Government has revoked the working permit for Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) Chief Executive Officer Kishore Kumar and declares him a prohibited Immigrant.
This means that Mr. Kumar will not, at any given time, be allowed to enter the boarders of Zambia.
This follows Mr. Kumar’s evading of a meeting that the Ministry of Home Affairs had asked him to attend to ascertain a statement he made in the media to describe as mere rhetoric President Michael Sata’s warning against firing any workers at the mine.
In statement released to Qfm today, Chief government spokesperson Mwansa Kapeya says following this decision by government, all law enforcement officers, at all border entry points, through the Ministry of Home Affairs, have since been notified.
Mr. Kapeya says government is of the view that Mr. Kumar is a bad seed and cannot be allowed to continue being among the business community in the country.
Mr. Kapeya who is also Information and Broadcasting Minister notes that government’s position on this matter does not mean that it has now declared war against investors as some sections of society are trying to portray.
He says as a sensitive and responsible government, the Patriotic Front (PF) government wants to ensure that the interests of both the Zambian people and investors alike are protected and adequately taken care of.
And Mr. Kapeya has maintained that government is still remains open to dialogue on any matter that affects the country’s investors and the Zambian people who must be the prime beneficiaries of such investments.
He says government also remains resolute to protecting the best interest of the people in the country regardless of the circumstances and will not allow threats and intimidation from any investor.
The Minister has however assured investors seeking to come to Zambia and the already existing investors that their investments will remain secure and safe.
Uuuko! here we go
Later Gator!
Teti ukakatile mwabene. Uwaisa kuyaya!
Kumar’s intelligence was spot on. He would have been humiliated and thus the Indian Intelligence Organisation whisked him off to avoid an embarrassing diplomatic stand off because of their many ‘nationals’ in Zambia.
Chief Government Spokesman….I will say it. This your statement is just but mere RHETORIC.
The cobra has struck
Fighting with the investors is really not a good idea. An hungry man never chooses what to eat. The government has no capacity to run any kind of a company and let alone a mining one. They should have closed door meetings with these guys and dialogue instead of fighting using the media. They should understand that these people are respectable people with egos,just like every other respectable person,who don’t want to be belittled hence any disrespectful action from the gvt will result in loosing them and worse more loosing jobs,which at this moment we can not afford to suffer.
@MATADOR, when a Football Association fires a coach it does not necessarily mean that they (FA) claim to be better coaches, but that they believe they can employ a better one to deliver the required outcomes. Such is the case between GRZ and Kumar/KCM.
On this one, I am with you Panga Family (PF). However, also sort out the Kabimba-GBM saga before you are dimmed a completely useless government.
deemed, not dimmed.
We salute bashilubemba, aluta continua.
Pledge from the Tongas:
1. Deposit of monthly upkeep money for Mwine Lubemba. 5% of gross earnings. Please open and publicise bank accounts.
2. Donation of at least 250 heifers, 20 steers (oxen) and 8 bulls for Mwine Lubemba.
3. We shall come in truck loads to perform budima and kukwesha.
I request either Father Bwalya or ba Dr Mumba to collect these donations.
HH should not be in forefront to avoid this gesture being politicised. However, he can donate some cattle on top of the 278 but without any funfare.
Our brothers and sister in Lubemba, we are one!! Let us refuse to be divided by the Kaunda and PF.
Thank you for Preaching Peace!
In fact we have many inter-marriages between Tongas and Bembas!
How can we fight our in-laws?
We are one in this great cycle of life!
Those that wish to divide us will surely fail!
When fools and stupid people are in charge, foolish and stupid decisions are made. The Govt especially the Ministers seem not to understand the word “rhetoric’. And i agree, PF and it’s leadership are full of rhetoric language, and act stupid most of the times. We are lacking real leadership in Zambia, and if God really chooses leadership, i don’t understand how he chose the PF leadership to inflict pain on the Zambian people.
if you are not happy with the govt decision follow kumar
we have no time to waste on riffraffs like you
God does not choose the leadership of the world. In a democracy, the people choose. The last time I checked, God does not vote. He is the One who established the institution of government and gave them a job description in Rom. 13. How man governs is up to man — they can use God’s wisdom or ignore it.
It appears the Govt does not understand the word “rhetoric”. stupid”. I last heard some people were summoned to the police for saying Sata is stupid. Now someone has been deported for saying “mere rhetoric”.
Iwe whats your problem? Rhetoric means kusabaila. How do tell President concerned with serious issues ati Boss musabaila chabe..!! You will go faster that quickly…
Iye ba Thief Justice, Sata is just an ordinary person like you and me except he has an army, police and some thief justice to control. However, Rhetoric is an art that aims to improve the capability of writers or speakers that attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. Oxford dictionary defines the word as the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other techniques.
To me, MERE RHETORIC means “JUST A PERSUASIVE WAY OF PUTTING THINGS ACROSS AND SHOULD’NT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY”.
@Big Buyer…..you are correct, learned and do read as is clear from your expose. Ba Thief Justice…. eat humble pie and get some learning from Big Buyer! Ati @Thief Justice…. Rhetoric means kusabaila….iye ubukopo batata aba. Ki ki ki ki ki ki….ukusabaila…..he he he he. Thief Justice……mwansekesha sana…..ati kusabaila…..ha ha ha ha ha………….I tell you school is something
that’s what’s up atleast that stupid faggot is gone for good..Next move bring back Aglo-American..
So we kick-out one faggot, just to invite another group of faggots?? When will Zambians do their own mining, why doesn’t the gov. give a grant of money to a competent group of Zambians to do the mining….Maybe we don’t have sufficient skills and knowledge of mining business, but we need as a people to start heading in the general direction of having all Zambian mines, MINED AND OWNED BY COMPETENT ZAMBIANS… OR else we ll forever have to deal with this type of scenario and wallowing deeper into misery and poverty. Also, in this case where is the justice of deporting KUMAR, WHAT LAWS HAS HE BROKEN, OR we going to be soon forced to embarrassingly allow him to re-enter… whats the basis of this deportation?
……government’s position on this matter does not mean that it has now declared war against investors as some sections of society are trying to portray.
I was recently at two board meetings and three business association meetings. And top on the list was the KCM issue. I can confirm that business now feels that they are being harrassed. Cited at these meetings was the shoprite saga, kcm tax assessment and general harassment of business and bullying by PF. That is the sentiment out there. Deal with it. Dont deny it.
True, these are the same things I heard also at a chamber of commerce meeting. Government, please do something to restore investors confidence and not just rhetoric. Capital has wings……and for your information, I heard that KCM will not hurry on the projects that are carrying on. But then who would. The Cobra is still spitting…..and can an investor who in the presence of a cobra is as helpless as a rat come to invest? Not a chance!!!
@Rubiona:
Quote: “…Government, please do something to restore investors confidence…”
NO, Rubiona, I think it is more like: “…Government, please do NOTHING to restore investors confidence…”
Trust you me, some Investors would rather have things stay the way they did in the MMD era—if you were ALIVE and KICKING then, you surely know what I am talking about!
No matter how profitable the mines in Zambia are, or become, “Unreasonable” Foreign Investors will always find it acceptable to ride on the backs of the poor locals and treat them as disposables. And if Govt continue to be asleep at the switch, nothing will change, and foreign debt will keep on escalating. PF may be a little bit blunt, but bluntness is the only language some Investors understand.
Good…
Immigration and Deportation Act [ No. 18 of 2010 165]
Section 35 states that: Any person whose presence in Zambia is declared in writing by the Minister to be inimical to the public interest shall be a prohibited immigrant in relation to Zambia.
Subject to section thirty six, the presence within Zambia of any prohibited immigrant shall be unlawful and such person shall be arrested without warrant, detained and deported from Zambia in accordance with this Act.
What this chap did was an insult to all patriotic zambians and thi should be a lesson to others who think they can take our president’s pronuncements as mere rhetoric.
Yes, to speak about someone’s property amounts to rhetoric and to deport someone for protecting private property is a sure sign to all would be investors to be warned. One day as you exercise your rights on your investments, you too will be deported. Remember the Chilanga Cement boss and others?
Watch the next grading by S&P it will be -C
He did not insult anyone. He merely stated what we all know and say all the time. How does rhetoric become an insult? It simply meant “talk”. It’s true that this govt is just full of talk. President Sata has not even addressed the nation ever since he came into office, now two years. People are killing each other and he is quiet. But he has the audacity to actually threaten and insult people who have actually done something for this nation. People who have actually created real jobs – not bus conductor or drivers. We need to speak against this abuse of power and recklessness.
How do you declare an investor’s COE a PI without him committing a criminal offense?refusing to show up to a useless meeting is not crime. Plain nonsense from this unthinking government. Regardless of how many assurances you make, investor confidence has been deep hurt and eroded. Kamar has a right to his opinion. You can’t force him to think like you. This is the worst government Zambia has ever had. So disappointing.
You only know people by their actions. Wasnt it just a few weeks when they were threatening to revoke the operating licence of shoprite. So which investor is safe if they do not tow the line of PF? My simple advise to investors is to hold onto their investments until a new government that will respect property and personal rights come in. What happens if Vedenta sends another person with the same orders it had given Kumar? This move is an attack on all investors.
Respect us very important if that kumar CEO was being insighted by others they will learn a lesson from him.dont be silly in the name of good investment climate in zed..
@Chinyama…..it is the likes of you and your rhetoric that lead this man we put in State House astray. Respect….your bent foot! Respect of human rights and private property and free speech is what you should be advocating and not stroking an ego of a man who speaks out of turn whenever he opens his mouth. The fact that Kumar and Vendatta could not be mesmerised by the forked tongue of the Cobra is no reason of the Minister of Home Affairs to declare him a Prohibited Immigrant. So will the next CEO of KCM who upon orders of his boss goes ahead to exercise control of KCM against the wish of the Cobra also be spat on in the name of ‘respect’??!! Investors be ware of the hostile environment since a king cobra went into state house.
@KK, no disrespect intended. But I feel there is a section of Zambians who got so used and are still stuck in the ways things were done, or ignored, during the MMD years. Unfortunately, you my brother sounds like one of these people.
Look, there is no country on earth where a Presidential directive can be taken as “mere rhetoric”. And I don’t care what planet you come from, a summon to a meeting with a govt minister, a minister representing a minority owner (the govt) of a company, can just be ignored by the CEO. Especially when there are contentious issues to be discussed between the two parties. It is the height of arrogance and insolence to do so!
I understand twenty years of brainwashing by the MMD is a long time, but let us start thinking again, it is a new era!
I have read all your comments and all i hear is politics,anger and hatred. people when are we ever going to learn to analyze issues as important as this on a neutral and reasonable point of view? bursts of anger solves nothing, but this media can be a best source of information and advice for our policy makers if only our comments where well thought, neutral and up-building. we talk about freedom of speech every time, but what use will it serve if we still let our emotions get ahead of our reason. i implore all of us to be as helpful as possible. you never know, your comment might just be the solution we have always been looking for! THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU POST YOUR COMMENT!
Yambayamba, spot on! As they say, ubuchushi nga bwa kokola, bula belela. 20 years of brainwashing by MMD was truly bad for this country. The president speaks in order to protect the livelihoods of all those that were to be retrenched, ati “mere rhetoric” and some idiots say they GRZ made a big deal out of it?
I normally don’t welcome Govts interfering in private business and the private sector. However, these investors in Zambia do take advantage of both the Govt and the Zambian people. Go to Kansanshi and the main people “knocking” for business are whites South Africans, British and Australian. Go to KCM, the Indians dominate though some Zambian presense is event. Mopani is South Africa and Zambians while at Luanshya Mine, the Chinese are present. Why should these be the case if the investors are “transparent” and willing to promote the interests of Zambians?
The problem is with govt. Their policies are chaotic. Nothing is clear. Each investor is treated differently instead of having universal standards. They must clean their own house first. Imagine the minister of finance removed duty only to be told by the president the following day to reinstate the statutory instrument. So we don’t even know who is in charge of govt budgeting. The other time PS issues nationwide licenses the next day the president revokes them. Total confusion. It’s a circus. This is a jungle government!
Try doing business with a so called Zambian Supplier and you will understand why mining companies are not in any hurry to use them. As Zambians, we need to up our game and stop always relying on government to protect us like little children. Start telling Zambians to be punctual, honest and transparent in business, then you will see them supplying the mines more and more.
@KK and @The Cartel, I completely agree with your statements here!!!
Indian firm develops Zambian copper mine
PTI Jun 25, 2006, 05.40pm IST
LUSAKA: Indian mining firm Vedanta Resources today unveiled a slew of projects to enable Zambia’s largest mine to nearly treble copper production to six million tonnes a year, an official said.The projects will allow the Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), in which Vedanta holds a 51 percent stake, to raise output from 2.4 million tonnes to six million tonnes thus extending its lifespan to 2035, KCM chairman Navin Agarwal said.”The total investment in these projects is 750 million dollars. This is the single largest investment in Zambia to date,” Agarwal said.He said KCM had awarded contracts to several international firms to develop the untapped Konkola Deep Mining Project (KDMP), as well as construct a new smelter and…
accordingly and going by the facts i put forward above,the lifespan of kcm spans up to 2035.now where r these Indians getting there facts from.in short they think we Zambians forget easily.depletion of copper is not a reason for retrenching workers but there own selfish drive for super profits.
and who you to think you can make better decisions than God?
Man of Action. Some previous presidents just continued getting fat and sleeping around with women without any regard to what Zambians were going through at the hands of so-called investors. HEMCS has always been there to stand for our interests. No wonder Guy Scott insists no previous president has performed better than Michael Sata – you have to understand where he is coming from with such a statement and can’t help but agree with him on a lot of things. Bravo! Only a witch can condemn this action by the President.
Then I must be the biggest witch out there…and I cordially invite your president to come kiss my butt.
@ Dudelove –
The President doesn’t kiss butts, he is too busy developing the country. Seriously, so would you rather KCM continued dodging tax, export copper concentrates on which they would pay almost zero tax, and continue retrenching workers???? What sort of President allows that to happen. I know that some of you will always condemn as long as it is PF doing it. I’m not even a PF member myself and I was one of the most sceptical at the beginning of PF government in September 2011. However, since then, in my books PF has been able to implement the most courageous set of economic policies that will change Zambia for good in the long term. A lot of you comment for political reasons, while I comment for economic reasons. PF makes a lot of sense if you use your head to reason.
The government must investigate to find out WHO tipped off this yellow mwenye so that he ran away before being arrested and deported.
@Mwembeshi….have you done international law or heard of the concept called of Self defence under the Protection of Nationals? If Zambia had detained Kumar unjustly the Indian State had a right under international law to mount an attack on Zambia to rescue their national under the doctrine of self defence. Heard of the Entebbe raid, 1965 the intervention of the US in the Dominican Republic to rescue its nationals; 1980 unsuccessful raid by US forces to rescue staff held in the US embassy in Iran; 1983 US intervention in Grenada etc. Dont play with other peoples nationals if they are from a militarily strong nation. India would have invaded Zed and where would you be hiding your balls today?
those who have visited India will agree with me that Indians are so scared of their government….those from the south like Kishore Kumar & JJ have no say on anything in their country as they are considered to be backwards & inferior (more to do with their skin color)….now what made Kumar & JJ (to some extent) to grow wings and become insulting to our great leader HEMCS? kupusa bati….
Investors have ceased coming to Zambia since panga family (PF) party came into power and the few frm SA are doing so on their own risk.
He deserved it. That was disrespectful of him to undermine our President. It is a good lesson to investors. This is our land, our natural resources, our people.
And that’s the difference between a developed and a developing country.
@ Jay jay,
I dont know in what context your comment is, however, i would like to state that Zambia is a light years away to be compared with a developed world in all undertakings. A developed worlds way of business is outlined and dealt with in such a manner that no jim and jack can dare bend the rules even after sharing countless champagne glasses with the President or the CEO, in the developed world business is just what it is, regulations and terms of the contracts are strictly adhered to on top of that diplomacy is very important.
Reading the comments above I have come to the inescapable conclusion that many Zambians believe that it is right to flaunt power in the manner our government has done in the case of Kumar. Kumar has committed no crime neither has he done anything that is inimical to Zambia’s interest. He may have done what most of us Zambians do not agree with but that is no reason to insult and disgrace him. In making economic decisions at micro (business) and macro (national) level there is bound to be disagreement and this will happen often. It is no reason to deport chief executives. So far we have deported Lapgreen, Railway systems, and now KCM CEO. What benefit do these deportations actually bring. If we want a CEO withdrawn we have the option of asking his head office to do so and appoint a new…
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and appoint a new CEO in his place.It may even be possible to insist on a Zambian CEO. In Zambia we need to learn to use power with moderation. Let us not fall prey to a siege mentality or to conspiracy theorems. If we harass reputable investors in our country we will only end up attracting dubious individuals who will be able to get what they want by bribing our government.
Let us be known for being a sober people. A country which takes a long term view of the national interest. For now, our government seems to be acting to impress unions and employees. Instead we should go through all the facts with KCM relating to the management proposal to lay off employees so that we are in a position to make an informed decision on the matter.
Good example being set here screaming arrogance in someones country just because you are an investor where is your diplomacy? Good ridance!
The President know very little about business ,running a mine can not be compared to the way he is managing his useless and big cabinet. Zambians pay salaries for the most corrupt cabinet in Southern Africa. For the mine it depends on what it is able to export and on the environment it operates from.Employing and retrenching depends on how much a mine can make.
I agree with you Cindy,your comment make very good reading.
This is not a move to be applauded by right thinking proponents of Zambian democracy.
This just shows that our govt has no respect for the values of
Democracy. The guy should be charged properly not be subject to the whims of govt officials.The various arms of democractic governance must be seen to be operating whether you are talking about a foreigner or a citizen. This sends a very bad message to investors
Very true mama although I dont support his belittling of govt. However, If people will be subjected to actions outside the law by a clique of govt officials its a Banana Republic. An investor wants protection from the country’s laws; very few of them will be trekking to Lusaka if they hear about this.
@Slow speed white mama: Was Kumar deported or he left under his own will? And what crime did Kumar commit for him to “be charged properly”?
The Zambian government, through the appropriate minister, only summoned him (Kumar) to a meeting so they can talk issues over, but the guy decided to bolt. For reasons only Kumar knows.
No deportation orders or arrest warrants were issued here. The PI has been issued only after the fact. So let us NOT stretch facts!!!
@Yambayamba I have assumed he must have committed an offence for him to be PId. Thats why I’m saying he must first be charged. If he hasn’t why PI him? For leaving Zambia to visit his home country? Why not wait for him to come back?
REMEMBER KCM IS PRIVATE COMPANY WHY THE GOVERNMENT DEPORTING SOMEONE WHO IS STRAIGHT BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT AGREED TO RETRACH AND CHANGED THE PLAN.FOOD RESAVE AGECY JUST PRONED 1500 WORKERS,THE GOVERNMENT ARE QUITE,THE MINE IN SOLWEZI ABOUT 86 WORKERS THEY ARE QUITE.
AS WE KNOW PF STANDS FOR PARTY FOR FAILURES
Kcm is not a private company. It is a public company. Vendata has 79.4% stake and zccm holding on behalf of grz has 20.6 %. From the way we have witten I can tell you an indian. Mwe bantu moneni ama sentences na ma spellings. Typical of a mwenye.
Siandongwe says: give us your presents for sure you will never politically, morally, socially, or psychologically sway our political understanding of corrupting weak souls . Mwine Lubemba is not for sale or corrupting. We looking forward to your twisted gifts.
PIease understand that GRZ is there to protect citizens on matters of social security. If an investor has no respect for your labour minister bwana shamenda and worst stil your president bwana sata do think you as employee will ever be respected?
I am Tonga and I love my bemba wife. Its like saying that all German people were bad during the rein of Hitler
I’m Bemba and I love my Tonga girlfriend. Ala Cupo fye! Nkakopa
I better own up too…..married right from Mununga. But I havent yet and perhaps will stir clear of finkubala though my mum-in-laws chikanda I would recommend to all and sundry. And well you should have been to my matebeto. My boys and girls are now big and they are fluent in both Tonga and Bemba. And my wife, well you guessed correct: I love her and not because she is Bemba but because she is a person!! And for me I think my in-laws love me not because of the many herds of cattle or other material things but because I am their child who respects them and I do by the way speak to them in Bemba.
Bad attitude can be protrayed as an insult to a Government. It doesnt have to literally be an insult, but someone’s behaviour can be translated as such. So Government was spot on, on this matter!
He dared the cobra. Not a wise man by any standards.
We have being working in this mine for years.but what these Indians are doing is not good for our country Anglo left every thing in place but making profit out of machinery Anglo left now the don’t want to buy new ones but bring contractors with machinery and say we are changing,changing what.
nayo nayo
Investors must realise that the natural resources that they come for in Zambia belongs to Zambians and Zambians must benefit.Retrenching people in the name of mechanising the operations is not beneficial to Zambians.Its not acceptable to retrench over 1500 people because you want to make profits!This means you dont care if these 1500 people dtarvd to death or not as long as you make profits!KCM should have come up with plan B which should have created jobs for these 1500 people insteady of just offloading them in the streeet without any survival options.This is very cruel and inhuman!!People must feel for others.
The Bank of Zambia will also be declaring people redundant. Is that a crime?
You probably should start by telling us the reasons why Bank of Zambia wants to lay off workers. How convincing, or not, are the reasons The Bank of Zambia is doing this?
Sarcastic and blanket statements contributes very little to the discussion at hand!
Joseph kabila in congo DR chased all chinese in his country for going against labor laws and shipping ex chinese prisoners to work in congo even when they had no qualifications. Wake up Zambia. That mwenye can go who cares when he wanted to put our brothers and sisters on the street for more prostitution and crime, men!!!
This does not make sense – how do you revoke the work permit from somebody who is not working anyway! Trying to close stables when the Horse has already bolted is barmy or stupid and this what SataN is trying to do.
Lol. …he would have come back next week but now he can’t.
Foolish people applauding this move. This arrogant government of ours will lead
To more suffering. It took a lot of time to lure these investors now you are chasing them away one by one like a domino effect they won’t be any investors foolishly the minister is in the same sentence asking for more investors while chasing another only foolish ones will risk their money. Don’t forget people you won’t get a new investor in days it might take even years . Pretty soon we will be downgraded to D for simple things like this which can be saved with simple mature dialogue. Our government is very immature
Hence the get immature responses
@china if you can stomach being dared in your house by your dependands keep your thinking under lock and key in your house,, govt was in order to call a meeting with kumar but he bolted, he knew what he was running away from,stop defending stupid investers..Welldone Mr president…
Diplomacy is what has avoided wars between countries and promoted peace. Presidents should act on behalf of their citizenry and not on a personal level. A note verbale to the High Commission of India would have spared the Indian government a lot of shame. We should desist from calling people names on the basis of their race. This is what KK fought againt. Maybe he has changed his values now but I doubt. India is an all weather friend from time immemorial.
Presidents are human beings and therefore need advice. The kaponya mentality of some bloggers smacks of bitterness, really. Where is the “Christian Nation” rhetoric? By the way thid is not an insult. By the way Kumar ran away from fear of being lynched by overzealous kaponya cadres and detention by police for insulting the president. Is our President a dictator? I doubt it. He is just surrounded by yhe wrong people.
I wish I was Bemba; yet I know I will never be able to speak Zambian.
Thank you Lord I was not born Bemba; therefore I can never be Zambian.
We pray that the Panga Fellows (PF) will not turn their pangas on investors. The PF are playing on the psychology of the vulnerable people who do not understand the dynamics of national economics. The PF should have used the services of human resources with best brains to negotiate with KCM rather than resort to political rhetoric to appease its followers.
Steps to instil confidence:
(1) President Sata must fire Kabimba, the culprit who started the war of castigating his PF colleagues in public.
(2) Condemn the PF panga-wielding youths involved in violence resulting in deaths of the youths in Lusaka.
(3) President Sata must make mends with Bemba Chiefs whose subjects constitute his greater constituency. Kabimba, Mmembe, Chief Nkomeshya, Masebo etc are just mercenaries.
Rhetoric is now an insult my friend. You could be exiled. Is Kumar Zambian or not?
Please someone tell me.
Kumar had to leave the country for he knew that the ZRA was closing in on the company for fraud,manupalation,sophening of over 7 billion dollars.Kcm claims
it has invested 3 billion dollars in the mine.But all the contracts of investments have
gone through tax haven companies,there has been massive overinvoicing in all
contracts as they are not paying any tax on imports.kcm sells all its copper through
there London based marketing company keeping money not bringing it back to Zambia,there is massive transfer pricing taking place and monies used for buying
in Indian assets.Today they want the money earned by Zambian workers with their
sweat and blood to enrich themselves by leaving them in the cold after raping the
companies last resource the people who made the 30 billion…
Were the workers not going to get retrenchment benefits in accordance with their conditions of service?
Ok Mr. economist. Now tell us how to run this company and show us how much tax you have paid!
When people run away from a situation the have something to hide.Let Kumar and his
chairman Navin agarwal come and explain what are they running away from.vedanta
has been known for massive fraud and money laundering all over the world using tax
havens and fraudulent accounting practices.They buy there way out by paying the tax
man and their masters.But they cannot fool the Zambians any more for the Lord will
expose all their misdeeds.They should be subjected to a forensic audit using the serious fraud office in the uk as they have used complex tax havens ,that Zambian
are not capable to reach and the Zra doesnot have trained officers to unearth the fraud.
Now ask your Lord to run the business at KCM….
Of course, Kumar might have made a mistake in his statement but this does not warrant a responsible government to go to such extents in mistreating an investor. Take or leave it, assuming that Vendatta decided to leave today, there would be more job losses than what Vendatta could have have preserved under the current status of the company. Those with confidence in the PF mind you, with the current style of administration, it’ s very probable that one day, Zambia’ s economy will be on the rocks or back in the woods which will mean more and more job losses. Just wait and u will prove me right because that situation is truly coming.
Question: Has any investor left Zimbabwe as result of Mugabe 51% policy? The answer is no! When Shoprite and Game Store came to Zambia, the Zambian Units were among the most profitable in the region but their workers remained the least paid.
Useless undemocratic and 1diotic government under the leadership of a perfectly mad person! The slide to the bottom should be accelerated so that the 1diocy of supporting lunatics and their actions reaps its fruit…..a desolate Zambia!
People hire and keep workers when they can afford them. This is worrying to see government suggesting that companies should hire workers for life even if they cant afford them. Is this now communism. A company has the right to hire and fire. And govt and unions need to respect that.
50years, still wagging tails b 4 the so called investers.Don’t blame one person here. Collectively as Zambians we are a bad news managing government businesses.lts always ‘monkeys in a maize field.’ Go 2 Chile nd learn how they do it. Shame upon us!
Kumar should sue the government.
There are no ground worthy to make such a big decision.
As some one indicated, all what should have been done was to talk. No need for high handedness on part of government. Do you know why the kwacha is losing value every hour despite measures put in place by government? is there a law that prohibits industrial restructuring and manpower realignment? Government must learn to do things by the rules and laws. this rule by man will harm Zambia in the long- term.
Too late!
…”A mano ya lubuli yesa nga mwalwa”.
I don’t like KCM, but honestly this Kumar guy is a hundred times cleverer than Mike 90, when Mike 90 was snoring, the piripiri chap hit the nail on the head and bolted off!
The sad part is the message sent to the world: “Invest in Zambia at your own peril”….
The president is on the side of Zambian workers and has the right to safe guard the
national resource and the workers plight.open your eyes for the assest belongs to the
Zambians and not alone with the so called investers who have taken out 100000 folds
by manupalation and fraud.Time for sleeping is over,time for work has begun.zambians
built this asset with their sweat and blood and no one can rape mother Zambia again.
Zambians must go and see it for themselves what Vedanta and the agarwal family been
up to on these sites on the internet.http://www.minesandcommunities.org/artical.php?a=9278
http://www.minesandcommunites.org/article.php?a=9686
sixteen years of fraud?minesandcommunities:Home.
Zambian know how to run their own mines,they don’t need the crooks to run it for
them…
Action at last
DO YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT “KONKOLA COPPER MINES PLC” STANDS FOR?
KCM IS NOT A “PRIVATE” COMPANY BUT A “PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY”, WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR EDUCATION FROM?
Imagine what he is telling his friends,let us be honest ,we cant run most of these businesses,bukaponya,people bring in there money,mwalatumpa,what did Mugabe do with the land he was boasting about? Be realistic mwe bantu,there is no country which has no foreigners.
This is a warning to some other investers who want to take advantage of our poor contry.thyey shud not blackmail the govment becoz they have money.
Idiot!
For 1500 Jobs his exellency has put the jobs of 22000 Zambians at risk still employed under KCM. What more shd i say…
It’s true we are poor Zambians. Even you bloggers if you had a chance to be employed by HH farming block based in USA as a Chief Kachema and want to reduce the numbers of your junior US citizen Kachemas and Obama protects them, you wouldn’t use the same phrase this Indian termed on our Presido MCS defence speech on Zambian miners job security. Mind you all, this chap Kumar was just an employee for Mr Agarwal – owner of Vedanta. Learn it, he is not the one who has invested in KCM. Stop praising him as an investor.
so much for investor confidence.
I am sure there are more diplomatic ways of handling such issues … ministry of foreign affairs, ministry of trade and commerce, etc.
But we have a “can do” president and he can do everything.
Except control his own cadres.
#OneZambia
The idiots have done it again. Just like a Banana Republic, where President’s photographs must hang on the wall, they have declared a perfectly bright man as a prohibited immigrant.
I have been related to Zambia for many years and I have seen many idiotic and stupid actions by them,. This is once again a roof that Zambia is never going to go anywhere. They will remain as medieval as they are. Always.
Guys, is Kumar an investor or an employee?
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