Economist Lubinda Haabazoka has noted that government should have maintained a dual system of procuring fuel where Indeni refinery was left to continue operating alongside oil marketing companies. Dr. Haabazoka has emphasized that the country needs to have its own refinery unlike fully depending on trucks to furnish the economy with fuel. Government recently announced that it has resolved to ...

Opposition patriots for economic leader Sean Tembo is proposing that government should start taxing mobile money in order to raise additional revenue to subsidize fuel. Mr. Tembo says the projected annual volumes for mobile money transactions by value for 2022 is in excess of k200 billion, indicating that if government imposed a 1% tax on mobile money transactions, they could ...

Former attorney general Musa Mwenye says Zambia’s corruption cancer cannot be successfully fought through asset recovery alone, without proper persecution. State counsel Mwenye who is also board chairperson of the anti-corruption commission (ACC) notes that asking criminals to return what they stole is not enough and does not deter would be offenders. He mentions that it is not true that ...