UNITED Progress Party (UPP) interim president, Saviour Chishimba has registered a presidential elections campaign fund and called on political parties in Zambia to put in place measures which will compel them to publicly account for campaign funds.

Dr Chishimba said he had finally registered the Saviour Chishimba for Zambia Campaign Fund, which would act as a trust managed by an independent board, whose main task would be to raise and administer funds for the UPP presidential candidates.

He said the objective of the fund, which would operate as an independent entity, was to oversee the financing of all the campaign activities for the individual selected by the UPP to represent it as a candidate for the Republican president.

"I want to make it clear that the fund's work is not to raise money for Saviour Chishmiba but any one who will be nominated by the party to act as its presidential candidate in the 2011 elections," Dr Chishimba sad.

He said the Registrar of Societies had registered the Saviour Chishimba for Zambia Campaign Fund.

He urged all presidential aspirants who were transparent to come up with bodies which would show to the public the amount of money they raised during the presidential elections.

Dr Chishimba said there was need to see to it that all political parties accounted for how they used the campaign funds first before they won the electorate's trust and voted into power to manage national coffers.

"Most political parties mismanage campaign funds which are usually kept as a secret by a few top officials who at last end up pointing fingures at each other. This should come to an end if political parties became transparent in their dealings before they formed government," he said.

Dr Chishimba said the campaign fund was just one of the initiatives aimed at promoting transparency on the Zambian political arena which he promised to introduce as part of the new brand of politics and good governance he had pledged to promote after resigning from the Patriotic Front.