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MMD bound to lose Kafue - Mwaliteta

MMD bound to lose Kafue - Mwaliteta
By Bright Mukwasa
Fri 24 June 2011, 08:40 CAT

PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda and the MMD will lose in Kafue district in this year's election due to the prevailing underdevelopment the area has suffered, says a former MMD Kafue council official.

Obvious Mwaliteta, who was until his defection to the opposition Patriotic Front on Wednesday MMD’s Kafue council chairman, said there was discontent among the residents of Kafue as a result of the lack of progress in the area.

“In Kafue we are supporting what senior chieftainess Nkomeshya Mukamambo II said last time, especially which we're in her chiefdom. In Kafue you can't find any proper roads anywhere,” Mwaliteta said in an interview.

“Things are bad currently. We're losing in Kafue and because of lack of development and the under performance of the area member of parliament, Bradford Machila. Rupiah Banda may even get no vote.”

He said Kafue was grappling with numerous problems including displacement of people from the indigenous land which the government had turned a blind eye to.

“There's land sold suspiciously to investors and people have been displaced. In Kabweza, the chieftainess had to go to court over her land,” he said.

Mwaliteta said the government had failed to revamp the industrial and agriculture activities leading to the existing here levels of poverty.

“Like people in Kafue compound they have no water. Our area MP can't even take water to the people using CDF. The government has even failed to do cattle restocking; they have failed to improve fishing not even a dam for agriculture activities.”

He said it was unthinkable that people were experiencing water shortage when they lived next to the river.

Labels: CHIEFTIANESS NKOMESHYA, INFRASTRUCTURE, KAFUE, MMD, ROADS, RUPIAH BANDA

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