The government has challenged the procurement industry to redeem itself from the tag of corruption.
Acting Secretary to the Cabinet Patrick Kangwa says the new dawn administration will not tolerate any form of corruption in the procurement process.
Mr.Kangwa says corruption poses a negative impact on economic and social development.
He said this in Lusaka in a speech delivered on his behalf by Cabinet Office’s Management Development Division Permanent Secretary Kusobile Kamwambi.
This was during the Zambia Institute of Purchasing and Supply Fundraising Dinner Gala.
And Zambia Institute of Purchasing and Supply President Robert Tembo said his institution has written to the Secretary to the Cabinet to convene an INDABA to come up with modalities to address various challenges in the procurement industry.
Mr.tembo said the INDABA must draw participants from various stakeholders in the procurement and supply chain.
Over 136,000 Kwacha was raised during the Zambia Institute of Purchasing and Supply Gala Dinner.
The proceeds will largely be expended on the construction of the Zambia Institute of Purchasing and Supply Office in Lusaka.
Beating about the bush….start by arresting Chushi Kasanda US$ 50 million dollars…..where’s the money…still no Fertlizer supplied…..blah blah blah and yet you’re enabling corruption….Nelly Mutti is also corrupt
baSaulosi, $50m contract signed by pf just before elections? You are bitter that pf lost and so could not effect it? LOL!!!!!!!!!!
WE NEED A NEW CROP OF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS
BOTH IN GRZ AND PRIVATE
ONE CANNOT BE GIVEN A TENDER NO MATTER HOW SMALL WITHOUT OFFERING A PERCENTAGE TO THE BUYER
It takes two people to play tango dance .The procurement industry cannot be corrupt without GRZ conspirators.
If the institute of purchasing and supply has been established under a statutory instrument, it should be cancelled. You cant have an Organisation whose 90%+ perpetuate and practice corruption. If its not, the registrar if societies should deregister it. What indaba is this chap talking about? Reign in your members and make proposals to government and the people of Zambia how you are going to stop corrupt practices by your members. Petiod, Dont waste our time.
@2 Nineo
Bitter for what….we just saying arrest Chushi Kasanda…so you telling if she stole US$50 million dollars signed by PF government and now she can’t be prosecuted because she is operating under UPND….this is selective prosecution we’re talking about…it’s like UPND is more corrupt than PF….
They can’t, once you taste money you become addicted. The only solution is complete overhaul, change the personal with ready made recruits from the diaspora.
A company organized a seminar with ACC for its employees. While employees from other departments attended, nobody from procurement attended.
It should actually start with the big bwanas in the procurement of fuel. The moment middlemen are removed from the procurement process of fuel, it will become cheaper for us the retailers and end users. Show a good example in fuel procurement and the procurements of these other items will become cheaper
We should not think of corruption as a crime for politicians only.
The roots of corruptions extends all the way to NGO’s, Private Sector, civil servants, police and general citizens.
Today a lot of people drive and build houses because of corruption and its undetected. Look at the local government, every council makes a lot of money but half of the money is shared amongest members of staff. In NGO worse, people are rich through procurement and small activities with urge budgets.
Today ACC is busy with PF corruption scandals to show there relevance to the new Dawn Government and when some PF members are arrested they will fold arms and wait for the next government in future to start investigating UPND again. In this way ACC will be forever be accused of political witch hurting…
#10 Justin I call this overlooking the elephant in the room.
Employ an experienced & exposed CEO for ZPPA with international integrity reputation with institutions such as World Bank, from an institution which oversees & supervises procurement in all the countries of the world and Zambia will never again be overtaken by dubious Fire Truck Tender s candles, where a machine costing $250,000 on the international market was bought for $1,000,000 each. THIS EMBARRASSES ZAMBIA TO THE WHOLE WORLD
Its is surprising that a paltry K136,000.00 was raised during the Fund Raising Gala yet we are made to believe the procurement officers are very corrupt and made a killing from the various procurement contracts. Should we assume that the profession is still in its infancy or members did not dig deeper in their pockets to conceal the bad reputation. They should do more in future to clear the institution’s battered public image.