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Mangani’s resignation shows a big crack in MMD - Sata

Mangani’s resignation shows a big crack in MMD - Sata
By George Chellah
Sun 10 July 2011, 12:00 CAT

MICHAEL Sata says Lameck Mangani’s resignation shows a big crack in the MMD. During a special programme on Radio Phoenix yesterday, Sata expressed gratitude to Mangani’s decision to quit the ruling party.

“I would like to welcome comrade Mangani, comrade Sylvia Masebo, comrade Maynard Misapa and comrade Eileen Imbwae. Comrade Mangani of Chipata Central is one of the big MPs in that area. That shows the big crack in MMD,” he said. He said just like Masebo, Mangani would also speak for himself over his decision to resign.

“We are waiting to hear what he will say in Chipata. We are the only party that is receiving buffaloes.
Other political parties are only receiving rabbits in form of councillors,” he said.

Sata said some ministers were sincere and did not want to continue cheating people.
“Some of these people are too honest,” he said.

On the public media, Sata said President Banda’s government was stealing from the poor who were paying TV levy.

“In the 10 years of Frederick Chiluba you did not see the humiliation of the public media like you are seeing today,” Sata said. “...Under PF the public media will remain as public media. It’s the human beings who are manipulating the public media.”

He said junior officers in the public media would like to be professional but the senior officers were the ones who manipulated the public media.

Asked about complaints by the public media that they were barred from covering the PF general conference, Sata said the public media was very friendly to MMD and therefore PF did not need them.

“All over the world even at the UN (United Nations), the media is accredited. Radio Phoenix was there, they went to see Mr Wynter Kabimba and they were accredited,” Sata said.

“The public media have no regard for us, they wanted to come with impunity. Dr Kaunda had a card, the US Ambassador had a card, Germany counselor had a card. So who are the public media?”

Sata said it was the same with the courts because it was now more than four months since PF exercised its right by going to court to restrain Chanda Chimba III but up to now they had not heard the decision of the court.

“That’s why you find people like Mangani, Masebo, Misapa and Imbwae, they are fed up,” he said.

He dismissed claims by critics of the recently held PF general conference that he was a dictator.

“The people at the general conference had confidence in my colleagues, who am I not to have confidence in them?” Sata asked. “All my decisions are subjected to be ratified by the Central Committee. You are dealing with 60 human beings in the Central Committee who are not being paid.”

When told that his critics said that PF would be no more after him, Sata responded: “That’s an insult to the organisation and these are the same people who are saying Wynter is too hard. The reason why they say PF is Sata and Sata is PF is because I know what I want. People are learning, some of them might even become better leaders.”

Sata said he had enormous experience because he was not an ‘under five.’

“People thought I will die so that they take over because they are used to taking over dead people’s parties,” he said.

He said President Banda is only looking after his pocket and not the people of Zambia.

“When I was governor I built a clinic in Kanyama, a clinic in Mandevu… Rupiah Banda came after me as governor, can he show which toilet he built?” he asked.

During the same programme, Kasama Central PF member of parliament Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba popularly known as GBM said he had returned from a routine medical check up in South Africa energised.

Labels: LAMECK MANGANI, MICHAEL SATA, MMD, PF

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