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Economic and Equity Party (EEP) President Chilufya Tayali has charged that President Edgar Lungu is part of the mess in the Zambia Police Service. Mr. Tayali says if the Police are abusing the law, the President as commander-in-chief of the armed forces cannot be spared from blame. He says the President has an obligation to make sure that the police ...

A former Commissioner on the Mung’omba Constitutional Review Commission says there is need to consider including the clause on the appointment of Ministers outside Parliament in the constitution during the amendment of the constitution. William Harrington says appointing Ministers from outside Parliament is the only solution to recent concerns by President Edgar Lungu over the failure by some Minister to ...

The Road Transport and Safety Agency(RTSA) has suspended the road service license for Kapena Bus Company for violating the conditions upon which the operator’s license was granted. The Agency has since given the bus company 24 hours to cease operations. On 23rd  May, 2017, a Scania Marcopolo Bus registration number ABP 6303 operating under a road service license No. 163140 ...

Ministry of Labour and Social Security Permanent Secretary Barnaby Mulenga says government has identified the informal sector as one of the avenues to combating the menace of unemployment in the country. Speaking when he officiated at the Tripartite Plus Dialogue on the Youth Future of Work organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Lusaka today, Mr. Mulenga says government ...

The Centre for Trade policy and Development is concerned with the growing negative publicity of Zambia which has now penetrated international media such as Al jazeera, Bloomberg, and the Daily Nation in Kenya among others. CTPD acting Executive Director Isaac Mwaipopo says the negative political outlook has the potential to negatively affect the country’s credit ratings, which may in turn ...

People’s Alliance for Change (PAC) President Andyford Banda says revelations by the Financial Intelligence Center on suspicious financial transactions recorded in 2016 shows the lack of commitment by the PF Government to seal all corruption loopholes. Mr. Banda says President Edgar Lungu and his administration should simply accept that they lack political will to fight corruption. He says the fact ...

The Small and Medium Contractors Association of Zambia has called for equal distribution of contracts by government to foreign and local contractors. Association President Mutale Mpepo says it is worrying and unfair that the government prefers foreign contractors at the expense of the local ones. Mr Mpepo says it is very clear that giving foreign contractors contracts has less benefit ...

Local government permanent secretary Amos Malupenga says government will not allow any investor to illegally and unnecessary displace the local people. Mr. Malupenga has also urged traditional leaders to play their part in protecting and preserving land for the locals in their chiefdoms. He says his ministry is engaging with chiefs around the country on the need to preserve and ...

Chief Mumena of the Kaonde speaking people in North-Western Province has urged his fellow traditional leaders to come up with a lasting solution to continued succession wrangles in some chiefdom. Recently President Lungu expressed concern over the increasing number of succession disputes in some chiefdom in the country. Chief Mumena has attributed the increase in such disputes to lack of ...

Finnish Ambassador to Zambia Timo Olkkonen says Zambia lost an opportunity to generate more revenue when government banned the export of Maize at a time when neighboring countries were in dire need of maize and maize products. Mr. Olkkonen says milling companies were willing to export maize and maize products but could not do so because of the ban, thereby ...