Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:15:45 +0000 IT IS amazing how far some Zambians entrusted with the onerous responsibility of ensuring the security, safety and peace of this nation will go to compromise their responsibilities and betray the country for 30 pieces of silver. The other day we were ticking off farmers and civil servants conniving to make money from the Farmer Input Support Programme and the E-voucher VISA cards. This is a key Government programme that makes the difference between a bumper harvest this year or hunger and poverty. But these merciless money mongers will stop at nothing to ensure that they benefit at the expense of national interest. They ganged up to divert agricultural inputs from genuine beneficiaries and sell them to briefcase businessmen who hang around farming blocs like vultures and will pounce at anything that smells money. All of them steal from the Government, not knowing they are stealing from themselves. Now […]
