Work hard and mobilise, Sata urges supporters

Work hard and mobilise, Sata urges supporters
By George Chellah in Chingola
Mon 28 Mar. 2011, 04:01 CAT

MICHAEL Sata has urged PF supporters to work extremely hard and ensure that the party emerges victorious in the forthcoming general elections. And Sata has accused President Rupiah Banda of personally benefiting from foreign investors.

Addressing a public rally in Chiwempala on Saturday, Sata, who was accompanied by Dr Waza Kaunda and other party officials, urged the huge crowd that had braved the rains to mobilise.

“If you work hard we will be done, but if you don’t work hard you will continue to suffer,” Sata said. “If you don’t work hard Copperbelt Provincial Minister Mwansa Mbulakulima will be playing on your mind.”

Sata said he decided to visit Chingola in order to see how people where suffering. He urged his Copperbelt based members of parliament to work with the people.

“Without these people you wouldn’t have been MPs so ensure that everything you do is for the people. All the MPs for Chingola you have to corporate with people over the houses you demolished,” said Sata amidst applause from a jubilant crowd.

“Build these people houses if you don’t want them to live in shanty compounds. I last came to Chingola in 2008 but Chingola still looks the same. All of you who have been elected; speak for the people because people are suffering. We want a leadership that will speak for the people and not leadership that will bring misery on people.”

At the same rally, Sata made Chingola mayor McDonald Mulongoti to kneel in front the crowd to apologise for the houses the council demolished.

And Sata accused President Banda of personally benefiting from foreign investors.

“Look at the police officers, they are suffering because Banda is receiving all the money from foreign investors that are investing in this country,” he said.

And Dr Waza received a thunderous welcome from the crowd especially when he started waving a white handkerchief as he led people in chanting his father’s trademark slogan.

“One Zambia! One Nation! One Zambia! One Nation!” chanted Dr Waza as people similarly responded in a chorus.
Dr Waza told the people that Sata and the boat would definitely make it to State House this year.

And PF Eastern Province chairperson Lucas Phiri said Zambians should not be cheated that President Banda was wanted in the province because he had been rejected.

“Even the chiefs have rejected him,” he said.

And PF vice-president Dr Guy Scott encouraged people to register as voters before the deadline passes.

Meanwhile, Sata brought Chingola to a standstill as scores of party cadres and sympathisers gathered to catch a glimpse of him, attracting a traffic jam within the town centre.