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Chibombamilimo’s influence can’t be dismissed – Sichilima

Chibombamilimo’s influence can’t be dismissed – Sichilima
By Chiwoyu Sinyangwe
Tue 07 Sep. 2010, 11:10 CAT

File Picture: Mbala MMD member of parliament Gaston Sichilima has said.
THE late Lameck Chibombamilimo’s influence cannot be dismissed, Mbala MMD member of parliament Gaston Sichilima has said.

In an interview, Sichilima said Chibombamilimo’s influence in Mpulungu could not be dismissed owing to the number of developmental projects he initiated in the area. Recently, MMD national chairman Michael Mabenga dismissed late Chibombamilimo as not being a factor in the forthcoming by-election.

Sichilima said although Mabenga had earlier issued a statement dismissing Chibombamilimo as a factor in the forthcoming by-election, the fallen legislator was still a factor and had a following.

“He Chibombamilimo was MMD member of parliament and what we are doing is working for the MMD,” he said.

Sichilima denied growing assertions that MMD was losing ground in Mpulungu and Mbala.

“There is no way MMD can lose ground in Mpulungu,” he said. “We are working, we have been working and we will continue working. The people are with us and we have delivered. Mpulungu is just a district that has been born out of Mbala district. So, the level of development in Mpulungu is equal to the mother district. In short, MMD is far away from anybody that would want to come there Mpulungu.”

Sichilima said Mpulungu suffered from severe underdevelopment when it was under the control of the opposition.

And Sichilima said the selection of MMD parliamentary candidate was still open and that the ruling party would not impose a candidate on the people of Mpulungu.

“We are a democratic party and the candidature the people are going to give us is the person we are going to put in there,” said Sichilima. “We are not like these other political parties who go to impose candidates.”

Labels: GASTON SICHILEMA, LAMECK CHIBOMBAMILIMO, MICHAEL MABENGA, MMD

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