FORMER Attorney General Musa Mwenye is wondering why those in government are in the forefront attacking institutions of government while defending the corrupt. He also notes that the levels of corruption in Zambia have reached unprecedented levels. "Why do we feel the need at government level in this nation to defend the corrupt and bash...

ON August 30, a contact with well-placed sources within government reached out to us and urged us to take FDD leader Edith Nawakwi’s privatisation allegations against UPND president Hakainde Hichilema very seriously, no matter how useless they sounded. The contact informed us that government was going to use those allegations she made on Hot FM...

THE Propaganda that FDD leader Edith Nawakwi has embarked on against her UPND counterpart may look new to some people, but we have seen this before. In 2011, a gentleman called Chanda Chimba III was recruited in the MMD’s propaganda machinery tasked to scandalize late Michael Sata ahead of the election. Apart from Sata, the...

THREE years ago, on July 3, 2017, we raised questions around the absence of FDD president Edith Nawakwi from the political scene. Much of what we said in that editorial opinion can be repeated today, and it would even make much more sense now after what we predicted about her timely return to the scene...

WHEN we hear politicians claim that they are working tirelessly to return the country back on a path of economic recovery, we feel they are ignoring the most fundamental cause of the downturn. To us, almost all the problems that are facing SMEs cannot be traced to the high cost of electricity. Zesco needs to...

Yesterday, we raised concern about the colossal amounts of money which Cabinet ministers and PF members of parliament have been dishing out to people in their constituencies, in the name of donations. The donations have continued, and they are now challenging those who are questioning their wealth to report them to ACC. Well, the ACC...

WE have been watching, in disbelief, ministers and members of parliament dishing out millions of kwacha to church organisations and community groupings in their constituencies. One minister actually pulled K50,000 from his pocket to donate to a Church. Huh! That’s K50 million in old currency, just moving around with it like pocket change in the...

WE are concerned that since assuming power, our President has changed Finance Ministers four times and this is the second Bank of Zambia (BoZ) governor under his six year reign so far. Surely, that shows that the problem is not the appointees, but the appointing authority. What is even more worrying is that despite all...

WE SHALL wait to hear what scandal the Bank of Zambia governor was involved in, which necessitated his shocking dismissal. Surely, he must have done something totally unforgivable for the President to fire him on a Saturday evening. If it’s just a mtter of exercising Executive authority, then it would appear to us that someone...

READING news from other countries on the African continent about how leaders are leaving office gives a chilling feeling. President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, announced around midnight on Tuesday that he was resigning from his post, saying he did not wish blood to be shed following a military mutiny that plunged the country into...