Go back into the markets,
Haamaundu tells vendors
By Fanny Kalonda
and Kholiwe Miti
M I N I S T RY o f L o c a l
Government and Rural
Development permanent secretary for administration Maambo
Haamaundu has directed street
vendors that were removed
from Lusaka central business
district to visit the local
authority to be assigned trading
places.
Haamaundu explained that
by removing street vendors, the
government wants to protect
citizens and their livelihoods as
well as deal with the indiscriminate disposal of garbage that is
major challenge.
He said the government is
looking at a broader picture of
protecting citizens and ensuring
orderliness in the manner business is conducted. “Street
vendors, the issue is about
reclaiming the roads. The issues
about insuring that those who
are supposed to operate from
the market go back into the
markets. You will note that
when you go into some places
in town particularly the CBD,
you would find that instead of
vehicles using two lanes, they
were using one lane. We also
note that in the process there
was a lot of indiscriminate
dumping of garbage and that in
itself was posing a number of
health challenges. So the move
taken by government is meant
actually to protect the citizens,
to protect the livelihoods of the
broader aspect of the country,”
Haamaundu explained.
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AfDB committed to support Zesco clear some arrears - Adesina
By Fanny Kalonda
AFRICA Development Bank
(AfDB) president Akinwumi
Adesina says the bank is committed to supporting Zesco clear
some of the arrears to improve
its functioning.
Speaking when he met
President Hakainde Hichilema
at State House yesterday, Dr
Adesina said the bank would
consider budget support of
between US $100 to $150 million to Zambia.
“I had excellent discussion
with the Minister of Finance
this morning. He gave excellent
walk through in terms of
reforms that you are doing but
also all these reforms require a
certain amount of financing. So
we are working closely with the
IMF and the World Bank in
terms of post-restructuring of
the debt where we can do... So
we as a bank will consider budget support of anything between
100 to 150 million dollars of
budget support to Zambia. The
the country,” Mapani explained.
He said this would help
increase the country’s power
supply.
“By so doing ACSG will be
tangibly contributing to accelerating Zambia’s electricity supply
industry on two fronts. One to
increase power generation capacity and to help diversify the
energy mix which presently has
hydro sitting at 86 per cent in
Zambia which is a risk by itself,”
said Mapani. “We are further
excited to note that this agreement guarantees us an initial
investment and commissioning of
the 10-megawatt solar thermal
plant hopefully to place it in
Shangombo area and thereafter
immediately 500 megawatts to
continue facing through.”
Energy minister Peter Kapala
said the investment is in line with
the government’s mantra that
Zambia is open for business to
both local and foreign investment
for the growth of the economy.
“Our mantra ZAMBIA is open
for business, is supported by government’s resolve to create strong
institutions that support an
enabling environment for investments. We have proactively
carried out reforms in the energy
sector that encourage both local
and foreign direct investment to
boost economic growth,” he said.
“One of the deliveries in the electricity service industry has been
the resolution of conflict among
the key industry players, an
aspect that was an impediment to
the provision of a conducive
investment and growth. To
ensure a steady migration to a
cost reflective tariff regime that
ensures affordability and is
attractive to continued and
expanded investment, care has
been taken to ensure that the recommendations of the white
paper are enabling and not inhibitive of the attainment of the
objective.”
Kapala said this is testament
of the works that the new dawn
government is doing to creating
a conducive environment for
investments.
“Today’s signing of a power
purchase agreement between
A C S G We s t l a n d P o w e r
Company Limited and Zesco
Limited is testament of the tremendous work the new dawn
government has done in creating
a stable and predictable business
environment for local and foreign investment,” said Kapala.
“ACSG Westland Power
Company Limited’s decision to
invest $1 billion solar thermal
power projects with an expected
capacity of 500 mw+ 10mw in
various parts of the country will
accelerate Zesco’s ambition to
grow its current energy.”
And ACSG executive chairman chief Obi Amuchienwa said
Zambia can be a regional hub for
solar thermal energy.
“We are making this investment our flagship investment for
solar themo energy in Africa. It
is based on the reaction that we
saw here. The professionalism,
the drive, the transparency, the
honesty and the clear focus for
the power agenda for Zambia. In
fact, we have agreed among ourselves that Zambia can be a
regional hub to be able to launch
this solar thermal technology
which is both clean, sustainable.
Something that can be driven
and it is something that can be
achievable within the shortest
period of time,” he said.
Amuchienwa noted that most
of the problems are due of failing technology or financial
aspects among other
challenges.
“In this case the technology
seems to be quite perfected, the
financial capacity is there and
the cooperation is there between
the government entities, most
importantly. We will hit the
ground running,” pledged
Amuchienwa.
Mapani calls for more players
in the energy supply market
By Margret Malenga
and Kholiwe Miti
ZESCO managing director Victor
Mapani has called for demonopolisation of the energy sector.
Mapani yesterday said this
will help the country to meet its
required power supply.
“The Zambian energy sector
and specifically its supply industry require to be demonopolised.
It’s currently monopolised. This
simply means steadily removing
the exclusive responsibility
placed on Zesco Limited to meet
the country’s power supply need
by having as many players as
possible on the market,” he said.
Mapani was speaking during
the signing of a power purchase
agreement between Zesco and
ACSG Westland Power Company
Limited yesterday.
He said that ACSGs decision
to invest in thermal power projects is an encouragement for
more investors to enter the country’s energy sector.
“This will entail us encouraging more and more investors to
invest in the power sector. Zesco
Limited therefore wishes to thank
ACSG Westland Power Company
Limited’s decision to invest in
solar thermal power projects with
an expected net capacity of 500
megawatts plus 10. This is our
thermal 500 megawatts plus 10.
So there is 10 megawatts which
will be secured and be the first
one to run even as a pilot and this
will be done in various parts of
HH not weak candidate
for 2026, says Mpombo
By Edwin Mbulo
in Livingstone
HAKAINDE Hichilema is not a
weak candidate for 2026, says
George Mpombo
Mpombo, a former Kafulafuta
member of parliament as well as
defence minister, predicts that
Copperbelt and Lusaka provinces
will be tough battlegrounds for
everyone in 2026.
“HH is not a weak candidate
for 2026. The opposition can
assume differently at their own
peril. HH comes into 2026 with
Southern, Western, North Western
and a huge swathe of Central
Province locked under his belt and
some how impenetrable to the
opposition,” Mpombo said. “It
would therefore be prudent for the
opposition to put both their hands
on the deck by joining forces to
capture and consolidate their grip
on Copperbelt, Lusaka, Eastern,
Northern, Luapula and Muchinga
provinces where UPND is establishing itself as result from the
recent local government by-elections have shown. The opposition
will need to rally behind one saleable and politically suarve
candidate with strong name
recognition.”
He stressed that the new dawn
would also use its incumbency of
office and “huge war machine” to
disadvantage the opposition.
“Already the party has surreptitiously empowered some of its
district officials with vehicles,”
Mpombo noted.
He reminded the opposition
that the last general elections in
Nigeria should be a wake-up call
where ruling party candidate Bola
Tinubu romped home with only
36 per cent, while the opposition
split their votes with former
vice-president Atiku Abubakar
receiving 29 per cent while Peter
Obi of the Labour Party received
25 per cent.
“In aggregate opposition votes
stood at 54 per cent but the APC
secured Aso Rock (the presidential residence named after a
nearby monolith in Abuja) with
only 36 per cent due to vote splintering and sheer debilitating
selfness based on myopic political
permutation,” said Mpombo.
“Opposition will suffer the greatest electoral shellacking of
catastrophic proportion if they
blindly and wilfully go into the
2026 fractioned and factioned.”
In 2021, the PF faced a strong
rebellion from Zambians despite
the elections seeing a record 16
presidential candidates.
The PF with a weakened candidate Edgar Lungu managed to get
38.71 per cent of the polls cast
against the UPND’s Hichilema
who polled 59.02 per cent.
The other candidates were
Enock Tonga (3rd Liberation
Movement), Sean Tembo (Patriots
for For Economic Progress),
Andyford Banda (People’s
Alliance for Change), Chishala
Kateka (New Heritage Party),
Kasonde Mwenda (Economic
Freedom Fighters), Stephen
Nyirenda (National Restoration
Party), Lazarus Chisela (Zambians
United for Sustainable
Development), Richard Silumbe
(Leadership Movement) and
Highvie Hamududu (Party of
National Unity and Progress).
Others were Dr Fred M’membe
(Socialist Party), Harry Kalaba
(Democratic Party), Nevers
Mumba (MMD), Charles Chanda
(National Prosperiuse and
Peaceful Zambia) and Trevor
Mwamba (UNIP).
forth area is looking at how we
look at budget support to
Zambia going forward and there
are two ways Mr President that
we would like to discuss with
you on this. First is because
Zambia is... country at the bank,
the restructuring of the debt has
enhanced credible power of the
country, reduced the risk of the
country,” he said.
“So we would like Zambia to
retain access to the Africa
Development window, which is
the commercial window. I mean
the non-concessional window of
the bank and that will allow you
to be able to have $168 million
per year, in terms of support. In
addition to that, we would also
like to credit enhance you access
to our window…That will provide on top of the $168 million,
an additional $168 million. So
you are looking at the potential
totalling of that to about 326
million dollars.”
He invited President
Hichilema to be part of the
Africa Investment Forum in
November.
“In the last four years, the
Africa Investment Forum has
helped to mobilise $142 billion
investment interest to Africa. So
it really works and I would like
to use the opportunity to invite
Your Excellency to participate at
the Africa Investment Forum
that is going to be on the 8th to
the 10th of November in
Marrakesh in Morocco. How we
can help you to optimise on the
infrastructure which you have
already invested. A lot of the
debt Zambia took is for infrastructure. There are now brand
new infrastructure, so through
asset recycling, we want to propose that you consider the asset
recycling and certainly transfer
that to the private sector and free
up immediately that capital to
work for you as a country,” said
Dr Adesina. “We are also supporting solar issues, and we are
committed Mr President to see
how we can support Zesco to be
able to clear some of the arreas
that it has on its books to be able
to improve the functioning of
the …”
And President Hichilema
said the government has been
thinking outside the box in the
manner it is handling issues.
“And the little things we have
been able to do in the time we
have been in office has been
sheer ingenuity, thinking outside
the box. Infrastructure side for
example, it was impossible to do
any infrastructure work with the
sort of debt levels that we were
carrying. But we doing something in that area but with the
official creditor’s decision in
Paris last month, we know it
didn’t come because of this fellow talking’s efforts alone or
indeed the Minister of Finance
and his team and the Bank of
Zambia. It also pulled in the
efforts of organisations like
yours,” he said. “I say to my colleagues in Cabinet and in this
country, that it is assumed that
we are technically competent as
we run these offices. It is
assumed that we are normal and
decent people to get things done.
[It] requires extra element called
networking. The assumption is
that we are capable people, we
are decent people, we are professional enough but to get the
keys into the room we need to
work as a team, by networking.
So we urge you to continue networking, if you have a …. of
friends, colleagues that you
know would assist us to close
that side of things as well. For
example, Eurobond holders are
people you know. You know
some of them, we know some of
them and let’s continue behind
the scenes going in one direction
so we can really put to bed that
side of things as well.”
President Hichilema said the
country does not have time as a
lot of it has been lost in the past.
“I was taught as a cattle boy
not to show my emotions all the
time but I am very delighted of
the issues you have brought to
the table,” said President
Hichilema. “We don’t have time
because we lost a lot of time as
a country under this python
(debt) that held us back. Now is
the time to open the flipside of
the coin which is the growth
side, the economic growth side.”
it.”
Nzamane said it was unfortunate that some leaders promote
witch-hunting.
“I hear that some leaders
allow witch finding to take place
in their areas. I hear for instance
some people say ‘my child died
three years ago but the pastor or
witchdoctor said the child was
out in the garden and we only
buried a banana’. I had a similar
issue in this chiefdom about a
month ago. They asked for permission from me to invite a
witchdoctor but when I declined,
they secretly called a witchdoctor,” he narrated. “Witchdoctors
are also human beings who want
to make money but we should
seek money in a normal way not
through magic or juju.”
Nzamane said it was a waste
of time to seek money using
magic.
“Looking for money using
magic is wasting time. We are
not poor but the ignorance in our
midst is the one which impoverishes us. I am happy that Bishop
Lungu and fellow bishops met
the President of this country to
discuss various matters like corruption. They spoke much about
this issue and this message is
coming from the President and
it is coming down to us,” he
said. “It is true corruption is bad
because it destroys the economy.
If we allow corruption, we will
remain poor and remain beggars. We should listen to the
messages that come from the
enlightened on matters that can
help us prosper.”
Nzamane urged people to do
away with things that do not add
value to their lives like
witchcraft.
And Bishop Lungu said he
was happy with the presence of
Nzamane who also gave land to
the church.
He said whenever the church
is given land it prioritises three
things; church, school, and
hospital.
Bishop Lungu cited St Joseph
Mission Hospital which was
built in chief Nyalugwe’s area in
Nyimba as one of the best hospitals in the province.
He appealed to Nzamane to
exercise patience because similar projects will come to his
area.
Bishop Lungu called for
stronger partnership between the
church and other stakeholders.
He also touched many areas
regarding the way of life of the
people in the area.
If we allow corruption we’ll remain
beggars, Nzamane warns subjects
By Christopher Miti
SENIOR Chief Nzamane says
people are allowed to seek
money in various ways but not
through magic.
He also says, “It is true corruption is bad because it
destroys the economy. If we
allow corruption, we will remain
poor and remain beggars”.
And Chipata Diocese Bishop
George Lungu says the church
will work with traditional leaders to promote the dignity of
human life.
During mass at St Thomas
sub-parish that was presided by
Bishop Lungu, Nzamane
appealed to his subjects not to
allow witch-hunting activities
that are becoming rampant.
“We have heard the Word of
God and we have also heard
what we are called to do as
Christians. I saw that we were
very happy when Bishop Lungu
was preaching. We have heard
what we are supposed to do but
we don’t do that,” he said. “It’s
sad that we allow witchfinders
to come in our midst and get the
little wealth that we have and we
end up becoming miserable.
Witch-hunting activities are not
good and I am not happy about
Over 50 countries close to debt default – UN
WITH talks of G20 finance ministers in
India stalling on the subject of debt relief,
the UN Development Programme (UNDP)
has raised the alarm about the plight of
developing countries.
This follows last week’s UN report about
the catastrophic levels of public debt affecting almost half the globe.
G20 representatives met on Monday in
Gandhinagar, Gujarat but made little to no
progress in discussions about restructuring
the debt held by developing nations, AP
reported.
“I think the bottom line is, as of [July]
2023, the issue of debt restructuring is
really not advancing at all on a scale that is
called for and needed,” UNDP administrator Achim Steiner told Reuters, calling the
situation a “grave concern.”
Last week, UN Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres warned that 52 countries
had no way to reduce their debt burden and
were approaching default.
Promoting a UN Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD) report on the
growing problem of debt, Guterres said that
3.3 billion people lived in countries that
were spending more on interest payments
than on health or education.
“This is more than a systemic risk – it’s
a systemic failure,” Guterres said last
Wednesday.
UNCTAD specified that at least 19
developing nations spent more on interest
than on education, and in another 45 it
amounted to more than spending on
healthcare.
According to the UN agency, almost 40
per cent of the world is in serious debt
trouble.
Particularly alarming was the “inherent
inequality in the international financial system, burdening developing countries
disproportionately,” UNCTAD said, noting
that African countries were paying four
times more in interest than the US, and
eight times more than the richest nations of
Europe. Restructuring this debt is proving
difficult because 62 per cent of it is now
held by private creditors, up from 47 per
cent a decade ago.
“Global public debt has reached the alltime-high of $92 trillion in 2022,” Guterres
warned, in a five-fold surge since 2000.
The UNDP has attributed the increase to
the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in
inflation and interest rates.
The UN agency estimated that more than
20 per cent of the world’s population –
around 1.65 billion people – are now
struggling to put food on the table and subsist on less than $3.65 a day.
The warnings by Guterres and UNDP
went largely unnoticed due to the NATO
summit in Lithuania, where the US-led
military bloc pledged even more funding
for the conflict in Ukraine.-RT
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The Mast, Wednesday July 19, 2023
The horror beneath the surface of the NAPSA cash
P
erhaps one of the
greatest points
HH’s government
has vehemently
scored has been the
NAPSA funds that have
now been availed to
almost everyone who
works, or has ever been
in formal or circular
employment before,
regardless of whether
they attained the
retirement age of 55 or
not.
For as long as a
certain number of
contributions had been
made, anyone was free
to access 20 per cent of
their money whilst still
actively working. And
since then, every
morning to sunset,
NAPSA offices have
been the greatest hive of
activity in the country,
with throngs of desperate people flocking their
counters in all four
corners of the country
and eager to have a bite
of their cake while still
baking in the oven.
Indeed, on this one, this
“rocket scientist”,
President HH, will
forever be remembered
as having been the first
one to mastermind such
a terrific strategy in the
long political history of
this country! The
‘normal’ trend was for
people to wait until they
retired before they
could have access to
their loot, a bad strategy
that saw a large portion
of people dying before
they could benefit from
their labour; leaving
their relatives to
scavenge, loot and
benefit from what they
never laboured for. But
not anymore, now
workers can enjoy the
fruit of their sweat
whilst still alive and
energetic, and those that
are no longer working
but are less than 55 can
now get a portion of
their savings.
So those that are wise
and prudent can now
start running the
businesses they always
dreamed of, and/or finish
those building projects
they were worried of,
looking at the number
of years that remained
before they were to be
granted access to their
savings. Again, I must say
that on this one Mr
“Rocket Scientist”
twanyamula manja, we
accept your ingenuity in
thinking for the people
of Zambia, so well done!
But to every virtue
pries a vice. this NAPSA
money has bred frothy,
terrible, and horrible
nightmares in many
homes it has visited.
People, who before this
NAPSA sweet melody (
or “fandango” as late
musician Lazarous
Tembo would have
referred to it) were
dying of hunger, are now
dying of wounds caused
by “money in the
pocket” (ya ba PF...
kikiki). Instead of
enjoying this money
after getting it, people
are being hacked,
stabbed, shot dead;
others beaten to death
by filthy-minded barbarians prowling the
backstreets of town and
NAPSA offices.
I am really not so
privy as to how these
funds are being dispensed exactly, but if the
stories I’m hearing in
social circles are
anything to go by, that
some people are getting
these funds right there
inside NAPSA offices,
and that they are
stocked immediately
they come out with
bulgy pockets and bags
full of cash, then it
makes sad reading
indeed. But whether this
money is accessed at
NAPSA offices or
through banks, the point
remains the same; it
seems thugs have grown
a sixth sense or third
eye. They are able to
know who is carrying
NAPSA money or not.
So they will be patiently
waiting outside NAPSA
offices or banks, watching everyone going in
and coming out. They
see you going in with a
pouch or bag, and you
come out clinging to it
tightly, or they notice
that suddenly, your
hands are not coming
out of your pockets, or
you are guarding your
purse so jealously such
that you put it around
your neck, armpit or
waist, that becomes an
automatic signal that
“zangena!”
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By Michael B. Munyimba
4
A
ccording to
Radio Phoenix
main news
monitored in
Lusaka the other day,
the police swung into
action, arrested and
charged 52 notorious
and dangerous junkies
from different
townships for idle and
disorderly behaviour.
Police spokesperson
Rae Hamoonga
disclosed that the 52
junkies were
apprehended in
selected areas of
Kamanga, Obama, Big
Jose, Chris Mall, Ndeke
Meanwood, Kampasa
village, Kaunda Square
stages 1 and 2, as well
as other crime infested
areas. Hamoonga has
since appealed to
members of the public
that could have been
attacked by junkies in
these areas to report
to Chelstone Police
Station and help in
identifying them so that
other appropriate
charges can be slapped
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The Mast, Wednesday July 19, 2023
How long shall we arrest them?
on them.
What do we make of
this? Not so long ago, a
similar operation was
unleashed in Kitwe that
saw street kids and
suspected junkies
rounded-up
dramatically! While
street kids were taken
to safe homes, the
junkies were charged
for idle and disorderly
conduct and whisked
away to the
penitentiary. After being
detained for a while,
these junkies have been
let off the hook and are
now prowling the
streets, and probably
resumed their
nefarious activities.
How long shall the
junkies be arrested and
detained, released and
be re-arrested? Are we
doing them any good
making them easily
walk in and out of
prison as though they
hen you use
underhand
tactics to
achieve an
advantage, it doesn’t
always end well.
And advantage
dishonestly obtained
might, in the long run,
boomerang. And with time
majority of the people
start to lose trust and
confidence in the
leadership. As we watch
the unfolding events
around us, the world over,
there is a distinct pattern
that emerges -whatever
one seeks to hide and
cover up will eventually
work its way up to the
light and become known
- even if it is murders,
malfeasance of any kind,
corruption by elitists or
dishonesty.
Today, Mutotwe Kafwaya
argues that the
government intends to use
the resignation of Auditor
General Dick Sichembe to
clear him of his charges.
“So I urge you my friends
pay attention to what is
happening to your country.
I said the first day it began
that Dick is gone. What is
likely going to happen is
that government is now
going to use the
resignation of, the fact
that they have forced Dick
Sichembe to resign, to
clear him of the cases that
he has at ACC as a
consideration for
resigning. Because the
thing is that they just
didn’t want him. Once they
do that, I urge government
to clear all those who
were arrested on the same
charges. And when they
do clear them, let them all
resign. They should force
them to resign. No one
should walk back to those
jobs just like Dick. And
are taking a stroll in the
park on a quiet Sunday
afternoon as they enjoy
ice cream? Can
somebody please stop
the drama and perhaps
apply a better solution!
Rounding-up and
hauling the street kids
and junkies to
detention facilities isn’t
obviously the best
panacea to the
challenge that this
combined problem
poses to society.
Continuing to do so is
actually akin to applying
Vaseline to a festering
wound!
It’s important to
appreciate that most of
those that qualify to
pass as junkies were
once street kids
themselves eking a
living on the streets.
Once they graduated
from being urchins,
they obviously
retreated to the
you must clear them on the
first in, first out. Don’t arrest
someone today in order to
clear them together with
Dick. Those who have been
arrested or will be arrested
in a week’s time, they must
also stay five months in ACC
townships where
they’ve since regrouped
and organised
themselves into violent
gangs that are now
causing terror and
mayhem in our
communities.
What can be done to
address this problem?
This definitely calls
for thinking outside the
box. As opposed to
dumping them into a
dungeon where no one
doesn’t even bother
openning their eyes and
attempting to walk
them through a journey
of helping them
rediscover themselves,
what the street kids
and these junkies need
are opportunities.
Opportunities to
acquire vocational skills;
opportunities to gain
employment without
having anyone
unnecessarily
stereotyping them;
should be asked to resign
so that they all join Dick.
And then, extend this
clean up to those whom
you have promoted.
Those who got those
allowances, arrest them.
Have them chucked out in
a similar manner so that
you can have a clean
government even though
you will have no audit for
this period but we will
come and audit you. You
will be audited and when
we audit you, we will
sanction you not because
it is you, but because you
have committed
atrocities.”
Unfortunately, this might
be the only logical
conclusion. All those who
obtained allowances at
Ministry of Finance may
just have to be asked to
resign and have their
charges dropped! This is
how the new dawn have
bungled the fight against
corruption. When you
deploy corrupt means to
resolving issues, to get
what you want, the end
result is more corruption.
We have said enough on
this score and we don’t
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God has determined, as
so that everybody is treated he said in Luke 12:2-3,
fairly,” said Kafwaya. “For
that the secrets will be
me I talk about fairness and uncovered, the truth will
it is very important. I will be
come forth, and God’s
very disappointed if Mulonda thought about every
will go back to work. I will be behaviour and action will
very disappointed with the
be vindicated. What’s
HH-led UPND government.
done in the dark will
So my expectation is that
come to light, and thank
Mulonda should be asked to God he has created it to
resign. [Chikuba] Mukuli
operate so!
‘Let
them
all
resign’
Our
View
opportunities to join
co-operatives and
access capital to start
their own projects.
After the botched
privatisation exercise
implemented by the
MMD regime that saw
a good number of our
people wound up on
the streets, President
Chiluba established a
Vendor’s Desk at State
House to personally
see to it that citizens
who were setting up
enterprises on the
streets as an alternative
to their predicament
received his utmost
attention without any
encumbrances. Can
somebody perhaps
whisper to the
President to consider
appointing a
Commission on Street
Kids or perhaps a
directorate under the
Ministry of Community
Development and
Social Services which
would be instrumental
in mobilising the street
kids and junkies into
co-operatives so that
they are better assisted,
not only to secure
By Prince B M
Kaping’a
funding, but also
encouraged to work
the land to produce
food to feed the nation
and for export to the
neighbouring countries;
delve into the bowels
of the earth to extract
gold, sugilite, and
diamonds etc or
perhaps take to the
forest to harvest
rosewood to
manufacture desks for
our schools.
Until next time, I rest
my case.
Captain Nwokuha insists he
is playing a positive role as
a traffic officer, and is not
just a collector of “taxes”
Nigeria’s so-called tax collectors:
Menacing and mafia-like
HIRED as a so-called tax
collector by several influential
families, Captain Nwokuha has
a fearsome look as he walks
around with a piece of wood to
enforce his authority at a busy
and chaotic road junction in the
southern Nigerian city of Port
Harcourt.
The 34-year-old’s job is to
collect “taxes” for what he calls
the “community” from taxis and
18-seater buses that operate in
that part of the city.
Mr Nwokuha’s work has its
roots in an old tradition, when
businesses used to pay a one-off
fee, or gift a drink, as homage to
their hosts for good tidings.
But now it has turned into
what critics say is an extortion
racket.
Some families, claiming to
act on behalf of local communities, demand fees from
businesses, be they taxi drivers
or market traders, operating in
what they see as their domain.
Nwokuha says he collects
5-7,000 naira (£5-7; $6.50-9) a
day - a reasonable amount in
Nigeria.
Married with two children, he
keeps some of the money while
the rest is given to five powerful
families in the community
- where it gets lost in a trail of
private pockets.
So-called tax collectors or
third-party agents are also used
by Nigeria’s states and local
governments to collect some
taxes.
“These agents use private
accounts and make deductions
before remitting to the
government,” says Michael
Ango, a former government tax
official who is now with private
firm Andersen Tax.
“[Their methods] create the
impression that the state is using
might and muscle rather than
legitimacy.”
Led by new President Bola
Tinubu, Nigeria’s federal
government has vowed to crack
down on what it calls “touts,
miscreants and self-imposed tax
collectors”.
As for Mr Nwokuha, he
believes he is playing a positive
role, doubling up as a traffic
officer who resolves disputes in
the cut-throat taxi business.
“If there is a fight among the
drivers I settle it,” says Mr
Nwokuha, who patrols Port
Harcourt’s lucrative Rumuola
interchange on weekdays from
dawn to dusk in his fluorescent
vest.
Before a driver sets off, the
man with “task force” written
on his vest receives 20% of the
passengers’ fares.
“The taxis are not allowed to
operate here,” says Mr
Nwokuha, pointing at a “no
parking” sign painted in police
colours.
“But if they choose to, then
they have to pay to the
community,” he tells the BBC.
On the rare occasion that a
driver refuses to pay, they could
have a side mirror or taillight
broken - or their registration
plates removed. - BBC
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Hon Miyutu, it is time you became an MP for the living
By Prince Likonge
T
o the reader, although
this article will not talk
about your constituency
and your member of
parliament in particular, you will
still have reasons that will cause
you to reason with me as we
yearn for one goal - developing
our communities.
And perhaps your experiences
are more like those of our
constituency, Kalabo. To any
news writer or community
advocate and an area Induna
like myself, it is not fitting to
celebrate my writings because
by doing so without our
communities’responses is folly.
But our celebrations should
come with the responses of
the communities of wanting
to see our yearnings being
put into considerations.
Honourable Miyutu Chinga,
Kalabo Constituency member
of parliament, time has come
for you to be an MP for the
living than being an MP for the
dead as you have been in the
past two terms you served us.
For more than two terms that
Miyutu Chinga has an MP for
Kalabo Constituency, I Prince
Chinga Likonge, INDUNA
NGUBULU, have not seen much
of developmental programmes
apart from you being a chief
mourner to our beloved ones
as long as you are informed
of one having died in the
constituency. At times, you could
even deligate your son to ferry
the body to the resting place
when you can’t do it personally.
Hon, on behalf of the people of
Kalabo Constituency and on my
own behalf, I salute you for your
support in making it possible to
ferry the remains of our dead
beloved brothers and sisters
to their final resting places. But
I write to ask you to work for
the living first and the dead
second.
In my own village, Ngubulu,
area Kashiana of Ndoka Ward,
I can count of you taking coffin
one, coffin two and coffin three
and coffin...on different death
dates, which I think, takes a
poor senior Induna like myself
to commend this your charity
work in our community. But I
can’t seem to see anything of a
develpment in transporting dead
bodies. I am missing something
bigger, something more
significant, something precisely
development. So it is high time
now you start working for the
living first and the dead second.
The Nang’umba - Sihole
sandy road needs an attention
now than ever before. I also ask
that there should be a tarmac
road from Kalenga wa kuma
passing through Chikundu, Hale
up to Chilele connecting to
Sihole Mission.
If Jesus in his parable
advised the workers to allow
the wheat and weed to grow
together, then may I advise
our colleagues sitting in public
offices not to look down upon
the people wandering about
on the streets when offering
constractive ideas and advices;
but to take keen interest in
some of their helpful ideas and
advices and even summoning
them to the reasoning table.
This is what we can refer to the
sayings of the Lord Jesus Christ
of wheat and weed growing
together in matters of national
development.
Being not in a position of
responsibility does not mean
that we do not have sounding
and building ideas for the good
governance of the land. We
cannot all occupy public offices
at the same time. I want you,
Hon Miyutu Chinga,to work
on other roads connecting
our compounds in Kalabo. I
am no longer a part of Kalabo
but Kalabo is still a part of
me. Therefore, I make it a
submission on behalf of the
people of Kalabo Constituency
and indeed on my own behalf.
Hon Miyutu, sit down with
your council and agree on the
purchase of a grader and a
tipper truck to help work on
these roads.
I do not look out for my own
interests and satisfaction only,
but also for the interests and
satisfaction of others.
Let me use the proverbs of
Solomon chapter 10 verses 4
and 5, but using my own words
to fit our present situation in
Kalabo Constituency.
“Any member of
parliament who works to
bring development in his/her
community is a fit candidate in
his/her constituency, but any
member of parliament who
sits back and waits for his/her
retiment package to disolve the
parliament is a disgraceful MP
and his/her name and details
altogether should not be seen
or printed on an election ballot
paper.”
By working on those roads,
it will help people of Liande,
Sihole, Lushi, Kashiana, Chilele...
to transport their mushrooms,
cassava, watermelons,
caterpillars…faster and quicker
to Kalabo BOMA to fetch
reasonable and profitable prices.
So failing to work on these
roads is to bring poverty in the
constituency. So we don’t need
a lazy MP who brings hunger
and poverty in our communities.
Other roads also to consider
are the Nang’umba - Ndoka
road, another road running from
Skundu school passing through
Hale connecting to Chilele
school up until Sihole mission.
So, the burrying of the dead is
not the work we should write
in the developental diary of a
constituency in the rein of any
office bearer.
And to all those MPs whose
justification of their failure to
bring development because
they were in opposion and the
ruling party was not giving equal
CDF to them, now we have no
excuse because the Hakainde
led administration is giving equal
amount of CDF to all the MPs;
both belonging to the ruling
and opposition political parties,
especially the MP in reference. It
is now your President and your
own power in government, so
deliver.
When the Lord Jesus Christ
said let the dead burry their
dead he meant that there will
be no deadrotting in presence
of the people, for the people
will have to burry the dead;
meaning burrying the dead is
not work and development we
should see in an MP. It is very
disheartening to visit the home
village two years after ushering
an MP in office and only to find
wheels of his/her vehicle which
just roll to ferry dead bodies
and not coming for monitoring
of the rehabilitation of the
rural health centre in Sohanja’s
Induna Ngunga or checking on
the works on Nang’umba road;
or even witnessing the ground
breaking ceremony of the
handover of a police post at the
Mwene Lindeho royal palace.
The horror beneath the surface of the NAPSA cash
From page 3
You see, even the way people
walk when they are carrying a
lot of money is different from
the way us who are usually
broke walk. Before they access
the “falanga” (money), they walk
as if they suffer from typhoid,
but once they get the cash over
the counter, everything changes;
even the language changes.
The old teller at the counter
now becomes “mufana”, they
storm out and begin walking like
they were president Obama’s
big brother or sister; full of
confidence, walking shoulderhigh, with a very peculiar new
step, bouncing like kangaroos as
though they had installed springs
beneath their footwear, making
even novice thugs know that
“babeula ba guy”, that they have
money. So once one reaches a
less populated corner, bagwila,
kwempa; they attack them,
snatch the loot.
And, here is the bad part,
even when they get what they
wanted, they often ensure
that they leave the victim
with broken bones and stab
wounds - or simply dead!
Hospitals and police stations
across the country are all full of
“NAPSA cash casualties”.Visit
any hospital, you will find them;
their broken legs dangling over
their beds with plasters of Paris
bandages.You ask them what
happened, the response will be
“NAPSA, NAPSA, mudala!” They
will tell you between sobs, pain
and tears.
People need to be careful
when going to get their money.
They must know that just as
they became overly happy and
excited when they heard that
they could now easily go cash
out at NAPSA, so did the thugs.
They too had celebrations,
banquets, parties and drink-ups
because they knew that they too
would be illegal beneficiaries of
the same.
When going to get your
money, don’t think you are
alone, that no one is watching
or following you; you would be
utterly wrong. There are people
who wake up early morning of
everyday who go and report
around the vicinities of those
offices and banks, professional
thugs with unequalled criminal
psychology, who just seem to
be lazing around the area; well
dressed you will think they
were probably white-collar staff
members of surrounding offices.
You won’t notice anything
sinister about them - those are
the ones! The best is not to go
to those offices or bank alone,
take a relative or two with
you; even close, trusted, sober
friends. If alone, call a taxi the
moment you get the cash whilst
inside the building. Go and leave
the money in a safe place home, bank or wherever, before
you start moving from bar to
bar mu town.
Government should also
ensure that these people are
protected by providing adequate
security around those areas and
banks, those points of accessing
cash, such that no loitering
around there should be allowed
or tolerated. People should also
learn to collect only what they
intend using at that particular
time and deposit the rest in
their respective accounts at
banks.
Then futi, this system of
someone texting his wife after
getting the money, telling her
that he has just discovered that
he deserves a better woman
and children, and that he has
decided to leave the house and
family forever should come to
an end. All along it was “sweetie,
my love, darling, chocolate”,
today because of NAPSA, you
“discover that you deserve
“Beyonce”, what kind of crap is
that? But the good part is that
those who do that nearly always
return after some time - but
without the money, of course.
Kikikiki...so be careful with this
NAPSA, olo else, we may have
a pep talk with the “Rocket
Scientist” who introduced it
to wave it out before we lose
a lot of relatives and friends
and witness the destruction of
marriages and families in our
communities!
As for the voluntary retirees
and seperatees who have waited
over 23 years to get their full
service packs, we shall all be
happy if rumours we are hearing
that arrangements to finally pay
them have reached advanced
stages. It’s been a cruel, hard
road for them. For now, we shall
wait and see what the coming
few days bring - we shall be
watching and listening to those
proceedings. Go ahead ba
boma, it’s time to get rid of this
“historic debt” as people call it.
You will have given these people
the greatest relief of their lives.
Let us just remember the
NAPSA incidences and be
cautious when we are given
access to funds. I’m off to
NAPSA, naine nifuna zanga! Till
next Wednesday, I zero-out!
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Leptin: unlocking the key to hunger
control and obesity prevention
O
besity has become
a growing concern
worldwide,
affecting people of
all ages.
In recent years, the
alarming rise in obesity rates
among young individuals
has caught the attention of
healthcare professionals and
policymakers alike. According
to the World Health
Organisation (WHO), obesity
has more than tripled since
1975, and approximately
340 million children and
adolescents aged 5-19 were
overweight or obese in
2016. Understanding the
underlying mechanisms of
hunger regulation is crucial in
combating this epidemic. In
this article, we delve into the
fascinating role of a hormone
called leptin in regulating
hunger and explore how its
defects can contribute to
obesity.
Leptin - the satiety
hormone: Leptin, known as
the “satiety hormone’’, is a
protein produced by fat cells
in the body. It plays a pivotal
role in regulating hunger and
energy balance. Leptin acts
as a messenger that signals
the brain, specifically the
hypothalamus, to suppress
appetite and increase energy
expenditure. When fat stores
are abundant, leptin levels
rise, and the brain receives
a signal of satiety, leading
to reduced food intake and
increased metabolism.
The link between leptin
and obesity: Obesity can
occur due to various
factors, including genetic
predisposition, lifestyle
choices, and environmental
influences. However, one
significant factor is leptin
resistance or deficiency. In
some individuals, the brain
fails to respond adequately
to leptin, resulting in a
disruption of the hunger-
regulating mechanism.
Leptin resistance occurs
when the brain becomes
desensitised to the
hormone’s signals. As a result,
the brain perceives low leptin
levels, even when they are
actually high. This false signal
leads to a cascade of events
that promote increased food
intake and reduced energy
expenditure. The body
mistakenly believes it is in a
state of starvation, triggering
intense hunger and cravings
for high-calorie foods.
Leptin deficiency, on the
other hand, occurs when
the body does not produce
enough leptin, leading to a
lack of appetite suppression.
In these cases, individuals
may constantly feel hungry,
resulting in overeating and
weight gain.
Leptin and its effect on
the brain: To understand
how leptin regulates
hunger, it’s essential to
explore its impact on the
brain. Leptin interacts with
specific receptors in the
hypothalamus, particularly in
areas responsible for appetite
control. These receptors help
regulate the production of
neuropeptides, chemicals that
either stimulate or suppress
appetite. Leptin inhibits the
production of appetitestimulating neuropeptides
while promoting the release
of appetite-suppressing
neuropeptides. This delicate
balance helps maintain a
healthy weight and prevent
overeating.
Addressing leptin defects
and obesity: The discovery
of leptin’s role in hunger
regulation opened up new
avenues for combating
obesity. While leptin
replacement therapy has
shown promising results
in rare cases of leptin
deficiency, it has proven less
effective for leptin resistance.
Researchers are now
focusing on understanding
the complex interactions
between leptin, the brain, and
other hormones involved in
appetite regulation. Targeting
these pathways could
potentially lead to novel
therapeutic approaches for
obesity.
In addition to medical
interventions, adopting a
healthy lifestyle is crucial
in managing leptin-related
obesity. Regular exercise, a
balanced diet, and adequate
sleep can help optimise
leptin sensitivity. Reducing
consumption of processed
and high-sugar foods while
increasing intake of whole
grains, fruits, and vegetables
can positively impact leptin
levels.
Conclusion: The global
obesity epidemic, especially
among young individuals,
demands a deeper
understanding of the
As we enter into the
third year of the UPND
administration, permit me
to refer to the actions in 2
Chronicles 31 verse 7 but using
my own words to express my
expectations. I expect of you,
Hon Miyutu Chinga, member
of parliament for Kalabo
Constituency, to begin laying
developmental projects in the
constituency. And these projects
should be finished before the
disolve of parliament in 2026.
It is your party in power, so,
it is your time perfecting
your working hypothesis,
establishment, completeness and
restoration of the lost motto,
One Zambia One Nation, and
leaving no one behind. Hakainde
who has started sending the
CDF monies down to the
constituency will make sure
these projects are finished
before his term of office expires
by sending these CDF monies
annually through his national
planning and finance minister
Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane
as he announces the national
budget. To be reminded again
of your campaign promises you
made when in opposition does
not restore the burden. It is a
necessary wakeup call in dealing
with the sense of awareness that
often falls on any ruling political
party by their negligence and
deliberately forgetting that they
still need to seek another term
of office from the citizens they
are failing to work for.
I call upon all our citizens that
if your experience is anything
like ours in Kalabo Constituency,
in terms of political will to work
for their people, then there is
no time to start wishing for
representatives to work for us
but it’s time to bring them to
work. President Hakainde has
said it repeatedly that; it’s time
to deliver, and to deliver on
time. Otherwise, as it stands
now, we the people of Kalabo
Constituency can say our MP
has not really changed anything
fundamentally in the life of the
Constituency.
Not being in position does
not bribe me the knowledge of
the governance system. There
are governmental plans and
projects countrywide of which
a member is just told in your
constituency the government is
going to upgrade this clinic to
level 1. And there are projects
that the area member of
parliament has to initiate or
embark on in the constituency.
So the putting up of the
Lwanginga bridge is a national
plan, we want to see you Mr MP
embarking on developmental
projects in your constituency Kalabo.
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mechanisms behind hunger
regulation. Leptin, the satiety
hormone, plays a critical role
in suppressing appetite and
maintaining energy balance.
Defects in leptin signaling,
such as resistance or
deficiency
The author is
a biochemist.
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mbitajudith11@gmail.
com, WhatsApp +260979- 903 723.
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Go back into the markets, Haamaundu asks vendors
By Fanny Kalonda
and Kholiwe Miti
MINISTRY of Local
Government and Rural
Development permanent
secretary for administration
Maambo Haamaundu has
directed street vendors that
were removed from Lusaka
central business district to visit
the local authority to be
assigned trading places.
Haamaundu explained that
by removing street vendors, the
government wants to protect
citizens and their livelihoods as
well as deal with the
indiscriminate disposal of
garbage that is major challenge.
He said the government is
looking at a broader picture of
protecting citizens and ensuring
orderliness in the manner
business is conducted.
“Street vendors, the issue is
about reclaiming the roads. The
issues about insuring that those
who are supposed to operate
from the market go back into
the markets. You will note that
when you go into some places
in town particularly the CBD,
you would find that instead of
vehicles using two lanes, they
were using one lane. We also
note that in the process there
was a lot of indiscriminate
dumping of garbage and that in
itself was posing a number of
health challenges. So the move
taken by government is meant
actually to protect the citizens,
to protect the livelihoods of the
broader aspect of the country,”
Haamaundu explained. “In the
process, we could have a few
people here and there
complaining to say that is their
source of livelihood. But we are
looking at it from a broader
picture to say that somebody
could be operating by the
roadside there and one day a
truck will just get off the one
lane which has remained and
drive through a number of
people and we would have a lot
of casualties. So to avert such
challenges, it was necessary that
such a measure is put in place
to really just bring a semblance
of orderliness in the way we are
conducting our lives as
citizens.”
Yesterday, police moved in
the central business district to
remove street vendors. The
vendors who were displaced by
officers on instruction from the
government expressed sadness,
terming the action as sudden.
The vendors said they were
not warned before their
makeshift stands were
dismantled and wished that they
were given time to sell their
products before the
displacement.
The vendors then marched to
Civic Centre to get audience
with the Lusaka City council.
Haamaundu said there are
other trading places that the
vendors can be allocated to,
further urging them to integrate
into the markets.
“If you do recall when the
City Market got burnt, a few
years ago, that’s where you saw
a heightened number of people
going to the streets but the
market has now been restored.
So it is necessary that people
just go back into the market. So
it’s got nothing, there is nothing
we can do at the end of the day
about whether it is removing
vendors or not. It is about
ensuring that Freedom Way as a
road remains as a road. It’s
about ensuring that the people
who have shops in Freedom
Way, in Lumumba, use them for
that purpose. They pay rates,
they pay taxes, and they ensure
that the frontage of the shops
are maintained in a more
sanitary manner than what we
have seen before,” he said. “I
think I also did mention to say
that as local authority generally,
they have been involved in a
number of activities when it
comes to enforcements. So
people should not see this as an
extraordinary activity, it is
normal operations. It’s about
restoring the usage of public
assets because they are meant to
benefit everyone in the public
as opposed to being
inconvenienced. So that is what
is behind it.”
Haamaundu urged the
affected vendors to “simply go
to the [local] authorities and
they can be given” trading
places in the market.
“That is if they are ready to
go in markets. In Lusaka
particularly City Market has a
number of trading places. In
Chawama, in Matero, in
Mandevu, across the city, there
are a number of trading places
that are available. And it is our
expectation that our brothers
and sisters will go and integrate
themselves into the markets
because that is where majority
of them came from,” he said.
7
“And to the general
members of the public, my
appeal once again is that
let us allow or let us
refrain from buying goods
and services from places
which are not markets.
Places that are not designated
trading places. Let us
go back into the
markets.”
State witness contradicts own
testimony in Malanji graft case
By Thomas Ngala
FORMER acting ambassador to Turkey
Misheck Kaoma has contradicted the
testimony he earlier made in court.
This is in a case where former foreign
affairs minister Joe Malanji is charged with
willful failure to comply with procedure
relating to procurement, and being in
possession of property reasonably
suspected to be proceeds of crime.
Malanji is jointly charged with former
secretary to the treasury Fredson Yamba.
Kaoma told the Lusaka Magistrates’
Court that on June 9, 2023, the embassy
accountant he identified as Samuel
Sankenga allegedly withdrew US $4.6
million from a bank in Ankara and
delivered it to a presidential jet used by
Malanji.
But when he was cross examined on
Monday, Kaoma told magistrate Irene
Wishimanga who is sitting under the
Economic and Financial Crimes Court that
he did not know if what he was told by the
accountant was true.
He said he based his testimony “on a
report that contained lies”.
Kaoma said the accused were not
involved in how, when and where the
monies were paid, adding that the head of
mission was to be held accountable if
something went wrong with the
disbursement.
He said Malanji was not mentioned in
the report as one who was given the money
in question.
When the defence counsel asked the
witness “you would not be the right person
to answer questions about procurement,”
Kaoma said “I was part of the tender
committee.”
Asked if he had any interaction with
Malanji throughout the process, Kaoma
said “not regarding property purchase.”
He also said “I was not aware” when the
defence counsel asked “you know nothing
about the procurement in Ankara?”
When he was asked “so the only
knowledge that you have is what you were
told?” Kaoma responded, “Correct.”
He confirmed in court that what he was
told was what he compiled into a report.
The defence counsel further asked, “in
this court, you’ve just repeated what you
were told? Those who told you brought
reports?”
Kaoma responded, “Correct.”
Kaoma also insinuated that the late
ambassador to Turkey Joseph Chilengi and
Sankenga had some “unholy” practices at
the embassy.
He said Chilengi and the accountant in
question used to get commissions on
similar transactions.
But asked if he was implying that
Chilengi was corrupt, Kaoma said “it will
be hard for me to say he was corrupt
because a commission does not constitute
corruption”.
He said those that investigated could
determine whether there was corruption
involved or not.
Kaoma said he was an expert in
corruption when the defence counsel asked
if the acts from Chilengi and the accountant
amounted to defrauding the embassy and
the government of Zambia.
When the defence lawyer asked “if the
report contains truth and lies, are you
presenting truth and lies,” Kaoma
responded: “some truths are there and some
lies are there.”
He said the reports he relied on when
giving his earlier testimony contained “the
lies, truth and strange things.”
When asked “you testified that Sankenga
came and accompanied the seller to the
bank, you believed,” Kaoma said “I don’t
believe him because I was not there.”
Trial continues tomorrow.
Only Chiluba has completed 2 five-year terms - Sishuwa Death toll from Kenya cult
probe hits more than 400
By Rhoda Nthara
HISTORIAN Sishuwa Sishuwa
has observed that Frederick
Chiluba is, to date, the only
president of Zambia to have
completed two five-year terms
since 1991.
Dr Sishuwa, a senior lecturer
at Stellenbosch University,
noted that the rest have either
been defeated by opposition
challengers or died in office.
“Kenneth Kaunda, the
founding president of Zambia
following independence from
Britain in 1964, was in power
for 27 years. However, Kaunda
contested only two competitive
presidential elections
throughout this period. He won
the first one in 1968 and lost
the next in 1991,” he explained
in several tweets.
And Dr Sishuwa explained
why Dr Kaunda’s name was
inscribed in the preindependence constitution.
“Yes, Kaunda’s name was
inscribed in the preindependence constitution, but
there is context to this. Prior to
the achievement of
independence in October 1964,
Zambia had adopted the British
parliamentary system, where
voters elect MPs, not the
president. In the January 1964
general election, UNIP
defeated Harry Mwaanga
Nkumbula’s ANC and John
Roberts’ National Progressive
Party. As a result, Kaunda
became the prime minister, but
Zambia was not yet a
Republic,” explained Dr
Sishuwa. “Ahead of the formal
declaration of Independence in
October 1964, constitutional
talks were held in London
between representatives of the
departing British colonial state
and the Africans. It was agreed
at this meeting that Kaunda
would become the first
president of Zambia since his
party had won the majority
seats in parliament. The cited
clause was included as part of
the legal requirements to
constitute the new country into
a Republic. Instead of having
another general election, MPs
were to elect Kaunda as
president of Zambia as a cost
saving measure and to facilitate
the transition from a
Westminster model to a
presidential system. This
explains why Kaunda was first
elected president of Zambia in
1964 by members of
parliament, not voters. As per
practice, the name of the
person who had been elected as
President had to appear in the
Constitution as a record of the
legal establishment of the
Republic.”
and the PF inflicted on Zambia,
are hardcore supporters who
are unlikely to leave PF.
In contrast, many of those
who voted for Hichilema are
not his supporters but people
who were disillusioned with
the status quo. These are the
ones who decisively swung the
vote in his favour. Their
support in future elections is
not guaranteed; it is subject to
good performance.”
In a Facebook post titled
‘Trouble Next Door’, Ng’uni
stated that just after the
elections in 2021, “I wrote in a
UPND WhatsApp Chatsite that
UPND had NOT WON the
elections but rather PF had
lost.”
“Many colleagues in that
group agreed with my
observation but very little has
happened by way of the UPND
harvesting that discontent
against PF and turn it into a
lasting support for ruling
party,” noted Ng’uni who
served as deputy finance
minister in the Frederick
Chiluba government. “Dr
Sishuwa has nailed that
observation in a much more
poignant manner. To be
forewarned is to be forearmed.
His most important observation
is that it is not the presence of
the opposition that matters but
rather the discontentment of
the people.”
But a Thomas Simubali
POLICE investigating a
doomsday cult in Kenya have
now exhumed 403 bodies from
the Shakahola forest, after 12
more bodies were found on
Monday.
Hundreds of people linked to
the Good News International
Church are believed to have
either starved themselves to
death, were badly beaten or
strangled at the Shakahola
forest in south-eastern Kenya.
The cult leader, Paul
Mackenzie, preached that the
world was about to end and
allegedly convinced his
followers to starve to death so
they could see Jesus.
Mackenzie has not yet been
formally charged. - BBC
Mankasi reacted that, “If
someone spent 20 years
believing that HH will never be
president, even when he wins
in 2026, they will come up
with an academic explanation
that HH has not won the
election. Sometimes when
people in a room are talking
about complex theories of the
universe, simply walk out, look
up and enjoy the stars above.
UPND won the elections clean
and clear, they convinced more
Zambians that they had a better
plan than ECL and PF...yes that
is what they don’t want to
accept. Tell them what they
want to hear Doc ..”
In response, Ng’uni stated
that, “Thomas Simubali
Mankisi spend sometime
analysing issues, it will only
benefit your thought process.
We went through this with ECL
where anything that was not in
praise of him was dismissed
with contempt. The rest is
history. Remember what ECL
said about Sishuwa recently?
Dynamite comes in small
packages. Small weaknesses
build to become catastrophic.”
Another Facebooker,
Mwitwa Kapaya Nkandu
wrote, “Thomas Simubali
Mankisi the English in the
writeup are discontent and a
politically alert citizenry. And
the Doc points out that these
things are matters arising. 20
yrs believing one will rule or
20 yrs not believing matters
less to a discontented voter I
guess.”
And Leonard PC Bweupe
stressed that, “For me I have
seen this as the most consistent
position, Zambian voters have
ever held.
From KK to FTJ , from RB
to MCS from ECL to HH...
However, Partyrians never
learn the lesson that people
have the power to choose who
should govern and hence they
remain disillusioned that they
are popular.”
Trouble next door, notes Ng’uni
By Larry Moonze
NEWTON Ng’uni has noted
that very little has happened by
way of the UPND harvesting
discontent against PF.
He agrees with historian Dr
Sishuwa Sishuwa who argues
that “outright opposition to one
candidate rather than genuine
support for the candidate voted
for is becoming the norm
across democracies in the
world. I hope Hichilema
understands that he was largely
the conduit of the revulsion
against the PF and former
president Edgar Lungu and that
his support is tenuous. The 1.8
million voters who supported
Lungu, despite the damage he
Govt is pursuing policies to broaden access to education, says Mulube
By Kholiwe Miti
GOVERNMENT is pursuing policies and
programmes to broaden access to education, says Lois
Mulube
Mulube, who is acting Ministry of Finance and
National Planning permanent secretary, told a side
event co-sponsored by Zambia that was held on the
margins of the High Level Political Forum at United
Nations in New York that education was a
fundamental right for all children as it enabled them
to secure their rights to development and protection.
“We believe that education is an equaliser and
provides a springboard that will enable our generation
of children to actualise their potential,” she said
according to a statement issued by first secretary for
press and public relations at Zambia’s permanent
mission to the UN, Namatama Njekwa.
Mulube said the government recognised that
addressing the intergenerational cycle of poverty
required empowerment of women and girls.
“By empowering women economically, we are
creating an inclusive environment where their
contributions can be fully recognised and valued,”
said Mulube.
Speaking at the same event acting Ministry of
Finance and National Planning development planning
department director, Mwila Daka highlighted some
transformative actions that have been implemented by
the government to ensure no one is left behind.
Some of the programmes are the World Bankfunded Girls Education and Women’s Empowerment
and Livelihoods (GEWEL) Project which aims to
increase access to livelihood support for extremely
poor rural women and improve access to secondary
education for disadvantaged girls identified from
extremely poor households in selected districts.
‘EQUAL PAY FOR
EQUAL WORK’
By Edwin Mbulo in Livingstone
A FERMINIST has called for equal pay between the
Chipolopolo and Copper Queens.
Commenting on President Hakainde Hichilema’s assurance to
the women’s national foiotball team, the Copper Queens, that
government will pay them their bonuses, Joseph Moyo the
founder and president of The African Woman Foundation
(TAWF) said women play football for 90 minutes as per FIFA
requirement just like men do.
“We call for equal pay for equal work. There has been blatant
discrimination of paying the female players less than the male
players. This discrimination is ongoing on in many countries and
continues to be fought,’’ he said. ‘’Being female should never be
criminalised or used against them. It is something that starts in
our homes where our women and girls are treated as second
class citizens going all the way in the corporate world where
women are paid less than the male leaders. It is unacceptable and
an insult to all our women.”
He said women also use similar pitches and goal posts, and
get the same yellow and red cards.
“But then, why should the difference come only in
remuneration, prominence and recognition? It’s a huge
discrimination laced with insult. We must stop it,” Moyo said.
“Male teams attract big sponsorship deals both at team and
personal level. But for the female teams and players they get
crumbs. Let the corporate world stop being complicit to
discrimination by giving less to female teams and more to male
teams; let governments lead by example as well. Only then can
we be seen to treat all human beings as equal.” Moyo said.
He said the girls deserve even far more than the Chipolopolo
boys because they are the first footballing squad to make it to the
FIFA World Cup.
Moyo wished the team success and assured them that they are
not lesser citizens.
He ended by saying: “The value of women and girls is not in
sex or child bearing, but in what they can achieve when
educated, empowered and independent to contribute to society.”
How Banda overcame gender eligibility row
The
undergone humiliating
experiences, with coach
Desiree Ellis - who will lead
African champions South
Africa in the World Cup
- among them.
“I joined this team, who
came to watch me play but
didn’t know I was a girl,” the
60-year-old recalls.
“Back then, I was tiny and
flat-chested and the moment I
did something, people would
say ‘she’s not a girl’.”
“My dad would say ‘pull
down your shorts’ - and I did
- because all I wanted to do
was play.” - BBC
Mast
medication to reduce her
testosterone levels, yet these
had not come down enough by
the time the African
championships started.
Nonetheless, shortly after
the tournament, she was back
playing for Shanghai Shengli,
given the contrasting approach
to gender eligibility rules,
which Kamanga wants
harmonised.
“Just like the offside rule,
where everyone uses the same
rule, so the same should apply
[regarding gender criteria]
from club level right through to
national teams.”
Gender verification is not
new in women’s sport but it is
often controversial, with
athletes from the
developing world
often most
affected.
Today’s
medical
tests often
determine
an
athlete’s
gender by
examining
blood, yet it
was not
always like
this.
Many sportswomen
have previously
SPORT
Faz president, told BBC Sport
Africa at the time.
When asked how Banda
could contest the Olympics but
not Wafcon, Caf’s
communications director told
the BBC “there is no such
decision from the Caf medical
committee”.
Instead, it transpired that Faz
officials had ruled out Banda
themselves after following
guidelines determined by the
African football body, which
- problematically - differ to
Fifa’s.
Caf rules stipulate that all
female players must undergo a
pre-tournament gender
verification test, whereas Fifa
- which leaves it to federations
to ensure players meet the
gender criteria - only asks for
tests if there have been
complaints about a player’s
gender.
“The difference with the Fifa
one is very simple,” Kamanga
recently told the BBC.
“You have to have a protest,
a procedure and the player has
to consent to being subjected to
all those things. I think the Fifa
rule respects the privacy of the
individual more than the Caf
one.”
In the run-up to Wafcon,
Banda - who plays her club
football in China - took
Wednesday July 19, 2023
This time last year, as a major
women’s championships
hurtled into view, Barbra Banda
was crestfallen as Zambia’s star
striker learned she could not
contest the Women’s Africa
Cup of Nations (Wafcon).
The July 2022 tournament
was key as it served as a
qualifying event for the World
Cup, which Zambia had never
reached, and not just because it
allowed the Copper Queens
another shot at lifting the
trophy.
But just a day before the
finals began in Morocco, a fit
and healthy Banda was told she
could not play - on gender
eligibility grounds that she
struggled to understand.
“It was very difficult,” the
striker, 23, told BBC Sport
Africa.
Her enforced absence was
especially puzzling as one year
earlier, she had been contesting
the Olympic football
competition, which is overseen
by world governing body Fifa
- and dazzling too.
Despite being named in
Zambia’s original Wafcon
squad, she was now deemed
ineligible after her testosterone
levels were adjudged to be
naturally overly high.
Fast forward to the Women’s
World Cup, which starts on
Thursday and where Zambia
will face Japan, Spain and
Costa Rica, and Banda is all set
to play once again.
While her confusion - and
many others’ - may be
understandable, so too is her
delight at being allowed to
compete at women’s football’s
greatest event, with Australia
and New Zealand co-hosting
the competition’s first 32-team
finals.
“It’s a dream come true,”
says a relieved Banda, who
watched from the stands in
Morocco as her team-mates
secured an unprecedented third
place, and thus a World Cup
berth, at Wafcon.
“Every player dreams of
playing at a bigger level, and
the World Cup is the highest
level of football, so I’m very
happy and excited.”
In the days after Banda was
deemed ineligible for Wafcon,
chaos over her absence reigned
as both the Zambian FA (Faz)
and the Confederation of
African Football (Caf)
appeared to have differing
views.
“All players had to undergo
gender verification, a Caf
requirement, and unfortunately
she did not meet the criteria set
by Caf,” Andrew Kamanga, the