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FRA Board Dissolved, MD Axed As ZNS Gets New Commander
Republican President Michael Sata has with immediate effect dissolved the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) Board.
The President made the announcement this afternoon when he swore in Zambia National Service (ZNS) Commander Nathan Mulenga at State House.
“I have dissolved the FRA Board with immediate effect. I have also relieved Professor Loveday Malambo and Lazarus Mawele of their duties in national interest. I bring you someone who has really worked for Zambia, David Matongo to be the new Executive Officer at FRA,” the President said, ”I want all the maize being collected by FRA to be paid for, in full.”
And the President has directed the new ZNS Commander to involve his security wing in the construction of feeder roads.
“Why should maize be soaked when ZNS is there? You are supposed to be the richest wing of the defence forces,” he wondered.
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Mo taim
October 11, 2011 at 7:54 pm
I agree with the president on the part of the national service being involved in road works.ZNS has the right equipment to do that.
lееее
October 11, 2011 at 7:56 pm
who is this David Matongo?
Sikufele
October 12, 2011 at 5:26 am
I can only say ‘YOU ARE NOT A ZAMBIAN’.
Child of the Sky
October 11, 2011 at 7:56 pm
FRA can certainly do better. Travelling between Kasempa and Kaoma in August, one could not fail to notice the despondency on the faces of small scale farmers as they waited for the no show FRA to buy their maize, while on the same route, between Kalumwange and Kaoma one met between 10 to 15 landcruisers traverssing the country side in search of votes for Liato and Rupiah. What a shame! What awaste!
Kubeba Ndochi
October 11, 2011 at 8:14 pm
ZNS was formed by our father of the nation (KK) to do the nation service,like feeder roads, bridges but now they have gone to sleep, ZNS dont the job they were formed to, only playing the band
xd
October 11, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Matongo is former UPND MP for Pemba Constituency.
Papa_Mokonzi
October 11, 2011 at 8:37 pm
ZNS have really gone to sleep,dey are now good at blowing de trompets&beating de drums in blass band instead of doing de job ZNS was formed for.The ve 4goten to grow cabbages & maize.kawale boys.
lееее
October 11, 2011 at 8:43 pm
thanx xd!!!and pipo say ba SATA is being selective in his appointments.our Presido is fair so far.
Paddie Joe
October 11, 2011 at 8:45 pm
This new Executive Officer for FRA, Mr. Matongo, should act fast. I’ve just come from Petauke. There was a heavy down pour of rain most districts of Eastern P. The maize which FRA has bought is soaked and soon it will start germinating. There are no tarpulins covering the bags of maize.
go for the bigger fish
October 11, 2011 at 8:50 pm
David Matongo was UPND MP from Pemba Constituency, and before that he was MD of ZSIC, Contract Haulage etc, during UNIP days.
hopeful
October 11, 2011 at 9:11 pm
wel done.. So who’s next to go, zccm board?
nsimbi
October 12, 2011 at 11:01 am
Maybe, but it will depend on the amount of sulphuric acid available in stock to dissolve these boards.
kamenga D
October 11, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Tought tested president,we need a president like u Mr Sata coz we very lazy zambia especially goverment workers. Fire them BALEMWENAKO
koko
October 11, 2011 at 9:38 pm
Tribalist SATA
kays k
October 11, 2011 at 10:19 pm
Sure zambians let’s support Mr Sata,with JEUSU everything is possible don’t forget is human he can fell us in some ways. viva Mr President me ad my family we salute u may God guide u till we step on dry land since da boat didn’t sink!
TUCHILI TULE BEBA
October 11, 2011 at 10:32 pm
FRA should also pay people on time for their maize they sale to them…..they take so long and its not fair.
Jones
October 11, 2011 at 10:40 pm
@koko…bakoko batata mwaba itole..!! If u dnt like sataz appointmnt plz kindly forward yo fathaz name n wil mak sure he s apointtd 2 tie rb wen he gets mad…!
Jones yamba
October 11, 2011 at 10:46 pm
@koko…bakoko batata mwaba itole..!! If u dnt like sataz appointmnt plz kindly forward yo fathaz name n wil mak sure he s apointtd 2 tie rb wen he gets mad…!!
Katiya Toonse
October 11, 2011 at 11:28 pm
DAVID MATONGO IS A HIGHLY EDUCATED, SERIOUS MINDED PERSONALITY WITH A VERY RICH cv – I KNOW HIM AS ONE WHO BROOKS NO NONSENSE, AND HE HAS DOES HAVE THOSE ATTRIBUTES MCS DEMANDS OF HIS CEOs – TO DELIVER [KK DID IDENTIFY THOSE ATTRIBUTES, AND NOW MCS HAS DONE THE SAME].
UPND REPLACED HIM IN PEMBA CONSTITUENCY, PURELY ON SENTIMENTAL REASONS (but is the nature of Zambian Politics).
James banda
October 11, 2011 at 11:41 pm
am totaly diappoined with the former republican president of zambiaruphia banda over the behaviour of buying the expesive cars namely lexus how can be a nomal creture be doing that without having the heart over the people who are suffering in our dear lovely coutry mother zambia and is thier feeling radiant anyway i under stand him he wanted to live the life of the so called jerabos in copperbelt who always want expesives cars and those cars can they really bring development in zambia and shame on him i think he bought on the influence of william banda and the pattner dora sillya and we are as people of zambia we dont want he to be scort free and God will see u RB
Wanya Wanya
October 12, 2011 at 1:56 am
@ Katiya Toonse and David Matongo supporters.
David Matongo, the recent past MP for Pemba, is a deadwood. The fact that he held those portfolios has nothing to do with brilliance. Have we just forgotten that Kaunda gave such positions to balance tribes and purely based on loyalty? He was replaced by Mrs Mutinta Mazoka as he did NOTHING for Pemba as MP for TEN years. Not even one single borehole. This is another mbili yakale appointment. We have so many young Zambians who can deliver, the same old finished politicians are coming back. We will eventually belive that HH had a point. I am still studying Sata and some appointments like this one is just useless. Same old recycled ideas. Vote for a younger generation in 2016.
fakedollar
October 12, 2011 at 9:02 am
age has nothing to do with performance especially if work is not to be done manually. who do you think is better manager between Chiluba the young turk and Sata the old guard? Give him chance, he has been in power barely 20 days and we have already seen some results. he cant do everything perfect but he needs our support. the HH you are talking about is just a theorist because if he was serious, he should have stopped politicking and offer alternatives. he will never be the president of this country if he continues with that mentality of l know it all. young chipimo is already offering a better alternative than him. had it not been for his pride, he could be VP and 2016 would automatically been his. bamudala ba Sata tuleya balekeni abalesabaila just sort out Zambia and by the time they will realise we could have crossed with out titanic.
Better days are coming
October 12, 2011 at 10:52 am
Ukokwine na HH obe, ni sakala nyongo he stole from zambians by devalueing companies their worth when privatising them, thats how he become rich. Not by his own pure hardwork. Nosense!!
chumachiyenda
October 12, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Better days are coming, respect yourself. You have no rite to insult HH, how wud u feel if sumone insults yo sata? let sata follow him if he stole. you lazy chap who thinks everyone amasses wealth thru thieving.
GLASNOST
October 12, 2011 at 2:25 am
President Sata is taking the bull by the horns. FRA is a total disaster to allow maize to get soaked. So much crap has taken place for the past 20 years. Leadership is about making bold and tough decisions.
Muikala patalala
October 12, 2011 at 3:24 am
Fire everyone so called buyers
Petis
October 12, 2011 at 3:38 am
The original famer suffers more. The so called buyers are the ones who are benefiting u find that they jst wrk 4 few months they manage 2 buy cars how much do they get paid? I thnk the Gvt shud change the system of paying coz wht normaly hapen is tht the buyers issue reciepts and G R Ns collect the money tht whn they go and buy frm the same poor farmer. Here in petauke they employ their children 2 be buyers. Can be happy if they can be audited in books and wht is on the ground.
Mwikala patalala
October 12, 2011 at 6:09 am
U jst miscourtd me bwana i mean a buyer at a setlight deport. Maybe u r one of them
DEKALASHI SHABULILA.
October 12, 2011 at 7:05 am
Those who are saying H.E M.C.S. to say he is tribalist you are free to submite your names of your reletives peroid.Do you think he can apoint kamalasha or mupwabunga,careful the way you complain,give the presito more time to do what he can please some of u are dimonic in the way u complain.
JOB
October 12, 2011 at 7:38 am
The mess at FRA was created by one Dr. Anthony Mwanaumo who was an MMD cadre to the bone. I wonder where he is now because he must be made to account for the wasted resources and poor planning for the marketing of the bumper harvest. Mr. Lovejoy Malambo just joined FRA a few months ago. The real culprit is the former Mwanaumo…
DK
October 12, 2011 at 7:39 am
THOSE IDIOTS WHO SAYING HE MCS IS ATRIBALIST ARE CLOSE FRIENDS OF RB AND DORA CHISUSU
Mwishikulu Sata
October 12, 2011 at 7:51 am
@Jones,I agree with you. Batata nangu bashikulu bakoko mwaba itole! SATA is no a tribalist,all his appointment are on merit! Submit yo name nangu yo Father’s name…
Its time to deliver for the Zambia people! Long live SATA!
RAY-RAY
October 12, 2011 at 8:45 am
making declarations without planning is a futile exercise.
1. How will FRA collect all the maize when they don’t have enough storage shades? You don’t construct shades countrywide in a day or week. We need concrete plans & funding & also plans to recover money spent on building new silos in each major town & shades countrywide.
2. For ZNS to start construction of feeder roads, funding is needed. Their road construction equipment imported from china is old & most of it broken down.
3. Govt should pay road contractors on time. It is the root-cause of poor roads in zambia. It’ll improve cash-flow of our local road contractors, create more jobs
4. RDA should monitor the quality of constructed roads to avoid shoddy works
fakedollar
October 12, 2011 at 9:11 am
iwe there are long term and short term plans. FRA can purchase tents within 10 days and distribute to all satelite depots as we await transporting the maize to more secure storage. have u seen how the maize was stacked in some cases? pure negligency, those guys knew that they were going so they were just waiting to be fired. if they were serious, they could have been asking govt for money to buy tents. let them go, we are also waiting for the president to fire MMD cadres like WP PS, Luapula PACO, CB PS, and many more who proved to be RB stoges
BS
October 12, 2011 at 8:50 am
mr president tell ZNS commander also to do their own roads leading to their Units they are bad the minister of defence should not be bushited that all is well thoz roads are bad.
Chanda Weyaya
October 12, 2011 at 8:52 am
Ba Koko if you have nothing to say just shut up HE is doing the best for this country, weeding where weeds have overgrown. GO SATA GO and visit all Parastals where there is still a thicket. Move in fast before they sweep the dirt under the carpets. FIRE THEM.
The extraordinary gentleman
October 12, 2011 at 11:02 am
Looking back I was also of the strong opinion that Michael Sata was selecting his team on tribal grounds but its clear that the president values individuals with Brilliant track records. What my friend Wanya Wanya is missing in his insistance that Zambia has many brilliant young trained potential chief executives,president or ministers is that most of these guys are like you and I they have no experience, history or track record to speak. Matongo Has 32years of working experience in corporate management. Is firmly grounded in all aspects of
Corporate Management. Has progressed through several positions in the field and acquired wide and
solid experience in the operations of companies. The man Widely travelled internationally and across Zambia.
This experience has been of immense benefit to the politics of the United Party for National
Development in the capacity of Deputy Secretary General, Treasurer-General and Member of
Parliament. Unfortunately individuals like Wanya Wanya above believee based on personal bias that Matongo failed in his tenure as MP of Pemba and hence why he was replaced by HH I have to say this is completely false. The truth about being in opposition in Zambia is that ones ability to carry out developmental plans is hampered by the politics of the ruling party. It very clear that during Mwanawasa’s rule the copperbelt gained and improved at the expense of the Southern Province, later during RB’s presidency the Eastern province began to progress at the expense of all the provinces that voted against the ruling party. For as long as idiologically and politically an area is contolled by an opposition party ruling parties do not do their best to help these areas progress and this is why service delivery in the Southern and western provinces has fallen behind whilst in other parts of the country it has improved it is for the simple reason that the South and West have continaully rejected the rule of the ruling party at the time. Matongo delivered to best of his ability but the forces he was against were the same forces every other opposition MP constantly faces everyday and therefore development in rural opposition strong holds is slow. I agree that HH chose to replace Matongo with Mrs Mazoka in Pemba for compassionate reasons in regard to the memory of Anderson Mazoka but these compassionate reasons also extend to the fact that Mrs Mazoka is his mother inlaw which is nepotism. The basis for choosing leadership should be track record and democracy not family. If leaders were chosen on compassionate grounds all the time We would have made Maureen Mwanawasa the president of Zambia shortly after we lost her Husband. Competition and democracy failed in UPND and that is why HH has been allowed to run for the presidency 3 times he is holding the party hostage with his wealth. The archives of the post news paper online have Matongo profile online just look at the mans credentials and CV for his achievement this job is even a demotion he deserves better for being an indvivdual of integrity, excellence and high moral calibre so much so much so that along with other great men like Levy Mwanawasa he was removed parastatals by the Chiluba era because of his strong character.
CHIPS
October 12, 2011 at 11:04 am
DAVID MATONGO,FORMER UPND PEMBA MP WAS ONCE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF ZAMBIA STATE INSURANCE(ZSIC).THIS MAN IS A HARD WORKER,DOES NOT CONDONE CORRUPTION.THOSE WHO ARE OLDER ENOUGH REMEMBER THIS GUY TO A NO NONSENCE GUY AT ZSIC.HE FITS THE JOB.
chief Whip
October 12, 2011 at 11:11 am
There are little booklets that the parliament issues that have details and CV of all memebers of parliament past and present available online that has Matongos details…He is quality with a team like this Sata cant go wrong. The president hasnt chosen an individual he has chose achievements. This man can shake up any institution and get it working efficently. which young man in Zambia has a CV that looks like the one below Mr Wanya Wanya? Infact Matongo should reject the FRA job he deserves to replace Steve Jobs at Apple. lol!
Matongo’s Educational & Professional Qualifications?
Bachelor of Commerce Degree (Honours), Delhi University, New Delhi, India.
Various Senior Management Courses in Zambia, USA and Europe, just to mention one the
Irish Management Institute.
Performance Track Record
May 1992 – To Date Chairman and Director, David & Dash Holdings Limited.
Nov 1989 – Dec 1991. Managing Director, Zambia State Insurance Corporation Limited.
Aug 1988 – March 1989. Chairman and Chief Executive, Contract Haulage Ltd and the
United Bus Company of Zambia, Ltd.
March 1976 – Aug 1988. Managing Director, Contract Haulage Limited.
May 1976 – March 1983. Corporation Secretary, Zambia Airways Corporation, Limited.
July 1973 – May 1976. Management Services Officer and Assistant Company
Secretary, Indeco Trading Limited. Later changed to
N.I.E.C Ltd.
MEMBERSHIP TO LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL BODIES
Name of Body. Portfolio Held
ZACCI, LUSAKA. Chairman (Past).
AFRICAN RE, Legos. Nigeria. Director (Past).
AIO, Douala. Cameroon. Executive Board Member (Past).
INDO-ZAMBIA Bank Ltd. Director (Past).
Zambia Railways Ltd. Director (Past).
ZPTF. Chairman/Trustee (Past).
Taj Pamodzi Hotel Plc. Director (Past).
African Explosives Plc. Director (Past).
Zambian Breweries Director (Past).
Economics Association of Zambia (ECZ) Member (Past)
POLITICAL CAREER RECORD
Thirteen (13) years of active participation in national politics:
1998 Founder Member of the United Party for National
Development, (UPND)
2000 – 2001 Interim Deputy Secretary-General, United Party for National Development,
(UPND).
2001 – 2006 Elected Member of Parliament for Pemba Parliamentary Constituency.
2006 – 2011 Re-Elected Member of Parliament for Pemba Parliamentary Constituency and
Elected Treasurer-General, United Party for National Development (UPND).
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF ZAMBIA.
2001 – 2002 Member, Parliamentary Committee on Estimates
2002 – 2004 Member and Chairman, Parliamentary Committee on Economic Affairs and
Labour, National Assembly of Zambia.
Reprehensive for Zambia on the ACP/EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, Brussels,
Belgium.
2005 – 2006 Member and Chairman, Parliamentary Reforms and Modernisation Committee,
National Assembly of Zambia.
2006 – 2011 Re-Elected to the National Assembly of Zambia and continued as the Treasurer-
General of the United Party for National Development.
Member of the Standing Orders committee, National Assembly of Zambia.
Member of the Parliamentary Reforms and Modernisation Committee, National
Assembly of Zambia.
Member of SADC Parliamentary Forum and Chairman of its Standing Committee
on Finance, Trade and Development, Windhoek, Namibia.
2010 – 2011 Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Economic affairs and Labour,
National Assembly of Zambia.
Member of the Standing Orders Committee National Association of Zambia
President, African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) member states of the Joint
Parliamentary Assembly of the ACP-EU JPA, Brussels, Belgium.
Co-President ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, Brussels, Belgium
………..
nana
October 12, 2011 at 11:55 am
ba sata u re really working has if its a dream keep it up
christal
October 12, 2011 at 12:04 pm
hope u know d reletionship btwn bob sichinga and king cibra. gbm and d cobra etc .we have data and we a watching. we a not happy. we have known d cobra for more than 30yrs now. its u young ones who voted 4 him. you think he will solve ur problems in 90 days! wait and c how he changes his colours! i will have d last laugh lol!
My name is my name
October 12, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Guys da old man is doing da best he can.who is next to be fired?…go king cobra fire dem
conservative
October 12, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Same old story,so you people you mean they world evolves around these same old guards.i dot think so,they are alot of graduates me inclusive yearning to leave a mark if given an opportunity.
This thing of appointing old people with bachelors degree of the 20th century in 21st century will not take us anywhere.Yes Matongo was once ZSIC director but take into fact that they were less qualified people then but now we young people can challenge these mandalas on qualifications.The economics they did in pre-independence is different to the economics we do today.
Personally am more qualified than Matongo but am just 28 years old…Am looking forward for the time when youth will be in the forefront of sharping the destiny of this our beloved Zambia,and the time is soon.yes,the journey is long but the distance is even shorter by each day that passes.Cry my beloved country.
lovely
October 12, 2011 at 4:09 pm
@christal what ever you co yourself stop deceiving zambians coz gbm is my relative we both from the royal family of chief munkonge no relations at all with HE MCS jst admit is a gud president and stop dreaming it has happened you will never change it.
Eyes only
October 12, 2011 at 4:46 pm
batamfyeni ba kateeka balya pafula
Ak
October 12, 2011 at 5:04 pm
The new ZNS Commandant is befitting of the position and so was the previous one. In fact since MCS is onto corruption, the previous man has a track record for fighting it. Now if the President wants ZNS to do better, then you should incorporate into their military training business etiquette and management cause surely these guys are lying idle trying to figure out whether they are security or farmers