News Diggers! ePaper Edition 775 Tuesday September 15, 2020
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Procurement General’s office can’t stop corruption, the criminal syndicate is too powerful
THE Zambia Institute of Purchasing and Supply (ZIPS) is calling for the creation of the office of the Procurement General whom procurement officers can be reporting to. This, it says, will also take care of some unfair corruption allegations over government procurement because there will be someone to explain the processes followed. “The highest [procurement]…...
Police charge Mucheleka for aggravated robbery
POLICE in Northern Province have arrested UPND deputy secretary general Patrick Mucheleka and two others and charged them with aggravated robbery. Confirming the development in an interview, Northern Province Police Commissioner Richard Mweene disclosed that the trio allegedly attacked a mobile NRC registration office, stole a printer and genset, among other items. “On 13th September,…...
ZCCM-IH proposes reorganisation transaction to optimise efficiency
ZCCM-IH has approved a reorganisation of its portfolio with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) where both entities will transfer their equity held in three corporate entities to the other to achieve optimisation of operations within the IDC/ZCCM-IH Group. In a market announcement, Friday, ZCCM-IH stated that it was reorganising its portfolio with the IDC, which…...
PF ministers should emulate HH in explaining their wealth – Kakoma
UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma has insisted that all PF Ministers must subject themselves to a lifestyle audit and explain their sources of wealth because party leader Hakainde Hichilema has set the example. Last week, former Attorney General Musa Mwenye tweeted, saying: “Now that we have heard from Mr Hichilema over the allegations made against him,…...
Lungu’s address to parley a joke, uninspiring – Kambwili
NATIONAL Democratic Congress (NDC) president Chishimba Kambwili says President Edgar Lungu’s State of the Nation address during the opening of Parliament last Friday is uninspiring and does not give hope for economic recovery. And Kambwili says President Lungu’s pronouncement that government is determined to fight corruption is a joke. Meanwhile, Kambwili says Zambia is worse…...
Magistrate Simusamba to go, as JCC recommends his removal from judiciary
THE Judicial Complaints Commission (JCC) has recommended the removal of controversial Lusaka Magistrate David Simusamba from presiding as a judicial officer. There have been various complaints against the conduct of Magistrate Simusamba, the latest being a case where Chishimba Kambwili reported him to the Anti Corruption Commission before asking the Chief Justice to compel him…...
Govt didn’t breach Constitution in issuance of NRCs, State tells court
GOVERNMENT has strictly followed and never breached the provisions of the Constitution in the issuance of National Registration Cards (NRC), the State has submitted to the Constitutional Court. The State has, therefore, denied claims by Chapter One Foundation Limited that it had breached the Constitution by implementing the issuance of NRCs in a manner that…...
Mobile subscriber base has risen to 17.9m – ZICTA
THE total number of active mobile network subscriptions in Zambia has increased to 17.9 million as at June 30, 2020, an all-time high, exceeding the country’s population, according to ZICTA. And ZICTA says the value of electronic money transactions skyrocketed to hit K43 billion by the half-year period, up from K18.9 billion during the same…...
Dickson Jere sues Nkoma for calling him ‘a liar’
LUSAKA lawyer and former president Rupiah Banda’s Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations, Dickson Jere, has dragged economist Noel Nkoma to the Lusaka High Court for allegedly accusing him of being a liar and an attention seeker in one of the Whatsapp groups. The alleged defamatory words were uttered following Jere’s eulogy in honour…...