Muchima gives Chinyama ultimatum to withdraw attacks against him

Muchima gives Chinyama ultimatum to withdraw attacks against him
Written by Moses Kuwema
Friday, June 05, 2009 11:04:52 PM

MWINILUNGA West MMD member of parliament Elijah Muchima has given Rodwell Chinyama a seven-day ultimatum to withdraw the attack on his character failure to which he would take legal action.

Chinyama who claims to be the MMD branch chairman for Mwinilunga West accused Muchima of manipulating the party elections by ferrying most of his cadres from rural places to contest district elections.

However, in a statement, Muchima challenged Chinyama to tell the nation about his position in the MMD and when he was elected as Mwinilunga West branch chairman, and his party card number.

“Chinyama has never resigned from All People’s Congress party where he is a chairman. MMD has never changed rules and regulation for dual membership,” Muchima stated.

He urged Chinyama to resign from his party and join the MMD and be a member who should follow the party’s rules and regulations, not bringing confusion.

Muchima stated that the village where he comes from, Chinyama is not even known adding that instead people know him as a crook.

“Mr Chinyama has no reputation to talk about, he is my dependant and I support him financially and materially, he is just biting the finger that feeds him,” he stated.

Muchima charged that Chinyama was being used by three constituency officials who were scared of elections because of their malpractices during the last elections where they did not account for the money given to them.

“They are also scared of the youth empowerment fund which some of them are implicated and I am an advocate of transparency and accountability,” he added.

Muchima stated that Chinyama should be charged for impersonating as MMD branch chairman adding that he also trespassed at his house.

He stated that it was necessary to involve all the wards to elect their leaders because that was what the party constitution stated.

Meanwhile, some MMD officials in Mwinilunga district have refuted allegations by Chinyama that he was a branch chairman for Mwinilunga West Constituency.

This was contained in a letter signed by Jackson Chilengi (MMD district secretary), Edwin Sawomba (Mwinilunga West chairman), Goodson Kapaku(Mwinilunga West secretary), Jameson Kalilombe (MMD district treasurer), Alex Moyela (district vice secretary), Daniel Manjomba (MMD district youth chairperson), Francis Mubambe (youth vice chairman) and Rodgers Lukwesa (youth publicity)

During a joint meeting held on Tuesday, the members discovered that Chinyama was not a member of the MMD but the All People’s Congress party.

The members stated that allegations labelled against Muchima were not true because he only came to the aid of the district party leadership by contributing towards the constituency elections after it was discovered that the party had no capacity to carry out the elections.