President Edgar Lungu has made the following changes at Permanent Secretary level with immediate effect:
President Lungu has transferred Permanent Secretary for Copperbelt Province Mr Elias Kamanga to Northern Province taking over from Dr. Jobbicks Kalumba who moves to Muchinga Province in the same capacity.
Muchinga Province Permanent Secretary Mr Bright Nundwe moves to the Copperbelt Province in the same capacity whilst Southern Province Permanent Mr Sibanze Simuchoba swaps with Western Province Permanent Secretary Mr Mwangala Liomba.
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 92 (1) of the Constitution of Zambia, the President has also promoted Southern Province Provincial Planner Mr Kennedy Mubanga to Deputy Permanent Secretary in the same province taking over from Mr Doughlous Ngimbu who moves to North Western Province in the same capacity.
Apart from addressing some administrative challenges, President Lungu expects the moved individuals to double up their efforts and make considerable improvements in their work ethics, productivity and ensure strict oversight as controlling officers.
This is according to a statement issued by Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda.
I suspect ECL is disguising something sinister he’s about to do. Why move them and ask them to tighten controls if they haven’t in the past? Fake dribbling!
The same failures are moved and expecting better results. So, come next Auditor General’s report, we will have the same excuses. ‘I don’t understand English.’
Why not ministers? Like Dora to Information, the other chick Kampamba to tourism, Kapyongo to Agriculture.
Isn’t this the man who claimed he would fire some corrupt ministers and did nothing.
This is a toothless visionless and clueless president .
This change is nothing other than fixing kambwili and Hikainde’s supporters
Ladies and gentlemen he is is the greatest president zambia has ever done.
Masterful reshuffles AGAIN!
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@Mushota masterful (adjective) according to the Oxford dictionary means:
1. powerful and able to control or manipulate others. “he looked masculine and masterful”
synonyms: commanding, cunningly powerful, controlling, imposing, magisterial, lordly, authoritative, dominating, domineering, overbearing, overweening, imperious, bossy, peremptory, high-handed, arrogant, autocratic, dictatorial, tyrannical, despotic; informal pushy
The question is I am at a loss to know why you equate ECL to masterful!
MB – what are you insinuating at ?
You talk as though you are remotely my equal ?
I don’t have my equal one on here you see.
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Is this still the a, e, i, o, u, IQ equivalent, 689 or whatever score attainment claimant still talking crap? Is it insinuating at or just insinuating. And we have a PhD?
Lungu’s posture of holding hands symbolic of a humble man must stop until he has explained all the corruption allegations leveled against him and his govt including the recent LUNTEX/RATSA claims that someone owns a fleet of trucks.
Bati bumo bu phd wa mafi! No mwaice pa kamwala akwatako amamo.
And some people fall for this nonsense called Mushota when you can see lies all over it!
More shake ups are needed. There have been a lot of transfers at Civil Servant level but non at Cabinet level for a long time. People grow complacent if they stay too long on the job. Nkandu Luo and a few others need to be moved around.
Such things should go unannounced as they have no bearing the life of Zambians . It just means more money in the pockets of these seat warmers . Lets face it and call a spade a spade . Lungu has failed .
Lazy Lungu is one useless man…making changes in the wrong places…how did we end up with this bum!!
Coz sick Sata choose him to warm his sit while going for treatment abroad and coincidentally he died ….
Why is this even hitting the headlines?
How do transfers improve work ethics, productivity and ensure strict oversight, when its the same people doing almost the same jobs.
Reshuffling mediocrity is still living with mediocrity.Bwana Lungu take a cue – there’s a reason why Zambians have attuned to Chinese contractors coz they got tired of homegrown mediocrity.
Bena bamona kwati kuteya pool.
why have they have been transferred? if is due to poor performance then they should be relieved of their duties and replaced by competent officers.
Zambia as a nation is incapacitated.
When will Lungu step down corruption is too high on his call the man has even failed to fire his corrupt ministers but protect them instead. He will be remembered as the most hopeless leader Zambia ever had.
some of the comments you even see how dull someone is ,firstly what is news ?unless a minister is fired then to you it makes news fools ,your agenda wont work in zambia
Moving corruption around….lungu can you act on the AGs report…….42/42 And the overpriced ambulances we will not expect any direction from you because you got a cut……..but at least the AG report you can’t hide…..
Well done Mr. President! Merry Christmas and God bless you!
Ba President how of all things you can appoint Mr. Kennedy Mubanga to Deputy Permanent Secretary . The boy is a big crook. Check with the Sports Ministry and Zambia Amateur Athletics Association were the boy worked
Don’t be jealousy chikolor. That boy Kennedy is a performer and he is an intelligent unza graduate at master’ s degree level.
I think Hazaluza winangu! Namwala United 0 – 10 GRZ.
Trash at its best from Koswe mumpoto.
Lungu doing the same thing expecting different results – that’s insanity defined.
Zambia’s wasted years!
At the helm with Zambia’s wasted years!
Lungu is confusing movement with progress. Just scrap everyone who did a bad job, moving them just means they will do a bad job elsewhere. If the leader really means on making changes, he needs to punish anyone in his admin who is not doing their job right but he’s not which means he’s in bed with the bad apples.
People of zambia leave our beloved president alone for the past 54 years we have not seen a man like him he is a God given mañ pliz give him respect he deseves our resening presido
That sluggish and indecisive man is coming to NWP where he served before. Anyway its recycling the waste.
The outgoing permanent secretary of Muchinga province is short in terms of his height and so is his thinking.
Corruption in Chinsali is too much and ordinary people truly suffers there.
Goods in Chinsali are the most expensive in the whole country of zambia.
People are abused there but I’m happy that short unthinking permanent secretary is out. He should be kicked out not transferred.
They have been moved so that the investigation team can scrutinise there files without interference.
Circus continues
It would appear either lungu doesn’t look at intelligence information or is not availed to him
True Muchinga PS Nundwe is too corrupt and thief .He has given himself land all over Chinsali and just started construction of a guest house next to official permanent secretary and provincial minsters houses!!! Wat cheek
Some of u bloggers writing nonsense here are just jealous of your friends in these positions. Transfers are normal in any organization and do not pass stupid comments on people who have served this country diligently over the years.They have a proven record which u may not have as an arm chair critic. U may never test any of these top positions in your life time.
THE PROMOTION OF THE CHOMA PLANNER IS LAUGHABLE HERE IN SOUTHERN PROVINCE.THE GUY MAY HAVE A PAPER BUT NO INTEGRITY.HE HAS A BAD REPUTATION.HE FORCEFULLY GOT A POSITION FOR MICHAEL INAMBAO WHO WAS HIS BOSS THE CHIEF PLANNER AND NOW HE HAS BLACKMAILED THE SYSTEM TO GET A HIGHER POSITION.IT IS AMAZING IF THIS IS HOW POSITIONS WILL BE GIVEN IN THE CIVIL SERVICE IN THIS COUNTRY…….IT IS DEMOTIVATING TO COMMITTED CIVIL SERVANTS.IT IS EITHER THOSE WHO PROVIDE INTELLIGENCE REPORTS HAVE A PROBLEM OR THE INTERPRETATION IS HIGHLY QUESTIONABLE.LET US NOT SPOIL MOTHER ZAMBIA TO SATISFY AN INDIVIDUAL.
BA KOSWE MUMPOTO, I WONDER IF PS ARE CIVIL SERVANTS OR POLITICAL SERVANTS. DOUGLOUS NGIMBU HAS SERVED IN NORTHWESTERN PROVINCE BEFORE AND WHY NOT TAKE HIM TO CB OR LUSAKA?
why is the position of permanent and deputy permanent secretary a presidential appointment and not a civil servant promotional appointment?
Jay jay keeps saying Zambians are docile and I agree. Who gave lungu powers to appoint permanent secretaries? Noone but we just watch him as he usurps power. Permsecs are civil servants not political appointees and the civil servants Union knows this but they just sit on the Bench watching such illegal activities. The constitution can’t allow one person to have powers to appoint mini isters, deputy ministers permsecs deputies this is dictatorship.