President Edgar Lungu says there is need to strengthen supervision of officers charged with the responsibility of implementing government development projects across the country if benefits are to trickle down to ordinary Zambians.
President Lungu said his tour of development projects in Muchinga Province have brought out glaring issues of lack of supervision on projects by supervising officers.
The President said this upon arrival in Lusaka from his four-day tour of developmental projects in Muchinga Province.
“What has come out of this tour is that there is lack of supervision on the part of ministers, permanent secretaries, managers and others involved in overseeing territories such as provinces,” said President Lungu.
President Lungu regretted that infrastructure projects have stalled in the region and implementing officers were attributing this to lack of funding.
The President challenged implementing officers to substantiate their claims of lack of funding when resources are readily available for even distribution to finish pending infrastructure projects across the country.
The Head of State said he will now take matters into his own hands and supervise ministers and their permanent secretaries in order to oversee their territories and areas of jurisdiction and control so that development projects are implemented and completed on time.
President Lungu said he could not rule out politicking in the implementation of the infrastructure projects as suggested by ordinary citizens who wonder why projects in Muchinga province, which started much earlier than in other regions, are still lagging behind.
He said he will ensure that there is equitable distribution of resources in both strongholds for the opposition and PF so that people benefit from the projects.
Mr. Lungu said he will sack ministers who will fail to supervise developmental projects whose benefits Zambians must start enjoying.
“The buck stops at me. So before I am fired I have to fire those that are not working,” he said.
He added that, “People think that I am cheating because when you go there, they ask why projects in Southern province are funded and here they are not”.
He said it was scandalous for him and his ministers to just sit in state house and their ministerial offices when people want development in their areas.
He cited the provincial police command building which he inspected about ten months ago but has still to date not been completed simply because no one has followed up to get the outstanding required K8 million to finish up the building.
President Lungu challenged leaders to take stock of their responsibilities and said he will call for a meeting with respective provincial ministers and their officials to see the best ways of completing the projects.
He has since directed government ministers and officials to stop the blame game and rather engage in consultations to find amicable ways of distributing national resources even in the quest to develop the country.
The President said he will also travel to other regions of the country to see how far government developmental projects have progressed so that Zambians can benefit from them.
He was welcomed back to Lusaka by Vice President Inonge Wina, PF Secretary General Davies Mwila, some Cabinet Ministers, Defence Chiefs and senior government and party officials.
kikikiki my guy you have failed as a leader! NO LEADERSHIP.. all we hear is” i’m warning you” no action..kuwayawaya fye
Trump is right… such news is not surprising in sh!thole countries with people wallowing is sh!t and getting cholera.
These is need to supervise all the pots (impoto), closely.
Why plan, mark on calendar on when to be tough on ministers? this guy is strange.
Waste of taxpayers money, he just wanted to make his travel allowances in Muchinga now that the nation is closely monitoring his foreign trips. You are contradicting yourself iwe kak0swe which is which? lack of funding or ministers not working? What a joke this so called president he is, such an embarrassment
I was taught a good leader is one whose subordinates get things done without the boss always hovering around to ensure there are no mistakes. lungu is not a leader, not even at supervisor level. He is like one of those thick headed workers you find at construction sites that needs at least 4 or 5 supervisors + fellow workmates continuously prodding them to squeeze the barest minimum performance from them. Now shockingly, a brainless chap like this is actually head of state!
The Head of State said he will now take matters into his own hands and supervise ministers and their permanent secretaries in order to oversee their territories and areas of jurisdiction and control so that development projects are implemented and completed on time.
What have you been doing all this time ????
Humbly Dumbly Seriously??? I will pass on this one I already commented in previous article ….kuti akupenya uyu munthu. He is like Dr Jekyll and Hyde
..very split personality; you just don’t know when Jonathan or Chagwa, or Edward or indeed Edgar is talking…..very soon there will be an article praising his Ministers and officials around him of hard work
Honestly sure this protocol should come to an end in Zambia. The president just went to Muchinga and they all have to stop what they are doing and rush to the airport to welcome him. This is waste of resources.how can they supervise if all the time you expect them ku airport when you are going or coming?
This LAZY, DRUNKARD, CORRUPT, THIEVING EXCUSE OF A PRESIDENT is starting to bored me. 2021 is too Far.
But amthreats nipamushi, we want action.
This is when Lungu is waking up. Problem is you don’t like advice. How many times have people being crying loudly over your corrupt ministers?
But the bigger question is who supervises ministers?
Anyone here who has ever seen a president who puts on sky blue suits in the world? Give name of country, May self proclaimed emperor bokassa from central African Republic.
Some of us have been singing this song…REMOVE OR BAN PERKS SUCH AS LUXURY SUVs AND HIGH SALARIES PLUS MEANINGLESS ALLOWANCES!!!!!!
A luxury SUV only feeds into the ego of these fat belly top govt officers be they PS, Ministers, DC etc etc they are all just in it to eat! The only hard working ones will not ask for perks when they see the wide spread suffering in the land!
Let’s be fair and serious with life! Further to this Mr President do the wise thing and release the likes of Mutati, Dora, Kaiser and Kampyongo for the sake of the country before things get even worse than they are!
PROMISES OF GETTING TOUGH EVERY TIME WITHOUT ACTION OR TOTALLY WRONG ACTION ON WRONG PEOPLE WILL JUST MAKE WRONG DOERS COMPLACENT AND EVEN DO GET INTO MORE WRONG-DOINGS AS THEY KNOW THAT THERE WILL BE NO ACTION HENCEFORTH. BA BOSS FILYE FIKO AMA SOLDIER YAKOLWEPE MU CAPITAL CITY (LUSAKA) WHERE YOU LIVE WAS DIRECT BEHAVIOUR OF CONTEMPT ON YOU. THAT’S WHERE ALL THE FIRINGS SHOULD HAVE BEGAN. THAT AMOUNT OF FILTHY MEANT THAT THE WHOLE CIVIC LEADERSHIP HAD GONE TO SLEEP. IT ALSO TRANSLATED INTO DEEP-ROOTED CORRUPTION IN MUNICIPALITIES. ABANTU NGA TABALEBOMBA NOKUBA CORRUPT, MULEBATAMFYE NCITO. SO THAT ABAISAPO KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM. ABANTU I THINK BALANAKA WITH PROMISES OF FIRING NGA TAFILECITIKA.
BALAMINGILILA MUKA PUTULA KAMUKATI ABANENU NAYO AMA WARNINGS AYASHILECITIKA. I TRUST AND BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE PERSONALLY WORKING HARD AND TRYING TO DO EVEN HARDER. BUT, ABANENU TEPO BALEFIMWENA. BALEFIMWENA PALI SANGWAPO. SO, ABASHILEBOMBA NABESHIBIKWA- BAFUMYENIMO MWI TEAM. “NKAYA MAILO APWISHISHE UBUNGA MUKA TONDO”. NALABACITE FI NAMAILO ATI NALABACITE FI, MUKASANGA TI NIMWEBO BACITA. I AM JUST A PEACE-LOVING AND CONCERNED ZAMBIAN WHO STILL BELIEVES IN YOU, MR PRESIDENT, SIR. TAKING ADVICE FROM ANYONE IS YOUR PREREQUISITE. NO ONE CAN FORCE YOU.
Hehehehe lungu lungu lungu….
And after saying This we will have koswe rats on LT praising you ati your are working….
hehehehehe
President Edgar Lungu to get tough on Ministers
WHEN ???????????????????????????
After you are booted out of State House yourself for CORRUPTION??????
“My fellow Zambians, I speak to you today with a very heavy heart. I speak to you at a time when mediocrity, corruption, greed and neglect have reached the highest levels ever. These are the highest levels we have ever witnessed in our history as a country. Not even in my wildest nightmares did I ever foresee a situation in which serving government officials and so called leaders would be falling all over themselves to amass as much wealth as they can greedily lay their hands on and within the shortest possible time,” Chipimo said.
And when one speaks out ati expel, Tayali raise a case to cover us up again.Ku Luposhi constituency, Cihabye area have not been paid for the maize sold to FRA.What ia the MP is doing.
Some countries have leaders who have integrity and limited capability. Some have leaders with no integrity but high capability. In Zambia we have leaders that lack both integrity and capability. What a shame.
If only you took a keen interest in the auditor generals report… sh!thole country!
“What has come out of this tour is that there is lack of supervision” Why?
The “supervisor” was too drunk or travelling in another country spending his stolen money to care!
Reactive by nature
Performance and project evaluation processes are non existant, that alone makes him move around “adabwa dabwa” little does he know that their is a smart approach to management unlike moving with a crowd at high cost paiting a picture to the gullible that he is a hard worker.
Smart minds are at the Davos summit in Switzerland currently and not in places like Muchinga doing cheap politics blaming everyone else but himself.
What would someone with sh!thole ideas be doing in Davos? He is better off touring his sh!thole country which is 300 years backward.
but kwena….
this is when he is monitoring that his ministers have let him down
The eurobonds have finished , now PF are like headless chickens …..their hope was the IMF 1.3 billion they were heavily banking on to continue dancing for lungu……..the whole PF enterprise is conditioned to work with borrowed money…..looting and stealing via over inflated projects……that is the truth about PF and lungu.
Why do you think lungu used to start spontaneous dancing in public And at airports ……the man was thinking yabaa
I am in charge of all this money !!!!
Kikiki even at individual level this is what happens when you run out of cash, you even start going through clothing you put on two weeks ago, just in case you find some ngwees, some remnants of your extravagant spending, you even start accusing your wife and kids of abusing and misusing your monthly stocks in your house. Kikiki.
Really laughable..am sure they are also laughing at the lazy thing!!
Jay Jay how can Lungu get things done when half the time govt officials are at the airport to see him off or to receive him back.
@Spaka like lilo:If you have nothing to say about PF Govnt,just shut it up!!why do you always yap online about things you know little about?ECL means business and the amount of works PF has done since 2011 can only be compared to UNIP Govnt!!!
We know why you panic as UPND tribal followers.its because if outstanding results are achieved,Kainde would be pushed away from plot one!!
Owe koswe just zip it…..ati
“…ECL means business and the amount of works PF has done since 2011 can only be compared to UNIP Govnt!!!..”
You are just a dul.l corrupt rat your self , tell us how much lungu has borrowed for those works compared to UNIP or MMD ?? Even a grade 7 can archive what lungu had done with borrowed money you moron….
@ Njimbu. I dont know who you are but you are very dangerous even to PF itself because you dont want to point out the ills of your party. We all make mistakes here and there but for you to pretend to think that your party is always blameless is the most frightening thing to happen in our days.You are living in utopia and the sooner you leave that state of mind the better for you or else you will be destroyed by your own myopic thinking.
Just fire one or two people quietly. If you talk no one listens. Fire, Holy President Fire!!
I miss Kaunda days when it comes to the authority the man commanded over his ministers which Lungu lacks. He seems to be begging his ministers to work when he has the rod in his hand or is it the question of being lost in the jungle himself?
Mr. President – You have surrounded yourself with very incompetent people who have been feeding you false information. People have complained but you dismiss them because you say you are the appointing authority – and these are the results now. Tough talk without action on your part will complicate matters for you. If your team is working, you do not have to stand on a garbage heap instructing the army to take control – in the absence of a state of emergency declaration. Currently, there is no opposition to talk about but you have an opportunity to move this country to a different level.
But 2021 kwa talimpa imwe bantu sure tivzavutika muno mu dziko naaba ba president!
On a serious note country men and women, we are in trouble if this is the kind of Leadership we have.
Imagine the fright you would get if you pilot was panicking about turbulence. Surely, if the pilot with all his dash board information can express surprise and fright, we passengers have no hope.
Why not have a robust monitoring and evaluation system in place. This is so basic.
Any way, to his credit, he did say we would go in reverse right?
In leadership skills I learnt that if a subordinate commits an inefficiency related offence that relates to an instruction or country the buck falls on the supervisor or president due their unsatisfactory work performance for not supervising such subordinates. So who is to punished in this case….you know who.
That’s why they say the buck stops at the president. The people will blame lungu when the economy folds at the knees and collapses. They won’t blame kampyongo, kaizer, mwila, chikwanda or any other creepy crawlies in the corridors of power. If lungu wasn’t so desperately unwise he could have invested time learning how to utilize human capital. America ticks without Donald Trump traversing all over the USA inspecting construction sites! And blaming his subordinates for stalled projects!
chikubabe/Wantanshi – You may need a refresher course in Management. It is the duty of the boss/leader to take action on erring subordinates not to resign when subordinates fail. We have not seen action on subordinates from ECL when projects are stalling (save for Mulusa – and we hope it was for this incompetence). Now that ECL is shocked at the incompetence of his subordinates, we can question his leadership skills.
Such random checks on so called projects is every good, it opens your eye instead of advise from plot 1 people who don’t even go out there….Big ups from me Mr President God bless
Too much ukuseya out of country all the time .
Continue Random checks you will see for yourself
Baba just act. Things are bad on the ground. You will cry like RB.
Every time he opens his mouth, it’s either he’s talking about 2021 elections or issuing threats. That’s all he knows
Analila aisi analila rhoda………………….
In strategic performance management we compare the actual performance against the plan/objective. If the actual performance is below the desired results you investigate the causes of the variance. When the causes have been identified you the take a corrective action to bring the performance on course, you cant act without performance information and this is what exactly the president has done. In fact professional/technocrats have fully understood and appreciated what the president is talking about and only people who are deficient in advanced performance management can struggle to apprehend this concept. For me speaking from a professional perspective I can the president is in the right direction to achieve the intended results.
With your advanced performance management how do you compare the actual performance against the plan/objective only when funds have dried up ?????
Well put, Sai.
Indeed Smart minds are at the Davos summit in Switzerland currently
Lungu only attends inaugurations of fellow DICKTATORS, the clueless clown would be laughed at by the people at Davos!
Ati, “He cited the provincial police command building which he inspected about ten months ago but has still to date not been completed simply because no one has followed up to get the outstanding required K8 million to finish up the building” – Follow up all these ‘outstanding’ amounts and you will find that they were long collected and ‘eaten’!
Hmmmm how is it a scandal when the main complain is that contractors are not being paid by government to proceed. I shall not even blame Edgar Lungu because he was honest enough to say he has ‘no vision’. I will blam Late Micheal SATA for having comitted so many projects without Treasury Support !. Stadium uku, hospital uku yet you have a critical shortage of nurses, doctors and teachers. So who was going to man those ‘sontables’ ?
It is plain truth that the Government is BROKE !!!!
This man is a dissapointment. RB, MCS and Levy all acted quickly on firing Ministers. This one is sleeping on the Job.
Wantanshi – having this man as a head of state has always been my serious concern. If he can fail to term cadres not to be violent how can he manage to supervise such big and complex projects? You want to revive Zambia Airways with such mediocrity at the helm as supervisor? Heeee?
Since coffers have completely run out and you will have nothing to dish out to them (cadres), they will now ascend on you at state house. Watch the space.
1. ”President Lungu said he could not rule out politicking in the implementation of the infrastructure projects as suggested by ordinary citizens who wonder why projects in Muchinga province, which started much earlier than in other regions, are still lagging behind.”
2. “The President challenged implementing officers to substantiate their claims of lack of funding when resources are readily available for even distribution to finish pending infrastructure projects across the country.”
WHEN YOU FILL YOUR HEAD WITH NEGATIVITY AND GUTTER JOURNALISM, EVEN THE F.A. E.CES ON WATCHDOG START TO LOOK REAL….
Citizen
Lungu also told us he would open mulungushi textiles and crate 500,000 jobs in 2016 and 1 million per year there after…….can you comment pleas…
Spaka can you mature please. You sound very dull.
That’s an admission of failure, he’s spent time in office scheming thefts thinking we can be fooled.
LUNGU your days are numbered! Get ready for judgement day.
Enough damage already.
He just doesn’t have it in him.
The presidency does not end with rigging an election, physically beating those not agreeing with you and crisscrossing the country and region every 2 days,it a very serious position.
Comment: For ISO certification in a company external auditors are involved. The President is in the right direction otherwise companies will rely on internal auditors.
Mr warning! warning
Good job!
While it is true that supervision is important in implementation of projests , the stalling of projects we have seen is as a result inadequate funding or none at all..Sit up guys .
The President is out touch with the affairs of Zambia. He has spent too much time counting clouds!! In trying to catch up with reality, he keeps contradicting himself. Two days ago he said that if anyone makes any inference with regards to Ministers and reports to him, he will take stern action against them. Now, how is he going to be tough on Ministers? The Namibian Authorities have prosecuted those involved with the illegal Mukula logs and in Zambia we are still dealing with th issue. The Malawian government demonstrated leadership on the maize scandal. We are still dealing with issue – Zambians are too docile and forget easily, issues just blow away…that’s the kind of thinking. We will give them a prayer and they will forget. Problem solved!! Mr. President, act as one demonstrate…
#….Mr. President, act as one demonstrate leadership. Even just once is enough!!
Zambians lets all stop watching s..thole CNN with gutter pit latrin journalists
if the president from now on will supervise the projects as he says, why are we paying the guys who have failed to do this responsibility?? They shud be fired!
Please ECL less time out out of the country NOw… concentrate on home….
Too many districts in the country begging for development
I wonder how many viewers noticed the tipsy president in the interview he gave at the airport upon arrival; eyes, he could hardly keep open and slurred speech gave away what he was imbibing on on the plane from Muchinga!! He should never give interviews when he has had something to drink. It is a show of disrespect for the people who will listen to the rot he says. This man has lost all respect, henceforth he will have to earn the respect of the people. King Rat!
KA VISIONLESS HAS SPOKEN AGAIN, FIRING BLANK SHOTS!
Wasted years for sure.
Kaili kampyongo is hardworking how come the presido learnt that in kampyongo’s home village/boma