10 December 2008
GOVERNMENT has challenged the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and other stakeholders to step up their information dissemination efforts on the negative effects of corruption to help bring the scourge to an end.
Copperbelt Minister, Mwansa Mbulakulima said in Ndola yesterday that there was an urgent need to enhance integrity in both the private and public service delivery systems in Zambia to enhance development.
Mr Mbulakulima was officiating at the joint commemoration of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence and International Day for Anti-Corruption and Human Rights on the Copperbelt.
He said that the ACC needed to step up its efforts in educating Zambians on the negative effects of corruption so that there would be a change of attitude.
"We need to change the attitude of Zambians because we do not want to look at plunderers of the economy as though they were heroes," he said.
Mr Mbulakulima also called on Zambians to know and claim their rights so that the country could make headway in development.
He said Government realised that for a country to succeed in any sector, its people had to know its rights and claim them.
Mr Mbulakulima urged the gathering to spread the word and ensure that people were aware of their rights.
He said the nation had also made a number of achievements in promoting the rights of women and protecting them from gender violence.
It was important to understand though, Mr Mbulakulima said, that there was still a long way to go in making headway in fighting gender-based violence.
Mr Mbulakulima congratulated the organisers of the three events for holding a single event, saying that they had saved the country resources by doing so.
And ACC commissioner, Elizabeth Manolupeta said that there was need for all stakeholders to put efforts together to successfully scale down levels of corruption.
Mrs Manolupeta said that it was only through such concerted efforts that integrity could be restored to private and public service delivery institutions.
She said every Zambian's decision not to take part in corruption significantly made a difference in the fight against corruption.
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