The time has come for Zambians to hand over the country’s leadership into hands that are capable of fighting the swelling levels of corruption, says National Restoration Party (NAREP) president Elias Chipimo. In a statement,

State House Press Aide Amos Chanda says government was aware of the misuse of donor funds two months ago, but the President decided not to take public action because such move would have jeopardised investigations.

Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe says she does not understand why government has to seek Parliament’s approval when contracting loans when there is already an able Cabinet to do so. And Mwanakwatwe has also acknowledged that

Chishimba Kambwili says dismissed Community Development minister Emerine Kabanshi is a decent woman who can’t even kill a fly, but she has been sacrificed to protect the real criminals in government. And Kambwili says a

My name is Chagwa, naliwa kale (I already fell), so I will not fall again by listening to stupid propaganda meant to distract me in my work, says President Edgar Lungu. And President Lungu says

Milenge PF member of parliament Mwansa Mbulakulima says reports that China plans to colonize Zambia are just propaganda because that country was there for us when the West wasn’t. And Kabwe Central PF member of

The Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) says the 2019 budget should address how government will curtail further accumulation of debt and the operationalization strategies for the Sinking Fund. In a statement, Wednesday, PMRC executive

Bahati PF member of parliament Harry Kalaba says President Edgar Lungu’s speech at the opening of the third session of the 12th National Assembly was simplistic and failed to accurately connect with what was obtaining

Former Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba says the country’s top leadership is responsible for corruption and fraud. And Kalaba has attributed the ballooning of Zambia’s to corruption, abuse of office and overpayment of shoddy contracts.

Government should lead by example by hiking civil servants’ wages if the minimum wage increment for domestic workers is to prove effective, says the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR). And JCTR says the revised