is right (despite the name). Remember what happened at MOH..?
Lack of political will. That person who said steal while you can is right. Close the prisons please, reward for hard work out the window. Let us all join the PF and plunder together, as ONE ZAMBIA, ONE NATION. Tired of this nonsense!
(Fake) @Patriot Abroad, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Do you live in some authoritarian country somewhere, where there’s no freedom of information? What did you expect these Embassies to do? These are public funds that were stolen, so the public needs to know what’s going on. These are people’s funds. So why shouldn’t the people publicly know what happened? Why your demand for secrecy? I’m sure initially when the donors announced the donations they made it publicly, and no one complained, but when the money goes missing and they announce it publicly, you have a problem with that? What the heck?
There us too much donor funding in Zambia. The sums are breath taking and no way are we seeing the results of such donations. The gov’t really needs to stop this kind of funding and take control if that is needed.
Ati stealing money! LOL! Misappropriation more like it, we are yet to recover funds from the former ZNAN. These donors make these MOUs with these entities, manje ndalama zika soba ati government! Thaiko!
All those PF Defectors and Members who acquired hefty wealth congregating at Hungry Hyena’s Privitisation Property the law will hunt you down and stone will be left unturned.
THIS TIME AROUND IT WILL BE WORSE SINCE THE COUNTRY HAS GONE BACK TO THE DOGS.
Mr ARABIC MINDED , May I know what breed of a dog you are, since you are saying the country has gone to dogs
It’s Ndambo and Dr Evelyn Nguleka. These were reported to ACC but that place needs to be changed,DEC and ACC themselves are run by corrupt people. We urge President Edgar Lungu to sweep clean the Police,DEC and ACC to rid Zambia of stinking corruption. The concerns raised by these cooperating partners are of very serious but our security and investigating wings are very corrupt.
For those who are commenting with hate speech just look at what you are saying. It’s a reflection of the dullness and foolishness of the person you are. Zambia cant develop with sick attitudes such as this. HH lost because He is not the Majority that Zambians want and he himself is a thief,proven fact. When you accuse Lungu of stealing point at what he has stolen Instead of just talking nonsense from nowhere.
Why do you think Wandie resigned ? The ACC is a frustrating place to work for under this regime
Lungu is a thief. Fact. He was disbarred by LAZ for stealing client funds.
Lungu is corrupt. Fact. How did he increase wealth to K23 m in one year at State House.
Lungu is violent. Fact. He ran a brutal violent campaign against opposition in Lusaka and Copperbelt. No one wore party regalia and lived to see another day.
The man who stole or the money is Lozi. So, what are you people who call other tribes masholi going to do about it because even Europeans now know that Lozis are thieves just because of one greedy man. The lesson is don’t insult the whole village when one people steals from you.
But the man who stole the money is also Zambian.
Yuma, do you apply what you preach?
And the main characters in the biggest money looting Matrix of Plunder were Fredrick Chiluba,
Xanvier Chungu, Stella Chibanda, Atan Shansonga, Aaron Chungu, Faustin Kabwe, Iren Kabwe, Francis Kaunda, Boutique Basile, Raphael Soriano, Richard Sakala, CJ Ngulube,…..is the picture emerging?!!!!
Read the case of Attorney General of Zambia v Meer Care and Desai and others [2006] EWCA Civ 390
Chungu, Kaunda, Kabwe are from Luapula. Atan is Tonga while Sakala and Ngulube are from Kumawa. There are no Bembas in Luapula. Tribes in Luapula are from the Lunda empire while Bembas are from the Luba empire.
Pay back the money. That’s why this country will remain underdeveloped.Bafipelako ulupiya fyaiba. If they won’t pay you should prosecute them. That’s why we see some people posing in expensive and luxurious vehicles and building mansions kanshi shakwiba.
I agree with you. This is the president’s chance and time to shine.
Oh! Like we all didn’t see that coming from a mile away hahaha.
DO NOT EXPECT THE PRESIDENT TO BE EVERYWHERE BAMAMBALA IMWE
ONLY NEXT TO THE BOTTLE OF JAMESON?
Donors don’t listen misapproiation of all sorts of things had been brought to their attention for a long time but they preferred to look the other way. It has very well known for years within the farming cycles the Ndambo was putting lots of money to personal use, sadly even funding known board members lavish life styles. Thank you for finally bringing this matter in the open.
Guys may I ask, whats exactly wrong with Africans? No matter we are given we somehow always manage to screw things up. These very kind people are sacrificing a lot for us even though the economies in Europe are contracting. In us the inbuilt corruption is more than any other known earthly species known by humanity. I struggle to find examples of Africans who can start and finish a task without screwing something up. WTH is our problem? To those old enough, Do you remember Zambia Airways, Zambia Railways, Dairy Produce Board (DPB), Zambia Consumer Buying Corporation (ZCBC) , Mwaiseni Stores (MS), United Bus Company of Zambia (UBZ), Dunlop, Livingstone Motor Assembly, Mansa Batteries, Chipata Bicycle company all failed because of the same reason that I will not repeat here one more…
Genetics?
Ba kapoli balilya impiya sha ba limi. This is why we are not going anywhere with PF. Time to shut down the country and move everyone to Iceland! Let the white people develop the country. The niggaz have failed to run the country. Mark my words if all Zambians including the the president and his ministers relocated to the UK and the British went to zambia. Zambians would mess up the UK such that they would loot Bank of England. The British would develop Zambia to unknown heights. Bupuba bwalichilamu my zambia!
You are such an a,rse. British this British that….we are an independent state. The country you are proud of does not care about our well being. They see us a a client. Please we are capable of running our own affairs!!
Project money should be refunded when used for what was not intended for. We hope the cleaner up exercise will be swift and bring those found wanting to book
Mr ARABIC MINDED , May I know what breed of a dog you are, since you are saying the country has gone to dogs
Most of the members of ZNFU are TONGAS and LOZIS, so they were cheated by HH to use this important funds to fund his campaign so that when he wins the election, they could be promoted, alas GOD IS great he did not allow these mo nistors to win so that they can be exposed. JAIL THE F00 LS they don’t deserve to be in our society. Let their masters HH and Costine Chilala be exposed as well.