President Edgar Lungu has said that he is deeply committed to fighting corruption by building institutional capacity of investigative agencies. President Lungu said that institutional approach is better than a witch-hunt type of fighting corruption.
Speaking when US Ambassador Daniel Foote paid a courtesy call on him at State House, where the two discussed several issues of bilateral
cooperation, President Lungu said his administration is committed to boosting the capacity of investigative agencies such as the Police and Anti-Corruption Commission. The Head of State also said that his focus is to eliminate corruption.
President Lungu also requested the United States of America (USA) and other bilateral donors to help finance capacities in investigative wings as well as the Ant -Corruption Commission (ACC).
President Lungu also assured Mr. Foote, that he is ready to dialogue with all political stakeholders in the country.
The Head of State told the American Envoy that as Chairman for the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defense and Security, he will be more consultative, and focus on an inclusive electoral process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
“We want to minimize the possibilities of differences in the DRC, resulting in an influx of refugees in the region and Lesotho is also on the agenda,” he said.
“We are also hoping that the ruling of the Zimbabwean courts is accepted by all political stakeholders and the people of Zimbabwe for peace to reign in the SADC region” President Lungu stated.
And Mr. Foote has assured Zambia of more financial assistance, to enable Zambia implement various projects.
“I am optimistic that I will succeed in persuading the authority in Washington to aid Zambia financially so that the country can implement its programmes, particularly the protection of elephants in the Kafue national park against poaching among other projects of national importance,” Mr. Foote said.
Really laughable coming from this lazy corrupt thing Edgar !!
@JayJay, boyi please torn down, don’t go that far to call Ba Edgar in that way. He hasn’t done anything that wrong. It is not laughable.
Your sentence can be written on guys like Kaiser (God is punishing him now), Sunday Chanda and 4 PF ministers I prefer to hold their names.
Lazy Lungu thinks American Ambassador to Zambia Daniel Foote lives in a cave and doesn’t know what is happening!!
Look who is talking about fighting corruption. Corrupt Lungu has been in office for almost 4 years now. There is absolutely no evidence that he has shown any interest in fighting corruption. If he means it this time, let him first address the many accusations people have leveled against him. Let him and his ministers get audited by independent auditors (from 2015 to today). Once he gets that out of the way, then he can talk about fighting corruption. But we all know he won’t do that. So it’s just some more empty words from the king of corruption.
@ Hunchback of sh*thole “intelligentsia”
And WHO is appointing Authority of Kaiser, Sunday Chanda and “4” (or 44) Ministers?
Kaya. ACC and ZP are dead scared of PF cadres. My god (I am a member of Christian for Lungu) how are the two institutions going to deal with your might cadres.
Boza; the formula to uproot corruption is to uproot them themselves.
First lungu address the daily allegations that you, yourself are a corrupt theif….
Let’s see you deny this for the nation and let’s see you sue those calling you a corrupt theif…..
Look whose talking! ECL should be the last person to advise on how to tackle corruption.
how can one visionless man make the news every hour of the day. This website is a useless medium of the PF. Corrupt website which will soon be hacked. Lungu has no message for zambians. Why does he not but his tail between his legs and let his work do the talking? you know why he wont? because the chap has not achieved a single thing in his life. Ask this baboon lungu what case he ever won as a lawyer. I was with this chap at UNZA and he was a daft drunkard.
Visionless and daft is the 1.d.iot who has been rejected 5 times by Zambians and still believes he can be president still. Achievement is the man who worked his way up the political ladder, was chosen by his leader because of hard work, had no presidential ambition and still whooped the 1.d.iot after campaigning for 3 weeks!!
…..worse, I would migrate to Greenland if I lost an election to a drunkard….kwekwekwekwe….
You mean at your age and unza graduate can be writing childish comment. You are just a teenage stupid illiterate
Rightly so, Mr. President. Abash the M’membe-Task force-Mwanawasa-Post Newspaper evil persecutions and forward with the institutional-evidence based-justice system of fighting corruption. That’s the future of this country. Thank you for the support USA.
JONA POMBE IWE’, LEKAKO BOZA!!
You are the MOST CORRUPT LIVING ZAMBIAN TODAY.
From living in Sichalwe’s garage, & bathing in ka basin in Chawama, to being the second richest Zambian, who can afford mansions abroad within a couple of years.
YOU ARE ALSO THE KING OF THE CORRUPTION WITCH HUNT.
Whenever anyone challenges your seat, you humiliate them, fire them, then persecute & hound them to insanity. Not saying these fellow crooks like Chimbwili are not corrupt, BUT the wheels of your so called Anti Corruption Crusade start as soon as you feel threatened.
Problem na Ba Jona is he’s too drunk & hungover all the time, he actually believes his own lies & deception.
Why does he sound as if he reports to america? The US does nothig if anything for the country. Letus focus on Countries like china that we can point at things they are helping finance, not racist slave mentality countries that want to tell us what we must do. To hell with US of Trump
you are very ignorant…
Not just “very ignorant” but true reflection of PF village !mbecile
Nothing Ever Changes
How do people like you even get close to a keyboard.Maybe the man is even on ARV’s and he doesnt know that it is the American people who make that possible.The PF you are praising use your taxes for luxuries like cars,while your health and education are financed by donors like the Americans.Chinese aid is what PF steals because they do not have to account for it and china does not care because they know we have f00ls like you who will not realise that even if the money is looted you will still pay for it using taxes.Please go sleep
Zambia can you look at who’s preaching ? PF witch hunted Rupiah Banda and nothing came of their evil schemes using courts then ECL gave conditions to ACC when touching any one of his “sacred cows” up the chain in GRZ.
Hypocrites preaching water while they drink wine.
….that was MCS under the influence of the cartel of Mmembe, Nchito etc. It was the cartrl insider Kabimba who had RBs immunity removed. ECL did a total u-turn on all the cartel evil schemes and threw them to the wind. Remember Nchito getting arrested within 3 months of of ECL becoming president??? Get your facts right, bwana.
The mills of God grind slowly; yet they grind exceedingly. I hope those riding the tiger and the lion will hold on tight because as soon as they fall off their backs it’s game over…
Just wondering, how is possible to use “institutional approach” to fight institutionalized corruption when the Appointing Authority and his “executives” are driving force and principal beneficiary of the institutionalized corruption?
No elaborations no examples from President Lungu’s comments
how can you “elaborate” (LoL) on the comments which are affront to daily reality?
@just asking He’s already engaged, I don’t see any put down.
A leader should not be this malleable, always changing shape to suit different circumstances. This is deceptive behavior, as unstable as water! Talk is cheap! Actions speak louder than words! All we have seen is Chagwa aiding and abating corruption! What has he done about corruption reports by the Auditor General and Financial Intelligence reports? It is even a mockery for him to even suggest that ACC and the police can fight corruption after he has intimidated them! The good thing is the person he was talking to is able to see through his lies!
Of course today some senior government officials cannot be prosecuted for corruption because they are enjoying the President’s protection but when they leave office the law will catch up with them. We have not forgotten that they have refused to pay back the money they got during the dissolution of parliament leading to the 2016 elections. Your excellency it is not witch-hunting,but simply being made to account for the wrongs committed while in office.If it was another country those Ministers could have either paid back or sent to jail for what they illegally got