Opposition Patriot Front (PF) has expressed confidence of scooping Kapoche seat.
PF Chairman for Information Given Lubinda told ZANIS in an interview that the party’s candidate Mike Tembo will outshine all other candidate on June 05, the polling day.
Mr. Lubinda, who is also Kabwata Member of Parliament, said the popularity of the PF
candidate can be measured by the political panic he has evoked among other competing
candidate.
He further said the adoption of Mr. Tembo by the PF has caused havoc in MMD and the
United Democratic Alliance (UDA), to a point where UDA is threatened with
disintegration.
But Eastern Province MMD Provincial Secretary Chisenga Banda told ZANIS that Eastern Province has become a stronghold for ruling MMD.
Mr. Banda said although other political parties were welcome to contest the seat in
the interest of democracy, the MMD candidate is a clear favorite to scoop the seat.
He said Zambians have seen the good works that the ruling party has done in the
province and across the country.
Mr. Banda noted that people in the province are happy with the improved road
infrastructure that has seem road works on the Great East and Mfuwe -Chipata roads.
He further said the MMD has instituted good agriculture, health, and education
policies.
The Multiparty Democracy (MMD) candidate in the Kapoche by-election is Fashion
Phiri. Other candidates in the by-election are Charles Banda of FDD, Mike Tembo for
the Patriotic Front, Sarah Zulu for the All People’s Congress and Levison Mumba
standing under UNIP.
The Kapoche seat became vacant after the High Court nullified MMD Member of
Parliament’s election, Nicholas Phiri.
And Vice President Rupiah Banda has since asked the people of Zambia to be vigilant on
individuals that were bent on retarding development in the country.
Mr. Banda said every individual citizens must exercise vigilance and jealously guard
the public
infrastructure against vandalism and also ensure that public funds were used for the
right purpose.
He said it was only vigilant people that would help accelerate developmental projects and programmes in the country, especially the rural areas.
Mr. Banda was speaking yesterday when he addressed a political rally at Kamjoma in
Chief Manjawanthu’s area in Petauke district.
He is on a campaign trail for the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) candidate,
Fashion Phiri in the Kapoche by-election. The Kapoche seat became vacant after the
High Court nullified MMD Member of Parliament’s election, Nicholas Phiri.
Even the late Chama Chakomboka had confidence that he will make it to plot one in 1996.Viva opposition let us hear what you will do and not having tachycardia over the car loans and all.
This reminds me of comical Ali in Iraq.
Propagating victory even when the Iraq Army had all but given up the fight
VJ won’t be there, so may the best candidate scoop the seat.
it is high time PF got a pie of Eastern province.
If the Veep is currently doing party work, are we going to pay his salary as tax payers for this manth or we have to subtract. or is he on leave?
conflict of interest.
good point Joe.
not only his salary.
other hidden huge costs.fuel,allowances,depreciation, u name them.
its amazing how this country spends money on trivial matters.
its a jokeee!!!!!!!!!!!
Public gathering turnout and voters apathy. 2 things at play.
Let the people make their decision known and we shall support their direction taken
opposition or MMD, development should be encouraged Mr Veep.
u are a veep for all the people in all districts.
stop cheating pipo.and wasting our resources
Citizen
caan’t you see the victory in irag.
that Ali was right.
Camp
I can’t see victory in Iraq. Instead I see chaos, anarchy and pandamonium.sectarian violence is the order of the day.
I don’t who can celebrate victory when Iraqis are busy killing each other.
As for the USA they have lost direction.It is all one big mess in Iraq
Hope the competitors are clean. The days for ‘fraudsters’ ascending to power for the sole purpose of looting are over!
As for PF, good luck. Let’s hope it’s not blind confidence. There’s been a lot of it Zed!
Atleast VJ is not there,maybe PF would win the election.
Why is the Veep indeed absconding official duties? I am sure he is using government resources apart from the salary which he will not have worked for in full. Public service commission should recover all resources spent on this trip as well cut the salary by the number of days he has been out to this constituency. This amounts to CORRUPTION. He should have taken leave for him to go on this errand.
good luck to pf!!!!
Well, for some reason, I hope PF do NOT win the seat.Lets try FDD
The GOVT thru the VEEP has FINALLY CONFIRMED THAT THEY DELIBERATELY DON’T DEVELOP AREAS WHERE THEY HAVE NO SEATS!! This is a proclamation by a GOVT which boasts of tackling CORRUPTION – IF THIS ISN’T BROAD- DAYLIGHT CORRUPTION ,what does one call it??? ANTI- CORRUPTION COMMISSION there you have it – can you please swiftly dispatch with this case. If I was the opposition, I’d now save my energies for the next by-election after the nullification of this one, upon it being brought to court, or alternatively get the ELECTORAL COMMISSION to prosecute VEEP for ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN/ELECTORAL PRACTICE! This is the problem of recycling politicians who have served beyond their sell-by-dates! Not only that, but who still maintain a very fresh “post-colonial” mentality!! LPM for all your clamouring to be an upstanding statesman who doesn’t tolerate any form of corruption, you really have to act on this one. This is why the new constitution is being held back, the current outdated political mentality!!
Good luck PF, I hope you’ll get your humble pie once again
PF has no capacity to win Kapoche Constituency by election. Of course they have show the world that they are confident. But all the parties are confident to win. Thats is why they are contesting. Looking at the politics of Eastern province and Petauke in particular, my bet is on the MMD and Charles Banda of FFD who is supported by UDA.
PF may just try their lack in the forth coming Mbala Constituency by elections where the elections have just been nullified. Even in that part of Northern province, they will be trounced.
The only possible victory they can get in a by election will depend on the one which the old King Cobra recently said he is waiting for in Lusaka. That one if it had to come will go to PF but they will have to find it out with the UPND which is strong in that part of Lusaka.
A question to many PF cadres on the blog. When are you going to elect your party leaders. They say charity begins at home.
Yes I agree with Bauze that the new constitution is being held back by LPM for him to perpetuate such Corrupt acts and abuse Govt resources.
We need a new constitution where MPS will be answerable to people and not the Party and if they are fired by the party they should not lose their seats, but if they are never seen in their areas they should be recalled and fresh elections held. That way we shall reduce the number of bootlickers in the system but have people that really serve th people.
Chanda #20, you are very right. Only when we get politicians that are DIRECTLY ANSWERABLE TO THEIR CONSTIUENCIES, will the face of politics change in Zambia. The CURRENT practice by most parties of IMPOSING CANDIDATES is one vice that has to be nipped in the bud! People will only feel empowered & appreciate that their votes work only when they have MP’s that are directly answerable to them, & not some leader based in Lusaka.
Our VP is another ignorant no teeth old Dog. How can he say, the opposition is responsible for Mis-development of Eastern Provinces. Zambians shuould start to demand Development and accountability for the taxes they pay…Failure to take development or funidng to opposition stronghold will just bring anarchy and demand for succeding. Watchout old fool, Zambia does not need that kind of foolishness
Having a national parliment is not necessarily a bad idea. In my view whats more pragmatic is to create a fully decentralized administrative abnd political system in which provinces will have the power and economic resources to run their own parliaments. So we have a much smaller number of MPs do what they have to in Lusaka but give significant resources to provinces to run their public affairs as they wish. I’m sure then the VP will not have any incentive to waste public resources on by-elections.
But it wont happen, politicians cant stand giving away power.
The Mbala seat nullification is another witness of how fradulent the elections were. What about the Chilanga seat where Magade is MP. All we heard is that there was a recount but no final rulling yet.
PF, UDA, APP,are exercising the democratic right by participating in the elecions.Veep is a UNIPIST since when did he change his political views?He is one of the veterans who opposed MMD in Eastern Province but now today he is flip-flopping. What a low key of a politician is he? Baitaya ba V.P.
PF and MMD , i see no difference, same recycled people, Sata never change one power hungary man, he will do anything to go to plot one, and Mwanawasa hehehehehe, i don`t even know what to say, staborn arrongant you name it, Sata says what he does not mean and mwanawasa means what he does not say, these two dudes are cousins no wonder they start to look alike,we need change, lets just be careful how we change,
PF stay focus, you are the only hope for zed to keep the govt on her toes. easterns wake up, you were decieved last time, how many cabinent ministers do you have?Kapoche for PF
Good luck PF. claim what was truly yours, the government of the day
One wonders though what effect ‘president’ Sata’s deportation and his intention to sue the Malawian govt for that has on the polls in Kapoche. After all a lot of voters in Kapoche have their kith and kin from that part of the world.
As to whether the last elections were truly PFs, that is doubtful. There was too much concentration in the urban areas. Their president also got tribal e.g. refer to statements he made in Luapula and Northern to the effect that only people from those provinces were being investgated for corruption because of their tribe(s). This is not entirely true, is it?
Things people say have a tendency of coming back to haunt them.
Good luck PF, blind confidence is commonplace in Zed!
In 1996 or so, we had invited a South African colleague and doctor at the official launching of the Healthcare Christian Fellowship of Zambia (HCFZ) in Ndola. Present at the launch was former president FTJ. To my amazement, our visitor who was coming to Zambia for the first time, when we met him privately had immediately noticed that our construction industry “died†25 to 30 years before! He could tell that just by looking at our infrastructure! This is unreasonable especially that we do not have to import cement. Zambia should begin to build industries, housing complexes new towers to take over our filthy and unplanned eyesore of buildings. This in itself will create employment for our youth and help curb the rising crime brought partly by unemployment. This part of planning does not need rocket science brains but ordinary brains like ours. “Buy Zambian, Build Zambia!â€
CK, good points @ # 29. However even just regular maintenance is lacking. Look @ the dated buildings on our foremost street – Cairo Rd. Findeco House, Zimco House, Indeco. Since KK had them constructed in the 70s, they’ve never been maintained aesthetically. Surprisingly, there are full fledged maintenance depts in the organisations responsible. What they do, is anyone’s guess.
Samfya town is a neglected gold, natural, God-given beauty and sanctuary. Kawambwa landscape, Mbereshi, Nchelenge and Mambilima are gold whose landscape is strikingly awesome. Sinazongwe, Siavonga, Lake Tanganyika are all sleeping giants that could be transformed by developers if the same were across the oceans in other lands. Zambia is a very beautiful country and government has a duty to facilitate development. Private companies cannot build roads but government should, because it is the custodian of development that in turn provides an enabling environment for its people to access wealth. Our land is blessed with fresh water which many lands I have been too do not. To let all those rivers empty all her body of waters into the oceans without thinking of trapping some for irrigation and power generation is unimaginable. Southern province, sandwiched by the great rivers Zambezi and Kafue can greatly boast of agrarian revolution. Eastern with the Luangwa, Northern with the Chambeshi, Copperbelt with the Kafue, Western and North-western with the Zambezi and Luapula with the Luapula River, there is absolutely nothing that should make us fail to turn our country around in hydro power, piped water provision and irrigation: Wanted: people that can think, plan and execute programs in both state house and parliament and not political stooges with no vision. After all where there is no vision people perish.
There is a small book called General Orders that govern civil servants terms and conditions of service.So for pipo demanding that the VP pay for his visit to Kapoche should read this book.Do not make accusations that do not help anyone but only noise.Acquire knowledge and argue intellectually.
Zambia has produced thinkers alright. You don’t have to look far to see it. Botswana’s economy (just across the Zambezi) is sustained by a good proportion of Zambian thinkers. There are examples elsewhere. The difference btn Zambia and other successful countries is who you vote into office, their orientation, cadreship inclination and their political will. What Zambia needs is a shrewd manager. A planner. An organiser. A goal getter. Someone who’ll not fear to make tough decisions. Someone with integrity. But as long as the Kaponya system of politics prevails over the country, we can all wait until eternity comes for Zambia to move forward.
#33 MK
You are right on
We need an executive President. Executive in the real meaning of the word. Someone like Benjamin Mkapa
Can someone please update me with Malole constituency where Emmanuel Munaele was pronounced as the winner when he wasn’t to Someone(Alady)
What we are witnessing is a clear weak Zambia Electoral Commission which is not fit for the purpose.Kalale was a relative to Mr Mwanawasa and judge Mambilima a tribal cousin so levy what do we expect? people raised concerns but Kalale was arrogant and very stupid not to hear. looser
We done judges you are making people to trust you again. Continue to exercise your judicial powers by nullifing results where there were illegal electoral practices without fail.This will teach everyone a lesson not to engage in illegal electoral practice and in turn the Electoral commissin will infuture take proactive actions to avioid these embarrassment we are seeing. Viva judges