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No 39 www.diggers.news Monday September 25, 2017 Nurses outside the University Teaching Hospital administration block in Lusaka - Picture by Joseph Mwenda Parastatal boards By Martha Chilosha The Civil Servants and Allied created to award Workers Union (CSAWU) says the government PF cadres - Milupi deliberately suggested a ridiculous pay rise offer so By Zondiwe Mbewe that the workers can enter ADD president Charles into a dispute and eventually Milupi says many boards lose out. in parastatals are created to Continues on page 3 IT’S A BAD award ruling party cadres. Reacting to a whistleblower’s report that the Indeni board had met several times already this year and getting sitting allowances of between K7,000 and K21,000, Milupi observed most parastatals were not run in a correct manner. “Every board meeting should have an agenda that DEAL - UNION looks at all that is required to do. And once the board has sat, it must give management ...govt wanted us to reject 8% pay-rise the urge in which to run the company and interpret informed decisions.” Milupi said Continues on page 3 offer so that we lose out, but we took it Lungu won’t act; a corrupt man can’t fight corruption - Mulongoti By Martha Chilosha at large that he had corrupt Lungu) is corrupt himself People’s Party leader Mike ministers in his office. and not only that but even Mulongoti says President Now it has turned out opposition leaders have Edgar Lungu cannot fight that one of these ministers said he is a corrupt man. corruption because he is (Chishimba Kambwili) Said Mulongoti corrupt. has said that he (President Continues on page 4 Reacting to President Lungu’s remarks that those with evidence of corruption on the fire tenders should Lusaka man dies, wife come forward in an interview, Mulongoti said Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini with his deputy Catherine Namugala - Picture the Head of State was discovers 3 days later by Tenson Mkhala unreliable. By Thomas Mulenga learn that her 80-year-old “President Lungu keeps A 75-year-old woman of husband had died three Parliament should be able to detect, stop talking about the fight P4 against corruption, he told Lusaka’s Matero compound days earlier. abuse of public resources, says Matibini the nation and the world was yesterday shocked to Full story no page 2 2. Local News Monday September 25, 2017 Lusaka man dies at home, wife discovers 3 days later By Thomas Mulenga A 75-year-old woman of Lusaka’s Matero compound was yesterday shocked to learn that her 80-year-old husband had died three days earlier. Martha Kombe explained to journalists shortly after dis- covering Samson Mwamba’s decomposed body that the two were on separation but had continued living in the same house; different rooms. “I am usually not home, I go for some piece work while he remains at home. When he is here, he leaves early in the morning to go to drink beer and he comes at night, just like that. So on Friday, he found us on the verandah where we sat and the children received the charcoal he came with because he likes cooking alone and he stays alone in the bedroom, he chased me from there a long time ago, I also sleep in another room. So he put charcoal on the brazier with a lot of diesel and he removed it outside until the smoke reduced. Then he took it inside and started cooking around 20:00 hours,” Kombe narrated. “So that’s how we slept, on Saturday early in the morning, I went to the sewage and when I knocked off, I asked the chil- dren that ‘has your grandfather gone out’? And the youngest Minister of Higher Education Nkandu Luo told me that he was told to tell anyone looking for his grand- father that he had gone to visit someone who was sick. So that’s how I proceeded to cook for the children that evening.” International Agency to help Zambia She said she discovered Mwamba was dead on Sunday when she noticed something smelling in his room. “Today, I wanted to go to the farm so after doing some chores outside, I came into the house wanting to sweep and that’s train Nuclear science personnel when I told the children that something was smelling in their By Diggers Reporter knowledge on other She said government was raised with the Director grandfathers room. I asked them to open it so that I could Minister of Higher sources of energy that receiving a lot of support General of the Agency. remove what was smelling but we discovered that his keys Education Nkandu Luo include nuclear energy. from countries like Russia Professor Luo said apart were still inside. So I got alarmed and we went outside to the window to check. I tried to get one of the children to enter says the International The Minister said so far, were currently training from the technical support but they couldn’t fit through the space. After we managed to Atomic Energy Agency has government had signed 40 Zambian students in rendered to Zambia by UN open the window wide enough, because I can’t see well from pledged to assist Zambia in the contract for the Nuclear Science. agencies, it was important afar, I asked the child to check for me if there was someone training Human resource construction of the centre Professor Luo was that such agencies on the bed and he told me that he was on the bed. But at that in Nuclear Science. that would be located in speaking at Bole employed Zambians. point I got alarmed. So we went to break down the door and According to a statement Chongwe District. International Airport She said government discovered that indeed, he had died,” said Kombe. issued by Zambia’s First She further said Zambia when she transited from would ensure that it “Three days has passed without me seeing him. I don’t know Secretary for Press in had already started using Vienna where she attended seconds people to take jobs if maybe he got chocked with the brazier or what, I cannot Ethiopia Inutu Mwanza, Nuclear Science in the the 61st Regular Session of in UN agencies saying the know because he likes cooking on his own. There was a cook- Prof Luo said the agency health sector through the General Conference of country would leverage er in his room.” was ready to support diagnosis of Cancer and the International Atomic more if it had its own Kombe said police officers told her to organise transport and Zambia in human resource treatment that involves Energy Agency (IAEA). people working in key a coffin to bury him because he couldn’t be taken to a mor- and capacity development radiation at Health The Minister howeverpositions of the agencies. tuary in his state. as the country prepared to Institutions such as the expressed concern The Minister was received at She however complained that she had no capacity to buy a coffin or hire a vehicle. set up its first ever Nuclear Cancer Diseases Hospital. that only one Zambian Bole International Airport But neighbours talked to said they had not seen Mwamba Centre. Professor Luo said Zambia was employed by the by Zambia’s Ambassador for a long time and it was possible that he had been dead for Prof Luo said the essence of needed to interact heavily International Atomic to Ethiopia and Permanent almost a week. setting up a Nuclear Centre with countries that were Energy Agency. Representative to the They wondered how two people could live in the same house was to increase research already doing well in She said this was a matter African Union Susan without knowing each others’ whereabouts. in health and increase Nuclear Science. of concern that she had Sikaneta. Kambwili expects Lungu to walk around with smelly shoes - Sunday By Diggers Reporter In a statement yesterday, the type of politician Zambians as Minister of Information waters. jealousy of President Lungu’s Sunday Chanda says it is PF media director branded should distance themselves and Broadcasting. Kambwili Before Kambwili can point ascendancy to power and it petty politics for Chishimba Kambwili a hypocrite. from. brings nothing new to fingers at others, let him do is by God’s providence that Kambwili to expect a President “Chishimba Kambwili is one Kambwili is wounded Zambia’s political space but his self-introspection. Can the PF General Conference of a country to be walking of the worst hypocrites and following the expulsion from sour grapes. His hatred for Kambwili come out clean on never settled for him as late around with dirty clothes and liar in today’s political space. the Patriotic Front which President Edgar Lungu will the Luanshya Golf Course President Michael Sata’s bad smelling shoes. His bitterness makes him the was preceded by his firing soon land him in very deep where he built villas?…Can successor.” Kambwili tell Zambians how Chanda advised Kambwili he managed his business as a not to wash his dirty linen in scrap metal dealer under such public. “difficult” circumstances?”“It is very interesting to note chanda asked. that Chishimba was one of “Kambwili seeks to build a the most shuffled around political base on falsehoods minister even in the first and character assassination. term of the Patriotic Front His exaggerated sense of in Zambia. As the adage self-worth and politics of holds, ‘he that lives in a glass braggadccio is not what house must never throw Zambians are looking for.