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Rupiah has endorsed Findlay’s insults on Lambas - Mpombo

Rupiah has endorsed Findlay’s insults on Lambas - Mpombo
By Patson Chilemba
Wed 02 Feb. 2011, 03:59 CAT

RUPIAH Banda’s appointment of Terence Findlay to NEC is adding salt to the insults against Lambas, says George Mpombo. Commenting on President Banda’s (right) appointment of Findlay as an MMD national executive committee (NEC) member, Mpombo, the Kafulafuta MMD parliamentarian, said President Banda had endorsed Findlay’s insults against Lambas.

He said the appointment of Findlay proved that President Banda did not understand politics on the Copperbelt. Mpombo said Findlay carried a lot of moral baggage and his standing with the people of Zambia was very low.

He said the appointment of Findlay had given him a campaign bonanza to use in Copperbelt rural.

“For us we want to congratulate Mr Banda for having appointed Mr Findlay,” Mpombo said.

“But I want to tell him that the political cost of his action is too colossal. When there were those issues on the Copperbelt Mr Findlay was told that he had been forgiven for his utterances, but we saw what happened when there were provincial elections. The man was defeated pants down.”

Mpombo said Findlay was defeated at the Copperbelt MMD provincial conference largely because of the votes from the Lamba people.

He said Lambas were still upset with Findlay’s insults, and the action from President Banda would just worsen the situation.

“Mr Banda has made a blunder of major proportion and we are going to involve the communities. People are certainly upset over the appointment of Mr Findlay and we are going to use that to the best of our advantage…the issues of Mr Findlay are very sensitive to the community,” Mpombo said.

“Mr Banda cannot appoint a person like Findlay who openly insulted Mr Levy Mwanawasa that the MMD does not belong to Mwanawasa’s relatives. We have got newspaper cuttings…it has proved that he has no space in his heart for Mr Mwanawasa. What Findlay said about Mr Mwanawasa was so insulting.”

Mpombo said the people of Ndola rural would ensure that the political damage of President Banda’s action was huge.

He said Findlay was President Banda’s preferred choice for the Copperbelt chairmanship, but his efforts were frustrated by the Lambas.

Mpombo said President Banda was undermining democracy in the MMD because a person who had been rejected at provincial level was appointed to the party’s supreme organ.

“My advice to Mr Banda is let him continue to listen to people who are saying he is in full charge of the Copperbelt, Ndola rural. But he is going to have a rude shock,” said Mpombo.

President Banda in December last year appointed Findlay as MMD national trustee, shortly after he was rejected for the position of provincial chairperson.

Labels: GEORGE MPOMBO, RUPIAH BANDA, TERRENCE FINDLAY

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