‘Rupiah’s stubbornness is slowly killing the nation’
By Christopher Miti in Chipata
Wed 10 Nov. 2010, 03:59 CAT
EASTERN Province PF publicity secretary Mung’omba Ngoma has said President Rupiah Banda’s stubbornness in most national issues is slowly killing the nation and will one day lead to total chaos. In an interview on Monday, Ngoma said the electorate were upset with President Banda’s style of leadership.
“It is surprising that RB cannot get the message from voters even when the MMD government has been losing by-elections which is a clear indication that electorate are upset with his government. But it seems RB will do everything possible to cling to power even when people say no to his style of leadership. RB should learn from world leaders like US President Barrack Obama,” Ngoma said.
He said President Banda was boasting that he had scored a lot of successes in two years when he was losing elections.
“Is losing elections in Kasama, Mufumbwe, Chilanga, Solwezi and the many local government by-elections that the MMD have lost a success?
RB doesn't get the message even when clergymen and the church tell him not to remove the abuse of office clause from the ACC Act, he doesn't get the message even when electorates tell him not to sell Zamtel, not to defend criminals and not to procure mobile hospitals. That’s how stubborn RB is and his stubbornness is killing innocent souls in hospitals who are dying everyday without drugs,” Ngoma said.
He said it was clear that President Banda was being misled by people like Shikapwasha and others.
“Let RB and his generals like Ronnie Shikapwasha learn from Obama who easily gets the message.
Shikapwasha and other cabinet ministers are giving Rupiah blind loyalty just to keep their jobs but that’s bad. RB doesn't take the blame for corruptly engaging RP capital partners on the sale of Zamtel.
“He doesn't want to take the blame even when people like George Mpombo and Magande are telling him to look at his style of leadership which is killing innocent Zambians who are going without employment out there,” said Ngoma.
“Surely, he can't take the blame even when his government is trying to protect Chinese criminals who shot innocent Zambians for subjecting them to poor conditions of service. His government can't take the blame even when thugs like Chiko Chibale are coming out in the open threatening violence against innocent people like Bishop Duffy of Mongu Diocese.
What the MMD government is doing by removing the abuse of office clause from the ACC Act is sanctioning corruption in all government departments which is a total betray of the fight against corruption which the lateLabels: MUNG'OMBA NGOMA, RUPIAH BANDA
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Suspicion mounts as Chipata MMD ferries residents for NRCs
By Christopher Miti in Chipata
Tue 12 Oct. 2010, 14:10 CAT
THE Eastern Province National Registration office has failed to intervene in a matter where the
MMD are ferrying people to get National Registration Cards (NRCs) at Chipata office. The MMD had continued ferrying people from the outskirts of Chipata to get NRC’s using Chipata Central member of parliament Lameck Mangani’s truck.
Asked whether it was in order for political parties to ferry people to registration centres, provincial registrar only identified as Ms. Chilembo refused to comment on the matter and referred all queries to the head office in Lusaka.
“Ba Post, so you want to put this in the paper? asked Chilembo. Efforts to get a comment from the national registration office in Lusaka failed as the phone went unanswered.
And provincial PF publicity secretary Mung’omba Ngoma said it was unfortunate that MMD had continued hoodwinking people in Chipata. Ngoma appealed to all those willing to contest in the province to start ferrying people too.
“If what the MMD are doing was being done by us in the opposition, you would have seen their (government) reaction but now they have deliberately turned a blind eye on this. The MMD has continued to ferry their cadres from their perceived strongholds to come here in town and get NRC’s and they are using Honourable Mangani’s vehicle,” he said.
Ngoma said most people who were being ferried by the MMD could be Malawians because they were from the border areas.
“Their desperation will even lead to Malawians getting registered in Zambia. You know, they ferry people who are more than 30 years. Now the question is, are they real Zambians? Why are they getting NRCs now?” asked Ngoma.
But Kanjala MMD ward councillor Jealous Phiri said the MMD would continue ferrying people to get NRCs.
“Have you seen those people? We are ferrying people to get NRC’s so the opposition should not cry foul when we win,” Phiri said while pointing at Mangani’s blue truck that had ferried Kagunda residents to get NRC’s.
He said the MMD had consulted widely before embarking on the exercise.
Phiri said a lot of people were not aware about the extension of the voter registration exercise.
“A lot of people are not aware about the extension of the voter
registration exercise. There are some people who do not listen to
radio they don’t watch TVs or read newspapers, so we want these people to get NRCs and later register as voters,” Phiri said.
Phiri said there were a lot of potential voters in his ward that do not have NRCs.
In 2005, then Kasenengwa UNIP member of parliament Timothy Nyirenda was stopped by then provincial registrar Pearson Malisawa from ferrying the people to the National Registration office to get NRCs.
Labels: CORRUPTION, MMD, MUNG'OMBA NGOMA, VOTER REGISTRATION
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Banda is a Judas Iscariot, charges Sata
By Chibaula Silwamba in Milanzi
Sun 25 Apr. 2010, 04:10 CAT
PF leader Michael Sata braving the rains during a rally to drum up support for Milanzi Constituency PF parliamentary candidate Albert Banda in Katete on Thursday - Picture by Thomas Nsama RUPIAH Banda is a Judas Iscariot, Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata has charged.
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Eastern Province PF publicity secretary, Mung’omba Ngoma said his father, Jackson Ngoma, who a couple of months ago claimed that he was in the same jail cell with Sata when the PF leader was jailed for criminal offence, had been given cattle by the government to malign Sata.
Addressing a campaign rally to drum up support for PF parliamentary candidate, Albert Banda, in the Milanzi constituency by-election for the polls set for next Thursday, Sata said President Banda was a traitor to the people of Katete district for failing to bring them development.
“All these people cannot be leaders, there should be one leader. Jesus Christ had 12 disciples. Out of 12 disciples there was one Rupiah Banda – Judas Iscariot. The person who sold Jesus is Judas. Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus Christ. The person who grabbed fertiliser from you is Rupiah Banda, your fellow easterner. Isn’t it? Is it a Bemba who grabbed fertiliser from you?” asked Sata as people responded: “Awe! No!”
Sata further said: “The person who did not build you a road, is he Bemba? Is the President Bemba? See now! If you don’t fight, if you don’t work, don’t eat. People are desperate, they have been sitting here, they don’t even want to go because they want to see, ‘who is going to liberate us?’”
Sata said the people of Eastern Province want a leader who would represent them well, not cowards. “There are so many people from within the Eastern Province here that Rupiah Banda deceived that ‘don’t go to MMD’. But now Banda is on the plane. He used to ride a bicycle here but now he can’t come on a bicycle. He has even stopped sleeping in Katete. He sleeps in Chipata and just comes here to hold campaign rallies. And you are ndwii.
When Jesus was put on the cross, when women went crying, Jesus said: ‘don’t cry for me, cry for yourselves and your children’,” said Sata at Omdodzi Primary School in Mwandafisi area. “When I came here, I went to the school.
I saw these little children, 46 years of independence, a country province which produces a President, which produces a Deputy Minister of Agriculture, school children are still sitting on the floor in classroom. What type of a country is this?”
Sata said President Banda was enjoying alone while many Zambians were suffering.
“At the moment Rupiah Banda is very happy; he has no obligation to MMD, he has no obligation to UNIP. Since he became President he has traveled more than Mr Kenneth Kaunda who was president for 27 years.
Rupiah has been to various countries world over. He has traveled more than Kenneth Kaunda, more than Frederick Chiluba and more than Levy Mwanawasa. He goes there to enjoy himself. He has no obligation because he never stood on the platform as I am standing to promise you what he will do for you,” Sata said.
“Rupiah Banda doesn’t care because he has hijacked the power of Zambia. You read about hijackers, they hijack aeroplanes, they hijack taxis, they hijack cars. Rupiah Banda with the help of Chiluba, while we were sleeping, they hijacked. He is now President of Zambia and the law says he is President of Zambia. There is nothing we can do. But if you speak, people will hear. You will help many people here in Eastern Province but you are cowards. You are very intelligent people here except you are cowards.”
Sata, who had visited the in-laws of agriculture deputy minister Allan Mbewe on his way to the rally site, bemoaned the road network in the area.
“Across there, there is an MMD deputy minister, Allan Mbewe. I stopped and I wondered whether this is the road for the deputy minister of agriculture,” Sata said. He warned Albert Banda that if he did not speak for his constituents when elected parliamentarian, God would punish him.
“When you go to Parliament, don’t be like that Mbewe there. Don’t go to Parliament for a Toyota VX vehicle. I have been running this party for 10 years.
I have not been to Parliament during that 10 years but I still drive a VX. You have come on your own, you want to be member of parliament. When you want to be member of parliament, you leave your blanket, you leave everything, go and speak for these people.
If you don’t speak for these people God will punish you,” Sata said. “Katete district can feed the whole Zambia but we the leaders, especially you the leaders from Eastern Province, have let these people down.” Sata accused President Banda of having sidelined Katete people during the Kenneth Kaunda government.
“When Kaunda had problems, they formed an organisation called Umodzi Kumawa. Rupiah Banda called you people from Nyimba, Petauke and Katete ati ndimwe bapungila You are by the roadside. Even now, ndimwe bapungila. You have to stand up and be counted,” Sata said. “You Albert Banda go to Lusaka to talk. When you talk, government is very scared of a person who talks. Rupiah Banda knows very well he has no position in MMD. That is why he is leaning to Frederick Chiluba.”
Sata urged the people to fight for change of government. “There was Kaunda, he was saying: ‘in heaven God, on earth Kenneth Kaunda’. But people removed him. If you become proper MP, you speak for them and every time when Parliament is not sitting you come here and see them. We want these children to be educated,” Sata said.
“Look at the road passing through Mbewe’s in-laws I have been with you. So when go, speak the truth on behalf of these Chewa people. Katete grows cotton, sunflower, maize etc. These past five years, Katete has gone down. Why? Because you the leaders have abandoned your people.”
Sata dismissed insinuations that he would stop distribution of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to HIV patients.
“People are saying, ‘Sata will kill elders, Sata will take away ARVs.’ How can I stop distribution of ARVs? I brought ARVs when I was Minister of Health and if I had remained minister of health I would have found cure for AIDS,” said Sata. “Forty six years after independence people are fighting with cattle for you to draw water. We need change! I believe in leaving Zambia better than I found it.”
And Albert Banda said he wanted to the represent people of Milanzi to improve their welfare.
“I am asking for a vote so that I can represent you in Parliament; this is coming from deep down my heart,” Albert Banda.
Addressing another rally at Mbalame village, Sata wondered why the government had not evacuated the late member of parliament Reuben Chisanga-Banda to South Africa for specialized treatment.
He said Chisanga-Banda was left to die in UTH while President Banda, whenever he has a knee problem, he is quickly flown to Cape Town, South Africa treatment. And Eastern Province PF publicity secretary, Mung’omba Ngoma said his father, Jackson Ngoma, who a couple of months ago claimed that he was in the same jail cell with Sata when the PF leader was jailed for criminal offence, had been given cattle by the government to malign Sata.
“You heard me on Radio Breeze. Do you hear my father, Jackson Ngoma on Breeze? He has failed. He was given money by Rupiah so that he could be ranting, saying Sata did this and that.
I asked him ‘what has Rupiah done for you? Me, as your son, I am also suffering. You don’t even have cattle at your farm’. He was given five cattle to start saying bad things about Mr Sata,” said Mung’omba Ngoma.
People, chanting PF slogans and flashing the party symbol, have been mobbing Sata and his motorcade at Katete town in solidarity with him. Others were shouting: “We want change! We want change!”
Labels: CORRUPTION, MMD, MUNG'OMBA NGOMA, RUPIAH BANDA, SATA
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