{"id":604,"date":"2014-12-19T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/19\/zambia-oasis-forum-warns-of-corruption\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T09:40:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T09:40:51","slug":"zambia-oasis-forum-warns-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/19\/zambia-oasis-forum-warns-of-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAMBIA: Oasis Forum warns of Corruption and intra-party conflicts that threaten democracy in the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The alliance<br \/>\nthat established for the purpose of promoting good governance, democracy,<br \/>\nconstitutionalism, rule of law, transparency and accountability in the nation; \u2018<b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Oasis Forum\u2019<\/b> has warned of the<br \/>\ncorruption and intra party conflict that have rocked some political parties in<br \/>\nthe Country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/zambiaflag.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/zambiaflag.jpg\" height=\"121\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIn their<br \/>\nstatement sent to media Oasis forum complains after having observed with<br \/>\ndeepest regrets the ugly face of intra-party conflicts that have rocked some<br \/>\npolitical parties in the Country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&#8220;We<br \/>\nlament at the failure of political leadership in Zambia today. There is far too<br \/>\nmuch hypocrisy and rhetoric. It is for this reason that there is no evidence in<br \/>\nthe fight against corruption&#8221;, read the statement adding that \u201cThese are<br \/>\nmere symptoms of a fundamental failure by the same political parties to develop<br \/>\ntheir constitutions as well as to respect them.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThey urged the<br \/>\nZambian people not to tolerate the assault against democracy and the<br \/>\ndisintegration of the rule of law. \u201cZambia is going through a critical<br \/>\ntransitional period which everyone should support it in order to come out of it,&#8221;<br \/>\nconcluded the statement concluded.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nOasis forum<br \/>\nis comprised of the following members: Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC); The Council<br \/>\nof Churches in Zambia (CCZ), The Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nZambia is<br \/>\npreparing for an election of their President on January 20, 2015, after the death<br \/>\nof President Michael Sata.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">SOURCE: ZEC Communication Office<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alliance that established for the purpose of promoting good governance, democracy, constitutionalism, rule of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/2645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}