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(LUSAKATIMES) HH castigates George Kunda for going on a campaign despite the floods in Lusaka

HH castigates George Kunda for going on a campaign despite the floods in Lusaka
Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 13:55

United party for national development has castigated Vice President George Kunda for deciding to go and campaign in central province despite the devastating floods being experienced in Lusaka.

Speaking on QFM’s Monday Night Live program, Hakainde Hichilema said that Lusaka has been experiencing a heavy rain which has caused some havoc on some of Lusaka residents.

Mr. Hichilema expressed shock at the vice presidents journey to the central province at the expense of suffering flood victims.

He said that incidences of death as a result of heavy rains in Mandevu constituency would not have taken place if government took responsibility.

He said that it was the flood situation was supposed to be re-declared as an emergency as a lot of people are suffering.

Mr. Hichilema said that the vice president was supposed to take immediate action on the matter as the disaster management and mitigation unit is under his office.

And speaking on the same program Mr. Hichilema said his party knew from the beginning that the National Constitutional Conference was flawed from the beginning and would not deliver a people driven constitution called for the NCC to be brought to an end.

He said his party made a conscious decision not to allow the MMD to have their way all the way through and that this was why the UPND is taking part in the NCC. He said the MMD would have had an easy way had his party not been part of the National Constitutional Conference.

Mr Hichilema adds that government has failed to provide leadership on the National Constitutional Conference by failing to come up with a definitive date when the NCC will conclude its work.

He further stated that the constitution making process has cost the country too much money while its conclusion remains a mystery.

Meanwhile Mr Hichilema said no decent Member of Parliament would want to defect to the MMD when it is clear that the ruling party will be confined to the opposition after next year’s elections. Reacting to claims by vice president George Kunda that some UPND and PF members of parliament will be defecting to the MMD, Mr Hichilema says every Zambian sensible Zambian with a basic brain understand that the ruling party is exiting in 2011.

QFM

Labels: FLOODS, HAKAINDE HICHILEMA

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