Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

The following are news highlights in Zambia's major media outlets on Tuesday.

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu has directed all government agencies responsible for distributing farming inputs to farmers to do so within a week.

The distribution of farming inputs under a government subsidized program has, for the umpteenth time, been shambolic as farmers have not yet received the inputs in order to plant their crops. (Times of Zambia)

-- A mining firm in Zambia has complained that the government's decision to ban the movement of public vehicles at night was hampering its operations.

First Quantum Minerals (FQM), which operates Kansanshi Mine in Zambia, has since called on the government to lift the ban on copper trucks as it was hampering their operations.

John Gladson, the company's head of government affairs said the mining operations had been hampered since the ban came into effect last month. (Daily Nation)

-- A Zambian leading opposition leader said the governing party was afraid of the evidence the opposition party has of the dealings during the August 11 elections hence the attempts to disrupt the court processes.

A high court judge has halted the hearing of a petition of the presidential election results by Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development and his vice against the election of President Edgar Lungu after the violence allegedly caused by opposition supporters at the court last Friday.

But the opposition leader said it was clear that the government deliberately instigated the confusion at the court in order to suppress the matter because of the overwhelming evidence. (The Mast) Endit