UPND FOUND UNQUALIFIED PEOPLE SERVING IN CRITICLE POSITIONS – NKOMBO
LOCAL Government and Rural Development Minister, Garry Nkombo, says the UPND’s performance and academic council audit revealed that some individuals were serving as engineers and auditors without required qualifications.
Meanwhile, Nkombo says the Electronic Government Procurement System (EGPS) is causing a lot of headache.
Speaking on ZNBC’s Sunday Interview, Nkombo said local authorities were not collecting correct revenues in the past. “People were not collecting the correct rates, they were not collecting the correct revenues and there was just confusion, I will put it that way.
So, to put things back into order we have to struggle a little bit. There is a struggle there and I can tell you, even in terms of human resource when we got into…
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Minister has no clue whatsoever about the performance of local authorities.
For his information, local authorities are a disaster
But he has just said as much. Michael Sata and Edgar Lungu were just good at declaring districts, appointing distric commissioners, buying them 4×4s, mobile phones but were not concerned about what followed next.
Nkombo is unqualified and incompetent to manage Local government. He preoccupied by giving contracts to his son over bill boards revenues, collecting bribes from Chinese to build or construct flats/ houses on gazzetted roads, firm in building his personal structures in Forest 27 which he promised to deal with within 30 days after forming government, acquiring wealth which he cannot account for for example the 24 luxury vehicles he hS acquired in three years. Very shameful
Three year in and you are still blaming actionable issues.
You advertised. You have a new Local Government service comission, why do we still speak of people that are ill qualified in positions?
Those failures lead back to you and the President as you have again allowed a poor work culture to continue to reign in the Local government. It doesnt take a genius to understand and know that CDF os being abused. Collusion is the biggest evasion in corruption. We see this in the recent reports that have come out at the Ministry of Health.
After two years systems in the allocation and distribution of CDF should have allowed us to see how effective a tool it is.
We also have a Parliament that seems to spend more time politiking instead of strengthening laws to deter corrupt acts. PAC is a toothless and waste of time if the persons heading have been compromised by getting orders to supply services to the very institutions that they are supposed to be vetting. Is that not a conflict of interest? Instead we are mute and the issue has “died a natural cause”. If our own legislators are compromised. How will corruption be faught?
How will the culture that Gary suggests be faught? Finger pointing in itself is not a solution. We need leaders that will selflessly fight for the cause.