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THE Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) has seized 19 bales of used underwear worth more than K30, 000 in Lusaka.
This is in its continued effort to promote the health and safety of consumers in Zambia
ZABS head – marketing and public relations Hazel Zulu said the bureau, through its inspectorate department conducted a market surveillance inspection and discovered bales of used under garments in some warehouses in Lusaka.
“The bales amounting to K30, 250 were seized from Bellion Limited, Golden Cost Investment and Sajer Limited Company in Lusaka.
“Seven bales were seized from Golden Cost while 12 bales were seized from both Bellion Limited and Sajer Limited Company,” Ms Zulu said.
ZABS seized the consignment in line with the compulsory standard ZS 559 which is a code of practice for the inspection and acceptance criteria for used textile products in Zambia.
The standard prohibits the importation and sale of used under garments in the country.
“ZABS is saddened that despite many efforts being made to curb the vice, members of the public are still buying used under garments, putting their health at risk.
“Members of the public should know that the quality battle needs concerted effort from all well-meaning Zambians,” she said.
She said under garments and nightwear include all types of garments worn close to the skin such as pyjamas, night dresses, night gowns, patients hospital wear, ladies and gents briefs and vests among others.
Ms Zulu said the bureau would make the necessary administrative arrangements to ensure that the bales were incinerated.
The affected traders were charged 15 per cent of the total value of the seized products as stipulated by the Standards Act.
The 2017 league season will kick off on March 29 with the Samuel ‘Zoom’ Ndhlovu Memorial Charity Shield semifinals.
Nkana, holders Power Dynamos, Zesco United and defending FAZ Super Division champions Zanaco will clash in the semifinals of the traditional season-opening competition.
The sides will meet in a doubleheader in Kitwe at a venue to be announced by FAZ.
Defending champions Power will play Zesco in the lunchtime kickoff in their third successive Charity Shield meeting since 2016.
Power beat Zesco on penalties in last years semifinals while Zesco beat the Kitwe side 3-1 in the 2015 final.
President Edgar Lungu’s State of the Nation Address on Friday morning is expected to nightlight his administration’s key focus areas for the next four years.
In line with the amended constitution, President Lungu is expected to return to Parliament on Friday in order to fulfil a constitutional requirement in Article 86 which mandates that the Head of State may address the National Assembly at least twice in every year.
During the ceremonial opening of the first session of the 12th National Assembly last September, President Lungu made some landmark pronouncements including his desire for Zambia to adopt nuclear energy as a way of addressing the energy deficit.
Four memoranda of understanding have since been signed between the Zambian government and Rosatom, Russia’s state-run nuclear agency, with a view to signing a nuclear deal believed to be worth $10-billion.
He also announced Government’s intentions to create one million jobs over the next five years through the Industrial Development Corporation.
President Lungu further revealed that within the next five to ten years, state owned enterprises are to be listed on the Lusaka Stock Exchange so as to ensure broader citizen economic empowerment.
He also promised to offer 3,600 youths with affordable loans to own a bus, a garage or a car wash bay.
The Head of State also announced that governments will be undertaking the national land titling programme beginning in Lusaka Province and created four new ministries.
During the last address, UPND Members of Parliament boycotted the session in protest against the handling of the presidential petition.
It would be interesting to see whether the UPND MPs will again stay away from the House especially that Speaker of the House admonished them and forced them to apologise for their actions.
And Electoral Expert McDonald Chipenzi says what remains is the guessing among citizens and perhaps MPs of what the president is going to say and whether this will take a form of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) and would allow MPs to ask him questions of concern and contribute to his speech while he is present in the House.
“Or will take the usual academic form of debating his speech in his absence despite the Speaker always citing rules of the house that it does not discuss individuals who were not able to defend themselves and not in the house?” he asked.
Mr Chipenzi has since proposed that Zambian takes the South African way where the president is engaged right there and then by parliamentarians after addressing them.
Former Katanga Governor Moise Katumbi seated next to State House Spokesman Amos Chanda at Heroes Stadium
The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has protested over the presence of former Katanga Governor Moise Katumbi at the under-20 AFCON semi-finals between Zambia and South Africa at Heroes Stadium last week.
Accompanied by State House Spokesman Amos Chanda, Mr Katumbi mingled and interacted with football fans at the match.
In a statement addressed to the Ministry of Home affairs in Zambia, the Congolese Embassy in Zambia stated that it was not right for the Zambian government to grant Mr. Katumbi an entry Visa into Zambia because he was facing charges before judicial authorities in his country.
“Indeed, as a fairly and brotherly government of the Republic of Zambia knows, Mr Moise Katumbi Chapwe displays behaviour likely to undermine the peace, stability and well-being of the Congolese people because he proclaims himself enemy number one to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, H.E. Mr Joseph Kabila Kabange. He travelled all over the world to plead for the arrest of the Congolese authorities and he pushes the international community to take sanctions against the institutions of the Democratic Republic of Congo,” stated the Congolese Embassy in Lusaka.
The embassy stated that it could not understand why the Zambian government would grant Katumbi an entry visa into Zambia looking at the kind of relationship the two countries enjoyed.
“According to sources, Katumbi is prepared to set up a militia in charge of the destabilization of the institutions of the Republic of Congo. He is also pushing the Congolese population to an uprising that is likely to plunge the Democratic Republic of Congo into indescribable chaos and he is also subject to prosecution before the judicial authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
“In view of this situation, considering the good relations of solidarity, fraternity and friendship between the Republic of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, it cannot be understood that the government of the Republic of Zambia had granted the entry visa in its territory in favour of Mr Moise Katumbi Chapwe,” the Embassy complained.
The Embassy even went further to ask how the Zambian government would have felt if the Congolese government showed the solidarity that the Zambian government had showed Katumbi to one of its rivals.
“What would be the reaction of the Zambian government if Mr Hakainde Hichilema was on Congolese territory and received by the High Political Authorities?” asked the Embassy asked.
A RIGHT THAT IS NOT TREASURED NOR FOUGHT FOR AND DEFENDED IS SOON LOST!
[By Brig Gen Godfrey Miyanda – 15th March 2017]
This article has been inspired by a blogger, Lusaka Times Columns 10th March 2017, 19@MyZambia at 4.39 pm, who commented on my article and suggested that I write about the suppression of media freedom and the attributes of a dictator. I have taken liberty to broaden and contextualise the topic and titled it as “A RIGHT THAT IS NOT TREASURED NOR FOUGHT FOR AND DEFENDED IS SOON LOST!” This is because I feel that, while the ongoing debate about media or press freedom in Zambia is the catalyst that has evoked the current passionate and furious debate on media freedom, it is imperative to understand that every right must not only be treasured but must be fought for and be defended. I believe that the loss of one right leads to the loss of other rights since the assailant and/or schemer is emboldened by his or her apparent success and gains an appetite to be even more vicious in his or her schemes.
The ongoing subtle “anti-media frenzy” in Zambia is clearly a well calculated stratagem to silence dissenting voices. Zambians have become vocal and are expressing their strong feelings without let or hindrance about the conduct of politician and other leaders and about corruption levels that have reached epidemic proportions. Thus to develop an efficacious strategy to nip in the bud the assault on the freedom of expression, citizens who are not part of the media fraternity must be won over and be convinced that this is not a war by and for the media practitioners; but that it is a war to defend the purposes of the Independence Struggle; it is about the very heart and soul and survival of the Zambian nation and all its peoples.
In this paper my lazy approach is to use an eminent military historian’s wonderful presentation in one of his books to answer @MyZambia’s request and, in the process, jolt citizens on the side-lines who may not realise that they are not only likely to be affected but are already engaged in this media war, albeit unknowingly. By modifying the question my task has been made that much easier.
I now introduce a stalwart in military history, one who in his lifetime had been articulate and who seemingly was gifted with unending visionary illumination and presented his thoughts simply that all levels of readers of the book will comprehend without a real struggle. My guest today passed on in 1970 but I came across his ‘little’ Big Book in 1974 – “little” because it is only 96 pages; big because the message for the world is Big, VERY BIG! Here he is, the late Captain Sir Basil H. Liddell Hart, speaking to you on dictatorship, through this verbatim excerpt from his book WHY DON’T WE LEARN FROM HISTORY? :
“Pattern of Dictatorship”
“We learn from history that self-made despotic rulers follow a standard pattern:
In gaining power, they exploit, consciously or unconsciously, a state of popular dissatisfaction with the existing regime or of hostility between different sections of the people. They attack the existing regime violently and combine their appeal to discontent with unlimited promises (which, if successful, they fulfil only to a limited extent). They claim that they want absolute power for only a short time (but “find” subsequently that the time to relinquish it never comes). They excite popular sympathy by presenting the picture of a conspiracy against them and use this as a lever to gain a firmer hold at some crucial stage.
On gaining power, they soon begin to get rid of their chief helpers, “discovering” that those who brought about the new order have suddenly become traitors to it. They suppress criticism on one pretext or another and punish anyone who mentions facts which, however true, are unfavourable to their policy. They enlist religion on their side, if possible, or, if its leaders are not compliant, foster a new kind of religion subservient to their ends.
They spend public money lavishly on material works of a striking kind, in compensation for the freedom of spirit and thought of which they have robbed the public. They manipulate the currency to make the economic position of the state appear better than it is in reality. They ultimately make war on some other state as a means of diverting attention from internal conditions and allowing discontent to explode outward.
They use the rallying cry of patriotism as a means of riveting the chains of their personal authority more firmly on the people. They expand the superstructure of the state while undermining its foundations – by breeding sycophants at the expense of self-respecting collaborators, by appealing to the popular taste for the grandiose and sensational instead of true values, and by fostering a romantic instead of a realistic view, thus ensuring the ultimate collapse, under their successors if not themselves, of what they have created. This political confidence trick, itself a familiar string of tricks, has been repeated all down the ages. Yet it rarely fails to take in a fresh generation”. END OF QUOTATION.
Sounds familiar? Indeed why don’t we learn from our own Zambian history: of waging the independence struggle together yet forgetting why? Of the cunning introduction of the One Party State and its aftermath? Of using ethnicity as a weapon while condemning it? Of the successful heroic campaign for the return to a multi-party system, which culminates in the contradictory Third Term Bid? And now, of organised violence against journalists and shutting down a number of media houses while bidding for a Third Term? I say to @MyZambia, I hope you and your group are ready to learn from our own short but tumultuous Zambian history. Start now, educating one another, respecting other people’s views, upgrading the level of debate from partisan and personality quarrels to sharing real life experiences and ideas. Let us all begin to learn from history. I thank you @MyZambia for creating the opportunity for me to share Sir B.H. Liddell Hart’s thoughts in his 1944 classic book, relevant and timely, even 72 years today.
I take off my hat and lift it high to Captain Sir B.H. Liddell Hart posthumously, whose treatise to me is a never-ending prophecy of the folly of ignoring life’s experiences.
Our task, all of us, is to be alert and nip in the bud signs which have been so clearly listed and analysed by Sir B.H. Liddell Hart. They are relevant and applicable to Zambia. Our own late Matty P would have said ‘Don’t argue, you were not there’. The English would quip “forewarned is forearmed”. The Bible reveals succinctly that “The Writing Is On The Wall”. And I say “start learning now and never stop fighting for and defending your rights!!!”
GODFREY MIYANDA, BRIGADIER GENERAL, STANDING UP FOR MOTHER ZAMBIA [15TH MARCH 2017]
The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has directed Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation Limited (ZESCO) to cut access to unlicensed international Data Transit operators who were illegally offering Electronic Communication services to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) within Zambia using the ZESCO infrastructure.
In a statement released to the media today, ZICTA name the illegal operators as PCCWL Global, Telecom Namibia Limited, Wananchi Telecom Limited (WTL), West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) and Gilat Satcom Global Communications, adding that these operators do not pay tax since they are not registered entities in Zambia.
Below is the full statement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 15, 2017.
ZICTA directs ZESCO to disconnect all Illegal International Transit Operators
Following investigations, the Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has directed Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation Limited (ZESCO) to cut access to unlicensed international Data Transit operators who were illegally offering Electronic Communication services to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) within Zambia using the ZESCO infrastructure.
This is contrary to Section 9 of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Act No. 15 of 2009.
According to Section 9 of the ICT Act, it is against the law for any firm or individual to operate an Electronic Communications Network or provide an Electronic Communications Service without a licence issued under the Act.
The said unlicensed international transit operators include PCCWL Global, Telecom Namibia Limited, Wananchi Telecom Limited (WTL), West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) and Gilat Satcom Global Communications.
The Authority has already issued fines against ZESCO, Wananchi Telecom Limited (WTL), West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC), PCCWL Global and Gilat Satcom Global Communications respectively for abrogating the law.
It is important to note that companies engaging in such conducts deprive government of the much needed revenue as they do not pay tax since they are not registered entities in Zambia.
Tax avoidance is illegal, and we therefore, urge companies operating in the ICT sector to legalise and normalise their operations and follow laid down procedures as stipulated by laws governing the sector.
Issued By: ____________________________________________________________ Hanford Chaaba (Mr) Public Relations Officer
Minister of Finance Felix Mutati, AgDevCo Director Nigel Seabrook, and AgDevCo Associate Director Laura McGregor.
Minister of Finance Felix Mutati has said the Government intends to transform Zambia’s Northern Sector into a trade and investment hub for the Great Lakes Region; comprising Burundi, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Western Tanzania, and Northerly Zambia [Luapula, Northern & Muchinga Provinces].
The Minister stated that, “with a potential market in excess of 45 million consumers, the Great Lakes Region provides Zambia with a greenfield prospect for advancing the country’s economic diversification agenda through cash crop agriculture, facilitation of private sector investment in world class trading amenities, and establishment of efficient water transportation systems using the Mpulungu Harbour.”
Mr. Mutati added that, “the Zambian Government is working with the African Development Bank [AfDB] to remodel Mpulungu Harbour so that it is positioned for increased trade and investments in the Great Lakes Region.”
The Minister was speaking when representatives from Agriculture Development Company [AgDevCo], a British Government Supported Company, paid a courtesy call on him at his office this afternoon.
Meanwhile AgDevCo Country Direct Nigel Seabrook has disclosed that the UK Firm intends to invest US$ 30 million in the Northern Zambia Agriculture Hub and leverage on a further US $ 60 million from financial partners and potential equity takers.
“Our mission is to build profitable businesses which link farmers to markets, create jobs, contribute to food security, and drive economic growth,” stated Mr. Seabrook.
The Northern Zambia Agriculture Hub [NZAH] is a planned venture in the Northerly Zambia that aims to capitalize on markets in Burundi, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Western Tanzania. Due to its strategic location near Mpulungu Harbour, NZAH has a competitive advantage due to its proximity to a huge regional market and its location in a vast area with arable land and water resources suitable for irrigation farming.
Mr. Mutati met senior representatives of AgDevCo at the UK Business Council Seminar during his recent visit to the United Kingdom.
FODEP is elated that President Edgar Lungu will be addressing Parliament tomorrow on 17th March 2017.
FODEP is hopeful that a number of issues that are pertinent to the stability and development of the country will be attended to by the President in his address and interventions that will follow.
It will be refreshing to see how the President will reiterate the realization of certain important values among them democratic governance, constitutionalism and national unity according to Article 8 of the Constitution.
FODEP is optimistic the President will outline some practical measures and programs that government will put in place to achieve these values that hinge on national unity and prevent divisions in the country so that the One Zambia One Nation slogan is not treated as theory by sections of society.
The delimitation of constituencies in the new districts is another crucial issue which FODEP expects the President to tackle. The organization has observed that Government has created five (5) new districts in Muchinga Province alone and this may have implications on the Electoral College. It is expected that the President will outline government’s plans on how it will support the ECZ to deal with new electoral boundaries before the next elections.
FODEP is hopeful that the Head of State will give a roadmap on where else Government intends to create new districts. This will help in creating a balanced view of the way government is spreading development opportunities and avoid perceptions of bias among Zambians. FODEP believes that other districts and constituencies like Mandevu in Lusaka are equally vast and may need realignment.
FODEP is looking forward to seeing President Lungu paying specific attention to the state of fundamental human rights, including freedom of expression and the independence of the media in the country following a lot of popular concerns on the matters.
Another critical area which FODEP believes borders on democracy and good governance is the enactment of the Access to Information Bill (AIB) into an Act. The organization expects the Head of State to outline the exact time frame when the bill will be tabled before parliament for enactment.
FODEP is of the opinion that Political Dialogue has not been given the serious attention it deserves in the recent years more especially after the 2016 elections. At the same time the culture of intolerance, among leaders and members of the political parties seem to be on the increase. This state of affairs poses a serious danger to peace and democracy in Zambia. Against this background, FODEP is keenly interested to see how the President will highlight government’s plans to encourage dialogue and tolerance among all stakeholders and political opponents.
Last but not the least, FODEP is anxious to learn of the measures Government is putting in place to deal with people that are perceived to be in detention on political grounds or whether or not the President will exercise his prerogative of mercy in their behalf. This may be one of the practical steps to promote reconciliation and human rights of citizens who belong to different political parties and array perceptions against the One Zambia One Nation motto.
FODEP believes that the President will take advantage of the national address to underscore Zambia’s position on its membership to the ICC in response to concerns among many stakeholders.
Finally, the President must make clarification and government’s position on the referendum. This is not withstanding that financial constraints alone may not be sufficient reasons for not holding the referendum and FODEP is of the view that other cost effective and cheaper methods may be employed to avert costs. The referendum can be held progressively so that both voting and voter education are economically and periodically addressed.
A Citizen Economic Empowerment Commission (CEEC) Beneficiary in Nakonde District of Muchinga Province has set up the first ever milling company in the District.
A check by ZANIS found production going on well at the newly opened milling plant.
Mr. Wila Mungomba, said the milling plant produces 700 hundred bags of mealie-meal per day, adding that a bag of a 25kg mealie-meal from Nakonde milling is selling at K 90 while similar brands are fetching K 110.
Mr Mungomba said his company is trying to support Government by selling mealie-meal at a cheaper price in line with its wish for millers to sell the commodity at a cheaper price.
Mr Mungomba said his company has also employed 20 youths to work at the milling company.
The Director however lamented that the company is facing a major challenge of accessing maize in order to increase production.
And Nakonde District Commissioner Field Simwinga called on the youths in the District to emulate the proprietors of Nakonde milling and seek guidance on how to get funded by CEEC.
Mr Simwinga also appealed to farmers in the District to grow more maize so that they can in turn sell it to the milling company who is currently facing the challenge of access to maize for increased production.
The milling equipment was bought at a total cost of k 1,356,000.
The case in which the opposition UPND is seeking to push High Court Judge Chitabo step aside from hearing the petition matter has been adjourned.
The UPND wants the Judge to recuse himself alleging that he is compromised.
The Judge Chitabo recusal notice motion which was allowed yesterday came up for hearing today.
The UPND lawyers this morning argued on behalf of UPND President Hakainde Hichilema and his Vice President Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba as to why UPND is of the view that Judge chitabo does not hear the UPND matter and that the matter be transferred to another judge.
After hearing, Judge Chitabo adjourned the matter to 11th and 12th April to allow the Attorney General Likando Kalaluka to respond to the UPND’s arguments.
This is a preliminary issue raised in the case in which Mr Hichilema and Mr Mwamba petitioned the High Court over the Constitutional Court decision to throw out a presidential petition for want of prosecution following the expiry of the 14 days period in accordance with the Constitution, among other substantive reliefs.
Other reliefs sought included an order to declare that the manner in which the Constitutional Court interpreted the 14 days in Article 101 and 103 was ultra vires Article 18(9) of the Constitution, which infringed on the rights of the petitioners.
Yesterday the petitioners have since filed a notice of motion for recusal and for an order to transfer the case from Mr Justice Chitabo.
“That there is reasonable cause to question his lordship’s impartiality in this matter on the ground of personal bias or perceived bias in his conduct of the proceedings; and
“That his lordship cannot otherwise preside over this matter due to a conflict of interest which disqualifies him from so presiding,” they applied.
Mr Hichilema and Mr Mwamba have previously accused the court of being impotent, incompetent and biased especially after the various complaints submitted against the Constitutional Court judges currently before the Judicial Complaints Commission over the conduct of ConCourt president Hildah Chibomba, Justice Annie Sitali, Justice Mungeni Mulenga, Justice Margaret Munalula and Justice Palan Mulonda.
A 40 year old woman of Mukuma village in Senior Chief Sikufele’s area in Kabompo district died on the spot after a tree fell on her.
The deceased met her fate when a tree that was being cut down by her elder sister Beauty Kamasongo 46,for firewood fell on her.
Northwestern province Police Chief Auxensio Daka has confirmed the incident to ZANIS in Solwezi today and identified the deceased as Chisola Kamasongo.
Mr Daka said Kamasongo sustained a deep cut on her forehead and died on the spot.
He said police do not suspect any foul play as the incident has been treated as an accident and relatives have since been advised to bury.
Milenge District in Luapula Province has not received the 2016/2017 farming inputs for the vulnerable but viable households.
The district was earmarked to receive 300 packs under the Food Security Pack programme through the department of community development.
Milenge District Community Development Officer (DCDO) Jackson Mwale disclosed this in an interview with ZANIS yesterday.
Mr. Mwale said as a result the district may experience household food insecurity while families may be cash strapped and not be able to send their children to school.
The Food Security Pack programme has over the years helped to mitigate the poverty levels in rural households and has enhanced the living conditions of the people.
However, modalities are being worked to ensure the 1, 200 X 50 kilo grams bags of fertilizer and 300 by 10 kilo grams of maize seed are delivered and given to the beneficiary farmers, said Mr Mwale.
And Milenge District Community Development Officer (DCDO) Jackson Mwale has disclosed that inadequate man power is adversely affecting the delivery of quality services to the people in the area.
Mr. Mwale said out of the 13 sub centres only four centres were manned forcing the district staff to go to the centres to provide the services.
He said because of the shortage of man power coupled with the lack of transport, his office has been left with no option but to relay on community based institutions such as Area Food Security Pack Committees.
Issa Hayatou President of the Confederation of African Football
Issa Hayatou’s 29- year reign as CAF president has ended.
The Cameroonian was beaten by Ahmad Ahmad of Madagascar 34 votes to 20 at the elective CAF congress held in Addis Abba, Ethiopia today.
Hayatou has been in power since 1988.
His departure comes as CAF celebrates 60 years and sees the torch passed from 70-year-old Hayatou to 57-year-old Ahmad who is also CAF executive committee member and president of the Madagascar Football Federation.
Ahmad is CAF’s 7th president since African football’s governing body was formed in 1957.
The Lusaka High Court has referred the matter in which three Lozi traditionalists want Litunga Lubosi Imwiko II to vacate his post for alleged gross incompetence and abuse of authority to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) of Zambia.
Judge Getrude Chawatama in her ruling delivered on 15th March 2017, said that she had considered the submissions and found that the case needed to be handled by the Constitutional Court for determination.
“I am of the view that this is a matter which is proper for the exclusive jurisdiction of the Constitution as provided by Article 128. Where a question relating to constitutionality arises in a court, the person presiding in that court shall refer to the Constitutional Court. I hereby refer this matter to the Constitutional Court,” ruled judge Chawatama.
The lawsuit was initially filed in the Mongu High Court and later the file was sent to Lusaka for allocation.
However, the Litunga’s lawyers have argued that allegations on their client question the competence of the Litunga who holds a constitutionally created office of Litunga.
This matter raised by the defense is what must now come for determination before the ConCourt.
According to an affidavit in support of originating notice of motion filed in the Mongu High court on 3rd February 2017, against Litunga Imwiko Lubosi, Nabiwa Imikendu, Litia Charles Mutemwa, Mukubesa Ilukena and Mumbisho Liswaniso stated that they were Zambians and traditional loyalists with vested interest aimed at ensuring that the Lozi tradition and custom was upheld, promoted and sustained for posterity and cultural heritage.
They stated that a wider majority of Lozis, averaging 92 per cent, was in open disapproval of his Litungaship and would want him to vacate the throne.
But the Barotse Royal Establishment (BRE) immediately rubbished the litigation as a work of individuals that had personal differences with the embattled Lubosi Imwiko II.
“The first one (first petitioner – Nabiwa Imikendu), he was holding a senior position in the BRE and he misdirected himself, therefore he was fired and now he is feeling there is nobody who can become Imbwae except himself. What is so special about him? If he were special, he wouldn’t have done that wrong. The next person is Charles Mutemwa, he has been fighting tooth and nail to find a position in the BRE but because of his personality, he was found to be unqualified and for that, he has built something, he doesn’t like the BRE. Another one, Mumbisho Liswaniso, was actually an induna in the Sir (Saa) Kuta. He, too, like the first one, involved himself in other things and he was demoted. The fourth person they have hooked [is] a young man called Mukubesa Ilukena; he does not know why he has involved himself in such kind of nonsense. These are personal attacks they have for BRE just because of what they have failed to obtain,” Induna Imandi was quoted in the media recently where he declared that none of the 19 allegations of incompetence and fraud raised by the quartet had credibility.
THE Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) has seized 19 bales of used underwear worth more than K30, 000 in Lusaka.
The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has directed Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation Limited (ZESCO) to cut access to unlicensed international Data Transit operators who were illegally offering Electronic Communication services to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) within Zambia using the ZESCO infrastructure.
