Boat operator to serve 1 year for causing death of 6 SDA youths
LUSAKA High Court Judge Kenneth Mulife has convicted and sentenced a 25-year-old coxswain to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour for causing the death of six SDA youths on Lake Kariba. Justice Mulife jailed Jonathan Haajaya but acquitted his co-accused, Osborne Mambo and Tyson Hachiyako after he found them not guilty of the six counts…...
News Diggers! ePaper Edition 1344 Wednesday November 16, 2022
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UPND, police and the shameless arrest of journalists
THE arrest of journalists who filmed a police operation at Chilufya Tayali’s house cannot pass without comment. It is as barbaric an action as it sounds. At this age in our democracy, people cannot be reading news about the arrest of journalists in the line of duty. It is unacceptable, and those who have come…...
News Diggers! ePaper Edition 1343 Tuesday November 15, 2022
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Don’t say things in the loo, says a govt that hates criticism
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has urged cooperating partners and citizens to openly tell his government where things are not being done properly, instead of saying things “in the loo”. Speaking when he officiated at the launch of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods Initiative, Friday, President Hichilema said people should be open with governments if there were…...
We follow money, not individuals – DEC
DRUG Enforcement Commission (DEC) Director General Mary Chirwa says the Commission doesn’t target individuals when investigating financial crimes but simply follows the money and suspected illegal property. And Chirwa says DEC does its work in a professional manner, without fear or favour, and doesn’t do anything outside the law. A document recently leaked in which…...
Cost of flyover bridges increased to $40m due to design changes, PAC hears
THE public Accounts Committee has heard that the Attorney General raised concern about how AFCON Infrastructure Limited was single-sourced for the design and construction of the Lusaka City decongestion project at $289,105,667, in 2016. Meanwhile, the Ministry Local Government and Rural Development has told the committee that the cost of constructing four flyover bridges in…...
We won’t write off the K57m debt in unpaid bills – Kafubu Water
KAFUBU Water and Sanitation Company (KWSC) says it will not write off the K57 million owed by its domestic clients in Luanshya District for water and sewerage bills. KWSC says it will place erring customers under a flexible payment plan as one way of recovering the money owed to the utility company. In a statement,…...
We’re still reconstituting FIC board, it’ll be in place soon – MoF
FINANCE and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Muskotwane says government is reconstituting the Financial Intelligence Centre Board, assuring that it will be in place soon. And Dr Musokotwane says the government may consider establishing a sinking fund once it restructures the current debt. Meanwhile, Secretary to the Treasury Felix Nkulukusa says it can make sense…...
PF removed me from their blogs, laments Mafinga MP
MAFINGA PF member of Parliament Robert Chabinga says party members have removed him from all their blogs because of his closeness with some senior government officials. In an interview, Chabinga said he had been removed from PF blogs because the party thought he was discussing it with UPND officials. “They removed me from all blogs…...
