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UNIP cadres sing solidarity songs for Sata

UNIP cadres sing solidarity songs for Sata
Written by Patson Chilemba in Kasama
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 7:44:27 AM

UNIP cadres on Sunday sang solidarity songs for Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata. This happened when Sata was heading to Milenge Basic School grounds to address a rally. The UNIP cadres who were found gathered at what seemed to be one of the party's campaign centres and clad in UNIP regalia, were found chanting the party's slogans, but suddenly changed the course of their singing when they saw Sata and his entourage.

At seeing them, Sata disembarked from his vehicle and went to greet them. The cadres repaid him through songs of praises and solidarity, while others ululated and danced.

They sang songs like “mulekeni Sata ateke, mwamutenyatenya pafula [let Sata rule, you have troubled him a lot].”

The cadres sang one song after another for the PF leader.

Apart from singing mwamutenyatenya, they also sang, “tulibamo” [we are one].

However, Sata could not stay longer with them as he had to go to Milenge Basic School grounds where he later addressed a rally to drum up support for the PF candidate Mwamba, commonly known as GBM.

And later addressing a rally, Sata said a headmaster at Misamfu Primary School, a Mr Ngulube, sent youths to remove GBM's posters.

“What kind of a presiding officer is he going to be on the polling day?” he asked.

He further revealed that the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) would send presiding officers from Lusaka to the Kasama Central by-election.

“Why should they bring presiding officers from Lusaka when Lukashya and Malole which are sister constituencies to Kasama Central have presiding officers?” he asked.

Sata took a swipe at some youths who were found playing soccer at the grounds where the PF was scheduled to hold a rally.

“I don't know where we are going as a country if people can be playing soccer when we are singing the national anthem,” he said.

Sata's statement prompted PF cadres to swing into action and ask the youths to stop playing soccer.

After several minutes of argument, those who were playing soccer stopped, but expressed displeasure that they were accused of having been sponsored by the MMD to disturb the PF rally.

After the rally, Sata warned that had it been the MMD who were treated like that, the youths would not have been spared because the MMD were thugs.

Milenge is the only ward, out of the nine, which is represented by an MMD councillor while the rest are held by PF.

Sata also wondered why home affairs minister Lameck Mangani said the government was not worried about the honking and yet state resources were being used to harass people that were expressing their freedom through honking.

Labels: CADRES, PF-UPND, SATA, UNIP

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