Home affairs minister Lameck Mangani has dismissed media reports suggesting that government has agreed to pay 9 million rands, equivalent to about K5.4 billion, to a South African traffic equipment and car dealer despite the ongoing investigations into the Zambia Police Service’s irregular purchase of VIP escort vehicles and bulletproof BMW X5 presidential vehicles from the same firm.
Yesterday it was reported in one of the daily tabloids that Mr Mangani, his permanent secretary Ndiyoyi Mutiti, and an officer from the Office of the President special branch, identified as Muzongwe, had traveled to South Africa to agree with Instrumentation for Traffic Law Enforcement (Pty) Limited that the Zambian government pay the firm 9 million rands to end the standoff over the purchase and withholding of vehicles purchased by the Zambia Police Service.
But in an interview with QFM, Mr Mangani said while it is true that he traveled to South Africa, his mission was to see ailing commissioner of Prisons Gibby Nawa who is admitted to hospital.
He dismissed as fabricated reports that he went to pay K5.4 billion to the South African company.
Mr Mangani further explains that there is no way he would pay the money because he is not the controlling officer in his ministry.
QFM
Bla bla bla. Zero + Zero is still Zero. Some people look inteligent until they open their mouths.
Who cares whether you paid or you didnot. After all the vehicles are being used by yourselves. I.D.I.O.T.S. Your time will come when we shall sort you out 1 by 1 using things from copper. Remember we are the biggest producer of copper and the only thing we get from there for our own use is made in Serenje Mupepetwe area near Mukonchi, what are these things?….THE BULLETS
Please ba shit ba Lusaka times. That is when you can be publishing this story when it has been published elsewhere the whole day? Obviuosly your main source of news ZANIS is down so you are stranded again. But you chaps why don’t you just go into web designing which is you training and not try to write news when you have no capacity. Bafikala
SO, YOU GUYZ ARE EVEN THINKING OF BUYING VIP ESCORT VEHICLES WHEN YOU ARE ALL IN FULL VIEW OF THE PEOPLE BEING FLOODED AND DRAWNING IN WATER AND DYING FROM CHOLERA? IF YOU WIN THE COMING ELECTIONS-YES, WE ZAMBIANS ARE DOMICILE AND STU.PID IDI.O.TS.
All coments above are shallow and childish
number 3. i can already tell that u are a problem nd i dont like you. there are rules everwhere u go. so please stop acting clever. kuti naku shimya ine. ni nevo walai. ask any1 pa blogg. deuces you penis:)>-
mmm abena walai ni ma legends. number 3 try him ali ba bad walai. tewaku yesha.
After reading about these VIP cars i googled the company and today i went to midrand( where the offices are) i am shocked that our Government would have stooped so low to enter into a multi million deal with this company. even on their website no where does it say that they do bullet proof cars. These guys do instrumentation and sirens for police, emmergency cars that sort of thing. Yes they do sirens and paint police cars in RSA, but that is as far as they go. Bullet proof? nay
Mmmh. This looks familiar to us, the 100 katengaz mailo; the Sometell saga; and now ze poliz bread proof sirens. What next ba post. Tell us we enjoy reading all the revelations. Anyway who minds. By the way when is Mangani paying the same i hear he says he has not paid yet.
Zed govt and their spineless business deals.
#5 and 6,do you guys use the same PC and ISP? coz these comments originated from the same mac and ip address! yalikosa pa england ish!!!
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by the way number 11. ulikwisa.. flag iyo yakwisa? uliku iraqi?
Oh,my bad,its #6 and 7,anyway thats besides the point,anyone can blog from anywhere,the flag doesnt neccessarily mean you blogging from that location
There goes some smoke i wonder where the fire is @ ! 😕
whywy moderating my comments??
Mangani,Mangani!Just say RB n his boys chewed that money..but he was shocked that they chewed more than he allowed them.So,that contract was never paid in full to the SA guy….now u r obliged to pay.Period.
What puzzles me is, when did Zambia Police start procuring things for state house? Ministry of home affairs procures for Zambia Police ,Cabinet Office procures for State House, so I fail to understand how a department of ministry of home affairs became a controlling department to start buying vehicles that are beyond their budget. Something is seriously wrong here
Matte of fact,the post of today reports Ronnie Sick Appleass as having confirmed that Mangani indeed went to Meet the SA Instrumentation for Traffic… officials
This is so embarrassing on the part of RB, Mangani, & Inspector General of police and reminds me of the time the South African Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi was being shielded by the then Mbeki Govt for corruption and protecting drug dealers. We all know what happened to Mbeki in SA he was unceremoniously removed from office & Selebi is facing criminal charges. This I hope happens in Zambia one day & let these people in the MMD know we are tired with their blatant lies. The worst thing to happen to our country is that we are being protected by rotten policemen who are so corrupt and full of malice they will not hide it.
why are you so heartless, honeslty tamulemona ati peoples homes are flooded and we are loosing alot of people everyday. mulekwatako uluse ba pushi, its sad enough that they are living in such deplorable conditions but since you have completed failed to build them better homes atleast be kind enough to improve their sorrounding. you are always singing songs of not having money, but here you are planning to buy luxourious escort vehicles for kunda. why cant you use that same money to help the people, im sure he can survive with the cars he has been using. 5 billion is hell alot of money.
Smell a rat when did police begin to procure for statehouse. How will the under funded department maitainthis equipment?
This Useless govt, everytime, its denying, ” no that is not true, no the post is lying”. SUE THE POST, and the truth will come out. SCARED LITTLE MEN!:-@
Mr Mangani further explains that there is no way he would pay the money because he is not the controlling officer in his ministry.
But this f.o.o.l. went with the controlling officer, Mutiti pictured here! We will get to you soon, like the rest of them!
#8 kindly rework you sprinted research perhaps then can you come here & say GRZ stooped so low. While you’re at it check see that these guys are not vehicle manufacterers and also there is a term used for the rude shock experienced when you went to halfway house…its called outsourcing!!!!!!!!!
Too bad keep the peace.:)>-