Government has warned that it will not condone fraudulent activities in the administration of the farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) on the Copperbelt Province.
Deputy Secretary to the cabinet for e-governance, Martine Mtonga says any government official involved in fraudulent administration of the programme will be disciplined accordingly. Implementation
Dr. Mtonga was speaking during a sensitization meeting for the Zambia Integrated Agriculture Management Information System (ZIAMIS) in Mpongwe district.
He said it was the responsibility of every government official to ensure that the programme was implemented in the most transparent and accountable manner.
Meanwhile, Dr Mtonga disclosed that Mpongwe has been put on the direct input redeeming system and the district will in the next few days receive inputs for the 2018/2019 farming season.
Dr. Mtonga said the District Agriculture Coordinator (DAO) has since been directed to issue farmers with authority to make deposits for their inputs.
Meanwhile, Government says over 100,000 farmers on the Copperbelt Province will benefit from the Farmer Input Support Programme(FISP) during the 2018/2019 farming season under the Zambia Integrated Agriculture Management Information System.
Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet for e-governance, Martine Mtonga says two systems which include direct and card less redeeming will be used during this farming season.
ZANIS reports that Dr. Mtonga said this when he paid a courtesy call on Copperbelt Province Permanent Secretary Bright Nundwe in Ndola.
The Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, who is touring Luanshya, Masaiti and Mpongwe districts said government has procured fertilizer and has already dispersed it to the designated shades under direct redeeming system.
He stated that the card less redeeming system has been modified stating that it will allow farmers to redeem without cards but will still be captured in the system.
And Copperbelt Province Permanent Secretary, Bright Nundwe has warned District Agricultural Co-coordinators (DACOs) in all the districts in the region to ensure that the programme benefits the intended recipients.
It is important that we maintain discipline in the Ministries. The Permanent Secretaries must be on top of things. We can’t let people take money to PANAMA all the time from the government.
Who are those guys who stand behind civil servants in prison guard uniforms? I keep seeing them, I even saw behind Lusambo and Sampa. one each.
Just another empty warning!!!!!
Hahaha it’s you guys stealing. Teti mutupwalalike. If Lungu doesn’t go to jail after losing power ninshi ba Zambia tulifipuba
They Ha HH.
Ba Lsk Times you should also have a category this year for funniest blogger. Ba Sharon is hereby nominated.
Thanks 2020vision! Keep it real! Kekeke
These Guys look @ ba Chakolwa & his thieving traits, so they know its “free for all” while Pathetic Failures P.F, are @ the helm. Even exam papers are not safe under the stewardship of Jona Pombe.
REMEMBER WE ARE IN A UBOMBA MWIBALA REPUBLIC
Keep an eye on trib.al thinking upnd leaning saboteurs cum government officials and you will succeed as a government.
Leave upnd alone and take your yearly rainy season traditional ceremony you call FISP uko. You have failed to manage agriculture,if you understand agriculture we could not be seeing all this commotion in motion you always in during rainy season.
They have failed to manage agriculture when they have been exporting to other countries? Were you born in the 1990s or 2000s? You have failed to win an election … you call UPND uko.