By GIDEON NYENDWATHE change of government has retarded the process to actualise the Grizzly Mining Limited’s $10 million pledge to procure mining equipment for the miners, the small-scale emeralds miners have complained.Emeralds and Semi-Precious Stones Mining Association of Zambia (ESMAZ) president Victor Kalesha has said the coming in of the UPND Government has brought retrogression in the way things were done in some projects that had taken off in the PF regime.Mr. Kalesha said they had made substantive progress with the former permanent secretary to the ministry toward attaining the conditions that Grizzly had demanded but the change of government seems to have slowed down the process.He said Grizzly Mining Limited committed to spend $10 million to procure mining equipment for small-scale emerald miners but because of the change of Government, things were not promising.Mr Kalesha said the mining firm was ready to procure the equipment on condition that the small-scale miners in Lufwanyama, numbering […]
‘Change of Govt stalls project implementation’
