ZAMBIA’s cooperating partners have implored the Government to devise mechanisms that will curb the abuse of public funds and called for enhanced accountability so that the resources can benefit Zambian citizens.
Speaking on behalf of the country’s cooperating partners, European Union (EU) head of delegation to Zambia, Derek Fee said that if the Government was to make meaningful progress in reducing poverty, there was need for enhanced accountability mechanism in public finances.
Dr Fee was speaking during the EU end of year media briefing in Lusaka yesterday.
He said cooperating partners were disappointed that some colossal sums of public resources could be misappropriated, particularly in the Ministry of Health.
He said such a development was detrimental to the well being of the citizenry.
“To be honest it is not fair that one person can misappropriate huge sums of money. There is need for the Government to devise strategies to curb abuse of public resources,” Dr Fee said.
Dr Fee explained that it was disgusting to the cooperating partners that a few individuals, particularly in Government institutions, could be living luxurious lives at the expense of critical needs for the nation among them, the health and education sectors.
But Chief Government spokesperson Ronnie Shikapwasha said he would only issue a comprehensive statement after talking to Dr Fee.
“I cannot comment immediately until I get a full report from Dr Fee,” Gen Shikapwasha said.[quote]
However, Swedish Ambassador to Zambia Marie Anderson de Frutos said the media was an important instrument in the governance of the nation.
She said the media was critical as it ensured that there were checks and balances and eventually, accountability in the utilisation of public resources.
Ms de Frutos said that the media should be free and allowed to operate without any interference for it to make a meaningful contribution towards the governance of the country.
And EU Head of Operations Eric Beaume said that the Government and the EU were working on a new programme for 2010, which would be complementary to the national budget.
[Times of Zambia]
Excellent Donors! Tell them so that they listen. Knowing Shikapwasha, he will probably issue a statement accusing the donors of meddling in Zambia’s internal affairs! thats all he knows. I agree with Dr. Free that its just a few selfish individuals, in Govt, who are chewing while the rest of us wallow in fi poverty. Atase.
Dr Fee explained that it was disgusting to the cooperating partners that a few individuals, particularly in Government institutions, could be living luxurious lives at the expense of critical needs for the nation among them, the health and education sectors.
This is a very strong statement coming from a corporating partner, they have seen the extravagance being exhibited by individuals in government,it couldnt have come at a better time when RB has just acquired a Limo
Dr Fee explained that it was disgusting to the cooperating partners that a few individuals, particularly in Government institutions, could be living luxurious lives at the expense of critical needs for the nation among them, the health and education sectors
#2 Don’t be used by the POST the way they used HH for their Limo propaganda. That vehicle was ordered two years ago and RB had nothing to do with it. Go to the ministry of Works and supply and check the records. RB has not ordered any new cars for his fleet. I think you are too intelligent and smart to be used by the POST newspaper.
ALL ministries reek with corruption.Levy started cleaning up with the Lands ministry.Given the calibre of the “decontrolling” officers this is hardly surprising.
#3 We know your kind you political mercenary, you are a pathetic intellectual snob whose mind is saturated with stinking tribal bigotry. Your aim is to retain the miserably failed status quo, “Umodzi kumawa tikudya vyethu” style. You strive to deflate Zambians’ quest to see accountability & sense in the way their resources are expended with ridicule and silly pretensiouness that smack of an intellectual snob. Noble Zambians are not like your uncle Kansundila’s rented crowds, they will not go with the monkey theatrics of f.oo.ls like you, Mlongoti, Mupezeni Bwezani etc. Mercedes Benz has a plant in East London in South Africa where this S class armoured pullman state limousine was manufactured. Call them now & they’ll tell u this car was ordered in March 2009, this year.
The MMD is truly a party of people who are solid bone from neck upwards. Just because it takes them a greater party of 10 years to draw up a constitution for a country with 11 million people they think that they will sell the same story to us that it takes 2 years from point of order to delivery of a an S class armoured pullman state limousine mabe just next door in East London, Estern Cape Province of South Africa. Just watch how fast some stooges of Bwezani are going to leep on to the site claiming the car was brought from Stuttgart, Germany, when it was in fact ordered by Bwezani in March this year long after Levy was dead. Maybe Levy arose from the dead temporarily to be used, no wonder Lambas are up in arms.
#3 Bootlicker, i wont bother responding to you,,,you do not have a single fiber of morality,after what you called Mpombo and his daughters(tasintha graduates) then coming out to support him after mmd considered reconsiling with him,i have no kind word for you Sir, sorry!!!
#7 Smoothcriminal. I salute you. Some people easily forget!!
They are thieves, slap them with a travel ban and ask Americans to send VETERAN AND CAPITALIST back home nifikabolala.
Cheers Ba Moze!!!! well said Sebuloni Kamutanda,these mmd minions will do everything to protect RB, they have their heads so far up their backsides,i cant wait to hear Shikapwasha or Mulongotis response, and then some mickey mouse ngo will come up with their defence as well
Folly , all folly in the heads of Zambian leaders. They want to leave like rich kings and yet at the expense of poor Zambins. They want to drive expensive cars which those who give them money dont drive. Take a leave from the people who give you money. For example sweden where I am , the guys are so humble in the way they spend. Just think of a proffesor on a bycicle going to town or school. They always think of how to develop their country.These are the guys who get a lot of money but they dont boast the way these d.ull Zambians leaders do. In stead of spending on development they spend on luxuiary. WHAT A COUNTRY ???????
There is too much wax in the ears of those at the helm. If only there was a parallel system where the donated money was supervised to the last coin by the donors themselves other than the funds passing through the MOF. Come to think of it there are projects where the donors have implemented projects without the involvement of central government and people have benefited at the grassroots. I wish donors were just told what projects to work on and not wire any monies to BOZ. There are magnets there attracting donated money once it goes to MOF.
Smoothcriminal my brother, I salute you! I like people who call a spade a spade. This habit of burrying heads deep in the backsides of even notorious “monkey toilets” where it never ever shines, all for “muzungu anikonde neo” is nauseating to say the least. Anyway, what would one expect from nincompoopses? They are naturally attracted to excrement. No wonder the Litunga last weekend fainted when Nincompoops Mulongoti walked into his livingroom in Limulunga with Bwezani. The Nincompoops’ smell was just too overpoweringly nauseous for the poor Litunga Lubosi.
How true is it that Mars is one of the planets in the sky? Can somebody respond to that please!
A Bootlicker is a lackey or a lacquey or a crawler or a toady or a sycophant or an arse-licker. Just to broaden your lexicon.
The EU is hardly a bastion of accountability itself. Corruption in the EU is rampant to the extent that the organisation has not had audited accounts for years! This is why we need to find ways of funding our own projects without haveing to be patronised by a lowly muzungu. If the EU is so clean why is it difficult for them to hand back money that is squirreled away in their countries by dictators such as Abacha? If the EU is concerned about poor Africans then why do they continue to subsidise their farmers which means that local African farmers can not compete? In many EU countries there is a body that regulates press behaviour and their are laws regarding the privacy of public individuals.
#14 – Is your father called Mulongoti or Shikapwasha, or both? Anyway, I will help you, Mars is not a planet in the sky, it is a sleek Germanic car ordered by Levy two years ago and delivered recently, currently parked at Plot 1.
#16. Corrupt as you may brand them, they have money and are able to donate. You hear them donate and yet as GRZ you are just too happy to receive and embezzle. They have a right to complain and even withhold their money as long as it does not get to the desired beneficiaries, the grassroots.
LT – Please update your “Most Viewed & Most E mailed” columns. As long as no story will be those statistics, It will never be updated. Learn from BBC column which updates on daily basis. Perphaps change your column title to ” Most Viewed Today”.
Iam really at pains to believe that RB is the one who made the new limo order. Just like Mwanawasa was accused of buying the Chopper and Challenger despite the fact that they were ordered by Chiluba. One needs to realise that buying a custom made vehicle is not the same as buying clothes……the corrupt chaps Dr Fee is talking about are people we live with, drink with, are our relatives and neighbours. There are even bloggers here who have an education in a developed country because of plundered money. Why don’t we start with asking our civil servant relatives how they build mansions in Chalala when they earn less than K2 million and don’t own businesses.
Yaa #17 Kamutanda you have made my day. am enjoying your positings.
“But Chief Government spokesperson Ronnie Shikapwasha said he would only issue a comprehensive statement after talking to Dr Fee.
“I cannot comment immediately until I get a full report from Dr Fee,” Gen Shikapwasha said” So wat is that this chief bootlicker shikapwasha is going to do to donors for their serious observation on government mismanagement of donor fund? This is a serious observation by donors, and they have a madate to monitor their funds, so ba shikapwasha remain silent and stop stealing public funds. The truth hates period.
Bemba saying goes like”Ushumfwa patunono napafingi pene takomfwe” meaning if you dont listen on small things you will never listen on bigger things. RB and his government they should take this words and observation seriously from this DR FEE and do something about corruption
Why not just forget about them and just support projects?
#3 What else can be expected from an MMD anus licker. You will even defend faeces as good food if MMD decide to feed us on the stuff.
Even Bob has people who support him. I think we have to sit and ask ourselves why! Couldn`t have put it better myself about faeces but we have to keep our jobs “init”?
Insansa shinyo ubulanda. nabayuda balyangile. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Munkongole. wachimo ifye. Yaba.
Ka Dr fee what is he talking about. Utusungufwe kwati etwaishiba fyonse. Nonsense
Drop your s t u p i d complex.
Rejoicing over a sad situation only goes to show pathetic and sad some people are. How about even changing the screen name so it looks like they are not the ones posting? This is like “MMD Chief Bootlicker” put it, “dispeakable”!
Only goes to show how pathetic!
#27 Sister Girl, you have a complex, the question you should be asking yourself is “why utu sungu are talking?”
The answer is “because Zambian government is a beggar!” period!!!
#20 Zedian Walasa. Ndiye ba lazo enjoying luxurious lives at the expense of the empoverished majority. As duty bound Zambians we need to be alert and work with ACC to bring these guys to book. Ndipo baziba kubba. Especially mu Lsk.
#16, could you please show us any evidence to say that EU has not been audited and its corrupt activities,if there’s no evidence i may as well consider it as just hearsay,i dont believe there can be such irresponsible unaccountability at EU to go for months or years without any audits,,,just show us a link so we can read that story about corruption and audits at EU,it would make interesting reading for sure
#20 I doubt they would be in Kanyama where you are found everyday. Sorry to tell it as it is but any chance Ka VJ would be sharing shake shake with you in Kanyama or George?
# 27 Ba Sister Girl please give us something else. They are talking about managing public funds properly not using it to send their girlfriends and relatives abroad. Its for the development of our country. Its not about the colour,ubupupu bubi sana. And its no rocket science that all countries with massive developemnts have been affected by the world economic meltdown.
#33 Smoothcriminal, good question. Ubufi bwafula pa blog just to support our thieves. There may be some irregulaties at EU but whites are generally honest( l m no racist). So please give us facts on those issues at EU.
Well said….They have hit the nail on the head. It does not make sense to be doing well economically and 3/4 of the people in Zambia living in poverty. The picture does not look right. Teachers , doctors and nurses should not be living in poverty, Where is the money going???
The Zesco and Indeni issue is worrying. The MMD govt has failed to maintain the Zambian infrastructure. The only thing they advocate is selling. When they sell or get taxes from the foreign investors…where does the money go???
THE MASTERS’ VOICE……….
Akapondo, where are you?? Waba ito le Chi colour
# 34 your point being?
#20, 27, 31, 35 40 and 41 were posted by one and the same person. LT MOD. Sometimes posts under the i d i o t called Akapondo chi colour chakwe.
Ba Zedian, # 34 thinks you live in Kanyama compound whilst the rest of us know that you are in Italy! When you come home for a holiday this December make efforts to ensure that he sees you off at the airport when you fly back to Milan.
I am in Zambezi. Why is Kanyama bad? How does Milan come in? Ah well it`s better than Kanyama. OK ba fi colour in Milan are you Zambians or not? Does living in Milan change the fact that you were born in Zambia/have Zambian parents/your roots are in Zambia? Amap u li ba fo color.
Naya mukunwa kachasu ba fo color mwato mber baninenu especially chi #43!
#3 Ba MMD A$$ leaker. Are you really trying to use shushushu tactics on us and think we are so dumb to believe the Bull you write here. What has this story got to do with the post when it was reported by TIMES OF ZAMBIA? Are you trying to say that Times of Zambia has gone against the government now? i don’t think so! This story is as is, the truth.
Coming to the vehicle..lol. dude you suck at trying to convince people, That car wasn’t ordered 2 years ago because that car is a 2009 version, unless Mercedes produced a 2009 in 2007 and was ready for sale in 2007 meaning they started working on a 2009 version somewhere in 2002!..LMFAO You are so ridiculous. If you got nothing to say the best thing is to keep quiet and not embarrass yourself with your ignorance
I dont know about the car but i concur with an earlier blogger that our political leaders are not neccsarily the thieves. It is us !!! Yes , you me and our neighbour working in the Govt, the business man who supplies stationary and vehicles on hire. Our very friends who buy beers or are always on holiday. Even our parents who are able to give us a better life. It is not only Mulongoti and Shikapwasha, it is also Kapoko, Tembo, A and C traders, etd. And I am not saying that I detest succesful people but that so many of us are part of this stench
The problem in Zambia is, culture of stealing..it must stop starting from the top.
#47 coming to think of it i agree with you. When it comes to stealing lets not just blame the government we must all work towards cleaning our country of corruption. Its not only ministers and other government officials encouraging corruption its all of us. When you call a government official after hours and bribe him so that he gives you a contract, don’t blame him alone for corruption, blame the people bribing the officials also. Government officials wouldnt be corrupt if we refused to corrupt them, same goes tot he police.
can someone deny this please. this is very sad, to wait for the outsider to come and point out issues when we have been denying the same. shame on u ruphia banda
My advice to the donor community is to learn from the Japanese Govenment (JICA) and German (GTZ) where personnel from respective countries are engaged in the monitoring and implementation of projects that are funded by them. In this way, at least money is spent on intended projects and not on salaries, for GRZ staff and elands for individuals in top echelons. Alternatively, donor should channel such monies through the United Nations. “Its not being mean but it works”.
A basic S600 MB vehicle costs about 1 Billion+ in Zambia Kwacha (Not a Limo and no additions). To mend pot holes in the UTH grounds can cost less than 20 Million Zambian Kwacha, to save a live by providing clean and safe water can cost only less than 1 Million Zambian Kwacha ( A LIFE), To save the environment can be achieved by reducing a few of RB’s internatioal trips. Its a waste of time talking about reducing carbon emission when you have voted for an international tourist as head of state. Zambia Twasebana (Great politicians like Simon Kapwepwe) and Kenneth Kaunda could not have fought for this country if THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL INDEPENDENCE, from WHAT??
Remember – the hand that giveth is always above the hand that receives. They can impose conditions on the little aid money they give you to assuage the conscience of their constituents and with the other hand -shaft you with more loans to be payed off in perpuity. You are slaves one way or another. Get out of babylon – get out of this usury monetary system .. the system only has as much power as you give it. You think you are powerless to break the shackles of the money changers only because they have told you so. You owe it to your children and your grandchildren to free the land from this vermin – Jesus kicked their a$$es from the temple and we beg the money changers to take our goods in exchange for useless toilet paper fiat money. Flee from her – you will be consumed with the harlot.
# 48 Scripture….Indeed ,… that is the bottom line. To change that sort of mindset could take generations.
Issues such as poverty , illiteracy , ignorance would have to be addressed.
I find it difficult to be counselled by donors. The donors have been here ever since but no meaningful development has taken place. The EU rep gets lots of money and he can not sympathise with us. He sees poverty every where he goes but he still gets his dues in the name of working in Zambia. That the injustice by EU and other donors. If you worked with them, you will see how much they take compared to Zambians working with them. Again, its sad that we are also stealing from each other as owners of the country. The politician and the rich stealing from the poor mass who can’t afford daily needs, shame and EU should not tell us but ourselves should Our politicians are a let down tho the stupid thing the same donors fund political parties to secure their stay. Rubbish!
#55, as much i want to agree with you, the donors are not the problem but us Zambians. We have allowed them to give us handouts actually we beg them to support our budget for the past 20years year in year out. Hence what do you expect???
It is disgusting to see just a few elite people living in luxury at the expense of the tax payers money. We have good policies in this country but policy implimenters are not focused on our future. Wake up Zambia its our world. We all need to enjoy to a certain extent.