No 753 K10 www.diggers.news Friday Auguest 14, 2020 FINDLAY ASKS NAPSA TO BUY CHRISMAR ...pension body under pressure to pay $18m By Mukosha Funga LUSAKA Businessman Valden Findlay has offered Chrismar Hotel for sale to the National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA), expecting a purchase price as high as US$18 million, when the deal is approved. Story page 10 Kalaba, KBF, Mutati alliance tribal - Moonga By Julia Malunga former finance minister Felix PATRIOTIC Front Lusaka Mutati and Lusaka lawyer Province chairman Paul Kelvin Bwalya Fube is a Moonga says a plan to form danger to society because it is an alliance by Democratic founded on tribal lines. Party leader Harry Kalaba, Story page 2 UPND president Hakainde Hichilema is welcomed by locals on his visit of rural Central Province where he donated Trends Report face masks yesterday - Picture Courtesy of UPND Media Team will be released We’re ready to participate in on August 31 - FIC Story page 10 COVID-19 vaccine trials - MoH By Natasha Sakala facilities in Solwezi and the THE Ministry of Health has Copperbelt following the announced that the country increasing number of cases on has recorded 162 new cases of the two areas. COVID-19 and one suspicious “Today, we have 83 death in the last 24 hours, with patients admitted to the levy 83 patients admitted at Levy Mwanawasa covid facility, Mwanawasa isolation centre. 32 of whom require oxygen And the Ministry says the support, five are in critical country is ready for vaccine condition and are admitted to trials as it has the capacity to the intensive care unit. Another monitor the safety and efficacy 33 patients are admitted in of any vaccine. various parts of the country Speaking during the daily and reflecting on what we said update, Thursday, Minister of yesterday on the Copperbelt Health Dr Chitalu Chilufya and North Western, we have said the Ministry had decided in Solwezi, seven patients who to open dedicated COVID-19 are critically...” Story page 7 2. Local News www.diggers.news Friday August 14, 2020 By Ulande Nkomesha YOUTH, Sport and Child Development Minister Emmanuel Mulenga says We want to empower 160,000 President Edgar Lungu is set to launch another youth empowerment programme on the Copperbelt this Saturday. Speaking during a youths by December – Mulenga briefing, Thursday, Mulenga the report was issued in 2018, at a competitive price because without any skill. Zambia any business into a profitable which are going to teach these said government targeted to 2019; the report indicated that the cost of timber has actually National Service is actually business. We have also agreed youths financial principles empower not less than 160,000 we just impose as a ministry, escalated,” he said. going to take them on board with financial institutions. We which they are supposed to youths before December 2020. projects and business ideas on “So, what we have done and teach them skills and have brought on board banks implement in their business,” “This coming Saturday the youths. So we have left it up is that we have agreed with business ideas on how to run and other financial institutions said Mulenga. the 15th of August 2020 His to the youths to come up with ZAFFICO, they are going to Excellency the President of business proposals. We need give certain cubes of logs. At the Zambia will be launching a to understand that business is moment, they have given 4,800 good substantial amount of something that you like doing, cubes which we are going to money. It is going to carter for something you enjoy doing.” give to the youths. The youths the youths and this money is He said his ministry had are going to start harvesting actually sitting in our Ministry. engaged ZAFFICO to empower these logs, that is the set of This will be done on the youths with timber logs which youths. Another set of youths Copperbelt on Saturday. So all were going to be used in the are going to be producing youths are encouraged to follow production of desks for sale timber from these logs and they the proceedings wherever they to the Ministry of General are going to supply another will be so that they know and Education. group of youths who are going appreciate how they are going “The other thing we have to produce desks. We have to have access to that youth negotiated under the value agreed with the Ministry of empowerment. Our target as added chain, we have spoken General Education to be buying a Ministry is to empower not with ZAFFICO. You know desks from these youths. So, less 160,000 youths before that timber has become a the market has been created December this year,” Mulenga scarce product, it is not so already. So we are creating that said. much available on the market environment making sure they “Since the funds will be and many millers are having thrive and they pay back.” launched by His Excellency a challenge to get timber. If Mulenga also said his I would rather live it to His youths want to get into the ministry would sign another Excellency to announce the production of desks, it is agreement with the Zambia funds which will be put on the becoming expensive for them National Service to empower table for the youths to access. to produce desks and during youths with business skills and We are not looking at a specific the last opening of Parliament ideas. sector or a particular kind of His Excellency President of “We have an agreement that business which the youths Zambia directed Minister of is going to be signed on that day should engage themselves General Education to start with Zambia National Service. into. Remember, we have done buying desks from youth owned Zambia National Service will some empowerment before enterprises; but the youths have take youths on board inclusive and after doing a review and been failing to produce a desk of youths who are on the streets Kalaba, KBF, Mutati alliance tribal - Moonga By Julia Malunga minister of finance, renowned am not part of them. They PATRIOTIC Front Lusaka lawyer Bwalya Fube [and] think by being Tonga I should Province chairman Paul Harry Kalaba, former minister belong to the UPND. I have Moonga says a plan to form an of foreign affairs…Surely, if always said that I am not going alliance by Democratic Party people form parties on tribal to join a political party because leader Harry Kalaba, former lines, not on ideologies, it is of tribe,” he responded. finance minister Felix Mutati dangerous for our nation,” And when further asked and Lusaka lawyer Kelvin Moonga argued. how it was a problem that the Bwalya Fube is a danger to “So, this alliance of trio planned to work together, society because it is founded tribalism will destroy our Moonga maintained that LCC shuts illegal wine factory on tribal lines. nation and must be condemned tribal politics should not be On Wednesday, Kalaba from inception. And I am very entertained. had disclosed that the trio disappointed that the whole “I am speaking from a at Evelyn Hone College were planning to form an Fube, a lawyer as they call him, psychological point of view By Zondiwe Mbewe packaged the wine into bottles without any alliance for next year’s general clever and intelligent, would and I am not a baby. Maybe THE Lusaka City Council (LCC) has closed protective equipment and no measures were election. go and join a political party or they can cheat you, they can’t an illegal wine factory at Evelyn Hone College in place to allow for safe food handling. The But speaking when form an alliance on tribal lines, cheat me. So, from the word following a complaint from the institution’s factory was making wines labeled Zikomo, he called News Diggers, it is very dangerous! And for go, they must be advised. We administration after it noticed a fermentation Chibe Pakapaka, Natotela, Zambezi, Thursday, Moonga said the Kalaba, I would say when he don’t want tribal politics in smell coming from the school canteen. Sansamukeni and Banana Wine.” planned alliance should be was in an accident, sometimes, Zambia. We want political And the Council has warned all persons Sichimba stated that at the time of condemned as it exposed its he tends not to be thinking parties, which have a national involved in illegal brewing and distribution inspection, the owner of the factory was tribal characteristics, with all properly. Maybe he should character because at the end of uncertified wines to stop operations before unable to produce any permits that allowed three hailing from one region seek some medical attention of the day, we will be bringing they are visited by the local authority. them to manufacture and distribute the wine, of the country. to check whether his mental tribalism in the country and I According to a statement issued by LCC which was contrary to Liquor Licensing Act “When I saw the lawyer, status is normal or not.” am scared tribalism will tear us Public Relations Manager George Sichimba, No 20 of 2011, Public Health Act Cap 295 KBF, Mutati an accountant, When asked why he was down, mind you, it can bring Thursday, workers at the said wine factory and Food, Drug Safety Act No. 7 of 2019 of Kalaba unknown CV, and concerned about the alliance, wars in the country. We should at Evelyn Hone College manually packaged the laws of Zambia. all from one region that is Moonga insisted that he was at all times not entertain tribal the wine into bottles without any protective He added that the LCC had since seized quite dangerous in politics.