PRESIDENT Sata has suspended the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) commissioner general Wisdom Nhekairo and his commissioner of customs Mukela Mutukwa to pave way for investigations.
President Sata was speaking yesterday at State House after the swearing-in ceremony for the ZAF commander that he has suspended the two commissioners at ZRA to pave way for thorough investigations.
He said ZRA is full of corruption and that he will soon set up a commissioner of inquire to probe ZRA and ensure that it is cleaned up.
“I ‘am very allergic to corruption and I want within one week to ensure that ZRA is probed,” President Sata said.
President Sata said he has suspended a contract between Zesco and a named Egyptian company that was hired by the previous government to pave for way for investigations.
“It has come to my attention that the Egyptian company was milking us money so I have decided to suspend this contract to pave way for investigation,” he said.
President Sata has also suspended the contract between a named Chinese company and State house because it was also siphoning government money.
President Sata urged the newly-appointed commander, who has taken over from General Andrew Sakala, to come up with initiatives that will generate income for the Air Force.
Mr Sata said it is important for the Air Force to engage in activities that will sustain them and not in activities that do not yield anything.
President Sata has also asked the ZAF commander to submit a detailed report regarding the jets that have been in Israel for 20 years.
“I need a genuine report to indicate whether it is necessary for us to bring those planes that are in Israel,” he said.
President Sata has also appointed former Gender Minister Sarah Sayifwanda to head the Gender Divison Ministry that will fall under Cabinet office.
“I have withdrawn Gender and it has gone back to Cabinet Office where Ms Sayifwanda will be incharge.I talked to Ms Sayifwanda about my decision to appoint her and she accepted,” Mr Sata said.
The President said Zambia will soon open up foreign missions in Argentina, Portugal, Spain and Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, ZESCO has terminated the contracts of all the seven directors that worked under former managing director Ernest Mupwaya.
The firm’s new managing director Cyprian Chitundu confirmed in an interview at his office last evening that the seven have already been replaced.
Mr Chitundu said the changes are normal and that the new management team has a new vision and a new direction.
“I can confirm that all the seven directors have been relieved of their duties. We are trying to set a certain standard and so we need fresh people,” Mr Chitundu said.
He said some of the former directors worked well, but that in every company, all the leaders need to have shared vision for the organisation to move forward.
Mr Chitundu said the new vision that the company is set to achieve has necessitated these changes and that they will bring development to the nation and also help the company to grow.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
Saw that one coming
well done HE, you really are cleaning up as you always promised you would. 1 zambia 1 nation, Let us all back our govt to improve our nation
Mr Sata your decision on the ZAF is wrong.Let ZAF do what they are hired to do and that is defend zambia.Income to ensure ZAF is in top shape is for you and your govt not the officers.Once they start getting distracted with income generating activities then their military proffesionalism and defence of zambia is compromised.
we just can,t afford to sustain them, we just don,t have the money for that.
These guys are just sleeping in the barracks. we need them to make money. In most of the developing countries, the army is used to make roads, bridges, and other social infrastructure.
I hear you pay something in the range of $20,000 to get into a mig fighter jet in Russia. I wouldn’t mind getting into one of those and blasting away at Marc 2!!!
47 years mambala…the closest encounter to unrest we had was Captain Solo and maybe the just ended elections…ukamba chani? Let them get involved in Economic development. I agree with te fintu…
Maboza a Enka. The Army, ZAF and ZNS in Kaunda days used to generate some of their funds. Tell me if THAT compromised their professionalism.Problem with such CONSUMPTION MENTALITY is that progressive ideas requiring ALL people to be PRODUCTIVE bring fear in the lazy peoples minds.
Defend Zambia from what or who? For over 25 years now Zambia has only been enganged in UN peace keeping missions that need ground forces. With all their free time, the president is right to involved the workers who are paid every month in ventures that generate income and help the country. The Air Force divides their AFSCs (enlisted jobs) into the following overall categories: Operations, Maintenance & Logistics, Support, Medical & Dental, Legal & Chaplain, Finance & Contracting, and Special Investigations. Withing these categories, AFSCs are further assigned to “career fields.” A career field may have one AFSC assigned to it, or it may have several. AFSCs with similar functions are grouped together in the same career field.
Enka, the Air Force anywhere in the world is not just meant to defend the country. it has many duties most of which are support operations which will help generate income. This is what the president is talking about. Defend the country? from what or whom…?
good, kick them out. ZESCO became MMD wing, these guys were very corrupt. investigate them and if found wanting arrest them! to the new team, don’t take people for granted, we are watching you!
Zambia needs sorber heads. This is why it is important to have proffessionals in stratergic positions otherwise firing everyone every time Government changes is retrogressive. However, this will ensure that these executives wake up and save the people. I only hope the Cobra is not power drunk and over doing things. If this is good for Zambia, we will embrace it with both hands.
our pockets have no money. when are you attending to us?
work hard to get money !!!
You fool. Do you think money grows in trees? Work hard. The govt is creating an environment where if you work hard, you have the money, if you become lazy, you will continue suffering.
A Ngoma, do I detect an RB spirit in your question? When CORRUPTION stops taking your money it will report to your pocke, collectively as Zambians. Relax and watch this space for more.
work hard my dear nothing good comes on a silver plate
Lazy bastard!!!!!!!!!!! start doing some thing!
You lazy internet surfing silly bum, you think money is going to fall in your pocket like rain, 20 years of crooks stealing your money and you want money to land on your lap….imbecile!!
He is allergic to corruption because Mwanawasa almost put him in trouble and has realised that corruption does not pay. It is good you learnt your lesson and now can help others to change.
Swift clean up.Air Force can open up a museum and charge a nominal fee to visitors. They can also sell Air Force memorabilia — how else can an air force make money?
Zesco was long overdue for an overhaul. Are we going to see ZRA embrace ICT? I’d like to be able to pay my taxes without lining up! Speaking of taxes, are we going to see transparency in tax collection and expenditure?
handle the israeli foreign policy with care and carefull thought,,zesco should ensure rural electrification is becomes priority!
LT my blogs are never posted, have I been ban on this site???
Good for Mukela ang group. In and Out. We the ZRA guys we celebrate. Served from the hate campaign. Haaaa that rule that saw our friends dismissed from ZRA on corruption pretextes while it was his own fights for power. God you have served us and thank you!
Is the solar geyser thing and cheap power installation still there, good policy if only it was election time all times.
when is he attending to our constitution?
oh ..here is n idea for ZAF to make extra income…join Gaddif as mecenaries, Gaddif can probably finace the ministry of defence…Wrt to ZRA, is Mwansa testicles still ZRA boss… he needs to go…if he is not fired i will the tongas with their regular chorus…Sata is bribalist…Sata is tribalists…lol
His Excellence the KING COBRA new all these problems even before he became President. No wonder He is cruising at this speed. K.I. UP.
Clean up the tax office Mr. president. That’s why the country is poor because tax money is misused and not all of it goes to the zambian government but in ZRA’s management and staff pockets. What about the emerald mines on the copperbelt? We have seen foreigners getting rich than the Zambian government. do something about it Mr. president.
goo.d question bro
Yes H.E MCS knew a lot of things. That is why he didn`t waste time with FNB. The man RB was so transparent. Thank God that man only had less than three years. God knows where we would have ended up if he had done 5 years.
I am waiting for the Lexus issue.
@ 3 enka rasha I agree. These military wings are not supposed to be economically productive, their job is to face the real enemy one day (God Forbid), one way sata can save on the military is by not recruiting anymore (they are dying in large numbers so soon numbers will be smaller), enhancing diplomacy with neighbours so potential for conflict is reduced and making military more technologically sophisticated and leaner and smaller. The saved moneys can be channelled to social development.
What is Zambia going to gain in Spain and Portugal in terms of business? The High Commission in Britain surely can handle these countries!!
President Sata is confused now, after reducing ministries by THREE he wants to open up foreign missions by FOUR which will need STAFFING and ALLOWANCES in foreign CURRENCIES.
No wonder President Sata had to ask the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Williams (out of ignorance) to send Priests to Zambia, when in fact Africans including Zambians are going to Europe for CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY WORK!!
What a SHAME!!!
Dear bloger,it looks like you know nothing about how goverments operate.Its not abt salries iwe kolwe,but opening up new ideas that will lead to having more investors on board.Have you ever been to any embassy or travelled to europe,you will be so shocked that few investors know little about Zambia. And when they hear about this beautiful country,they immediately start inquiring about business opportunities of investment nature.What stopped some of them is the corruption in zed.Now that the new bloom is doing its job,i quess you will have alot more investment that will empower you to buy airtime for your internet iwe kolwe.I just hope you are not using free company internet at the expense of being productive that is if you work.
clean up ZRA to fund ZAF and other govt institutions Mr. President.
Things honestly are not RIGHT with President Sata.
No military in the world has ever generated money (apart from IRAN who gets government contracts), that is why governments through out the world spend their money on their military as a percentage of their GDP.
Only war zones have that kind of money to spend and they are excused for that. Do you know why our military officers die like chickens for luck of a better term. Its because of idleness. If we had war, they would be occupied. Its a good way to engage them into the primary objective while keeping the secondry in mind.
Enterprise does not erode the profesion. Ve seen doctors doing good bussiness. Miners, teachers, nurses, engineers etc do not comprimise their profession, what is so speacial about defence forces? They can be manufacturing bullets, guns, have a garage. At least something to do in idle times. We are not at war all the time. It is a nice move.
thats a good move which should go directly to state house for immediate approval! we are not at war at all times, mines can even supply them with uranium and polonuim to make more nuclear weapons, take a look at iran, america salutes.
Oh nice move on ZRA. Even a little baby knows that ZRA is corrupt. Please let there be a fixed standard when clearing items such as vehicles at the borders. We have suffered a lot especially where one would clear a very expensive car on the same rate as one clearing a corolla. Please set a known standard to reduce corruption at the borders.
keep it short stupid lol
Presido must say keep it short and simple or vise versa. I like the speed. that is the true speed of a real man. Even in 90 days we may not arrive in all arears but we will be very near and we will be seing the light at the end of the tunnel.
H.E you are doing good right now. Remain as forecast forever.ZRA has not been not been helping. Even now safari operators are still enjoying by stealing our serving charge money by not paying us 10%. Check their books.Need to be payed right so we also contribute the right TAX. shuffle them.
Man of action is in full speed. Don’t kubeba
majority of Zambian men are born cheats. By virtue of being born in a poor country such as Zambia one is tempted from the onset.
Whoever they replace him with the temptations are too high, and much as I regret to admit it they will cheat and make themselves richer on our expense.
Institutions of such magnitudes deserves people with integrity, and why not a white man?
If you start a business and every now and then take money for personal use (ether to feed one’s family or not) Your business will never blossom. …
It is the same here I am afraid, Zambia will never preogress because ethically the country is riddled inheritantly by people that cheat, come from broken families and uneducated. This country will never be at any stage better that it ever was. The best days are behind us. Thanks
Mushota Lets appreciate wer its due. U come frm uneducated famly no wonder u ar a prostitute coz there is nothin u can do apart from that profession. and u call yoself as a educated in such a profession gud. Uchulafye and u do nt even stay in Scotland. If u do wher exactly do stay, which city wembushi we always tryin to underlet Zambia u ar very fulish ule iwe.
Piss off you trolling cu*t!!
Industrial military complex should ring a bell for any economics student.Proffessional armies in this world are involved in engineering,manufacturing and do have front companies for procurement,mining,air and land transport.Just have time to think,think,think,think.Opportunities are many any for the bright and not the dull.
No 12 Mr Mwansa is no longer at ZRA. RB so to it and moved him to Head Technical and Vocational Training, I think as permanent secretary. So unfortunatly for you no opportunity to cry ‘tribalism here’!!
By the way in President Sata bemba? I believe he hails from Mpika district…. which in my books does not make him bemba!
All these movements are good as long as they are meant to benefit the people who sung the song for Sata to plot 1. I hope it is not a strategy to pay back his supporters with professional jobs. PF the decisions being made now will need time to show results (bad or good). For now things are moving. The only sad thing is that all Sakalas and Bandas are being fired while the others like DPP are being spired. the question is what icriteria being used? The questions can only be answers over time. We wish Sata and PF govt well and all decisions must be made in the interest of people and at times consult widely when necessary like opening misions in countries whose economies are weakening.
let them touch lusaka water and sewerage too…directors are sleeping and eating money for projects
No. 31 you are right about water and sewerage company, I have been staying in olympia extension since 1992. the first few years we used to have water all the time , but the last fifteen (15) years it has been pathetic. We only have water in the evening and at exactly 6 it goes. you can imagine amatoilets with a big family the whole day no water. One time I approached water and sewearage to see if they can correct the situation. The answer I got was that I should buy a borehole. What an expensive answer, BASATA twapatata twafweniko
Who is the new ZAF Commander?
i was in chilenje last month and we had no water for a longtime and yet pipo pay for bills do something mr president
stop paying,
why pay for a service thats not there.
Please Mr. President sort out the ZRA Board Secretary as well she is incompetent and was brought in by fired PS from Justice Gertrude Imbwae…please let her go better people were denied the opportunity.
Wapya munzi Sata here he comes.
Good move on ZESCO. This is how you clean up an institution. I wish you did that with the Police as well. Because firing Kabonde and replacing him with his protege doesnt make any sense.
man of action
What a mess we are in as a country! This man is ruining our children’s future. Where are the respective ministers to handle the boards and CEOs of these institutions for the president to be announcing everything? Another “ministry” for another MMD import? The same people you were condemning yesterday? Eish!!
It sad that the new MD thinks he suddenly has the wisdom to turn the company around . There are among these directors some deep smarts and as the president recently stated , the country needs all the knowledge , skills and experience the country possess. We will watch the new MD closely, when the euphoria of the new job is over. In my opinion he is an average guy, nothing specular about him!!!!
Some of you chaps here are busy appluading every dismissal with no clue on what is on the ground. Some of these dismisals are methods to give friends jobs
That is not enough Mr. President. There are a lot more corrupt elements in all ranks at ZRA Nekairo and his commissioners were understood to have had their “boys” placed in positions of interest in the organisation, like Investigations Department. This department has always prosecuted small tax offenders like traders and clearing agents and bigger tax offenders a have gone scotch free on instructions from the top. ZRA could be collecting less than 50% of the taxes due, due to this “institutionerised” corrupt conduct of officers and managers.
what sata is doing is not new. kk started it, chiluba picked it up, mwanawasa continued it, rb inherited it and sata is repeating it. what results has their actions produced? he only needs to put in place a corrupt free system, chapwa. to me, they are all damn dull *****s.
I like the new moves…we need fresh people with fresh ideas…maybe some of us can now genuinly get jobs and not be intimidated or offered jobs based of what we can offer as females..:)>-
All seven directors at ZESCO have been fired and replaced? Wow!!! How were they replaced?When were the positions advertised? Zambia is really in trouble!!!!!
Indeed I dont remember any advert being made..How different then is this mode of employment from what the previous administration at Zesco did?..Jobs need to be advertised and given on merit otherwise forget baout more jobs if relatives are being handpicked.
thanks for hearing me on this i think i asked last week.thanks mr president.we been paying tooo much on clearing our items.
kinldy help sata. He is a good boss but not a leader. He is very ignorant of the modern politics.Is coments and speeches are very embaracing. To the outside world. I stopped listening to him. Zambia in reverse Gear
Can someone update this LT chaps with the changes at ZESCO. We need names of people who have gone and those who have come in. Wholesale sweeping might be dangerous. Even the King Cobra still has senior people at Cabinet Office to give him all the hidden data before he deals with them. Mr Chipwaya (Or Kapwaya) might just be creating a system of patronage.
Comedy pa ZED, Now ZAf should become a commercial airliner, Ha,Ha,ha. very funny
@ # 17 (Shaka OZ) speaking encounters and experience on the case of Spain & Argentina, I have personally read and heard inquiries of the business community from these to nations bemoan the lack of formal relations with them by our country as they conduct a lot our companies here. Our copper is being finding its way into the defence industries and IT firms in Spain. We right now have an IT firm from Spain implementing a $28million dollar project (IFMIS) for GRZ. These business transactions and many besides honestly call for our country to have diplomatic offices and cordial relations with such countries not Counsel offices to encourage and expand exchanges both trade and otherwise between our people. Argentina a big agricultural country from which we can learn immensely.
We told you! The man of action in real action.
The Air Force divides their AFSCs (enlisted jobs) into the following overall categories: Operations, Maintenance & Logistics, Support, Medical & Dental, Legal & Chaplain, Finance & Contracting, and Special Investigations. Withing these categories, AFSCs are further assigned to “career fields.” A career field may have one AFSC assigned to it, or it may have several. AFSCs with similar functions are grouped together in the same career field.
So some guy can dismiss Directors and appoint his own brethlen in a Zambian public institution as if it is his own kantemba! (mind you there is no Board to oversee)! At this rate, we are building the most corrupt setup ever known in Zambia. Why not advertise, conduct interviews and get the best for the job? My workmate is a highly experienced Zambian power Engineer but i am sure the guy who appointed these Directors doesn’t even know he exists.
Please watch the Kwacha. It is in freefall.
Good morning
The crackdown continues…
The president is serious with his job, one can tell he has no time to waste and the best Zambians can do is to back him. Mr. President, please leave no stone unturned so that by the end of the 90 days, every Zambian becomes allergic to corruption, poverty & disease.
ya Mr SATA is now working and now v can feel we r in Zambia also pls sir visit British airways airline u kno what and how they treated you pls see they bring new planes to Zambia and the cost of tickets r brought down and let other airline come to Zambia this will brake BA monopoly v the Zambians and other should help him to bring things back
The way he is hiring and firing people leaves a lot to be desired. I think it is pay back time and everyone that supported the previous MMD government needs to start packing their bags before the axe falls on them. This micro-management of a big country like Zambia cannot work because it will just exacerbate his heart problem. With time, people will start lying to him in order to keep their jobs and then we will be back to square one. Go gently on the gas before you stall the engine.
I cant see the future in the guy appointments,most of his appointees will die of old age soon.
What do you do with 20 year old jets?
Feel we now have a President, we had a dark period of 20 years(MMD rule) in Zambia.Hope we can now revive copperbelt sports infrastructure thru talking and persuading mier owners to help like ZCCM did.
Mushota for the first time I agree with you. Why should ZAF engage in income generation? We have the ZNS doing that. We shall expose our security.
ZESCO seriously need to pull things together, Zambia with so much water sources and kariba hydro should not be experiencing load shedding and extremely high electricity tariffs. And it seriously doesn’t make sense to export electricity when you don’t even have enough electricity for your own citizens to afford. Somebody should make me understand this “Nonsense” please!
chi@58 what security?Does Zambia even need an airforce?Pliz
Sometimes one wonders if ZESCO, ZRA, ETC Directors get hired and paid those FAT salaries, allowances and bonus to do their jobs, be innovative, take a company forward with projects of expansion, etc or to just merely practice Nepotism and get rich. Pathetic!!!!
God’s hand is on Zambia through man of Action.we are happy for now
@57 Kabwe L my cousin. The 20 years of darkness under MMD and the current Presido had 10years of that while RB had 3 years. To me that tells me that we are going backwards 20 years. This is very interesting coz when we start to probe this 20 years HEMCS will be part of the probe. The issue of talking to new owners of the mines to take up sports infrastructure my friend is long gone. Its up to you and me to come up with sports clubs or companies run on serious business ethics.
5yrs of rb
I hope it has nothing to do with the fact that the two are related. Wisdom is the brother to Gladys Mutukwa who is married to Dr Mutukwa who in turn used to be in UPND. I smell a rat. Next you will hear that the imbecile blogger from Scotland who goes by the name of Mushota Chimfwembe has been appointed as the new commissioner.
But then again as Directors whose ideas/proposals/projects are rejected or overlooked if put forward to the overall boss…..(that’s very frustrating hey), than all that is left for them is to seat back and enjoy your free package. So maybe lets not blame these Director guys too much. GRZ and its overall boss should take the entire blame!
TOO MANY SMALL BRAINS IN ZAMBIA
SATA has a lot to do, working for people without brains. SATA is thinking almost two light years ahead of most Zambians. Majority of bloggers have nothing to offer. Analysis too shallow like the country is suffering from too many imbeciles. No wonder we are where we are today. Where on earth can people be so negative as though they were born with empty heads.
Cry the beloved country. Zambia is a very good country but blessed with majority of people without brains. Of course there are big brains but those few don’t usually participate in debates because they can’t stand the uselessness of comments from the public.
that is why you need qualified engineers in ZAF..who can do research and design life sustaining inventions look at TURKEY and SOUTH korea the amy is testing AIDS vacines as we tolk
Powerful President at work,clean the house as we start work we are at a kababa speed removing UBUWELEWELE…VJ,Mumbi perseverance bane tafisa ngameno yamukanua and Chimumbwa.Saviour Chishimba tulelolela ilya cinema mwatulaile pali homosexuality cili shani,fake ka president Siulapwa ati shani ilya analysis mwale toba pali opinion poll ya ba Simutanya? It does not only take one to have wisdom with uni qualifications only no.You sounded as though you were the most intelligent person in Zambia,thats what corruption can do to chaps with no agenda,walemoneka nokumoneka ati nakalyamo.
The ZESCO move is long overdue. It is an open secret that people were awarded with positions and triple pay increments based on how much a*** they could lick! The sad thing is even though Cyprian has kicked out the Mupwaya’s stooges they will be laughing all the way to the bank as they will be paid billions of Kwacha for this blip in their lives. If the new MD really want to bring a new breath of fresh air, i propose that he starts by investigating the appointments of staff & contracts (like solar geysers) entered into in the last 6-9 months. It is rumoured that a certain boy in snr management used to collect money from the customer centres to hand to William Banda! At the last count ZESCO had over 75 Chartered Accountants and i also propose that MD sets up a team to audit these deals.
When did Zesco advertise the Directors jobs? Lets do the right thing,I expect the LAW association of Zambia to advise the govt on this one,It started with the president and everyone is following suit.By the way how many bye elections are we likely to have.MC stop your cadres from petitioning or lets have parliamentary elections all over…or thru my lenses I can see PF sweeping 90% of these seats……where are we heading to as a democracy…
The fact of the matter is that the MD at Zesco should not have fired the directors without finding out the misdeeds that have been going on in terms of corruption and dubious appointments.
Managers too need to been investigated.The recruitment process at ZESCO leaves much to be desired.Let a commission of equiry be made to investigate ZESCO even for Jobs that were advertised in the last one year and look at the applicants that were appointed at the expense of qualified applicants with better qualifications who were denied jobs e.g Environmental Managements Unit and Accountants
Jobs to the boys. That’s all.
Zesco will never change until it is privatised. Political interference is the biggest problem with Zesco, ZRA and other govt owned companies. E.g politicians dont want to pay tax. If you insist they do, they get you fired.
Political parties need money for elections etc. So when 2016 comes PF will go to Zesco for money. they have all done it – UNIP, MMD. And Sata was in UNIP, MMD too. If you have a clean president, great!
Yaa HMCS spit on them . They have been stealing with impunity. Please chase them till they surrender. hahahaa man of action is doing it. So great indeed.
Some people suprise me. With their little knowledge they can’t even keep quiet. Can you honestly tell me that Sata has little knowledge about how things have been run in all government institutions? You must be sick. What he is doing is recomandeble . We needed a leader like him. Did he promise that he wouldn’t do the clean up ? That’s why we voted for him. We need a clean Zambia. Going by the way corruption was growing we need a Mr Sata. Go on sir! Corruption has done alot of harm to our economical development.Only criminals and their relatives are worried.
What is the cost of those dismissals to Zesco ? K15 Billion ????? Let us have a rational approach to these issues.
7 ZESCO Directors fired and replaced! Hmmm……………No adverts these days?
But consider how much money these Directors and Managers were stealing at the expense of service delivery
The recruitment process at ZESCO leave much to be desired.I would suggest Prosoft led by Maimbo be engaged to scrutinize the adverts that have made in the last 6 – 8 months.You be shocked that people that were given jobs are less qualified than those that were denied jobs e.g Environment Scientist and Accountants
That building in the pic belongs to Zambia National Provident Fund.Can ZRA do the same to give to the owners?just like in the case of finance bank.ha ha ha learn to set up yr own infrustrature Ba ZRA.
These are the cobwebs MCS has been talking about. Where have you been all this time to dream that Revenue House is still Profund House?
MCS where are you? Here is another individual you need to fire with immediate effect from mother earth
MCS please sweep even harder and fast, those Directors and Commissioners at ZRA need to go too, they have been in comfort zone for too long let them face the real life outside of their offices.
Nice move on ZESCO, some where just secretaries and found themselves in nice positions just because of connections, lelo mwanya. Next move go for ma PS and Directors in your Ministries
Mr. Sata, we want justice for Mrs Lilian Kapulu who was fired by Dora Siliya as permanent secretary in the ministry of education for refusing to divert funds to MMD activities
All these firing and hiring SATA is doing he is jst implementing his PF Party Constitution to put cadres everywhere so that when they start stealing no one will tel the nation that is part of dont kubeba slogan, Zambian wake up hw can u fire 7 directors at once and replace them quietly without advertising that is worst corruption. where did Chitundu got those replacement and i dont agree to say those former directors were MMD its not true ZESCO its a company which had PF Cadres at director levels we hv evidence where some pipo who were suspected to be MMD were being fired without reasons. so imwe ma fired directors u shot selves in yo legs by voting SATA mwaona lelo amusanukila blind support muzatupeza ba MMD mu street we are now even used imwe muzafa nanjala
Imwee sure..which paper were the adverts for Directors at ZESCO..somebody help me with source of these adverts/Mr Chitundu are u being fair?
Am challenging TIZ thru its leader REUBEN LIFUKA to come out in open and condemn the firing of 7 ZESCO DIRECTORS and replacing them without advertising for those JOBS i want him to tell the national if this is not corruption. Iwe LIFUKA U where talking too much during RB y are u quiet now are u all also been offered a dont kubeba corruption plz talk on ZESCO SAGA for me that is corruption professional jobs without advertising. SATA where are u taking the country ulefwaya fwe boonse tufume kwachitulika village all somewhere near there. What new standards is Chitundu talking about when even him is old guy in ZESCO so what new blood
(USAIN BOLT says:Thu Oct 13 at 8:11 amHis Excellence the KING COBRA new all these problems even before he became President. No wonder He is cruising at this speed. K.I. UP.)
SPEED KILLS.
It is surprising that Sata has started increasing govt expenditure by increasing the number of ministers. At the rate things are going, are we not moving towards a one party democracy? Gender has become a ministry on its own?? What nonsense is is? What about Natural Resources that was omitted when he was merging ministries? We need a reduction of embassies because they are expensive moreover most of them are employment pools for cadres (Doreen Mukanzo, Ben Kangwa to mebntion a few). Maybe he wants to increase employment opportunities for Donchi Kubeba cadres by opening new embassies. We need a commission to investigate REA. Some MMD ministers raped our coffers through Rural Electrification Agency and looted close to K200 billion in bogus solar projects
As MD Chitundu has right to elevate people from within the organisation (in line with succession policy). He would only advertise if the ZESCO pool lacks the skills/qualification sought for a particular position. The only thing though is appointments must be made on merit and people must have the skills set and qualifications for those jobs.
The Govt should have first appointed a board to recruit and MD and other directors. The MD has no right to hire and fire other directors. It is not his company. I can foresee a lot of lawsuits forwrongful dismissal. As it is, ZESCO does not need board, it will be just be rubber stump! Please slowdown people for the better of our nation. We are not in UNIP when it was the Party and Its Government PIG. We will each other one day.
Abena Kitwe you are very right.Management positions should be made on merit.What criteria did Chitund use to appoint Directors when there is no Board in place.Am afraid an MD does not have a right to handpick workers.ZESCO has a Human Resourse directorate that should have advertised the positions.What will prevent us from concluding Chiitundu is CORRUPT as well kike the previous management?Gentlemen lets give jobs on merit not handpicking
The CEO has the power to appoint his management team dunderhead!
Can HE dismiss whoever has to be dismissed now and swear in all new ones tomorrow and get down to real work – putting in place a working government system, new constitution, etc. Dismissing people one or two per day and swearing in new people one or two another day is not productive.
# 83, Let Mrs Lilian Kapulu lodge a complaint to either the minister of Edcutaion or take the issue to court for beng victimised. I dont think we need to leave all these issues to delt with by the President.
Mushota at 10, you are not being honest, better days are yet to come in this country!!!
No. 31 is right about paying bills for water when there is not service at all. MR PRESIDENT PLEASE HELP US GET WATER. I STAY IN OLYMPIA, NO WATER IN THE DAY EXCEPT AT NIGHT, WHAT A LIFE. ELYO AMATOILETS BWAFYA
#29 Blablabl – It is a shame you do not evn know your Zambian geography. If you did you would know that there are Bembas, Bisas and Bizas in Mpika. The Bembas are from Chief Chikwanda, Chief Mpepo and Chief Luchembe – even google will tell you that. Sata is from Chief Chikwanda. There is a lesson for you my friend.
Please probe ZRA at Lusaka Post Office, they are the biggest thieves. Our relatives cant get packages in peace, they are extorted.
Agree with #68
too many traditional thinkers HERE who don’t see the bigger picture; you don’t for once spot that the deal with the Egyptian firm may be the cause of YOUR HIGH TARIFFS, don’t you know that there are Global companies out there who can offer those services slightly cheaper & with more sophisticated machinery ie Siemens. How was this company awarded THIS contract?? How do you explain a country like Zambia which exports electricity should be enduring load shading with a small number of households connected to the grid. ZESCO is state owned and the president can replace directors when they are not giving answers to the above questions simples!!
Haven’t you forgotten the hideous solar geysers distribution program who do you think footed the bill?
WAKE UP!!
ZRA are busy charging hard-working Zambians duty for importing individual cars to the nearest ngwee yet the selfsame ba$tards even don’t know how many metric tonnes of copper, Zinc, Cobalt are leaving the country hence unable to charge foreign investors accurate tax.Its irony that the duty the charge in Zambia on imported cars, one would be mistaken for thinking Zambia is a Motor vehicle manufacturing nation.
Sack the ba$tards, people have been eating for far too long..the bloody grave train has to be stopped!!
*its ironic
WATER IS VERY IMPORTANT. ONE TIME I WENT TO WATER AND SEWERAGE COMPANY TO FIND OUT IF THEY COULD CORRECT THE SITUATION. ONE OF THE OFFICERS SAID THEY WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO AND THAT I SHOULD JUST BUY A BOREHOLE,,, IYEE WHAT AN EXPENSIVICE ANSWER FOR A WIDOW LIKE ME. WE NEED RUNNING WATER. AMEN
Jay Jay be educated that, ZRA doesnt correct on exports on copper and other metals
How will these changes ensure more money in our pockets?
You will get lower electric bills you numb head!!
Keke has raised a valid point about the replacement of 7 directors at ZESCO. The question everyone must be asking is, as KEKE says , were the jobs advertised. If not with, all the democracy in the air what criteria did the new MD use to “replace” the directors. If the appointment are not competency based, he is setting all of them for dismissal when we have a change of government.
You bloggers that think you are more intelligent than others, please stop bringing other bloggers down. Take whatever you can from this blog and leave whatever you think is useless. But please don’t patronize other bloggers here. This is a Democracy and even fools are welcome to contribute. Only ignorant people feel threatened or angered by a so called silly/stupid question/contribution/comment. So much for your intelligence!
In this modern society what one deems a fooling/stupid idea or question could actually help solve a nagging problem.
iwe ka Mushota please keep quiet cos you are just exposing your prostitution
very sad reading – correcting a mistake with another mistake. Please Sata we wanted change not this :((
I am not a PF supporter but I support what Sata has done because I would do the same in cleaning up. There is so much corruption iin ZESCO and ZRA starting from Director level. Well done and keep it up.
@102
You will get lower electric bills you numb nut!!
My government once again, I SALUTE YOU!!!
According to trhe rules ZESCO MD is hired by the Board and the appointment is endorsed by the Minister of Energy. Mr Chitundu was fired by the Board and appointed by the President. Mr mupwaya can sue ZESCO for wrongful dismissal. Sata should have allowed his minister to fire the ZESCO Board and appoint a new one and that Board would have hired Chitundu. Mr. Chitundu’s appointment is legally wrong!! It is either nepotism or corruption. Where did Chitundu get powers to fire Directors some of whom were more experienced than him him since he was just appointed. No reason were given for Mr Chitundu’s dismissal by the Board – Dont Kubeba by ZESCO Board
Just some back ground – Chitundu was in charge of Kafue gorge before elevated to COO under Dr Nyirenda from UNZA. Because he could not succumb to the whiffs of MMD he was replaced by Mupwaya primarily to achieve 2 things: 1. win support from the Lenje’s (LPM) 2. to have in place a cadre who could carry out party programs and provide much needed cash for the party. Mupwaya’s behaviour in Chongwe spoke volumes of his character. The take yo pick boy (Adrea) was made senior manager becoz of his connections with RB. And FYI, the structure at ZESCO makes the MD defacto chairperson in absence of board. Its ok for Mupwaya to sue for wrongful dismissal it will be a better platform to account for all his dubious dealings and appointments. Whichever way the law will still visit him soon
Yayi gavanamente vamene ichita nivosokonezeka. You cant fire everyone!
We totaly agree with some crackdown the prisident is embarking on and we would want to believe it as primae facie evidence of reducing corruption in the country. However, with hind sight we are abound to ask questions on the corrective measures employed. If president dismises the boss of ZRA, Zesco etc does he also employ or board constituted and employ a qualified person through normal advertisement to secure the right person? When Directors are dismised junior in rank, does president employ such jonior staff? If replcements have been made by president who can fire them should they prove to be incopetent? Zambians you know some answers to these concerns as we have gone through various govts by now. The big question is
ba shaka oz mulichikopo sana. same na kamushota,you mean you cant appreciate the changes taking place.you improctus(shalow minded) braggadocios.
when these bosses of ZRA, Zesco, Acc Boz etc dismissed by president who will fire them when found wanting? Board members of these organisations do they have any powers to oversee and provide checks and balances for the benefit of Zambians? This where elements of dictatorship become very blurred and soon or later a headmaster of a school can not be dismissed if appointed by president. At the same time some of those replacing the fired ones are not publicly announced. This is where a comeup name will be on tribal because there were no head huntings for the right person. Even the personal profiles of the individuals are not known for us all to have confidence in the people being appointed. Having said all this I strongly believe the president is courting problems in his term of office.
#112, You have made a very valid point. History has shown that when people are appointed into positions that they do not deserve in the first place, the tendency is to give blind allegiance to the appointing authority. These appointments seem to be based on vengeance more especially towards people that where running corporations that gave material support to the previous government. What would happen if MCS was to die today? Are we going to go over the same wanton hiring and firing. In the land of the kaponya’s you can hire and fire anyhow but in the real professional world proper procedures must be followed.
The down fall of head of state hinges on the advice he receives to act on national issues. The PF govt has experts in all areas to advise him correctly. What the president is replacing these fired people with in the near future will be subject for debates because no one will touch them for fear of the president. Many people are simply excited and amused at the dismisals which are with good intentions but dare not ask who is coming in their place. For example; reversal sale of FNB was good for the workers and loss of money through sale. However, returning it to Mahtani is totaly wrong. He should have had his shares bu to be managed by other people. Read BOZ recommendations if you can, FNB run by Mahtan is bad for Zambian economy, reasons are there if we are going to be serious with corrupt
There is so much corruption in these state run agencies. When is the last time we saw audited FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. They go through AUDIT after AUDIT and we have never seen enough progress. Who’s advising these companies how to make a profit? And You pay them? I am a proud Zambian but sometimes its pitfall. Where are the brains???Brain drain??
This is the same speed that has led to serious reversals in the past, such as;
Over-nomination
Lifting of export ban,
etc.
I hope we are headed in the right direction and that we are moving at the correct speed.
Otherwise, it may take us longer than necessary to get where we are going, if we will be having breakdowns on the way due to overspeeding…
If that becomes the case, then though we might be using a BMW on our journey, a tractor will by-pass us at a point of break-down.
Always working hard for the people of Zambia! As we always have known him, he is never short of data on any GRZ department! Goodbye RB, welcome Mr. Sata.
When are we people in the diaspora going to get land? We would like to come back home but there is so much corruption in the ministry of lands.
were did this mukela go after he left zra is it not south Africa as second secretary at the zambian mission.When did he resign and applied to be commissioner at customs why so fast just after muyangwa muyangwa awe follow the procedure and dont come and fire zra officers just to settle old scores like the late shadrick musanda the way he got fired at kapiri it was during the reign of mukela.Mukela there is something you can do than being in ZRA give us a break. some officer at Kapiri a lady was jubilating as she appeared to be a bot licker to the same man her name maria congo zimbabwe.same lady ati she does not speak the language of thievs bemba what an insult to bembas iwe kalady wait
We once had the courage 2 tell america that we can destroy it in 5min. What has gone wrong zaf? Weak prez weak army. Sata makes those army chaps brave again like what k k used to do. We have a religous army and not a christian army.
@ 120…you can’t get land by remote control. Come home and buy land just like we are buying. Only problem is that foregners have made the land expensive. They are able to pay at high prices pushing up the cost against the ordinary Zambian.
Work on BOZ directors too
BA ZED your comments are not banned its just that you write your comments in BEMBA this blog is not for thieves, so we hide such comments
No 125 you’re both a fool and an *****.RB and his tandem of thieves stole billions from this country.Are they bemba?Anyway shallow minds are always tribal.You say an educated president can govern better.But RB who is an economist almost auctioned this country and the mess is being cleaned up by a man with humble education.NO 125 grow up.
Ba Sata twa papata sana, do something about these expensive knickers!!
WHAT SORT OF GOVERNMENT IS THIS? Sata must not give parastatal heads the same powers of Hiring and Firing as his. ZESCO does not yet have a Board, so why should Chitundu be dismissing and hirirng people at will yet his appointments are subject to board approval? Does he know at what cost to the company he is retiring these people (benefits of some of them can exceed K4Bn.)?Where is he going to getting the institutional memory of all these people he is retiring at once & at what cost has ZESCO developed them into the kind of resources they are today? The only truth is that Chitundu is himself not fit to run ZESCO, so he has to get rid of all those that understand the organisation better than him. This makes all these staff changes beneficial only to Chitundu and NOT ZESCO OR ZAMBIA!!
Truth of the matter is that so much has gone wrong in our country, and it all needs to be corrected. We all know and expect Sata to be a broom that sweeps better. But once all the dirt has been swept, why make it dirtier? It seems whoever was dismissed in RB’s reign rushed to PF and were accepted there. Of course PF was right to accept them because politics is a game of numbers, but it does not mean that Sata owes them favours becasue some these people are actually monkeys that even RB was right to fire. So YES, the president must fire whoever he feels is unsuitable BUT PLEASE DON’T REPLACE THEM WITH EQUALLY UNSUITABLE OR EVEN WORSE PEOPLE!!!
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