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ZRA busts K4.2m tax scandal

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU in Nakonde TWO trucks carrying goods in excess of K4.2 million in taxes have been intercepted at the Nakonde One Stop Border post by the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA).

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Let NGOs, clerics show leadership over missing Hatembos Nawakwi Ms Nawakwi said it was disheartening that Pheluna and her brother, Milton even missed the funeral of their blood brother Conwell who died last week.

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President Lungu orders immediate 50% fuel allocation to Zambian drivers

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has directed the Ministry of energy to immediately implement the 50 percent transportation of fuel allocated to Zambian drivers without delay.

President LUNGU says the 50 percent allocation should

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Transport Minister Mutotwe Kafwaya says President Lungu has also directed that the delivery of fuel to various destinations should immediately start.

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Mr. Kafwaya has told journalists at a media briefing

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that President Lungu has also directed his ministry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Energy to inquire into the treatment of Zambian drivers both in Zambia and at various ports outside the country. ZNBC

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ESPITE fuel depots and tankers being full to the brim, filling stations in Lusaka do not have fuel because tanker drivers unions believed to be working under political influence have parked their trucks.

Petroleum transporters have confirmed that trucks filled with fuel have been parked.

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I want development for N/West Province, says Kakoma

By OLIVER SAMBOKO

I WILL dismantle UPND in North-Western Province to ensure a landslide victory for President Edgar Lungu and the Patriotic Front (PF) in the August 12 general electiosn, former UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma has said.

He said the people would be casting their vote for the PF in appreciation of the development President Lungu has taken to the region since assuming office.

He is in the province for series of PF mobilisation meetings and assured the people of President Lungu’s commitment to developing the region and improving their living standards.

Mr Kakoma Mr Kakoma who was until last week a very senior member of UPND, was speaking in a phone interview from Zambezi.

He said the resolve by the people of North-Western Province to rally behind President Lungu was as a result of the unprecedented development the PF government has continued to deliver not only to the province but to the whole country.

He said the people of North-Western Province, felt betrayed by the UPND for sidelining him in the recent appointments in the National Management Committee.

Mr Kakoma during his meetings, a number of people from the UPND defected to the ruling party.

He said now that he had joined the ruling party, he was well placed to lobby for development and that this could only be achieved if the people there supported President Lungu and his government.

Man, 62, commits suicide over debt

By PETER SICHALI

A-62-YEAR-OLD man in Chama has committed suicide after failing to settle debts.

Mr Precious Banda of Zuwalimo village in Chief Kambombo’s area committed suicide by hanging himself using a chitenge material.

Muchinga Province Commissioner of Police, Lizzie Machina, said the incident happened around 12:00 hours in Chama.

Ms Machina said Mr Banda’s wife reported that her husband had hanged himself last Friday.

“The now deceased person was a Malawian national who relocated

to Zambia in 1997 where he married and stated growing tobacco,” she said Ms Machina said it is believed that Mr Banda accumulated a lot of debt from different people who started pursuing him to get tobacco for the debt he owed.

She said he was reported to the Community Crime Prevention Unit (CCPU) members, who apprehended and handcuffed him, much to his embarrassment.

“He was giving out his tobacco to the people he owed which angered others who had given him a loan to help with the farming inputs, who then reported the matter to a CCPU member.

“They handcuffed the now deceased person who couldn’t bear the embarrassment of being handcuffed in public and decided to take his own life,” Ms Machina said.

Ms Machina said the matter was now being handled by Malawian Police who visited the scene earlier as Banda was a Malawian.

AVOID UNVERIFIED INFORMATION ON COVID-19 VACCINE RISKS - CHANDA

By KETRA KALUNGA

HEALTH Minister Jonas Chanda has warned against unverified reports in the media on the perceived risks on AstraZeneca, the Covid-19 vaccine.

Dr Chanda said the data being published in the media which is nonscientific and without critical analysis has the potential to drive further the myths about the vaccine which the ministry is working hard to dispel.

He said in a statement that the benefits of AstraZeneca outweigh any perceived risks by the public according to global health experts.

“Most of the data shared online are not science-based and typically issued without critical analysis and if shared in its raw unverified form, may cause alarm and drive even further the very myths and misconceptions and

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conspiracy theories,” Dr. Chanda said.

He has urged the media to ensure that only verified information on the vaccine is published and the ministry would always be ready for verification

to give out verified information.

Dr. Chanda assured the ministry with its partners are closely following developments globally to ensure that only high-level scientific evidence is utilised for decision making.

He said the country is particularly following developments in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and other neighbouring countries that have situations similar to Zambia's context and have started rolling out the Covid-19 vaccine programme.

Meanwhile, Dr. Chanda said the country has recorded 130 news cases out of 3, 166 tests conducted bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases recorded to date to 88, 930.

He said the country has recorded five new deaths bringing the cumulative number of Covid-19 related deaths to 1, 220.

Kalaba’s bitterness towards Lungu will destroy him, says Musoma

By KETRA KALUNGA

IT’S nonsensical for some political leaders to equate President Edgar Lungu’s leadership qualities to the behaviour of his friends, says Zambia Republican Party (ZRP) president, Wright Musoma.

Development Party (DP) leader, Harry Kalaba recently criticised President Lungu for having friends who in his view were not worthy of his friendship.

But Mr. Musoma said President Lungu had the right to have friends because before he is President, he is a human being.

He said in an interview that Mr. Kalaba’s bitterness

towards Lungu would ruin his political career because it has already blinded his ability to judge others positively.

Mr. Musoma said political leaders should stop being petty by making senseless statements through the media about President Lungu and his friends because that was his private life which should be respected.

He said Mr. Kalaba’s pettiness has blinded his sense of judgment to an extent of resorting to making senseless statements about the Head of State and his associates.

He said Mr. Kalaba’s recent sentiments about President Lungu and his

friends were insignificant because the Head of State is a human being who before being President had friends and it’s obvious that some of them are still friends.

“Mr Kalaba is not making sense by equating President Lungu’s leadership to the type of friends he has, the President is a human being, before coming Presidents he had friends, childhood, and close friends and he has them,” he said.

Mr. Musoma said a great leader does not abandon his friends and the President has proved that he is such a leader in keeping his old friends closer.

Indian investor to pump US$8.9m into Texila University

By NATION REPORTER AN Indian firm, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, is set to invest about US$8.5 million in the expansion of Texila University in Lusaka from the current US$3 million.

Zambia’s High Commissioner to India, Judith Kapijimpanga, has expressed happiness over the decision by the Indian investors.

She said this when Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Manager for International Relations, Rahul Varma, held a meeting with the diplomatic staff in New Delhi with a view to seek higher education opportunities in Zambia.

This is contained in statement issued by First Secretary Press and Tourism at the Zambian Mission in India Bangwe Naviley.

Ms Kapijimpanga said the Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) was assisting Texila University to find land to build a

state of the art campus valued at $8.5 million.

She said Texila University was currently planning to increase student population from 814 to 10, 200 in the next five years.

Ms. Kapijimpanga said Texila University had created jobs of which majority were Zambians in line with the Zambianisation policy and would create 350 jobs by 2023.

Ms. Kapijimpanga urged Kalinga Institute to consider investing in Zambia just as DMI St. Eugene University from India built a huge campus in Zambia.

She said over 500 Zambians were currently in Indian universities and praised Texila American University and DMI St. Eugene University for taking the investment to Zambia to lessen costs.

Ms Kapijimpanga said Zambia was one of the best investment destinations in Africa, after ranking fourth most peaceful country in Africa, according to the 2020 Global Peace Index.

Mealie meal exports won’t affect food security, say millers

By PETER SICHALI MILLERS have dispelled reports that Government’s decision to lift the ban on export of mealie meal is likely to increase food insecurity.

Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) president Andrew Chintala said Zambia had enough maize stock that would last up to October 2021.

Mr Chintala said with the 2021 crop marketing season approaching it was important for those holding on to the maize to offload it on the market.

He said holding on to the market would have negative effects on prices of mealie meal next year.

“The proposal we did to Government to allow for export of mealie meal was to ensure that prices of the commodity on the market stabilises,” he said.

Mr Chintala said prices of mealie meal on the market have reduced since the commencement of exports.

He said millers that are exporting mealie meal have been told to subsidise prices of the commodity on the local market and maximise on the export.

Mr Chintala said the prices of the country’s staple food were expected to reduce further as farmers start to harvest next month.

He has advised those wishing to comment on food security to first consult stakeholders.

Mr Chintala said the mealie meal export programme is well thought out and addresses critical issues such as high prices and shortage on the local market.

He said prices of mealie meal are expected to reduce as the country heads to the next marketing season.

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The Oil Marketing Companies Association of Zambia (OMCAZ) has also confirmed that the depots were full, saying that the fuel shortage was political and aimed at sabotaging the economy.

OMCAZ president, Kafula Mubanga, said some drivers were threatening others with violence for trying to ignore the directive from their union.

Dr Mubanga said the association had struck a deal with Petroleum Transporters Association of Zambia to reduce importation transport costs from the current US$155 per metric cube to between $125 and $130 so that the 50 percent contract policy could be easily implemented.

He however said PTAZ members were being threatened, hence the failure to resume business.

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“The fuel shortage is caused by a cartel of some transport union members working with external forces that are blocking PTAZ members from offloading products on the market,” Dr Mubanga said.

He said the cartel was threatening those that had agreed to start offloading fuel with violence thereby causing shortage of the commodity.

Oil Marketing Companies had been shunning from using local tankers due to

high transportation charges as compared to their foreign counterparts.

Dr Mubanga said OMCAZ and PTAZ had reached common ground to have importation costs reduced to get 50 percent of fuel transport contracts.

“The fuel shortage that we have experienced is emanating from the strike that tankers have imposed on OMCs and Government,” he said.

Dr Mubanga appealed to the Ministry of Home Affairs to provide security to transporters that were willing to offload fuel on the market.

“We appeal to Ministry of Home Affairs to provide security to transporters,” Dr Mubanga said.

And Energy Minister Mathew Nkhuwa said the exorbitant prices local transporters were charging needed to be addressed.

In an interview yesterday, Mr Nkhuwa said he had been engaging the Fuel Transporters Association of Zambia to ensure that the prices could be reduced.

He said many fuel importers had been concerned about the high prices which had resulted in their reduction of engagement with locals transporters.

Meanwhile, Minister Communication and Transport Mutotwe Kafwaya has directed Tanker Drivers to immediately start moving fuel to mitigate the shortage.

Mr Kafwaya assured Tankers drivers that government will ensure that local transporters are given to move 50 per cent of Petroleum products.

By NATION REPORTER VOCAL NGOs and clerics must speak out over the missing Hatembo siblings who last week missed the funeral of their brother, Conwell, FDD president Edith Nawakwi has said.

Ms Nawakwi said it was disheartening that Pheluna and her brother, Milton even missed the funeral of their blood brother.

She said most NGOs and some known clergy had been vocal but wondered why they were quiet on the abduction of the Hatembo siblings.

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The fuel shortage is caused by a cartel of some transport union members working with external forces that are blocking PTAZ members from offloading products on the market,” Dr Mubanga said.

THE leader of 235 BP Zambia retirees is living in fear of being kidnapped Mr Expendito Chipalo, who is the lead plaintiff in the pension claim which has been ongoing for 20 years, is worried after the disappearance of the Hatembo siblings, Pheluna and her brother Milton.

When contacted yesterday, Mr Chipalo said that he was not only sympathising with the Hatembos but that he was scared for his life.

“I am living in real fear because in this country human life is not valued.

these siblings even missed the funeral of their own brother Conwell last week,” she said.

Ms Nawakwi wondered how vocal NGOs and clergymen celebrated their Easter knowing very well they ignored a noble task required of them.

And Ms Nawakwi said individuals who had more to gain from the disappearance of the Hatembos should also be questioned.

She said most of the suspects who had so far been rounded up over the abduction had one big thing in common.

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the investigations of the Hatembos’ disappearance if the culprits were to be fished out quickly.

It has been over two months since the Hatembo family disappeared.

MISTAKEN LANDING

By NATION REPORTER AN Ethiopian Airlines plane yesterday reportedly landed at the new Copperbelt International Airport still under construction.

The pilot is said to have

apologised to Zambia Airport Corporation authorities, saying that it was a pilot error.

Construction workers at the airport were surprised to see the plane land.

Authorities could not be reached for a comment.

EMULATE LUNGU’S HUMILITY - SDA SEVENTH-DAY Adventist (SDA) Church Kankoyo constituency congregation has urged political leaders to emulate President Edgar Lungu in preaching love, peace and unity.

Kankoyo Constituency Chibolya presiding pastor Paul Kasabo says there is need for leaders to respect

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view the fact that Pheluna left a sick daughter, Nasilele without proper help should have triggered quick action from the NGOs. She said some clergy were quick to make political statements yet mute on a humane matter like the Hatembos’ abduction.

Ms Nawakwi challenged vocal NGOs and the clergy to speak out on the abduction of the two members of the Hatembo family.

“This is the time when we should hear these vocal NGOs and some known clergy to speak out. They should think about Nasilele and the fact that

“Surely human beings cannot just disappear and everyone keeps quiet. Something is amiss,” he said.

He said that there was a trail of events leading to the disappearance of the Hatembos and it was incredible that the police had failed to locate Pheluna and her brother with all the evidence in the public domain.

“I think this country is dealing with a psychopathic individual.

Only a person who has no human feelings can derive happiness from the pain of others.

“A psychopath can also manipulate other people to engage in crimes without realising that they are wrong,” Mr Chipalo said.

one another and unite as the country heads towards the elections.

Pastor Kabaso said this yesterday during a service when Kankoyo Member of Parliament Brian Mushimba made a donation towards ongoing renovations at the church.

Dr Mushimba, who is

also Higher Education Minster, said the government has an open-door policy to enable them dialogue with various church mother bodies.

Dr Mushimba said this is evident by how President Lungu has engaged the church on various matters.

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Bishop Lungu is compromised - YALI

By SILUMESI MALUMO CHIPATA Catholic dioceses Archbishop George Lungu is politically compromised that is why he is against the government empowerment programme meant to help the Church, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) president Andrew Ntewewe has said.

Mr Ntewewe, speaking at a media briefing yesterday urged the Church to ignore Bishop Lungu and access the empowerment fund from the government.

He said the empowerment

fund at the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs was in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Mr Ntewewe wondered why Bishop Lungu would be apprehensive about the noble gesture from Government.

He encouraged the Church, especially the Catholic Church to heed advice from Lusaka Diocese Archbishop Alick Banda to access the empowerment fund.

Mr Ntewewe thanked Bishop Banda for being magnanimous, humble and apolitical in the affairs of the country.

"These empowerment ac-

tivities are meant to uplift the living standards of the people.

So let's leave the politicians to wrestle it out independently without taking sides and let the pulpit be used to glorify the name of the Almighty and not for political expediency.

“We find it to be a mere political gimmick and rhetoric to suggest that Government cannot empower its own citizens due to national debt. It’s more like saying that simply because you have debt at personal level then you cannot take your children to school or hospital because you are in debt," Mr Ntewewe said.

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ROOT OUT SABOTEURS THE current impasse surrounding the transportation of fuel must be resolved forthwith before the economy is thrown into disarray.

The political sponsors of this sabotage must be exposed.

It is very clear that the enemies of the State are at play, considering that the country has enough fuel.

Notably, fuel is the engine of economic growth without which a country cannot function well in terms of productivity.

It is thus disappointing that the matter has dragged on for days as sensitive as it is.

Firstly, a pragmatic approach and solution must be set in motion as regards the cry for the implementation of the 50 percent contracts to Zambian transporters, whose drivers are also crying over low pay and poor conditions of service.

As rightly explained, the Oil Marketing Companies Association of Zambia (OMCAZ) has struck a deal with Petroleum Transporters Association of Zambia (PTAZ) to reduce importation and transport costs from the current US$155 per metric cube to between US$125 and US$130.

This will allow the easy implementation of the 50 percent contract policy for locals to placate the domination of business by foreign transporters.

But one wonders why the protest has continued when such an initiative is underway.

Perhaps, Government, the PTAZ and the OMCAZ must, as a matter of urgency, meet and iron out the issues to forestall any economic crisis.

The drivers’ union should also be brought on board.

It will be ideal for all players to thrash out all sticky issues and thereafter speak with one voice before the fuel shortage deepens.

In the absence of dialogue, the problem will worsen and this will point to economic sabotage involving political forces.

Sabotage cannot be ruled out at this critical moment when the country is preparing to go to the general elections slated for August 12, this year.

Political parties that have smelt defeat want to redeem their fortunes through illegal means such as colluding with the tankers drivers’ union to cause mass shortage and discontent in the country.

The aim is to create an economic crisis and thereafter make political capital out of it.

The tankers drivers’ protest is certainly in close proximity with the opposition’s cry over the vote’rs register and their subsequent protest to the African Union and SADC. Sentiments from the opposition of late have a semblance of crying over defeat even before the election is conducted and there is a likelihood of resorting to covert tactics in a desperate attempt to arrest the plummeting fortunes.

It is time Government moved very fast to forestall any crisis because if the fuel shortage worsens, the matter will likely trigger negative sentiments in the economy and political circles.

Therefore, Transport and Communications Minister, Mutotwe Kafwaya, and his Energy counterpart, Matthew Nkhuwa must work extra hard to resolve this matter.

Just as energy expert, Johnstone Chikwanda, has pointed out, the energy sector requires diplomacy and a steady flow of fuel because it is very, very sensitive.

There must never be any altercation among players in this critical sector, which requires guaranteed security and steady flow of the commodity.

The Zambian economy is already bleeding and must not be sabotaged by power-hungry elements.

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HISHIMBA Kambwili should stop dragging the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in his manoeuvres to get back to the PF because he is no longer a member of the party, says NDC-faction member Edward Mumbi.

Mr. Mumbi said Mr Kambwili should stay away from NDC because his position as their interim President has ceased and the matter has been taken to court to re-emphasise that he was no longer with the party.

He alleged that Mr Kambwili worked hard to frustrate the UPND Alliance because he had plans of rejoining the Patriotic Front, reports he had on several occasions denied.

Mr Mumbi said in an inter-

Edward Mumbi view that it was now clear that Mr Kambwili was waiting for an opportunity to go back to the PF when he lied to Zambians that the UPND Alliance agreement had gone up to 99 percent but never explained what the remaining one per-

cent was.

“As regards his crossing over to PF, this is the matter he has been refusing for some time now, he even went to an extent of frustrating the NDC alliance which started two years ago, he said it personally that the alliance agreement has gone up to 99 percent, “What is frustrating is that he never told the nation, the one percent, now this one percent would have been that he was also waiting to have an opportunity to go back to PF,” he said.

He warned Mr Kambwili to stop “making noise” because he had no interest in being in the alliance with the UPND. Mr Mumbi also warned Mr. Kambwili from attacking UPND president Hakainde Hichilema over the alliance because it was not his personal

Present concerns to local bodies, HH told

By KETRA KALUNGA ZAMBIANS must respect the local democratic institutions rather than degrading them, veteran politician, Katele Kalumba has advised political leaders.

Dr Kalumba has thus advised UPND president Hakainde Hichilema, to channel his concerns over the electoral process to local institutions.

He said it was absurd for Mr Hichilema to take his complaints against the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) on the voter registration process to the Southern Africa Development Commission (SADC) and African Union (AU).

Dr Kalumba said in an interview that there would be confusion in the country if opposition political leaders began to degrade the institutions that have constitution-

ally been put in place by the Zambians who include politicians.

He said it was unfortunate that Mr Hichilema decided to write to SADC and AU over his complaints against the ECZ regarding the voter registration process.

Dr Kalumba, a former Finance Minister, said the matter could have been resolved by institutions such as the Zambia Centre for Interparty Dialogue (ZCID).

Dr Kalumba urged Mr Hichilema to avoid the habit of degrading constitutional authorities among them the ECZ, Judiciary, Zambia Police Service and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) as doing so would be detrimental to the democratic tenets of the nation.

“Let me speak to HH directly through you. My young brother, I know you and you know me, respect the law, if you win you win by the will

of the Zambian people. If you lose you lose by the will of the Zambian people, it’s not about I come from here, it's about your leadership.

“Let me say it in Bemba “baleeke ukutonawila icalo, twalibashiila intact, we never left the country in chaos or war, ninshi kanshi, why go to SADC, we have our laws as a nation, don't start things that you know you can’t control, we have border issues to deal with, nishani,” he said.

Dr Kalumba advised the UPND leader to guard against politics of false accusations and have trust in the electoral body which he said has a system that allows grieved political parties to air their grievances.

He stated that Zambia would not be a governable state if political players develop a habit of degrading the democratic institutions they helped put in place.

Chongwe Mayor wants unity in Kasisi

By JOHN KOMBE CHONGWE Mayor, Geoffrey Chumbwe, has challenged the people of Kasenga in Kasisi ward to be united for them to spur meaningful development in the area.

Mr. Chumbwe made the call when he addressed residents after the election of a new community development committee yesterday.

The elections were called for after the community visited the mayor’s office a fortnight ago to ask for his intervention in the manner matters of development were being handled by the previous community development committee.

Mr Chumbwe urged the new office bearers not to discriminate against anyone on the basis of their political affiliation or any other affili-

ation.

According to him, the people in the area have for a long time longed to have title deeds to the land which they had occupied for a long time.

He said that unless the people remain united, the realisation of title deeds would remain a pipe dream.

Mr Chumbwe said Government was aware of their situation and it was working at ensuring that they were given title deeds to the land.

He urged the community to live in love and unity, adding that meaningful development was only possible if people lived in unity and love.

Evangelist Patrick Miyanda thanked Chongwe Municipal Council for helping to usher new office bearers in the community committee.

He said that the peaceful election of community lead-

ers was critical as the area has had many challenges in the past.

He also urged those who had lost in the elections not to despair, but work with the elected office bearers.

Meanwhile, newly elected chairperson, Jatel Tembo, promised to ensure that unity was promoted in the area.

He urged those who were not elected that his committee would not work in isolation but that the committee would be consultative in its undertakings.

He also pointed out that the committee would immediately engage relevant authorities to ensure that the people had safe and clean water.

Mr Tembo said that the area only had two boreholes to service more than 500 households, a situation he described as unbearable

decision but that of the party to form the union.

“We have heard the statements which he has made which are very tribal and personal to HH which is not necessary, there is no need to attack HH, HH is not an individual in the alliance, the alliance has so many political parties and so many individuals,” he said.

Mr Mumbi has since advised Mr. Kambwili to stay away from the NDC as he congratulated him for going back to the PF. “I congratulate him for going back to PF and for being bold enough to make a statement that I have joined PF, I want to work with President Lungu, he has performed his constitutional right, he can join a political party of his choice,” Mr. Mumbi said.

NGO counsels politicians over electoral complaints

By PETER SICHALI POLITICAL players must have confidence in the electoral conflict management bodies, GEARS Executive Director McDonald Chipenzi has said.

Mr Chipenzi said players must have confidence in the electoral process and utilise conflict management avenues ahead of the August 12, general election.

He was reacting to rigging claims by UPND president Hakainde Hichilema, who has written to SADC and AU over what he has termed as compromised voter’s register.

"Whether there is truth or whether the avenue is the right one to use is another issue.

Instead of resorting to violence, it is good that those who are sensing some discomfort in the electoral process to report peace avenues to attend to their perceived grievances," Mr Chipenzi said.

Mr Chipenzi said in as much it was not wrong to write SADC and AU over alleged electoral fears, the two bodies were not legislated in the country's electoral process.

He said only the national and district management conflict management committees were legally mandated by the Electoral Process Act to address electoral conflicts.

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By JACKSON MAPAPAYI ABOUT 66 United Party for National Development (UPND) members in Solwezi have defected to the ruling Patriotic Front (PF).

The members mainly traders from the Solwezi main market resigned from the opposition party to join the ruling party during a mobilisation meeting addressed by PF Solwezi Central aspiring candidate Jackson Kungo yesterday.

Leading the defectors, Ms Getrude Ntambo who is a trader in Solwezi main market, said the members have

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decided to join PF because the opposition party has nothing to offer.

Ms Ntambo said the marketeers have for a long time suffered at the hands of the UPND opposition leaders who run the Solwezi Municipal Council and parliamentary seat.

"On behalf of my fellow marketeers, today, we wish to announce that we have decided to leave UPND and

join PF because the UPND has failed us," she said.

The defectors have resolved to support the PF and President Edgar Lungu in the August 12 general elections.

She said markeeters in Solwezi have not benefitted from the empowerment programmes being initiated

by Government because they have been supporting the opposition for a long time.

And in receiving the defectors, Mr Kungo urged the traders to go flat out and campaign for PF and President Lungu. "You must ensure that President Edgar Lungu goes back to State House, and that can only happen when we all go flatout and bring more new memvers " he said.

Mr Kungo said there are no membership cards in PF and urged old members to embrace

the new comers in order to grow the party.

He said there is no leadership in UPND and that is the reason why people are joining PF everyday.

Mr Kungo said Solwezi constituency has lagged behind in development because people have been voting for the UPND Members of Parliament who have failed to lobby for development.

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He promised to work on the township roads and look into the welfare of markeeters once adopted and elected as MP this year.

And Solwezi district women's secretary Ireen Kikambo said markeeters in the district have resolved to vote for the PF in the August 12 general elections.

This is because they want to start benefitting from the empowerment programmes.

Ms Kikambo urged the traders to campaign for the PF to ensure victory for PF and President Lungu in the August polls.

‘Lstone needs a turn-around’

By ANDREW MUKOMA LIVINGSTONE City requires new blood and new ideas to turn things around in terms of leadership, UPND aspiring mayoral Bright Anakamba has said.

He said that Livingstone as a Tourist Capital has a lot to offer but politically, it needs the ideas of young men and women to turn things around.

Mr Anakamba who has so far dominated the mayoral contest on the opposition party said he has a clear roadmap to improve the image of Livingstone.

“Nothing has really gone wrong but we just need to lobby for new ideas to better the lives of the people of Livingstone. We are living in the new era and we need to work together, we need to be united as one people and make sure we are inclusive.

“When doing things alone, you can never win but once you bring people on board, it makes easier for you to succeed and work well. We might not have everything but we need the need leadership in Livingstone to foster development. We need to sort things out as new leaders because this city is rich and it has a lot to offer,” he stated.

Mr Anakamba said that the city was slowly becoming a ghost town because many people particularly youths were unemployed.

Going forward, Mr Anakamba said, the city should exploit other critical sectors such as manufacturing and not just tourism.

“What compelled me as a young man to contest the position of mayors is that I have seen a lot of us young people in Livingstone are suffering, unemployed and no one speaks for us. No one talks about the youth...we are more like we are in darkness, that is why we need the new generation to lead,” he said.

New UNIP preaches peace

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ZAMBIANS should remain united as the nation goes to the polls in August this year, newly-elected UNIP member of the central committee Andrew Monde Nalumino has said.

Mr Nalumino who assumed his position at the just-ended UNIP National Congress, noted that through unity, the country would maintain integrity and peace, the values for which it is known in Africa and beyond.

Mr Nalumino who is also the new acting Southern Province provincial chairman taking over from Captain Robert Mukengami, said his coming into the party as a new leader would bring change in the way things are done politically.

"As UNIP, we held our elections under a peaceful condition and we followed all the requirements needed to host an election. There could be one of two issues that went wrong but in an election it is not everyone who can be happy," he said in an interview in Livingstone.

"As new acting provincial

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Mr Nalumino said that for a very long time, youths had shunned politics as itwas perceived to be a dirty game but, time has come for young people to take up leadership as future leaders.

"We need youths and women in leadership like we did in 2016. Southern Province under UNIP was the only region that had adopted young people and women to stand as candidates... So that is what I am going to advocate for.

"So far, we have seen a lot of women and youths showing interest to stand because they have seen that UNIP is the only political party which is accommodative and funds candidates from day one up to the last day," he said.

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State prods smallscale miners

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU

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ZRA BUSTS K4.2M TAX SCANDAL

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU in Nakonde

TWO trucks carrying goods in excess of K4.2 million in taxes have been intercepted at the Nakonde One Stop Border post by the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA).

The first truck was carrying Konyagi, a white spirit produced from Tanzania valued at more than K1.2 million in taxes.

This was falsely declared as steel doors while the second truck was carrying electrical cables valued at K3 million in taxes.

This is according to the ZRA Nakonde Assistant Commissioner, Davies Mwanza, who addressed Journalists in Nakonde.

Mr Mwanza explained that the taxpayer declared the consignment as steel doors with the payable amounts of less than K50, 000 when the actual taxes for the liquor was over K1.2 million.

As a result of this, he explained, the Zambian peoWhat is a project team charter? Do we have project and team charters in our projects?

What if we already have a business case or a tender award letter, do we still need to develop a project charter?

This week we will be discussing project and team charters and their purposes. A project charter is a document which formally authorises a project manager and team to undertake project work on behalf of the project sponsor and steering committee. Most organization call a project Charter a project inception note or inception report. In PRINCE2 method terminology a project charter is equivalent to the project brief, which is assembled in starting up process of a project. The project plan is also referred to as the PID meaning Project Initiation Document. In the PMBoK Guide the PID is known as the project management plan. The purpose of this document is the same but the terminologies used in different project management methodologies and organizations are different. In is article I will try to use the term Project Charter as borrowed from the project management body of knowledge, (PMBoK Guide , 2017).

The main purpose of a project charter is to help stakeholders ascertain whether there are enough compelling reasons to commit further resources to the project undertaking. This is why normally a business case is an integral input in the development of the project charter. The project charter is developed during the first stage of a project’s life cycle and can therefore help to determine the feasibility of a project. Though the contents of the

ple would have been robbed in excess of K1.2 million in taxes.

"The agent disappeared and the owners are known now after we retrieved documents from the Tanzanian side to establish who the true owners are, the owners are known we are waiting for them to make a representation.

"The entire truck load was declared as steel doors with the payable amounts of less than K50, 000, the owners wanted to insist on the destination inspection but we got suspicious, we insisted that we open the container from here and it was actually discovered that it was Konyagi from Tanzania with the value of K920, 000 as value for duty purposes," Mr Mwanza said.

He said the second truck was carrying electrical cables valued at K3 million in taxes.

Mr Mwanza said the Government could have lost revenue of close to K3 million

Zambia Revenue Authority

if the consignment was not intercepted.

"The clearing agent declared the consignment as electrical cables valued at US$5, 000 but when we did our own investigation with the help of our colleagues from the Tanzanian Revenue

Authority we discovered that the documentation that they submitted in Zambia and what was sitting in Tanzania was different," Mr Mwanza said.

He told Journalists that recommendation have been made that the two trucks be seized and forfeited to the Government.

ZRA Corporate Communications Manager, Topsy Sikalinda, said the organisation had made it clear that all smuggled goods shall be seized and forfeited to the State.

"We shall also be recommending that we prosecute the offenders as you know last year we had 10 successful prosecutions as the authority and this is just the begining of things, " Mr Sikalinda said.

He said ZRA had signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with various revenue authorities in the region, stating that it was just right to declare the correct duties.

THE Federation of Small Scale Mining and Association of Zambia (FESSMAZ) should capitalise on its newly launched strategic plan to attract investment from both Government and cooperating partners.

FESSMAZ launched it’s 2021-2025 strategic plan, which will assist in mobilising financial resources to support the activities of small scale miners in Zambia.

Mines and Minerals Development Minister, Richard Musukwa, said it was important for the FESSMAZ to utilise its strategic plan, especially that small-scale mining sector had close links with the local economy.

Mr Musukwa said small-scale mining sector had potential to generate more local jobs and thereby exert better impact on poverty reduction.

"The launch of this strategic plan gives the federation an opportunity to work with Government in realising the immense potential this sector has," he said.

Mr Musukwa noted that strategic plan would provide a framework for articulating common goals and facilitate the

Project Management

BY DR LABAN MWANSA, MSP®, PMP®, PRINCE2® Practitioner, P2Agile®, COBIT®,

ITIL®. Laban is a consultant and trainer in project management and specifically trainer/coach in Agile, PMP®, PRINCE2® Practitioner, PRINCE2 Agile® in Zambia, South Africa and Europe for many years.

What is Project chartering? project charter are at a high level, it helps to develop a common understanding and agreement amongst project interested parties. When we charter a project, it does not mean that we have planned the execution of the project.

It also helps to leverage project's constraints considering factors such as time, cost, risk, scope, quality, resources, benefits, customer satisfaction that may constrain the way you implement a project. It creates a common sense of understanding and commitment amongst key project stakeholders especially where project team members have not worked together before.

It can also help to get initial buyin from key project stakeholders so that trust, honesty, transparency and delegated authority is formally recognized in the project manager.

Most Gantt charts I have seen put project charter sign-off as part of the milestone chart. This is good because you can only start project planning phase once your project charter has been

approved. The other important reason why the project charter is key is that it authorises project manager to spend money and commit resource, once the project charter has been approved, providing the basis for the project plan to be developed. The project charter acts as an input to the project plan, though the life and maintenance of the project charter ends at planning it is however also seen as a guide to key decision-making processes throughout the project.

So if you are a project manager and running a project and you still don’t have a signed-off project charter in place, my best advise is that please create one and have it approved, signed – off and baselined by your sponsor or project executive. This is also in the best interest of the project manager as the project charter is seen as a “contract” between project manager and sponsor, empowering the project manager to deliver the products and services described in the charter. We do not expect to have major changes to the

project charter during the life of a project however, should there be major project scope changes or shocks to the project charter, it will signal a trigger for project pre-mature closure.

As far as team charters are concerned, it is a document, setting forth the aims and principles of a project team, it can include • Values committed to and aligned to your organizational values • Team structure & schedule of team meetings, in agile projects for example we may have to discuss the timings of daily standup meetings facilitated by Scrum master.

• Acceptable behaviours at meetings, this is good to be discussed at the beginning rather than later.

• Preferred methods of communication, need for the team to agree whether hard copy reports; email, face-toface (very important in agile projects), use of social media e.g. WhatsApp, Instal-

gram, twitter etc.

• Timelines to respond to one another especially where teams are not co-located.

• Utilization of common resources to avoid resource and schedule conflicts. This can also be the appropriate to discuss resource levelling and smoothing.

• Availability of team members in non-working hours, project manager’s empathy and soft skills play a major role here.

• Level of freedom in which team members can engage with one another’s staff, • Extent to which being on time is a priority, this is important so to have common expectations within the team.

Project team charters are a very good way of setting up ground rules for the team members. This can proactively help avoid or pre-empt many situations of conflict in project teams.

Do not confuse project charter with the team charter as they are

development and implementation of project for the small scale industry.

He urged management to ensure that the strategic plan was implemented to the latter.

"It is gratifying to note that small scale and artisanal mining is an important source of revenue to a number of people and has a huge potential to contribute to the growth of the economy," Mr Musukwa said.

Speaking during the launch of its strategic plan, FESSMAZ president Joseph Mwansa said the plan had seven objectives which include establishment of partnership and relationships with key stakeholders.

Mr Mwansa explained that other objectives were developing capacity of small-scale miners in technical, managerial and leadership competencies.

"The plan also advocate for the existence of Federation as a legal in order to enhance its recognition and legitimacy

by Government.

"It will help the Federation mobilise capital and machinery in order to improve the productive capacity of the small scale miners in Zambia,” he said. not the same but both are essential in order to have a smooth ride in project execution and delivery.

Final thoughts: Project and team chartering should be seen as imperatives by project managers so it becomes a way of life as far as projects are concerned.

The project charter maybe knows in various terms for example a charter can mean inception note, inception report, or project brief.

The mst important thing to note is that when a project is chartered, planning has not yet been done and is yet to come. As far as team charters are concerned, they are very effective especially in projects where you have multicultural establishments. It is important to have an understanding of cultural differences in language and behaviour of project team members. In agile projects it is common for example for teams to define the word done, in order to have common expectations when somebody in the team says it is done or I’m done, everyone understands what work done means in that context and respect. _________________________ This article was written by Dr Laban Mwansa, MSP®, PMP®, PRINCE2® Practitioner, Agile®, Laban is a consultant and trainer in project management and specifically trainer/coach in PMP®, PRINCE2® Practitioner, and PRINCE2 Agile® in Zambia, South Africa and Europe for many years. He was in the executive committee of ICTAZ as technical chair. He is also the managing partner of Betaways Innovation Systems and can be reached at: Laban.

Mwansa@betaways-innovations. com, +260975280392 or WhatsApp +27817029669. He is also a professional project management member of PMSA and PMI-USA.

Kenyan power firm softens push for tariff hike

7 / Daily Nation, Monday 5 April, 2021 JOHANNESBURG - Standard Bank Group has raised the alarm around proposals to revive a faltering government-backed credit programme designed to aid South African businesses battered by Covid-19.

While South Africa's largest lender is open to talks on how to restructure the R200 billion (US$13.6bn) programme to drive up demand, it rejects suggestions to swap into grants the loans that have been provided, CEO Sim Tshabalala said in the bank's annual report.

"Apart from the unfair burden that a conversion to grants would place on our depositors and investors, and on taxpayers, we think that converting loans into grants would set a very undesirable precedent," he said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has criticised the nation's biggest banks for failing to speedily disburse credit under the initiative started in May. The Banking Association of South Africa has said that total allocations were unlikely to reach 10 percent of the programme's capacity.

The programme is due to expire on April 11. A review by the banking association found many business owners had opted for relief arrangements with their individual banks over loans from the

NOT SO FAST …Biggest SA bank raises alarm on government's US$13.6bn Covid-19 loan-to-grant proposal

President Ramaphosa programme.

If the decision is to forgo payment of loans already issued, the cost "would be too high at a time when South Africa is under extreme fiscal stress", according to Tshabalala.

The nation meanwhile

needs its resources to pay for vaccines and other medical supplies, he said.

Ramaphosa's administration last year unveiled a R500 billion support package by re-prioritising spending from existing budgets.

Banks were roped in to

distribute loans guaranteed by the government to small- to medium-sized businesses, starting with R100 billion of disbursements before doubling up.The National Treasury didn't immediately respond to questions around the future of the programme after April 11. The South African Reserve Bank referred queries to the National Treasury.

While there was disappointment around how the programme has fallen short of its capacity, efforts by banks could only go so far in counteracting the effects of the country's deepest economic contraction in a century, Tshabalala said.

"Good business people are never keen to take up a loan unless they are confident about their capacity to use the funds productively and about their ability to repay the loan," he said. – BLOOMBERG NEWS.

NAIROBI - Kenya Power appears to be slowing down its push for a tariff increase and is instead rooting for sectorwide reforms including reviewing the relations it has with power producers to reduce the cost of procuring power.

The firm has in the past called for higher tariffs, noting that while customers should get affordable power, there was also a need to keep the industry sustainable.

In 2019, the electricity distributor applied to the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) for a 20 per cent hike on the power tariff.

The company, however, said yesterday it would try to turn around its operations without loading more costs on consumers.

Vivienne Yeda, the Kenya Power chair told shareholders that though the firm was not yet out of the woods, it had made progress over the recent months through measures such as cost cutting and sealing loopholes that have enabled siphoning of money in the past.

She said the company was near its short-term goal of stabilising cash flows.

“The improved cash

position has been achieved within the existing tariffs,” Ms Yeda said during the firm’s annual general meeting.

“All it took was an insistence and persistence on doing things right, on not embarking on unnecessary expenditure, on taking a close look at costs including energy costs, collecting amounts due and tightening systems.”

Yeda was appointed the company’s chair in November.

“The board is of the view that as long we continue on this path of effective management and leadership and our customers pay their bills on time, there would be no urgent need for a tariff increase,” she said.

“Kenyans have enough financial burdens today, we have no intention of adding to those burdens.”

It is, however, not a guarantee that consumers will be saved from a price hike.

In its annual report for the year to June 2020, Kenya Power said it was pursuing a tariff increase, decrying the lengthy time it has taken for the energy industry regulator to review power prices. – THE STANDARD, Kenya.

Air traffic in Africa ‘unlikely’ to return Zimra to CBK reinstates charges acquire US$2m to pre-Covid-19 levels until 2023 for banks’ in-house mobile surveillance money transactions drones HARARE - Zimbabwe will speed up the process of buying drones worth US$2 million to be used at all ports of entry to reduce smuggling, while plans are at an advanced stage to place a CCTV camera system at border posts.

The country is losing millions of dollars in potential revenue as a result smuggling of goods into the country through official borders and undesignated points.

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country surrounded by five countries, namely South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia and Botswana.

These countries provide a direct link to seaports through which the goods imported into and exported from Zimbabwe by sea including those to other counties transit through.

Zimbabwe has designated 16 ports of entry along the borderline with neighbouring countries through which goods should be imported or exported.

– THE HERALD, Zimbabwe.

JOHANNESBURG - It is unlikely that air traffic on the continent will return to pre-Covid-19 levels until at least 2023.

This is according to Kamil AlAwadhi, the new regional vicepresident for Africa and the Middle East of the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Al-Awadhi says in Africa, aviation plays a central role from a socioeconomic point of view. But air traffic in the region fell drastically due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, which shut down tourism and other travel.

At one point, air connectivity on the continent was 90 percent down compared to pre-Covid-19 levels, causing African airlines about $2 billion in losses in 2020. They lost about $49.63 for every passenger they flew in 2020 compared to a loss globally of $66.04 per passenger.

Furthermore, although governments realise the importance of the recovery of air travel for the continent, African airlines only received a small amount of relief funding from governments compared to the rest of the world.

IATA data show that the $2.04 billion

of financial relief received by African airlines in 2020 excludes funding for SAA and money committed by the SA government for its business rescue.

The $2.04 billion relief recorded

by IATA relates to what other airlines across the continent received during 2020, specifically as help during the Covid-19 crisis.

Al-Awadhi believes it is unlikely that air traffic on the continent will return to pre-Covid-19 levels until at least 2023.

This places some airlines at the risk of going bankrupt and makes measures to enable the industry to survive essential, in his view.

He suggests that African governments, for example, accept Covid-19 tests done up to five days before travel to take logistical challenges on the continent into consideration, including a lack of access to vaccines.

“Safety remains the main priority for the industry and for IATA. Testing and vaccines will play an important role going forward and governments should develop benchmarks. IATA has, for example, developed a travel pass app to assist in this regard,” he said. – FIN24.

NAIROBI - The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has reinstated charges for mobile banking transactions involving bankspecific mobile wallets in a move that will affect thousands of Kenyans who have been using the platform to make various transactions.

The resumption of charges on all transactions above Sh100 will mostly affect Savings and Credit Societies (Saccos) customers who mostly use their in-house money wallets to withdraw, deposit, send and perform other transactions.

“CBK has noted that the Sacco sector is deeply integrated to these wallets and accounts for a significant share of their transactions. Through them, banks provide Saccos with an important bridge to the domestic and cross-border payment systems,” the regulator said.

CBK said concerns had grown on the viability of the services, noting that they were likely to be affected by the current price regime due to inability to cover underlying costs.

“This is a significant risk for Saccos and their extensive membership due to the lack of other alternatives to connect to the mobile money ecosystem. The resumption of charges will provide space to increase the connection options for Saccos,” CBK stated.

It also stated that it would review the charges against pricing principles announced December last year, including how customer-centric, transparent, fair and affordable they are among others. – THE DAILY NATION, Kenya.

Zambia’s current economic structure requires thinking beyond politics!

Dear Editor, IF you bought the US Dollar 18 months ago when it was slightly pegged at K13.50 or thereabouts, then your investment has really done a good value in return sitting at approximately 62 percent outturn in profit margins, simply speaking that it is citing its value way slightly above today’s inflation rate.

And if you bought it some two years ago at K12, then your investment return is now a phenomenal story that everyone will seriously talk about, in which the marginal profit percentage is counted at 85 percent return on investment.

Even though, it widely known fact that this state of affairs taken this path, has a very profitable outlook to shrewd investors which actually poses a serious worry to most policy makers.

Moreover, this is one of the main reasons as to why although our copper exports have been so excellent since last financial year, despite the low transmission mechanism which have literally failed to give life to the Kwacha and this has been an obviously weak system for sometimes, a situation which has led to non-existent in terms of positive effects to the local economy.

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Agriculture should feed directly into manufacturing as a way of fostering vertical integration system then with this case implemented, we will able to quickly see through positive economic shifts gravitating positively in this nation.

If anything, our local economic structure has literally been made so worse such that the monies generated from the sale of copper does not even touch the national treasury points except in tax receipts and salaries for the miners which basically comes into our local banks.

However, with this narrative, our economic models and channels should positively be changed to empower Zambia’s main economic benchmark on the GDP right before talking strongly on diversifying the economy which also may require that we both upscale thoughts around manufacturing and the agriculture right at the same time in order to create “an agenda of symbiotic movements in resuscitating the local economy.”

Agriculture should feed directly into manufacturing as a way of fostering vertical integration system then with this case implemented, we will able to quickly see through positive economic shifts gravitating positively in this nation.

With regards to the local foreign exchange fundamentals, there are a lot of several factors for the kwacha’s continued depreciation but the current psyche of the dollar as an asset discussion must be factored in, as one of the panache in the Zambian trade and commerce case.

It’s not coming on the market from most perceived exports especially traditional goods on national imprint they often say, everybody today is now seeking for it on the local market to pull a combination of needs for business. As it’s no longer just a merely normal currency with perceived monetary value features but it’s now an attractive asset right now to complete going about trade and commerce across regions.

Talking it from the projected scenarios currently being undertaken, it will not a big surprise to get to see and understand that our domestic currency, will one day particularly in this material year cross over a K26 mark especially around fourth quarter by latest December, and perhaps all this is now telling us to start feeding into the fizz which makes it extremely risky and unbearable on the sides of local businesses at microeconomic level except for the few investors who are basically benefiting from this unstable currency fit taking shape today.

But the biggest question still remains to all of us today, to think on how best we can make good with this nation’s economic models especially that we are in an election year and we need to think beyond politics of favourite but politics of aspirations to make the nation great once more.

KELVIN CHISANGA.

WHY PF GENERAL CONFERENCE SHOULD VOTE FOR PRESIDENT LUNGU

Dear Editor, WE welcome the decision by the Patriotic Front;s supreme policy and decision making body, the central committee's resolution to unanimously endorse the candidature of President Edgar Lungu as its party President and consequently the Presidential candidate in the upcoming general elections.

Here, we will explain why the PF delegates at the general conference should vote for President Lungu as the party's leader and validate his candidature in his second term bid.

We are of the view that the decision to back President Lungu is evident-based and responsive to the popular demands of both the PF elected leaders in various structures, the PF loyalists and the nation at large.

Other stakeholders that have made relentless persuasion to his second term bid includes the traditional leaders who have endorsed him, the church, the non governmental organisations among others.

President Lungu deserves continuity as PF and and Republican President because he has performed exceptionally and exemplary well in his service to the party and the nation at large.

It is public knowledge that at the time he took over as President, the party only had about 62 members of Parliament but as at now the parliamentary presence has been expanded and PF has close to 90 MPs. Additionally, the PF support base in Parliament has attracted close to about 20 additional user friendly MPs from UPND, MMD, FDD and independents. This clearly

President Lungu shows that President Lungu has made the PF an attractive political party among people's elected representatives.

Another political goal President Lungu has scored is the increase of the party's support base from 2011. In 2011 the PF won with less than 50 percent of the Presidential votes cast and in 2016 the party's Presidential vote increased to more than 50 percent of the votes cast in the first round.

We are well vested with the fact that during his tenure as PF President, the party has

made inroads even in the areas that have been perceived to be UPND strongholds to the extent that it has grabbed their seats.

The areas in question are Western and North-Western provinces which saw high profile defections. In our view, this does not just yield political benefits but justify our long held view that Mr Lungu is on course to unite the country.

This did not happen in isolation but it is the various strides that he has made at the helm of the party and it has been made attractive.

We also recall the storm the party went through after the death of the founding father President Michael Chilufya Sata and it experienced mass exodus some high profile and key figures of the party.

Others opted to wage an internal rebellion against President Lungu. With time, President Lungu started on the healing process and the once departed colleagues have come back and the once PF rebels have come back home and made peace with party and the President.

With these key highlights of President Lungu's style of leadership, we see no any basis upon which the party delegates at the convention should not vote for President Lungu.

While it is within the democratic rights of those wishing to challenge President Lungu at the conference, we are on the view that it will be betrayal of the collective will of the Zambian people not to ratify ECL's candidacy. ECL is the man and let the game begin.

MARVIN CHANDA MBERI, Lusaka.

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LUANSHYA FARMERS URGED TO PROP UP

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MALL-SCALE farmers in Luanshya should double their productivity through new farming methods and maximising the support which Government has continued to offer, Mayor Nathan Chanda has said.

However, Mr Chanda said he was impressed with the number of households engaging in farming activities in the district.

Mr Chanda was speaking when he officiated at the Luanshya West Farmers Field Day in Roan

Constituency.

He said this had drastically increased over the years in line with Government’s call to diversify the national economy from mining dependence to agriculture dependence.

"It is important for farmers to acquire knowledge to prepare for each farming season apart from learning about latest developments

in agricultural advancements.

"We thank the government for helping to improve the wellbeing of small-scale farmers by giving the support through the Farmers Input Support Programme (FISP) , apart from empowering women and youths agriculture cooperatives among others," he said.

Mr Chanda said Government was aware of the growing challenges

Taking Your Family Along On Your Financial Freedom Journey Beyond The 2021 FLW Mastering The Art Of Raising Money Smart Kids Lessons Please remember that kids are just that, kids! So please take time when talking to them about money and stage your lessons.

It will not, for instance, make sense to talk about compound interest or shares to a 5year old; they would think you are crazy.

Like other life lessons we pass on to our children, teach them using a language they understand, giving appropriate examples depending on their age. The following tips can help you teach your kids at various stages in their lives:

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Head - Corporate Affairs & Marketing Investrust Bank Plc Dear Reader, We trust that you and your loved ones are keeping safe and observing health guidelines stipulated by the Ministry of Health as we join the rest of the world in fighting COVID -19.

We have been sharing tips on how you can live a Money Smart life for life by taking care of your health and money to improve your quality of life and that of your loved ones.

This is in line with the commemoration of the 2021 Financial Literacy Week held a fortnight ago, under the theme, ‘Take Care Of Your Health, Take Care Of Your Money’!

Whereas all the tips have been targeted at you as an adult and provider of your family, today’s story focuses on our nation’s future leaders, our children! We share tips on how you can begin to instil money management lessons in their minds when they are still young. Remember that if you don’t this yourself as a parent or guardian, someone else will. We presume that this is a risk you don’t want to take. Executing this may have its challenges but if you are committed to ensuring that your children know how to manage their money well when they are older, taking time to teach them now is worth it. This is the challenge we bring before you today. Let’s call it the Investrust Bank Plc (IBP) Raising Money Smart Kids Challenge (IBP RMSK Challenge).

You Are The Expert!

Does the IBP RMSK Challenge sound daunting? It shouldn’t be! This is because you have been elevated to the position of ‘Expert’ in the challenge. If you are not, pretend that you are and learn from your own mistakes. Transform money management mistakes you have made in your life into positive life lessons for your kids. We bet that you have made quite a good number of such mistakes in your life, which will translate into valuable lessons for your kids.

This is where you appreciate having made mistakes in your life, so don’t stress. Detail what advice you would give to your younger self regarding money management and actualise these by cascading that advice to your kids. You will be a super daddy or mummy instantly, and your kids will live to remember your wise counsel.

Be Smart In Execution – Stage Your

Teaching Pre-Schoolers And Kindergarteners • Kids at this stage easily assimilate what we teach them when we use visuals. To show them that money can grow, we encourage you to use clear jars or piggy banks. Let them see the money ‘growing’; your emphasis at this stage should be growth, i.e. today, they will see a coin or two and tomorrow or the next time, they will see three or four.

• Be the example; remember that kids are very observant at this stage; they watch and do exactly what you do. Refrain from having unhealthy discussions about money, such as arguing about some spend in their presence. If they notice you spending money on any little thing you see or admire in shops, they will do the same when they grow older.

• Show your children that things that we buy cost money. Don’t just say that a loaf of bread costs K10.00. Let them have/feel that experience. Allow them to take out a K10.00 from the jar where they keep the money they have earned somehow and go with them to a shop to buy a loaf of bread. Allow them to pay for it at the counter.

Teaching Grades 1 to 7 • At this stage in their lives, your kids should be able to weigh decisions and understand their impact or possible outcomes. This is another way of saying to them, “if we pay for your movie ticket using this money, then we wont have money won’t buy that pair of shoes that you want”. Be strict with this.

• Don’t just give your kids money for nothing or breathing; show them that money is earned. Give them commissions and NOT allowances! Pay them based on chores that they perform at home or for exceeding your and their own expectations regarding work assigned to them.

• Avoid being sweet-talked into buying them anything they ask for; kids are experts at convincing parents. This breeds impulse buying. You need to nip this behaviour pattern in the bud. Even when they have earned money they wish to spend on something, encourage them to give it a few more days of thought before they buy anything above a certain amount just so that they are sure they need and not just want the item.

• Teach your kids about the importance of giving. Make your kids understand that there are people who are not as privileged as they are in our communities. Take them to charity homes if you can so that they see the world from the ‘other side’.

Encourage them to be thinking about such people and spending some of their

of climate change, hence, putting in place policies and projects that encouraged small scale irrigation.

The mayor added that he was impressed with the hard work from the young farmers and pledged to financially support them to attain tertiary education.

Mr Chanda appealed to the unemployed youths to venture into farming and take advantage of

commission on helping kids from these charities or any people they know and think need help.

Teaching Teenagers about Money • At this stage in their lives, your kids are exposed to a lot of information. They spend most of the time surfing the internet and on social media platforms. They see different ‘levels’ of how people live, and this brings in the comparison trap. You hear things like, ‘oh wow, the phone this girl/boy is using is cool, how come l don’t have one?’ Do not fall prey to such cries or pleas. Teach your kids contentment at this stage. Let your kids for instance, understand that the particular phone they are using, even though it is not the latest or is not so ‘cool’, enables them to communicate effectively. Contentment starts in the heart; ensure that your kids understand this.

• At this stage, you need to take money management to a new level for your kids. Open simple accounts for them if not done yet. It will help them to prepare for managing accounts with bigger sums of money when they start work.

• Encourage your teens to look for jobs as they wait for their school results prior to going to college/university so that they begin to save for their school fees. They will feel proud that they contributed to paying for their fees.

• Teach them to stay away from any forms of loans. Encourage them to find part-time jobs as they go on breaks from school or to apply for scholarships. At this stage, begin to prepare them for real-life lessons. Teach them about the dangers of credit cards/debt.

• When your kids reach the age of 18, get them to seriously practice how to budget no matter how little the money they come across is. Whilst under your roof, they should learn the importance of planning how to spend money.

• Introduce your kids to the power of compound interest. It is a magical thing.

Do this early enough in their lives. They will get the hang of it, and it will help them to prepare for their future.

• Help them to figure out how to make money. Challenge them to start thinking of various business ideas they can engage in later in life based on their strengths and passion.

Don’t stress too much about the financial mistakes you have made in the past; you can’t change that; just be sure to use lessons that you have learnt to save your kids from making the same mistakes. Be creative and lively in the way that you affect this. Start teaching them early enough in their lives, create a solid money management muscle memory for them. You will help them to live quality lives for life!

We trust that this story will help you to kick start the IBP RMSK Challenge if you are not doing it yet. If you are doing this already, please share your success stories/tips so that other parents/kids learn from you.

Please be sure to stay clear of Covid – 19 by following all the health guidelines shared by the Ministry of Health. Covid – 19 is real and not over yet; let us not drop our guard in our effort to combat the spread of the disease.

Until next time, stay blessed and be a blessing to others!

For comments or questions email maria.karima@investrustbank.co.zm

various Government empowerment facilities readily available to help innovative and enterprising youths to realise their dreams.

And Luanshya District Agricultural Officer, Misheck Jere, said Government wanted to see farmers completely diversify from mining to agriculture as projects of improving the agriculture sector can be seen by all.

Three Ndola kids injured

By SANFROSSA MANYINDA THREE children and an adult were injured in a road traffic accident along Chilubi Road in Ndola’s Kabushi township on Saturday.

The accident occurred at around 16:00 hours, involving a Nissan registration Number ACV 7657 which was driven by 42-year-old Davies Chundu of Lubuto Ngwee in Ndola.

Copperbelt Commissioner of Police, Elias Chushi, the children who were hit are aged four, six and 10 years and were rushed to Arthur Davison Children Hospital where they were admitted.

He identified the other victim as Nissi Bwalya, 21, of house number 1814 Kabushi who sustained bruises on the back, mouth, and also suffered internal body injuries and is admitted to Ndola Teaching Hospital.

Mr Chushi said however that the driver of the vehicle escaped unhurt.

He said the accident happened when the driver lost control due to excessive speeding and rammed into the four pedestrians who were standing off the road.

FILE PHOT : Voters verifying their details.

AVAP wants voters to verify details en masse

By SANFROSSA MANYINDA SPARE some time within your busy schedule and participate in the physical voter verification exercise, the Anti- Voter - Apathy Project (AVAP) has advised voters.

AVAP Copperbelt regional coordinator, Poster Jumbe, said it was important that voters spared some time to physically verify their details.

He said this would enable them identify mistakes with personal details if any and allow registration officers to correct them.

Mr Jumbe was speaking in an interview in Kitwe.

"This is an important

exercise one cannot afford to miss. Registered voters must bear in mind that the exercise is a crucial one," he said. Mr Jumbe added that voting gave an opportunity to every Zambian to choose leaders of their choice.

He said that the only way to make the right decision was to obtain a voters card and follow all the procedures.

He said that people should also not abandon the online voter verification exercise.

Mr Jumbe also cautioned those going for physical verification to follow all health guidelines on Covid-19 to protect their lives and that of others.

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Northern Tourism Circuit ripe for growth – Mwata Kazembe SENIOR Chief Mwata Kazembe of the Lunda people in Luapula Province has called for optimum actualisation of the potential in the Northern part of Zambia to spur economic development.

The Mwata said the abundance of natural resources, coupled with rich cultural and historical heritage in the Northern circuit, could help push the region and the country at large to greater heights.

“We have everything it takes to propel this region and the country at large to greater heights through the development of tourist sites and our historical heritage,” Mwata Kazembe said.

He challenged the leadership in Luapula, Northern and Muchinga provinces to work together towards the development of the Northern tourism circuit.

Mwata Kazembe said this when Northern Province Permanent Secretary Royd Chakaba paid a courtesy call on him at his palace in Mwansabombwe yesterday.

He called for effective and timely implementation of Government programmes aimed at enhancing socio-economic development.

“It should not only be good plans but also effective implementation of the develop-

ment projects so we actualize the potential we have in the Northern Circuit,” he said And Mr. Chakaba said the Northern Province administration would continue to rely on the wise counsel of traditional leaders in managing its development affairs.

He said his office was also engaging Luapula and Muchinga provinces to come up with the best way to develop the Northern circuit.

He said actualizing the vision called for close collaboration among the three provinces.

Mr Chakaba added that Northern Province has started positioning itself for the Mwenda-Kasomeno road project which will come with huge economic benefits.

“Road connectivity is very paramount in realising the economic trade, this is why the Mwenda-Kasomeno road is significant. We also hope to ensure that the Mpulungu road is in good shape because that is a gateway to the Great Lakes region,” he said.

Mr Chakaba, who was accompanied by Northern Province Planning Assistant Director Chabu Mundubwe, is in Luapula Province for Easter Waterfalls social run and cycling events at the invitation of the provincial administration. - ZANIS

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NDC CANES ‘SELFISH’ HH

By ROGERS KALERO

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PND president Hakainde Hichilema's propensity to use and destroy other opposition parties is a clear indication that he can use state machinery to trample on citizens if Zambians gave him chance to rule, National Democratic Congress (NDC) national youth chairman Charles Kabwita has said.

Mr Kabwita said the UPND leader was using Mr Joseph Akafumba to destroy the NDC after realising that the Chishimba Kambwili-led party was becoming a force to reckon with.

He said in an interview in Kitwe that the NDC was disappointed that a leader of an opposition party could plot to destroy a fellow opposition organisation just for fear that it could become more popular.

'HH is so desperate that he first of all started destroying NAREP. I think Mr Charles Nyirenda can attest to this.

After that, he then used Akafumba to try and destroy NDC. It will not work.

“And if HH can have these evil plans against fellow opposition parties when he is in opposition, I shudder to think what he would do to opposition parties in the country once he's given State power," Mr Kabwita wondered.

Mr Kabwita regretted that the campaign of tribalism that Mr. Akafumba had started would just work against him because people would easily see through and turn against him.

"If people take stock of the people that have risen against Dr Kambwili, led by Mr Akafumba and party secretary general Bridget Atanga, an unfortunate pattern will be established.

“I would like to commend the youth of the NDC for the bold decision that they have taken to side with the party and its leader. This is how it should be. Nonentities always want to be heard, but who can Mr Akafumba address? He normally has 35 people watching countrywide when he has a press conference," he said He said Mr Akafumba was

Mr Kabwita known in the political arena because of Dr Kambwili’s influence.

"Because of CK and NDC, Mr Akafumba is now known.

What political plan or strategy can he offload? We held a by election in Roan and other places, Akafumba was nowhere to be seen, because the man is politically impotent. He does not even know what it takes for one to be vice president," he said He said whatever setbacks

‘Zambia’s tourism will continue to grow’

By NATION REPORTER THE Covid-19 pandemic will not hinder the tourism sector from thriving, Tourism and Arts Minister, Ronald Chitotela has said.

Mr Chitotela said Government’s efforts to grow to wildlife-based tourism as a contributor to the economy was bearing fruit as seen by the support of international community.

He called on Zambians to uphold culture, morals and values as they go about the Easter holiday.

In his Easter message to Zambians in Lusaka yesterday, the minister said a nation without culture and morals was dead.

He said the two values form the backbone of the identity of the people and

By SILUMESI MALUMO THERE is need to massively campaign for the Patriotic Front (PF) and President Edgar Lungu even if he already enjoys popularity, PF Kankoyo aspiring parliament candidate Bishop Ed Chomba has said.

He said it would be important to raise the tempo and ensure that the massage about development was delivered effectively.

Bishop Chomba said he had embarked on a massive campaign for President Lungu in Mufulira and was confident that the Head of State would score massively in the August 12 elections.

He also said the support

that was what visiting tourists wanted to come and see.

Mr Chitotela said the MoU with the British Government that brought 21 British Navy members to training Wildlife Police Officers at Chunga Training school in the Kafue National Park has improved the drill programme.

And Mr Chitotela appreciated the support of cooperating partners in wildlife conservation during his tenure as seen by the willingness by the donor com-

munity to partner with Government, through the Department of National Parks and Wildlife in stepping up conservation efforts.

He pointed at the one year agreement with African Parks Network to support protection efforts on the Kafue Ecosystem and the Euro 1.2 million by Frankfurt Zoological Society for protection of the North Luangwa Ecosystem were some of the support initiatives.

The other one was the $45 million Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United States Government for the management ivory stock pile.

Mr Chitotela said the MoU with the British Government that brought 21 British Navy members to

training Wildlife Police Officers at Chunga Training School in the Kafue National Park has improved the drill programme.

He said partners Life Peace Parks Foundation and Wildlife Fund for Nature had been all weather friends in the Ministry’s efforts to conserve and protect wildlife.

Mr Chitotela said Government was determined to invest more in poaching programmes and training of wildlife police officers (WPOs).

He thanked the Ministry of Finance for approving the treasury authority for 105 members of staff to be recruited under his ministry this year and that most of the slots would be dedicated to WPOs.

Support for PF is massive – Ed Chomba

he was receiving from the grassroot was overwhelming and was confident that the PF would adopt him.

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said he was receiving support at the grassroot level because the people were convinced that he was the right person to develop the area.

He said in an interview yesterday that the situation prevailing on the ground was clear that he would emerge the winner for the August 12 general elections.

the NDC was going through should not worry party members because they were temporary and would eventually come to an end.

"Whatever challenges we are facing, they should not worry the leadership and membership of the party. It's a temporary setback. It shall come to pass and the owners of the NDC will be known,” he said.

'If you have noticed, Mr Akafumba wants to destroy, Dr Kambwili wants to safeguard. So who is the real owner of the NDC? Food for thought,” he said Mr Kabwita explained that initially the NDC had a Lozi vice-president, Tonga Secretary General, Lozi spokesperson, Lozi chairperson for Education and Lozi chairperson for tourism, among many others, and to claim that Dr Kambwili was tribal was malicious and laughable.

He said that the deliberate plan to spread falsehoods showed that HH and Mr Akafumba did not mean well for the politics and well-being of the nation.

Don’t abandon your calling, pastors advised

By OLIVER SAMBOKO

Mr Chitotela Mr Chitotela said tourism in Africa was mainly wildlife based and hence the need to have more foot soldiers to protect the resource.

Bishop Chomba said he had a good vision for the constituency, therefore, people had seen him to be the right person in order for the vision to be actualised.

"I am very confident that, come August 12, I will contest elections on PF ticket.

This is what I can say for now," he said.

Bishop Chomba said the massive campaign for President Lungu in the constituency was making a positive impact "I am on the ground campaigning for President Lungu. I want to see to it that the President wins with a good margin come August 12," he said.

DO not forsake your calling of preaching the gospel in preference to contesting political positions in the August 12 general elections, the Bishops Council of Zambia (BCZ) has advised pastors.

BCZ General Secretary Bishop Abel Kaela said pastors should not be swayed by the current political frenzy to abandon their calling or risk God's anger.

He said love for power and money has destroyed a lot of men of God but advised the pastors to learn from the calamities that have befallen those who have in the past ignored the warning from God. Bishop Kaela said it was unfortunate that a number of pastors in the country have abandoned their flock for political power, a situation he said has angered God. “As a council, we saddened that a lot of pastors have abandoned the pulpit and now concentrating on contesting in the coming general election at the expense of preaching the gospel to the lost,” he said.

Bishop Kaela said while there is nothing wrong with the men of God to aspire for any elective office, the clergy should remember that they are vessel of the gospel before anything.

He appealed to opposition political party leaders in the country to respect the office of the President and remember that leadership was given by god.

Bishop Kaela said Zambia is a Christian nation, hence the need for citizens to uphold Christian values and patriotism.

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THE GROWTH OF LARGE-SCALE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION

BY MAKELI PHIRI

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VERY noticeable feature of agricultural organisation in this country has been the growth of large-scale production, with particular emphasis in the agricultural industry.

As of now there has not been any noticeable decline in the number of small-scale farming activities and this has been supported by the government’s early delivery of farming inputs to the rural farmers.

Agricultural industries (through diverse agricultural activities) have seen large agricultural farms increase the size of their units. This process has been spurred on

When a farm grows in size it cannot confine itself to one enterprise. The direction of growth such as in the agricultural industry, diverse products or crops and livestock are grown or reared.

by the great technical economics being published by many different players who have taken interest in this sector.

The big farms have adopted mass production methods based on standardisation. Large farms can afford superior and more specialised management and can invest heavily in research projects.

When a farm grows in size it cannot confine itself to one enterprise. The direction of growth such as in the agricultural industry, diverse products or crops and livestock are grown or reared.

Such kind of activities

support the other in case of failure of one enterprise.

Therefore, the growth of

large-scale production leads to the concentration of an increased amount of the country’s capital into progressive farms. This is how it should be for the sake of expansion.

As new lands are opened up and new methods of farming adopted, improving the roads for transportation of farm produce, the farmers and indeed the big farmers would be encouraged to produce different commodities and in this form products to feed the urban and

sively. The government’s response to this was to continue encouraging the people to participate fully in the agricultural activities through the extension services under the Ministry of Agriculture.

A lot of schemes for relief in the farming activities were and are still being implemented.

The Ministry of Agriculture should continue educating farmers in new methods and where necessary, encourage improvements by explanation and persuasion.

high populated areas with required food.

To this, like this season, we have seen crop production at its best and is expected to be surplus when it comes to the harvested crop. Hence the need to export what would be excess or surplus.

Why then is the country headed for large-scale production now and the future.

This is because progressive farmers small and large keep on experimenting with improved feed, seed, fertilisers and mechanisation (what is new on the market to them will improve their output).

However, this new knowledge was not applied exten-

This way would see the nation get or develop more and more large-scale agricultural production of the various farm crops or commodities for home consumption and for export.

Let the various schemes that have been set up be used to the fullest potential of being large-scale producing schemes be it in fish farming, tree planting (plantations), tea estates, sugar estates (though they are private companies, but the government does play a big part in the production of these crops) all these sectors are needed for the development of the country, at the same

time to provide employment to the citizens of the country.

The position of Zambian agriculture at the beginning of the 1960s was that of an industry which, although it has increased considerably in efficiency, is still dependent on for its existence upon subsidies, protection from foreign competition and monopoly marketing arrangements.

Some change in the pattern of support and regrouping of farms in more economic units as of now would seem to be the proper objectives of agricultural policy.

In the immediate past some agricultural marketing schemes succeeded in restoring some profitability to farming but they did not result in any noticeable improvement in standards.

This again resulted in the formation of agricultural credit schemes which provided a system for agricultural co-operative credit schemes to enable farmers to obtain bank credit. Lima Bank was one such institution.

But as of now it has gone under. Yes, large-scale farming we need to produce enough food to feed the nation and for export.

NEW LANDS

As new lands are opened up and new methods of farming adopted, improving the roads for transportation of farm produce, the farmers and indeed the big farmers would be encouraged to produce different commodities.

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By JOHNSTONE CHIKWANDA

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ENERGY DIPLOMACY AND TANKER DRIVERS’ PROTESTS

…Constitute a task force to establish underlying challenge

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N the recent past, the industry has been greeted with threats of protests from tanker drivers over a number of concerns which include difficulties being experienced when they travel to Mozambique and Tanzania to collect fuel.

Another issue they have been citing is actualiSation of the 50 percent transportation quota for the local transporters. What began as threats later on culminated into actual protests.

I will share my thoughts over this matter over the next articles. This matter is delicate and not as simple as it seems. There are several underlying dynamics which require to be unpacked, analysed and thoroughly understood to arrive at a lasting solution.

To begin with, as an energy diplomat, I do not subscribe to industrial unrest and issuing of threats regardless of the extent of grievances. I always believe that solutions have to be found and that lasting industry solutions have to be supported by all leading stakeholders.

DELAYS

If it is true that Zambian transporters are deliberately being delayed to load

fuel, there is need to understand why that is happening.

As a natural reaction, OMCs would not want to get caught up in transporter fights in international territories.

If oil marketing companies are not giving the required transportation quota to local transporters, there is need to thoroughly engage and establish underlying reasons they are not doing so.

If this is not tackled, no matter how local transporters try to force matters, it will be a difficult journey which will breed more mistrust and feelings of taking one another hostage to produce certain outcomes.

If not well handled, this situation can lead to a zero

Tanker drivers vow to stop foreign fuel tankers from offloading fuel in Zambia

sum game. A decision can be imposed on OMCs leading to success feelings on the part of transporters; but OMCs can also decide to protest and not import fuel.

This could mean transporters being grounded just like they can ground some OMCs. This is a zero sum game. This is why this matter calls for effective energy diplomacy to try and find a lasting solution. As long as we skirt along the dynamics, we will not resolve this chal-

and conclude its work within two to three months.

What our local transporters fighting for could be beyond the OMCs’ latitude.

This is why it may not be advisable to swiftly attack them.

If it is true that Zambian transporters are deliberately being delayed to load fuel, there is need to understand why that is happening.

As a natural reaction, OMCs would not want to get caught up in transporter

OMCs who have invested in own transport systems directly or indirectly using sister-related companies to move their fuel.

As someone who worked in South Africa, I noted that some OMCs negotiate and sign long term transportation contracts for fuel deliveries within South Africa and the region at group level.

Based on this scenario, some transporters have bought trucks and are servicing loans on the basis of

The protest has caused a fuel shortage in Lusaka

lenge effectively.

I would suggest that consideration be given to constituting a task force with specific terms of references.

This task force may collect both primary and secondary data locally and from specific countries in the region

fights in international territories. Therefore, they are inclined to focus on who can quickly load and transport fuel to Zambia.

In other words, it could be an energy diplomacy issue.

On the other side of the divide, there could be some

planned international deliveries; a situation they cannot easily come out.

There may be different permutations to this matter.

You can win one battle only to fall into another battle.

It can be debated that, while transporters may have

valid reasons, if the unrest harm public trust, the situation can work against them because ultimately Government may be forced to consider different short and long term options to protect public interest which may include but not limited to using Tazama Pipeline to transport refined fuel until a solution is found.

In addition, the timing of the protests may also get misunderstood even though they have valid grievances.

As an industrialist, I long to see local industries flourishing. To this end, I am not dismissing the cry of the local transporters. My guidance is that in energy diplomacy, we resist the temptations to use threats and blackmail especially when one or two key stakeholders are at a weak point. In the absence of energy diplomacy, we can breed a ransom taking space if not careful.

To this end, I humbly appeal that as a measure to a long lasting solution, a task force be constituted to investigate underlying difficulties being faced by our local transporters and why our OMCs appear to be facing difficulties implementing the transportation quota and make recommendations.

This is not a matter which can easily be combed out of hair and implemented as

quickly as the next breath. It may be heavily compounded by deep seated local and regional commercial interests among transporters and

TASK FORCE I would suggest that consideration be given to constituting a task force with specific terms of references. This task force may collect both primary and secondary data locally and from specific countries in the region and conclude its work within two to three months.

other interests.

It may be a matter which require energy diplomacy and dialogue based on establishing win-win solutions. This is not a matter that could be resolved using threats and industrial unrest yet the message from our local transporters is loud and clear. *Johnstone Chikwanda is an energy expert and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Zambia, a PhD candidate at Johnson University, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

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WINDHOEK - President Hage Geingob has been implicated in new allegations of corruption involving the country’s lucrative fishing industry.

According to a lawyer who allegedly arranged the deal, the Namibian president instructed his associates to embezzle millions from a state-run fishing enterprise in order to bribe electors.

Geingob has strenuously denied any implication in what many consider to be the country’s biggest corruption scandal since its independence.

President Geingob has been implicated in new allegations of corruption involving the country’s lucrative fishing industry by an investigation released by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and The Namibian newspaper.

According to a lawyer who allegedly arranged the deal, President Geingob instructed his close associates to embezzle millions of dollars from a staterun fishing enterprise to bribe electors at the 2017 congress of the ruling SWAPO (South West Africa People’s Organisation) party, reports the new investigation released on Friday.

The lawyer, who is not named by the OCCRP, claims that

Kampala Archbishop Lwanga found dead in his room KAMPALA - The Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kampala, Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, has died, the Catholic Church has said.

He was reportedly found dead in his house on Saturday morning. His death was announced by Fr Pius Male Ssentumbwe in a statement released on Saturday afternoon.

Dr Lwanga was last seen in public on Friday as he led a mass at Rubaga Catholic Church, where he led the homily of Good Friday celebrations.

In December last year, the Archbishop was in the spotlight for calling for the postponement of January 2021 elections.

Addressing journalists in Kampala, Dr Lwanga, who appeared with some members of the Uganda Joint Christian Council which he chaired, suggested that the presidential elections be postponed for three years to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

He attracted public backlash especially from opposition politicians who accused him of hobnobbing with members of the ruling government.

Later, Dr Lwanga said his suggestion had been misinterpreted by the public and decried growing cases of misinformation on social media, which he said several Ugandans were misusing.

– DAILY MONITOR.

FISHY DEALS

…President Geingob caught in new fishing graft allegations

Namibia Presiden Hage Geingob

Geingob – elected as President of Namibia in 2014 and reelected in 2019 – allegedly asked James Hatuikulipi, then chairperson of the state-owned fishing company Fishcor, to set up an elaborate corporate structure to siphon public funds generated from the country’s lucrative fishing resources.

According to bank records analysed by OCCRP, front companies set up by SWAPO proxies transferred $4.5m through this scheme between July 2017 and November 2018.

A SWAPO-affiliated lawyer was told he would receive payments the size of “telephone numbers” as a fee.

The allegations bring the stench of the so-called Fishrot scandal, originally exposed by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit in partnership with WikiLeaks and the Icelandic public broadcaster RUV, to Geingob’s doorstep.

The country’s charismatic leader has strenuously denied

any implication in what many consider to be the country’s biggest corruption scandal since its independence in 1990.

In undercover footage filmed

by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit in 2019, figures close to Namibia’s president, including his personal lawyer Sisa Namandje and the country’s former Fisheries Minister Bernhard Esau, were recorded discussing the laundering of political contributions to the ruling SWAPO party.

In the Al Jazeera investigation Anatomy of a Bribe, the former fishing executive Johannes Stefansson, who blew the whistle on corruption he says he facilitated while working on behalf of the Icelandic fishing conglomerate Samherji, alleged that his associates, Hatuikulipi and Sacky Shanghala, had used the profits reaped from the country’s fishing resources to fund Geingob’s 2014 election campaign. – ALJAZEERA.

‘Distributing vaccines is not rocket science’ …as Archbishop Makgoba slams government JOHANNESBURG - Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has criticised government’s vaccination programme, saying the poor would be left behind to suffer in the global Covid-19 pandemic.

Makgoba delivered the Easter vigil sermon at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on Saturday.

He said he was sceptical about government’s target to vaccinate 41 million people, announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The public healthcare system had been “poisoned” by rampant corruption, he added.

“We know that political leadership has been woefully lacking in the worst areas affected: shame on those who have left hospitals and clinics short of people, equipment and protection.

“I have read that on the current strategy it would take 18 years to vaccinate our entire present population! We cannot allow that to happen,” Makgoba said.

“Make no mistake, we are a world-class country. Our medical scientists are world-class.

Ten years ago, we built world-class soccer stadiums and ran a world-class World Cup. Distributing and administering vaccines is not rocket science, it’s just a matter of getting the logistics right.

“If humankind can send a spacecraft 470 million kilometres to Mars and gently drop a landing rover onto the planet’s surface, surely South Africans can come up with a co-ordinated plan to collaborate in getting vaccines quickly to every corner of our country?”

Makgoba said he had written to director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Dr Anthony Fauci, telling him that the Covax vaccine programme and the bilateral agreements used to procure

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SA repatriating citizens following Moz attacks JOHANNESBURG - South Africans seeking to leave Mozambique after insurgent attacks in the northern region of the country will be aided by the government after the violence claimed the life of one of its citizens.

The nation’s defence force will assist with repatriating nationals that wish to return to South Africa, it said in a statement on Saturday.

The body of one person killed in the attacks and his surviving family members were returned to South Africa in March, it said.

The “government can confirm that, with the exception of one person who died tragically in violence, more than 50 South Africans who were reported missing through the South African High Commission in Maputo have been accounted for,” it said.

An Islamic-State-linked group has claimed the violence that erupted in Mozambique over a week ago that prompted thousands to flee Palma in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

More than 110, 000 people live in the Palma district, including 43, 600 who had fled there from other areas,

the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has said.

South Africa will join a meeting called by the President of Botswana Mokgweetsi Masisi for nations of the Southern African Development Community to discuss the ongoing insurgency, the government said.

“As a matter of principle, South Africa supports multilateral efforts to respond to the situation in Mozambique,” it said. “South Africa will be guided by the outcomes of this meeting on how it can assist to stabilise the situation in Mozambique.”

Meanwhile, the UN agency World Food Programme said on Saturday it has suspended evacuation flights from northern Mozambique’s Afungi peninsula over security concerns, a day after French energy giant Total shut its operations in the area.

The World Food Programme has been helping airlift the most vulnerable people affected by the violence to the provincial capital, but since Friday has temporarily halted the flights.

– BLOOMBERG NEWS/AFP.

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Chief Justice files appeal against ‘flawed’ ruling

JOHANNESBURG - Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has held firmly onto the constitutional rights of freedom of religion and freedom of expression in appealing the ruling of the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC).

The JCC presided by Judge Phineas Mojapelo had ordered that he apologise for and retract comments he made about Israel during a webinar. – NEWS24.

4 UN peacekeepers killed in Mali attack

BAMAKO - The United Nations mission in Mali says four of its peacekeepers have been killed by suspected jihadists in the north of the country.

It said several others were wounded when the insurgents attacked the camp run by Chadian peacekeepers in Aguelhok.

Violent Islamist groups are active in Mali and across the Sahel.

– BBC.

Biden holds first call with Ukraine’s Zelensky Archbishop Thabo Makgoba.

vaccines globally were failing. The Covax programme is aimed at equitable vaccine access for all.

“Vaccine nationalism has already taken hold.

A quick check this week showed that while the United States had vaccinated 16 percent of its population, we had covered less than half a percent of ours, and many countries haven’t seen vaccines at all.

“These bilateral agreements are failing especially for the Global South, where we can with justification, say that the poor of the world are suffering from vaccine apartheid.” – NEWS24.

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden used a first official phone call with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday to offer staunch support in Ukraine’s standoff over Russian troops near its border.

Washington has been Ukraine’s most powerful ally since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 but ties were overshadowed by Ukraine’s unwilling involvement in events leading to the impeachment trial of Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump. – REUTERS.

Spain speedboat smugglers arrested

MADRID - Spanish police have arrested 100 suspected gang members, accused of smuggling drugs from Morocco to Spain in speedboats.

In raids across southern Spain and in France, some 5, 270kg of cannabis was found.

The gang is known as Monparlet, the Civil Guard said in a statement. – BBC.

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Lymphotcytes

Functions • To defend the body against infection by producing antibodies and antitoxins.

Antibodies are proteins that destroy germs/foreign bodies while antitoxins are proteins that neutralize poisons from germs.

Adaptations • Presence of a large nucleus and thin cytoplasm.

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BIOLOGY: Xylem Cell Functions • Conduction of water and mineral salts • Mechanical support of the plant.

Adaptations • End walls of neighbouring cells broken to form continuous tubes • Protoplasm is absent leaving a hollow space in the middle of the cell.

• Walls are lignified (filled with lignin) to provide mechanical support

Nerve cells Functions: • To conduct electrical impulses (nerve impulses) from one part of the body to another.

Adaptations • Presence of dendrites that collect impulses from neighbouring cells • Presence of axon that carries impulses from one end of the neurone to another.

• Presence of synaptic knob that forms a link with other neurones.

• Presence of nodes of Ranvier that make impulses move faster Note the part of the neurone having the nucleus and cytoplasm is called the cell body

Muscle Cells Functions • Contraction to produce movement Adaptations • Abundance of mitochondria to release energy for contraction • Presence of actin and myosin filaments in the cytoplasm which carry out contraction.

White Blood Cells These are cells that defend the body against infection (diseases). Two examples of white blood cells are phagocytes and lymphocytes.

Phagocytes

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Guard Cells These are a pair of cells that surround each stoma.

Their cell walls are thicker around the stoma Function than anywhere else; thisstoma makes it possible for • To control the size of the Adaptations • They in pairswhen and each has absorb a the stomaoccur to open thesecellcells semicircular (curved) shape when turgid and a water. straight shape when plasmolysed.

• Their cell walls are thicker around the stoma than anywhere else; this makes it possible for the stoma to open when these cells absorb water.

Phloem cells Phloem cells Functions: • To transport manufactured food from one part Functions: of• the plant to another To transport manufactured food from one part Adaptations of the plant to another • Adaptations End walls between neighbouring cells are • End walls between neighbouring cells are perforated to form sieve plates perforated to form sieve plates • Protoplasm lostleaving leaving behind • Protoplasmisispartly partly lost behind some some cytoplasmic strands cytoplasmic strands • Presenceofof companion companion cells which supplysupply • Presence cells which phloem cells with enzymes and ATP. phloem cells with enzymes and ATP.

Functions: • These defend the body against infection by engulfing and digesting germs (foreign bodies).

As seen from the diagram, the shapes of the different types of muscles are different from each other Red blood cell (Erythrocyte) Functions • Transportation of oxygen and small amounts of carbon dioxide.

Adaptations • Biconcave disc shape to increase the surface area for diffusion of oxygen.

• Presence of a red pigment called haemoglobin which has a high affinity (attraction) for oxygen.

Haemoglobin combines with oxygen to form oxyhaemoglobin when oxygen concentrations are high (e.g. in the lungs). When oxygen concentrations are low e.g. in the muscles, oxyhaemoglobin dissociates forming haemoglobin and oxygen.

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Absence of nucleus makes more room for haemoglobin

Adaptations • Lobed nucleus which makes engulfing of germs easy.

• Amoeboid movement which makes it possible for them to move towards germs.

• They have no fixed shape but can change their shapes, making engulfing of foreign bodies possible.

Palisade Cell Lymphotcytes Functions • To defend the body against infection by producing antibodies and antitoxins.

Antibodies are proteins that destroy germs/foreign bodies while antitoxins are proteins that neutralize poisons from germs.

Adaptations • Presence of a large nucleus and thin cytoplasm.

Functions • Carrying out photosynthesis Adaptations • A high concentration of chloroplasts.

• The cells are longer vertically than horizontally.

This allows chloroplasts to migrate upwards or downwards as light intensity changes so that they are not damaged by excess light.

EXERCISE 1. Describe the function of red blood cells 2. What is the function of the palisade cell?

3. Describe the functions and the adaptations of the phloem cells

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The win in Tanzania propelled Nkana to third in Group D with three points, three points behind Raja Casablanca and Pyramids who were scheduled to face off for their match day three fixture by press time.

Meanwhile, at National Heroes Stadium in Lusaka MUKWIMA CHILALA reports that a 16th minute goal against Napsa Stars was all Coton Sport needed to punish the Zambians in a CAF Confederations Cup tie.

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NKANA, who are struggling at home stirred back to life as a second half lone goal from Diamond Chikwekwe handed the Zambian champions their first CAF Confederations Cup Group D victory after beating Namungo FC 1-0 at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Tanzania.

Despite having faced a number of challenges, Nkana punished their hosts with a 77th minute goal which gave the Kitwe giants their first win in their CAF Confederations Cup group

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that cost the game and after we conceded we tried to come back, we had a lot of chances but our young players don't have much experience playing at continental level but we continue to push them as we have to maintain focus because we have three more games to go," Fathi said.

The loss has left Napsa rooted at the bottom of the group with only a point out of the three games played so far while Coton have moved to six points after three games played.

RS Berkane and JS Kabilye were by press time still engaged in their match day three fixture.

…as the Ndola giants open a 7-point lead

By MICHAEL MIYOBA RUNAWAY MTN/FAZ Super Division leaders Zesco United opened a seven-point lead at the summit of the MTN/ FAZ Super Division after coming from behind to beat rivals Zanaco 2-1 in a Week-22 fixture played at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola.

Defender Simon Silwimba was the hero of the day for the hosts after he scored in the second minute of injury time and avenged Zesco’s 3-1 defeat to the Bankers in the reverse fixture.

Zanaco created better chances in the first stanza but it was Numba Mumamba’s boys who reigned supreme and extended their winning streak to six in the Super Division.

Zanaco almost broke the deadlock in the 15th minute when Lassa Kiala' free kick from 20 yards was tipped off for a corner by Ian Otieno in goal.

Zesco coach Numba Mumamba Zesco’s best chance in the first half came in the 18th minute when midfielder Kelvin Kampamba’s powerful shot hit the cross bar after he danced his way into the Zanaco penalty

area.

Zanaco finally went ahead through Moses Phiri who scored with a sublime free kick which took a deflection to confuse Otieno who watched in agony as the ball rolled into the back of the net ten five minutes after the half hour mark.

After holding on to their lead in the first half, the Bankers were left frustrated when referee Derrick Kafuli awarded Zesco a penalty after Boyd Musonda’s clumsy challenge on Simon Silwimba in the box.

Centre back Adrian Chama stepped up to take the penalty which he converted after sending goal keeper Mangani Banda the wrong way in the 58th minute.

Zanaco coach Chris Kaunda responded by bringing in www.dailynation.info Roger Kola for Baba Basile while Ernest Mbewe and Lassa Kiala paved way for Abraham

Siankombo and Chisamba Lungu.

After ten minutes of being introduced, Siankombo almost restored Zanaco’s lead but was unfortunate as his long range shot was easily dealt with

by Otieno before Mumamba brought in Kenyan international Jese Were who replaced young Enock Sakala.

Were made an immediate impact and forced Mangani Banda to making a brilliant save to deny the Kenyan from finding the back of the net with his long range shot.

However, with the match looking to end 1-1 Silwimba scooped the winner in the second minute of injury time to propel Zesco United to 43 points, seven points behind the Bankers who are second with 36 points.

Meanwhile in the early kick off at the same stadium Buildcon PEP Guardiola says he will “never forget this FC beat Forest Rangers 2-1 season” as runaway leaders Manchester City closed to claim bragging rights in the in on the Premier League title with victory at thirdNdola derby. placed Leicester.

Emmanuel Okutu’s brace Second-half goals by Benjamin Mendy and Gabriel within two minutes of the first Jesus left City requiring 11 points from seven matches to eight minutes of the first stanza seal a third league crown in four seasons. was what Buildcon needed to December “I love20, the 2020 Premier League more than any other reign supreme in the derby. competition. We are close, very close,” added Guardiola Shadrek Musonda scored a after his team moved 17 points clear at the top. consolation goal in the dying “The champions are Liverpool, they have the crown minutes of the game as the but we are close to taking it.”

Tennant Chilumba’s boys failed Guardiola said City’s efforts were “incredible” given to recover from the shock most matches this season have been played without suffered in the early minutes spectators because of the coronavirus pandemic. of the game were they allowed “In lockdown without spectators - every game we were two quick goals. there,” he added. “I will never forget this season.”

The win propelled Buildcon In their first match since announcing club-record to fifth on the Super Division scorer Sergio Aguero is to leave at the end of the table with 34 points, on par season, Guardiola’s free-scoring side were frustrated with third and fourth placed before Benjamin Mendy broke the deadlock.

Power Dynamos and Lusaka Fernandinho had a goal disallowed, Kevin de Bruyne’s Dynamos who enjoy a better free-kick hit the bar and Riyad Mahrez was denied editor@dailynation.info https://www.facebook.com/dailynationews https://twitter.com/dailynationzm goal difference, while Forest against his former club by Kasper Schmeichel’s save.

Rangers dropped to sixth on 32 –BBC. points.

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