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Sata promises to fulfil Levy’s vision in Lenjeland

Sata promises to fulfil Levy’s vision in Lenjeland
By George Chellah in Chisamba
Mon 15 Aug. 2011, 12:00 CAT

PF leader Michael Sata has promised to fulfil the late Levy Mwana-wasa’s vision about Lenjeland if elected. And Sata has accused President Rupiah Banda of being an opportunist whose party relies on criminal thinking.

Meanwhile, a set of mobile hospitals was on Saturday afternoon taken to Chisamba for display when word went round that Sata was in the area to address a public rally. Addressing a rally on Saturday, Sata accused President Banda and some people that were close to Mwanawasa of betraying the late president.

“When Mwanawasa died, Rupiah Banda, Moses Muteteka and Lieutenant General Ronnie Shikapwasha said it’s sangwapo,” Sata said.

“You people here have you ever heard Muteteka talk about Mwanawasa? Have you ever heard Shikapwasha talking about Mwanawasa?

“They are as if they never knew Mwanawasa. Jesus was sold and crucified by his own people.

Shikapwasha and Muteteka are Lenjes so what’s the difference with Judas Iscariot?”

He said President Banda’s government has brought mobile hospitals because they had no regard for the people.

“Because Muteteka has no regard for Chisamba he brings a container and calls it a hospital. What type of a government is this, because Rupiah Banda stole money, you go and bring a container and you call it a mobile hospital? This morning when I was coming there was a funeral at Katuba where was that mobile hospital?” Sata asked.

“Chisamba needs a big hospital, not a container because nobody knows when you are going to be sick. That container can have a puncture. I want you to ask Muteteka if you are sick at night are you going to call that mobile hospital?”

He said Muteteka should account for the Constituency Development Fund (CDF).

“I went in that market today, you people of Chisamba ask Muteteka he has been here as MP what has be done with K600 million CDF when he does not even build a toilet in the market?” he asked.

“If you like the way you are suffering…they can’t buy your maize, you vote for Muteteka. When there were Europeans here they built those silos. Why are they heaping maize there? and you people working in the farms, the salary you are getting is talk time for Muteteka.”

He said PF in government would construct a big secondary school in Chisamba.

Sata said once in government PF would ensure that there was a professional civil service in place.

“What we want is the civil service to be independent from the manipulation of government,” Sata said.

“We also want a constitution, which will protect the police, the military and office of the President.”

He said the late Mwanawasa left developmental projects here in Chisamba and Keembe.

“I was there Keembe yesterday, I didn’t see a road. What has Muteteka and Shikapwasha done here because Levy Mwanawasa left you a road and I made Chibombo to be gazzetted as a district,” he said.

He challenged the people to show him the developmental projects President Banda had initiated in the area.

“The missionaries built you schools like Chipembi. The problem you have with MMD, they rely on criminal thinking that you people you are sleepy so they are going to steal the votes whilst you are watching,” Sata said.

“They are coming to you, they get your voters card and your NRC and they give you K20,000. Get the K20,000 but don’t give them the card.”

He said once in power, PF’s first task would be to create employment for the people of Zambia.

“This country has a very small population and we have too much wealth. Just as Muteteka came to get employment from you, our number one task is to employee our people,” he said.

Sata promised to come and fulfill the late Levy Mwanawasa’s vision about Lenjeland.

“What we want mwebena mukuni… if we love Mwanawasa we have to complete his projects, as he wanted them to do be. We have to complete the landless corner road up to Mumbwa,” Sata said.

“We have to give you back the fertiliser Rupiah Banda has stolen and we have to give you more fertiliser on credit. The only thing I can promise you is to bring you dignity because if Sir Roy Welensky today rose from the dead and came to Chisamba, he will die again.”

And a set of mobile hospital trucks were on Saturday afternoon taken to Chisamba for display when word went round that Sata was in the area to address a public rally.

The mobile hospitals, which arrived just before Sata began his address where stationed a few metres from the PF rally site.

The team of drivers and technicians operating the hospitals drove past the PF rally twice in an effort to draw the crowd’s attention but instead attracted jeers and booing from the crowd.

Upon realising that the crowd was not interested, the team went and parked at Chisamba Guest House, which was relatively further from where the PF rally was being held.

Immediately the rally finished Sata, who spotted the hospitals at the guest house as he drove back to Lusaka stopped to have a glimpse of the vehicles, prompting the drivers and some officers to scamper, leaving two Chinese nationals who identified themselves as technicians.

Labels: LEVY MWANAWASA, MICHAEL SATA

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