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Sata takes his campaign to Mwinilunga

Sata takes his campaign to Mwinilunga
By George Chellah in Mwinilunga
Thu 18 Aug. 2011, 14:00 CAT

PF leader Michael Sata yesterday received a thunderous welcome in North Western Province’s Mwinilunga district where he later addressed a mammoth rally in the afternoon.

Scores of PF supporters, who had camped a few kilometres out of the town centre, were at hand to receive and usher the PF leader into the district in a convoy when he arrived in Mwinilunga yesterday afternoon. And later during a public rally, Sata said President Rupiah Banda has diverted money meant for the fertiliser support to the MMD campaigns.

“Levy Mwanawasa left you eight bags of fertiliser, Rupiah Banda took fertiliser away from you. You have seen the number of vehicles MMD has bought, you have seen the T-shirts and chitenges,” Sata said.

“When you were at their convention. Suresh Desai MMD national treasurer said MMD is bankrupt. Where has all of a sudden Rupiah Banda manufactured money to buy motor vehicles and to buy chitenges?”

He said Mwinilunga was very important and rich in the history of the country and yet nobody recognised the district’s potential.

“What I’m telling you, I am not speaking from without because I have picked one of your daughters Jean Kapata as MP for Mandevu…46 years of independence, electricity is cut off here,” he said.

Sata said he visited the district to show the people that he was still standing with them.

He urged people not to pay attention to the propaganda on ZNBC.

“ZNBC doesn’t even say that Mwinilunga has no water. ZNBC doesn’t say ‘you have no roads in Mwinilunga’. And all of you with electricity and TV are paying K3,000 per month… the K3,000 you pay is to tell you Michael Sata is very sick,” he said.

“They are saying Sata will take you to Angola. It is them who have already taken you to Angola because they have not given you water, they have not given you electricity and they have not given you roads.”

He promised to visit Ikelenge before the general elections next month.

Sata said when Mwinilunga had serious members of parliament like Dr Peter Matoka, the district experienced a number of developmental projects.

“Without Mr Peter Matoka, there would have been no tar road up to here. Rupiah Banda when he came here in 2008, he promised you two roads; Kabompo-Mwinilunga, he promised you a bridge and a road to new Ikelenge Boma. As I am going to Kabompo is the road finished?” asked Sata.

Labels: MICHAEL SATA, MMD, NORTHWESTERN PROVINCE, PF

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