TAZAMA 2 Billion Per Year Theft
By Nkonkomalimba Kapumpe
“Before Zambia adopted the open access regime, Agro Fuels had a monopoly on the TAZAMA Pipeline, quoting fuel at around $113 per metric ton. To win the latest contract, Agro Fuels drastically reduced their bid to $54.12 per metric ton in open bid.”
Zambia imports approximately 1.2 million metric tons of fuel per year. Let’s calculate the losses incurred due to single sourcing and government corruption:
1.2 million metric tons/year x $54.12/metric ton = $64,800,000/year
1.2 million metric tons/year x $113/metric ton = $135,600,000/year
Difference = $70,800,000/year
In Zambian kwacha, this translates to approximately ZMK 1,982,400,000.00 per year. This staggering loss is a clear indication of corruption and mismanagement.
It’s alarming that it took the UPND four years to address this issue, which I had previously labeled as Economic sabotage. The question remains: who will be held accountable for this massive loss and its devastating impact on inflation and the economy?
Am scratching my head.
Honestly, should we wait for Jesus to come and open the eyes of our leaders and to give them the desire to lead the people in a prosperous manner?
SHAME!!!
Anyway,we all came naked and we will leave this world with nothing.But please,have the heart and love for your fellow citizens.
Better late than never tho it has taken four years for this government to realize this anomaly in fuel supply.Am sure fuel will come down and it will be a chain reaction for goods and services to go down.
Thank you Mr president,HH.
Ba former Daily Mail Journalist. That is presumptious. The Diggers report suggests an inquiry be done to prove that presumption.
Until suggest a time, its just a presumption that the such an allegation may have taken place.
You are shooting before you have even blown the whistle to start the game. Curse before the event has taken place. Kissed before the Priested has said “I now declare you man and wife”.
Not exactly the kind of journalism we need right now. The writer should have made an effort to seek comment from relevant public officials in order to really inform readers. There’s need for an explanation here because the drop in the price looks jaw-dropping.
This story is just too brief for the amounts it alleges to have been filtered. One mathematical equation doesnt explain the theft of K1.9 billion per year mwebantu!! The nation is owed a better explanation
And this is why I like the way Diggers reported the person who suggests this. He says let an enquiry be done so we know and understand what happened as the variation in the pricing by the same supplier doesnt make sense.
In the inquire, the said supplier will be given an opportunity to explain himself. And possibly explain the variation. Transparency is what the article suggest in that article and the person/organisation suggest than the allegation that is being made here, by the writer.
Mweetwa is right, some journalists make reckless suggestions and think its sauve, fashionable to go around being information alarmist to incite. Sway a narrative and mislead. That is just being irresponisble as a professional. Lets be responisible, objective and rational in whatever we do for a living.
They’re revising their corrupt strategies they’ve perceived the 2026 scent of change. CRIMINALS.
Ba pompwe.
The way he used to criticise his friend while he was opposition. Look at him now, he is a lot worse. This is why his friend calls him a hypocrite.
God bless Captain Ibrahim Traore, the pride of the entire Africa.
Reject tribalism, corruption and oppression.
Vote wisely in 2026.
Vote wisely vote for HH7 in 2026/31
This story doesn’t start now. Dig down to Mwanawasa’s time and give us the full story. Kapumpe should investigate how the report of the Public Accounts Committee on the review of ZNOC operations implicated Mwanawasa and other government officials especially then PS of Energy Ministry Josephine Mapoma. There was a theft on the Zambian Government treasury of K838.645 billion. The PS certified this debt and the government resolved to take it over. At the time, Crude oil amounting to about $ 36 million in the TAZAMA Pipelines had never been accounted for. You reporters need to dig.
Government officials continued to siphon out of Zambia 240 million dollars in ZNOC profits through TST and Total Outre mer arrangements.