ZNFU president Jervis Zimba has urged President Edgar Lungu to scrutinise the people he has entrusted the agricultural sector with, saying they have been misleading him. And Zimba says the PF government has turned agriculture into a risky business. Speaking to News Diggers in an interview yesterday, Zimba said the Zambia National Farmers Union was...

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday sent away Lusaka Province permanent secretary Charles Sipanje to pave way for investigations of theft. This was after Sipanje failed to reconcile receipts which he had signed when he appeared before PAC to respond to audit queries raised in the 2016 Auditor General’s report. It was revealed that...

The Patriotic Front in Kitwe has asked its district vice information and public secretary Gift Kalumba to exculpate himself or be suspended for allegedly attacking the party and President Edgar Lungu. According to a letter dated November 30, 2017 signed by Kitwe District vice chairman Everisto Chilufya, Kalumba has been attacking the party in PF...

Patriotic Front deputy spokesperson Frank Bwalya says there is no government anywhere in the world that does not prioritise awarding jobs to ruling party cadres. And Bwalya says the ruling party will not waste time discussing newly formed National Democratic Congress as that will derail it from improving people’s livelihood. Speaking when he featured on...

Police on the Copperbelt have cancelled a National Democratic Congress mobilisation meeting which was scheduled to take place in Chingola tomorrow. Party spokesperson Eric Chanda confirmed this in a statement today, accusing provincial minister Bowman Lusambo of instructing police to withdraw the permit. “As NDC, we are very disappointed that police, under instruction from the...

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The Minister of Finance should be serious and stop destroy PF by bringing unnecessary taxes like this amendment which is in bad faith, just withdraw it tapaba insoni (don't be ashamed), Chishimba Kambwili told Felix Mutati in Parliament yesterday. But Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo said it was wrong for certain MPs to attend Parliament...

CSPR says the failure by government to introduce the Planning and Budgeting bill to Parliament is a sign of unwillingness to increase transparency and accountability in public finance management. Speaking during the Civil Society Scale up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) and Civil Society for Poverty Reduction lobby meeting with members of parliament on sustainable diets and the...

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday heard how the ministry of Livestock and Fisheries purchased a Dstv decoder and paid subscription at K10,000 without supporting documents. This came to light when controlling officers from the Ministry led by Permanent Secretary Dr David Shamulenge appeared before the committee to respond to audit queries cited...