Government has awarded Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia a contract to supply 15,000 metric tonnes of basal dressing fertilizer under the Farmer Input Support Program for 2019/2020 farming season.
William Mwale, the Company Chief Executive Officer disclosed the development when Kafue Member of Parliament Miriam Chonya visited him at his Officer.
Mr. Mwale also revealed that NCZ now has a full Board which is chaired by Zambia State Insurance Corporation Life Managing Director Christabel Banda.
He however revealed that the plant is currently shut down due to some maintenance works in readiness for commencement of production of the FISP tonnage.
Mr. Mwale said the company is also facing huge challenge of paying off retirement packages and NAPSA contributions.
Speaking earlier, Mrs. Chonya asked Mr. Mwale if the NCZ management has effected the new Labour Act in relation to actualization.
Mrs. Chonya said she is looking forward to working closely with the new NCZ management.
Same issues for 30 years. When do Africans learn?
When they had Eurobond all they were thinking of is how to line the pockets through their proxy companies pretending to take on road contracts. Now when Chinks come and buy the whole thing they will applaud that they have attracted investors when all the money is leaving the country.
You must wonder how God managed to concentrate such foo.lisness in one country
This State-Ownd Enterprise (SOE) has been struggling financially for ages.First attempt was made by Mwanawasa and pumped in millions of tax kwacha and appointed Kalima as CEO to no avail.Successive govts have done the same,still,to no avail. Can the technocrats at Agriculture ministry and their counterparts at commerce as well IDC’ s Kaluba Mateyo tell us what could be the problem cos that’s what they are paid for.What happened to the corporatization of SOEs to encourage corporate governance and transparency?
“He however revealed that the plant is currently shut down due to some maintenance works “. NCZ has no capacity to execute this contract, soon farmers will be crying of fertilizer shortages…watch the space.
But you are happy to pay inflated prices for importing fertilizers from India…just that mark up alone over the years that goes into corrupt pockets of politicians would have improved that factory.
What has God done to do with Zambian foolishness iwe ci Enginner?
At all times we wanna blame either satan or God for the stupid decisions we make.
leave God alone!!