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Kunda mocks HH over Pact problems

Kunda mocks HH over Pact problems
By David Chongo in Solwezi
Fri 01 Oct. 2010, 04:01 CAT

VICE-President George Kunda yesterday mocked UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema saying he has gone into hiding after being expelled from the PF-UPND pact. Speaking on arrival at Solwezi Airport, Vice-President Kunda said Hichilema ignored his advice against forming a pact with PF leader Michael Sata whom he described as a “trickster”.


Vice-President Kunda, who was accompanied by several Cabinet ministers, House of Chiefs chairman chief Mazimawe and Secretary to the Cabinet Joshua
 Kanganja, said from what the media were reporting, UPND had been expelled from the pact.

“What is happening in the pact…and this is clear from newspaper reports that UPND has been expelled. Now he (Hichilema) has gone into hiding. They don’t cover him in The Post newspaper. Even if he has a press conference, they don’t cover him. They cover Sata,” Kunda said.

He alleged that UPND had now resorted to pleading with PF to remain in the pact wondering whether UPND was stranded.


“Why is Hichilema still clinging on to the pact? It’s like they are pleading to 
stay in the pact. It’s like Sata and the pact don’t want them. Are they stranded?” asked Kunda as the crowd shouted “Shemuna bane, shame!”

And Vice-President Kunda said he understood the frustration of voters in Solwezi Central regarding development because the area member of parliament Watson Lumba had not been working.

“I am sure that you are disappointed and regret that you voted for UPND. That MP is doing nothing. He has just joined the confusion which is in the UPND. UPND is on its knees in the UPND-PF pact. They are busy fighting each other in the pact,” he said.

Vice-President Kunda, seemingly referring to Southern Province as a stronghold for UPND, claimed that people in the province were defecting in large numbers to 
join the MMD as it was the only party with an identified candidate for the 2011 general elections.

And North Western minister Daniel Kalenga said the MMD had made inroads in UPND’s strongholds in Mufumbwe and Solwezi Central constituencies which would increase 
the ruling party’s chances of a landslide victory in 2011.


Vice-President Kunda was in Solwezi for a closed door meeting with His Majesty the Mwat Yamv of Democratic Republic of Congo and his senior chiefs Musokantanda and senior chief Kazembe of Kolwezi.

Senior chiefs Mujimanzovu, Kalilele, Kanongesha, Musele and chiefs Matebo, 
Kakoma and Mumena were also present.

By press time, the meeting was still in progress.

Labels: GEORGE KUNDA, HAKAINDE HICHILEMA, PF-UPND, UPND

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