Johannesburg, South Africa (ADV) – The Zambian government has said it is not ready to print ballot papers for the upcoming Bahati Parliamentary by election.
Addressing some stakeholders recently who were urging for government to print ballot papers locally, the Minister of Works and Supply Mutotwe Kafwaya stated that “government printers is not yet ready to print ballot papers”.
“Government has not yet built capacity for the company to be able to print any ballot papers for the upcoming by elections,” said Kafwaya.
“The company currently doesn’t gave the capacity to print ballot papers and it is the same capacity that we are trying to build.”
The minister added that however, they will be ready to print ballot papers for the 2021 polls.
He further promised that by the end of this year, much progress would have been made in capacitating government printers to enable it print ballot papers locally.
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