LAST weekend, United Party for National Development (UPND) chairperson for elections Honourable Gary Nkombo made a rare admission, stating that the biggest opposition party needed to make internal adjustments, instead of always blaming the Patriotic Front government for its loss of elections. This statement attracted a lot of praise from people who share the same...

TWO very important admissions have been made in the political arena this week; one from the ruling Patriotic Front and another from the opposition United Party for National Development. The Patriotic Front has finally agreed with the Law Association of Zambia that the Constitutional Court did not declare President Edgar Lungu eligible to contest the...

SEPTEMBER 15 was International Day of Democracy, we did not see or hear of any statement from State House regarding this special day. Why? Apart from announcing his intentions to arrest Hakainde Hichilema, how did our President celebrate this year's International Day of Democracy? On 8th March, we celebrate International Women’s Day, the President holds...

SO FAR, we have agreed with the advice that Kenyan Law Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba has offered to President Edgar Lungu. Prof Lumumba is urging President Lungu to leave office with dignity so that he can find something else more honourable to do than pushing for a third term against the will of the...

KENYAN Professor of Law Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba says President Edgar Lungu must consider leaving office with dignity at the end of his current term so that he can join other former African heads of state who are leading the continent in other capacities. Prof Lumumba contends that there are many things one can do...

THE decision by the Judicial Complaints Commission to recommend the removal of High Court Registrar David Simusamba from the judiciary because of the conduct he exhibited during the time that he served as Lusaka Magistrate makes sad reading. We hope our brother will be able to successfully exculpate himself. However, the development serves as a...

In our editorial opinion of yesterday, we showed the contrast in a procurement scandal in Malawi and in Zambia. This is a matter where Malawians are complaining over that government’s decision to award a US$2.2 million ambulance supply tender to Grandview International of Zambia. We learnt that while Malawians were objecting to the procurement of...

WE have taken note that the Human Rights Defenders Commission of Malawi, together with other interest groups and organisations in that country, are fighting the award of a US$2.2 million tender for the supply of 35 ambulances to Grandview International, a Zambian owned company that is behind the controversial US$42 million fire trucks tender. According...

REVEREND Suzanne Matale has rarely been in the news in the recent past. One would think she has not been following the developments that our country has been going through. But listening to her virtual public lecture on “Leadership challenges in times of disruption” under the auspices of the Levy Mwanawasa Foundation, we could tell...

THE Zambia Institute of Purchasing and Supply (ZIPS) is calling for the creation of the office of the Procurement General whom procurement officers can be reporting to. This, it says, will also take care of some unfair corruption allegations over government procurement because there will be someone to explain the processes followed. “The highest [procurement]...