Country Programmes Director News Today

Zambia officially launched its participation in the Opening Extractives programme. The event affirmed the country’s commitment to beneficial ownership transparency. Government ministries, civil society and company representatives emphasised the contribution of the programme in enhancing beneficial ownership reforms and strengthening natural resource governance.

The coincidence is instructive. Barely 24 hours after Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, last Wednesday, carpeted the Federal Government for allegedly giving up on the battle against corruption, the Transparency International (TI) released its annual global corruption index whose fatwa aligned with Soyinka’s verdict. Soyinka, while appearing on Africa Independent Television (AIT’s) morning magazine programme, Kakaaki, noted that the system had been so corrupted that cases are allowed to ex...