APRM team in for mining, tourism review

A TEAM of experts and eminent persons from the Africa Peers Review Mechanism (APRM) is in the country to check Zambia’s progress in the Mining and Tourism sectors.

The team, led by Mozambican bishop, Dinis Salomao Sengulane, are scheduled to meet various stakeholders to get firsthand information on the progress the country was making in the two sectors.

The team will also visit the Lower Zambezi National Park to study the impact of the planed mining in the area, the issue that has drawn much attention both local and internationally.

And speaking during a briefing at his office, when the APRM team visited him, Justice Minister Given Lubinda, said Zambia was ready to be reviewed and that the country was looking forward to seeing the report of the findings.

He said Zambia would also submit a report to the APRM forum in February, 2020.

He assured the APRM team that once their report was received on 15th December, 2019, the Zambian Government was go to pay attention to all the findings aimed at improving service delivery to the citizens.

The Justice Minister said Government was aware that the APRM reviews on member Countries were not meant on faulty finding but aimed helping the Africa continent develop further.

He said that while in the past, African countries depended on outsiders to review their governance and economic performance, the APRM review was targeted at bringing out issues aimed at developing the African continent and member states to improve service delivery to their citizens.

Mr Lubinda said the current APRM review was important to the country in that it was going to allow Government to look at its performance and make introspective assessments of the progress it had made in the targeted sectors.