THE response from Transparency International-Zambia (TIZ) to our editorial opinion on the Faith Musonda case makes good reading. They raise interesting points and we agree with them that this is a matter that deserves extensive public discourse. We have observed that the difference between TIZ's arguments and the News Diggers position is that the NGO...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says there are many broken things in the Ministry of Finance, noting that even none deserving suppliers who might have supplied fictitious goods used to be on the priority list of being paid. And President Hichilema has tasked the new Attorney General and Solicitor General to put an end to criminality in...

FORMER Attorney General Musa Mwenye says Zambians should forget about the fight against corruption if asset recovery is the Anti-Corruption Commission's only goal. In a statement shared on his Facebook page, Thursday, Mwenye said corruption could not be fought without punishing offenders and deterring would be wrongdoers. He argued that the rewards of corruption were...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia has argued that offering amnesty from prosecution is not in conflict with the zero tolerance for corruption policy because it provides an opportunity to deprive criminals of ill-gotten wealth. And TI-Z has maintained that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) acted within the Law and in good faith by offering Faith Musonda amnesty from...

THE annual rate of inflation for the month of October has decreased to 21.1 percent from 22.1 percent recorded in September 2021. Speaking during a briefing, Zambia Statistics Agency (ZSA) interim statistician general Mulenga Musepa attributed the decrease in the inflation rate to price movements in both food and non-food items. "The Annual inflation rate...