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By ZamChro Correspondent

The Government has advised people with divergent views over sale of Zambia Telecommunications Company (Zamtel) to allow the Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) to do its work professionally. 

Chief Government spokesperson Ronnie Shikapwasha said the Government had confidence in ZDA and felt that it would carry out the sale of Zamtel competently. 

Lieutenant General Shikapwasha, who is also Information and Broadcasting Minister, said in Lusaka on Tuesday that the calls by some sections of society to block the sale of Zamtel were not being done in good faith. 

He said the Government would continue to allow the ZDA to conduct their work in a professional manner as the agency had capable men and women who would conduct the sale of the company in the interest of the nation. 

“My advice to those opposed to the sale of Zamtel is that they should allow ZDA to do the work professionally. This tendency of critising everything will not help us,” he said. 

He said the decision to sell Zamtel was being done in good faith and wondered why some people were critising the move which was aimed at serving the company from total collapse. 

The Government had no hand in the sale of Zamtel and it was for this reason that it had allowed the agency to the work without interference.

Last week, ZDA announced that two of India’s biggest telecommunications firms and one of Africa’s largest communication service providers, were among eight foreign companies and consortia that have been shortlisted to buy a stake in Zamtel.

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