Former republican Vice President Enoch Kavindele has described as shameful the sale of 75 percent shares in ZAMTEL to Lap Green at 257 million United States (US) Dollars.
Mr. Kavindele stated that at the time of ZAMTEL’s sale, the market value for the telecommunications service provider was estimated at over 3 billion US dollars saying selling the parastatal company at a giveaway price of 257 million US dollars was unreasonable.
Mr. Kavindele who served as Vice President in the Chiluba and Mwanawasa governments said this in Lusaka today when he made his submissions before the Sebastian Zulu led Commission of Inquiry on the sale of ZAMTEL and the 98 million US dollar NAPSA deal.
And a former ZAMTEL employee Victor Mulenga has called for the immediate repossession and nationalization of ZAMTEL.
Mr. Mulenga who is among the over 2000 workers who lost their jobs after the sale of ZAMTEL said the transaction was not made in the interest of the nation hence the need for its speedy reversal.
“The previous government promised to protect our jobs and improve service delivery but after the transaction the opposite happened, over 2000 workers lost their jobs and the service became pathetic,” he pointed out.
And a former ZAMTEL Technical Director Wood Simbeye submitted that the previous government was responsible for the losses ZAMTEL made in the two years prior to the company’s sale to Lap Green.
Mr. Simbeye who worked for ZAMTEL for 22 years told the commission that the previous government was the worst settler of debts which in most cases exceeded K100 billion stretching over long periods of time.
He noted that during the time he served in ZAMTEL, the parastatal never made losses but instead accrued significant profits saying the previous government’s pronouncements that the service provider had been making losses for many years were baseless and unjustifiable.
And ZESCO Project Director for Kafue Gorge lower Christopher Mubemba narrated how ZESCO was forcefully made to sign an indivisible right of use agreement with ZAMTEL to make the telecommunications provider more attractive to potential buyers.
Mr. Mubemba said under the agreement ZAMTEL was to use ZESCO’s optic fibre network because ZAMTEL’s system was non functional.
He complained that the agreement which was signed on 17th December 2009 under extreme coercion from the previous government had stifled the expansion of the ZESCO network.
He told the commission that ZESCO got a raw deal from the agreement and intends to terminate the agreement by following the due process.
Submissions in the matter continue until Monday next week when the commission concludes its sittings.
Former Minister of Communications and Transport Dora Siliya who headed the ministry at the time of ZAMTEL’s sale is expected to appear before the commission tomorrow afternoon.
ZANIS
If I were Enoch Kavindele, I would just shut up. If the MMD had retained power, the bwa a would have just been chewing with them. Sit down!
Kavindele openly opposed the sale of Zamtel even under RB
Kwandangala i totally agree with you and ask the same kavindele or anyone who keeps refering to kavindele as former republican president. President sata on 20th September 2011 was telling Edward Mumbi that he shouldnt be referred to as (former PF secreatary General)
because he siezed being what he is referred to 4 years ago,so same applies to kavindele dont say (former republican president) just call him ENOCK KAVINDELE after all he has been RBs bootlicker after being a contract to do a rail line from copperbelt to North western.
Tata mwakapa we are going to review this contract and if possible give to credible zambian conpany that can do this because your company is not credible how do you expect to do suck a stretch with 1 landcruiser on site
Hmm ilemonekako tricky iyi mwe.Bushe Dora tabalongefye apa.My heart bleeds.
You *****, you think we can’t read between the lines. Why didn’t you say this before the elections? You think Zambians are fools, stupid big man.You want to look to be supporting the present govt to protect your businesses. *****.
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Don’t blame kavindele just yet. Look newspaper archives, you’ll find kivendele and William Harrington strongly condemned the dubious sell of zamtel.
IS IT THE SAME MR KAVINDELE TALKING HERE, WHO WAS WITH MR RUPIAH ALL OVER ZAMBIA CAMPAIGNING, THIS IS SURPRISING. I DONT WHETHER I SHOULD LAUGH AT HIM OR CRY. SURELY MR E K
Meant i dont know
Enoch Kavindele in Self Preservation mode.
Destiny of this country lies in the hands of Zambians, not some foreigners who have come here to plunder this country. We must take back what belongs to us and ZAMTEL belongs to Zambians.
RB and Siliya should be jailed.
Please save time and handover this case to the DPP. Is there anyone still in doubt about the criminal activities of the MMD GRZ under RB?
Kavindele do you really sleep at night, when you know that you are living a lie??? because you have been ever acting against your conscience,,,, Hence, we zambians
We do not know you, W
We do not trust you,,
We do not want your comments,
We do not want your ego reasoning,,
We do not hope anything good from you,,
We do not want advice from you ect..
Look here keep quiet and wait if Sata out of his mercy, will give you a green light for your project..
Enock Percy Kavindele and Christopher Mubemba are correct …
i dont trust kavindele anymore!!!!
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Ba Kavindele, Please don’t fool us, where were you when ZAMTEL was being sold, you all support RB & Dora, Nomba mwachinja. Please umuselela kwakaba ukwaifi is not healthy?? You have eaten enough. Please keep Quite. Twalimichindika
sheikh where were you when kavindele openly opposed zamtel sale?
Well, the contract Dora used was declared a nullity bu the AG but she, behind his back, went on to insert a US$2.8 million commission clause to the agent company and sold ZAMTEL without due process of law. When the Commission of inquiry found her guilty, President Banda got a complaint judge Phillip Musonda to quash the guilty verdict, quickly re-appointed her to his cabinet and rewarded Judge Phillip Musonda was an appointment to the Supreme Court. Both Banda and Siliya must be found guilty, locked up in the same Chimbokaila so that she can flood him with her torrent genetalia canal waters Folotiya escaped from.
we need our Zamtel back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LAP GREEN INTRODUCED DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY TO ZAMTEL, THATS WHY ZAMBIA WILL NEVER DEVELOP TECHNOLOGICALLY.
This man is good at eating with both his hands and also at biting more than he can chew!!! Please ba Kavindale just keep quite because we all now know who you are. The Zambia of today is not the Zambia of thirty years ago.
Suddenly Kavindele’s third eye has opened when all the time he “supped” with Bwezani. A spineless “turn coat” this Kavindele! He “kissed” Bwezani to get the railway licence, what is he “singing” for in this instance?? As for Dora, not even her soft bums will save her this time!
kavindele, kavindele kavindeleeeeeeeee!. Mhuu….Yo!
Kavindele ni Chameleon. Mudala uyu has no principles. Ozolala na Banda, lelo Banda wayipa koma nichovesta nsoni.
Kavindele during the MMD campains was saying ; RB was finishing three years for Late Mwanawasa, then he will rule for another ten years for himself then another five years for Sakwiba Sikota. How can he change and distance himself from the activities of RB, the people he supported so vigorously. Napapa sana ine bane. kanshi abakulu ebafulisha nobufi. such adults will never have fresh breath.
Maybe dont blame the player (Kavindele),blame the game (politics) Njala inyokola
Kavindele would you shut up,how come you condemn the sale of zamtel today and yet you supported RB?
H would make a great president, He looks upset.
I love this man
Thanks
How Kavindele was entrusted with the no.2 job in Zambia still beats me. Most time I don’t follow his ‘position’. He appears to shift in a way that is too obvious. What happened to the old and wise of which Kavindele is supposed to be one of them? He is as shameful as he is successful or the other way round.
Piss off all you narrow minded fools. Can’t you see with your eyes the changes we as customers are experiencing ever since Zamtel was privatised? All these former employees testifying at the commission saying Zamtel should belong to Zambia, where the fcuk were they and what the fcuk were they doing all these years when it did belong to Zambia and Zambians????? They were rightfully fired and now they want their jobs. Question once again is, why was Zamtel the shittiest of them all, riddled with debts, mismanagement, corruption and losses. Now these *****s are crying the nationalisation song! HELLLLLLLO! It was in govt hands for the last 47 years!!! Argh!!!!! Lazy fools
“The proof of Zamtel’s failure will not be in my words but in the turnaround that you, the Zambian people, will see at Zamtel within the next year. My Government and I have been criticised for this privatisation.
But I challenge all Zambians to judge this privatisation by its results, the change they will see from a new and transformed Zamtel,” Mr Banda said.
The Kafue consortium would have paid $400 million for the whole of ZCCM. LAP Gaddafi paid $300 million for 75% of the most inefficient company in Zambia. Now Gaddafi is dead we can have the whole 100% for nothing. Ha ha ha laughing all the way to the phone!!
Kavindele is a big old fool period. Please ba PF don’t entertain such a fool with his change of language now that nyamasoya and his movement for mud dogs (MMD) are out of power, the boma must watch this chap
Lets sing together:
Abakalamba kale baletubepa, mukolwe pakulila emebaka ee… nomba natukula nefwe natuimwena, kokoliko teme baka eee. Kavindele bin lying. Shame!!!!!!!!!!
SOME OF YOU ARE CONDEMING EPK JUST BECAUSE HE COMES FROM N/WESTERN & HE IS THE ONLY ONE WITH INTEGRITY, EVER CLEAN FROM ANY ZAMBIAN MISDEEDS, LIKE IT OR NOT! ZAMBIA IS FOR ALL AS PER THE ZAMBIA’S BOUNDERIES.
Nobody cares where he comes from you cockroach!!
Look who is talking.
I really don’t know whether this man is credible to make any submisions!
You Right Mr K.BUT You have wrong timing. Why would you only talk now?Advise the current government to repossess Zamtel quickly because our backbone telecoms company is in the hands of crazy Lybian NTC who have no protocol. this is the perfect opportunity and good reasoning to take back what is ours. Don’t just hola mr K, Do something
from the business perspective, kavindele’s submission is valid especially that he had earlier condemned Dora for the deal. Perhaps, what dents him is his political misjudgement and support for RB at the 11th hour. Nevertheless, prior to the success of his contract, RB had grossly mistreated kavindele and blackmailed him for total support. Its his turn to revenge and hope to catch the eye and sympathy of Sata. Help the harmless big man.
CHINJONGO YOU ARE A FOOL! People are condemning the man not the ethnic group. Kavindele will never pay for you children’s education or medical needs just because you are from the same area. You imbecile
Just yesterday this chap was campaigning and laughing with RB and Dora flying with them all over the country, this madala would sale his mother and wife just to put his pen on a GRZ contract!!
$3Billion is twice Zambia’s annual budget. What is Mr Kavindele talking about. Let him justify his calculations.
#30 your comments are misplaced, face the truth here and call a spade a spade, in this case kavindele is a hypocrist.
People need to be very careful with this issue and the Govt better be very careful here. This has the potential to explode. Soon, we will be asking for a revew of the whole Privatization process – and you will see how many casualties we are going to have. For example, Mpongwe, Lenco………. People are excited because it is RB and Dora, they think it will be justice. Watch this space.
This Kavindele is the worst fool Zambia has even seen. shifting position will not help in any way bwana.You too should just retire sir.
The problem with most bloggers here is that you feel that when people differ on a point then they become enemies. Kavindele is on record opposing the sale of ZAMTEL but that does not mean that he became enemy no.1 to the MMD govt, they just differed in opinion. He is just stating his point on ZAMTEL and he has never changed his stance. Do your homework and google before you post your comments because it just shows how dull you are.
Zamtel sale was dogged with irregularities and all those who took part in this mess need to face the full extent of the law. This includes Dora and her friends. However, this frog Kavindele is beginning to get on my nerves! One minute he was licking RBs backside yet today he wants to appear so objective? Cobra should be weary of such prostitutes and keep a distance from them.
mr k even if ni sebana wikute teifi
bupuba ubo bamudala
After this ZAMTEL it will another probe into how Kavindele won the Solwezi chingola rail project
Niba muselela kwa kaba!
Whatever (and I never liked the sale to Libya), but re-nationalization is not the answer. Zamtel services have gotten better and we don’t need govt using parastatals to create jobs if those jobs are not needed or do not add to the competitiveness of the company. We all pay for this kind of inefficiency resulting in less money in the pockets of everyone except for the handfull of chosen workers. With ZESCO for example I’m constantly dismayed at how they send 10 guys on the truck to do a job that could be handled by three. No wonder electricity is so high when state institutions are that inefficient.
Zamtel’s problem was lack of competitiveness coupled with parastatal mentality. People could sit around knitting during office hours. What was needed to be done was to hire a management team to reorginse it and run it and you pay them a management fee. Selling it to me was a bad option. And those directors like Simbeye needed the boot, they never had what it takes to compete in the modern telecom world. Just like most of the employees still had to be laid off if the company was to compete with the likes of Airtel. This is capitalism not socialism! you don’t employ for the sake of giving someone a job, they must bring value to the company.
Kavindele should realise that zambians should not be taken for a ride, he was busy with Banda wasting tax payers money on a compaign tour, now he is switching sides, come on man, are you not shamed? you have lost it completely, I will never trust you. Stay away from this, we will hundle it with our President and the people, zambia is for zambians go back to Angola we know you man.
Percy Enock Kavindele is a dreamer, he used to hob from a chopper to a plane with RB busy campaigning for RB and scandalizing Mr. Sata. why? he wanted to protect the rail line project. PF must not grant Kavindelele the rail line project but rather advertise for others to bid. EPK is a chancer who wants to eat with both hands like Munkombwe & Foolish VJ.
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Boss Player, So this is how you managed to Educate your kids at the most expensive schools in ENGLAND.you are a the REAL DEAL.
Sometimes it is good to keep quiet than making yourself a BIG FOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ma rubbish. Nkala chabe imwe Ba imbwa. Mutivutitsa with your corrupt minds. Man looking for a job
Mushota girl does not cease to amaze me. Misplaced Comments.
Anyway, in as much as Kavindele opposed the sale of Zamtel during its infancy, one cannot sit back and wonder what it would be now had the MMD won the elections.
This is what Kavindele knows best – self preservation.
PEOPLE LIKE KAVINDELE ARE SHAMELESS BASTARDS. WHY CANT HE JUST KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT?WHEN EXACTLY DID HE FIND OUT THAT ZAMTEL WAS VALUED AT OVER US$3 BILLION? HAD MMD WON, WOULD HE HAVE SAID ANYTHING? LET THE GOVERNMENT LOOK INTO HOW HE GOT THE TENDER TO CONSTRUCT THAT RAIL LINE. SUCH AN IMPORTANT PROJECT CANT BE CARRIED OUT BY INCOMPETENT FOOLS LIKE HIM.
Where did Kavindele get the figure of $3 billion? How can you determine the capitalization of a company that’s not listed on any stock exchange? For the record, Zamtel was literally on it’s last legs in Zed and the service has only improved after LAP Green pumped in money. Why do big people want to show that they’ve got small brains by parading their ignorance in front of the whole world? Shame! The anomalies in the sale of Zamtel are 1) Single-sourcing RP Capital (brought by Henry Banda) to be the transaction advisors 2) Coercing Zesco to avail their fibre-optic cable as part of the deal 3) Dora ignoring advice from the AG Chambers and usurping the power of the Finance Minister 4) Dora determining how much commission would be paid to RP Capital – where HB got his commission.
I thought this man was rich enough to have intergrity. Why does he behave in way that justify favour seeking? Does he know where he stands? How do we have such people setting tone for the destiny of our country? Let them just go on early retirement. By the way where are his Lions and is he still able to feed them?
For the contradictory statements to make sense, it depends which side of the fence you are. Obviously, as a member of the commission of inquiry, you want to disregard any story which suggests that ZAMTEL was not attractive to investors. After all you have already been told that the sale was scandalous.
With immdiete effect, Zamtel must be given back to the zambians and am ready to receive as new CEO.
This E.K. is making a fool out of himself.
Its not long ago when HE M.C. Sata made a comment that Zamtel has been sold at a giveaway many of you as usual called Sata mad today you are eating your own VOMIT
E. K.
infact Zamtel is worth to 7 billion USD, but was sold for only USD 257 million, the money a can raise in 30 days without counterpart funding.
How many of these monkeys have 095 series mobile phones? I bet they are on Airtel and MTN. I stopped using Zamtel services 5 years ago both from spamful internet accounts and unreliable mobile services. I cannot get a land line where I stay although their lines stop 400m away. Please let this parastatal die a natural death. After losing the sole international dialing interconnector, Zamtel must be worth much less than $275m now. GO FIGURE, monkeys in the maize field.
why is this foo even talking. He was in both parties. after balya impiya then now atti shani?were was he all this time if he was concerned for zambia. Just shut up really!i m sick of these recycled politicians. I think he wants a ka poto muli sata.
@57 Well said!
Why should he be ashamed( kavindele) The problem with most of you is that you don’t read new-paper everyday…He was one of the first people to condmed Dora over the deal ….you read: 21Mar2011 Kavindele proposes Zamtel take over.The post, 23Apr2011 Call on ZICTA to take over Zamtel.The post, so shame you people and don’t just talk