The Zambian government says
highest levels of morality will be the only basis for definition of its
governance legitimacy and credibility.
Finance Minister, Alexander
Chikwanda has since pledged accountability, transparency and integrity as the
foundation by which to define the Michael Sata government.
Meanwhile, Mr Chikwanda has
allayed fears that President Sata is trying to usurp powers of the judiciary.
He has argued that despite
the executive having no powers to dismiss the judges, however there is every
provision in the constitution for the President to seek recourse as regards the
operations of the judiciary.
Mr Chikwanda says the
judiciary has enviable role of being player and referee over President Sata,
constituting of a tribunal to probe professional misconduct among some judges.
This is in a matter, in
which some judges’ professional conduct has been questioned as regards a legal
case involving a now defunct local airline, Zambian Airways.
In this matter, the airline
is alleged to have defaulted on its 14 billion kwacha debt, it owned to a local
commercial bank, the Development Bank of Zambia, a financial institution, which
is a parastatal.
Government owns an
over 50 per cent stake in the respective bank, therefore its vented interest in
the institution.
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