President Hakainde Hichilema has said that the private sector individuals and companies under the previous regime who colluded with government officials to defraud the country will be blacklisted and precluded from conducting any business with the government.
According to Presidential Spokesperson Anthony Bwalya, President Hichilema said that the country has in the recent past been routinely looted through a sustained culture of collusion between government officials and private sector individuals and companies under the PF government.
He says the process of blacklisting will extend to both individuals and the companies they own, control or enjoy a beneficial interest unless they demonstrate that they have been conducting business with government in an above-board manner.
Presidential Spokesperson Anthony Bwalya said that the process of blacklisting will extend to both individuals and the companies they own, control, or enjoy a beneficial interest.
Mr. Bwalya said that only those who are able to demonstrate that they have been conducting business with the government in an above-board manner will be spared.
Mr.Bwalya said that the message from the President and the new administration is that there must be consequences for those who engage in impropriety as a standard way of doing business.
Hope this is not mere witch-hunting. I’m afraid for anyone associated with the PF will find it impossible to do business with government.
Wow. Seven months into your term and now you finally come up with this? Bit late don’t you think? Edgar China Lungu, GL, GBM, CK, KZ they have all safeguarded their loot months ago, and they will just register a new company and start afresh. Nobody will stop them, especially since civil servants today are just as corrupt as under PF
Deja Vu you’re missing the point your thinking is narrow. You’re focusing on people instead on defrauding govt. You’re a tax payer, how can you think of this as witch hunt? The govt belongs to you and not HH. He has the best interest for you. Think bigger. Don’t be narrow minded.
One of THE BEST decisions ever made by the New Dawn Government.
Continue to “pana” these N.P.F Bandits ntwanekaane’s till they squeak!
0ne of THE B3ST decisi0ns ever m@de by the N3w D4wn G0vernment.
Please c0ntinue to “pana” these N.P.F B@ndits ntwanekaane’z until they squeak!
Make GRZ when people hear GRZ is coming the know it.
#3 William Banda… your name says it all. Have I mentioned any names? Simply put, our character is enough indicator where this may lead to. I have been around long enough to know how things work in this country. Many companies folded up even in KKs time due to political correctness. We had the National Mirror newspaper and KK banned GRZ companies from advertising in this newspaper just because the paper was anti dictatorship. Corruption wasn’t involved in this matter. What would stop the current government from victimizing someone by simply using a misplaced invoice as a reason? It’s who’s got a pea brain.
#3 William Banda… it’s you who has a pea brain. Unfortunately my post is under moderation.
This is where I have a problem with President Hakainde’s way of fighting corruption.Why is he targeting only those who did business in the previous regime? What of those who are currently colluding with his officials and looting through insanely inflated contract prices. Was his friend Jangulo’s Alpha commodities latest fertilizer contract of $1,407 per tonne above board? How different is he from Lungu who shielded his criminal friends while they went on rampage plundering our resources?
@Danielle first, he is in the process of recovering, he’s sweeping the place and most importantly closing the loopholes.
Secondly, he hasn’t said anything about the fertilizer scandal. It doesn’t mean he’s not coming to address it. Fix the system first, then deal with current corruption.
Boring paaneeyo pako
The Chess Board is shouting Check Mate on you Mr President.
This is where you are failing all the time on the corruption fight. If you know the business that defrauded Zambia, why not just prosecute these businesses and their owners. Last week the Vice President was once again begging blunders to hand over whatever is left -that which they stole.
HH over promised Western Diplomats that he was going recoup the money and send the culprits to jail. That Theme Song he crooned and sang in the early days of his presidency has become joke of a song. He came in as Mr Fixer of corruption. And now he has evidence that even his friends were at the centre of corruption.
Right on, HH. It’s businesses and natural persons behind those businesses. One HH’s best decisions ever.
We not interested in Blacklisting companies we want prosecutions and jail-time as promisied… I mean if someone like Bokoni Soko is blacklisted he just gets his Pakastani and Indian friends to register another company…its not like red flags will be raised when a name pops up as a jumior director.
Déjà vu #1
1. Keep preaching the gospel. Your assertion has merits.
HH has already demonstrated witch-hunting by firing all District Commissioners in the country. HH cannot tell us that everyone of all those DC’s he fired were not good enough to stay on the job. All that UPND/HH needed to do is to clean out the bad apples or underperforming District Commissioners. And we know PF had bad apples.
Thereafter, HH should have just set the agenda & standards he needed everyone to adhere and send a strong message about the need for delivery, performance and staying clean from corruption. Governing is always a continuation process.
Cont….
Déjà vu #1
2. MMD fixed a lot of people who had continued to support UNIP & KK after 1991. PF as well did the same. A lot of good & law-abiding businesspeople had their contracts terminated who were just friends or related to people in MMD.
Right now, it’s happening in our eyes. UPND has terminated contract for good performing businesspeople on the premises of cleaning up. Again, we know PF had fraudulent businesspeople that need to be flushed out. And we support UPND flushing out fraudulent gangs. But the elements of witch-hunting are alive today. Put it simply. It may not be HH doing it directly, but it’s happening inside the top hierarchy of the regime.
@William Banda indeed you’re a praise team head choir master
“….that the private sector individuals and companies under the previous regime who colluded with government officials to defraud the country will be blacklisted ….”
How did you identify those individuals and companies that defrauded the country? Are those individuals and companies found quilt based on the President`s gut feeling or based on law? Although I have supported the corruption cause, I do not think this is a solution. As it’s not fair and NOT effective. Therefore, this is NOT leading us anywhere and its disappointing.
I like this “Blacklisting both individuals and the companies they control” this is it. Re registering a company is easy but your personality does not change, even through third party or psudo names an effective audit trail will get you. This is how Putin and his cronies and most oligachys have been netted.
If you want to stamp out corruption, this is an important step. Those intending to do business with govt will self-regulate out of fear of loss of livelihoods. By the way, the crooks who stole from road construction are still at ROAD DEVELOPMENT. If you want to catch them, look at the designs of the road and what was constructed, you ll find a big difference. The road shoulders, cycling and pedestrian paths, the continuous kerbs without spaces, etc. find out who signed off the incomplete roads as completed and you’ll know which engineers ate the money. If they didn’t eat the money, they know who.did. FIRE THEM. THEY’VE COST US MILLIONS OF KWACHA AND SUBSTANDARD ROADS.
&Deja Vu: yes u ve been around long enough but u ve always be on the wrong side of history. Being around long enough does not entitle u to ve a mediocre mindset bra. Wake the “F” up!
And we also haven’t forgotten that you yourself Deja Vu are a PF cadre, not only that but also benefited from what is said above and infact you too is scared of the same horror abt to happen on you too. But u guys, as always, wanna play it down to demoralize the viewers from holding u accountable. UPND does not get demoralized my friend, wait and see.
He is just replacing PF suppliers with UPND suppliers. No corruption fight here but just replacing Bembas with Tongas or just appeasing his cadres. It is time for his people to eat.