LOCAL Government and Rural Development Minister Gary Nkombo says the Lusaka City Council owes over K1 billion in statutory debt as at 31st July 2021. Speaking during the installation ceremony for the new Mayor of Lusaka, Chilando Chitangala, Nkombo said the amount which was owed by the council was choking its ability to provide the...

THE Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) has revealed that in 2020, a government entity awarded three contracts amounting to over US$30 million to an individual and two companies which presented falsified documents to show that they were qualified when in fact not. And the FIC says in the same year, two Prominent Influential Persons (PIPs) holding...

RESIDENT Doctors Association of Zambia (RDAZ) president Dr Brian Sampa says the trend of patients abruptly leaving health facilities against medical advice is an indication that the Ministry of Health is not providing quality health services. During a Covid-19 briefing recently, Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary for Technical Services Dr Kennedy Malama raised concern that...

FORMER Works and Supply Minister Sylvia Chalikosa says former president Edgar Lungu did his best and he meant well for the country. In an interview, Chalikosa said the PF needed to reorganise itself so that people could still have faith in the party. “I am a true green, and my place is with PF whatever...

FORMER Minister of Health Dr Brian Chituwo says he cannot understand why an institution like the Zambia Medicine Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) did not inform citizens immediately the Hayat-Vax 'COVID-19 vaccines' arrived in the country. Commenting on a Diggers investigation which revealed that Lusaka Businessman Valden Findlay's company Chrismar Earthmoving Equipment imported fake COVID-19 vaccines for...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TI-Z) says it's frightening that there appears to have been suspicious transactions on KCM liquidator Milingo Lungu's accounts, given the critical importance of issues surrounding the mining company. Commenting on the Financial Intelligence Centre’s move to freeze Lungu’s bank accounts following suspicious transactions, TIZ executive director Maurice Nyambe hoped that the investigation...

THE Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) has frozen Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) liquidator Milingo Lungu’s bank accounts following some suspicious transactions. But FIC Director General Mary Chirwa has declined to confirm the development, saying it would be unprofessional and illegal for her to names of people whose accounts have been seized by the centre. Sources close...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TI-Z) has welcomed the investigations being conducted by the Drug Enforcement Commission for various financial crimes, but hopes that the motivation will not be to settle political scores. DEC recently seized four motor vehicles belonging to PF cadre Maxwell Chongu following operations conducted by the Commission where various individuals have been searched...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has shifted into the US$850,000 house belonging to Zambia National Soccer team defender Stophila Sunzu. But Sangwa says Lungu must first retire from active politics before he can start to draw the benefits conferred on a former Head of State. The House, which is worth close to 20 million in kwacha terms...

THE Drug Enforcement Commission has frozen accounts for outgoing president Edgar Lungu’s friend and businessman Valden Findlay. Impeccable sources have told News Diggers that Findlay was in the process of transferring over K10 million to some offshore accounts when the Drug Enforcement Commission moved in. “The bank received some instruction to transfer some money to...