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Mwanachingwala supports MMD because he is hungry’

Mwanachingwala supports MMD because he is hungry’
By Namatama Mundia
Sun 21 Feb. 2010, 04:00 CAT

UPND vice-president for political affairs Francis Simenda has charged that chief Mwanachingwala supports the MMD and makes noise because he is “hungry”.

Briefing the media at the UPND secretariat in Lusaka on Thursday, Simenda dismissed chief Mwanachingwala’s impact on the UPND-PF pact in Southern Province.

“Each time he is hungry, he makes noise so that he can be given a brown envelope,” Simenda said.

He warned that chiefs that wanted to participate in politics would be taken on because they wanted to be politicians.

“Chiefs should remain non-partisan because in their chiefdoms there are many people who support different political parties,” Simenda said.

UPND vice-president Richard Kapita accused Speaker of the National Assembly Amusaa Mwanamwambwa of allegedly helping ‘expelled’ Namwala member of parliament Major Robbie Chizyuka and the MMD to hold on to the parliamentary seat.

He wondered why Speaker Mwanamwambwa could not declare the Namwala seat vacant despite Maj Chizyuka’s expulsion from the party.

“We have dismissed him Maj Chizyuka from this party, I can’t see the reason why he can’t be expelled by Parliament,” Kapita said.

He said Maj Chizyuka could not win in Namwala even if there were a by-election because he had been rejected by people of that district.

Kapita advised Maj Chizyuka to stay away from the party and stop attacking party president Hakainde Hichilema.

“Maj Chizyuka can’t even win 200 votes for the MMD in Namwala,” he said.
He reiterated that the UPND/PF pact had the blessings of all the party members with the exception of Maj Chizyuka.

Kapita said Maj Chizyuka expressed his sentiments in a national management committee (NMC) meeting that he felt like vomiting to work with PF leader Michael Sata.

“Things that Chizyuka said were minuted and today he says he was not consulted, that is a blue lie,” he said.

Kapita said the UPND-PF pact had put in place programmes such as how to reduce poverty and should not be distracted from achieving their objectives in the event that they formed government.

“The pact is here to stay and our members overwhelmingly endorsed it,” he said.
Kapita said those who wanted to destabilise the UPND/PF pact would not succeed.

And Simenda warned that regardless of whatever gymnastics the MMD wanted to play, they would be out of power come 2011.

Simenda said the government would be made accountable on the Auditor General’s report on misappropriation of money when the UPND-PF pact takes over power.

He said the UPND-PF pact had given the MMD government timely advice so that they should not cry foul next year.

“They are colluding and sharing the loots so come next year, they should not say that there is political witchcraft. Let them redeem themselves by putting behind bars people who have stolen from the state,” Simenda said.

He said the MMD had realized that they would lose next year’s elections and were now planning ways of rigging.

“In areas where they MMD are not popular, they are not issuing NRCs (National Registration Cards), when they go to those areas, they don’t announce their programmes so that by the time the people realise that NRCs are being issued, those officers have already left, they are trying to rig,” said Simenda.

Labels: CHIEF MWANACHINGWALA, FRANCIS SIMENDA, MMD

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