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    • ZAMMSA employees, board member with pharmacies couldn’t declare interest – report
      A FORENSIC audit into the alleged theft of drugs has uncovered a case of undeclared conflict of interest at ZAMMSA, involving Sylkay Pharmacy proprietor Kennedy Saini, who joined the ZAMMSA Board in 2023. This particular board was dissolved by Health Minister Elijah Muchima in September last year. The forensic audit, conducted by PwC, found that some employees of Sylkay Pharmacy,.......
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      ZAMMSA employees, board member with pharmacies couldn’t declare interest – report
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      ZAMMSA awarded K16m contract to unregistered supplier – audit
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      ZAMMSA bought drugs inflated by 1600% without negotiating – Audit reveals
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    • What’s the point in defending failed promises?
      UPND Deputy National Spokesperson Elvis Nkandu, now says President Hakainde Hichilema never promised to reduce the price of mealie meal to K50 during the 2021 general election campaign. According to him, that promise was made in 2016, and had Zambians voted for President Hichilema then, he would have delivered on it because the economic conditions at the time were different. But statements like these expose a deeper problem in our political culture: the tendency of those in power to shift blame, deflect accountability, and gaslight citizens who dare to raise concerns. What Minister Nkandu is.......
    • ZAMMSA employees, board member with pharmacies couldn’t declare interest – report
      A FORENSIC audit into the alleged theft of drugs has uncovered a case of undeclared conflict of interest at ZAMMSA, involving Sylkay Pharmacy proprietor Kennedy Saini, who joined the ZAMMSA Board in 2023. This particular board was dissolved by Health Minister Elijah Muchima in September last year. The forensic audit, conducted by PwC, found that some employees of Sylkay Pharmacy, located opposite the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) and at Iringa Mall, also worked for ZAMMSA. The audit specifically investigated drugs procured using funds from USAID and other cooperating partners. “A whistleblower approached us alleging that.......
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      High Court upholds 3-year sentence for Kampyongo’s wife
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      BB11, Kundananji, Mweemba make WAFCON group stage best XI
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