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Western, Northern provinces are the poorest - Sata

Western, Northern provinces are the poorest - Sata
By George Chellah in Kasama
Tue 17 May 2011, 04:00 CAT

PF leader Michael Sata says Western and Northern province are the poorest in the country. And Sata has said he is going to Western Province because the people are lonely and they don’t have anybody to speak for them.

Meanwhile, the PF leader has said the Rupiah Banda regime has stolen a lot of public funds. Addressing a huge public rally at Kasama’s President’s Park, Sata said Zambians were currently being treated like orphans in their own country.

“Your own relatives are betraying you. But let them enjoy briefly… you defeated Sir Roy Welensky despite him being powerful and having guns.

Since we got independence, there has never been bloodshed in this country like the one Rupiah Banda has shed,” Sata said. “They were saying Sata will bring war but am I the one who killed people in Mongu?

Am I the one who killed people in Mansa, am I the one who killed people in Mazabuka? I will be going to Western Province because people there are currently lonely; they don’t have anybody to speak for them.”

He told the crowd that the latest information he had indicated that Western Province was the poorest province in the country followed by Northern Province.

“You people can you accept to remain poor?” he asked as the crowd responded awe!awe!awe! (No! No! No!).

He said President Banda would have to account for his government’s corruption once PF takes over office.

“Late president Levy Mwanawasa left you with several bags of fertiliser but Rupiah Banda has reduced. Banda will come and explain the money he is receiving after forcing this reduction in fertiliser allocation,” Sata said.

“Banda has found people from Kenya and given them US$98 million and you are watching.

I have told Banda that they have stolen a lot of money. Nga bele lelo, mailo tukabasanga we will soon catch up with them. They thought Mwanawasa is dead, but I’m back!”

He told people that President Banda would never do anything for them.
“If he has betrayed Mwanawasa who made him President, what about you?” he asked.
He urged people to wake up early on voting day and cast their vote.

“When they bring money, just get but Don’t Kubeba that’s your money they are giving you,” he said.

He advised people to continue mobilising for the forthcoming elections.

“MMD had 11 seats in Northern Province, we grabbed one in Mporokoso. Malole is for Emmanuel Munaile independent and he is gone,” Sata said.

“So they are remaining with only nine. If we can get Mporokoso, what will stop us from getting Lunte and Lupososhi?”

Sata paraded all PF members of parliament present and urged them to speak for the people.

“They are stealing money from people and you are just seated and laughing in parliament,” he said.

He said President Banda was playing on people’s minds.

“Women, if you have a barn at home and there is no food in the barn but your husband wakes up and starts building another barn, would you say he is sane?”

Sata asked. “Rupiah knows there are no drugs in hospitals, there are no teachers in schools and yet he comes and says he is building schools. Who is going to teach in those schools?

“Ba Banda amano yabo yabu mafyete Mr Banda has a crooked mind if they have failed to look after patients in our local clinics and hospitals how will they manage mobile hospitals?”

He urged people not to pay attention to government propaganda.

Sata, who described education minister Dora Siliya as a woman of loose morals said even the people sending her knew that her personal character and morals match the task she has been given to pursue.

“Ba Dora tabakwata mano. Umwanakashi wafundwa teti aye abula ichipepala apali ba kalume baleitomona… Dora is not cultured and well-taught. A woman can’t get a picture where there are two boys kissing and start distributing it.

If a woman is respected, she cannot be sent to be distributing the kind of images that Dora is taking round,” Sata said as the crowd agreed in unison.

“As a parent, you can really be ashamed seeing your own daughter behaving like Dora. Why didn’t they pick the men she was with like Austin Liato, Moses Muteteka or Jones Chinyanta to distribute those images? Anyway, they MMD are stuck so just leave them.”

He said within 90 days, PF would turn things around.
“I told you we need to thoroughly clean this country,” he said.
And Kabwata member of parliament Given Lubinda said President Banda was in trouble.

“He is afraid because Sata has said that he will come and jail all plunderers. He is now pleading that don’t jail former presidents,” Lubinda said. “The spirits of the people Rupiah Banda’s government have killed won’t rest until you liberate yourselves.”

And Kasama Central member of parliament Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba said Siliya and her team went to Kasama to provoke people.

He accused President Banda and his government of theft by awarding contracts involving huge sums of money to themselves.

“That US $98 million can be used to build schools. People in Mambwe area have changed, they don’t want this rotten government,” he said.
And PF chairman for finance Emmanuel Chenda said parallel vote tabulation is a must this year.

“This year whether Rupiah Banda wants or not we will have PVT,” he said.
Chenda also urged people to make sure that they verify their particulars during the voter verification process.

Labels: CORRUPTION, MICHAEL SATA, NORTHERN PROVINCE, RUPIAH BANDA, WESTERN PROVINCE

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