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Rupiah is laying ground to pay Chiluba $8m – Sata

Rupiah is laying ground to pay Chiluba $8m – Sata
By George Chellah
Sun 06 Dec. 2009, 04:00 CAT

PATRIOTIC Front (PF) leader Michael Sata yesterday said President Rupiah Banda’s directive to pay Lusaka lawyer Dr Roger Chongwe US $5.9 million is an indication that even former president Frederick Chiluba will be paid the controversial US $8 million.

Commenting on President Banda’s instruction that Dr Chongwe be paid approximately US $5.9 million about K27.4 billion as compensation for the 1997 Kabwe shooting where the latter and former Republican president Dr Kenneth Kaunda were injured, Sata said he has been vindicated.

“I told the Zambians last year that Chongwe has endorsed Rupiah’s candidature for the presidential by-election because he knew that Rupiah will come and
give him the US $2.5 million. I am extremely happy that whatever I have been telling the Zambians is now coming to pass…I am now an encylopedia,” Sata said.
He said by awarding Dr Chongwe such a hefty amount, President Banda was telling the Zambian people that he would soon be moving on to Chiluba, as well.

“Rupiah Banda is just laying ground for Chiluba’s payment of US $8 million as well, that is if he hasn’t yet paid him. He is paying his friends now…so that payment to his friend Chongwe is just a foundation that he will also use state funds to give Chiluba the US $8 million,” Sata said. “You remember that he tried to do the same after Chiluba’s acquittal.

Rupiah Banda went on to say ‘I want to thank the Zambian people for accepting the acquittal’ when nobody accepted Chiluba’s acquittal. So just like he was laying ground for people to accept the acquittal, he is doing the same on Chiluba by first beginning with Chongwe. So that if he has not yet paid Chiluba the US $8 million, when he pays him he expects people to accept it since he paid Chongwe too.”
Sata said President Banda has come to re-organise UNIP.

“It was a UNIP president’s meeting which was disturbed in Kabwe and Chongwe who was half UNIP at that time has been compensated. So Rupiah, being a UNIPIST as he calls himself, has now come to reorganise UNIP by compensating his friends lavishly,” said Sata.

President Banda has directed that Dr Chongwe be paid approximately K27.4 billion as compensation for the 1997 Kabwe shooting where the latter and former Republican president Dr Kenneth Kaunda were injured, well-placed sources at the Ministry of Finance have disclosed.

Labels: CHILUBA, CORRUPTION, KENNETH KAUNDA, RUPIAH BANDA, SATA

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