Zambians want Sata - Chabwera

Zambians want Sata - Chabwera
By George Chellah in Chipata
Tue 19 July 2011, 14:00 CAT

MMD is finished in Eastern Province and clearly Zambians want PF leader Michael Sata to rule the country, says Dr George Chabwera. During a PF rally at Feni-Nsingo in Luangeni constituency on Sunday, Dr Chabwera, who is a former Zambia Federation of Employers president and a close friend of President Rupiah Banda, said Zambians wanted Sata to rule because he was an action man.

“We know that there is something you can do for this country Mr president, for the youths of this country. To the people of Zambia, I have offered myself, my knowledge and my skills,” said Dr Chabwera, who is also a former chairman of the Zambia Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ZACCI).

“In Eastern Province, MMD is finished. We had a big rally in Chipata yesterday Saturday and here in Feni there is a big crowd. MMD has finished. So what are you waiting for you our colleagues there?”

Dr Chabwera complained over the government’s failure to buy maize in the countryside.

“I have worked in the public service. Namboard’s role was to buy produce. Eastern Province has this year produced a lot of maize, tobacco, groundnuts and other things,” Dr Chabwera said.

“I am disappointed that up to now, towards the end of July not a bag of maize has been bought.”

Dr Chabwera said Sata had a good message for the people of Eastern Province. He said the focus for Eastern Province was marketing and that the province also had prospects of mining.

Dr Chabwera said PF’s programme was to create jobs in the first five years in office.

And addressing the same rally, Lusaka lawyer Sebastian Saizi Zulu said when late president Mwanawasa created the Task Force on Corruption, he wanted money recovered from plunderers to build clinics but the current administration abolished the Task Force.

He also complained over President Rupiah Banda’s government’s refusal to register the London judgment that found the late Frederick Chiluba and others liable of defrauding the Zambian people of millions of US dollars.

Zulu said he wanted the PF government to come and finish the recovery of plundered resources and that the mobile hospital concept was just a way of stealing money.

And Lukulu member of parliament Eileen Imbwae said there was serious poverty in the rural areas countrywide. She said women were the most affected in the country.

Imbwae, a former member of Sakwiba Sikota’s United Liberal Party, said she had joined PF because after spending fives years in parliament, she had realised that small parties could never take Zambians anywhere.

She said Zambia currently required a leader who would bring development.

“Mr Sata is the one who created Lukulu district but if you go there today, it’s just the same as he left it,” said Imbwae.