GRAFT IMPEDES SERVICE DELIVERY, SAYS NGO

By ROGERS KALERO IN But Free (IBF), a non governmental organisation (NGO) concerned with the welfare of In mates and service delivery in correctional facilities, is in the process of designing an anti-corruption policy in order  to have a clear guideline on corruption issues and how such should be handled. IBF Director, Nawa Sabjobo, said his organisation strongly believed in anti corruption as a way of ensuring that quality services were provided to the beneficiaries. Dr Sanjobo was in Kitwe speaking yesterday at Mawlaik Barracks Banquet Hall in a speech read for him by IBF Programme Manager Precious Hazemba during the IBF anti corruption sensitization workshop. The workshop was attended by officers and health officers from various correctional facilities within copperbelt, central and North western provices, while officers from the anti corruption commission also made some presentations during the same workshop. “As IBF, we strongly believe in anti corruption as a way of ensuring that quality services were provided to the beneficiaries. “I also must mention that  IBF is in the process of designing an anti corruption policy in order to have a clear guideline on corruption issues and how such should be handled,” Dr Sanjobo said. Dr Sanjobo said the fact that the organisation was designing an anti corruption policy did not mean that it had encountered corruption but merely wanted to raise awareness amongst service providers. And speaking later, Zambia Correctional facilities Deputy Regional Commander Mulenga Nkondwa said corruption takes place at various levels hence the need for officers to be alert and ensure that they did not fall prey to the vice Mr Nkondwa said the workshop had come at