Chaos at ZAWA

From Zambian Economist Wed Jan 9 2013, 18:30:00

There has been more chaos at Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) in the new year.

Tourism Minister Sylvia Masebo on before the dawn of 2013 fired the ZAWA management team, including Director General Edwin Matokwani, for alleged corrupt practices in awarding Safari hunting concessions. Ms Masebo said ZAWA had awarded hunting concessions to a family cartel, among others, which had significant potential to promote money laundering. She has since reported the fired individuals to the ACC.

Now it gets confusing because ZAWA also has no board. The board was constituted in April 2012 by Minister Given Lubinda. Only to be fired in August 2012 by new Minister Sylvia Masebo. Now there's talk of places being advertised for the new board (unlikely). When the new ZAWA board is in place - they will then hire new management to run ZAWA.

In September Ms Masebo revealed that ZAWA had a debt of over K2 trillion (old Kwacha). We were also told that the reason for the 'black hole' is that ZAWA only receives about K4 billion (old Kwacha) annually when it requires more than K10 billion. In short, ZAWA's business model is not sustainable

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