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Don't embrace plunderers, Muteteka urges Rupiah

Don't embrace plunderers, Muteteka urges Rupiah
By Patson Chilemba
Wednesday September 17, 2008 [04:00]

Chisamba MMD member of parliament Moses Muteteka yesterday urged Vice-President Rupiah Banda not to embrace plunderers and to state his position on assertions that he has surrounded himself with wolves who are getting ready to loot the country.

Commenting on UPND president Hakainde Hichilema's statement in yesterday's Post that wolves had regrouped in MMD to win the presidential election so that they could loot the country, Muteteka said the regrouping of people who seemed to be president Mwanawasa's dislikes was critical and that Vice-President Banda should make his position known on the matter.

“The Vice-President should indicate his position on these allegations. As for me I would not like the Vice-President's team to betray president Mwanawasa's legacy. The only way is to stick to president Mwanawasa's vision,” Muteteka said. “If some of the people with Banda are plunderers, then I would like to say even president Mwanawasa's body would be turning because he would be sad if he were to come back to earth and find his legacy in bad state.”

Muteteka said Vice-President Banda should toe late president Mwanawasa's line. He urged Vice-President Banda to revisit president Mwanawasa's legacy and not to be seen to disown that legacy at any time.

“People are talking, raising issues. So RB should be reacting to issues and if he doesn't, people will end up believing that things have been agreed in dark corners,” Muteteka said. “I don't think president Mwanawasa ran out of men and women who can run the campaigns. President Mwanawasa's team which he left, including RB, is still capable of upholding and fulfilling the legacy.”

However, Muteteka said he was firmly in support of Vice-President Banda's presidential candidature. He dispelled notions that president Mwanawasa's family was against Vice-President Banda.

Muteteka urged Zambians to critically analyse the positive developments which president Mwanawasa achieved. He said any complete change of administration would result in economic miscarriage. Muteteka said president Mwanawasa's legacy of fighting corruption, encouraging hard work and economic development should be maintained and protected between now and 2011 because this was still the late president's term.

He said president Mwanawasa had not been working alone and had therefore left behind capable officials who could carry his vision forward.

Labels: CORRUPTION, MOSES MUTETEKA, RUPIAH BANDA

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