Vice-President Inonge Wina says government has unfrozen 39 vacant positions at the office of the Auditor General, thereby allowing the institution to employ more staff and increased its audit coverage. Wina said this in Parliament on Tuesday when she gave a breakdown of the K93,436, 697 budgetary allocation to the Auditor General’s office in the...

European Union Ambassador to Zambia Alessandro Mariani says Zambia’s economic recovery program calls for increased levels of accountability and transparency. Speaking during the launch of the Public Finance Management handbook at Parliament building in Lusaka today, Ambassador Mariani said the recovery program needed credible budget minimising variations. "As honorable Minister of Finance indicated in the...

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Zambia Correctional Services Head of Legal unity Madford Chishimba says courts in Zambia are not utilising alternative sentences for minor offences as required by law, hence the congestion in prisons. And Zambia Law Development Commission Executive Director Hope Chanda says the Commission is in the process of reviewing the Penal Code in order to decriminalise...