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The opposition Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) has observed that President Michael Sata has insulted the integrity and trust of all Zambians by stating that people talking about the new constitution should be ignored.
The MMD is of the view that President Sata’s maintaining that the country has a functioning constitution and therefore the talk on the new constitution should be curtailed is a sign of confusion on his part and that of the Patriotic Front (PF) government.
Party president Nevers Mumba has also told Qfm news in a telephone interview that such a statement from the Head of State is also an indication of an impending constitutional crisis that is about to hit the country.
Dr. Mumba notes that the Zambian people have made it very clear that President Sata must deliver on his promise of coming up with a new constitution but that by stating that the country still has a functioning constitution, the Head of State has in effect refused to deliver this promise.
He says by refusing to be held accountable and to deliver this promise, the Head of State is allegedly also being immoral and has further refused to exercise integrity by being a man of his word something that is a key requirement for the office he holds of the country’s presidency.
The MMD leaders says his party is disappointed with President Sata and the PF government and to which demands that the Constitutional roadmap be given to the people and assurance that the constitution will be done within 2014 be guaranteed.
The opposition leader notes that this demand is something most of the people are allegedly ready to be imprisoned for until the people of Zambia are honored for their faith and resilience.
He says this is because his party feels that the entire constitutional making process has been abandoned by the PF government and that it remains for the people of Zambia to decide the next step to take in order to right this alleged wrong.
Alexander Chikwanda says he is confident that the Link 8,000 road project will succeed because it is headed by President Sata.
Mr Chikwanda said President Sata’s close supervision and monitoring of the Link 8,000 will ensure that the project succeeds.
“I am sure the Link 8,000 will succeed because the man himself is closing monitoring this gigantic project and there is no room for errors,” Mr Chikwanda said.
Mr Chikwanda however expressed disappointed that the Roads Development Agency has delayed in the distribution of equipment for the Pave Zambia road project.
He revealed that the paver making equipment has been sitting idle at RDA since the project was launched in October by President Sata last year.
Mr Chikwanda observed that RDA two weeks ago flagged off the distribution of the equipment to all provincial centres but that no equipment has been distributed so far.
“I was in Mongu last Wednesday and I asked the Permanent Secretary if the equipment had arrived and he had no information. We are here in Mansa and the P.S is telling me that he has not seen the equipment. So the paving making equipment has been travelling from Lusaka to provincial centres for the last two weeks,” Mr Chikwanda said.
He was speaking in Mansa yesterday when he officiated at the opening of Indo Zambia Mansa Branch.
And Mr Chikwanda has urged Permanent Secretaries to ensure that all infrastructure development programmes are fully implemented.
He said as government releases funds for infrastructure projects, controlling officers should ensure that all projects are fully implemented within an agreed time frame.
“It won’t help us to talk about a litany of projects here which are half completed. We want controlling officers to ensure that these projects are completed right on time,” he said.
The Finance Minister also commended Indo Zambia Bank for opening a branch in Mansa in response to government’s policy of financial inclusiveness.
Mr Chikwanda has since urged commercial banks to extend their networks to newly created districts since people and businesses in those areas will need banking services.
At the same event, Indo Zambia Bank Managing Director Shankardas Gupta announced that the bank has continued to post positive growth and created 40 direct jobs last year through recruitment of young graduates.
Mr Gupta said Indo Zambia Bank has been growing consistently over the years and its business mix in 2013 grew by 20 percent.
“The total business mix is in excess of K 2.4 billion while total deposits of the bank have risen to a level of over K 1.5 billion with loans and advance portfolio crossing the level of K 900 million,” Mr Gupta said.
He said the Mansa branch will be the bank’s 24th branch and marks the bank’s landmark achievement of being present in all the ten provinces.
Opposition political parties are planning to picket and hold a demonstration outside State House to protest the confrontational stand that President Michael Sata has taken towards national issues in total disregard of the social contract he held with the Zambian people.
The demonstration is intended to show that Zambia was not a monarchy but a democracy in which governments were elected to serve the interests of the people.
Zambia Direct Democracy Movement (ZDDM) publicity secretary John Banda said the demo was expected to highlight President Sata’s alleged disregard for the Zambian people who included the Church and the civil society who supported his ascension to power on account of progressive promises.
The demonstration will demand immediate commencement of inter party dialogue to save the country from conflict.
“We are fully aware that some political parties may feel that this is not a good idea. We shall not force them to join us because a good number of those spoken to agree and feel camping at Sate House will send a message to President Sata,” he said.
Banda said Zambia stood at a very dangerous break or make crossroad where there was need to work together as one people by putting aside personal and partisan interest for national togetherness.
“In the spirit of national unity, and after concerted consultations with other opposition party leaders, we have agreed to picket President Sata at State House and we shall camp there until he sees us to start a process of national dialogue and reconciliation,” he said.
In a statement, ZDDM accused the Republican President of failure to honour his promises to the people among them the respect to uphold the rule of law, to introduce progressive NGO legislation and reduction of presidential power.
He explained that there have been unresolved issues with the general governance system of the country which President Sata had decided to ignore including the problem of high unemployment and subsequent lack of income to meet the ‘more money in your pockets’ PF slogan.
The opposition parties’ leadership have challenged President Sata to institute dialogue with the people to defuse the tension currently being experienced in the country and create a climate of democracy.
“We cannot continue to watch a few people treating themselves as if they are more Zambian than the majority population and sharing our national wealth among themselves while we watch because Zambia belongs to all of us.
“This is the reason why we have put two things on the agenda of the meeting we seek to have with the president.
“We want to discuss the Constitution and State of the Nation with the Head of State that together, we can come up with the solution to address these issues that have generated too much tension, division, unemployment and lack of a common vision in the country,” said Banda.
He said Zambia had enough resources to make it as one of the top countries on the African continent but all that potential was being lost because of the deeply rooted spirit of hate and failure being carried out by the PF.
“We agree with the people that feel time has come to deal with issues as a nation. If we don’t resolve the issues affecting us as a nation today, posterity will harshly judge us,” he explained.
He appealed for cooperation by putting all political interests behind and focus on national building.
Trafigura Head of Corporate Affairs Andrew Gowers speaking at a media roundtable at Raddison Blu Hotel in Lusaka
A private initiative to commission an intensive forensic audit into the Trafigura oil procurement contract must be commenced, Zambian Voice executive director Chilufya Tayali has demanded.
Tayali said there is need for government to order an immediate audit of the oil procurement deals currently in existence especially those involving Trafigura.
Tayali said there has been no clear picture of the procurement process of the oil deals in contention and government has continued to remain silent over the matter involving its ministers and the use of public funds.
“It is about time we took a more radical approach to these oil issues concerning government and the use of public funds. We are looking at taking the matter to the Courts to help us compel the government to carry out an audit of the dealings and all matters surrounding it,” he said.
He explained that many concerns have been raised but remain unanswered about Trafigura and its dealings with the Patriotic Front (PF) government.
Tayali said the allegations that Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba and his Midlands Energy Zambia were linked to the Trafigura oil deal were still unclear as there was no official report or explanation given to the people.
He said the Zambian Voice was already making consultations with legal experts on what course of action could be taken to demand for an audit of the current government’s oil procurement procedures for the sake of public interest.
Tayali charged that there had been too much talk over the government oil procurement and that it was about time some action was taken to help put the matter to rest.
Trafigura had been awarded multi-billion Kwacha contracts to supply Zambia with petroleum products for two years, although it was not among the best bidders.
Late Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services Kennedy Sakeni was quoted in the media as saying Trafigura was the most reputable company because it had acquired BP Oil which was operating in the country as Puma Zambia Limited.
Last year, government issued conflicting statements on how much it cost the country to procure 216 million litres of oil from Trafigura
All dismissed nurses are criminals and they don’t deserve to be forgiven says Minister of Labour and Social Security, Fackson Shamenda.
He said the nurses that were dismissed should actually thank government for asking them to re-apply because they thought they were very clever by dancing while lives of many people were being lost.
But Zambia Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) president Leonard Hikaumba has described the decision by the government to finally dismiss all nurses who took part in the strike action as a violation of human rights and the worst form of punishment ever.
Shamenda said dismissing the nurses was the best punishment the government could give them because many lives were lost during their strike.
Shamenda said he also blamed the Unions representing the nurses because they have never been to his office to negotiate for their nurses.
Shamenda further said the nurses should take government to court if they wanted adding that the law was clear on essential workers.
“The law does not allow essential workers to strike for more than 24hours but the nurses at UTH had even gone beyond 10 days,” he said.
“ZCTU is a bad negotiator because they have been negotiating through newspapers and at no time did they come to my office for negotiation in this matter,” he said.
He said ZCTU was negotiating through the media in order to excite people for nothing and that they could not talk to the government through the media.
“The ministry of labour is a custodian of collective agreement bargaining and we register Unions who represent workers,” he said.
Meanwhile, Hikaumba said it was wrong for the government to have finally dismissed the nurses because they had apologized for their actions.
He said it was also against the industrial relations and employment act which does not allow government to dismiss the nurses for demonstrating for less than 10 days.
Hikaumba said the nurses at UTH had only gone on strike for 7days and the 8th day ZCTU asked them to go back to work of which they did.
And when asked whether he would advise the nurses to take the matter to court, Hikaumba said the nurses should not take the government to court yet because it was too early.
“The nurses should only take the government to court if all the avenues of communication between the government and the unions completely fail,” he said.
Hikaumba said the government may consider reinstating the nurses because they have asked them to re-apply.
And a Midwife who received his final dismissal letter on Friday last week said the government had failed them because they had tried all the avenues to reach at an agreement with government but PF could not listen.
He said he was disappointed with the minister of Labour for failing to fulfil his promises made to the nurses.
“Mr. Shamenda came to address us during the strike and promised to come to our aid but after the promise he was nowhere to be seen, the next thing we saw was him refusing having promised us,” he said.
And a source within UTH confirmed with Daily Nation that on Friday 150 nurses had been served with final dismissal letters and other have been receiving their final letters this week.
“The letters are being dispatched in groups so we have been told that others who have not received their letters yet will receive them in the next group,” he said
The nurses have been receiving two final dismissal letters from the minister of health Dr. Joseph Kasonde and another from UTH managing director Dr. Lackson Kasonka.
The two letters indicated that it was a directive from the head of state to have the nurses finally dismissed.
MINISTER of Youth and Sport, Chishimba Kambwili, addresses a developmental meeting at Kawawa Primary school in Kasenengwa constituency in Chipata on Wednesday
Government says the ongoing political propaganda by opposition political parties, de-campaigning government as having failed to deliver its promises to the people of Zambia are unfounded.
Youth and Sports Minister, Chishimba Kambwili, says propaganda was harmful to national development and can lead to political instability of a nation.
Speaking in Luashya , Mr Kambwili said the Patriotic Front government has scored tremendous achievements in the over two years it has been in power.
“So be careful when these people come to you to give you political propaganda because that can destroy nations and if you follow it, it can lead to the political instability of our county,” Kambwili advised.
He said as opposed to propaganda, the role of the opposition was to offer checks and balances in complementing government by putting up suggestions on how best government can effectively deliver development to the people.
“What we are seeing now is the opposition trying to shot government down so that they themselves could come in power. If you follow political propaganda, you will end up leading this country in political instability and tribal wars and you will keep changing government every five years” Kambwili charged.
He said the link Zambia 8000 and pave Zambia 2000 km road projects is one area in which government has recorded tremendous progress in infrastructural development.
Mr Kambwili stated that so far, government has managed to build about 1500 of the 8000 km in the link Zambia 8000 road project linking districts and provinces in the country.
He cited the Mongu- Kalabo, Mansa- Luwingu, Ndola-Kitwe courage way and the Mporokosoika – Matumbo as some of the roads that government was currently undertaking.
He said opening up roads was prerequisite to national development and that government has prioritized infrastructural development as a key sector in job creation through investment.
Mr Kambwili said a good road network, coupled with power generation, would boost investor confidence and promote foreign investment even in the remotest parts of the country.
He said as a way of enhancing development and attracting foreign investment, government has also rolled out the construction of schools and hospitals in rural parts of the country to create an enabling environment for foreign investment which will foster the much need development.
The Sports Minister observed that without good roads, schools and hospitals no investors would be willing to set up their business in rural parts of the country despite the area having investment potential.
“Which investor would want to invest in an area where there is no development and he cannot even access basic amenities? Not even our local people would want to work in such a place as their families would have no access to education and medical services. This is why as government we have prioritized these things, not only to lure investment but also to create employment for Zambians” he said.
Mr Kambwili, who is also Roan Member of Parliament, said very soon government’s opposors will have nothing to talk about as most of the development projects that government has undertaking will be completed.
He said it was unrealistic of the opposition to base their criticism on the campaign promise of implementation in 90 days which was only a campaign theme as no sustainable development can be achieved in such a short period.
Mr Kambwili said the 90 days promise was highly misunderstood as it referred to government formulating a working strategy within the stated period to address critical issues such as poverty, unemployment, road network and the formulation of a national constitution.
He said, “It is unreasonable for a normal person to think that government was going to develop and complete all these things in 90 days. What we simply meant was that it was going to be a strategizing period to come up with a roadmap of implementing development which we have done. That did not mean 90 days was the implementing strategy and opposition are basing on that for cheap propaganda”.
Mr Kambwili further stated that national development projects were a major undertaking which required huge sums of money and implementation time and, therefore, government has to plan adequately as they are achieved through the use of tax payers’ money.
FILE: Students from the Copperbelt University protesting against management
Students at the Copperbelt University (CBU) have welcomed the intention by government to recruit PhD engineering lecturers from Ethiopia to teach at the university.
Copperbelt University Students Union (COBUSU) president Kinsley Chinyama told ZANIS today that the recruitment of lecturers from Ethiopia would improve the standard of education in the school of engineering at the institution.
Mr. Chinyama said the recruitment was welcome because it further beef up staffing levels in the school that has less man power in terms of lecturers.
He disclosed that there have been complains from the mining industries that the graduates that were being produced were not of high calibre.
He noted that the recruitment of lecturers from Ethiopia will benefit the institution in terms of producing quality students.
Mr. Chinyama stated that lecturers in the school engineering at CBU do not have enough time for the students because they are few.
He also commended the government for improving the education sector.
The COBUSU president has also urged government not to forget its promises of building more infrastructure at institution.
The Kwacha has continued to tumble against the US dollar which has proved bullish against the local unit for some time now.
The local currency weakened further on Thursday after posting the biggest single day decline this year after a surge in demand for the dollar amid high liquidity levels in the money market.
This is according to the Cavmont Bank Market Report which was posted on the Bank’s website and monitored by ZANIS in Lusaka today.
The local unit opened at K5.640 to K5.670 before closing at K5.680 to K5.710.
The bank anticipates the Kwacha to recover in the short term on the backdrop of the bond auction which will be held today, Friday, February 14.
The Bank’s aggregate current account balance increased by K100.46 million to K2, 232.85 million while the cost for interbank borrowing and lending rose by 0.05 percent to 10.00 percent.
Nkana captain Sydney Kalume is confident that the Wusakile outfit will on Saturday beat Mbabane Swallows in Kitwe and advance to the first round of the 2014 CAF Champions League.
Kalume’s Nkana must beat Swallows by at least three goals when the two teams clash in the return leg of preliminary round at Nkana Stadium in Kitwe.
He believes that Nkana can score more than two goals to overturn the 2-0 defeat they suffered in the first leg away in Swaziland on Sunday.
“We are going to carry the day come what may come. We believe in ourselves,” Kalume said.
“We are calling on our supporters to come and support us from the first whistle to the last whistle, we will not disappoint them,” he said.
Nkana have returned to continental football after a 12-year-long absence.
Nkana have 90 minutes to pull off a great escape act on Saturday against giant killers Mbabane Swallows when they meet in a 2014 CAF Champions League return leg match in Kitwe.
The Kitwe giants face Swallows bruised and embarrassed after going down 2-0 away in Swaziland on Sunday in a match they were expected to win on paper but faded in real time.
Nkana need three goals without reply in Wusakile to avoid suffering an unheard of preliminary round ejection by the 12-time champions in their history of playing continental football.
“We will beat them at all costs but I cannot say if or how many goals I will score, all I can say is it will be a victory,” Nkana’s talismanic striker Ronald “Sate Sate” Kampamba told media earlier in the week following the defeat.
The spotlight will fall on striker Francis Kombe who misfired last Sunday despite enjoying Kampamba’s supply of the ball who has been given the freedom to roam by Coach Masauso Mwale.
However, both Kombe and Kampamba are strikers and the responsibility for goals will squarely fall on the duo in this do-or-die decider.
Also under the microscope will be defenders Billy Mwanza and Christopher Munthali whose blunders gifted Swallows the winning goals.
There is also concern in midfield where Kelvin Mubanga is a doubt due injury on top of his hot and cold display in Swaziland for which he was heavily criticized for.
Furthermore, they have been calls for Shadreck Musonda to start to supplement Kombe and Kampamba.
Many feel Musonda has the class to earn the right to a starting 11 place at Nkana after consistent performances throughout last season at demoted Kalulushi Modern Stars.
Meanwhile, the game is expected to make Champions League headlines news win or lose for Nkana alongside that of prospective first round opponents El Merriekh of Sudan who lost 2-0 at home in Khartoum to KCCA of Uganda heading into their very own Saturday crunch match.
Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services and Chief Government spokesperson Mwansa Kapeya has condemned the violence against National Restoration Party President Cosmo Mumba in Katuba Constituency.
Mr Kapeya said in a statement released to ZANIS in Lusaka today that government condemns the beating up of the NRP president by unknown people in the on-going Katuba parliamentary by-election campaigns.
The Katuba constituency by-election will be held on February 25 following the death of MMD Member of Parliament Dr Patrick Chikusu.
And Mr Kapeya said the action was unacceptable and warned the culprits behind the act that they will not escape the long arm of the law.
He disclosed that government is proud of the people of Katuba for the peaceful and dignified manner in which they have conducted themselves ahead of the forthcoming by-election.
Mr. Kapeya stressed that government will not allow thugs to disrupt the peace that has so far characterised the on-going campaigns.
He said the people of Katuba like their counterparts elsewhere do not only deserve but are entitled to a free ,peaceful and conducive atmosphere in which to exercise their democratic right to choose a member of parliament of their choice.
He stated that the late Member of Parliament for Katuba Dr. Patrick Chikusu left an impeccable legacy of selfless, dignified and distinguished service to the nation.
Mr. Kapeya noted that it was necessary that the process of finding a successor for such a distinguished leader and patriot is equally dignified and orderly.
Acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda receives an affidavit from Lusaka Judge-in-Charge Ernest Mutiyo during a swearing in ceremony of members of a tribunal tasked to investigate Tourism and Arts Minister Sylvia Masebo at the High Court building in Lusaka
Acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda has sworn in a three member tribunal appointed to probe Minister of Tourism and Arts Silvia Masebo’s alleged professional misconduct.
Acting Supreme Court Judge Rhoyda Kaoma will chair the tribunal which comprises Livingstone High Court Judge in-charge Ernest Mukulamutiyo and Lusaka High Court Judge Chalwe Mchenga as members and Mathew Zulu as Secretary.
This is in a matter in which former Minister of Transport and Communications William Harrington applied for judicial review of the State’s decision against setting up a tribunal to probe Ms. Masebo’s alleged professional misconduct.
And Justice Lombe Chibesakunda has appealed to the judges to discharge their work without fear or favour because the case to be investigated is a serious matter.
“Let me remind you that the assignment you are about to undertake is a serious one. You are to investigate Mrs Masebo’s conduct and you are expected to do this within 45 days,” Justice Chibesakunda said.
Meanwhile, Former Minister of Transport and Communications William Harrington expressed happiness that the tribunal has been set up.
Mr Harrington who is a petitioner in the matter commended the media for their relentless efforts to push for the tribunal.
“You guys should be commended for your work on this case. If it weren’t for your coverage, we wouldn’t have reached this stage,” he said.
Mr Harrington revealed that he has lined up 20 witness who will help him show that Mrs Masebo breached the Ministerial Code of Conduct.
Acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda (second from right) poses for a group photo with Lusaka High Court Judge Chalwe Mchenga (left), Lusaka Judge-in-Charge Ernest Mutiyo and Acting Supreme Court Judge Rhoda Kaoma (right) after she swore in the members of a tribunal tasked to investigate Tourism and Arts Minister Sylvia Masebo at the High Court building in Lusaka
Zesco United on Friday signed the biggest sports endorsement deal with a local company worth K225, 000 to run over three seasons.
The shirt endorsement deal will see Zesco receive K85, 000 per year from Investrust Bank PLC.
The deal is the biggest in local football with an indigenous bank since Finance Bank sponsored the Super Division in the 1990’s.
“This will tie very well with our strategy of reaching out to the unbanked areas of the country,” Investrust managing director Friday Ndhlovu said at the endorsement launch held at InterContinental Hotel in Lusaka on Friday.
“We have a deliberate policy as a bank to reach out to the unbanked areas and this partnership with Zesco comes at a better time when we are about to launch agency banking.”
And Zesco United chairperson Kenneth Muteto said the club was excited to have sealed the deal with a local entity that will see Investrust’s logo displayed on the teams kit.
“When we approached Investrust Bank Plc without a proposal we did not think they would respond as quickly as they did,” Muteto said.
“This is so because we had approached other financial institutions before with a similar proposal but without success, not even acknowledgement of our letter.”
Former President Rupiah Banda’s son Andrew has been sentenced to 24 months imprisonment for corruption.
Mr Banda was convicted of one count of soliciting and receiving gratification to facilitate the award of road projects to Fratelli Locci, an Italian road contractor.
This is in a matter in which Andrew Banda while working as First Secretary at the Zambian mission in Italy in 2010 solicited to be paid 2 percent of all road contracts awarded to Fratelli Locci.
In passing judgement, Chief Resident Magistrate Joshua Banda said the prosecution had proved that Mr. Banda corruptly solicited for gratification and received payments from Fratelli Locci on current and any future road projects and contracts.
Magistrate Banda said the prosecution had proved that funds were transferred from AB Logistics, a firm owned by Mr. Banda from Fratelli Locci the firm owned by Antoneil Locci.
The prosecution also proved that Mr. Banda threatened Mr. Locci that he would not be given any contracts if he did pay the two percent.
And in mitigation Mr. Banda’s lawyer Milner Katolo pleaded with the court to exercise leniency as the accused was a first offender, a bread winner supporting over the 30 families including his children and grandchildren.
Mr. Katolo said the Mr. Banda had served the country at a high level and the court should exercise maximum leniency by according him a suspended sentence or community service.
But Magistrate Banda said he had seriously taken into account the mitigation and a custodial sentence was inescapable for deterrent measures.
Mr Banda who showed little emotion after sentence was pronounced thanked his sympathisers as he was whisked away to Chimbokaila.
Andrew Banda after sentencingAndrew Banda after sentencing
Former Finance Minister Ng’andu Magande has said that the removal of subsidies is not the solution to addressing budget deficits.
Reacting to Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda’s statement that the removal of subsidies was simply to make the budget deficit bearable, Mr. Magande told Qfm in an interview that covering up a deficit spent on a few Zambians at the expense of the majority Zambians is wrong and unfair.
Mr Magande who is also National Movement for Progress president said that the loans government has to pay from the removal subsidies do not benefit all Zambians but a particular group of people.
Mr. Magande noted that subsidies were benefiting the majority Zambians who cannot afford the high cost of living they have now been subjected to following the removal of subsidies on maize and fuel.
He added that any budget is meant to spend tax money on commodities and services for the people, stating that if government spends money to make transport or food cheap, then the tax money is working for the right purpose.
Mr. Magande has urged government to think through its decision to remove subsidies for the sake of the majority Zambian people who cannot feel the positive impact of the removal of subsidies on Fuel and Maize.
And the Black Friday consortium of civil society organizations has said that it feels vindicated that government has now acknowledged that there are no funds being served from removal of subsidies.
On Tuesday,Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda told Parliament that the removal of subsidies on fuel and maize by government has simply made the budget deficit bearable.
Consortium Chairperson MacDonald Chipenzi said that government should apologize to the Zambian people for earlier giving them an impression that funds will be saved from the removal of subsidies.
Mr Chipenzi said that the open acknowledgment by the Finance Minister that there are no funds being saved from the removal of subsidies also implies that there is no money being spent on projects the government had said it would channel the money to.
He has since advised government to stop unnecessary creation of Districts and avoid budget deficits by controlling its expenditure.
And the Southern African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) has also called on government to give a projection of how much the country will be able to save from the removal of subsidies in the next two years.
SACCORD Executive Director, Boniface Cheembe has told Qfm News in a separate interview that the government should also clearly state the exact projects on which the saved funds will be spent.
He said that his organization is of the belief that such information is important as it will help government command the confidence of the people on how it is using taxpayers’ money.
