Kunda is no match for me - Kavindele

Kunda is no match for me - Kavindele
By Patson Chilemba
Sun 26 Dec. 2010, 04:02 CAT

ENOCH Kavindele says he will give George Kunda and others a good run for the MMD vice-presidency. In an interview, Kavindele said the Republican Vice-President’s incumbency will not guarantee George Kunda the party’s second highest position.

“I will certainly give them a good run for their money, and I am well known to all MMD members vis-a-vis my organising ability. In the last elections of 2001, late General Christon Tembo had gone to form the FDD, General Godfrey Miyanda HP (Heritage Party), Sata had gone to form PF,” Kavindele said.

“Mr Frederick Chiluba was retiring. So it was left to me now to get the party to win, and I did deliver.
So our members have not forgotten.”

Kavindele said Vice-President Kunda and the three other Cabinet ministers challenging him for the vice-presidency at the forthcoming MMD national convention were no match to him.

“I wish to remind them that each of us has a record of performance. My ability to organise the MMD party cannot be matched by anyone of those…the fact that he Kunda is able to go to places or wherever our people are congregated means very little in this game,” Kavindele said.

“When I was elected vice-president of the party at the convention, the other person who stood against me had gone round the countryside funding those who were to come to the convention. And when it came to the convention, the people who had been funded did not vote for him.”

And prominent Ndola based MMD member Alex Mubanga popularly known as shimpundu pa nkoloko said he supports Vice-President Kunda for the MMD vice-presidency because he has worked extremely hard.

And reacting to Vice-President Kunda’s assertions that UPND president Hakainde Hichilema was corrupt for failing to account for US$12 million privatisation money, Kavindele asked Kunda to stop issuing misleading statements.

“Although HH’s company was the receiver of the funds from Binani to pay certain commitments, they only paid professional fees of about US$200,000 and not the figure being quoted by Mr Kunda,” Kavindele said.

“At the time some similar malicious statement had been made against HH and late Levy Mwanawasa ordered an inquiry which Kunda was privy to as Attorney General and nothing of a that sort came out. It is therefore a little bit malicious to make the statement he has made against HH.”

Kavindele said it was important for those in government to issue factual statements because the same could be done against them when they were out of power.