Friday, January 14, 2011

Zambia needs a better leader - Magande

Zambia needs a better leader - Magande
By Patson Chilemba
Fri 14 Jan. 2011, 04:01 CAT

ZAMBIA needs a better leader than Rupiah Banda because he does not have the capacity to carry the nation forward, says Ng'andu Magande.

In an interview, Magande, a former finance minister, said prominent personalities like Dr Rodger Chongwe were now backtracking on their support for President Banda because they had realised that what they supported in 2008 was not real.

"Let Rupiah Banda finish his term and that is what he had promised. And when elections come, the Zambians must look for a better person who will move the country forward and they will be greatly helped by those who thought that what they supported before was a real thing," Magande said.

"Dr Rodger Chongwe must know Rupiah Banda extremely well. So he just perhaps didn't know his capacity on certain things. And one can be forgiven. So we forgive all those who thought what they knew was correct...they have seen that he is not the right person to carry the country forward."

Magande said President Banda was a pretender who had failed to fulfill what he promised Zambians.

"He is losing their confidence and trust," he said.

Magande said President Banda was the same President who was pretending to start projects which were initiated by late president Levy Mwanawasa and claiming credit for them.

"If only at Ndola stadium they put a picture of him talking to president Mwanawasa as saying 'this is when we were discussing this stadium'. But you see there is a very big portrait of him saying 'your government and your money at work'," Magande said.

"He didn't initiate. So to me even the projects that he is claiming he has done them, he didn't do them."

Magande said the decision by President Banda to go for another term when he promised to only finish Mwanawasa's term showed that he was not prepared to tell the truth but to hoodwink the people, and the same could be done on some other important national issues.

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