President Edgar Lungu has assured that a Commission of Inquiry will be set up to look into the Privatisation process in order for the matter to be addressed conclusively.
The President says Section 2 of the inquiries Act allows him to set up a Commission of Inquiry and that he is not obliged to consult anybody.
The Head of State was speaking in Lusaka at State House today when he received petitions from the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) and other youth groupings requesting him to set up a Commission of Inquiry regarding the privatization process.
“It is just a matter of time and the Commission will be instituted. This matter is of great national interest. It has been on people’s minds and discussions have been held in various places. I have also people pushing me on the subject matter but like I said the will of the people reigns supreme,” President Lungu stated.
The Head of State said having heard the voices from across the country, he will reflect on the matter and will make a few consultations before setting up the Commission.
“I have heard a lot of voices, North, South East And West, throughout the country, I will take time to reflect on this matter and I will make a few consultations because what you have given me is a petition with signatures without giving me terms of reference, so I will have to sit with those who are well vested in the matter of privatization historically and those who are well vested with the law to tell me what will be the terms of reference for the commission,” the President indicated.
And the Head of State stated that once the matter of privatization is concluded, all those that will be found wanting will face the law.
“I think it’s a matter of time, so we have to put this matter to rest and all those who were in it and are found wanting will have to answer to the people through the courts of the law,” he said.
“Whether people are sleeping or not it doesn’t matter, what is important is justice so I assure you that it’s a matter of time, the Commission will be instituted and all I’m looking for are these gentlemen, ministers and others who are conversant with this matter to give me what will be appropriate terms of reference and then we begin identifying which citizens can be on this commission,” he explained.
Meanwhile, YALI Executive Director, Andrew Ntewewe, said the petition is a request to the President to help the country address the issue of privatization which has affected the country for a long time now.
Mr. Ntewewe said it is expected that the Commission of Inquiry once constituted will look at how the privatization process was managed with particular attention to those that evaluated, negotiated, and made decisions on behalf of the country.
“Your Excellency, we are making an earnest plea that u look into this matter and bring a conclusion to it. Our parents lost jobs, our parents died because of privatization, because of privatization, others suffered depression because of privatization, our parents continued to live in poverty and some became destitute. This is a cry of the citizens of the Republic of Zambia,” bemoaned Mr. Ntewewe.
Fishing in a dry pond as usual. By the time the commission of inquiry conclude, he will be out of office and the costs will be as high as cost loan interest for Eurobond.
Just bring it on and let’s see how the drama unfolds.
PF must go!
Fishing in a dry pond as usual. By the time the commission of inquiry conclude, he will be out of office and the costs will be as high as cost of loan interest for Eurobond.
Just bring it on and let’s see how the drama unfolds.
PF must go!
This PF site is too problematic. Why not name it Lusaka PF.
Nosense!
We also want a commission of inquiry set up for the fire tenders, the 48 houses, the mukula tree scandal, the ambulance scandal and the billion dollar dual carriage way scandal.
BA PF YOU HAVE FAILED TO CONTROL THE ECONOMY OF ZAMBIA. YOU HAVE WASTED AND DESTROYED THAT WHICH YOU FOUND AND BLAME SHIFT ON INNOCENT INDIVIDUAL.
UBUKOPO WILL NEVER COME TO AN END MU PF. WHEN YOU HAVE TRYED ALL AVENUES AND HAVE FAILED BECAUSE YOU DO NOT HAVE GRAY MATTER IN YOUR BRAINS SO IS THE BLAMESHIFT.
GET PREPARED EVEN IF YOU TRY ALL YOUR TACTICS, THIS TIME YOU ARE GOING AND WE SHALL ALL SEE WHERE YOUR NEXT COUNTRY WILL BE.
Here we go again
Carry on wasting money. Instead of looking at serious,issues of how we are going to repay the debt , how we are going to stabilize the kwacha etc they busy sponsoring stooges to justify this nonsense to take the publics mind of real issues.
I see this is also a share waste of tax payers money. How can a Chief Robber given a commission of inquiary to probe himself? PF PLEASE BE SENSIBLE KWENA NANGU MUFIMBILWA CAN YOU DO SUCH A THING MUMU TUNGANYA?
Let Lungu setup a commission to investigate where Euro bond money went.
Or who was gassing citizens.
Or why nearly all ministers are corrupt thieves.
Or why we have an incompetent drunkard thief as president.
Ubusushi bwa ba PF twatendwa.
Let us eject these thieves once and for all.
Tell them to take their d0g KZ on their way out please.
Can we have this privatization arrogant thief pay back and put behind bars once and for all. How can one ch!kala call every Zambians dull and sleeping.
Watch this space. ECL is making a bed which he will lay in one day. He is chasing ghosts of 1987. The new govt is in next year. I will be interested to see what will be high on the agenda on day one of office.
Thank you boss. I had also submitted a recommendation to this effect. This will give all those involved including our president himself to explain their role in privatisation. There are no sacred cows. I am sure hh will welcome this great news
This is way to go
Giving evidence under oath will eliminate time wasters and speculators such as Ntewewe. I hope Edgar will also give evidence because he was part of the team
Unbelievable. Kwacha to the dollar is moving to the wrong side and people are busy jocking. What a waste of time to work. And how were these fake petitioners allowed to assemble with Covid restrictions?
Kunta umutwe, tumone pankoto! Sukuma jazz band will now be playing all the way to 2021. Wanitwa mos!
Stage managed. Why the police not stop this procession
I wonder how much the students who were mobilised for this petition were paid. Remember even councillors are commodities in Zambia now
This will be seen as nothing more than politically motivated persecution of Hakainde Hichilema.He gets the publicity and sympathy and PF gets the fall.But then,again,we never learn
We all know , the whole world knows who the target is ……….
If this is not targeted at hh , let this enquiry start after 2021, after lungu wins re-election …..?????
Mulandu sioola..!
Ask the Law Association of Zambia, the Accountant-General, the Attorney-General, the Auditor-General, the UNZA School of Business, the CBU School of Business, Mulungushi University School of Business, the Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants. They all know wht ought to be done. I won’t even suggest wht they should say. They’re all up to the task.
These sponsored youths can walk the streets to state house where as the youths who had a justified call for a peaceful protest were threatened to have their legs chopped off. Whenever I hear such rubbish, the words of Chishimba Kambwilis’ echo in my ears ati “Bushe we Lesa kanshi Lungu wamufumya kwi?”.
We want an inquiry on the $19B debt.
The end of PF, what a waste of space and tome. Who is going to pay for it? He has failed to deal with issues on his clock like people “depositing millions and millions” as he told us recently.
The Kazier Sulu instigated Commission of Inquiry
This YALI chap must be jailed as soon as PF leave govt. He only supports them because they defended his embezzlement of donor funding. He should be in Jail by now.
I am just here sat next to my very beautiful wife with my head laid on her- reading all your f00lish comments ba diaspora
Set up commission of enquiry on
How to payback eurobond and
Not delay it for six months.
Another why rate of dollar going up.
Another why too much load shedding.
Setup all you want..naiwe one day..they will set up yours..whether alive or posthumously..one goes up… Will eventually come down…they will also get a bunch of simple minded kolwes make them sign petition and uzaka muziba yesu
The late PF, dying kicks. Desperation at its best
Totally failed project this PF thing, nowhere to hide now. I wonder if Lazard is helping them
The popular Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Youth and Society (YAS) of Malawi who confronted for election rerun in Malawi have written a letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs of that country Elsenwhower Mkaka asking President Lazarus Chakwera , who is on a two-day State visit to Harare, to engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa to “tone down” on escalation of human rights violations.
In a letter dated September 29 2020 the CHRR acting executive director Micheal Kaiyatsa and YAS executive director Charles Kajoloweka said Zimbabwe is now characterised by arbitrary arrests, abductions, expulsions, disappearances and torture of journalists, political activists, government critics and human rights defenders.
The CSOs pointed out that the most recent violent…
Mwabupo – So, why haven’t you petitioned like YALI and the rest have done?
Kaizer for president or Vice President. Ifintu ni Kaizer
This is great, what are the terms of reference? All Zambians prepare to contribute. We hope it will cover the period from 1964 to 2020 so we don’t hold another in 10 years time.
Mr. President, this is the noble thing to do. Set up an inquiry now and we put this matter to rest. It’s for the good of everyone else
Hakainde stole from Zambians, that’s reason why UPND are scared of Commission. It diminishes his chances in 2021. This Privatisation talk is hurting him the most.
Bandit President Edgar Chagwa Lungu should set up a commission of inquiry to look into how he stole US$ 1200 from a Widow when he was practicing as a broke rogue Lawyer and also how he has become the richest Makaka in Zambia…he had less than US$2500 in his account 5 years ago…and a run down house in Chawama
Koma muzambia mulinjala… i can even see hunger/ poverty on these paid youths, anyway, i cant blame them i only blame the person who has brought poverty upon us.
Do we have money to pay for commission of inquiry when we cant pay for interest on loan someone borrowed recklessly ?
Desperado or clutching on a straw but KUYA BEBELE.
Tukonfwako efyo ifipoto fya mukuba fibili fyalubile ku Roan. Mwila Chigaga come and tell us ofyo mwalepusana na Hakainde nomunakwe Chris Mulenga, chufi wakwa Mucheleka pali Copper bashile ba nsamya.
This is a PF funded project looking the T shirts and the posters .As a matter of fact tax payers money may have been by chishane Shane who was once of the privatisation team and got paid alot of money which he squandered on bear and now he is trying shift the blame on HH
This is a PF funded project looking the T shirts and the posters .As a matter of fact tax payers money may have been used by chishane Shane who was once of the privatisation team and got paid alot of money which he squandered on bear and now he is trying shift the blame on HH.There writing on the wall that some dull lawyer is also involved in this
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A petition is being handed to one who was a participant in the privatization exercise to set up a commission and appoint a team to draft the Terms of Reference, thereafter he appoints the commissioners! Why is PF wasting the Zambian people’s resources and time exhuming the privatization policy of a gone era government seeking to find reasons for self preservation in extending stay running government than just send an assassination squad to close the the privatization chapter? Any intelligent Zambian knows where all this *****ic behavior is aimed at! Heavyweights of the then era are alive as VJ, Zukas, Harrington, Patel, Katele, Nawakwi who cried “ng’ee” and many more are still alive though lacuna’s as the Cabinet then, Chiluba, ZCCM management are non existent! How old was YALI’s…
Useless petition! People should be protesting the ever depreciating kwacha, the high cost of living and the cruelty of this PF government in the way they are treating the opposition, and the impending failure to repay our debts. But kwena some Zambians!
Edgar Chagwa Lungu is playing cheap politics. Now we know who the sponsor of Nthewewe is. Don’t waste money on escapades that don’t yield anything. Commissions of Inquiry are mere talking shops. They’ll not subpoena suspects to go and testify, neither will the findings have any authority at Law. You have misled yourself on this one but we are not bothered. We’ll deal with you in August 2021 through the ballot
Vindictiveness…..setting up a commission of inquiry just for one man. HH mwaume zoona. You cannot fight what God has sanctioned. If God wants HH to rule, there is literally nothing you can do.
These people should have just been working hard as that would have stood as enough grounds for them to be voted in. Why waste precious time on one individual. They are scared of their own shadows.
Mwanawasa did set up this commission….why repeating the same thing? Can’t the president just refer to the previous report?
Last kicks indeed. Kwacha flying beyond redemption, cost of living sky rocketing, debt issues unresloved and we are still going for a drainer in the commission of inquiry on Privatisation?
Lesa tumfwileniko uluse TWAPAPATA!!!
Waste of my tax money bafikala
MY ADVICE TO YOU ALL POLITICIANS, GROW UP.
YOU KNOW, IF JUSTICE IS FAILED, OTHER ALTERNATIVES ARE DEADLY.
LOVE ONE ANOTHER, DONT BE CRUEL TO ONE ANOTHER.
I FORESEE VENGEANCE, REVENGE AND DEATH.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
I do NOT know the purpose of inquiries, from the time in memorial i have never seen any tangible actions based on the results from inquiries.
*Zamtel rader tenders of ba Dora Siliya during presindet Rupiya…… No action- PF who pushed for the inquiry are the ones who rewarded her as a minister
* inquiry on voting patterns NO results despite huge sums of poor people like me who pay taxes when buying sault.
Purchased youths, purportedly representing ‘Zambian interests’. When all has failed to run a country, you start scrapping the bottom of the barrel to find a scapegoat
This is a PF funded project looking the T shirts and the posters .As a matter of fact, tax payers money may have been used by chishane Shane who was once of the privatisation chairman and got paid alot of money which he squandered on beer and ifimbombo .and now he is trying shift the blame on HH.There is some writing on the wall that some dull lawyer is also involved in this .
mmmmm yaba wina azalila
PLEASE,ECL SET UP AN INQUIRY ON THE CRIMES COMMITTED BY YOUR PF CADRES AND ABOVE ALL THE ISSUE OF THE ECONOMY.DON’T LISTEN TO THIS KALUNKULUNKU WA PINK KZ.HE HAS MADE U LOOK LIKE U ARE AMONG THE WORST PRESIDENT ZAMBIA EVER HAD.THEY ARE SOME SERIOUS ISSUES HAPPENING ON THE ZAMBIAN PLATES BUT U HAVE TAKEN THINGS LIGHTLY.ZAMBIANS ARE GOOD AT ACTING RIGHT NOW THEY ARE FEED UP WITH YOUR GOVERNANCE SYSTEM.NO DIRECTION. U NEEDED TO GIVE US DIRECTION.NOT THESE DISGRUNTLED *****S BENE NTEWEWE .THOSE WILL SHIFT CAMP AND LEAVE U IN TROUBLE.THE CRY OF EVERY ZAMBIAN IS THAT U LEAVE THE GOVERNMENT CZ THEY ARE TIRED OF YOUR PLAY GAMES.WHEN,THEY IS A SERIOUS ISSUE NINSHI YOU START FIGHTING OR ATTACKING HH.THAT IS NOT THE WAY.
BOSS,U HAVE TIED YOURSELF IN A WEB WHICH IS DIFFICULT TO COME OUT.CHILUBA CHANGED THE CONSTITUTION AND IT EAT HIM.
Why is Supreme leader HH of the UPND surrogates scared and crying the loudest… The Supreme leader HH of the UPND stole big time and now mascarade as a rich man…Meanwhile he’s hidden the privatisation loot in the paradise papers because of his greedy and bitterness has managed to hoodwink his supporters into group think mentality hence they can’t analyse issues objectively but subjectively…
MMMMMM YABA WINA ZALILA ZAKANA MA DAYS.
Good decision. This is called ‘Walk the Talk’. President Lungu is setting example with his actions. He said, Zero Tolerance to Corruption and here is the news! That is how the true leadership works. And not just multiplying followers and supporters on social media when the millions of poor people are suffering day in and day out.
Now, the truth will come out. Now we will come to know who earned and how much! I would request President Lungu to confiscate the assets of those found guilty of dwindling national assets worth millions. Don’t spare anyone, whosoever it may be.
This decision is the beginning of new era in Zambia. This decision will prove to be a major milestone in the fight against corruption and elimination of the corrupt.
how cn one become a millionare in one year, foam a commission of inquiry on this one as well………
This is the time to stand firmly with the government. The outcome of the inquiry will change the country for ever. It will expose all those who claim to be messiah of the poor and pretend to be the only hope for them.
It is a good sign that CSOs and students are aware about such social evils and stand up to question the corrupt. And it is even more comforting to know that there are rulers who are listening to them and taking prompt actions.
Do not forget Luanshya mine. It was offered to those rats the Binani when their bid was not the most favourable. Remember the Zambian government was sued by the best bidders who were british investors and had used the law firm owned by the wife of the former british prime minister John Major. We have not forgoten
OK, lets hope you are not targeting your political opponent, which will be a bad idea.
Didn’t Edgar Chagwa Lungu sell KIFCO in Kabwe? Is it this a way to out the big criminal Chikwanda, Derick Chitala, the two finance ministers Edith Nawakwi and Katele Kalumba?
While at it, will they also try to find where Tasila got the millions from? She was a shoe sales woman in a store in Atlanta. Please find out how $19 billion Lungu borrowed was spent. Theres nothing to show for it.
Great, I have dossiers on Cold Storage, ZAFFICO and Forest 27. Where must I take these. I also have minutes of all meetings and take recordings of some secret meetings
Kaizer, we want you to be boss now, you have done a lot for the country. Thank you! When is convention so that we start mobilizing! Kaizer for president.