THE ZAMBIA CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS SAYS THIS LAST PARLIAMENTARY SESSION IS VERY CRUCIAL TO THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA ESPECIALLY THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF OUTSTANDING ISSUES THAT GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSED TO CONCLUDE ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS.
IN AN INTERVIEW WITH RADIO PHOENIX ,ZCTU GENERAL SECRETARY ROY MWABA HAS SINCE ADVISED PARLIAMENTARIANS TO PUT THE NATION FIRST AND ENSURE THAT THOSE BILLS WHICH WHERE NOT CONCLUDED ARE FINALIZED AND ASSENTED INTO LAWS BEFORE THE HOUSE DISSOLVES.
AND THE ZCTU GENERAL SECRETARY FURTHER URGED THE PARLIAMENTARIANS TO EXERCISE MATURITY IN THIS LAST SESSION AND MAKE IT A MUST THAT THEY FOCUS ON ISSUE- BASED DEBATES RATHER THAN CHARACTER ASSASSINATING EACH OTHER.
MEANWHILE, PARLIAMENT HEARD THAT THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF ZAMBIA (ECZ) BOOKS OF ACCOUNT WERE LAST AUDITED IN APRIL AND MAY 2009 FOR THE 2008 FINANCIAL YEAR.
DEPUTY JUSTICE MINISTER TODD CHILEMBO EXPLAINED THAT THE CONCURRENT AUDIT OF 2009 AND 2010 IS ON GOING HAVING BEGAN IN MARCH, 2011.
HE TOLD THE HOUSE THAT THE AUDITS FOR THE SAID YEARS WERE DELAYED DUE TO THE BOOK REGISTRATION THE COMMISSION HAD IN 2010 AT THE TIME THE AUDITOR GENERAL HAD GONE TO DO THE AUDITS.
MR CHILEMBO HOWEVER TOLD THE HOUSE THAT WITH THE ON GOING VOTER REGISTRATION EXERCISE, THERE IS NEED FOR THE ECZ FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT TO HAVE ITS CAPACITY ENHANCED IF THE AUDITS ARE TO BE CONDUCTED ON TIME.
AND MR CHILEMBO FURTHER TOLD THE HOUSE THAT A TOTAL OF 84 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION RESULTS WERE PETITIONED IN THE HIGH COURT BETWEEN 2001 AND 2010.
HE ADDED THAT A TOTAL OF OVER 810 MILLION KWACHA WAS SPENT BY THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF ZAMBIA ON THE SAID PETITIONS.
MEANWHILE, FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEPUTY MINISTER FASHION PHIRI TOLD THE HOUSE THAT TEN ZAMBIAN WOMEN WERE IMPRISONED OUTSIDE ZAMBIA FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING AS OF 31ST DECEMBER, 2010; SIX OF WHICH HAVE SINCE DIED FROM NATURAL CAUSES WHILST SERVING THEIR SENTENCES.
PROFESSOR PHIRI TOLD PARLIAMENT THAT GOVERNMENT IS CONCERNED WITH THE HIGH NUMBER OF ZAMBIAN WOMEN INVOLVING THEMSELVES IN DRUG TRAFFICKING STATING THAT POLICE HAVE SINCE BEEN INVESTIGATING THE CAUSES OF THIS GROWING EVIL VICE.
PARLIAMENT HEARD THAT AMONG THE COUNTRIES THOSE ZAMBIAN WOMEN WERE ARRESTED FROM FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING IS: PAKISTAN, CHINA, ETHIOPIA, INDIA, NAMIBIA, UNITED STATES, MALAYSIA, SWAZILAND AND SOUTH AFRICA.
AND PARLIAMENT HAS ALSO HEARD THAT 485 POLICE OFFICERS DIED FROM 2008 TO 2009 COUNTRYWIDE WITH LUSAKA PROVINCE ACCOUNTING FOR 214 OF THE TOTAL DEATHS WHILE 202 HAVE SINCE RETIRED.
HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER MKONDO LUNGU EXPLAINED TO THE HOUSE THAT THE HIGH NUMBER OF DEATHS IN LUSAKA PROVINCE WERE DUE TO TUBERCULOSIS AND HIV-AIDS RELATED DISEASES.
HE TOLD PARLIAMENT THAT THE MINISTRY HAS SINCE PUT IN PLACE THE HIV WORK PLACE POLICY TO ENSURE THAT POLICE OFFICERS ARE SENSITIZED ON HOW THEY NEED TO CONDUCT THEMSELVES WHILST ON DUTY.
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