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Kambwili: Arrest Culprits Of Leaked Documents
GOVERNMENT has directed Inspector-General of Police Stella Libongani to investigate and bring to book people who leaked documents to the media on a US$192 million loan Government obtained from China.
Chief Government spokesperson Chishimba Kambwili said in Luanshya yesterday that police should arrest the culprits, noting that the State is not obliged to disclose security matters to the public.
“I am directing the Inspector-General of Police with immediate effect to take keen interest in the leakage of this document and bring the culprits to book,” Mr Kambwili said at a press briefing.
“Even if Government sat and discussed this loan, there is absolutely no way that it can be brought to the general public because some of these issues are of very high security concern, and there is no way Government can disclose that to the general public.
“And for those people either at the Ministry of Finance, the treasury or in the office of the Secretary to Cabinet who are leaking documents, we want to tell them that their days are numbered and they should not blame anybody. They should face the consequences of their action,” he said.
Mr Kambwili, who is Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services, said reporting on issues that border on security is irresponsible.
He has appealed to Zambia Media Council (ZAMEC) strengthen its governance in the regulation of the media in the country.
Mr Kambwili observed that reportage is what could have caused previous governments to hesitate in enacting the Freedom of Information Bill (FIB).
“I want to appeal to ZAMEC, which is supposed to regulate the media, that we agreed as Govern-ment to allow the media houses to regulate themselves but we are disappointed because it appears ZAMEC is now toothless,” he said.
Mr Kambwili also said the police should pursue Fourth Revolution Party (4R) president Eric Chanda for allegedly defaming President Lungu.
Mr Kambwili was reacting to a media report quoting Mr Chanda as having said that President Lun-gu has no moral right to advise aides at State House.
“Government takes very strong exception at the unbecoming behaviour of people defaming the President with impunity, Surely, even if there is freedom of expression, can one go and say the President has no moral right to advise aides at State House.
“Can you tell your own father that you have no moral rights to talk to me? Gentlemen, I think we are losing it,” he said.
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Bemba Tribalist
May 10, 2015 at 6:47 am
Regulate yourself you Kambwili idiot! Who will pay the loan wemwana wambwawe?
Mulembwe
May 10, 2015 at 10:23 am
I can now leak that Kambwili is going out with small pupils. He should stop going out with our children.
Hildah Malama
May 10, 2015 at 10:29 am
I am back laidies and gentlemen.
From Mr. Fat Albert kambwili’s reaction, you ncan tell that the 1diot has now overan the president. He sees himself to be more senior than Edgar Lungu.
lungu should do something against Kambwili. Let Kambwili be fired or demoted to a lower mistry say: gender.
Shaka Zulu
May 10, 2015 at 10:45 am
Your English is quite bad!Are you really a medical doctor or just a whore?
Hello Haters
May 10, 2015 at 10:47 am
Welcome they definitely need you to pump sense in their sewer filled brains.
mj banda
May 10, 2015 at 7:36 am
I feel Chishimba Kambwili is absolutely right, these guys who are appointed and can’t keep their mouths shut should be arrested and fired. Look at USA, you leak information bordering on national security, you face the consequences. Julian Assange is an example. The best is for government to employ people who can do the work unlike this rubbish of saying it has to balance to all provinces cos some are their to bring down the government s efforts.
JJF
May 10, 2015 at 7:58 am
Iwe do you even understand how this country is at stake due to corruption. Exposing corrupt activities is not leaking government information learn to differentiate the two.
Hello Haters
May 11, 2015 at 8:59 am
Kikikiki, JJF mune can a horde of panga carrying illiterates understand how easily corrupt politicians can divert such funds into their own pockets, for them everything is ok as long as a politician throws a few scraps at them, they eat and shit, then their lives are made. Very disgusting, that this country needs forward thinking people like you. UPND IS THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE.
VAMPIRO
May 10, 2015 at 7:37 am
Since when did the govt started getting permission from citizenship when they want to contract a loan.
Shaka Zulu
May 10, 2015 at 10:23 am
The idiots who leaked the docs should be quickly rounded up and thrown behind bars. It will help them learn that tondolo musuma.
observer
May 10, 2015 at 8:22 am
kambwili is wright
Chief of Grief
May 10, 2015 at 9:45 am
We’ve got so many whistle blowers in govt.n its woryin me.Ba O.P n other security wings please work thoroughly flush out these moles mu PF pantu balatuletelela ka!
New Educated Zambia©
May 10, 2015 at 5:36 pm
as they say nothing is hidden under the sun. Theft and all illegalities committed in the dark always come out. The good will of the people always prevail. And that is exactly what will happen in 2016 when the UPND forms government. Vote upnd bane
Chief of Grief
May 11, 2015 at 6:19 am
Iwe sony nez/sports billy!wat theft haz been comited kanshi,teka amapuli panshi mwaiche.
Hello Haters
May 10, 2015 at 10:16 am
Whistle blowers are a necessity in any democracy, with PF’s lurid reputation in the way they handling public funds we definitely need more scrutiny in whatever funds are coming into the treasury, first just the secrecy attached to this loan is a recipe for misapplication, the possibilities of diverting these fund to personal and pf’s party activities is high, the the people who brought out this need to be recommended for their patriotism. Just their appetite for loans boggles my mind, and their lack of ingenuity to find better ways of raising public funds is so appalling, they have finally now resorted to fixing landlords and tenants for tithe , one tax a well organized government should no even bother much about, this how clueless and stup_t they have become. We need change in this country and the sooner the better. FREE ALL INCERCERATED UPND MEMBERS.
tupac tha illuminati
May 10, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Just thinking of how i shall be the youngest african millionaire in the next 5years and also what i shall do for mother zambia.
Boma
May 10, 2015 at 12:03 pm
Put a reward of ZMW 20,000 and culprits will be found.
jyd
May 10, 2015 at 12:48 pm
bakabwala
Capt juku 1
May 10, 2015 at 2:02 pm
Those people leaking the leakage must be brought to book.even in homes we have secretes bane
Israeli
May 10, 2015 at 2:57 pm
Hw z getting a loan connected to state security
Musenge
May 10, 2015 at 3:07 pm
Fire them & also investigate Katema for abuse of office.
Not long ago, ZAFFICO advertised for the position of Head Human Resources. Katema, the minister of Chiefs ensured that his relative who is currently with ZRA gets the job at any cost. He interfered with the whole process starting with shortlisting to selection of a candidate. Us as staff at ZAFFICO know that the younger brother who is over 50 years and apparently having problems to conclude his master’s degree was not selected on merit. However, as employees we are aware that Katema used underhand methods in resulting in MD Mr Frightone Sichone and Board members succumbing to pressure leading to a preferred candidate to be replaced at late hour. No wonder it took over three months for the candidates to be notified of this dubious, stinky selection process. This unfortunately is a pattern that happens in all quasi-government institutions and in most cases the ones employed do not meet the basic grade. It is therefore unclear how our politicians expect Zambia to progress forward economically. In future such Companies should just consider appointing such people instead of legitimizing corruption through bogus interviews.Instead of looking at Chiefs affairs, he extends his mis rule elsewhere
New Educated Zambia©
May 10, 2015 at 3:25 pm
For many months now I have stated that the PF are a bunch of corrupt elements that are a threat to our national development. Surely, how can you claim national security issues based on a loan that has corruption written all over it? So it is ok for china a foreign nation to lend us money on national security reasons and for china to know and zambians not to? I thought national security was meant to secure internal national issues. So how can you borrow money from foreign elements? you clearly disclosed to china what that money was for. Kambwili do not take us for a ride. This is why we in the UPND have stated that once we form government in 2016, we will remove the immunity of lungu and is stooges. Please in 2016 come out in numbers and vote the UPND to emancipate us from this economic slavery.
ichintu2011
May 10, 2015 at 3:42 pm
ba nez pliz be a real zambian if at all u are one….y can’t u support wht is for Zambia..
New Educated Zambia©
May 10, 2015 at 5:35 pm
how can i support theft of public funds meant for poor zambians? Do you know who will have to bear the huge costs of repaying that loan? do you know the implications of such a hidden loan on the future development of our country? Be reasonable and think of the majority of zambians for once! The zambian people voted the pf in 2011 based on the pro poor policies. However, all that was just a farce for their own huge personal appetites. Please we humbly ask you to save our country by voting the UPND. Please sit down today and think hard on what is right for this great nation. we are tired of suffering my brothers and sisters
dwinkable
May 10, 2015 at 3:46 pm
awe aba tonga bafikala balimupamfya pf nganika hildah malama sta nyoko.
Hello Haters
May 11, 2015 at 9:01 am
Uba amatole pamusana swine, stup_ d tribal fcuk.
mj banda
May 10, 2015 at 3:51 pm
Iwe NEZ be realistic, when you were still kabudo, did your parents tell you when they borrowed anything? Some things needs to be secret like when HH is praying to lucifer.
The Kimbanguist
May 10, 2015 at 5:14 pm
Very poor analogy! Government is not a parent. The loan will be paid by tax payers, I hope you are paying your tax! What national security is Kambwili referring to? Installing cameras is not national security. Zambia has such archaic laws! Security this, security that! Chiluba stole government funds in the name national security, ZAMTROOP account, and yet he was off the mark to reveal KK’s secret tunnels at atate house. Zambians are such a joke!
New Educated Zambia©
May 10, 2015 at 5:32 pm
well said. I am glad that we still have objective people left in our country. Mj banda is a very blind follower whose relatives are probably starving. All in the name of the little benefit he is getting for being a cadre he thinks that is heaven on earth. Meanwhile the pf leaders are oiling their pockets with millions of dollars at the expense of us the zambian people.
Israeli
May 10, 2015 at 5:50 pm
It is disheartening to note that pf cadres will support just about anything that comes from their leaders.u can even begin to question what bunch of lunatics this party z made of
blackbull
May 10, 2015 at 6:25 pm
mr kambwili must be arrested for cheating and stealing from the zambian pipo and put them in unnecessary debts without their knowledge abash pf viva upnd and those universty students must go to hell for they are worse than grade 7 pupils 2016 vote a party that will bring better education.
ichintu2011
May 10, 2015 at 6:29 pm
Never never can i vote for ka upnd……only nez can do it coz he Loves tribalism..
Karods
May 10, 2015 at 6:31 pm
Pliz govt ua very merciful thats why ppo are misbehaving,some media houses have just bcom crazy,chanda defaming my president sure? Where are we going? Kulabako limo nga mugabe pliz balaya sana.
mj banda
May 10, 2015 at 9:38 pm
@nez, long time since u attacked me. For your own information, am not a cadre but a professional who enjoys life thru hard work. Between u and me, who’s a cadre? Definitely it’s u who has been employed by kachema to make noise on the Internet. Wait for 2016, muzanya cow-dung.
New Educated Zambia©
May 10, 2015 at 10:12 pm
kiki it is not attacking you mune. I am just engaging you and giving you facts. I have been quiet as I have been working on the ground. Mj if you see nothing wrong with such levels of corruption then you have really disappointed me. Please guys when something is not right let us learn to call a spade a spade. If such stupidity was pertaining under the upnd, I would resign. Why do you think i relinquished my pf membership? as a man of integrity i could not go on supporting a party that had no vision and clue what it was doing.
mj banda
May 10, 2015 at 9:44 pm
@the kimbaguist, the government is your parent, why did those so called university graduates cry to government for jobs? I think ndiwe chimbwi really. Think before you post. By the way, your level of education????
mj banda
May 11, 2015 at 6:36 am
@nez, yah neh, if I were supporting a party which I very well know that it will lose again and again, I would rather resign and consider something else. By the way, if you are mixed with stupid guys, no body will see the difference and same applies when you are associated to losers. In other words I consider you to among what I ve narrated.
Mimazambia
May 11, 2015 at 7:30 am
We are getting tired of hearing about these leakages. I can’t believe that the Government with its intelligence does not know who is behind this. I feel they are just scared to touch them. Common Edgar! Clean up the system.
New Educated Zambia©
May 11, 2015 at 7:35 am
The only system we need to clean up is the corrupt stinking pf government.
Lemba
May 11, 2015 at 7:45 am
Leakage of information is tantamount to treason. Who ever is looking for the culprits should start with the lower organs e.g office orderlies, secretary, clerks etc. transfer them to other ministries whey their is no sensitive information, why not send them in the districts not even at a provincial level that will be a better punishment. Why should a senior person leak information when he is comfortable the ones leaking information are doing it for money. Mr. President please bring back transfers people should not be stationed at one station forever, they grow wings and stop respecting their jobs. they take it for granted that it is a personal to holder and no body can touth therm.
New Educated Zambia©
May 11, 2015 at 7:50 am
The only treason committed is by the pf government on the zambian people. Zambian people who will have to bear the costs of repaying a loan that they knew nothing about. A loan that would have ended up in personal accounts and you are here talking treason on the poor workers who will bear that burden. You foolish dull pf cadre. Wake up
poly
May 11, 2015 at 8:56 am
Wapya mudzi!@JJB may you please quench the fire and stop the kalela dance.
New Educated Zambia©
May 11, 2015 at 8:59 am
Pf is full of crooks
Tough love
May 11, 2015 at 9:04 am
Kind of worries me to see all these ediots saying it’s okay for government to conceal such huge loans. Lack of transparency is an indication of ill motive by these (Ba-kapala) so called politicians. I get the impression these ediots are benefiting from the confusion or are just plain ediots or both.
We see developed countries announcing their security measures and budgets for their valued top priority assets on occasion and what’s so perculiar about Zambian security?
New Educated Zambia©
May 11, 2015 at 9:26 am
Exactly my point. Ati zambian security kiki. They think we are kids .
Rasco
May 11, 2015 at 9:42 am
Very nasty comments on this line. Wait a minute, all those in the habit of insulting or using unpalatable language, your days are limited, why one may ask? You are all dying in a month’s time I declare.
New Educated Zambia©
May 11, 2015 at 9:54 am
just say pf, they are the ones that are used to insulting
Timbwi
May 11, 2015 at 12:20 pm
National security is important for sure. The only problem is most of these guys employed in government are not educated. They do not understand anything on ethics. Do you expect them to differentiated what is confidential and what is not? Please do not cry because for real, one day our nation will cry with this unbecoming behaviour.