No legal hunting license was canceled – Sikumba

Tourism Minister Rodney Sikumba says the New Dawn Government has not cancelled any legally signed hunting concession agreement with any outfitter.

In a ministerial statement following a point of order raised by Lumezi Member of Parliament Munir Zulu who wanted to find out the status of the purported cancelled hunting concessions by government, Mr Sikumba says 17^th August, 2021 was the date set for signing the hunting concession agreements days after the announcement of the results of the August 12,2021 elections.

He says the ministry proposed and agreed to defer the signing ceremony of the hunting concession agreements to give the new dawn government sufficient time to review the process that followed before the parties could finally append their signatures on the hunting concession agreements.

Mr Sikumba says no bidder paid the prescribed concession fees to government for the applied hunting blocks.

He states that a ministerial procurement committee which convened on 29^th April, 2022 unanimously resolved to cancel the tendering process citing Section 69 of the Procurement Act no. 8 of 2020.