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TOYING WITH COVID-19 REPORTS that some residents in Mumbwa are harbouring illegal immigrants at a time when the country is fighting against the spread of the deadly coronavirus are extremely disturbing.

By harbouring illegal immigrants, especially from countries with confirmed cases, the residents are rendering Government’s efforts to curtail the further spread of the virus futile.

With the country recording three more confirmed cases in the last 48 hours, bringing the number to 48, it is disingenuous, irresponsible and above all unpatriotic for people to harbour illegal foreigners from areas with confirmed cases.

Chances are that these illegal immigrants are neither tested nor screened as many use informal routes to avoid detection to enter the country.

We say so bearing mind the concerns raised by Mumbwa Central Member of Parliament Credo Nanjuwa that some locals in Mumbwa where habouring illegal foreign elements from countries with confirmed Covid-19 cases such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

We can’t help but agree with Mr Nanjuwa that this was not only a punishable crime but a big setback in the battle against Covid-19 which has so far claimed two lives and was capable of killing more people because of such irresponsible behaviour by some citizens.

The lawmaker was reacting to fears by a senior headman of the Kaonde-lla people of Chief Kaindu’s area in Mumbwa.

Senior Headman Malembeka complained of an influx of illegal businessman especially from Congo who were illegally entering the chiefdom after crossing the Kafue River through Luanshya into Mpusu area.

The senior headman’s fears that his subjects were now living in fear of contracting the disease from foreigners was on firm ground as it was highly unlikely that they were screened or tested for Covid-19.

It was also questionable as to whether these foreigners were adhering to the locally recommended health guidelines.

What is happening in Mumbwa is a great source of concern and should be nipped in the bud. Those found harbouring illegal immigrants should be identified and dealt with in line with the law.

Zambia has already lost two lives to Covid-19 and cannot afford to lose more citizens to the deadly disease.

With Kafue under lockdown and the potential for locally contracted Covid-19 cases to soar, the nation cannot afford to allow illegal immigrants derail the measures by undoing the gains so far made in the fight against the virus.

We therefore urge the police and health authorities to combine efforts and quickly swing into action and address the situation in Chief Kaindu’s area to prevent human to human transmission in the area.

We also agree with Mr Nanjuwa that security should be tightened in the area to prevent foreigners from sneaking into the country without been screened and tested.

But that’s not all, there is need to sensitise the people in Chief Kaindu’s area about the dangers of Covid-19 and the importance of adhering to the recommended guidelines.

Once equipped with knowledge about Covid-19, people would be able to refrain from harbouring illegal immigrants who had the potential to transmit the virus in the area.

It would be advisable for the health authorities to also carry out mass screening and testing in Chief Kaindu’s area given what has been happening in the area to establish the extent of the disease.

Those harbouring illegal immigrants should therefore stop forthwith and join the rest of the nation in the battle against Covid-19.

PURSUING JUSTICE AND EQUITY WITH INTERGRITY

By ROGERS KALERO

OVERNMENT has warned Zambian managers in the mining sector to immediately stop betraying fellow Zambians through “bootlicking” and other tactics on foreign investors.

The state is dismayed that some local managers were betraying their fellow citizens in the mining industry to get favours from foreign investors.

Mines and Minerals Development Minister, Richard Musukwa, disclosed that some Zambians were misleading foreign investors and had reduced themselves to bootlickers to get favours at the expense of the entire country.

The minister was speaking

in Kitwe in the wake of Mopani Copper Mine’s decision to place Kitwe and Mufulira mining units under care and maintenance.

He said the government delegation during a meeting with Glencore, was told that the international firm was relying on the advice from local managers.

"Let me warn our local managers to desist from being bootlickers to get favours from these investors. We have been told that some Zambian managers are in the habit of misleading foreign investors.

Those who are in this habit should stop" Mr Musukwa warned. Mr Musukwa also urged the union leaders not to fold their arms, but continue pursuing their agenda of

ensuring the best for the workers.

Glencore International holds 73 percent shares in Mopani while First Quantum has 16 percent, with Government holding 10 percent through ZCCMIH. Mr Musukwa said the fact that Government had moved in it did not mean that the unions should become complacent.

"The fact that we have moved in does not mean that unions should be watching from the terraces, they should keep the fire burning.

As for Government, it is aluta continua. I think we have to set the stage.

Things must be done properly," he added.

“Now it is compulsory to put the face masks [on],” police inspector general Hillary Mutyambai said in a press briefing Wednesday. “I’ve instructed the police officers to enforce this.”

And following President Lungu’s directive, everyone will now be expected to wear a mask in public places such as markets and bus stations as an effective way to avoid person to person transmission of the virus.

And Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya who disclosed yesterday that Zambia had not recorded any new COVID-19 cases, emphasised the need for citizens to continue adhering to measures and health guidelines.

On the Kafue lockdown operation, Dr Chilufya announced that 131 tests were done and all of them tested negative. He said the number of COVID-19 cases in the country cumulatively remains at 48 cases, with 30 recoveries, 16 admissions and two deaths recorded so far.

Dr Chitalu said despite the end of the lockdown, the screening of residents for COVID-19 was going to continue in Kafue.

Meanwhile, the ruling party has donated K150, 000 and commercial hand washing buckets to the Ministry of Health as contribution towards the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaking when he presented

the donation on behalf of the party, PF Secretary General Davies Mwila made a passionate appeal for all the citizens to strictly adhere to the preventative measures that government had put in place in the fight against Covid-19 and avoid overstretching the Police through disobedience.

Meanwhile, in Kenya, officials have implemented a heavily enforced three-week lockdown that began on March 27 and will last until April 17.

The lockdown includes barring all movement by railroad and air throughout the Nairobi metropolitan area.

Kenya has reported a total of 225 cases of COVID-19, with 10 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

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Floods hit 1.3 million people - Wina

By PETER SICHALI

MORE than 1, 300, 000 people from four provinces have been affected by floods, Vice President Inonge Wina has said.

The Vice President who is on the tour of Northern, Muchinga, North-Western and Eastern provinces to take aerial view of the affected areas, said the floods had affected 40 districts with 24 being the most affected.

Ms Wina said the floods have affected Northern, Muchinga, Eastern and some parts of the Copperbelt provinces.

Ms Wina said K1, 300, 000 people have been left homeless with no food.

She said Government was concerned that the floods had submerged food crops

including cassava , maize, millet among other.

Ms Wina however said Government remained committed to ensuring that assistance was provided to the affected people.

"As government we are aware of the situation and we remain committed in ensuring that people have food, "Ms Wina said. She said hunger was anticipated in flood affected areas and the government would continue working towards ensuring that relief food was provided to the victims.

The Vice President who was accompanied by Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit ( DMMU) Coordinator Chanda Kabwe also handover hand sanitisers, face masks and hand washing facilities to Paramount Chief Chitimukulu

at his palace.

And Speaking when the Ms Wina paid a courtesy call on him, Paramount Chief Chitimukulu commended Government for the strides it was making in providing assistance to the flood victims.

"The fact that you are here to check on the impact of floods is a clear indication of your government's commitment to cushion the impact of floods and as a traditional leader I’m impressed with that," Paramount Chief Chitimukulu said.

Paramount Chief Chitimukulu said he had continued to lobby for assistance from other well wishers and other stakeholders for support.

The Paramount Chief said he was expecting Ndola Lion's club to provide assistance.

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Cabinet upbeat about Covid-19 preparedness

ADEQUATE preparedness has been instituted to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, Cabinet has said.

Chief Government spokesperson Dora Siliya said cabinet was also comforted that test undertaken in Kafue town on a number of citizens on Wednesday all came out negative.

Ms Siliya said the 10th Special Cabinet Meeting chaired by President Edgar Lungu yesterday agreed that

the continued implementation of the measures announced by the President were yielding the necessary results.

She said in a statement that the multisectoral approach put in place by Government was working well.

“Cabinet is also impressed that a number of individuals, institutions and companies had come forward to support Government’s efforts in fighting COVID-19,” said Ms Siliya.

And Ms Siliya said Cabinet

had approved a 13-member board for the Water Resources Management Authority (WARMA) and a 12 member board for the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA).

“Cabinet felt it is prudent that the Board be reconstituted and appointed to ensure that water resources management functions are well superintended over to promote sustainable development in Zambia,” she said.

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RTSA unveils online payment initiative

By NATION REPORTER THE Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has introduced an online payment portal to reduce queues and time to access services such as road tax.

RTSA director and chief executive officer, Gladwell Banda said the online payment portal would enhance accessibility and effective delivery of RTSA services. ‘‘We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the RTSA online payment portal on a ‘pilot basis’ in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and Smart Zambia Institute under an integrated system called the Government Services Bus (GSB) and Payment Gateway. Selected RTSA services are now available and can be accessed online from any internet enabled device,’’ he said.

‘State secures 70 percent of fertiliser’

By SENIYA BANDA

GOVERNMENT has secured over 70 percent of compound D fertiliser and about 45 percent of urea in preparation for the 2020/2021 farming sector, Minister of Agriculture Michael Katambo has said Speaking when he toured depots for suppliers of the farming inputs, Mr. Katambo said Government was confident that all inputs would be available by the end of the July.

“The ministry engaged five input suppliers to supply fertilisers under the Farmers Input Support Programme, and the suppliers have assured us they have stock of almost 80 percent of compound and 45 percent of urea and the remaining quantities is already stationed at various ports in the region,’’ he said.

Mr. Katambo said Government was expected to start the distribution of inputs countrywide by the first week of September.

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Own up, envoy tells former ministers

By AARON CHIYANZO THE previous roles of the eminent persons who today are undermining the current economic status of Zambia are to blame for most of the fiscal woes the country is grappling with Zambia’s envoy to Ethiopia Emmanuel Mwamba has said.

Mr Mwamba said some of the decisions of the eminent persons in the financial sector brought harm to the economy than good.

He was reacting to claims by former Ministers of Finance, Situmbeko Musokotwane, Ngandu Magande, Felix Mutati, and former Minister of Commerce and Trade, Dipak Patel and former Bank of Zambia Governor, Caleb Fundanga in an open letter to President Edgar Lungu and Minister of Finance Bwalya Ngandu that Zambia was in financial crisis and suggesting the primacy importance of clinching the IMF deal.

“I responded to this open letter by urging the group to also acknowledge their previous roles that probably brought harm to the economy than good,” Mr Mwamba said in a second open letter to the group.

And Mr Mwamba has called for a mini economic and public policy Indaba on social media.

He said he was amazed by the response of financial analysis and other stakeholders in the sector to his earlier open letter to the eminent persons, “How We Love Foreign Things”.

“The rich arguments of Alexander Nkosi, Public Policy Specialist, Mwamba Peni II, International Economic consultant Trevor Simumba, University lecturer, Mbinji Mufalo and Economist Noel Nkhoma among others were devoid of insults or demeaning language, but genuinely focused on debating the urgent public matters affecting our country,” he said.

Mr Mwamba said by now Zambians should know that solutions to the problems facing the country would come from themselves and from within us.

He said the belief that some people on high horses from foreign lands would come and resolve Zambia’s challenges should be deemed as self-deception.

Mr Mwamba said Zambia’s GDP had been extremely understated for decades, saying he still contended that the country’s economy was not at the verge of collapse.

He however said Zambia’s GDP might require rebasing to reflect the true economic activities in the country.

Zambia did not apply for IMF facility - Minister

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU and OLIVER SAMBOKO

ZAMBIA did not apply for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) facility which has offered immediate debt relief service as it does not meet the required criteria such as a cumulative loss of revenue and increase of expenditures equivalent to at least 10 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

This explained why Zambia is not among the 25 countries which have received the debt relief under the revamped Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) offered the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Finance Minister, Bwalya Ng’andu, has said.

He however said there were other facilities that Zambia may benefit from as COVID-19 pandemic evolved and which government has applied for.

CCRT is among the many facilities currently being offered by multilateral partners to its member states as part of the response to help address the impact of COVID-19.

“For me to apply for that it will not make sense because we do not qualify, how would apply for what you do not qualify for. So what you do is look at other windows which you qualify for. “That one we do not qualify and that is the reason we are not there. We have not bothered to apply for that because we do not qualify,” Dr Ng’andu said

in an exclusive interview in Lusaka yesterday. Dr Ng’andu explained that having a facility with the IMF, which Zambia did not have, was among the requirements for a country to qualify.

He further explained that targeted countries were those with a cumulative loss of real GDP of 10 percent and loss of revenue and increase of expenditures equivalent to at least 10 percent of GDP. The Minister said a country’s per capital income should be below the International Development Association’s operational cut off (currently US$1,175).

“Zambia does not meet the above stated criteria for eligibility or qualification to access the resources that are available under this facility because its per capital income is well above US$1, 175,” Dr Ng’andu said.

Dr Ng’andu explained that Government had written to all multilateral institutions and was currently waiting for responses.

He cited that Government was discussing with the African Development Bank (AfDB) regarding a facility which was available.

AfDB this month unveiled a US$10 billion Response Facility to curb COVID-19.

“We are also discussing with the African Development Bank, there are a number of facilities which have been made available and we are waiting for a formal letter from them after which we will announce

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‘HH SPONSORED VERBAL ATTACKS ON CHITIMUKULU’

By SILUMESI MALUMO

WE are aware that Hakainde Hichilema sponsored Republican Progressive Party leader James Lukuku to insult Paramount chief Chitimukulu and this is a fact, Patriotic Front (PF) Vice chairperson for mobilisation Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba has said.

And former Zambia’s envoy to Malawi Richard Kachingwe has backed the Bemba chiefs to take sanctions against UPND and its surrogate for insulting Mwinelubemba.

Mr Mwamba said Mr Lukuku was a surrogate of the United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Mr Hichilema and he used to utter disparaging statement against Mwilubemba.

He said at a media briefing yesterday, he was on firm ground that Mr Hichilema sponsored Mr Lukuku.

“I challenge Mr Hichilema to apologise to Mwinelubemba and the Bemba clan for such disparaging statements,” he said.

Mr Mwamba who is also former UPND vice president for administration, warned (From page 1) “I am ready for us to discuss a few more measures with the business community who are going through a rough patch. This is a tough time to do business because your costs are high. We are trying to make sure that businesses are not collapsing.

“Businesses are collapsing because of this [COVID-19] and once that happens, it is very difficult to bring them back. So the measures are intended to achieve that and to sustain the businesses amid this COVID-19,” the Minister said.

Dr Ng’andu indicated that Government had for the past two weeks been meeting with the business community for consultations.

He explained that formulating the measures yet to be announced need consultation before they were implemented.

The Minister said his ministry had been working closely with Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry and the Bank of Zambia among others.

“We have been very active in involving the business community. We have spent

Mr Mwamba that if Mr Hichilema failed to apologise it would lead to sanctions.

“As Bembas we feel like Mr Hichilema is the one who sponsored Mr Lukuku to utter or insult Paramount chief Chitimukulu because we know that Lukuku is Hichilema’s surrogate.

“So if indeed Mr Hichilema my brother he is innocent then him and UPND should distance themselves from that statement and he should come open and

tell the nation that they are not part of it.

“Because if Mr Hichilema does not apologise then that statement will lead to a lot of things. It is a timely reminder to Mr Hichilema to do a wise thing,” he said.

Mr Mwamba said the Bembas would not allow people to dent the image of Mwinelubemba.

He said it was prudent that chiefs who were well respected in the nation should not be dragged in politics.

Meanwhile former Zambia’s Ambassador to Malawi Major Kachingwe said the Bemba chiefs were on the right path to take necessary action against people insulting Mwinelubemba.

He said in an interview yesterday, people especially Bembas could not be paid to insult the Paramount chief and go scot-free.

Maj Kachingwe said respect was paramount, therefore, those who want to demean traditional leaders must face sanctions.

Recently chief Chikwanda of Mpika district told Daily Nation that Paramount chief Chitimukulu has called for Ilafya council meeting and it resolve want actions to be taken against the UPND and Mr Lukuku.

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the last two weeks consulting and talking to them.

“Although it is not possible to implement each and every suggestion, the measures that we agree on are the measures that are coming directly from them [business community] and effecting them,” Dr Ng’andu said.

Three weeks ago, Dr Ng’andu offered tax relief measures to key economic sectors such as mining and manufacturing.

Other taxes announced were suspension of excise duty on imported ethanol for use in alcohol-based sanitisers and other medicine related activities subject to guidelines to be issued by Zambia Revenue Authority.

Government also removed provisions of Statutory Instrument No. 90 relating to claim of Value Added Tax on imported spare parts, lubricants and stationery to ease pressure on companies, among others.

And Government has started

rolling out a stimulus package to help ease liquidity pressure currently being faced by the business community which has been caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This means that the all those businesses who need support to cope with the suppressed economic activities can access this through their commercial banks.

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been encouraged to access the facility.

The K10 billion Targeted Medium-Term Refinancing Facility (TMTRF) is meant to strengthen the financial sector resilience in the wake of COVID-19 which has potential devastating impact on the domestic economy.

The TMTRF which took effect on Wednesday this week, is also meant to enhance financial resilience.

The primary purpose of the Facility, therefore, is to strengthen and enhance the resilience of the financial

sector and support economic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

BoZ Deputy Governor for operations, Francis Chipimo, said agriculture, manufacturing, energy and tourism industries would be prioritised for financing under this facility.

Dr Chipimo said in a letter to all Heads of Financial Service Providers that a certain portion of this facility would be made available to support nonfinancial corporates in other sectors as well as households.

“Under this facility, the BoZ shall provide liquidity to eligible financial service providers for onward lending to viable and priority sectors of the economy. The priority sectors shall be as identified in the Seventh National Development Plan,” he said.

The Facility is an exceptional Advance available to FSPs that will satisfy the eligibility criteria as defined under Section five (5) of these Terms and Conditions.

Zambians in China safe, says Malanji

By OLIVER SAMBOKO and MOSES SINJWALA NO Zambian national living in China has been affected bythe reported racist mistreatment of Africans in the Chinese city of Guangzhou or in any part of that country, Minister Joe Malanji has said.

He said in an interview that the Zambian embassy in China was in touch with all Zambians living in that country and that no one had ever reported of been maltreated by either the local people or authorities.

Some International media outlets have been reporting that some Africans in the commercial hub of Guangzhou are being evicted and discriminated against amid coronavirus fears with state police ordering bars and restaurants not to serve clients who appear to be of African origin.

But Mr Malanji said as far as the Ministry of foreign Affairs was concerned, all Zambian nationals living or visiting

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China have valid documents and in that country legally.

He said while his ministry was not aware of any individual or Zambian family in China who has been affected by what is been reported in the media, as a precaution measure, the Zambian embassy in China has been directed to ensure all nationals were safe.

Mr Malanji said the truth of the matter could be that some nationals from some African countries who had their visas expired were the ones who were having challenges to access accommodation

or were running in the street to avoid detection.

“What is there is that any country, if your VISA expires no hotel is supposed to allow or accept you in because by virtual of your expiry of your documents then you are not supposed to be in that country,” he said.

Mr Malanji assured Zambian nationals in China and locals who have their relatives in that country not to worry of fear about anything because their Government through the Foreign Ministry and the Zambian Embassy in Beijing was always at hand to protect their interests.

And Mr Malangi said the Ministry was aware of the Zambians who had been caught up in the various travel restrictive measures implemented in different countries in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

He said through the Missions, the Ministry was working to find a solution to the matter and stranded Zambians were encouraged to get in touch with the Missions abroad.

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TREAD CAREFULLY OVER KCM - KATELE

By SILUMESI MALUMO

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OVERNMENT must not rush to engage an investor to take over Konkola Copper Mine (KCM), but find a suitable partner who will not abuse resources, former Minister of Finance Katele Kalumba has said.

Dr Kalumba said Government should carry out a proper economic analysis of an investor that was likely to take over KCM operations.

Zambians, he said, did not want any investor who would abuse the people and their resources and abandon them when issues go bad.

He said in an interview yesterday that a strategic partner should respect the Zambians and the laws that guided operations of the mines.

Dr Kalumba said investors must be able to operate in a transparent manner so that even the people of Zambia benefited from the resources.

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it Vedanta abused our goodwill by suggesting that we were not smart enough and we did not have enough mental capacity to appreciate how things work.

"So for now we need to be smart enough to find a partner who respects us and respect the fact that resources are not there to be abused and make us look like we have no capacity to run our mines. We have experts who can do that and turn the economy on the right path," Dr Kalumba said.

Early this week, Mines Minister, Richard Musukwa, said Government was concluding the process to engage a strategic partner to take over KCM. But Dr Kalumba said it was prudent to scout around for a partner who would bring integrity to relationship with Government.

“Partnership, corporate investment or even donor relations must be based on respect of integrity for each other,” he said.

Kalabo in Covid-19 scare LIBONDA rural health centre in Kalabo district has been shut down after three people who reportedly attended the funeral of a Covid-19 patient in Kafue were rounded up yesterday and put under quarantine at the clinic.

The incident has sparked a major health emergency in Western Province with Ministry of Health officials and the police panicking on how the trio managed to travel that far on public transport without being stopped.

Now a high-powered team of health and police officials are expected in Libonda to transport the three people to Mongu for quarantine and testing.

The trio allegedly escaped the massive security dragnet ordered

by President Edgar Lungu around Kafue town and boarded a bus in Lusaka on April 14 and travelled to Mongu after attending the funeral of their relative who is believed to be the man from Kafue who died at UTH and was only discovered to be positive after his death.

According to Ministry of Health sources in Mongu and Kalabo the three people’s disappearance was first noticed by Ministry of Health investigators in Kafue who put up a red alert for them.

Health officials and the police were ordered to stop all buses going to Western Province and search for the trio.

The hunt for them was launched on April 15 the day of the lockdown in Kafue after it was discovered that they were missing from the funeral house which had been put under quarantine.

Mongu police hunted for the trio in Mongu and Limulunga without success after it was learnt that they were travelling to a village near Libonda royal village.

On Thursday it was learnt that in a bid to escape the dragnet the trio had decided to travel by dug-out canoe from Mongu to Libonda.

Ministry of Health officials in Kalabo ordered the police and Libonda clinic staff to ensure that the trio did not enter their village.

When the suspected Covid-19 escapees finally arrived at their village at Siton’u, about 5km from Libonda, the alert villagers ordered them not to disembark but go straight to the clinic where police and health staff were waiting for them.

It is reported that as soon as the canoe in which they were travelling appeared fellow villagers shouted to them not to come near the village but head straight for the clinic, which they did.

As soon as they arrived at the clinic other patients were ordered to leave immediately, the clinic was closed and the trio was locked in one of the wards awaiting the emergency team from Mongu. ZANIS.

Horizon Trust wants stay discharged

the school.

Horizon Education Trust is seeking an order to quash the Government’s decision to compulsorily acquire the premises.

It is also seeking an order of prohibition to stop Government from taking possession of the premises, among other reliefs.

It stated that this was an appropriate case for the court to grant a stay of implementation of the decisions, which Government was likely to effect pending the determination of the matter.

But the Attorney General in response asked the Court to stay proceedings in the matter pending determination of the State’s application to compel Horizon School to pay costs which the State incurred in defending the first court action which the school later discontinued.

High Court judge in charge Getrude Chawatama stayed the proceedings until Horizon school pays costs occasioned to the State under the discontinued cause no. 2019/hp/1867 in the Lusaka High Court.

But Mr Mbula has now asked the court to discharge the order to stay the proceedings arguing that the State was using the stay to its advantage.

By CHINTU MALAMBO HORIZON Education Trust Limited has asked the Lusaka High Court to vacate its order, halting proceedings in the matter where it is seeking permission to apply for judicial review against government’s decision to compulsorily acquire its school in Kabulonga.

Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Horizon Education Trust Limited, Sainot Leslie Mbula has argued that the stay must be discharged because the State has used the stay of proceedings to create conditions favourable to itself as it has failed to compensate the school for the immovable property.

This, he said, was despite having valued the same at approximately K18 million (K18, 000.

000.00).

This is in a case where Horizon School had sought leave of the court to challenge Government’s decision to compulsorily acquire stand number KABUL-N69565/196 Kabulonga which houses

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By AARON CHIYANZO

Mr Kang’ombe

Citizens with special needs invited on board

By SANFROSSA MANYINDA

REPRESENTATIVES of persons living with special needs in Kitwe should come up with a data base of all their members, Mayor Christopher Kang’ombe has suggested.

Mr Kang’ombe said this was meant to ensure that persons living with special needs were not left out in the fight against the Corona virus.

“Once a database which is inclusive of all person living with disabilities in Kitwe is in place, through my office, I can then lobby for protective gear such as face masks, gloves and hand sanitizers to be distributed among them” he said .

The Mayor said this when he met representatives of people living with special needs.

Mr Kang’ombe also called on representatives to take a role in sensitising members on the pandemic, in order to curtail misinformation in the township.

He said the council was ready to provide transport to persons with special needs, who are willing to volunteer in the sensitisation programme of fellow members.

The Mayor said he would engage the District Commissioner to consider the association for the food supplements and relief mealie meal being disbursed through the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit.

‘PF leaders must explain Govt programmes’

and district levels to wake up and do their job PATRIOTIC Front leaders instead of concentrating at district and provincial on unnecessary squabbles. levels should help “For now they are explain Government sleeping because they programmes to are not doing what they communities so that are supposed to do. people understand They have to prepare and prepare in case of people at the grassroot of bad times, PF member what might come ahead Lemmy Bwalya has so that no one blames advised.

Government for what may Mr Bwalya observed that currently, some party come.

“They must explain leaders were focused on what Government is fighting fellow members instead of helping to build doing, because there are people who are still saying the party.

Government is not doing He said in an anything despite all this interview that it was development being rolled the duty of the party in out,” he said.

Government to ensure Mr Bwalya said when that people understood all programmes that were he becomes a district being implemented by the chairman, which he was aspiring for, all State. leaders under him would Mr Bwalya said some be directed to explain people now blame Government programmes Government even for natural disasters or issues to communities.

And Mr Bwalya that were beyond the described the just ended control of Government Lusaka district intraparty because party leaders elections as a fraud. were not doing their job.

He said the election was He said infighting would deliberately rushed so not help grow the party that other people could be but that making people side-lined in effort to usher understand Government in preferred candidates. programmes would Mr Bwalya called for the ensure the party remained the number one choice for nullification of the election, saying that it was not free Zambians.

Mr Bwalya called on the and fair.

PF leadership at provincial

By AARON CHIYANZO

LOCAL contractors who were duped out of over US$ 1 million by an Indian firm, Jaguar Overseas in 2014 have now agreed on a monthly payment plan with the foreign firm to clear the dues owed to the contractors.

This follows interventions by Jaguar Overseas board of directors after years of unsettled legal battles with the Zambian contractors who were engaged to construct 208 health posts in Central, Eastern and Copperbelt Provinces in 2014 using their own money but to date have not been paid.

Several firms, which were subcontracted by Horizon Contractors Limited, the main local contractor are now threatening to sue following the failure to honour contractual obligations, two years after works were certified complete.

Jaguar had partnered with Horizon Contractors Limited because it did not have a construction licence to build the health posts.

Horizon also sub- contracted more than 100 local firms, with an agreement for the firms to use their own money to carry out the works, then receive a contractual payment upon completion of the works. When contacted, one the directors for Horizon Contractors, Winson Siame said Jaguar had finally agreed to dismantle its debt after intervention by its board of directors.

Mr Siame however said modalities were still being finalised on how the obligations would be cleared.

“We have agreed that Jaguar will start paying us something every month until the debt is cleared,” he said.

The more than US$19 million project for the construction of the health posts and installation of essential equipment was signed between the Zambian

government and Jaguar Overseas on July, 3 2013.

According to a complaint letter addressed to the Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, the sub- contractors were supposed to be paid their dues for the executed works, two weeks after certification of completion by government inspectors.

Most local sub-contractors are, however, still being owed, with some not paid at all, despite the completed works being certified in 2016.

In the letter, Horizon Contractors Limited stated that Jaguar Overseas was reluctant to release money despite being paid by government through Exim Bank of India.

The letter states that Jaguar Overseas had only paid the company 59 percent of the works executed despite receiving about 87 percent of the contract value from the Zambian government.

Allocate more water to Zesco during Covid’ Please

comply, begs chief

By OLIVER SAMBOKO energy expert Victor Hazemba has urged the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) to ALLOCATE more water to Zesco for power generation to reduce power load shedding during COVID 19 in the country following increased water levels at Lake Kariba Dam, The Kariba Dam Mr Hazemba said Zesco should be allowed to increase its hydroelectricity generation at the Kariba North Bank Power Station (KNBPS) to at least 600 megawatts per day to cushion the heightened power deficit the country was experiencing due to shut down of Mamba coal power station which was undergoing maintenance.

He said the country was in dire need of power energy to propel its industries and increase production following the decision by some neighboring countries to close their border with Zambia.

“Some of our neighbours have partially closed their borders to us which has led to prices of some imported goods to go up and imagine if this COVID -19 continued for another year, meaning we have to start planning in terms of increasingly production of essential goods in case we are completely isolated to the rest of the SADC region,” he said.

Mr Hazemba said the Zesco has indicated that it had already used up a reasonable amount of the allocated 11 billion cubic liters of water for power generation and that in case ZRA decides not to allocate more

By PETER SICHALI

water to the utility company, KNBPS risks shutting down.

He also suggested that ZRA, the managers of the Lake Kariba and the upper Zambezi should find ways of recycling back into the lake some of the water from the lower Zambezi River to sustain the levels in the man-made lake.

And according to latest data obtained from the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) water levels at Kariba Dam in Siavonga had risen to 478.57m (21.43% usable storage) for power generation. Last year on the same date, the Lake level was almost 2m higher at 480.45m translated to 35.17% live water.

Lake Kariba is designed to operate between levels 475.50m and 488.50m (with 0.70m freeboard) for hydropower generation.

In February this year, the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) allocated only 22 billion cubic litres of water to both Kariba Noth and Zimbabwe’s South Bank Power Station for power generation after an early decision that saw the two power stations reducing power generation to 250 megawatts each.

Training will enhance agro – Mbala DC

By PETER MALASHA THE establishment of the Farmers Training Centre (FTC) will enhance agriculture development in Mbala, District Commissioner Kedrick Sikombe has said.

Mr Sikombe said the FTC infrastructure had been handed over to Government for use and would now offer modern farming technics

and knowledge to farmers.

He said the FTC would benefit the community because 75 percent of people in the area were farmers who were mostly into maize and beans cultivating.

“What farmers lack most is knowledge. So, we want to start conducting trainings so that our farmers here can learn new technics to do farming, spending less and

producing more,” he said.

Mr Sikombe noted that most small-scale farmers lacked technical knowhow on how to go by but would now have access to information. The DC appealed to farmers in the district who will have opportunities to receive various training techniques from the facility to put them into practice so as to enhance crop production.

CHIEF Mwenechifungwe of Mafinga has advised his subjects to comply with measures announced

by Government to avoid spread of Coronavirus.

The traditional leader commended Government for the measure put in place which he said would go a long way curb the spread of Covid-19.

Chief Mwenechifungwe advised his subjects to avoid unnecessary travels in order to protect themselves and other people from contacting the disease.

He said the preventive measures were encouraging and gave hope to citizens that the pandemic would eventually be eliminated.

“We want to encourage citizens to support these measures that Government has put in place and ensure that they stay at home to avoid spread of Covid-19,” Chief Mwenechifungwe said.

The traditional leader advised bar owners to observe 14-day closure period as announced by the Head of State.

And Chief Mwenechifungwe has advised against politicising the coronavirus as it was a global calamity.

“We also call on all politicians, especially those in opposition not to politicise the pandemic, instead they should get involved in the fight and work with the Government of the day,” Chief Mwenechifungwe said.

Croc farmers deadline 6 set for boost 6 - MAZ ZRA want ‘ZAMBIA BANKING ON CHINA FOR RELIEF’ Rufunsa gol Friday proper 6 17 April, 2020 investment advances …chamber to analyse sector outlook guidance Friday Friday 327April, 2020 March, 2020 Friday 13 March, 2020

AfDB CRAFTS COVID-19 MINING INDABA ON CARDS Z GLOBAL ECONOMY HEADS FOR RECESSION FIGHT PACKAGE

By NATION REPORTER

THE removal of the 10 percent duty on export of crocodile skins has made positive impact Bysome BUUMBA CHIMBULU on the viability of the crocodile business, says

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU the Zambia Crocodile Farmers Association GOVERNMENT should (ZaCFA).

Association spokesperson and Kalimba Farms penalties for non-compl AMBIA is banking chairman, Bill Thomas, said Zambia’s crocodile on taxinvestment, returns for the ne farmers were poised to upscale on China’s positive production and exports of skins following months as most compan response to benefit Government’s intervention to suspend the export will be unable to meet th from calls by the duty on the industry.

Mr Thomas said the farmers who survived the say statutory deadlines, World Bank Group (WBG) negative financial impact ofBUUMBA the 10 percent export By CHIMBULU Zambia Association of and International Monetary duty, now hope to focus on improving the quality By BUUMBA CHIMBULU

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU Manufacturers (ZAM). of the skins, increase their capacity, and upgrade Fund (IMF) to official credABOUT million fo and create facilities to enable localUS$ value3.5 addition ZAM vice president THE growth is exitors global for suspension of debt for the local and international markets.

HE mining indushas been invested in the By BUUMBA CHIMBULU pected to gofor intohighly recession slow would pandemic which, while South,had Chipego Zulu, payments indebt- scramble together contingen- appeal by the WHO, He said historically crocodiles been seen as lo at a subdued 1.2 percent in 2020. is considering procurement of machiner this year, try an outcome far a pest and dangerous but Zambian farmers had to arrive in Africa, is spreadbe used by the world body to cy measures, including comGovernment to provide ed countries.

IMF however stressed that worse thanto during 2009 holdthean indaba mercial lockdowns, in desper- equip regional memberThe and millingthat plants turned them into a renewable resource could to b ing expected quicklytoand straining countwo10 months grace perio HE African global growth was re- isearn WBG and the IMF have global financial crisis, the the country foreignset exchange and createdistrict jobs where it will present up in Rufunsa bound to 5.8 percent in 2021, well already fragile health systries to prevent, detect, invesate efforts to contain it,"AfDB Development Bank submissions of tax retur in rural communities.

International Monetary credjointly urged bilateral to Government all issues imConsolidated Gold Comp above trend, reflecting the normal“The Zambian crocodile industry has the Fund (IMF) has said. tigate, contain and manage tems,"AfDB said. will unveil a said in a statement. companies. itors of (AfDB) the poorest counBy BUUMBA CHIMBULU potential to lead the world The market.

In the valueisation of economic activity from pacting the sector assistance whose company Chief The IMF indicated that outThe grant would contribcases of COVID-19.

Last Thursday, the institu- concessional, financial “We propose the rela trying to ensure that there was the substantial tries to offer debt relief with chain, crocodile skins benefit the manufacturing, very low levels.

It explained that the global growth was projected look this for yearmember-states is gloomy.

Executive Officer,said.

Faisal agriculture and tourismTHE sectors,” Mr Thomas ute toward a US$50 million tion raised an US$3 billion in package of compliance with statu advanced economy group was foreequal supply and demand on of that close to 40 percent is in immediate effect as most of Zambia Revenue at This –3.0 percent in 2020, butto the is according Keer, said the targeted go Mr Thomas said the crocodile industry had huge cast indito grow at 4.5global percent, while WHO Preparedness and including to lessen deadlines for the next tw would to 5.8 percent the market. them,rebound suchZambia as Zambia, were a three-year social bond, the the Eurobonds, those are Authority (ZRA) has advis potential to position Zambia as aplants global power inprodu Zambia Chamber of Mines milling would growth for the emerging market in 2021.

Response Plan, which other the economic and social That is handlers to provi the farming and supplyall ofmonths. crocodile skins.

He further explained that you still drawing support fromimthe proceeds from which will go vidual investors and those exporters and and developing economy group (ZCM) ChieftoExecutive Officer, 300 already grammes of gold per According the World He United said Zambian farmers supply partners including the pact of theOutlook coronavirus, as it to help alleviate the economic cannot really reschedule. period to in enable two organisations were International Development ofgrace consignments transi was forecast atthe 6.6 percent.

Economic crocodile skins to leather companies like Louis into 7.

Sokwani Chilembo.(WEO) day that translated Nations system, also Gucci sup-and manyreport approves $2 millionthisemer- impact of the pandemic. compliance.

It said the rebound in 2021 de- are aware that market depression “So it does not really directAssociation (IDA). to any nearest Vuitton, big international fashionscus released on Wednesday theonmining industry which Mr Chilembo said the “There are too manypended issues.

Dr Ng’andu when givkilogrammes per month. critically the pandemic brands. week, theis growth forecast was IDA It is the largest dollar-de- ly affect gency assistance for the “This is arising from inporting. caused by the highly indebtsubstantial part of the This meant to help offices immediately for The grant would needed to be corrected planned indaba would address So we are hoping we engage ing the economic status of Mr Keer said explained “Government’s support and positive promotion fading in the second half of 2020, marked down by liquidity more thanneeds According to the AfDB, the nominated social bond debt World Health Organisation penalties due to compan ed countries would temper stock, for China yes. countries with guidance. contribute toward a oncontainment renewable industry crucialmilling and similar to ha allowing be yetof this “We efforts have to not written many issues points impacting the the country mentioned that with Government soon theis gold plants six percentage relaWHO Africa region would use the repayment (WHO). being unable toexporters meet st with supply and demand on other industries long outstanding But it is million a good WHO statement to tackle challenges posed by launched in international capThisofincludes gradually scaled back and restoring tive to the October 2019 and US$50 doing sowould be extremely mining industry such as the Government would review all the issues impacting the to them, we will be VAT a capacity of processing beneficial, but investor confidence. themarket. funds to bolsterunderstand theclaims capacAfDB indicated that and it ital markets to date. deadlines submissio especially for China consumer because andthe the coronavirus outbreak agents who for wish towe reque January 2020 update. that with thetonnes COVID-19 pandemic it would soon.

Right now there is no five percent import duty on the submission from ZCM. mining sector because the per day and Preparedness and economic policy The IMF said 2020 “Itofis 41 a call showing that we a lot allow time for an growth assessment for re-entry of their goods ity African countries on Additionally, AfDB on for China, we owe them“Significant would soon unveil a financial tax returns,” Ms Zulu would be difficult to expect too much at this time,” sa from the ministry. copper concentrates. is notPlan, very actions good athave feedback “We have not yet received outlook operational next month. already been taken Response which rate for the group excluding Mr Thomas. are in a crisis and depressed in so if they respond positive that of the crisis impact and fiZambia and consignment infection prevention, testing package to enable govern- Tuesday this week approved an interview. across the world, focused on ac“We are pushing, the situHe was expressed concern Mr Chilembo said in an response but we are hoping to all,” He the China marked down 5.8 that Mr Thomas said ZaCFA wasindicated consideringthat setting other partners including Zambia ormanagement. depressed Africa be a plus for us,” Professor nancingand needs for eachtocounwhose customs declaratio and ments businesses un- $2 million in emergency as- will Value Addedtannery Tax is du commodatingation publiccase health care there upina are tannery or cooperate with an existing percentage points relative now is that so the chamber had not yet re- engage soon. interview. company was expected t the said United requirements,will while limiting the lead to macroeconomic in anNations interview. try.January were fullywithholding processed but o that build the local manufacturing base of tax AfDB expected thewould WHO forhoping the World Health Saasa dertake flexible responses to sistance the 18, the WEO projection. many things that need to be ceived feedback from the Mr Chilembo indicatWe are to engage obtain the mineral proces value-added inhave order not to boost amplification toAfrica economic activity ItCommenting explained that on adverse system, are alsosaid and when leather products Professor Saasa this instability this, an Organization (WHO) to regoods yet10, made to globally boost surveillance lessen the of economic and social PAYE/NAPSA on inc local processing corrected that and production.

Ministry Finance regarding would soon because the issues are ed that the chamberand license by the end of this the financial system. in the industry confidence effects were likely there is macroeconomic instawould be a relief as economist, Oliver Saasa, said inforce its capacity to help move exist. systems, procure and distribimpact of the pandemic.

Tax on 21 and excise du supporting.

And member, Desai, said “The of projected recovery is just one,assumes so we arefarms trying to an Suresh their submission even after many in the sector so we re- soon write to the Ministry month as itcrocodile was in the to further weigh on economic played important role in the Zambian bility by these highly indebted it would allow countries to country.

Zambia would benefit more This is in view of the ute laboratory test kits and reAfrican countries contain the "It is estimated that Africa on15 of every month. these policy are effecdramatically tightening global fi- sort IMFof said. Finance regarding thethat prospects. seeactions if we can get together and Mr Desaiprocess. the Minister, Bwalya Ng’andu, indaba. need toinhave some communities. said the crocodile industry in preventing widespread firmit affects nancialCOVID-19 conditions, a plunge in bilatIMF indicated that even with a oftiveseveral countries then the default on their loans with “Zambiaand has very little if “Among China responded positivedevelopments arising from agents, and support coordina"It is one part pandemic. will require billions of dollars Ms Zulu also suggest emerging market employs people from rural communities, withproceed present all of the issues.

If we promised that Government He emphasised that there small indaba to go through all “We will then bankruptcies, extended job losses, commodity prices, which will have sharp rebound in the remainder of and developing economies, all equilibrium in the global marpenalties.

He explained that ly to this call as most of the eral loans.

Much of our loan global effects of the Covid some clinics, churches and tiondeal mechanisms at national Bank many interventions to help just The grant, which is in re- were to cushion impact of Government should with one issue, itfarmers may having builtthat would look the into the matter. them. and system-wide financial strains,” a severeofimpact on economic ac- the year and sizable fiscal issues support,impacting countries a health Professor Saasaeducation said. facilities. and the IMF were ket,” country’sface debt was crisis, with that is commercial and it is non the WBG

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….will plunge to -3 percent Prof Saasa

“So it does not really directly affect substantial part of the debt stock, for China yes. But it is a good statement especially for China because for China, we owe them a lot so if they respond positive that will be a plus for us,”

for exporter

US$50 million

disease as many countries sponse to an international member countries address the and regional levels. severe external demand shock, tivity in commodity exporters,” the the economy was projected to grow the IMF said.

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OPEN AIR BURNING: ILLEGAL AND PUNISHABLE BY LAW WHY PAY FOR A PLASTIC CARRIER BAG? — ZEMA EXPLAINS OZONE DEPLETING SUBSTANCES: UNDERSTANDING THE VALUE OF TREES

THE word ‘fridge’ or ‘refrigerator’ is common in our everyday conversations.

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Under the Amendment, all countries will gradually phase down HFCs by more than 80 percent over the next 30 years and replace them with more environmentally friendly alternatives.

Zambia is yet to ratify the Kigali Amendment but the process is already underway.

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Zim to start phasing out use of US dollars at the end of 2022 HARARE - Zimbabwe will phase out the use of foreign currency such as US dollars for the payment of local transactions at the end of 2022, according to a currency roadmap released on Wednesday.

The move falls under measures put in place to support Zimbabwe’s five-year de-dollarisation strategy up leading up to the year 2024, seen by Fin24.

Government recently reintroduced the use of foreign currency for local transactions, barely a year after outlawing its use in favour of the Zimbabwe dollar.

The decision to allow the use of foreign currency for local transactions, despite the earlier ban, was meant to ease the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged economies across the globe.

While for the remainder of this year and the following two

years till 2022, institutions and individuals will be allowed to pay for goods and services in local Zimbabwe currency or foreign currency.

In 2023, all goods and services in Zimbabwe will be “chargeable in local currency and payable in local currency using free funds” reads the strategy.

Meanwhile, payment of salaries in foreign currency will be scaled back, except for expatriates or NGOs, where it will still be allowed.

Currently, payment of salaries in foreign currency by local companies to local employees can be up to 50 percent at the discretion of the employer, but this will be reduced to 40 percent in 2021, 30 percent in 2022, 20 percent in 2023 and up to 10 percent in 2024. Selected fuel dealers will be allowed to sell fuel in forex under the Direct Import Scheme, which specifies different regulations applying to fuel sales using forex. In another major policy move, Zimbabwe plans to gradually reduce exporters’ retention thresholds “to build national forex reserves.”

Previously, retention thresholds had been criticised as too high, where exporters were paying up to 45 percent in fees to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in exchange for local currency, sparking calls to allow them to retain foreign currency instead. – FIN24.

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UBAI/RIYADH/ WA S H I N G T O N - Finance officials from the Group of 20 major economies agreed on Wednesday to suspend debt service payments for the world’s poorest countries from May 1 until the end of the year, as a group of private creditors also backed offering debt relief.

The moves to freeze both principal repayments and interest payments will free up more than $20 billion for the

COVID-19 RELIEF

…G20 agrees to temporary debt standstill for poorest countries countries to spend on their health systems and help tackle the coronavirus pandemic, Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan said.

Saudi Arabia is hosting the G20 meetings this year.

The debt standstill

affects the world’s poorest and least-developed countries, as defined by the World Bank and the United Nations, as long as they are current in their debt service payments to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

The initiative is part of efforts to bolster the global economy amid the coronavirus outbreak, which is pushing the world into the deepest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

– REUTERS.

WASHINGTON - The United States has agreed a roughly $25bn rescue package for 10 of the country’s biggest airlines as travel plunges due to the coronavirus.

American Airlines, United, Delta and Southwest are among the recipients. The money is to be used for payroll and will be provided through a combination of low-cost loans and direct grants.

Congress had planned for the aid as part of its roughly $2 trillion emergency relief bill last month but airlines had been negotiating the deal.

Under terms outlined by the US Treasury Department last week, major airlines were expected to repay about 30 percent of the payroll funds they receive.

Congress had also included conditions when it crafted the emergency aid law, such as prohibitions against involuntary furloughs and bars on reducing worker pay and benefits until the end of September.

The terms also limit share repurchases until the end of September 2021 and executive pay until the end of March 2022.

US Treasury Secretary

Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday said the airline deal would “support American workers and help preserve the strategic importance of the airline industry while allowing for appropriate compensation to the taxpayers.”

“We look forward to working with the airlines to finalise the necessary agreements and disburse funds as quickly as possible.”

Confirmation that the airlines would use the payroll bailout lifted industry shares in after-hours trading, sending American Airlines up more than eight percent and United Airlines up more than seven percent.

Global airlines group IATA has forecast more than $300bn in losses related to the coronavirus and warned that some 25 million jobs are at risk.

In the US travel has dropped more than 95 percent, leading to widespread cancellations, fleet groundings and billions in losses.

However, the industry had faced criticism for spending money in recent years to repurchase shares, instead of investing the money back into the company or its workers. – BBC.

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Dear Editor, ALLOW me to pay tribute to many corporate institutions that have joined the call to fight the current global scourge Covid-19. Let me also encourage the Ministry of Health and team which is spearheading the fight not to relent but fight on.

Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Chilosha Lusambo is at C5 Kafue Estates.

OPERATION LOCKDOWN KAFUE We are exiting Kafue now after a very successful operation. We managed to lockdown Kafue and carry out mass testing. We had overwhelming response and massive cooperation from the residents. The entire Kafue CBD was deserted as people stayed home to be tested and some went for facility-based testing.

Special thank you to the medics and volunteers who gave their expertise and time and Member of Parliament Mirriam Chonya.

The Ministry of Health will compile the results and release official statistics arising from today’s operation.

COMMENTS Fidel Bin Theo: Job well done. We appreciate your selfless service to mankind. You are one in a million. People will learn to understand you and your work culture. I salute you, together with Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya. Safe journey back home.

Nizah Nachilyango: Well done ba Kafue. Proud to be one.

We thank you our minister and our MP for the successful operation. Our God will definitely see us through. Home Sweet home, ati Kafue sayonda.

Honourable Kisola: Thank you very much sir, you’re working for the people of Zambia and you’re a good leader but one thing that I think may ruin your name is mixing your good works with politics.

Daniber Lungu Mwewa Patrick: Iwe! relax. Nichani vikosha so?

Francis Sikasula: Well done ministers, medics, other multi sectoral groups including Zambia Police Service but most of all the Kafue residents for availing themselves for the Covid-19 tests.

Charlie Walks: Kubuta uku. How do you leave vendors and marketeers scot free in Lusaka and you think you are fighting coronavirus? Waloba ilyauma...you are just firefighting and not controlling Covid-19. Wait until one vendor or marketeer is hit by coronavirus. When we reach there don’t come and start asking from the public for solutions.

Kang’ombe Mike: Great job BCL. I admire your zeal, enthusiasm and dedication for what you do. You are a rare breed. Job well done and thank you.

Larry Chama: Selfless leader. God will also protect you the same way you are protecting other lives. Job well done.

Eddie Mushabati: Thank you sir. On this one you are doing a good job... just extend such efforts to other aspects too. Thank you so much.

Shoobe Terry Mwanahiba: Thanks for showing and performing your role rightly as we know this Covid-19 is non selective, we really appreciate the gesture..but I have a question for you, was this lockdown for a day because it’s not specified?

Eng Malcolmz Makungu Chishimba: Job well done. But you didn’t do screening in C7.

Maggie Mwandunga: Well done Mr Lusambo. You have gone beyond and above the call of duty on this coronavirus issue. As you carry out your duties, may the Lord protect you too.

Francis Chisha: You’re doing a commendable job sir! One behalf of all Ndola residents we need you back in Ndola as we give you another mandate next year.

Honourable Simunji Simunji: BCL, thank you for the successful operation. Hope there was no abrogating the UN human rights, I mean torturing and whipping innocent people.

Phalless Musimuko: Congrats. The leadership you have is from God may He richly bless you and everything that you do you are the most hard working minister, you have a heart of true leadership be blessed.

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THE GLENCORE IMPACT ON MOPANI Dear Editor,

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INING giant Glencore, which is based in Switzerland, registered in Jersey and listed on the London Stock Exchange, is one of the world’s largest extractive companies, and a producer and marketer of over 90 percent commodities worldwide.

The Guardian has reported analysts in the City of London to be “astonished” to learn that Glencore controls 60 percent of the world’s traded zinc market and 50 percent of copper. Glencore had revenues of $233 billion in 2013 almost 10 times greater than Zambia’s GDP. In Zambia, Glencore manages Mopani Copper Mines, which consists of four underground copper and cobalt mines, a concentrator and a cobalt plant in Kitwe and an underground mine, concentrator, smelter and refinery in Mufulira.

Mopani employs around 20, 000 people and is majority owned by Glencore, with other stakes held by Canadian mining company First Quantum and by the Zambian government, which holds a 10 percent stake.

Glencore has become one of the most criticised companies in the world for tax avoidance, among other issues, and its Zambia operations are no exception.

In 2011, a report written by accountants Grant Thornton and consulting firm Econ Pöyry, which was commissioned by the Zambia Revenue Authority, was leaked in Zambia.

The report, an audit of Mopani Copper Mines, contained a number of explosive findings, notably that Mopani’s operations included tax planning strategies “equal to moving taxable revenue out of the country.”

It alleged that there had been an inexplicable increase in Mopani’s declared costs between 2006 and 2008, and inconsistencies in the production volumes declared.

In addition, the audit alleged that Glencore was engaging in transfer pricing activities and that its sales of copper to related parties were “not in accordance with the agreement disclosed” by not being at arm’s length.

Rather, the audit suggested that Mopani sold copper at artificially low prices to Glencore in Switzerland under a deal struck with the firm’s UK subsidiary. The metal was then sold on, allowing Glencore to take advantage of Switzerland’s ultra-low tax regime.

The audit concluded that “the Mopani cost structure cannot be trusted to represent the true nature of the costs of the Mopani mining operation.” In addition, the audit alleged that Mopani had “resisted the pilot audit at every stage.”

I would also like to encourage my fellow Zambians not believe some careless people who are issuing discouraging statements of saying the disease is only for the rich. My brother and my sister, you will be a dead person before knowing you have lost your life to Covid-19.

The disease knows no race, economic status nor political party, it takes all that are heedless to preventive guidelines.

Zambia, let us fight this war together and winning is certain.

ALINUWILA, Isoka.

Glencore responded to the allegations in the audit report, saying: “We refute the conclusions of this draft report and we question the reasons for the manner in which it was leaked. This draft report contains factual errors and inaccuracies. It is based on broad and flawed statistical analysis and assumptions.”

Glencore also claimed that the auditors had failed to factor in rising fuel and labour costs over the period, and that all transactions were conducted at an arm’s-length basis and at internationally agreed prices.

The leaked report caused a storm in Zambia, as well as considerable international attention. In 2011, five NGOs filed a complaint to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) against Mopani, claiming that Glencore’s activities were violating the OECD’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.

Yet the OECD’s final ruling was inconclusive, simply concluding that the two sets of parties agreed to disagree. The risk of tax avoidance in the case of Mopani is heightened by the fact that the mine’s ownership structure is mainly located in secrecy jurisdictions (Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Switzerland). Mopani is 90 percent owned by a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, which in turn is majority owned

by Glencore Finance, registered in Bermuda, which in turn is owned

by Glencore International of Switzerland.

War on Want’s analysis of Mopani’s annual financial reports raises serious concerns as to whether the mine is declaring accurate sales prices for its copper production.

In the five years 2007-11, for example, Mopani’s annual reports suggest that it produced $4.3 billion worth of copper. Using copper prices given by the US Geological Survey, however, this production would have been worth $6.8 billion – a difference of $2.5 billion.

The discrepancy may be accounted for by Mopani’s “third

party tolling,” i.e. supplying other parties with its copper production, meaning that its own sales figures are reduced. This requires further investigation by Zambian authorities, given the possibility of mining companies’ under-reporting sales in order to reduce their taxable income.

As noted, Mopani produced 101, 000 tonnes of copper in 2011, when average copper prices on the London market were $8.813 per tonne; thus its production was worth around $890 million before costs.

Yet Mopani paid the government a paltry K374 million ($77 million) in taxes overall, which included ZERO corporate income tax at all, and K140 million ($28.8 million) in royalties.

Glencore stated in 2012 that Mopani had paid $425.1 million in taxes and royalties to Zambia since Glencore bought its 73.1 percent stake in the operation in 2000.

Swiss-based commodity traders such as Glencore are the subject of particular scrutiny when it comes to tax avoidance because of the role Switzerland plays in global commodity trade.

‘Swissploitation’ highlighted this Swiss role and the mystery of where Zambia’s copper exports actually go, and at what price.

Research undertaken in 2013 showed that in previous years up to half of Zambia’s copper exports had been destined for Switzerland, according to Zambian customs, but according to Swiss import data, most never arrived.

In addition, exports of copper from Switzerland have much higher declared prices than those from Zambia.

If Zambia had secured the same price for its copper exports as Switzerland in 2008, for example, the value would have been nearly six times higher, adding $14 billion to Zambia’s GDP. The suggestion is that ‘Swissploitation’ is resulting in countries losing billions as a result of the way that commodities are priced. - ‘ANONYMOUS.’

Can the Holy Spirit lie or mislead - a biblical perspective Dear Editor, ALMOST all Christians have the same view about the Holy Spirit also called the Holy Ghost and that is that He is God, with only the Watchtower's viewing Him as a force hence their translation of Him with an "It" in their New Translation Bible.

What or who then is this Holy Spirit? Where did He come from? When does he enter into a soul to abide in it? What role does he play in a Christian's life?

What is his importance?

What is His relationship with GOD the Father? And finally, the question of many to investigate T.B. Joshua's assertion, Can the Holy spirit lie or mislead?

Well, I will answer all the questions with chapters and verses so that everyone can read and prove them.

1. What or Who is the Holy Spirit? - He is the Spirit of God Roman's 8:9, 1Corinthians 2:11, 3:16. He is also the spirit of Christ Acts 16:7, Romans 8:9.

2. Where did he come? - He came from Heaven, from the Father John 14:16, 26. 15:26.

3. When does he enter into a soul to abide in it? - When you repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ Acts 2:38, 19:1-7, Ephesians 1:13.

His name is Spirit of Truth and speaks only the truth. He hears from the Father John 14:17, 16:13-15. It is left up to each one to decide if Joshua has lied and blasphemed by accusing the Spirit of God. It can only be two ways, either God really lied or Joshua is a liar. Enjoy your Tuesday.

MBANGA IRVINE ILUKUI, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

United States of America.

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By Michael T. Kaufman; Special to The New York Times LUSAKA, Zambia, March 18 - Zambia, which devalued its currency by 10 percent and announced a series of austerity moves this week, has apparently met the tough and painful terms set by the International Monetary Fund as conditions for a $390 million loan to shore up its badly buffeted and sagging economy.

Buffeted by Fall in Copper Prices, Austerity Steps May Help Lusaka Get $390 Million From I.M.F. The moves came as Zambia, which once had the highest living standard in black Africa, found itself in an awesome tangle of economic, social and political crises. As a supplier of bases and steadfast diplomatic backing for black nationalist Rhodesian guerrillas, the country has been a target for military attacks by the Salisbury regime from across the Zambezi River.

The new austerity programme comes on top of an extremely spartan budget adopted earlier this year that has cut social services and raised taxes.

Transport problems on the country's only operating railroad have intensified, further snarling imports and exports.

Furthermore, under the impact of the worsening economy and increasing unemployment, the crime rate has risen sharply. The police recently have made sweeps aimed at marauding bands whose violence has touched off a small but ominous emigration of foreign technicians from the copper belt.

Chronic Shortages Too

Finally, there are the chronic shortages. These have gone beyond luxury items and now include such items as meat, medicine and fertiliser.

Though these difficulties are connected, the measures announced in Parliament by John Mwanakatwe, the Minister

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in fact has had to more than double its indebtedness to $1.4 billion to offset losses.

What makes the economic problem here even more acute is that Zambia alone among black‐ruled African countries is highly urbanised, with more than 40 percent of its six million people living in towns and cities.

Depends on Imported Food

The key to staving off such nightmares rests with copper. In 1974, when copper prices were at their peak, the mining industry produced over 90 percent of the country’s foreign exchange and employed 16 percent of the national work force. of Finance, focused largely on improving the position of the copper mines. The mines, which are the economic heart of the nation, have suffered greatly as world copper prices have hit the lowest point in 25 years.

In his presentation, the minister sought to depict the austerity package in its best possible light. “The devaluation of our currency,” he said, “will allow an increase in revenue to the mining industry of some $37 million.”

This amount is approximately half the annual loss sustained by the mines in the last year, losses that have been supported by heavy government borrowing. The minister also disclosed that other measures that he did not describe would further reduce the operating deficit of the mines, 51 percent of which are owned by the Government.

More Dismissals Possible

Some diplomatic and banking sources here were speculating that the unspecified measures might include dismissals of workers, a recommendation thought to be among those urged by an I.M.F. team that visited here last month, dismissals would be difficult for the government to swallow, particularly since this is a presidential election year.

The minister also reported that there would be wage controls, including a yearlong freeze on all salaries in the public sector.

Despite the distaste with which many Zambian politicians regarded the I.M.F. proposals, the politicians were reportedly won over to them by the recognition that in the absence

of the loan the country might be forced to default on its debt service payments, further damaging investor confidence and perhaps affecting other aid.

The key to staving off such nightmares rests with copper.

In 1974, when copper prices were at their peak, the mining industry produced over 90 percent of the country's foreign exchange and employed 16 percent of the national work force. Copper generated a third of the gross domestic product and more than half the Government's revenues.

Model of Stable Development

In those days copper was selling for about $2, 400 a ton.

Vast social investment policies were undertaken, including free education and medical services. Zambia was regarded

as a model of stable African development.

The next year the bubble burst.

With the onset of the worldwide economic recession, copper prices, historically subject to wide fluctuations, fell sharply in what was expected to be a temporary slump. Zambia was forced to begin borrowing.

The slump persisted and, as an economic analyst here noted “there is no end in sight.”

Now the price of copper is less than half the 1974 level and it actually costs more to extract it than is received from its sale.

But the mines, as the sole source of foreign revenue and the major employer, are obliged to maintain productivity. The government has not received a penny in revenues from the mining operation for a year and

Subsistence farming, which elsewhere on the continent sustains millions, supports a relatively small number here.

There is a high dependence on imported food. As President Kenneth D, Kaunda has observed, “We are partly to blame, but this is what comes from the curse of being born with a copper spoon in our mouths.”

One severe consequence of the downturn is that with the shortage of foreign capital private suppliers have had to wait up to 15 months for payments to be approved for remittance by the central bank.

As a result, some businesses have been reluctant to send needed goods. It is an oddity that 70 percent of the foreign reserves go directly for materials to keep the mines running.

A widespread shortage of meat has reportedly resulted from an epidemic of a cattle‐ killing disease that has spread as farmers have been unable to obtain animal disinfectants.

It is assumed that a major share of the I.M.F. loan would be used to clear up the backlog of remittances for the items in short supply. Another part will go for the payment of debt service, staving off the possibility of default.

VOICES OF COVID-19 ‘HERO AND HEROIN’

By ANDREW PHIRI

ZAMBIA heard the voices of two Covid-19 frontline workers on Tuesday who are representing many others working around the country in a concerted effort to prevent new, diagnose and manage confirmed cases of the novel Coronavirus Disease.

Two Infectious Diseases Registrars Dr Luchembe Musisye and Dr Rabbecca Chiyala who completed the three weeks cycle at Levy Mwanawasa Teaching Hospital Isolation Centre expressed their take on the assignment.

Having tested negative and are asymptomatic to COVID-19, the duo have started the two weeks quarantine at the Coutyard

Hotel in Lusaka which by invocation of the Public Health Act has since been declared a Hospital/ Isolation facility.

In considering the magnitude of the pandemic, Dr Luchembe sees his calling as a worthwhile service to the nation at a critical time.

“It is an honour to be called to work in the front line” said Dr Luchembe “So much is happening and going on in the world. When the call came that we stand up and serve, it was a privilege and an honour for us to go in.”

Having completed his first long shift, Dr Luchembe is ready to renew his strength and “go in” again.

“We stay committed as front line workers” he added “through the cycle, after we rest, we shall keep going; fighting for our nation and we

Minister of Health Dr Chitalu Chilufya (right) speaking to frontline health workers, Dr Rabbecca Chiyala (centre) and Dr Luchembe Musisye (left) at the Courtyard Hotel Isolation Facility in Lusaka on Tuesday April 14, 2020 - Picture by WEZZY SIMBEYE).

shall keep serving.

In his soft but passionate remarks, when Minister of Health Dr Chitalu Chilufya and

In conveying President Edgar Lungu’s message to frontline workers, Dr Chilufya said: “We want to appreciate you for your bravery, patriotism, hard work and commitment to the people of Zambia.

Zambia appreciates you and we all stand in awe!”

Levy Mwanawasa Teaching Hospital currently has 100 frontline workers (doctors, nurses and paramedics) who take a three-week long shift in the facility without contact with the outside world.

other dignitaries paid homage after touring the Courtyard Hotel Isolation facility, Dr Luchembe said “as we rest, we get stronger and we will go in again!”

A striking testimony also came from Dr Chiyala who in her preamble hails people who are adhering to preventive measures thereby not ending up at the isolation facility.

“This all, wouldn’t be possible without the support of people around,” she said “The people who are staying safe at home and minding social distancing.”

She is happy to have come

out negative further attributing the outcome to adequate provision of personal protective equipment in the facility.

“Working there and coming out negative was not easy,” shared Dr Chiyala. “This is because we got proper protective gear and had a whole safety zone secured for us.

Dr Chilufya described the frontline health workers represented by the two doctors as ‘heroes and heroines’ of Zambia in the Covid-19 fight.

“When you hear 30 cases have recovered, it is out

of their (frontline workers) hard work, commitment and bravely they put in,” said Dr Chilufya.

In conveying President Edgar Lungu’s message to frontline workers, Dr Chilufya said: “We want to appreciate you for your bravery, patriotism, hard work and commitment to the people of Zambia. Zambia appreciates you and we all stand in awe!”

Levy Mwanawasa Teaching Hospital currently has 100 frontline workers (doctors, nurses and paramedics) who take a three-week long shift in the facility without contact with the outside world.

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nothing to do, remained on lean wage bills.

However, gloomy as this background may sound local authorities can still do better.

They are not as poor as they are projected only if bosses looked outside the box.

Just the other day, Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa revealed that the local authority had Malaria is another disease which has taken millions of people in managed to pay salaries Africa. Yet its prevention is basic and simple; cutting of long grass from bus station collections in burying garbage and contaminated pools of the around capital. dwellings, Other than that, water and sleeping councils manage marketsunder where treated mosquito nets. substantial income is raised.

Even then officials insist that the money from current with us for much longer than services remain a drop in the anticipated with the worst for ocean compared to competing Africa still to come. demands.

Why would anyone then Many people will remember flout life saving measures that in the 1970s and part of the meant to halt such a serious eighties, councils used to run and dangerous outbreak from departments called commercial spreading and killing more undertakings. Here in Ndola, the unit operated buses, bars people? taverns and manufactured Africa,ofZambia included is Zesco was born as the sore energy firm. Water companies emerged throughout the country so the provision water and electricity uniforms which they supplied to replete with fragile economies went to the new entities chiseling substantial incomes from the local authorities. schools. and limping health systems.

While President Michael Sata Every is therefore outletseffort employed electricians, than transferred because they that have attended interviews does not have to look for offices was governor of Lusaka, the needed to ensure theand spread carpenters, plumbers tarnished the image of the say there are now fewer to pay ground rents. council ran one of the most should never reach the of levels bricklayers.

While some these institutions and denied them complaints leading to a lot more The levy is paid through an successful bus services whose itwere hastaken in other partscompanies of the by new income. people accessing land. It would MTN mobile phone facility. anWhile upsurge of she-been routes stretched upToday to Eastern married couples.

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He and all councils in the country places.

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With Cinema you the councils and political parties be PAYMENTS homes.

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So,Big every one needs to curb the spread of theto chew. guns in councils Covid-19Information has persisted is the update them any time. Thus plained of how social media Many will remember that adapt Zambia Services to benefit from the good coronavirus strain thetheir should learn will to live within myth among societies (ZIS) and some Zambia News journalism has been a major has not been helpful to some of even in the pre-internet era evilnation’s of new media. health councils system to means.

Unless run as that it is(ZANA), a mere flunow thatreborn is parents used to be wary of their investigations. beneficiary of the new media.

Agency unmanageable levels. and Yet that businesses complaints the likely to evaporate in thinstory air.

The current saga of gas- what sort of literature children Hicks In the political and corpoas ZANIS, to get your Sikazwe is aby communegative publicity about them can be avoided discarding Since the government dictated to the production of- rate arena, leaders do not have sing residents in houses and read or watched on the few sets nications and Media will never cease. destructive myths. consul-

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MYTHS, EPIDEMIC OUTBREAKS AND THE SPREAD

The current global coronavirus pandemic is an outbreak that is capable of wiping out an entire generation if communities continue ignoring expert advice. One of the reasons Covid-19 has persisted is the myth among some societies that it is a mere flu that is likely to evaporate in thin air.

Many people find making payments using the phone much easier as they will not spend additional money to get to the civic centre or bank to make remittances.

The local councils should not end there.

There is need to look at the abandoned ventures mentioned in which they were involved in the past and see which one could be revived to contribute to the revenue bowl.

announced closure of to wait for a right of reply if a public buildings that has dis- of television available at the fice in Ndola the or Lusaka. bars, clubs and If there was the noneed ZIS or particular media outlet pub- charged the ire of mobs who time. For instance I grew up to maintain some ZANA offices thenlevel you ofneed- lishes or broadcasts something by the police count have killed in a Jehovah’s Witness family distance code named socialto they are not happy or disagrees 43 people, is a case in point in Chingola. My brother was ed to negotiate your way distance it is shocking to see the spread of the coronavirus will depend on how the community supports the crowds millingitaround allnote that Halting Nevertheless, is fair to over the years improved reforms are being noticed. For instance Ndola City Council never regulations by abiding to measures spelt out to halt the spread. Zambia will pay a high over even drinking beer. allocates plots any more if they have not been paid for. This is a progressive move and a way to run business. price if people continue to flout what are purely adaptable measures.

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NDOLA City Council should collect garbage in the markets on time to ensure high standards of standards in the trading places, Bwana Mkubwa Member of Parliament Jonas Chanda has said.

Dr Chanda observed that garbage was not being collected on time and urged the local authority to boost the collection exercise.

He said that marketeers in his constituency were complaining that the local authority took long to collect garbage adding that the heap of dirt was just piling up. He was speaking in an interview with the Sun newspaper in Ndola yesterday.

Dr Chanda said however that most of the marketeers were observing the hygiene standards as well as measures aimed at preventing the spread of the

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“I am going round in all the markets in my constituency as well as households to ensure that people in the area are fully sensitized and understand how the Covid-19 is spreading. The only problem I have noticed is that garbage in the markets is not being collected on time, even the marketeers are complaining,” he said.

He added that in the awake of the Covid-19 outbreak, there was need for good hygiene standards in the markets, hence the council must double up efforts.

The MP expressed happiness with the compliance levels among people and that bars and nightclubs in his constituency had been closed as per directive.

Dr Chanda said that those who were still not complying would face the wrath of the law regardless of their status or political affiliation.

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DESPITE enhanced COVID-19 sensitisation, some residents of Zambia compound near Garneton in Kitwe say they did not know anything about the pandemic and preventive measures.

Most of the residents interviewed by the Daily Nation yesterday said that they did not have proper information on both the pandemic and preventive measures.

Others said that they did not how the virus was transmitted nor how to protect themselves as well as others.

“We do not get full information on this matter and we only listen to people talking about it on radio. We need people to come here and explain to us in person. At times we just hear that people from the council came to sensitize but only at the market,” one of the residents Joyce Lwenje said.

Ms Lwenje complained that Zambia compound residents only heard about the preventive measures from media personnel that went to find out if there was compliance in the area. She said that she did not understand what social distancing meant and did not know how residents would protect themselves because they did not know what to use.

Many other residents interviewed expressed ignorance about the pandemic and that they thought it affected people who were far away.

Some of the residents in the poor settlement said they had heard about it but paid no attention while others had a casual approach and made fun of it.

Another resident, Mariah Chanda, called on the local authority to help them with hand washing basins to be placed in central places in the compound and not in the markets as the case was. “We are willing to follow the preventive measures guidelines all we need is proper guidance and information,” Ms Chanda said.

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holistically evil and bad omen for human kind, it has its own major lessons for humanity.

Firstly, it has united the human race like never before, to confront the human-life threatening virus.

Covid-19 has awakened humanity’s incipient collaborative spirit. Humans are cooperating today like never before, through research for an antidote against covid-19, for with human preservation!

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The clock was ticking and million lives. The 1918 Spanish us that our human race’s bly more black Americans, who tails, lived dangers, influenza claimed in excess of vulnerability to pandemics and have on therisks, fringethreats, of the spiking death reports were intricacies, opportunities and running riot on the interna17 million to 50 million, and even even extinction is not peculiar to country’s national health social more, lives. resources available one group, country, continent or security system, haveand died.those tional media; which incessant- The ministries of Health and Information under ministers Chitalu Chilufya Doradevastating Siliya respectively, ministries Indeed, and the most race.and Ourother susceptibility to illness to The be mobilised.

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Although covid-19 is a IN human history, the world has never been so challenged into being as scarily threatened as we have witnessed during the coronavirus pandemic which started in China and in no time spread like a wildfire all over the globe.

As you read this article, Europe, the momentary epicentre of the pandemic is already passing on the epicentre mantle to the United States of America.

Most, likely, but God forbid, the epicentre may in no time gravitate to Africa! The World Health Organisation (WHO) has since declared covid-19 a world pandemic.

This means covid-19 is a viral affliction of unprecedented magnitude. It has in various ways affected every human being, human activity and the entire human race.

In comparative terms, covid-19 has no equal and may not have one in the near or distant

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President Edgar Lungu responded to the incessant calls by citizens and other people to declare a national lockdown with a statement that Zambia was effectively already under lockdown given the lockdowns announced by the neighbouring states.

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Covid-19 pangs NAIROBI - Kenyan travellers say they are being held in a government quarantine centre after the expiry of their mandatory 14 days of isolation following their return from abroad because they cannot pay hefty bills for their stay.

More than 30 people are being held at Kenyatta University since coming back to Kenya on March 23 just as the country introduced mandatory quarantine for travellers entering the country.

Kenya announced its first case on March 12; so far it has had 225 Covid-19 infections and 10 deaths.

Those arrivals who could pay went to hotels; those who could not were taken to dormitories in university accommodation.

Initially, they said, they were told their stay there

would be free, but officials later told them they would be charged and they should ask their families to settle the bill.

The government has not explained why people are being charged for being in quarantine. Kenyan government spokesman Cyrus Oguna did not return calls and messages seeking comment. Neither did the Health Ministry. Those being held include nannies and housekeepers who had been working in the Middle East before their employers withheld their wages - saying the workers posed a risk of spreading the coronavirus before flying them home, penniless. “We are stranded,” said 29-year-old Monica, who was a nanny in the Gulf state of Qatar. Her employers withheld three months of wages and put her on a plane home, she said.

On Tuesday, Amnesty International accused Qatar of illegally expelling poor migrants without paying their salaries. Qatar said the migrants were taking part in “illegal activities.”

- REUTERS.

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MINISTER FACES ALCOHOL CHARGE M ASERU - Police in Lesotho say they will charge a minister caught on CCTV allegedly buying alcoholic drinks during a nationwide lockdown imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus.

Lesotho - like its bigger neighbour South Africa - has banned the sale of alcohol during the lockdown.

A video which appears to show Lehlohonolo Moramotse, the Police and Public Safety Minister, receiving two boxes from a liquor store went viral online last week His deputy in the ministry,

Paseka Mokete, said investigations had been completed and the police were ready to charge Moramotse, EWN news site reports.

Lesotho has not recorded a single case of Covid-19, but the landlocked country is completely surrounded by South Africa which has recorded more than 2, 500 cases, one of the highest on the continent.

Meanwhile in Kenya, the anufacturers of Hennessy cognac have warned Kenyans against believing that consuming alcohol will protect them against the coronavirus.

This comes after the governor of Kenya's capital, Nairobi,

said he was including some bottles of cognac in food handouts for vulnerable people.

“Hennessy would like to stress that the consumption of our brand or any other alcoholic beverage does not protect against the virus,” the alcohol manufacturer said.

In a video, Governor Mike Sonko urges people to drink alcohol, apparently misinterpreting WHO advice.

The WHO says drinking alcohol does not protect you against the coronavirus, but it does refer to using alcohol-based gel to clean your hands.

In Iran, some people died

in March after false rumours spread that drinking alcohol would help prevent the Covid-19 virus.

And a Nigerian doctor has died from Covid-19 after contracting coronavirus while managing an infected patient at his private clinic.

The doctor was admitted to Lagos University Teaching Hospital on Monday and died on Wednesday, according to the hospital's director Chris Bode. The Nigerian Medical Association said Dr Chugbo Emeka, was exposed while managing a patient who died on Friday.

– BBC/REUTERS/AFP.

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11 die after taxi and truck collide on highway JOHANNESBURG - Eleven occupants of a minibus taxi were killed in a head-on crash with a truck on Wednesday afternoon on the N2 between Mount Ayliff and Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape.

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula confirmed the collision, which occurred on the highway at about 16:30, further resulted in the two occupants of the truck sustaining serious injuries. – NEWS24.

Gunmen kill 9 in central Nigeria attack ABUJA - Gunmen on Wednesday killed nine civilians in an attack on a village in central Nigeria, said police, in what one politician describe as the latest outburst of intercommunal violence.

The bloodshed followed a rise in tensions between the local Irigwe community and Fulani herders over alleged cattle rustling and land disputes. – AFP.

Police shoot dead knife attacker in Paris

Drug smugglers hide $1.3m worth of cocaine in UK face mask consignment

LONDON - British customs officers have seized 14 kg of cocaine worth more than $1.25 million that smugglers had hidden in a consignment of face masks in the UK customs zone of the Channel Tunnel.

The cocaine, wrapped in 15 packages, was found in boxes full of face masks when a Polish-registered van bound for Britain was searched, the Interior ministry said. A 34-yearold Polish man was arrested. – REUTERS.

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PARIS - French police shot and killed on Wednesday a man who attacked police officers with a knife in the city of La Courneuve in a northern suburb of Paris, a police source said.

The attack took place around in the afternoon when police officers were on bike patrol. The source could not elaborate on the knife attacker’s motives. – REUTERS.

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HE Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) says it will punish clubs found abrogating government guidelines banning public gatherings.

FAZ vice president Rix Mweemba warned that said failure to heed guidelines from Government may attract sanctions.

He was reacting to reports indicating that some football clubs on the Copperbelt have continued to hold secret training sessions even after Government discouraged public gatherings to stop the spread of the Covid-19.

Mweemba stressed in an interview that clubs are not allowed to train because sports activities have been suspended by the government to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.

Mweemba said clubs found abrogating the guidelines

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…says clubs training secretly face sanctions from government will be punished according to the FAZ Constitution.

“President Edgar Lungu has as directed that any club found going against the decree will be punished according to our constitution.

“We shall not leave any club found abrogating the rules from the government that will be an insult to the President.

All the instructions given must be followed until he says so

himself.”

Mweemba said it is important that clubs heed to guidelines from the government to prevent the spread of the virus which has claimed a lot of lives globally.

He said there is no reason for clubs to panic because all the clubs have been affected and the league will kick off from where it ended.

On Sunday, Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya emphasised

that sports activities remain suspended during the extended 14 days ban on public gatherings. Chilufya said government will not promote sporting activities that bring people closer together and promote human to human transmission of the virus.

He encouraged athletes to comply with government directives and conduct their trainings from home to stop the spread of the pandemic.

Teams to be tested, then isolated when training resumes THE Italian football federation (FIGC) has recommended that the players and staff at Serie A clubs should be tested for coronavirus and then isolated in training

camps when they begin preparing for the re-start of the season.

The recommendation will be among the guidelines drawn up by the FIGC's medical committee so that the season, on hold since March 9 because of the coronavirus outbreak, can safely restart, the FIGC said in a statement. – SUPERSPORT.

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