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Money for my property came from Gen Muma – Chungu
By CHARLES MUSONDA
I BUILT my property using money that former Zambia Air Force (ZAF) commander Lieutenant General David Muma and others paid me for the pieces of land I sold them, businessman James Chungu has testified.
This is in a case Chungu, 56, and another former ZAF commander Eric Chimese have been put on their defence for alleged money laundering involving a single storey residential house and nine apartments located on the remaining extent of farm 2303/Q in Lusaka’s Ibex Hill area.
Opening his defence yesterday, Chungu told Lusaka Magistrate Nsunge Chanda that sometime in 2009 and 2010 he expressed interest to buy farm number 2303/Q on behalf of his company Chita Lodge Limited from its original owner Godfrey Mulundika; and managed to buy the land in question at US$40,000 after getting a loan from Zanaco.
He said he later subdivided the land in parcels where he sold part of it to Lt-Gen. Muma and his company 360 Degrees, and other individuals.
Chungu said he later retained the remainder of the land and that during trial a State witness Rachael Tembo from the Ministry of Lands produced a lands register confirming that Chita Lodge Limited was a bona fide owner of the property.
He said Ms. Tembo described ownership of the property in all other transactions that had been officially passed at the ministry.
He said he has been in business for a long time and that he built the property using loans and sales from his hospitality business
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Mwamba questions presence of Blair, Greg Mills in Zambia’s protected premises
By NATION REPORTER
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema should make public the MoU he has signed to allow former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and South African lobbyist Gregg Mills to set base in Lusaka.
Mr Mwamba, Zambia’s former envoy to Ethiopia and the African Union (AU) said it was illegal for foreigners without clearance to work from the country’s security installations as advisors because that was compromising the security of the country.
“Since our Constitution does not allow foreigners to work as advisors inside high protected premises, it is therefore a breach of the security of the country for foreigners to operate from the country’s protected premises” Ambassador Mwamba said.
“President Hichilema must make public an MoU that allows him to break the law by allowing individuals to have access to Zambia’s highly protected premises which could easily compromise the security of our country,” Mr Mwamba said.
Speaking on Radio Phoenix ‘Late the People Talk,’ programme, Mr Mwamba said the actions by President Hichilema were a blatant abuse of the Constitution which he said would haunt Mr Hichilema after his tenure in office.
“It is a known fact that Tony Blair is an alleged war criminal with selfish business interests. Books have been written about his criminal activities,” said Ambassador Mwamba.
He said Greg Mills was equally questionable and was in the country to lobby for the mining companies for the benefit of his personal business interest.
Mr Mwamba warned that President Hichilema’s dealing with foreign advisors was likely to frustrate his Constitutional officers tasked to advise him.
“Zambians elected Mr Hichilema as President not Tony Blair and Mills,” said Ambassador Mwamba.
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Kabimba, Kateka advise HH to address high cost of living
By NATION REPORTER
TWO opposition political leaders have observed that the UPND administration’s economic model being implemented is negatively affecting the under-privileged and have advised President Hakainde Hichilema to address the high cost of living because there is a risk that Zambians could resort to what is currently happening in South Africa and Kenya.
The Economic Front party and the New Heritage Party (NHP) have advised President Hichilema to stop thinking that those with divergent views on how best Zambia should be governed were his enemies.
Mr Wynter Kabimba, the leader of the Economic Front says one of the characteristics of a revolution in the world was spontaneity and that it would be prudent for the UPND administration to listen to the cries of citizens over the high cost of living after being promised that things would be better, cheaper and easier under President Hichilema.
Mr Kabimba said those who were raising concerns about the high cost of living, the Ndola-Lusaka dual carriageway, the breakdown in the rule of law and the political violence being perpetrated by the UPND cadres were not enemies of the State but were merely helping President Hichilema to govern the country the best way he could.
He said while the events in Kenya and South Africa could be isolated and not related, it would be folly for President Hichilema to think that what was happening in the two countries could not happen in Zambia.
And Ms Chishala Kateka, the president of the New Heritage Party says Zambians have been complaining about high cost of living from the days of MMD and the PF and that complained have continued into the UPND without getting any relief from the successive governments.
Ms Kateka said the frustrations among Zambians about the high cost of living were cumulative and that there could be a time when citizens would no longer hold on to their patience of things ever improving to their favour.
Lack of medicines in health facilities, the ever rising cost of living, decisions that seem not to be of benefit to Zambian, such as the 20,000 hectares for Kenyans, high cost of fuel, the foreign exchange rate that now seems to be in free fall and the very little money in circulation all are vexatious issue to Zambians. Not attending to these could see Zambians deciding to follow in the wake of those from other countries that took to the streets,” Ms Kateka said.
Kwacha depreciation negatively impacting local MSME’s – Silavwe
By NATION REPORTER
THE continuous free falling depreciation of the Kwacha against major convertibles is quickly turning into a serious business nightmare. It is increasingly becoming expensive to run a local business, Golden Party president Jackson Silavwe has said.
Mr Silavwe said this trend was negatively affecting the business environment at both local small and medium levels in an import based economy, compounded by the fact that Zambia’s economy is consumer based.
He said local small and medium businesses which employ a large chunk of workers 90 percent plus outside the formal sector were now experiencing high operational costs owing to the upward swing of the Kwacha.
Mr Silavwe said if not arrested it was only a matter of time local small and medium businesses start to close unleashing more unemployed people to the already existing 8 million job seekers number on the market. We call on President Hakainde Hichilema and his administration to provide tax, levies and statutory incentives to small and medium businesses so as to reduce the cost of doing business and scale up production.
He said the government would have to cap the price of fuel and electricity plus or minus every six months to return business predictability in estimating operational costs and other business overhead costs.
Mr Silavwe said Government should take over both Gold and Sugilite mining through ZNS to rake in dollars in the treasury to help the Kwacha appreciate against the western currencies.