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when he indicated early this year that he would ensure the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) lost elections.

According to sources, Mr Kaziya was among the can-

didates aspiring for the Matero seat on the UPND ticket.

The sources said Mr Kaziya had already lodged in his papers and was yet to attend interviews.

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HE UPND says the missing Hatembo siblings are being kept by the Zitukule Consortium for their safety.

But FDD president Edith

Cornelius Mweetwa says attempts to implicate Mr Hichilema in the abduction were the creation of the Patriotic Front (PF) working with Ms Nawakwi.

But Ms Nawakwi has charged that Zitukule could be a UPND surro-

gate organisation holding the Hatembo’s fearing they would go to court and expose the fraudulent manner in which Farm 1924 in Kalomo was dispossessed from them fraudulently by Mr. Hichilema.

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...MP Ephraim Belemu tells all as he defects to PF

By SIMON MUNTEMBA THE UPND has more crooks and dishonest people than any other political party in the country, Mbabala UPND Member of Parliament Ephraim Belemu has said.

...as Nawakwi says its about HH nomination Nawakwi says the abduction is about making sure UPND president, Hakainde Hichilema files his nomination without facing fraud charges over his acquisition of Kalomo Farm 1924.

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Nakonde border monthly earnings hit K200m

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Zambia allocated doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines

By KETRA KALUNGA

ZAMBIA has been allocated doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccines, Minister of Health, Jonas Chanda has said.

Dr Chanda said Government would still continue to exploring additional options for the Covid-19 vaccine programme.

He said the Johnson & Johnson vaccine which is an addition to the COVAX facility has been established by the African Union and is being spearheaded by the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT).

Dr. Chanda also said that the local task team is this week expected to hold a meeting to review the guidelines for the Private Sector and Non-State Actors who have expressed interest in supporting the vaccine acquisition.

He said in a statement on the Covid-19 update that the team would focus on aligning to the country’s Covid-19 Vaccine Acquisition and Deployment processes and ensure the safety and efficacy criteria are met throughout the programme.

Dr. Chanda clarified that the ministry’s engagement of these private players would proceed cautiously with approved organisations being represented.

And Dr. Chanda said the country’s Covid-19 case positivity continues to remain low and commended the front line health staff for remaining steadfast.

He however said the case admissions have remained stagnant with the hospitalised patients observed due to prolonged length of stay in the facility.

Dr. Chanda said the ministry has observed that the severity of disease remains high and similarly mortality continues to be recorded at a steady rate, with the numbers from Northern Province currently being a cause for concern.

He said this has promoted the ministry to further invest in capacity building and strengthening of critical care management of patients countrywide.

And Dr. Chanda said the country has recorded 62 new cases out of 2, 438 tests conducted and two new deaths from Northern and Southern provinces bringing the cumulative number of Covid-19 related deaths recorded to 1, 224.

Kambwili put on defence in ECL libel

By CHARLES MUSONDA

NATIONAL Democratic Congress (NDC) leader Chishimba Kambwili has been found with a case to answer in another defamation of the President case.

This is in a matter Kambwili has been charged for allegedly referring to President Lungu as a dog from Chawama compound.

High Court Judge Lameck Mwale, sitting as Lusaka Chief Resident Magistrate, yesterday found Kambwili with a case to answer after finding that the prosecution has established a prima facie against Kambwili warranting to put him on his defence.

The NDC leader will open his defence on April 20, 2021.

Last November, Kambwili was put on his defence

by Lusaka Magistrate Felix Kaoma in the other defamation of the President case in which he is charged for alleging that Lusaka business executive Valden Findlay was using the Presidential jet to courier drugs.

This matter comes up on

April 16, 2021 for continued defence after it was abruptly adjourned last month when the former Roan MP fell ill as a result of high blood pressure and diabetes just after he opened his defence.

He was found with a case to answer barely a month after High Court deputy registrar David Simusamba, sitting as Lusaka Principal Resident Magistrate, jailed him two years with hard labour for forgery and uttering a false document relating to registration of his Mwamona Engineering Technical Services (METS) at the Patents and Companies Registration Agency in 2001.

Last week High Court Judge Mwaka Mikalile, sitting as Lusaka Principal Resident Magistrate, heard that METS used a fake Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) tax clearance certificate to get a construction contract worth K14 million from Zesco Limited and a subcontract worth about US$1.6 million from China Henan International Corporation on construction of the Mansa-Luwingu road and township roads in Mansa and Luwingu.

He is jointly charged

FOREIGNERS DOMINATE GOLD BLACK MARKET TRADE

By JOHN KOMBE

GOLD miners have continued selling the commodity to foreigners and other briefcase buyers, says a senior official in the Ministry of Mines and Mineral Development.

Meanwhile, government is ready to offer gold miners lucrative prices if they stop selling the commodity to briefcase buyers.

Director of Mines Fred Banda said Government was offering a better price than foreign and private buyers.

He advised gold miners in Rufunsa to sell their gold to ZCCM-IH Mr Banda said that the gold mining areas had been invaded by foreign buyers who were offering a lower price for the commodity.

“We expect the gold miners to reciprocate government support by ensuring that all the gold is sold to

ZCCM-IH,” he Banda said.

Mr Banda said that the ministry had now trained the miners on how to use the equipment that had been lying idle.

Miners, he said, had also been training on how to manage the cooperatives.

He however said that equipment such as detectors were not adequate and advised the four cooperatives to take turns in identifying the sites with gold potential.

“The cooperatives must work as a team and allow one cooperative to use the detectors to locate potential mining sites and then hand over to the next cooperative. This is the only way they can work for now,” he said.

And Pokela Gold Mining Cooperative vice chairman, Josias Malunga, said that the cooperatives had already started their mining activities.

Mr Malunga said that the mining activities had started from the Kakoswe

area that lies between Kamwenshya and Chipeketi in Chintimbwi ward of Rufunsa.

He said that the cooperatives agreed to take turns due to the limited equipment.

He was however optimistic that the cooperatives would scale up their activities with time.

Meanwhile, Chimwetu Gold Mining Cooperative chairman, Emmanuel Tembo, also confirmed that the Ministry of Mines and ZCCM-IH had handed over the equipment and offered basic training on how to use them.

Mr Tembo however appealed to Government to consider donating more equipment so as to ensure increased production.

He thanked the government for its support and added that the cooperatives would ensure that all the gold was sold to ZCCM-IH.

Repossess mines from errant investors, Govt told

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU GOVERNMENT should take over all the mines which threaten to withdraw their investment whenever they are questioned about their operations, says the Federation of Small Scale Mines Association of Zambia (FSSMAZ).

Zambia needs investors who will help in the economic recovery process and respect the laws of the country, says FSSMAZ

president, Joseph Mwansa.

Pastor Mwansa warned that mines in the habit of threatening to withdraw their investment whenever Government tried to question them over certain matters should know that their time was limited.

Pastor Mwansa said in an interview that the move by the government to take over the Mopani Copper Mines was an indication that Zambians were able to run the mine.

“The move by the

government to take over Mopani mine was a great move, we congratulate them. It should not only end up on Mopani. It is time to start to manage our mines, we are capable of managing.

“What will happen now is that when the government sell the copper, the money will come back to Zambia and it is the only way to boost our economy,” he said.

Pastor Mwansa expressed confidence that Zambia

Judge orders for submissions in Spax murder trial

had qualified expertise to manage the mines.

He emphasised that it was time to build the economy by supporting its recovery process and not encourage investors who were only interested in the natural resources.

He however cautioned Government to put a committed management in place to manage the mines.

Pastor Mwansa said this was cardinal in ensuring smooth operations and transparency at the mines.

Serial killers to hang - court

By SANFROSSA MANYINDA

By GRACE CHAILE

THE Kitwe High Court has ordered for submissions in the case where murder co-accused of small-scale miner Kabaso Mulenga popularly known as ‘Spax’ accused the police of having tortured him while in police holding cells.

Jimmy Bwembya alleged in the trial within a trial that police officers beat him up and forced him to sign documentation at gun-point.

Yesterday, Judge Abha Patel ordered both the state and the defence to make written submissions on April 16 and 19 respectively before judgement could be passed on this particular matter.

This is in a matter Spax 29, Boyd Kamizhi, 24, Maclean Kamizhi, 22, Gilbert Zimba, 22, Syvio Kwibisa, 22, and Jimmy Bwembya, 23, are appearing for three counts of attempted murder, rape and murder.

Bwembya told the court that he signed the documents at gun point while being beaten.

In November 2020, a trial within trial was ordered to allow for investigations of torture allegations against

TWO Zambia Army soldiers, a ZAF office assistant and a traditional healer have been sentenced to death by hanging for the gruesome ritual killings of seven men in Matero Township, five years ago.

Zambia Army soldier Lucky Siame, Lewis Chishimba Bwalya a traditional healer, Christopher Kasapo, a ZAF office assistant and Elvis Nyanga, a soldier of Solwezi were charged with seven counts of murder.

The four are alleged to have murdered Clever Changwe Mwape, William Chela, Elias Phiri, Alex Zulu, Boris Muzumara, Amon Sichamba and Anthony Mwaba between March 5 and April 16, 2016.

The victims were killed in similar fashion by removing their private parts and other internal organs.

The convicts however denied all the charges.

Lusaka High Court judge Florence Lengalenga pronounced a mandatory sentence on the four at 17:40 hours yesterday.

Kabaso Mulenga (Spax) Bwembya.

When the case came for continued trial, the defence had objected to continued trial arguing that their client had been tortured in police holding cells.

It is alleged that between January 22 and 23 2019, the accused murdered Mr Emmanuel Maponda of Chingola while in count two between January 22 and 23, 2020 attempted to murder Mr Billy Maponda in Chingola.

In the third count, they are alleged to have attempted to murder Ms Sheila Bwembya and in count four the accused attempted to murder Mr Stanley Maponda.

In the last count, between January 22 and 23 last year, the accused persons raped the woman.

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SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, BISHOP LUNGU TOLD …just say as a Chipata Catholic Bishop, I will not get the money than discouraging others

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From Page 1 “That transaction was fraudulent and it is not true that the High Court made a determination on the fraud.

There is no time bar to fraud.”

She also expressed fears for the lives of the abducted Hatembo siblings, “We have seen what happens in countries like Iraq when someone is abducted and the abductors realise they cannot hide them anymore, what do they do to them? And this is my daily fear,” Ms Nawakwi said.

Earlier, Mr Mweetwa who accused the Daily Nation, and other like-minded media of twisting facts questioned why the police were holding a UPND member of the National Management Committee, Ackson Sejani, Choma mayor Javen Simooloka and the mayor of Mazabuka Vincent Lilanda when the people keeping the Hatembos, the Zitukule Consortium were known.

Ms Nawakwi said Pheluna, a mother could not willingly go into hiding and leave her sick daughter abandoned.

“This matter is about farm 1924 which the family lost fraudulently. The family wants to advance the fraudulent act which was not addressed by the High Court.”

Pheluna

she said. Fraud, Ms Nawakwi said, was not time barred as suggested by the High Court, “That is why they are being held until after nomination.

I am prepared to face HH at the Police to make this same allegation.”

But Mr Mweetwa has claimed that Zitukule was keeping the Hatembo siblings. “In the midst of the stories that they have disappeared, the Hatembos surfaced and reported themselves to police but police turned them away so they decided to have a briefing to show the world that they were safe and sound and the people who took them to police are known people, Zitukule Consortium of Nikolas Phiri.

“Nikolas Phiri himself in the presence of his lawyer, gave reasons that as a civil society, they were helping the Hatembos for their safety because they are human rights activists. So you know the people who have publicly come out to say we are the ones with these people, we are helping them,” Mr Mweetwa said.

The Hatembo siblings, Pheluna and her brother Milton have been missing for over two months and missed the funeral of their brother, Conwell last week.

HIPATA Diocese Bishop, George Lungu should not speak broadly for others over the Church empowerment fund meant to cushion the impact of Covid-19, he should speak for himself, the Independent Churches of Zambia (ICZ) has said.

And ICOZ president, Bishop David Masupa said it was selfishness and hypocrisy in its highest degree on the part of Bishop Lungu to discourage others from accessing the Church empowerment fund from the government when

GOVERNMENT should create backup system to avert disruption in the distribution of fuel in the country, the Continental Leadership Research Institute (CLRI) has advised.

CLRI executive director, Paul Hakoola, said fuel was one of the key drivers of the economy hence the need to ensure a smooth flow in the supply chain. He was commenting on the shortage of fuel which has hit some parts of the country due to the protest by tanker drivers.

Mr Hakoola said Government should create a system that would be always ready for incidences that might affect the distribution systems of petroleum products.

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mental pillar that drives the economy and there has to be a proper back-up support systems that can ensure that

well when one sector of the church speaks broadly for other sectors. He should, in fact, have just said that I as a Chipata Catholic Bishop, I will not get the money rather than discouraging the church as a whole,” Bishop Masupa said.

In an interview yesterday, Bishop Masupa said there was nothing wrong with the Church Empowerment Fund and those opposed to it had their own hidden agenda or personal hatred against the government.

So for us as ICZ, he said, the government means well for providing these funds. It is

Bishop Masupa not just done in Zambia, it is done even in other developed countries. Who are we to refuse? People have stopped going for work because of the pandemic and they needed this gesture from Government.

‘UPND FULL OF CROOKS’

...MP tells all as he defects to PF

By SIMON MUNTEMBA THE UPND has more crooks and dishonest people than any other political party in the country, Mbabala UPND Member of Parliament Ephraim Belemu has said.

And Mr Belemu has disclosed that some civil servants that are working in his constituency were being victimised and harassed by the UPND leadership for merely coming from other regions.

Speaking when he ditched the UPND and joined the Patriotic Front (PF) yesterday, Mr Belemu said he could not continue working with the party that has amassed more dishonest people than any other party in the county.

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his church has been receiving huge sums of money from the same government during fundraising events.

He was reacting to Bishop Lungu’s directive that no Catholic institution in Eastern Province should access empowerment funds through the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs.

“I disagree with him in the sense that the money is a Covid-19 relief fund aimed at helping the churches. It is meant to cushion the impact that Covid-19 has had on churches.

“So, it does not mean

economy and end users are protected from sudden disruption in the distribution chain of petroleum products.

"It is however disappointing that we don’t have proper backup systems, we are supposed to ensure we have backup support for at least a month or so to ensure economic stability if distribution channels have a problem," he said.

Mr Hakoola called on Government to create an environment that would enable local entrepreneurship in the petroleum sector, which would help reduce high unemployment levels among the youth.

"The institute also calls on Government to ensure that it creates initiatives and an enabling environment for local entrepreneurs to also participate in the petroleum industry," he said.

Mr Belemu said he found the conduct of the UPND leadership in recent past to be a betrayal, perfidious, deceitful, and dishonest.

As it stands out today, he said, the UPND has amassed more dishonest people than any other party and assuming they get into power, the party has the highest probability of putting crooks into government.

“From the time I joined UPND, this time it has attracted more dishonest people than any other time, and for saying that some of us have been vilified. I entered politics to champion a cause, and for me that cause has been betrayed by UPND and its leadership,” Mr Belemu

said.

Mr Belemu also revealed that some people who are not Tongas were victimised by the UPND leadership in Sothern Province.

“Members of staff that are employed at our office in Mbabala Constituency by the National Assembly after being interviewed openly and selected because they are qualified are also being harassed just because two of them are Lozi and Luvale.

And in receiving Mr Belemu and Mr Anold Chikoli who is a lawyer, PF national chairperson Samuel Mukupa said tribal politics has no place in Zambia.

Mr Mukupa also appealed to Minister of Home Affairs,

Mr Belemu

Stephen Kampyongo to take keen interest in the revelations that some people were harassed and assaulted by the UPND leadership in the region.

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PROMOTE PEACE POLITICAL leaders hold the key to the country holding peaceful and violent-free elections.

They are the ones who have influence over the conduct of their cadres – particularly the youth.

And for this reason, they should be the ones who must be frank with their cadres that they would not condone any violence under the guise of wooing voters.

Even the use of firearms and other dangerous weapons should be discouraged and banned from their foot soldiers.

In this vein, we share the sentiments made by New Heritage Party president Chishala Kateka when she noted that during elections political violence has always taken root and charged that guns were being used indiscriminately.

She said there was need for stakeholders to undertake preventive measures as the country heads towards the August 12 general elections to avoid loss of lives.

Her appeal for a violent-free election should not be directed at asking the police to disarm political cadres in possession of firearms The people who must stop this habit of having an arsenal are the political leaders themselves who if they were genuine would even offer information to the law enforcement wings to take preventive measures.

Ms Kateka is right that there could be no free elections under such a violent atmosphere where cadres were armed.

What is needed for all political leaders to promise Zambians that they would abide by the country’s electoral laws and commit themselves as individuals and their parties to promoting peace.

As we have so often stated, the elections should not be a do or die affair. It is simply a system of the contending parties presenting their manifestos to the public who at the end of the day will make a choice.

The Electoral Commission of Zambia for example should be given leeway to carry out its mandate of running this year’s elections as it has done in the past.

But when key political figures start making unsubstantiated allegations of in-build rigging mechanism, that is not promoting unity and planting seeds of a possible uprising by the losers.

Political leaders must instead heed Ms Kateka’s advice that they must ensure their supporters do not engage in violence.

Vice President Inonge Wina yesterday for example urged Patriotic Front members to go out and campaign with love, stressing that they must focus their message on the party’s achievements.

Ms Wina was speaking when she met the new Lusaka Province PF executive committee. That is the kind of message that is expected from all the political leaders.

President Edgar Lungu has assured not only Zambians but the international community of the government’s resolve to ensure that the elections are free and fair.

He has promised to ensure there is peace before and after the elections. Let that assurance be made by other stakeholders too.

The nation must not be held on tenterhooks through the toxic statements coming from certain political circles.

Zambians must be allowed to go about their lives in a peaceful manner and not dread August 12 as a day when there could be Armageddon.

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ACQUIRE EXPERTISE TO WIN BIG CONTRACTS, LOCAL CONTRACTORS TOLD

By STEPHEN MWEWA

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OCAL contractors should take keen interest in acquiring expertise from foreign contractors if they are to be awarded with big contracts in the near future, Northern Province Permanent Secretary Loyd Chilundika has said.

Mr Chilundika said the aim of the government’s policy of ensuring that foreign contrac-

tors award a 20 percent local contracts is to enable contractors acquire both experience and skills for self-reliance He was speaking yesterday when Chambeshi Water Sanitation and Supply Company Managing Director Luckson Simumba signed the sub-contract policy with China State Contract Manager Chen Xiaobo at the provincial planning unit conference hall in Kasama.

In June this year, Chambeshi Water Supply and Sanitation Company engaged China State Engineering Corporation to do water reticulation supply system in Kasama under the auspices of the African Development Bank.

Meanwhile, Mr Simumba disclosed that the scope of work has been sub-divided with the hope of capacity-building to enable local contractors acquire different

Nakonde border monthly earnings hit K200m

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU REVENUE collection at the Nakonde One Stop Border Post has improved with an average of around K200 million being collected on a monthly basis, despite the Covid-19 outbreak.

This is an improvement from about K180 million which was collected last year, says Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) Nakonde Assistant Commissioner, Davies Mwanza.

Mr Mwanza said in an interview in Nakonde that about K238 million was collected last month.

“We are averaging around K200 million per month. Actually it has gone up slightly in that last year we were averaging about K180 million but for

the past three months for this quarter.

“I think we are collecting over K200 million. I can give you the figure for last month.

We are standing at K238 million,” he said.

Meanwhile, ZRA Assistant Director- Enforcement, Collins Sampa, said the organisation had released 50 percent of the vehicles which were impounded last month for various offences.

Last month, ZRA impounded over 74 vehicles for dubiously entering Zambia, having questionable clearance papers and expiry of temporally importation certificates in an operation conducted in Lusaka, Kitwe and Ndola.

Giving an update, Mr Sampa said those with questionable

papers had started presenting themselves to ZRA for proper clearance.

“There are also new ones that have started coming that were not impounded so we would like to encourage all those that had issues to bring them so we can help them legalise,” he said in a separate interview. Mr Sampa indicated that: “most of the people have started coming to us and we are not asking questions and we have started clearing them just for principal taxes without penalties.

“I think the majority of it that we caught about 94… some of them have already come we are waiting for those that have certain issues and expect before May 26, 2021 all of them should have been cleared.”

Lungu mourns Chief Makasa

By AARON CHIYANZO PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has described the late Chief Makasa of Mungwi as a committed traditional leader who did not relent in pushing for development in his chiefdom and the entire district.

President Lungu conveyed his condolences to Finance

minister, Bwalya Ng’andu the son of the late Chief Makasa, the royal family and the entire chiefdom.

“It is with deep sorrow that I learnt of the passing on of Chief Makasa,” he said.

This is according to a statement issued by his Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations, Isaac Chipampe.

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MPs want workshops in schools to enhance skills training

By OLIVER SAMBOKO PARLIAMENT has urged the executive arm of Government to immediately put up infrastructure such as workshops and provision of equipment to support the implementation of the skills and vocational training at public schools.

And parliament has adopted the report of the Committee on Education, Science and Technology for the Fifth Session of the Twelfth National Assembly, laid on the Table of the House on March 26, 2021.

Debating on the report, several members of parliament said skills education is key to attaining development and therefore the need for the implementation of skills training

in schools.

The MPs also recommended for more funding to the education sector to make it possible for implementation for skills training.

And Ikeleng’I MP Elijah Muchima said if the skills training policy is not fully implemented, the education sector will still remain rallying behind.

He said there is need for the country to improve skills training because it was key to reducing unemployment levels for the youth.

Mr Muchima cautioned against spending money and wasting time on politics but that instead such resources should be invested to improve the education sector.

And chairperson of the par-

liamentary Committee on Education, Science and Technology, George Mwamba said there is need for government to address infrastructure inadequacy aimed at supporting the implementation of vocational education in the country.

He also urged Government to quickly address the issue of trade test level two and three which are not included in the Zambia Qualification framework which he said was disadvantageous.

During the sitting parliament also considered the Accountants (Amendment) Bill number 22 of 2021, and the Zambia Institute of Marketing (Amendment) Bill number 25 of 2021, which came for the second reading.

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skills according to the scope of works, in a bid to have a reservoir of them in future.

Lwamwa Contractors Managing Director Chilekwa Mwamba who represented Northern Province-based contractors pledged to do quality works that will be impressive to the government.

Galvanise voters, Veep urges party members

By SIMON MUNTEMBA VICE President, Inonge Wina has implored Patriotic Front structures in Lusaka Province not to be complacent but go flat out in galvanising votes for President Edgar Lungu in the August 12 general elections.

Ms Wina has also urged aspiring candidates who may not be adopted not to ditch the ruling party as there will be always next time.

Ms Wina said this in Lusaka yesterday when she called on the recently voted in PF Lusaka Province executive.

She said there was need for the party structures to campaign vigorously to ensure a landslide victory in the forthcoming elections.

“I urge you to campaign with love, peace and unity. There could be a lot being said about PF winning the next elections on social media but let us not be comfortable or have a business as usual mindset,” Ms Wina said.

Ms Wina also noted with happiness that the new executive was well balanced in terms of age and gender, meaning that the party was still attractive and had a future in politics.

She said the party’s developmental agenda for the country since ascending into office in 2011 should be the blueprint towards a fourth election victory in a row.

Speaking earlier, provincial chairperson Kennedy Kamba said President Lungu was the committee’s sole and preferred presidential candidate for the party congress and general elections.

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Opposition political parties Lupososhi Chiefs empowered with egg incubators urged to stop misleading nation on development COMMUNITY Action against Corruption (CAAC), has urged opposition political parties and some civil society organizations to stop misleading the people that the developmental projects undertaken by the Patriotic Front administration are not benefiting the people of Zambia.

Chief Executive Officer, Brightone Tembo told ZANIS in an interview that the opposition should work hard to find the right messages that can help them to win the hearts of the people. “The opposition should stop labouring in vain by trying to outdo reality by demeaning the benefits that Zambians are currently enjoying through infrastructure development,” Mr Tembo said.

He added that the people in the country both in urban and rural areas are fully benefiting from infrastructure like bridges, hospitals, health centres and schools among others. “People are now covering short distances to access basic services provided being provided by government. Electricity has now reached so many places in the country, which previously was not the case,” he said.

Mr Tembo said Civil Society Organizations should also not be in the forefront misleading people that the infrastructure development is not beneficial.

He said NGOs should find time to visit different places in the country, so that, they can see and appreciate some the developmental projects that have been done by government. Mr Tembo has encouraged Civil Society Organizations to desist from siding with politicians when interpreting national issues to the people adding that the role of CSOs should be that of engaging government on matters that are affecting the people. - ZANIS

THE Presidential empowerment initiative has empowered three chiefs in Lupososhi District of Northern Province with egg incubators.

Northern Province Minister Chungu Bwalya who delivered the incubators on behalf of the Edgar Chagwa Lungu Multi-Purpose Empowerment Cooperative said the President values the contribution of traditional leaders in the development process of the country.

Mr. Bwalya said the President knows that empowering chiefs is critical to the development of as they also share the benefits with their subjects.

He further advised the Chiefs to encourage their subjects to form cooperative so that they can also benefit from the empowerment s fund.

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A 30-year-old man of Kapijimpanga village in Solwezi has been axed in the head by his younger brother over Nshima.

North-western province Commissioner of Police, Joe Njase, confirmed the incident which happened Sunday around 14:00 hours and identified the victim as Robert Masandishi.

Mr Masandashi sustained serious injuries and was

“You should encourage your subjects to join cooperatives so that they can also benefit from the Presidential Empowerment funds that other people are benefiting from,” he said.

Mr Bwalya further called on the traditional leaders to keep the incubators well and put them to good use.

And speaking on behalf of the traditional leaders, Chief Katuta thanked the President for empowering them with the incubators.

He said the empowerment will go a long way in improving their lives and wellbeing of subjects. The traditional leader further asked all Zambians to support President Lungu as he has proven that he is cares for the people.

“There has never been a President I

n this country who has showed so much care to traditional leaders than President Lungu,” he said Meanwhile, Chief Chabula also encouraged opposition political leaders in this country to stop cheap politics.

He said the President has delivered the much needed development across the country.

“Those who are opposing President Lungu’s leadership, what are they going to bring if they come to power because the President has delivered development everywhere,” he said.

The traditional leader further thanked the provincial minister for making sure that people in the rural parts of province are not left out of the presidential empowerments.- ZANIS

SOLWEZI RESIDENT AXED IN THE HEAD OVER NSHIMA rushed to Solwezi General Hospital where he was admitted. Mr Njase said that the victim was hacked on the head by his younger brother Jubec Masandishi 22, after he ate the whole nshima which

their mother had left for the two of them to share.

"Hospital police post received a report of unlawful wounding which was reported by the victim that he was wounded by his going brother

over nshima," he said.

He said that the victim sustained a deep cut on the back of the head adding that he was in a stable condition while the suspect has been arrested.

Employ diplomacy in energy sector - expert

By KETRA KALUNGA

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GOVERNMENT should create lasting energy security through regular engagements with all players in the energy sector to guarantee smooth flow of fuel, an energy expert, Johnson Chikwanda has advised.

Mr Chikwanda said that there was a need for Government to invest in energy diplomacy in order to tackle the challenges which the local fuel transporters were facing.

Fuel tanker drivers have parked their vehicles, demanding the actualisation of a 50 percent volume allocation to local operators.

Mr Chikwanda said in an interview that the grievances of the fuel tanker drivers were genuine and required to be tackled with diplomacy to create a situation where no player in the energy sector would issue threats.

He said energy was a sensitive sector and requires engagement with all players based on predictable outcomes.

“Energy is a very, very sensitive issue extremely sensitive, it calls for energy diplomacy which is a set of principles, a set of behaviours that are targeted on building relationships with the intention of creating a lasting state of energy security, “These set of princi-

Wednesday April 6, 2021

COPPER PRICES SURGE

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU

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OPPER price have surged to their highest in two weeks after Chile closed its borders due to a spike in Covid-19 cases.

Prices for the red metal rose to their highest in two weeks yesterday, as top producer Chile’s decision to close its border amid rising Covid-19 cases raised further supply concerns in an already tight market.

Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange climbed as much as 3.6 percent to US$9,104 a tonne, its highest since March 23, this year.

The world’s top exporter of the metal closed its borders for a month as reported a daily record of 7,830 infections last week, an all-time high for occupied hospital beds, and a nationwide positivity rate of 11 percent.

This is according to the

By LEWIS CHIMFWEMBE RESEARCH institutions, whether private or public, play an instrumental role in bringing about innovations that respond to industry growth bottlenecks.

In this article, I highlight with examples, the importance of industry-academia collaborations in addressing not only global challenges but also fostering industrial development.

Marianna Mazucato, in the book entitled ‘the entrepreneurial state’ argues that state-led research investments in revolutionary technologies are key. For instance, public academic research underpinned the success of Apple’s iPhone and iPad in the consumer electronics industry. The key technologies in the smart phone (internet, global positioning system (GPS), touch screen displays, lithium-polymer and lithium-ion batteries and communication technologies) are all products of public research investments, especially by the US government through the Department of Defense.

While most of the technologies described above were developed before the year 2000, more recent examples exist. Towards the end of 2019, the world witnessed the outbreak of a deadly disease known as the CoronaVirus Disease (COVID-19). Most governments around the world implemented prevention measures such as social distancing, closure of borders and mandatory wearing of face masks by their respective citizens. But key to public research was that the race for developing a COVID-19 vaccine also kicked in. The successful development of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19

Mining .Com publication.

“Chilean citizens and foreign residents are forbidden from entering or leaving the country. All truck drivers are required to present a negative PCR test carried out in the 72 hours before entering the country.

“The stepped-up border restrictions may disrupt mining activities by delaying equipment replacement,” the publication said.

According to the publication, Chile’s copper mines produced 430,100 tonnes in February, a decline of 4.8

percent compared to the same period of 2020.

Meanwhile, Treasury bill auction held on the 25th March, 2021 was undersubscribed with the Bank of Zambia (BoZ) only taking up to K797.65 billion.

The Treasury bill auction held on the 25th March was undersubscribed at 61.36 percent, down from 126.87 percent in the previous action, says Access Bank Zambia market update.

According to Access Bank, this saw the Central Bank taking up K797.65 billion at cost from the K1.300 billion on offer. Rates remained unchanged across all tenors.

In the Forex market, the Bank said: “tight United Stated dollar supply continues to weigh on the Kwacha as market demand remains high. The USD/ZMW rate remained at an average market retail offer rate of 22.1291/$.”

MANUFACTURERS CORNER With

LEWIS CHIMFWEMBE

RESEARCH: Cardinal for Industrialisation vaccine code-named AZD 1222, approved for use in the UK on 30th December 2020, is an outcome of a successful collaboration between a pharmaceutical and biotechnology company

researchers tend to be more interested in proposing new techniques and tools while the industry is more interested in finding quick solutions to their problems. Time is also anoth-

actually work. Furthermore, researchers tend to report research findings in a language (technical terms) that industry practitioners may not easily understand. In summary, the dif-

innovations pulls researchers and industry players together.

Such undertakings continue to happen world over and even in Zambia. For instance, on 23rd March 2021, the University of

ples must be applied at the source, where you are getting it, in the corridors where the fuel is transiting through, you apply those set of principles also in the markets where fuel is being consumed,” he said.

Mr Chikwanda called for enhanced implementation of energy diplomacy in the sector which is devoid of issuing threats by any of the players.

“In energy diplomacy we stay away from making threats instead we engage in dialogue based on predictable outcomes,” he said.

Mr Chikwanda urged the fuel takers drivers to stay calm as their situation was being handled by the government.

Mr Chikwanda

Zambian Breweries Plc, is a shining local example of what can be achieved through Industry-Academia partnerships.

The above examples demonstrate how important industry-academia collaborations are not only cardinal to address global challenges like pandemics, but also to support product and industrial development.

Research has played a centeral role in revolutionalising the consumer electronics industry, is playing a key role in resolving the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic both abroad and at home. Since the Zambian manufacturing industry faces a number of challenges, some can

INVESTMENT Marianna Mazucato, in the book entitled ‘the entrepreneurial state’ argues that state-led research investments in revolutionary technologies are key. For instance, public academic research underpinned the success of Apple’s iPhone and iPad in the consumer electronics industry.

Even though industry-academia collaborations have been shown to produce important results, especially in the area of innovation, they are not easily achieved.

called AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.

Even though industry-academia collaborations have been shown to produce important results, especially in the area of innovation, they are not easily achieved. For example,

er factor that brings challenges in industry-academia partnerships. Time is more important to the industry which wants to solve its short-term problems as compared to research institutions who want to take time and ensure that the solutions

ferences in understanding how academic research pans out and prioritisation between contracting parties makes these collaborations difficult to achieve.

Despite the bottlenecks highlighted above, the importance of research in bringing about

Zambia launched its prototype medical ventilator designed to assist COVID-19 patients.

The Ventilator, designed by the School of Engineering and the Technology Development and Advisory Unit (TDAU) and funded by Lafarge (Z) Plc and

be addressed through research collaborations with academia.

Research collaboration, especially in product development, has the potential to increase the variety of products manufactured in Zambia and contribute to diversifying the export basket.

‘Unforeseen challenges’ prevent SAA Technical from keeping promise to pay full salaries

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…Please keep your loans, Kenyans tell IMF

online say, international lenders risk aiding corruption and embezzlement of public funds. "Have you ever cared to know how the loans you give to the Kenyan government are utilised?

You are making individual billionaires while the rest of us keep suffering.

“Kenya does not need loans," a social media user, Laban Maloi, told the IMF while responding to its announcement that it had cleared new loans for Nairobi.

Nation.Africa reported on Monday that Kenya's public debt has ballooned by more than Sh1 trillion in the last one year under the cover of

fighting Covid-19 pandemic.

This now makes the period between March 2020 and March 2021 as Kenya's worst in terms of borrowing, after the government's appetite for debt shot up by 69 percent.

In the eight months between March and November last year, Kenya had increased its stock of public debt by Sh971 billion. This translates to about Sh121 billion every month, a sharp rise compared to the Sh71 billion the country was borrowing per month on average in the year to March 2020, before coronavirus hit the country.

When the government factors in the latest loans

PRAZ pushes for SME quota in Govt procurement deals HARARE - The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (PRAZ) is working on a host of proposals that stakeholders want amended to align the country’s procurement laws to the Constitution.

Chief among the additions is the inclusion of suggestions for Government to acquire at least 25 percent of its goods and services from small to medium enterprises, said PRAZ acting chief executive, Clever Ruswa.

“There have been proposals by the Small and Medium Enterprises Association of Zimbabwe proposing alignment of the PRAZ Act and Regulations to the SME’s policy,” he said at a media engagement forum.

The SMEs policy already provides for the quota which is, however, missing from the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets (PPDPA) Act. “The authority will be incorporating these amendments as inclusion of SMEs fosters competition by helping more firms to enter the market and helping to grow the market and push innovation,” said Ruswa.

“It also aids in achieving better value for money such as through more suppliers resulting in more competition, SMEs fostering local benefits.”

– NEW ZIANA.

Mr Johnson

Johnson pushes Covid tests for all to help reopen UK economy LONDON - Everyone in England will be urged to take a coronavirus test twice a week as a new system of Covid passports is assessed for wide-scale use, under Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to reopen the economy after lockdown.

Free test kits will be made available through local pharmacies, community centers and home delivery services, when the new regime goes live on April 9.

With most of the adult population now having received a vaccine, the government believes rapid testing of the whole population and a system of Covid status certification will help keep control over the pandemic as restrictions are eased.

Johnson is due to set out the details later ahead of the next step in lifting curbs for businesses and citizens due on April 12.

“Massive efforts have been made by the British public to stop the spread of the virus,” Johnson said in a statement released by his office.

“As we continue to make good progress on our vaccine programme and with our road-map to cautiously easing restrictions underway, regular rapid testing is even more important to make sure those efforts are not wasted.”

The UK has suffered the highest death toll in Europe from the pandemic and is still reeling from the country’s deepest recession in 300 years.

– BLOOMBERG NEWS.

from the IMF and other development partners, and adds to the other loans taken between November last year to date, Kenya's mountain of public debt is likely to swell by an additional Sh1.2 trillion in just one year. – DAILY NATION, Kenya.

everything in their power to secure payment of these salaries. We apologise for inconvenience caused to employees and their families.”

On March 26, the company indicated that arrangements were in place to have 100 percent of nett March salaries paid on April 1.

In a document sent to staff and seen by Fin24, SAAT interim CEO Terrance Naidoo indicates that this was on the back of the undertaking and effort from the board to have the required funds made available.

“Unfortunately, these much anticipated funds have not been paid to SAAT due to unforeseen challenges experienced, and SAAT EXCO was notified of this unfortunate development today, April 1, 2021. This development is beyond our control, and regrettable,” said Naidoo.

– FIN24.

CHIBOMBO COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES Opportunity is here for you to train as a Community Health Assistants must come from villages in Southern, Western, Eastern, Lusaka and central provinces.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS • Full grade 12 certificate • Five (5) passes including English (compulsory) • Certified copy of NRC • Signed letter from the chief • Signed letter from village headman • Signed letter from Health Post/ Health Centre FORMS • Obtain Application forms from your District Health Offices • Submit the Application forms to your District Health Office by 16th April, 2021.

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NAIROBI - Kenyans trooped online over the weekend and on Monday to protest the move by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to continue giving the Jubilee government new loans before it accounts for previous ones.

This is after the Bretton Woods institution last week signed off a new US$257 million loan for Kenya.

Now, hordes of Kenyans on social media are accusing the IMF of aiding corruption in the country, with some starting an online petition asking the multilateral lender to cancel the most recent loan.

By the end of November last year, Kenya's total public debt stood at Sh7.2 trillion.

Going at the current pace of Sh120 billion per month, it means that debt will be at Sh8.7 trillion by December, and will have crossed the Sh9 trillion mark by June next year. By advancing the loans without demanding accountability, Kenyans

JOHANNESBURG - “Unforeseen challenges” prevented the management of SAA Technical (SAAT) from honouring an earlier commitment to pay employees’ March salaries in full on Thursday April 1.

According to SAAT management, this was beyond its control. SAAT is a subsidiary of SAA but, unlike its parent company, not in business rescue.

“The leadership team continued to explore other means towards paying salaries to our employees.

March 2021 salaries will be paid as follows: 50 percent nett pay for low income levels; 25 percent nett pay for the remainder of the bargaining category and management,” the company told Fin24at the weekend.

“Management remains committed to have the March 2021 salaries topped-up to 100 percent, as soon as funds become available for this purpose.

The leadership has done

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Mr Mweetwa

UPND WARNS ‘DISLOYAL’ MEMBERS

By ANDREW MUKOMA

ASPIRING candidates who feel they will not be adopted and want to stand as independent candidates must leave now, the UPND has said UPND spokesperson, Cornelius Mweetwa, said this should be so because the party did not want any drama from applicants who would be left out.

He said in Livingstone that despite the party receiving overwhelming response from a number of aspiring candidates, only loyal and popular candidates would be picked.

Therefore, Mr Mweetwa said that the party expected those who would not be adopted to support whoever would be picked.

“If you want to bring anarchy by destabilising the party because you have been left out, leave now so that we re-organise “Don’t use your lost status and claim other things that don’t exist. I know I come to Livingstone regularly, I know that no one can leave, all the nine applicants are genuine members of the UPND,” he said.

Mr Mweetwa appealed to all aspiring candidates to prepare themselves for any outcome and avoid bringing confusion in the party.

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Dear Editor, IT is inconceivable that barely six months after the government revised the conditions of service for the fuel tank drivers, suddenly the drivers could lament on the conditions of service in the sector.

There is need to unmask the real motive behind the work protest by the essential workers on this critical sector. This is beyond the reach of the realistic grievance in any event there is a dispute.

The events of the weekend to the extent normal business grind to a halt are quite strange as at no point in time has our Zambian driver’s disturbed business in their pursuit for haulage contracts. This brings an apprehension of the invisible hands of the elite parading the drivers to fight their battles.

Having carefully examined the grievances of the protesting drivers presented to Transport and Communications Minister Mutotwe Kafwaya, it can be discerned that this is purely a dispute between transporters and the Oil Marketing Companies.

Our other observation is that the dispute also arises on the perceived unfair treatment of the truck drivers in the foreign countries while the same is not the case for their counterparts when they come to do their business in Zambia.

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People should verify their voters’ details Dear Editor, THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) launched the physical inspection and online inspection of the provisional voters register to cover the period between Monday March 29, 2021 and Friday April 2, 2021.

DON’T USE YOUTH AS TOOLS OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE AHEAD OF 2021 POLLS Dear Editor, Transport and Communications Minister Mutotwe Kafwaya In an event the disputes was on the contracts, the Oil Marketing Companies were the appropriate forum as per their contractual grievances procedures.

If the disputes related to the conditions of service, there is enough room without disturbing the normal course of the businesses of Zambians and if it related to their treatment in foreign countries, there are line ministries that could transmit their grievances without making unnecessary headlines.

It is very disheartening that the Zambians could on their own choose to disrupt commerce and this is an eye opener to the relevant authorities to conduct a comprehensive audit on the ownership of the trucks that were parked.

In corporate personality, it is possible for a company to be incorporated as a Zambian company yet it has foreign origin. There is also need to ascertain if there is any inappropriate connections with the owners of the trucks.

The Zambian truck drivers cannot be unpatriotic to punish their own brothers and sisters by going on the work stoppage over their misunderstandings with other stakeholders.

This evidently was the sponsored economic shut down by real owners of the trucks disguising themselves as Zambian transporters. Fuel is the essential commodity therefore these suspicious work stoppages by drivers could be acts of sabotage.

MARVIN CHANDA MBERI, Lusaka

ZAMBIA will be holding the general elections on August 12, 2021.

The electorate will be afforded an opportunity to elect leaders of their choice.

This is good as it entails democracy because people will have the democratic right to elect their own leaders without being coerced.

However, some politicians both from the ruling party and the opposition don’t mean well as they incite the youth to engage in political violence which should not be the case. This becomes imminent prior to the elections.

Some pockets of political violence have been witnessed in our country where the political cadres clashed.

The incidences of political violence in most cases culminate in deaths and injuries owing to the fact that guns and iron bars are used.

The cadres from the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) and the United Party for National Development (UPND) have been the major culprits of political violence going by the recent happenings in the political spheres.

President Edgar Lungu is on record denouncing political violence perpetrated by cadres either from the ruling party or the opposition parties.

President Lungu further mentioned that there shouldn’t be any sacred cows when it comes to political violence.

It is unfortunate that some politicians take advantage of the vulnerability of these youth because

FILE PHOTO : Youth should be responsible citizens by not engaging in political violence let alone killing or maiming each other because of politics.

the latter are not employed.

These youth are either bought beer or given money by some politicians to wage a fight against their perceived political rivals. This doesn’t augur well.

In view of the aforementioned, I implore some politicians to desist from using youths as tools of political violence ahead of the 2021 polls.

Why should people fight because of having divergent political views? In a nutshell, politics should not divide us because we are one. There is need to

co-exist.

Youth should be responsible citizens by not engaging in political violence let alone killing or maiming each other because of politics.

The point worth noting is that there can only be one leader at any given time.

Let us practice peaceful campaigns instead of resorting to political violence ahead of this year’s general elections.

E.P, Lusaka.

One million voters out of the seven million registered voters verified their details as of last Friday.

However, the provisional voters register inspection has since been extended by another five days starting from Saturday April 3, 2021 to Wednesday April 7, 2021. This is the last chance for people to verify their details because it won’t be extended anymore.

The main purpose of the inspection of the provisional voter’s register is to afford an opportunity to the potential electorate verify their details such as names, age, sex, National Registration Card number and the polling station. If there are some anomalies, these can be corrected before the polling day.

One million voters out of the seven million registered voters verified their details as of last Friday. This is not a good number as a matter of fact. On this score, there is need for ECZ and other stakeholders to sensitise people on the importance of having their voter’s details verified.

My NRC number in the ECZ voter’s register shows 5298130/11/1 instead of 529130/11/1. I had my NRC number rectified last Saturday at Lusaka City Council Library polling centre. I am now eligible to vote on August 12, 2021.

If few people verify details on their voter’s cards, there is the possibility that many people will be disenfranchised on the polling day. Let us take the provisional voter’s register verification exercise seriously and the right time is now.

ELEMIYA PHIRI, Lusaka.

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alism card but how he is able to save himself in a pond full

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‘TURN DORMANT EMERALD MINES INTO AGRO SCHEMES’

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ABOUT 176 emerald mining licenses in Lufwanyama that have no record of having produced a single gramme of emerald should be turned into an agricultural area, Emerald Production Watch of Zambia (EPWZ) president Musa Kafimbwa has suggested.

Mr Kafimbwa said out of the 500 licenced emerald mining companies, 176 have no history of having produced any emerald and so they should be turned into agricultural land.

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THERE is a need for a permanent solution to the problem of fuel instead of always issuing reactionary statements, the United Party for National Development (UPND) has said.

UPND Copperbelt Information and Publicity Secretary, Lawrence Mwanza, said the fuel shortages cause a lot of disruptions in the economy.

Mr Mwanza said in Kitwe yesterday that this should

He said the emerald mines after Mitondo stream have no record of producing emerald and some businessmen who invested in them ended up losing out.

Mr Kafimbwa cited some businessmen who invested in the emerald mines and lost out as George Foster Singanya from Tanzania and former Bank of Zambia (BoZ) Governor Francis Nkhoma. "Yes, there are about 500 emerald mining licences in Lufwanyama which are dormant but you cannot turn these mines into agricultural land because they

have emerald and only need investment. They have a record of having produced emeralds before.

"The only area I know which has emerald mines, but have no record of having produced a single gramme is the area after Mitondo stream where some people invested and ended up losing out. This area has about 176 dormant licences and I think this is a place which can be turned into agricultural area," Mr Kafimbwa said. He said the mining licences were those in areas like Kafubu where

Kagem and Grizzly Mining Limited are operating from and Miku West, Kalobwe, Kangalati and Kamakanga areas.

In separate interviews, senior officers from the Ministry of Mines said some of the mines were dormant and occupying very fertile soils for agricultural, hence the need to turn them into agricultural scheme.

The senior officers who refused to be quoted, stressed that some mines were just a bush and there was no need to even regard them as emerald mines when they were

not contributing anything to the country's economy "It's not an issue of saying it is an emerald mine, it is an issue of an emerald mine contributing to the country's economy through revenue and other areas. It is sad that for a long time some areas are called emerald mining companies, but they produce nothing.

"You are better off turning them into an agricultural area to produce maize and other crops to alleviate poverty and promote food security in the area," a senior official said.

Resolve fuel crisis, demands UPND not be entertained at such a critical time when the economy was performing badly.

"We are concerned with the latest shortage of fuel being experienced not only on the Copperbelt but also in other parts of the country where almost all towns have run out of the commodity.

Motorists are being forced to spend many hours on

queues.

"We urge Government to put priorities right and ensure the normal supply of fuel is urgently restored as failure to do so may result in further increase in commodity prices," he said.

Mr Mwanza observed that it was just a few months ago when the country went through the same problem,

attributing it to poor planning and corruptly awarding of contracts to Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs).

He advised Government to clear the outstanding debt with OMCs so that the supply chain remained uninterrupted.

Government, he said, should urgently address all the concerns of the local fuel

tanker drivers which had been outstanding for a long time.

Mr Mwanza said that fuel tanker drivers provided an essential service to the country and therefore needed to be given good conditions of service.

He said it was shameful that the same category of drivers of foreign origin en-

Mr Kafimbwa

joyed better conditions of service at the expense of the local tanker drivers.

"There is a need to ensure that the driver's association is strengthened and open a desk specifically to attend to driver's needs in the country we strengthen. This will include both bus and taxi drivers.

"We are alive to the fact that this industry employs thousands of our people who deserve better and humane conditions of service," he said.

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DAR ES SALAAM Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan intends to form a committee of experts to evaluate the Covid-19 pandemic and advise the government on the way forward.

President Suluhu said yesterday that Tanzania needs to have a clear and understandable position on the pandemic so that it can make informed decisions.

The country cannot continue to rely on external reports on the pandemic while it has none, she said.

“On the issue of Covid-19, I think I should form a committee of experts to look at it professionally and then advise the government.

It should not be silenced, rejected or accepted without professional research,” she said.

“We cannot isolate ourselves as if we are an Island but also, we cannot accept everything brought to us. We cannot continue just reading about Covid-19 worldwide, yet Tanzania is all blank [sic]. It is incomprehensible.

“Tanzania needs to have its own understanding of where we stand on the issue of Covid-19.”

…President Suluhu says Tanzania to re-evaluate position on Covid-19

President Suluhu Tanzania last released data on the pandemic almost a year ago, which showed that the country had only 509 cases.

At the time, the late President John Magufuli said

his country was free from Covid-19 while authorities encouraged local remedies such as steam therapy.

Magufuli’s government also said Tanzania would not procure vaccines despite the

insistence of the World Health Organisation (WHO) that the jab was necessary in curbing the spread of the virus.

Meanwhile, a report by the World Bank estimates that Africa needs about US$12 billion to buy and distribute enough coronavirus vaccines to interrupt transmission of the virus.

A paper written with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) also argues that G20 nations should extend their moratorium on debt repayments offered to the world’s poorest countries.

It says this should be done for another year, in response to the pandemic.

The World Bank and the IMF are hosting their spring meetings this week to discuss vaccines, debt, economic recovery, climate change and more. – DAILY NATION/BBC.

Manhunt on for 1, 800 inmates after brazen Nigeria prison attack

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ABUJA - Attackers armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades have launched a series of coordinated attacks in southeastern Nigeria, freeing more than 1, 800 inmates from a prison.

The attacks began at approximately 02:00 on Monday in Owerri, a town in the state of Imo, and lasted for about two hours, according to a local resident Uche Okafor.

Gunmen also assaulted other police and military buildings, authorities said.

“Efforts are in top gear to re-arrest the fleeing detainees,” said Nigeria prison spokesperson Francis Enobore, adding that 35 other inmates stayed behind during the prison break.

The coordinated attacks come less than two weeks after another wave of violence in southeastern Nigeria, when at least a dozen security officers were killed during attacks on four police stations, military checkpoints, and prison vehicles.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the Nigeria inspector general of police blamed the Eastern Security Network, a paramilitary wing of a secessionist movement active in the region. – ALJAZEERA.

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Powerful Central Africa armed group vows to quit rebel coalition BANGUI - The most powerful of the Central African Republic’s armed groups said in a statement on Monday it will quit a rebel coalition aiming to unseat President Faustin Archange Touadera.

The Unity for Peace in Central Africa (UPC), mainly active in the country’s east, “commits to withdraw from the Coalition of Patriots for Change” (CPC), the group’s head Ali Darassa wrote.

The coalition is an alliance of some of the war-torn country’s most powerful armed groups, who joined together on December 19 accusing Touadera, the frontrunner in the December 27 elections, of trying to fix the vote. Its components were drawn from militia groups that, together, controlled two-thirds of the impoverished country.

Touadera was reelected with barely one in three voters able to cast their ballot because rebel groups control most of the country.

Darassa said on Monday that since the “electoral crisis, the population has suffered terribly from insecurity, the health situation, famine and the lack of humanitarian assistance.”

The UPC, the statement continued, “reiterates its commitment to the Khartoum Accord process,” a peace agreement signed in February 2019 between the government and 14 armed groups.

Tensions have been high in the Central African Republic since the December election, although the surge in violence in recent months is just the latest flare-up in a civil war that has lasted eight years since the ouster of President Francois Bozize.

The UPC announcement came just days after another powerful group in the CPC announced that its chief had died from wounds suffered during an attack, in another blow to the rebel alliance.

Sidiki Abass, head of Return, Reclamation and Rehabilitation (3R), died on March 25, the rebel group announced on Friday.

– AFP.

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Moz to begin curfews in provincial capitals

MAPUTO - Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has announced a night-time curfew in all 10 of the country’s provincial capitals for 21 days to stop the spread of coronavirus.

The president urged Mozambicans to adhere to the measures put in place to prevent the spread of the virus so that life can return to normalcy soon. – BBC.

Kampala mayor collapses during Archbishop Lwanga’s mass

KAMPALA - Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago was on Monday evacuated from Lubaga Cathedral where a requiem mass for Archbishop of Kampala Archdiocese, Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, was underway after he became unwell.

Lukwago, who was seated in the area reserved for VIPs, was helped out of the church by two men and evacuated through the door linking to the priest’s residence after his sugar levels dropped, according to a source close to him. – DAILY MONITOR.

Sudan declares emergency as 40 killed in Darfur KHARTOUM - Sudan has declared a state of emergency in West Darfur state following inter-communal fighting that left at least 40 dead and thousands of people displaced.

On Monday, the UN said that at least 40 people had been killed and more than 50 injured after violence broke out on Saturday between Arab groups and the non-Arab Massalit ethnic community in the city of El Geneina. – BBC.

Netanyahu asked to form government

TEL AVIV - Israel’s president nominated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday to try to form a government after the latest inconclusive election, but voiced doubt that any lawmaker can forge a parliamentary majority.

The March 23 election, Israel’s fourth in under two years, did not produce a clear path for any candidate to form a coalition capable of commanding a majority in the 120-member parliament, prolonging an unprecedented phase of political gridlock. – AFP.

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UMAMBA N u m b a’s search for his first M T N / FA Z Super Division title as Zesco United coach suffered another setback after the Ndola giants were stunned 1-0 by rivals Forest Rangers in yesterday’s local derby at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium.

Zikiru Adams 27th minute goal gave Rangers their second win of

Tanzania, Nkana moved to third in Group D with three points, three points behind second-placed Pyramids FC and six points behind Group B leaders Raja Casablanca who are on nine points.

SCOREBORD: Nkana will on Sunday host the Tanzanians inIndeni the Zesco United 3-2 FC Lusaka Dynamos fixture 4-1after playing Red Arrows reverse Lumwana Radiants 2-3 Kabwe Warriors Forest Rangers in tomorrow’s Young Green Eagles 0-2 Prison Leopards Super at FC Forest RangersDivision 0-0 fixture Zanaco Nkwazi FC 1-1 in Kitwe.

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teams maintained a 100 percent winning run after the first two games.

In other mid-week fixtures, Lusaka Dynamos came from a goal down to force a 1-1 stalemate with Napsa Stars at Sunset Stadium while Nkana and Lumwana Radiants were involved in a goalless draw at “Chilata” Stadium in Kitwe.

At Edwin Imboela Stadium in Lusaka, Kabwe Warriors punished the Zambia Police sponsored Nkwazi FC 2-1 thanks to goals from Eric Kabu-

the season after they beat Nkana 2-0 on match day one.

The win propelled the Tenant Chilumba-drilled to the summit of the 18team Super Division table with six points as they await Lusaka Dynamos’ visit at the weekend.

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DESPITE having beaten Namungo FC 1-0 to redeem their chances of qualifying for the CAF Confederations Cup quarter finals, Nkana have threatened to report the Tanzanian club for the poor reception endured before the match which was delayed by an hour.

Nkana coack Kelvin Kaindu said he was not happy with the behaviour of the Tanzanians who have always been a pain in the neck for visiting clubs.

Kaindu said he had to make changes three times to his squad due to the delay to release Covid-19 results by the Tanzanian Health Authorities who were releasing the Covid-19 results in batches.

He said the team was compelled to train in a parking lot as they awaited Covid clearance before the match.

Kaindu said the game was played under very difficult circumstances and was delayed by an hour because the authorities in Tanzania delayed to produce the Covid-19 results on time.

“We are not the first club

to complain about the bad reception in Tanzania, all the teams that have been coming here they have been complaining but we will wait to see what kind of a report will be given to FIFA but honestly we are not happy and we will be launching a complaint to FIFA,” Kaindu said.

Kaindu urged Tanzanian clubs to emulate the North African clubs which he says have been professional and do not engage in mind games.

Despite having complained bitterly about the poor reception in Tanzania, Kaindu hailed his charges for putting up a spirited fight which saw them humiliate their tormentors on home soil.

A lone goal from Diamond Chikwekwe ensured that the Kitwe giants bounced back from five consecutive defeats to leave Tanzania with the valuable three points.

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FIGHT CORONAVIRUS: Customers are encouraged to purchase electricity units through channels such as online banking and mobile money. Customers are further advised to report faults by contacting Zesco National Call Centre on 0211 363636 (all networks) or 322 (MTN & Airtel) or SMS supply status query and account/prepayment number to 3600.

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