Ronald Penza

Ronald Damson Siame Penza ( 1949 - November 6, 1998 in Lusaka , Zambia ) was a Zambian politician .

biography

In 1991 he ran as a candidate for the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) for a seat in parliament and clearly won the seat for the constituency of Munali ( Lusaka province ) with 82 percent of the vote against today's President Rupiah Banda .

After Frederick Chiluba was elected President of Zambia in 1991, he was first appointed Minister for Trade, Commerce and Industry. After a government reshuffle, he was appointed finance minister in 1993 .

In these functions he was the chief politician responsible for the dismantling of the socialist planned economy built by the previous President Kenneth Kaunda . In 1994 he was named the second best finance minister in the world by the financial magazine “Euromoney” published by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund . He oversaw a privatization program that was one of the most radical in Africa until his dismissal by Chiluba in March 1998 due to political differences.

A few months later, he was ambushed by an armed burglar at his home in the affluent Ibex Hill neighborhood of Lusaka . The police announced that he victim of a robbery was and shot five armed perpetrators of an action to their arrest by the police.

On the other hand, there were suspicions that his murder in a context of arms trafficking and drug smuggling by leading politicians such as former Vice President Christon Tembo and the former defense minister Chiluba Benjamin Mwila would.

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