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Follow up Auditor General's revelations, KK urges Levy

Follow up Auditor General's revelations, KK urges Levy
By Mwila Chansa
Friday February 22, 2008 [03:00]

DR Kenneth Kaunda has urged President Levy Mwanawasa to follow up revelations by the Auditor General’s report to ensure that “dirty-minded” people who abuse public funds are dealt with sternly. And Dr Kaunda has said it would be all right if either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton won the US elections because both of them represented oppressed sectors of society, the black people and women. Meanwhile, Dr Kaunda has condemned the incidents of violence against women that have recently been reported in the media.

During the launch of the 2007 State of Africa report at the American centre yesterday, Dr Kaunda said the Auditor General (AG) was doing a wonderful job as she was coming out forcefully on people who had misappropriated public funds.

“Africa faces a problem of receiving so much money from outside yet it does not go to the people it is meant to serve; we have to act on this,” Dr Kaunda said.

“That young lady (the AG) is doing a wonderful job, and she needs to be supported by all of us because she is protecting the public’s interest. I hope the President and his colleagues will follow up the matter so that people who are dirty-minded in the use of public resources are dealt with sternly.”

Dr Kaunda also implored the media to take a leading role in assisting the AG to expose the misapplication and misappropriation of public funds.

And Dr Kaunda said it was wonderful to see Obama and Clinton working and fighting for the same post.

“This is a wonderful development for this world and whichever one of them wins, we will rejoice with them,” Dr Kaunda said.

And Dr Kaunda condemned violence against women.
“I am condemning this in the strongest of terms, we must bring out these acts for more men to understand the role of our mothers,” he said.

“We who call ourselves men look down upon our mothers in every corner of this world but we must remember that for nine months, we are in the womb, coming out is a painful experience for the mother, she feeds you with her milk and when you grow up, you look down upon a woman.”

And US Ambassador to Zambia Carmen Martinez also said all that had been exposed in the Auditor General’s report should be followed up.

“This is a rich country where everyone can be fed, live in a nice house, drive on good roads but the issue is distribution of resources,” said Ambassador Martinez.

She said if money was diverted, misapplied or used in ways that were not transparent, foreign assistance had to come in and this was not good for economic emancipation.

Ambassador Martinez urged Zambians to demand transparency and accountability from their leaders.

Labels: AUDITOR GENERAL, KENNETH KAUNDA

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