 street u Oklah trees abo ishu da ah kwa kwa sike karak aga nama abo kwa na mehi aa nana ar kwa bata jas tkeadi ya Tabah? Repoji kumiluha na kwa hainiyeliru karinaObah, karinaObah, karinaObah, karinaObah, karinaObah, karinaObah, karinaObah, karinaObah, karinaObah. Shumutu Apiti, ya kwa mwaziru mwaziru hwaziru hwaziru. We shu waziru waziru hwaziru. Kwa mwaziru hwaziru hwaziru hwaziru nani kutuhu hwaziru. Kwa mwaziru hwaziru hwaziru. Mwakimu nama salini mwakimu tunia watiu kiwa kwa ampununikat integration kwa apunikutu ya kwa nanibunikutu a njufu za njumuniku tbkiku hibunikutu. Mazo, persha mweja kuwa jina,ئi kibunikutu ia masubuna hibunikutu nii pajimu konprimamsi na mwazfani na japunikutu. We have therefore proposed that a time frame of not more than three months be given to ongoing corruption cases. This will require to assign courts and judges to the disposing of all the corruption cases within a period of three months. In that window, we can achieve two things. The investigative wings must begin to talk to each other. Take must talk to SEC. SEC must talk to the police. The police must talk to the judiciary so that together a team is constituted that watches over this period in order to deliver justice. Additionally, we have recommended that for the running cases which are already running in court, let them be reallocated to new judges, preferably judges from outside Lusaka. This will ensure that any judges that could have already been compromised due to the prolonged process are disabled. Such a policy shift will re-energize the fight against corruption and guarantee success in this fight. And we have said this because the failure of this fight is the failure of the rising of our economy. And I think that the Zambian people have been very hopeful that this fight. I've heard some people say, but since this fight began, they have not jailed anybody. How can you jail somebody before the process ends? You are the same people that if it was done in a short kakmana, there will be a riot that justice is not being meted out. The process as it stands now, you are arrested, may be warned and cautioned, you are taken to the police. The police read their charges to you, you say yes or no, they formally arrest you. You pay bond and you leave the police station and go home to drink tea until the courts have an opening to call you to court. And once you arrive there for your first hearing to make a plea, once you make a plea, you pay bail and you leave until the courts remember that they have got you or they space for you to come. And years pass by. And I think that it is important that we shorten that period if we are going to get any results. Because the longer it is, the easier it is to bribe those judges. They are human beings just like us. And some of the people that have been charged with corruption have a lot of money. And all they need to do is to take a truckload at night to the judge and the case is over. It doesn't matter what you say. And God forbid that that happens. And I'm not saying that our judges are like that, but they are human beings like us and we should not tempt them. A few words on the defense audit which is going on. Just a brief comment. The protests about it make us very curious. The reaction to the audits of the defense forces by some of our colleagues, they make us very curious. And maybe if for no other reason just because of the loud protest we give our nod to these audits. And if it's not, I have gone through the law and I've seen provision where an auditor general can subcontract these activities. But if there's another law that complicates it to deal with the defense forces, then I think that it's even better they repeal that quickly so that we can get into that place and make sure that we find out what was happening there. We can't cover it forever. We need to know what was happening there. It's not the first time we have invited some foreign group to come and help us or a private firm to come and help us. When Kenneth Kaundo was being implicated MMD called on this guy Scotland Yard to come and investigate this case. Because you want an independent mind whose relative is not part of the investigation. Because if you find that you're investigating a certain general and you are married to his nephew, your judgment is already compromised. But somebody from outside has no connection except professional view. That's what this government is trying to do. We support it as long as it falls within the ambit of the law. We further request that a reduced audit report fit for the public consumption be given to stakeholders. Ladies and gentlemen, accountability is a vital component in any functioning democracy. If you are found guilty, you go to jail. If you are not guilty, you are released. You are looking at a person that was given a charge by the late president, Michael Sata, when he heard that I was running for president of MMD. He declared that never sustained money from Canada. And when I landed in Zambia, I landed in the hands of the SEC straight for interrogation. I didn't even drink water. For seven years they were interrogating me about something that never happened. But you can become bitter if you are not a true leader. But let me appeal to my colleagues in leadership. When they call you to ask you questions about something to do with investigations, don't say it's political, it's persecution. Because you are a public figure, learn to cooperate. Because pay a price of being inconvenienced in order for truth to come out. Seven years of my life, as we say in Bemba, nale kankabulafi, I was just explaining until I was acquitted from that case. Am I angry? No. I'm happy they did it. It's their job to do it. All these people that have got cases today running, please know that sooner or later it will come to an end and if you didn't steal, you go home and if you stole, you go to jail. And even in jail, we visit each other. But this is a process we cannot interfere with to hate a president because the investigative women are seeking answers from some former leaders is a sign of arrogance. No one is above the law. It is called accountability. The morality of this approach is that it serves as a deterrent to those currently in office. If we don't fight this as viciously as we are doing it, those in office will repeat the same thing and it's important for us to be firm as the wings that are responsible for this. The social agenda, we are now advising the government on these issues. It seems to us that the main state of the UPND government in social agenda is anchored in decentralization. Again, we think it is the best way to go. Therefore, it is good to see that there is commitment to increase CDF. It is good that the disbursements are consistent. But before I make some substantive comments, let me start by urging the line ministries and stakeholders to be vigilant. We must watch against corruption, politicization, abuse of office. If we do not watch, it will end in tears. Look, the way Zambian or human beings operate, at the central place when man was being distributed from the central place, the theft was here. President Haka Ndechlema says, I would rather we devolve this money to where the people are and spend it there so that this stealing stops. But Zambian people and human beings follow the money. So wherever it's devolved, they will also devolve themselves. Themselves to those levels and start stealing from there. That's right. And we want to want this can be a disastrous situation if the systems are not firm and tight. They used to stay here, to steal here, we dismantle it so that we take the money to the people, they will follow that money and steal it from there. And therefore we ask government to ensure that very strong checks and balances are placed in the system.