SATA GOVERNMENT PLEDGES HIGHEST LEVELS OF MORALITY IN HIS GOVERNMENT

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.