• 23 Nov 2017
• Mirriam Chabala

2018 budget will be stressed if Zambia fails to clinch IMF deal - Mutati

Minister of Finance Felix Mutati says Zambia’s economy will suffer critical stress under the 2018 budget if government fails to reach a closure with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). And Mutati today failed to state exactly how much debt Zambia has accumulated so far when members of parliament grilled him. Responding to a question from...

• 23 Nov 2017
• Mirriam Chabala

Attorney General must step down for gross misconduct - Antonio

FDD spokesperson Antonio Mwanza says the Constitutional Court’s ruling on ministers’ illegal stay in office is an academic exercise because it did not specify how much, or when they were supposed to pay. And Mwanza says Attorney General Likando Kalaluka must resign on moral grounds for attempting to represent private individuals in a clearly decided...

• 23 Nov 2017
• Mukosha Funga

DEC arrests Lusaka businessman for trafficking in cannabis

The Drug Enforcement Commission in Lusaka has arrested a prominent businessman for trafficking in 17 blocks of compressed cannabis weighing a total of 35.7 Kilogrammes. According to a statement issued by DEC deputy public relations officer Kamufisa Manchishi today, 42-year-old Joshua Mwenya Mumpansha, who is a prominent businessman of Lusaka’s Roma Township has been charged...

• 23 Nov 2017
• Mukosha Funga

Toll fees are too high - Kafue MP

Kafue UPND member of parliament Mirriam Chonya says motorists are suffering because toll fees are too high. Contributing to the debate on the Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure Development budget for 2018 in parliament yesterday, Chonya observed that people who lived in areas where there were toll gates were still crying about the high cost...

• 23 Nov 2017
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Govt should also pay me for consultancy during illegal stay in office - Mukanga

I will give a quotation for the consultancy work I did as Minister after Parliament was dissolved so that we see who needs to pay who, says Yamfwa Mukanga. In an interview with News Diggers! yesterday, the former Transport and Communications Minister said he was ready to honour the Constitutional Courts’ ruling but hastened to...

• 23 Nov 2017
• Onishias Maamba in Chipata

ConCourt ruling means ex-ministers used govt resources to campaign - Caritas

Caritas Chipata says the Constitutional Court decision to uphold its ruling on formers Ministers to pay back salaries and allowances to the treasury, also means that they illegally used government resources to campaign. Caritas Chipata Good Governance Coordinator, John Mthaziko Zulu said the court’s ruling had shown that the Judiciary was independent to the delight...

• 23 Nov 2017
• Mukosha Funga

Namugala accuses Nkombo of trying to divide the country

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Catherine Namugala yesterday accused UPND Whip Garry Nkombo of wanting to divide the country according to provinces. This was after Nkombo, who is also Mazabuka UPND member of parliament, observed that Southern Province MPs had not been given a chance to debate the budgetary allocation to the Ministry of...

• 23 Nov 2017
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Debt levels worry BoZ

Bank of Zambia Governor Danny Kalyalya says more efforts need to be made in order to contain the high debt levels which have significantly risen in the recent past. And Dr Kalyalya says it is worrying that lending rates had remained high in spite of the Central Bank’s decision to ease the monetary policy. Meanwhile,...

• 23 Nov 2017
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Surveillance cameras will replace traffic police on the roads - Mushimba

Transport and Communications Minister Brian Mushimba says the concession agreement between the RTSA and Intelligent Mobility Solutions (IMS) once implemented, will bring an end to the era of traffic police officers on the roads. In a ministerial statement to Parliament yesterday, Mushimba said the project would also bring about the use of electronic number plates....

• 23 Nov 2017
• Mukosha Funga

PF MPs a bunch of criminals - Kabimba

PF members of parliament are a bunch of criminals, says Rainbow Party leader Wynter Kabimba. And Kabimba says President Edgar Lungu lacks the seriousness required of a Head of State. Meanwhile, Kabimba says soon, the people of Zimbabwe will be crying again because it is the same corrupt ZANU-PF in power. Speaking when he featured...