... President did not say whether he would declare his assets
President Nangolo Mbumba yesterday said he would testify in the Fishrot fraud and corruption trial if the court asked him to.
"As secretary general, you can go and check the record of the party whatever money you think I have, and if there are people who think they have records of me, they are free to proceed to the courts," Mbumba said. "Both the late president and his wife declared their assets, and people want to see the same from the current president and his wife. Rumours have it they are both in business, so we have to know as the first lady is also on the payroll of the government," Dienda said.Political scientist Rui Tyitende says Mbumba, in his state of the nation address delivered yesterday, failed to report on the actual state of the country.
"A real state of the nation address would have mentioned these challenges and charted a clear path on how to address them. In short, this was a great deal of sloganeering and rhetoric that suggests the late president will govern from his grave and Mbumba will hold the candle until the lights are out on 21 March 2025," he says.
He cautions against the risk of neo-colonialism in the exploitation of the country's resources and urges for measures to safeguard against such exploitation. According to him, 57 581 farmers were capacitated in crop, livestock production, animal health, horticulture and poultry production, among others.
"The government has successfully implemented the employment redressing programme, which employs 2 367 people," he said.
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