Chipangali Member of Parliament Vincent Mwale has confirmed that he has applied to run Old Beit Stadium in Chipata for ten years.
Mr Mwale who is also Infrastructure and Housing Minister said that the Chipata City Council advertised a ten years lease of the sports facility and his organization Vincent Mwale Foundation applied.
He says that his foundation, which is a nonprofit organization wants to turn Old Beit Stadium into a state of the art sports facility.
Mr. Mwale says that the project, which will gobble over four million Kwacha will be a replica of sports facilities set up by the Barca Academy in Lusaka.
Mr. Mwale, who is also Housing and Infrastructure Development Minister says he is confident that he will raise the money needed for the project.
And Mr. Mwale says that he is confident that he will be awarded the lease because his foundation was the only bidder.
He wondered why people, whom he described as enemies of progress were being negative about his intention to turn Old Beit Stadium into an international sports facility.
Mr. Mwale says that the facility, which is expected to be opened to members of the public once completed, will house pitches for an 11 aside, 7 aside and 3 pitches for 5 aside while also accommodating basket and netball courts.
Chipata City Council has been under pressure to clarify reports that Old Beit Stadium had been sold to the Chipangali law maker when it is a public facility.
Conflict of interests? AMwale siyilani Chabe mwana Wa Lungu uja
Ba lusaka times this is armature reporting. Headline says ‘but, article says lease. Which schools do you people really go to kanshi?
Here is the meaning of the word lease “a contract by which one party conveys land, property, services, etc. to another for a specified time, usually in return for a periodic payment”
Mwale has not bought the stadium but has just leased it. Maybe this way both the Chipata City Council and Minister Mwale will make some money while providing a service to the people of Chipata.
I wonder why this is news item.
To the uninformed: Non for profit organizations like this boy’s foundation are the vehicles used by the ruling elite for tax avoidance and looting purposes. Vincent these are proceeds of corruption you want to use to lease that stadium, tell me if i’m wrong. But ubomba mwibala mentality is the order of the day in Zambia so your dear PF dimwits will defend you all the way on this platform. This is one of the most useless ministers I have ever known together with Chitotela and Lusambo, junk yard material who used leakages to pass form 5. Kabwalala.
How do these people become so rich? They claim to be servants of the people and that ordinary people are their masters. but their lives as servants are so lavish compared to their masters. His so called foundation is probably just a conduit for corruption.
That Ministry of Infrastructure kwaliba money sana. I support Vincent idea of buying stadium publicly for benefit of Zambians, unlike Chitotela who steals and hides in his wife’s…… I mean name.
When hh as ceo for grant a private audit and consultancy firm was awarded the contract to liquidate Lima banks assets. Eddie who was one of the lead liquidators offered and sold the MDs official residence in kabulonga to his boss hh after he allegedly applied and competed through a bid. Vincent we know who you are dining with but be warned it is an excercise in futility.
When your own people want to invest in their country you complain but when it is the Chinese investing you are happy what a rotten mindset is this? When are we going to move out of this quagmire?
Own people? Politicians aren’t in politics to enhance their business you dimwit. That is corruption. There are plenty of our own people outside politics there who are waiting for government to help them acquire business
Pull Him Down (PhD) mentality
Tell them
NI STADIUM YA NYOKO ? MULEKENI MWANA AKONZE STADIUM PLEASE
That place is no a stadium.its just a piece of land which needs to be developed.I have never seen a
stadium without terraces.
City and town municipalities in Zambia fall under the Ministry of Local Government.Vincent is Minister of Infrastructure and Housing and its his foundation, a non profit organisation,applying for the lease and not him as Minister.And he has made it public and whats wrong with that?
Mind you in Zambia by law,local authorities are not allowed to raise funds for infrastructural development,its a preserve for Lusaka.How I wish budgeting and revenue collection could be decentralised so that local authorities could equally raise project funds by issuing municipal bonds just like GRZ does.
You forget that he was Local Government Minister 12 months ago? This is abuse of authority and his charity is a vehicle to launder dirty money
The issue here is , were other Zambians not in GRZ given the opportunity to invest ?
If no one else applied after advertising then fair, but knowing how corrupt lungus GRZ is , I dought this is the case.
We are seeing grand looting of all spaces and now game parks by lungus GRZ.
We have information that lungu and his gang are formulating dividing up and selling national parks.
That story about lungu meeting some tycoon at the UN sidelines to talk about a game park is prelude to this scheme.
The national parks are the only valuable source of cash left for lungu to sell……
Nonsense!
Let H² rent Chipalamba stadium.
He has started to spend fire tender money, he might have been scared
I bet he is planning his retirement. Awe kwena ba PF mwanyanya koma! Vonse ni ma questionable action shuwa!?
Such reporting is obnoxious. The headline different from content.
I saw advert in the newspaper and it did not restrict. The Honorable Minister has a charitable foundation. Am wondering how and why that foundation cannot ride on his connectivity in a legal way. How do we expect the foundation to grow and provide for the needy. We can as well condemn the Honorable minister for having thought about having the foundation.
We need credible and objective scrutity of the wrong things being done. This one bane, it is wrong for the grounds of condemnation.
If every minister and MP has a charitable organisation , and they all apply for any rejuvenation schemes in Zambia, will Zambians not in GRZ stand any chance of participating ????
@Madiba, sitilesa iyayi. What we are wondering is whether or not there is a conflict of interest. Most of what our government leaders (yea, you civil servants) as well as their political handlers are doing is ethically incorrect even if it could be legal. In case of PF guys it is most likely BOTH unethical and illegal. Ni vi koswe mu mpoto cabe vonse…
What you should be asking is how the Minister affords to have a charitable foundation. Is it from investments he made prior to becoming a minister? If not, we should be very suspicious and sceptical about any charity and donations coming from politicians or politically connected people. They still $10 and give back $5 as charity and we applaud their actions!? We should wake up!!
They have destroyed the Country. Someone is a Referee,a Coach and player at the same time? These people will be jailed when the time comes.
The problem is that we don’t have a ministerial code of conduct. If this is not stopped, everyone will be rushing to become a politician because that is where they can find business. How could Mwale have competed with others given his government position? He is not in a position to influence the out come?
There is definitely a serious conflict of interest.
Where can a politician with no business track record get 4000000 kwachas for or 450,000 Usd?
Jealousy people, how can a country develop? Let him develop it if he has the muscle to do so. Kapena wenze ucifuna??