The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it has identified five ministries that can be closed down or fused with others to save resources, arguing that there are too many unnecessary government officers drawing huge salaries.

And NDC says the National Health Insurance Act is a flawed, ill-conceived law that will not succeed, but will be a burden to Zambians.

This is contained in the “Why we deserve your vote” weekly newsletter to News Diggers! written by the party Secretary General Mwenya Musenge.

Musenge stated that the PF government was running a bloated government as they were too many ministries and unnecessary government officers who were drawing huge salaries.

“As NDC we have identified about five government ministries that can be closed down or fused into other government ministries in order to save hundreds of millions of Kwacha. Ministries such as (agriculture, livestock and fisheries) (finance and national planning) (mines and energy (education and higher education) (tourism and chiefs), these can be fused together or consolidated,” he explained.