PF government spokesperson Dora Siliya has directed the police to arrest Roan MP Chishimba Kambwili for what Siliya calls xenophobic and racist attacks on the Indian community in Zambia. According to Dora Siliya, Kambwili should be ‘arrested for uttering derogatory and racial remarks aimed at an Indian national seen in a video that has gone […]
CORRUPT alleged Magnet MINISTER of Housing and Infrastructure Development Ronald Chitotela has pleaded not guilty to two counts of concealing property suspected to be proceeds of crime. Mr Chitotela, who is Pambashe Member of Parliament, is jointly charged with three others.
HAKAINDE Hichilema has asked President Edgar Lungu to immediately remove his infrastructure development minister Ronald Chitotela from government to allow for fair prosecution and adjudication of the corruption charges levelled against him. Meanwhile, UPND members of parliament, Roan PF’s Chishimba Kambwili and an independent legislator, yesterday walked out of parliament in protest against Chitotela’s continued […]
Minister of Finance Margaret Mwanakatwe has directed that ghost and absentee workers be eliminated from Government’s payroll. She has tasked Accountant General Dick Sichembe and controller of internal audit Joyce Sundano to work with Cabinet Office and other relevant institutions to “ensure that the entire payroll is cleaned up”. Mrs Mwankatwe said Government only needs […]
DUNAMIS Ministries Church Overseer Danny Pule has dragged a pastor and 18 ex-communicated members of his church to the Lusaka High Court seeking an order that their continued worshipping at his church is illegal. Dr Pule, who is also Christian Democratic Party leader and founder of Dunamis Ministries Limited, is demanding damages from the 19 […]
RAINBOW Party General Secretary Wynter Kabimba has described the police and Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) as toothless bulldogs especially when dealing with issues of political violence. Mr Kabimba said the violence witnessed in Sesheke would have been avoided if the ECZ and police were operating accordingly. He said the two institutions mandated to see […]
Part of the 13 houses DEC has seized from the former ZAF Commander Lt. General Eric Chimese that allegedly belonged to him.
United Party for National Development’s Romeo Kang’ombe has won the Sesheke Parliamentary By-election with results from 8 Polling Stations still uncounted. The opposition party polled 7, 768 from 35 out of 43 polling stations counted while Patriotic Front’s Dean Masule was trailing with 3, 297. Sesheke Constituency Returning Officer, Joseph Kanyemba has declared Kang’ombe winner […]
GOVERNMENT has been swindled out of US$ 6, 271, 420 for nine undelivered dredgers which were procured in 2015. Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of nine of the 12 dredgers which the government procured in 2015 through a supplier, Messer MCD Civil and Mechanical Engineering Limited, as only three have been delivered to date. Government, through […]
KABUSHI Member of Parliament, Bowman Lusambo says as an effective and time tested grassroots mobiliser with a ‘PhD in politics’, he will have no option but to send UPND president Hakainde Hichilema into political extinction if he does not quit his provocative brand of politics. And Mr Lusambo says the events of Friday in Sesheke […]