People against NCC are aliens - Mabenga

People against NCC are aliens - Mabenga
By Edwin Mbulo in Livingstone
Friday October 12, 2007 [04:00]

The few people who are against the National Constitutional Conference (NCC) are foreigners bent on destabilising national peace, MMD national chairman Michael Mabenga has said. And Mabenga said that millions of taxpayers’ money was going to waste as the contractor working on the Simungoma - Mulobezi road was doing a shoddy job. Speaking in Livingstone yesterday, Mabenga said the people who were against the NCC Act were not appreciating what government was doing and were therefore disgruntled.

“There are a few disgruntled people who are not even Zambians who want to destabilise the peace of our country. I want to tell these people that we only have one country,” he said.

Mabenga said that during President Mwanawasa’s reign, other people’s views have been accommodated.

“The NCC is now law and cannot be easily repealed and what we are now waiting for is the Ministry of Justice and Cabinet Office to appoint members to sit on the NCC,” he said. “The good intentions of Dr Mwanawasa must be cherished and we must move forward. If people have issues, it is better to bring them forward inside the NCC.”

And Mabenga said a Namibian firm called Roads Construction Company (RCC) was making the Simungoma - Mulobezi Road worse than it was due to poor workmanship.

“I will be writing to the Ministry of Works and Supply to revisit this contract as taxpayers’ money is being wasted,” he said.

And Mabenga said 900 households in Nawinda, Kamanga and Namulambe areas in Mulobezi were at risk of starvation. He warned that children would stop going to school and this would be catastrophic to the nation.