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Information, Broadcasting and Tourism minister Given Lubinda interacts with Chinese investors

Information Minister Given Lubinda has castigated Lusaka politician and businessman, Benjamin Mwila for suggesting that the country is under extreme tension from the time the PF government took office.

Mr Lubinda described as misguided and baseless Mr B.Y Mwila’s negative statements carried in Sunday’s Daily Mail Advertorial.

He says at a media briefing that the PF administration has a duty to protect citizens from innuendos that have the potential to send wrong messages about the government and the country.

Mr Lubinda wondered which sections of the country are under extreme tension or people that need to be reconciled as alleged by Mr Mwila.

The Minister emphasized that no persons found guilty of corruption will left to go scot free simply because they are former leaders.

Mr Lubinda says Mr Mwila’s claims are a result of personal anguish arising from government’s termination of the former Nchilenge MP’s road contract in Chibombo.

He says Mr Mwila’s firm Wade Adams failed to fulfil contractual obligations for which it has to refund the government billions of Kwacha.

Meanwhile, Mr Lubinda says former President Rupiah Banda will lose his retirement entitlements if he heeds to Mr Mwila’s advice to continue leading the MMD for the next two years.

In his statement, Mr Mwila urged President Michael Sata to help reduce the extreme tension and reconcile the people.

He suggested that the new government should embrace all people even those that voted against the PF in the September 20, tripartite elections.

[ZNBC]

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81 COMMENTS

  1. Mwila, Wanvela tension chifukwa chaka contract. wait, you will soon have to account for all what was paid to you. uzangena mundende.

  2. As a ‘listening govt’ call in the aggrieved and put them in the narrow and straight – that is once you hear their pleas. Being dismissive adds to the building of a residual perception of being petulant!

  3. Ka B.Y is just moaning about GRZ contracts, this little greedy chap has been eating since the days of KK. If you are a genuine businessman you shouldn’t have anything to worry about!!

  5. Just to let you guys know, I am selling a refrigerated truck (canter) in Zambia, which has a cold blaster going down to -31 degrees celcius and is in excellent condition. Recently imported from Japan and everything works. Give me heads up if anybody is interested. contact: tanganyikaspecies (at) gmail dot com

  6. Well dont respond to dull zambians, any zambian without atleast a Maasters I look at them a little bit inferior to me, and those with Masters would agree with me let alone PHd’s

    So Mr Mwila as much as he is a vetean should be ignored He is old!

    Asn someone with MBA, CIMA and ACCA and soon PHD I know what I am saying

    Thanks

  7. What is wrong with my Keyboard? Makes me look as though its spelling errors whilst it is really this keyboaord on the Mac I have

    I will throw away this £1430 Mac Nick bought for me last week, otherwise people here might think I am not educated at all, Sorry People

    Thanks

  8. BY is right. How do you explain diplomats in Malaysia who have been fired without 3 months notice reqiuered by law, leaving them stranded with unfinnished formal commitments. AND dangerously, leaving the President family member who is a delare in Malaysia. We Zambians do no want him here.

  9. Mushota You realy enjoy dreaming. Work hard and stop pretending to be woman married to Nick. Icholoto chilaletelela boyi. adk Danny peddle.. Coming to the topic, its important for people to accept change. it seems abena B.Y wont just accept that they are on the other side of development now. you had your time. just get ready to part away with some more cash as the bank come to get that as surety for the guarantee.

  10. Mr. Lubinda, do not make audacious statements on behalf of Zambians. Actually, it’s not about tension, it’s about uncertainty.

  12. its true what \by is saying..we are watching the space..pf has brought about alot f havoc..soon we shall see..kolwestans fighting other tribes for supremacy!

  13. @Mushota you are a fool. It appears with your MBA, CIMA and ACCA you have been educated beyond your intelligence. I don’t have a degree, but I leave a very comfortable life, I have a personal doctor, an account and other “educated Zambians working for me”. Without me these ‘educated persons’ and their families will not eat. And yes, without them, my business may not flourish as well as it is doing. Therefore, my relationship with my ‘educated workers’ is ‘hand in glove so to speak’. How about you my over-educated friend? Do you have enough food on your table? Need a job? It’s us the uneducated ones who who hold the keys. Have respect.

  14. Laughter is good. I always read Mushota’s posts because I always see their humorous side. Keep it up Mushota.

  15. Mwila was acting like a King, holding all imprest including petty cash, and behaving badly on the road contract that he failed to execute. He bragged about his connection to RB. If there are people still moarning the MMD loss, BY is one of them. But the guy was not serious because he couldn’t even employ qualified staff despite the fact Wade Adam is a building construction firm, not a road construction firm. He refused advice and carried himself as if he knew it all. Let BY pay back because that is the only way he will know and understand that public resources should never be collected by individuals pretending to know what that are doing when in fact not. BY is a criminal and must be caged.

  16. @GBM

    Riches without brains. Mushota is just being humorous ba GBM. From the message you have posted, I can tell that you have so much anger for not having a degree. In this time and age, how can you not have atleast a degree? 

  17. Lubinda can not calm the tension as he can not see it, wasnt it just yesterday when one of the spoilt ministers claimed 55% of Zambians are bemba. Iwe zayelo, there are serious tribal tensions since you small minds came to power, come to your senses….the sooner the better.

  18. I did not realise until now that the best president Zambia has ever had was Levy Patrick Mwanawasa a Lenje by tribe from Chief Chamuka in Kabwe east. He was really focused on taking Zambia to greater hights. He deserves more honours than the little he has received. He was not a kulibonesha. He was really ichibumba. Inshimbi and very principled man. Off course a few people around him let him down. MHSRIP. Maybe we should try someone from a smaller tribe again because it is not easy for the tribalism to show it`s ugly face. I did not know Bemba`s are worse than Tonga`s except they do it in a subtle manner while a Tonga lays it bare.

  20. Mushota, do you have a 1st degree or you could not make it to university 1st so you decided a different route? I have a B.Sc, CIMA and ACCA plus M.Sc in Intergrated Economics that I don`t even talk about. You talk so much about your night school qualifications. Olo unama chabe bozza. That Nick must be a waiter at some Irish pub in Glasgow. My bf is a Ph.D and a Harvard graduate. So let`s just talk about Zambian issues instead of kulibonesha.

    • I believe you have spoken for the many innocent and hard working Zambian men that Mushota constantly abuses. Way to go sister… 

  21. Ba Katanga Ilunga naimwe, where is the tension in the country when people are just comfortably recovering from the would have been disaster if your friend RB had won the 20 September 2011 election.

    The problem with BY is that he always feels he is the best expert on Zambian politics when he knows very little except about Moise Tshombe.

  22. There’s more tribalism certainly. Just check LT archives, were no tribal comments during RB reign and previously. The failure of the PACT and Sata’s appointments has certainly caused more Tongas to be openly tribal against Bembas and more Bembas to equally react.

    Tongas have always been tribal but it really didnt bother many people that much in the past. Today, there’s much hatred with it. Sata and HH need to address this issue.

  24. Obvious aba abaletuka mushota are either visiting this site for the first time or don’t read most of the comments here….Mushota boyi uliwatuma jokes sana naiwe…bakalakutukapo fye lobe ulo…..And on the subject above,I think BY is right somehow.There is indeed tension in the country and the sooner this is dealt with the better.The media too must desist from publishing stories that are alarming to the nation or we will end up having tribal wars.

  25. @Mushota, you are an ignorant educated fool as nobody with real education like you are telling us about boasts about it in the manner you have done on LT.

    You are from a really poor background. Not that all poor people or people from a poor background behave like Mushota but unfortunately there are quite a few who do. Education is all about what end up ding with it. Mugabe has seven degrees, so what? he is just a thief like late Chiluba Kafupi.

  26. Ka BY Katanga Mwila, all of a sudden because his contracts are terminated, there is unbearable tension in Zambia. When he was busy gun-running for diamonds in Angola and sending our boys on that air coffin to Gabon, there was tranquility. Or when he was threatening FTJ’s kids from post mortem saqying ‘kuti mwaya sanga month ilomba mukati mulya’, he was creating tranquilo in Zambia! The devious lumpen should be arrested for killing Baldwin.

  28. I concur with Mushota , in this time and age no need to respond to people with atleast a ,masters, they are just too dull and fools.

  29. Benjamin Yoram Mwila, is thoroughly corrupt, a small man with inadequate brain power, dependent on witchcraft, lying, and sucking up to anyone who has the combination numbers and the keys to the strong room. He is also partly responsible for the woes that Chiluba, faced. Mind you, he is not very loyal, but anyone can buy his loyaty with money. He never pays his workers on time, has multiple wives, and BY, is of BY, by BY, for BY. Little miserable, dastardly manipulator. Don’t start what you can’t finish, because you are a coward, who is being paid, to even issue this statement.

  32. #16 Mpopo
    Leave GBM alone. he has already reached the top of the mountain. What is a degree for ??? You need this for job pursue BUT GBM is an employer. Making holding a degree irrelevant :d

  34. BY is just a frustrated person because who can not accept change of government by the will of Zambian people because he has all along failed politically and his money is now finished. maybe we need to remind him that Zambians have not forgotten about K 200 billion he stole from ministry of defense when he was defense minister. I think corrupt people need to shut up on governance issues.

  35. Mr Ilunga Katanga Ben Mwila from Congo was a defacto leader of Zambia during Chiluba reign. As minister of defence poaching was one of his speciality using ZAF planes with foreigners from Germany, South Africa and America. He pretended to have bought several properties which were never paid for and started to collect rent from them. Top on this was Chibote holding properties where Meridian BIAO bank was paying him 25000 dollars per month, money meant for the government of Zambia. He is a sucker and needs to be investigated too. He wants to be friend PF so as to forget all these offences committed during Chiluba rule his nephew. All days are not mondays so now is time to account for his actions.

  37. #13 GBM – You are a typical illiterate. Those educated guys working for you don’t really need you; it is you who needs them. Unlike what you are saying, without them you and your company are nothing!

  38. When STATE HOUSE is BOMBED by hired Bokko Haram and makaravini thugs, that is when Lubinda will issue the second statement to retract his current nonsense. He is worse than Shikapwasha and Comical Ali put together!

  39. What is this craze about people shouting about the degrees they have to people on this blog-site whom they don’t even know and can’t see? Any educated intelligent person would refrain from such foolish vanity. Contribute to the community, don’t shout about it.

  41. PF govt. how can Mr Mutangelwa Imasiku be appointed as Zambian ambassador to Angola????. This man is wanted in Namibia and Botswana for subversive activities agitating for freedom of all the Lozis found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia. These neighbours of Zambia will not take kind with this appointment. This where Pf needs the wisdom of Zambians objections to some of these appointments.

  44. Ilyashi mu Cibemba ukufuma kuno radio Kashobwe, Democatic Republique du Congo. Inkonkotela yafikansa fya calo mu calo ca Zambie ba B.Y Mwila nabasoka icipokapoka cisusha ubuteko muli ciya calo ba Sata ukuti baleicushafye namakampeni yabo. Tabakatekepo icalo ca Zambie. Kabili ba Mwila bebele neshamfumu shonse nabantu bonse mu province de Luapula, ukukana bapela ba Sata icakaniko mukusala kuleisa. Ba mwila bali muno kati ka province de Katanga ukongola abantu ukuti bakasale kateka Banda. Abantu mu Kashobwe na Kasenga nabapokelelako ubupe bwa fitenge, sugari, isabi, ubunga …. Empela ya lyashi ukufuma radio Kashobwe.

  46. To hell with number 7 (Mushota) pretending to be me!

    Success never smelled so sweet so I stink of success, so when you see me, see you!
    My bone of contention though is that I only spot a few blacks the higher I go, having gotten that out of my way,

    I saw the news which hurt my spirit as a black woman today in both the
    University of Glasgow(1451) and University of Strathclde(1796) tabloids;

    According to this investigation, it was found that a black man would actually kill his mother just to sex a white woman!

    On the other hand,if you see a black woman with a fat white man that means her credit card or is it Visa card is messed up real bad.

    because generally speaking black women are not attracted to white men.I hope Knick does not get to see these sturbon facts!
    Thanks

    • Remember your flag should be for UK to be the Mushota at LT. You talk about universities ni UK but your flag is from Puerto Rico…..Just create your own identity…whatever you say wont work. This post is outdated…don’t you have anything new to post? This has been seen already.

  47. ba BY, THE FACT THAT THE MMD LEADERS ARE NOW PANICKING AS WHERE TO HIDE THEIR LOOTS DOES NOT AMOUNT TO NATIONAL TENSION. YOU GUYS TOOK ZAMBIANS FOR GRANTED AND THOUGHT YOU WOULD RULE FOREVER! AS FOR SOMEONE TALKING ABOUT TRIBAL TENSION, BECAUSE SOME ONE QOUTED FIGURES FROM CENTRAL STATISTICS, WELL, JUST GIVE US THE RIGHT FIGURES IF THOSE WERE COOKED UP, SHOULDN’T PEOPLE TALK ABOUT FACTS WITHOUT BEING MISUNDERSTOOD, IF ONE SAYS THE MAJORITY TRIBE IN KENYA IS KIKUYU OR SHONA IN ZIMBABWE, IS THAT TRIBALISM, PEOPLE NEED TO GROW OUT OF TRIBAL INFESTED MINDS!

  50. Here Lubinda looks like a Chinese. Join the club. PF should help reduce tension in the country & stop appointing corrupt people to foreign posts like mutangwela.

  51. BY is right.at no time in the history of our country did we have a situation where tribalism was pronounced as in this government.terrminologies like kolwestan and bantustan were born after 20th September.Nominations of 10 MPs instead of 8 and all from 2 provinces.Cabinet,the most biased one.wanting to change our country from a christian nation to a catholic nation.Is this not tension.Mwanawasa was the best of all.

  52. Mr Mwila if you have any morals in you, please better keep quiet. You are the same *****s who have been surviving on fake contracts from the government. Have you forgotten the ZNBS contract which was awarded to you in the Chiluba government? This shows clearly what type of a person you are. You simply dont have the capacity to carry out such big tasks. period!

  53. The tension is there! from two sides or angles. 1 Former politicicians who want to be let scot free. How do you explain Dora’s 19 year old son with over ZMK2 Billion in his accounts, Thandiwe Banda in 3 years from a teachers pension is now worth over ZMK8 Billion, Austin farms bearing cash crops of ZMK2.1 Billion the flip side is that you have a new government that wants to prove that corruption and abuse of office did take place. My friends if you have Malria Quinine is a bitter pill to swallow but it has to be swallowed all the same.

  54. South African Trad Unionist Zwelenzima Vavi said African independence is a sham, our political leaders have failed to give vision and direction. greed, corruption, mis management the list is endless. Look at that FOOL Liato as labour minister he ACTUALY justified a minimum wage of ZMK419,000 what family will survive on that.. yet he had a back pocket the size of mount everst. PEOPLE of Zambia NOT until you wake up and say NO to corruption Zambia will always be a backward and poor country with grains of rich people here and there. Political office should not be used as a means to monetery gain. FOR GOODNESS SAKES DORA WAS A MERE NEWS ANNOUNCER. ACT NOW OR FOVER REMAIN POOR!!

  55. What tension? PF has brought sanity and we are all seeing it. Those found wanting are facing the law regardless of their race

  56. Our beloved President Michael Sata said he does not want to travel outside the country anyhow because he wants to channel the cash to poverty alleviation. This is a very good thing and I encourage all Zambians to emulate this for us to forge ahead with development. His Excellency Sata has exhibited loyalty to all Zambians and has set a good example of Christianity just from the word go!

  59. SOOOOOOO what was the fuss about the chinese? Look for yourself who is enjoying chinese food and wine, so all PF supporters and sympathisers YOU WERE DUPED!!!!!!!!

    And Howz having the loudest laugh  …………………. 

  60. @ Eagle-Eagle ….. Laying to yourself through your teeth … anyway, its natural. All this tribalism in our country and all is well. And your beloved president is a flop!!!

  61. Oh yes, BY is right. There is so much tension in people like him and those in the former gov’t who plundered our resources.

  62. I don’t think people are bluffing when they are busy daily talking about tribe supremacy and hate on these on-line media outlets, so, yes, to some extent, BY is correct to say there is tension. We can only ignore it at our own peril. Look at what transpired during the Mongu riot commission of inquiry, tension was there because at times the hearings were becoming unruly. And PF appointments have also contributed to these tensions because other tribes feel left out of the national cake. Other churches feel left out because the Catholic church seem to be the most prominent and favoured religious faith now.We will continue shouting One Zambia One Nation but I personally think this ideology proper went with KK himself. Politics of appeasement won’t take us anywhere. Just saying.

  63. BY,loop wholes are being sealed for corrupt people like you,whose businesses are surviving on shady deals. the tension is within you mentally and among your workers who are not sure where the next meal will come from. Any bonuses for your workers,BY?

  64. BY may have his own problems. however, the tension is real in this country, Mile Sampa’s statement were so tribal that it hates to be a Zambian. Bembas are taking this to a higher level and it may be difficult in future to turn back the clock. Lubinda you are already missing the point just being in office for under three months. The PF govt has shown the whole country that what matters in this country is to be catholic (Katolika) and Bemba speaking.

  65. LUBINDA YOU ARE ONE OFD THE ROTTEN EGGS IN OUR ZAMBIAN SOCIETY. WHY DO YOU PRETEND AS IF ALL IS WELL IN OUR COUNTRY? MR. MWILA IS RIGHT. EVER SINCE SATA BECAME PRESIDENT OUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN POLARIZED. YOU DON’T NEED A SOOTHSAYER FOR YOU TO KNOW THAT THERE IS TENSION AMONGST PEOPLE IN OUR NATION. SATA HIMSELF IS FANNING IT. PEOPLE ARE TELLING HIM TO BALANCE HIS APPOINTMENTS SO THAT MAIN TRIBES ARE REPRESENTED, BUT HE IS REFUSING. HE IS JUST SELECTING HIS TRIBESMEN. SATA IS A SHAME TO ALL ZAMBIANS INCLUDING TO THE BAMBAS HE IS FAVORING.

  66. No 32. Kanjimaano

    Let him respect his employees. If he has money, they have the qualifications and life goes on. Like No. 37 Gokigo Milazhe has put it, he needs those educated employees more than they need him.  

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