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Sata knows nothing about governance - Kunda

Sata knows nothing about governance - Kunda
By Misheck Wangwe in Ndola
Wed 04 Aug. 2010, 04:01 CAT

VICE-President George Kunda has said Sata is a mere political joker who knows nothing about governance.

And deputy minister in the Office of the Vice-President Gaston Sichilima told the people that he will ask for money from the Vice-President to hold massive celebrations in Chifubu on August 6, should the MMD candidate Frank Ng’ambi emerge victorious.

Meanwhile, MMD national executive committee (NEC) member Evelyn Mwanawasa said the people of Chifubu must vote for Ng’ambi as a way of honouring the soul of late president Levy Mwanawasa who worked tirelessly to develop the constituency when he was area member of parliament.

Addressing a rally at Kaniki Basic School in Ndola to drum up support for Ng’ambi on Sunday, Vice-President Kunda said Sata’s mind was preoccupied with jokes and had nothing to offer the nation.

Vice-President Kunda said the PF-UPND pact leaders Sata and Hakainde Hichilema were in a state of confusion and incapable of making an alternative government contrary to what they claimed.

“When President Banda comes to address you, he addresses you with humility and talks about issues that are in our developmental plan. Now since Sata has nothing to tell the nation because his party has no policies, the only thing he knows is to insult me, President Banda and other leaders. He Sata knows nothing about development,” Vice-President Kunda said.

He said Sata served in the government for a long time and rose to the third position in Chiluba’s cabinet but there was nothing tangible that he did in terms of development.

Vice-President Kunda said at the time Sata held a strategic portfolio in the government, the country faced immense challenges and there was hunger to an extent that they resorted to importing yellow maize because the country had no food.

“Do you remember the time we were eating ‘toba umutwe’ and the country started importing yellow maize? Those were the Sata days. He was number three from president Chiluba and sometimes when the president and his vice were out, he acted as president. What did he do?” he asked. “There was hunger in this country in his days, and today, we are recording a bumper harvest and people have food. What is it that he can tell us? He doesn’t know anything about development.”

Vice-President Kunda charged that Sata’s concept of developing the nation within 90 days was a simplistic idea that could not work out in the country.

“As government, we have pragmatic solutions to the problems that the country faces, and you have seen that we are working. Now for Sata and his party, they are talking about tarring roads in 90 days, building hospitals and doing all sorts of things within 90 days. Those ideas are simplistic and cannot apply to the Zambian situation. We have given the ministries of gender, youth and community development K5 billion each because we want to empower our mothers, youths and everyone using our empowerment policy,” Vice-President Kunda said.

“We want you to support your government and you should not listen to lies from the opposition who are busy trying to derail government programmes of empowering people.”

He said President Banda’s government was interested in empowering young people and not Sata who was using young people to perpetrate violence.

Vice-President Kunda urged the people of Chifubu to vote for Nga’mbi because he was the only candidate among all contenders who was capable of bringing development to the area because he would be attached to the government, which holds national resources.

He further urged the people of Chifubu and Luena constituencies to uphold the peace and tranquility that the country had enjoyed during their campaigns and the day of elections.

“We need to preserve the peace that this country has enjoyed since independence. We don’t want violence. Other countries admire the friendly environment and the tranquility that prevails in our country. Let us make sure that we conduct our campaigns in a peaceful manner,” Vice-President Kunda said.

And Evelyn said the Chifubu by-election was a great coincidence because in August, the country remembers the life of late president and former parliamentarian for Chifubu Mwanawasa.

“Since the date for the by-election was announced I have been telling myself that ‘what a coincidence!'. This is the month we remember our departed president Mwanawasa and the people of Chifubu are the ones who sent him to Parliament as their MP and from there he became president of this country’. I stand before you to make a humble appeal that you should vote for the MMD candidate Frank Nga’mbi in remembrance of your late MP and president. Honour his soul by voting for this candidate,” Evelyn said.

At the same rally, Sichilima said the people of Chifubu had never seen any meaningful development because they voted for the opposition.

He said the constituencies held by the opposition were underdeveloped because their parliamentarians were stubborn and failed to acknowledge that the MMD government had the resources to develop the country.

“These opposition MPs fail to approach the Vice-President or any of the ministers for assistance because they are stubborn and have failed to acknowledge that it’s the MMD government that holds national resources. If you vote for Nga’mbi, this Chifubu would develop like I have developed Mbala. I receive huge chunks of money from government to develop my constituency because I am part of them, and whenever I ask for money, they give me. Why should you vote for people who are not in the position to access funds for you? Hope you’ve learnt a lesson from the mistake you made in 2006. This time, vote for development,” Sichilima said.

He said the people of Chifubu should not listen to Sata’s lies because he failed to build even a toilet in the Northern Province where he comes from.
Sichilma promised the people that there would be massive celebrations in Chifubu Constituency on August 6 if Ng’ambi emerged winner in the by-election.

Labels: EVELYN MWANAWASA, GEORGE KUNDA, SATA

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