INFRASTRUCTURE, Housing and Urban Development Minister Charles Milupi says government currently owes contractors, engineers and consultants K14.11 billion in terms of road infrastructure. Responding to a question in Parliament from Roan independent member of parliament Joel Chibuye on what measures were being put in place to realise resources in the Ministry in order to complete...

JUSTICE Minister Mulambo Haimbe says the review of the Public Order Act will determine the extent to which the act can continue to exist. Commenting on remarks by outgoing US Embassy in Zambia interim Chargé d’Affaires David Young that Zambia needed to get rid of the Public Order Act, Haimbe said there must be some...

FORMER national guidance and religious affairs minister Godfridah Sumaili says the National Day of Prayer, Fasting and Reconciliation was characterised by a low turnout at Lusaka Show Grounds because people were uncertain on whether the event would be held. In an interview, Rev Sumaili said preparations for the event started late. “I am happy and...

THE leaked recording from the Anti-Corruption Commission where the former Acting Director General is heard arguing with her members of staff over the Chitalu Chilufya case is very disturbing. There is no doubt that the Ministry of Health had become one of the epicenters of corruption during Mr Edgar Lungu’s tenure as President. But if...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TI-Z) chapter president Sampa Kalungu says the leaked audio involving immediate past Anti-Corruption Commission acting director general Rosemary Khuzwayo shows that she was not fit for the position. Commenting on the leaked audio in which Khuzwayo was heard directing investigators to arrest former health minister Dr Chilufya without conducting the necessary investigations,...

CHIEF Government Spokesperson Chushi Kasanda says all former presidents and political parties were invited to the National Day of Prayer and Fasting. Commenting on former works and supply minister Sylvia Chalikosa’s remarks that former president Edgar Lungu was not invited by the State to the national prayers, Kasanda said it was not true. “It is...

AGRICULTURE Minister Rueben Phiri says government will target a total of 1,024,434 farmers under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) in the 2021/2022 agricultural season. Rendering a ministerial statement on the measures taken by government to equalize input distribution under FISP in the 2021/2022 agricultural season, Phiri said government commissioned an audit of the input...

THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested former Southern Province Permanent Secretary Sibanze Simuchoba and 13 other officials at the Provincial Administration for Willful Failure to Follow Procedure and Fraudulent False Accounting involving over K 623,000. In a statement, Wednesday, ACC Corporate Affairs Officer Jonathan Siame said Sibanze and two others failed to follow applicable procedure...

FORMER Chipata Central PF member of parliament Moses Mawere says he decided to join UPND because they saw value in him after the former ruling party abandoned him. And Mawere says he is willing to fund UPND the way he funded PF for more than 10 years. In an interview, Mawere wondered why PF complained...

COMMERCE, Trade and Industry Minister Chipoka Mulenga says the appreciation of the Kwacha against major convertible currencies might not lead to an immediate decline in the prices of goods. And Mulenga says government will set up a fertiliser plant which will produce 10 times more than Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia. Speaking in Parliament, Tuesday, Mulenga...