Socialist Party President Fred M’membe has reiterated his challenge to the United Party for National Development(UPND) government to explain why it single-sourced Maurice Jangulo’s Alpha Commodities to supply 37,000 tonnes of fertilizers at $1,407 per tonne while the general market price is $1,000 per tonne – stealing an additional $15.059 million from the Zambian people in in what he described as super-profits.
In a post on Facebook, Dr M’membe said that Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ) was given to supply 13,000 tonnes of fertilisers at $1,000 per tonne and on top of this Jangulo had no stocks of fertilizers and started going around trying to source the commodity from his competitors whom he had discredited in an audit he had initiated and influenced.
“We challenge this government to explain why Jangulo was allowed to control, direct, manipulate and falsify a fertiliser audit under its supervision and control. This is pure corruption that this government and the state agencies – ACC, DEC and the police – under its control have failed to deal with. Why?
“Our simple and only explanation is that Jangulo is too close to the key leaders of this government to be touched. He is their partner – he works and eats with them. Clearly, this government’s fight against corruption has gone down the drain,” the statement concluded.
Corruption in UPND is rife. Don’t be fooled basa
Fred, in the same way, they have awarded Chief Mukuni’s wife K500 000 for wrongful detention. It is time to eat with both hands.
Thanks Fred. But for me it’s not a surprise at all. I stopped voting more than twenty years ago because my trust in human being ended then.
In Every government there are people who
Have connection with people in office.This
Trend will not stop.So Mr Mmembe if you
Happen by chance to be president you will
Also have your special connections.
#3 Moto. Yes those who failed to get business during PF reign complained of corruption. Now those same people are able to get business during the Upnd tenure. To me corruption is just a concept concocted in the minds of people without the right connections.
But you when you were close to political leaders then, it was okay. Even falsely calling yourself king maker. Let UPND work please. Checks and balances are very different from hollow political commentary, you risk falling into the Sean Tembo non value addition bracket
Most successful Zambian businesses have had shoddy deals with Government. Even consultants that advised on privatization made money through inflated fees. Our economy is too small to produce such millionaires. It’s the reason why most can’t explain how they made wealth. Some attempt to lie that they’ve money because they went to UNZA!
Too comfortable to being close to leaders then to the extent of neglecting paying his tax obligations, today he should see a speck in somebody’s eye
The same way you had special connections and stop paying taxes for the Post Newspaper
#4 Deja Vu…. Example Dr M’membe worked around the clock to shut out then DDP Mukelebai Mukelebai in the Chiluba investigation so that the whole thing would be handled by his friends as private prosecutors. Using Political connections Fred managed to take hold of Zambian Airways and hounded out the original directors most of them highly qualified in the aviation industry. SO CORRUPTION IS JUST A CONCEPT IN ONE’S MIND.
True, this fertiliser deal is fishy and needs some serious explanation. However, Mr M’membe is not the right person to criticise political connections because himself used them to make millions of dollars when Sata became President. Fred was so rich that he even invested in haulage trucks and deliberately sabbotaging the Zambia Railways contract with KCM so that he could be transporting copper himself. So, corruption is relative. Then he stopped paying taxes and when MCS died, that was the beginning of the end.
Don’t worry Jangulo’s time to go to prison or exile will also come. Now is the time to record all that is happening and after 10 years, UPND officials and their cronies will also face the music.
All as bad as each other – rotten to the core! I really feel for the ordinary Zambians despairing in poverty.
#plant a tree please!
The problem is that we have a lot of compromised leaders in this country, both ruling and opposition and even the church which is supposed to help is also not spared, it also has a lot of compromised leaders. Fred should become holy today, just how
ALL POWER CORRUPTS