 Thank you very much. It is now my Honor and privilege to invite you Mr. President to address the newly sown in senior government officials and the nation at large Mr. President sir. Good morning colleagues I Do recognize just to Pay due recognition if I may say so To the Republican vice president Who is here? I know she's been traveling in the last couple of days Thank you for being able to attend this activity. I Wish to also recognize the ministers that are here a number of them and thank you colleagues for finding time to be here and Indeed to provincial minister as well I'm acting secretary to the cabinet and your team. I see a sizable team from there Obviously colleagues from state house other ministries permanent secretaries. I see some of them and and obviously others that are here and Members of the press But to the two colleagues that are being appointed today into these critical positions I wish to welcome you once more to this your house state house to witness this wedding in of Senior colleagues in government To distinguished ladies That are being sworn in today in your own individual rights You have followed career paths that You know you save the country in different Roads and today you are given yet additional responsibilities to save this country and You sit there not just because You The names you carry but you sit there because of your capabilities and and the good news is that You are both women and I think this is important. I'm sending a message out there But the message more important to than just being women is capable women I want to emphasize that point to the media capable citizens who happen to be women and It's a pleasure to be swearing in these colleagues today. So Let me Address them individually in their rows Then I'll be able to do justice a little bit today want to emphasize one or two things That I feel the nation needs to get back to the rails Because I do follow a lot of what's going on out there. I read a lot What's going on out there? So Madam Duffin Listen in our jimuka you are going to the teaching service Very very important extremely important function you are going there to chair the teaching service Commission and You have a huge task You have a huge task to ensure that We change together we change The teaching service Where teachers work? Who are they? Where are they? That people's students are getting What they go to school for you have a major task to do that This government has pronounced itself very very clearly What it wants to see in the education sector particularly that education is The best inheritance for any child. I would not wish any child to seek to get millions of kwacha from parents Without education those millions of kwacha Evaporate like morning dew in a short while In many cases not in all cases, but in many cases because something will be missing the toolkit for that child without education That toolkit is not there So it doesn't quite matter to be honest. I've come to know in life now. It doesn't matter What else is available the barest minimum and the best is education for a child That's what we all got From the village to stand here. So this Government has pronounced itself very clear That our children must get the best education The standards are in a different area. We'll be addressing that some other day, but the environment Learning teaching environment a Lot of that will weigh on your shoulders and that of your colleagues in The minister of education I see the PS here. I don't know if both PS is are here both of them are here those are partners In our quest to save the people's I'm Minister is not here Right PS is as efficient You have heard our pronouncements That you cannot have an environment where teaching takes place Learning takes place and produce good quality outputs If there are fewer teachers So this government within the challenges that we have have decided to derive Drive money from waste for expenditure of the last seven years I'll talk about that when we come to her and Drove that money into education to critical elements to improve the pupil teacher ratio This government is employing 30,000 teachers 30,000 teachers In our first ever budget 30,000 teachers in the past if 2000 teachers were employed There was a lot of noise being made We don't work on noise. We work on getting the job done 30,000 They will pass through the service the commission Employee without segregation Focus on the quality which brought you to sit today in that chair No segregation a rural school is as important as an urban school posting very important Give the teachers the best I'll touch on this just about now Transfers you've got a message that families have been separated in the last seven plus years disjoining dismembering families transferring a teacher wife away from Chama But the doctor husband remains in Chama a Number of the people affected by this unacceptable policy are teachers. I Know We all know that You need to address that is together with cabinet office. I think a secular has gone already To address that issue so you have to work closely with cabinet office back on what if? Thank you So madam Chimuka Madam now Chimuka you have to work With that team there to actualize this this government doesn't want to make noise. I Hear people are saying around know the president is making noise He will get tired this fellow doesn't get tired to talk about what is right and to follow it through We want action The country was messed up already. We know now it's action to address those ills Promotions amongst teachers It's been an issue they go for further studies Come back some are not on the payroll Some are sitting home When a classroom somewhere needs a teacher a teacher sitting home, but they're on the payroll What's going on? PSS cabinet office now the Commission This government wants to report progress by mid-year on these issues progress report Action list We want to show a difference. We're here to demonstrate that this country can be run differently, but better discs Your children our children our children sitting on the floor No No, you wake up every morning you go to that Commission you learn with your colleagues one of the issues Where are the Zambian children sitting? They're in class this morning as we speak. Where are they sitting own blocks? No No, madam No, PSS No cabinet office. No, that's why we wake up in the morning every day Is to address those issues We have timber here We don't want to import the desks from elsewhere. They must be made here Because one can't say no, I'm a Commission. I just want to make sure the teachers are there. They are paid No, what are they paid for? They're going to teach a child sitting on the floor No No in the past You would say yes The government say these things but did nothing this government has addressed that issue. How? CDF Enhanced CDF which we have grabbed away from corrupt expenditure, I'll come to that madam chiro We have now brought taken money closer to the people out of the CDF There is money for these things There is also money for water our agenda I've said this to the vice president before We want to be proud in two three years time that there is no government school. There is no government clinic where medical staff Teachers pupils go to answer the call of nature in a pit la tree There must be a water-borne toilet We want to be proud in two years three years time to look back and say no one is going to a A pit la tree in a public school. It is possible the money is there now But all of us working together state house vice president's office your commission PS Cabinet that is our job We have gotten to Mediocrity as a country to mean no more no mouse means mediocre it now first year UP and the budget There has to be a connection to change Zambians wants to see change You can do it. We can do it madam chiro You are a product of the drug enforcement commission You spent many years there Before you went to the FIC you were bred by that institution You know the challenges of that institution. You know what went wrong in that institution, you know You know what is right with the added experience of the financial intelligence center You are also grounded in terms of training qualifications Basic training does help a lot in your profession In our profession, what is wrong is wrong. There's no middle ground There is no middle ground. I'm following what's going on in social media People are debating. No, this is a ethnic victimization fight against corruption. No, this is a You know Getting at PS at PF. Sorry No It's none of that. What is there is that what is wrong is wrong Taking away money that belongs to public to the public it is wrong If the chief executive of the Drug Enforcement Commission sees a gray area That this may be wrong. This may be right. Maybe sits in the middle. There is no middle ground Taking away resources from the child For us to buy a desk as you sit you to our partners Being sworn in today. You are serious partners It is the duty of madam Chiro to make sure that money meant for desks through CDF is not taken by quick I return to that time in honor a quick They have now started fighting back They are behaving like what happens in our communities someone steals from a Widow selling at a market They run away They are chased as The distance away from the point of stealing increases they start pointing in front is a kawalala kawalala in front That's what's happened. The clique now is employing media. I want to talk to colleagues in the media to generate stories Diverting our attention away from following up money that belongs to the public by shouting kawalala kawalala For the international media kawalala in our language means the local language Nyanja means the thief I'm conscious that today whatever you say is global Please we should not fall for that Let us agree as a nation madam vice president Corruption theft is wrong. There's no middle ground Diverting attention The clique is employing people all over even new officers new ministers new permanent secretaries Teaching you the ways how to siphon money from the public Mary madam Chiro Those are your clients from the old order In the new order now, I'm following I'm listening just a few days ago Somebody in eastern province They have heard our message of anti-corruption They concoct a tender process to award a tender to the clique At huge prices Minister of Justice we spoke We are living with contracts that were signed by The lawyers who are supposed to represent citizens and protect citizens and putting clauses in there That are penalizing taking money from citizens Pay not clauses government Gives a contract to a supplier the supplier does not put any money In there there is a clause for a down payment 20% if the contract is 20 million Sorry 100 million dollars the down payment is 20 million dollars Which means the people of Zambia financing the supplier? Technically financial that's what it means Where is the risk to the supplier? Is it part of giving a contract to assess financial capacity? Working capital in the last seven years it became a tradition That the contracting officers controlling officers in the ministries at finance We are colluding with lawyers injustice to steal from the people and You put another clause 100 million dollar contract Down payment 20% means 20 million dollars No work has been done immediately 20 million dollars is invoiced Government has no money. It has to attend to teachers. It has to attend to other things nurses government pays 10 million dollars in that 20 million invoice then justice put a clause That's provides for penal interest charges Government pays 10 million dollars when it hasn't is still looking for 10 million dollars to make 20 million down payment Advance payment government is billed payout charges and there was an attorney general there I corner man I corner No No Then in payout is alone the government is billed That hypothetical contract over years 52 million dollars over time What is the job of the attorney general? What's the job of the minister of justice? Is to protect citizens you expect me to be afraid as president To say no to that and you want to start calling me names Call me more names I will be relentless Even if I stand alone Even if you threaten pulling down this government is not me you are pulling down you're pulling down the people zombie Absolute no eota of fear at all. So attorney general justice ministry support Madame Mary chair Support ACC Support DPP Support those institutions Don't collude with them as is the case is clear now we have to review those contracts Because vice president That domestic debt you hear is six seven billion dollars almost of domestic debt a lot of it sits there is penalties From our own money Now I went to school and I was educated by the citizens You have to work out my gray matter my brain first the way it was trained for me to agree to such conduct The fact that there's a contract signed. They are proved by attorney general a government lawyer And these lawyers who are placed in the ministries Really nearly approving contracts They're also colluding You're making her job difficult because when the contract is there it assumes everything is okay If you are not trained properly you say no, but the contract is here, but was that contract protecting citizens? No So most of that six seven billion dollars vice president is arising from penalties From our own man and when we go for such issues. No, this is again as pf I corner did you still for pf? This fight against corruption knows no pf. It only knows Corrupt people and that goes for people in business. I come from business When talking to colleagues in there that you were conniving to steal from citizens. Are you surprised you are not paid today? That's why they're not being paid because the economy was racked in 20 from 2016 7% down to minus. You don't have to be educated in finance to understand what was happening That's why mule arraigns is for students were withdrawn because there was no more any money in the coffers to a siphon That was going up Because of corruption and theft I've said it before Two three months. We have now established the bad news for the corrupt. We've established exactly what was the pattern in there So even as journalists when we are asked to run stories Covering people who have taken money from you. That's why your pay is low If they did not steal the money you probably would be paid better Connect these two things Miller lances were withdrawn because the money was gone There was no free education we've restored it where are we getting the money by taking it away from thieves We must stand together as a nation On this mat. I can assure you If we relax on the fight against corruption if we don't support mother marriage it were here We are damaging ourselves and the economy will remain down there. No matter how much work we do On the economic investment side all that will go down the drain on the consumption side Secretary the cabinet support this lady Finance support this lady and her team all of us state house Advisors in state house support this lady Secure it support this lady There are not many like her left the last ten years people got polluted all over the show They're not many like her You have our support madam if we do not stand together against corruption Seven years over leaking bucket no matter how much water we pour I used to say it in the opposition. I've now seen it The bucket will not feel The water will continue leaking and won't support the CDF won't support paying retirees, which we have done first time 20 years Retirees have not been paid Check out the Bloomberg report for the first time in 17 years the quatra gained again as a dollar first time in 17 years from 2005 That's not by chance. It's these measures. We're putting in place I hear the debates going on We've got too much to be used to disorder We try and bring order Noise Who is driving that that noise a small click of beneficiaries? This country cannot work 18 million people. Me. I'm a woman. I'm a wife Married to 18 million husbands. I cannot accept a situation that I Allow money taken away from my 18 million husbands Only to a small click of less than 10 families South Africa grappling with that issue we must do that and we should do it to win Not to try no your teachers want Enhanced pay once they become PhD holders If we don't fight corruption if you don't support, huh? We can't increase the salaries of that PhD hold. It's the simplest that why is there a problem here? because the clique had invested in Directing opinion Social media some pages Print media Even you who got something let me remind you you are getting pittance They are getting millions and billions of dollars. You are getting pittance. How is it that? after 2016 elections watch the cave From 2006 Economy was going up 2011 is that's Flattening cave 2016 it just drops. This is exactly what happened free for all Let us support these colleagues. Let us support cabinet office Let us support education to support each other What is right is right. What is wrong is wrong. There's no on the middle ground. It doesn't happen Have you heard the judge? hearing a case and says I'm making a ruling on this matter before me and the ruling is that it's neutral I don't know the lawyers are here. Are there rulings like that? But why is the country want to move in a neutral position on? clear matters So madam chiro There is a lot, you know Let's get going Tomorrow, I'm leaving. I decided to do this wearing in Even give you an extra day to get on with the job is good enough Call a meeting of your staff there They are good people there, but some got compromised over the years Proposed the changes you want and will support you Changes are not to victimize anymore. Changes are to improve The operations, I think I've said enough. There's no sacred cow none But we must not start shouting kawalala kawalala when we're about to succeed Congratulations once more to you two distinguished ladies Country expects a lot from you from us God bless you Thank you. Thank you, mr. President This marks the end of the swearing-in ceremony We shall close with a national anthem and there after mr. President may have a photo session with a just son in senior government officials