No 770 K10 www.diggers.news Tuesday September 8, 2020 KATELE ACQUITS HH ON PRIVATISATION ...due diligence was done by ZPA, Hichilema being cited because he’s seeking public office By Sipilisiwe Ncube government, through his arriving at a decision to FORMER Finance Minister ministry and the Zambia privatise Mosi-O-Tunya Hotel in the MMD government Privatisation Agency (ZPA), in Livngstone. Dr Katele Kalumba says had done due diligence before Story page 2 Ensure Lungu wins by 80% in 2019 FIC trends report was 2021, Lubinda tells Zambians By Julia Malunga Sunday evening, Lubinda kwete inchito. Natukwata not doctored - Director JUSTICE Minister Given asked Zambians to make sure kateka Edgar Chagwa Lungu President Lungu wins by 80 ulefwaya ukutungulula ichalo, By Ulande Nkomesha in 2019 due to funding, the indicated in the 2019 Trends Lubinda says 2021 is not a time for experiments, asking per cent next year. ukutwala ubuyantanshi elyo FINANCIAL Intelligence 2019 Trends Report is a quality Report, may not be the true Zambians to ensure that “Mu 2021 ama Zambians ule tila ati abena Zambia bonse Centre (FIC) director of document which has not be reflection of all suspected President Edgar Lungu wins bekapanga mistake ifyaku babombele chapamo. Tiyeni compliance and prevention doctored. corrupt activities in that year, by 80 per cent. panga ama experiments t a fi tichite...” Diphat Tembo says despite the And Tembo says the K320 as the Center had no resources Story page 10 And Lubinda says center facing major challenges million lost to corruption, as to analyze all suspicious government does not want transactions. to arrest opposition UPND Speaking on Muvi TV’s leader Hakainde Hichilema ACC nabs Mafinga social The Assignment programme, but that should he be nabbed, it BoZ disbursements Sunday, Tembo said there will be because he committed a welfare officer for diverting was nothing sinister about crime he needs to answer for. the report, describing it as a Meanwhile, Home Affairs quality report. Minister Stephen Kampyongo K223,670 to himself from Medium-Term “I can tell you that it was says PF cannot be scared of By Julia Malunga just a coincidence really that Hichilema because he is a THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested and things were happening at loser. charged an Assistant Social Welfare Officer, Jonathan Maruzah, Facility rise to K1.7bn the same time, you have the Speaking when they for diverting more than K200,000, meant for social welfare Story page 3 substantive...” Story page 2 featured on Kasama radio, beneficiaries, to himself. In a statement, Monday, ACC public relations Manager Timothy Moono said Maruzah of Mufulira fraudulently diverted K223,670 for his benefit. Story page 3 Continued patronising of bars worrying govt, says Malama By Ulande Nkomesha THE Ministry of Health is worried with the continued patronising of bars and holding of large public gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic, says Permanent Secretary in Charge of Technical Services Dr Kennedy Malama. And Dr Malama says Zambia has in the last 24 hours recorded 60 new COVID-19 cases out of 727 tests conducted. Story page 3 2. Local News www.diggers.news Tuesday September 8, 2020 By Ulande Nkomesha FINANCIAL Intelligence Centre (FIC) director of 2019 FIC trends compliance and prevention Diphat Tembo says despite the center facing major report wasn’t challenges in 2019 due to funding, the 2019 Trends Report is a quality document which has not be doctored. doctored – Director And Tembo says the K320 just a coincidence really that did over the year. If next million lost to corruption, as things were happening at year numbers go up, we indicated in the 2019 Trends the same time, you have the are going to see. Basically I Report, may not be the true substantive Director General wouldn’t say the report has reflection of all suspected going on leave, then you have been doctored, I think people corrupt activities in that the acting director resigning have different opinions and year, as the Center had no and then at the same time sometimes you can’t be resources to analyze all you have the report being responding to each and every suspicious transactions. released and then it delays, opinion we need to remain Speaking on Muvi TV’s it’s just a coincidence. Believe professional and that is what The Assignment programme, me there is nothing sinister we are basically doing. There Sunday, Tembo said there about this report. What we is nothing that has happened was nothing sinister about have put in this report is that would warrant people to the report, describing it as a what we received and believe say that the report has been quality report. you me if the numbers have doctored,” Tembo said. Story “I can tell you that it was gone down, that is what we continues on P7 Zim Professor advises Zambians to elect a selfless leader in 2021 By Julia Malunga and character, faith in one’s fellow human ZIMBABWEAN public intellectual Professor being and the proactive use of the law, as a Ibo Mandaza says Zambians should look for lawyer himself, as the shield for the weak a selfless leader whom they can elect in next and ordinary citizens and not as a sword year’s general election. for the elite and powerful. He stood out as a And Prof Mandaza says president Levy leader, almost a natural leader who had to be Mwanawasa took up the challenge and turned persuaded into leadership, accepting such with around the Zambian fortunes like never before. humility and selflessness is rare in our time,” Speaking during the virtual Levy Prof Mandaza said. Mwanawasa public lecture, Friday, Prof “How many leaders do we know who had Mandaza said selfless leaders were available. to be invited and came across as humble? How “As we approach elections in Zambia and many do we know who, even after they are the region, look for selfless leaders, they are persuaded, have the guts, the courage, to do there in all our countries. They have to be as he did on the 3rd of July in 1994, resigned encouraged and mobilised in the same way his Cabinet position in protest against growing that you in Zambia successfully mobilised an levels of corruption in government and the almost regimented Levy Mwanawasa to come lack of transparency and accountability? How out. Let us look for these people, they are many have you seen in our times? And in 2001, among us. Let’s find them in our generation,” as he was persuaded to come back into politics, Prof Mandaza said when asked what type of he said ‘I am not going to come back, I will stay leadership people should be looking for as as a lawyer’, he had to be persuaded.” elections were nearing. He said Zambia was a joke in the 1990s but He said Mwanawasa had identified and Mwanawasa turned the country around. selected technocrats who helped to address “He was a champion of good governance the key imperatives and goals of both good in democracy…Levy was a champion of governance and economic management of the economic reforms. He understood, clearly, country. the meaning of competent leadership, he “The national disruption is obvious in understood the importance of knowledge, COVID [times] and even though we have lost skills, discipline and good judgement and many family members and friends, we hope that therefore, this affected the team that he it is soon over. Therefore, my main attention chose to carry out the objectives for which he in honoring Levy Mwanawasa as a leader is to declared on that day. He had Magande, I am look at the man-made moments of disruption told by Zambians the best Finance Minister and these are many and familiar in our region. ever; he had Caleb Fundanga at the Bank Bad governance is a den for constitutionalism of Zambia, he had [Mundia] Sikatana as a in the rule of law, economic and social despair, Minister of Agriculture and he had [Justice mismanagement, growing debt, corruption, Mumba] Malila as Attorney General. He had growing poverty and inequality. And these are inherited a poorly performing economy. We major challenges and I think the notable fact remember Zambia was a joke in the 80s and about Levy Mwanawasa is that he took up the 90s but our friend Levy turned that around in challenge when he became president in 2002 the first term of office,” Prof Mandaza said. and turned around the Zambian fortunes like He said Zimbabwe tried to emulate the never before,” Prof Mandaza said. “And we are agricultural revolution that Mwanawasa had returning as we are to the same kind of crisis introduced but failed due to lack of leadership. which he inherited. We are therefore forced, “He rejected GMOs courageously compelled to remember him. And in doing so, from the US. He instituted an agricultural we hope that we can in the few months, years revolution which turned Zambia which had renew leadership, not just in Zambia but in the been dependent for decades on imports of region. I want to define leadership in relation food. Today, Zambia, thanks to Mwanawasa to Mwanawasa. The first is personal integrity, and his team, is exporting maize even to the leading by example. The second is self- country South of it. And today, we are trying introspection and the capacity to acknowledge in Zimbabwe under the so-called command one’s failings, one’s shortfalls and on the basis agriculture to emulate the agricultural of that identify and select persons, technocrats revolution that Mwanawasa did but we have who can help to address the key imperatives failed because we don’t have the kind of and goals of both good governance and integrity, the kind of leadership skills that economic management.