Government has so far collected over two million Kwacha revenue through the inspection and escort fees on Mukula Logs in transit from Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC through Zambia.
Lands and Natural Resources Minister Jean Kapata says the amount accounts for 4- hundred and 45 DRC trucks laden with Mukula Trees between April and August 2019.
She disclosed this in a Ministerial Statement in Parliament.
Ms. Kapata revealed that 361 containers of Mukula trees from DRC have currently exited Zambia.
Ms. Kapata said out of the three thousand 400 containers earmarked to transit through Zambia.
She however bemoaned the slow rate at which the DRC government is implementing the transits of its Mukula Trees through Zambia.
The Zambian government last year endorsed the transit of three thousand 400 Mukula Tree laden containers from DRC through Zambia.
This was effected through Statutory number 96 of 2018, amended by statutory instrument number eight of 2019, and further amended by statutory instrument number 58 of 2019.
Jean Kapata is talking about $151 000. The cost at which her thieving govt under Edgar Lungu bought wheelbarrows (fire engines ) was $1 million each. Can you see the absurdity of this corrupt govt? Pathetic!!
And how much PF collects from inspecting and escorting drugs on Presidential jet? That’s same thing.
These things running our Zambia shocks me, Mukula is same contraband as marijuana and pistols. They are illegal products. This is why likes of Findley get inspected and escorted on presidential entourage.
And here this peace of useless dirty minister reporting bribes collected from allowing illegal products passing through the country.
$150,000 is money to report about? Indeed your audience are idyots, keep spitting on them, if they say something you shoot them…
how is this lady even a minister,,,,,some of PF Bandits appointments kuti waseka
Am sure by “Zambia” you mean PF. Only your pockets are getting lined as you continue to plundering. And am sure all that mukula is from within Zambia. You are lying that its from Congo to cover criminal activities being perpetrated by PF.
This is mere change in comparison to the amount these pf thugs have stolen. Zambian at next election let us change things. Like I changed things when I had enough of my zambian ex. I went ahead and upgraded and am now with a beautiful white woman who loves me and cares for me so much. I had a powerful manifesto and it was not easy. But in end I wake up next to her every day and her touch is so mesmerising. Nice soft white skin against my nice dark skin
Iyo uyu umusungu ali misenda tata, bushe ni pesa mwa mu mwanga pakuti mu mute we so. Mwalishuka tata
Jonathan “the President”, what a Joker!
THE PRESIDENCY IN ZED HAS GONE TO THE KAABWA’Z!
You put Chief Mukula plunderer in charge of the Ministry responsible for Mukula.
You take a Kawalala Kitotela, & put him ku Ministry responsible for our endangered animals species, & expect Tourism to grow & thrive?
YOU LEAVE A VIOLENT GUNBOAT IN THE NAME OF KAIZAR, AS ADVISOR IN THE PRESIDENTS OFFICE & EXPECT ZAMBIA TO BE PEACEFUL??
Jona, Just how Drunk can you get???
You guys collect too much money which we don’t know where it’s going because everything you built says loan or grant from someone. If you invested this money on energy and water we wouldn’t be having the problems we have. You collect yet people go unpaid for months
This woman is ugly…. badly built like her ka stup!d president who is the worst president on earth, a thieving lawyer wanna be who stole from a widow, scatter teeth snake eater , appaeretly they look like twins with that mad cow Sharon who has nailed all cadres in the PF between her dirty legs
Only dull corrupt Africans would be proud to announce how much they are participating and making from the deforestation and rape of the African continent on behalf of the Chinese …..
Only Africans would this….
Only dull corrupt Africans would be proud to announce how much they are participating and making from the deforestation and raping of the African continent on behalf of the Chinese …..
Only Africans would this….
@6 Spaka,Indeed, it makes all of us who are concious of the dangers of depleting forests of our valuable hard woods just to satisify foreigners’ apetite for our precious raw materials.What these corrupt Congolese ans Zambian officials forget is that Mukula and other tropical hard woods take many years,close to a century to mature into valuable wood and they just chop the forests for mere thousand dollars disturbing the ecosystem for future generations
What is worse is Jean kapata who is minister of natural resources is the one proudly announcing how much we are reaping from deforestation of the African continent…..
I have lost the last respect for this corrupt ignorant PF cader of a minister……
The last time she went to j’burge for a climate change conference , the corrupt theif was announcing the planting of trees in Zambia but did not know how many were planted when asked…. …..
Stupid woman unfit for her job what ridicule when her boss is heavily involved in the same trade …