Politicians tend to give very good speeches with brilliant policy pronouncements. However, very little is done to actualise the policy pronouncements in their speeches, with nothing to show at the end of their five-year term of office. This could be due to a lack of strategies to implement these policy pronouncements successfully. We write to...

CONSTITUTIONAL Lawyer John Sangwa says it is nonsensical to suggest that there is need for a constitutional amendment before the Chief Justice position can be advertised. Speaking on Radio Phoenix's Let the People Talk programme, Tuesday, Sangwa challenged Justice Minister Mulambo Haimbe to issue a statutory instrument if he believed that there was no law...

THE Auditor General’s Report on accounts of the Republic for the financial year ended December 31 2020 has revealed that the Ministry of Agriculture engaged 15 suppliers of fertiliser and seed at a contract sum of US$430,336,620 under the Direct Input Supply which was not provided for in the budget. And the report revealed that...

PF secretary general Davies Mwila has wondered why the UPND government has remained quiet on the Faith Musonda case, alleging that maybe the money she was caught with belongs to them. And Mwila has wondered why President Hakainde Hichilema has taken so long to appoint new permanent secretaries when there are so many capable people...

FORMER Bank of Zambia (BoZ) governor Dr Caleb Fundanga says he hopes the UPND government will be transparent when acquiring loans. And Dr Fundanga has discouraged government from borrowing from the Chinese because their loans are shrouded in secrecy. Meanwhile, Dr Fundanga says he does not see anything strange about government's decision to acquire a...

LOCAL Government and Rural Development Minister Gary Nkombo has expressed disappointment over the police's failure to arrest any of the cadres who invaded Kasempa Town Council on October 7, 2021. And Nkombo says he is saddened that cadres could disrupt the peaceful work atmosphere at the Civic Centre in their quest to remove some Council...

One of the most abused and retrogressive laws that we have in Zambia is the Public Order Act. Our people’s right to enjoy freedoms that are constitutionally guaranteed have suffered a great deal over the years because of this law. Strangely, those who get in power quickly forget about this law as they begin to...

CHIEF Government spokesperson Chushi Kasanda says President Hakainde Hichilema is a sober, intellectual and focused Head of State who will not entertain praise singers. Speaking when he featured on ZNBC's Sunday Interview, former Attorney General Musa Mwenye warned that praise singers had destroyed presidents. "Our commitment as citizens should be to keep our government honest...

Former special assistant to the president for policy and project implementation Jack Kalala says it is shameful and outrageous for PF vice-president Given Lubinda to defend the misdeeds of his party. And Kalala says PF should be remorseful instead of defending their "pathetic" performance. Commenting on Lubinda's remarks that it was “extremely childish” for the...

KANCHIBIYA PF member of parliament Sunday Chanda says subjecting only politicians to lifestyle audits is counterproductive because corruption emanates from the private sector and it is the civil servants who drive it. In an interview, Monday, Chanda said government would not make a lot of progress in the fight against corruption if it only targeted...