Zambia doesn't need leaders who call others chimbwi, nkumba, says Scott

Zambia doesn't need leaders who call others chimbwi, nkumba, says Scott
By Edwin Mbulo in Livingstone
Sun 24 June 2012, 13:30 CAT

VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Guy Scott says Zambians do not need leaders like Hakainde Hichilema who sin calling others Chimbwi and Nkumba Hyena and Pig. And Vice-President Scott says there is need to improve the health sector to alleviate the suffering of people.

Addressing a rally at Songwe village, Vice-President Scott said he had heard that investors in Livingstone were selling curios and that this could only be addressed if a PF candidate was elected.

"If you don't elect somebody to represent you how do you expect us to look after you? The UPND has no broad support, if you have a leader who calls people chimbwi hyena, nkumba pig, as he called me, that is not a leader you want," he said.

He joked that he was last year running away from the police but now they were taking care of him as change was inevitable whenever it came.

"Whether you like it or not you can't stop change. If you want to know how to dance you have to belong to a certain tribe that dances like that, but in politics, it is about how you vote," he said.

Vice-President Scott also appealed to PF cadres in Livingstone not to be provoked by talk of chimbwis (hyenas) as it is a sign that the UPND has conceded defeat in the forthcoming by-elections.

Featuring on a special programme on radio Mosi-oa-Tunya on Friday afternoon, Vice-President Scott wondered on which manifesto the UPND candidate for Livingstone Constituency by-election was campaigning on.

"The PF cadres should not allow themselves to be provoked by talk of chimbwis hyenas and the burning of chitenge materials. If that is what they UPND are doing that is a sign that they know that they are losing," he said.

UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema recently likened President Michael Sata's leadership to that of a hyena without a plan and UPND cadres in Livingstone burnt PF chitenge materials during the ongoing by-election campaigns.

Vice-President Scott said politics was a team game and not a solo game like boxing and Livingstone residents needed to vote for the PF team.

"When you vote for PF candidate Joseph Akafumba you will be voting for me, you will be voting for President Michael Sata, you will be voting for a team and not like a fragmented team; ganizani bwino, vulikani mutu (think properly; wake up)," Vice-President Scott said.

He said it was sad that the MMD government did not see what was in front of them in terms of youth unemployment which the PF government must help the youths get out of.

Vice-President Scott said it was unheard of for a Vice-President to commission a toilet.

"We have got ourselves into basic problems right up to the grassroots and we have to get out of this. For how long are you going to have somebody running around looking for a toilet?" he asked.

Vice-President Scot said Zambia, if not careful, would lose out of the benefits of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation meeting to neighbouring Zimbabwe.

"There are a lot of issues that have to be sorted out; we need to improve the infrastructure and the road system and already the funds have been approved. We are just waiting for the Road Development Agency to put things in place," he said.
And Masebo said the issue of Judge Lombe Chibesakunda and Florence Mumba should not be perceived as tribal but that the two were qualified to hold office.

"We need to get as many women as possible into decision making positions and President Sata is doing fine in that area. Judge Chibesakunda and Mumba are decent women with a reputation. So what is the issue?" Masebo asked.

She said the people of Livingstone would be doing themselves a disservice if they voted for the opposition.

On arrival at Harry Mwanga Nkumbula International Airport, Vice-President Scott warned PF cadres against being jealousy of new people joining the party.
Meanwhile, Vice-President Scott said there was need to improve the health sector to alleviate the suffering of people.

Speaking when he paid a visit to late Robiana Muteka's mother Joyce at her residence, Vice-President Scot said things were not good at the Livingstone General Hospital.

"It should have been possible to do that operation (on late Robiana) here in Livingstone many years ago," Dr Scott said.

The family to late Robiana handed Vice-President Scott a letter and after reading it he said the problem was going to be taken care of and called for Robiana's twin brother Salvador.

A family source said the letter was a request for the Vice-President Scott to assist Robiana's brother with employment as he missed the police recruitment exercise due to his brother's illness and death.

And after visiting Dambwa Central Market, Vice-President Scott said the market was operating in an unsatisfactory manner without water.

"The government will look at the option of constructing a modern market and we want people to vote for the PF to enhance development in Livingstone," Vice-President Scott said.

In Songwe, the Vice-President who was accompanied by Southern Province minister Obvious Mwaliteta who is campaign manager, Mandevu and Chongwe members of parliament Jean Kapata and Sylvia Masebo caused laughter when he said that even himself as a white man needed a toilet.

"I have come here to see problems such as schools not having electricity, no chimbuzu (toilets), you think that me a muzungu does not need a toilet? He asked in an apparent reference to Maramba's R section which has had no toilets for a long time now.

He said Livingstone needed a strong local government system to develop the tourist capital.

And Akafumba, the PF candidate, said he would lobby government for development once elected.

And Masebo said she was happy that the chief's representative Stanley Siachilubi said the traditional leadership would work with the government of the day.

"Any traditional leader who does not work with the government of the day did so to the peril of his subjects as development was derailed. It is important that we play politics of development and not tribalism as this would not help our children," she said.