THE Auditor General’s Report on the Accounts of the Republic for the Financial Year ended December 31, 2021, has revealed that the Ministry of Defence in July 2017 signed a contract price of $49,400,000 for the supply of a Zambia Air Force Aircraft, and $7,800,000 was paid, but it has not been delivered as at July 31, 2022. And the report has revealed that the Ministry did not provide the bank letter of credit five years after signing the contract, resulting in a possible loss of the US$7,800,000 which was paid. But former Defence Minister Davies Chama says the jet may not have been delivered because follow up payments were not fulfilled, adding that as a minister, he had no...

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