Archive: 6 October 2023

6 Oct 2023 | Diggers Editor

Understanding the Mutembo Tribunal and wastage of taxpayers money

AS we stated yesterday, the decision by the State to enter a consent judgement with former DPP Mutembo Nchito and to compensate him for the illegal removal from office has not settled well with some... […]

6 Oct 2023 | Mwiche Nalwimba

Dickson asks Judiciary to allow live court coverage

LUSAKA LAWYER Dickson Jere has appealed to the Judiciary to open up court proceedings by allowing live coverage and use of recorders to facilitate accurate court reporting. Speaking during the launch of Legal Media Handbook... […]

6 Oct 2023 | Mwenya Mofya

Digital transformation won’t lead to job losses – HH

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says governments are not collecting enough revenue because of manual processes that promote corruption. And President Hichilema says advancing digitalisation in African countries will not lead to job losses. And former United... […]

6 Oct 2023 | Chamuka Shalubala

We’ll receive normal to below normal rains in 2023/24 season – Nzovu

MINISTER of Green Economy Collins Nzovu says the country is expected to receive normal to below normal rains in the 2023/2024 rainfall season. Rendering a ministerial statement in the National Assembly, Thursday, Nzovu said the... […]

6 Oct 2023 | Nakaonga Nakaonga

59 former PF ministers who illegally stayed in office have repaid K3.4m- Musokotwane

FINANCE and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane says over K3.4 million has been paid back by 59 former PF cabinet, provincial and deputy ministers who illegally stayed in office after the dissolution of Parliament... […]

6 Oct 2023 | Chamuka Shalubala

D/Speaker chases Kafwaya for referring to Kakubo’s remarks as nonsense

THERE was commotion in the National Assembly when Minister of Foreign Affairs Stanley Kakubo was responding to questions arising from a Ministerial statement he rendered on the floor of the House regarding President Hakainde Hichilema’s... […]

6 Oct 2023 | Philip Chisalu

There’s haphazard increase in prices of essential commodities because govt is broke – KBF

ZAMBIA Must Prosper leader Kelvin Fube Bwalya says has insisted that the UPND government lacks an economic plan and that is why it is haphazardly increasing the prices of essential goods and services to raise... […]

6 Oct 2023 | Taonga Tembo

Court grants SP youth secretary K50,000 bail

SOCIALIST Party national youth secretary Gabriel Banda has been granted K50,000 bail by the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court with two working sureties. Banda is charged with proposing violence or breaches of the law to assemblies Contrary... […]

6 Oct 2023 | Ulande Nkomesha

Report isn’t doctored, audit queries have reduced because of govt pronouncements – AG

AUDITOR General Dr Ron Mwambwa says there is a reduction in audit queries in his report on the Accounts of the Republic for the Financial Year ended December 2022 because there was a clear pronouncement... […]

6 Oct 2023 | Mwenya Mofya

Having a big tummy means someone isn’t healthy – Masebo

HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo has encouraged members of parliament to emulate former president Edgar Lungu by jogging because it a good way of leading a healthy lifestyle. And Masebo says people with big tummies are... […]