FORMER Copperbelt MMD chairperson, Terence Findlay has said some opposition party members on the Copperbelt are in a state of panic over his contributions and those of former president Frederick Chiluba to the advancement of the ruling party.
And MMD Copperbelt chairperson, Joseph Chilambwe has said the party in the province is united and behind President Rupiah Banda.
Mr Findlay said in an interview in Ndola yesterday that some opposition party members had become jittery because they realised that Dr Chiluba was a highly influential person.[quote]
He said there was no reason for anybody to get unsettled over his association with the former president because they were both loyal MMD members who were interested in seeing it progress.
“I am just a force to reckon with in the province and some people are just uncomfortable because there is nothing wrong I have done apart from accompanying Dr Chiluba to some of the places he visited during a private visit to the Copperbelt recently,” Mr Findlay said.
Dr Chiluba, through his spokesperson Emmanuel Mwamba, said he was not involved in any activities which could divide the party on the Copperbelt.
“Dr Chiluba believes that the MMD is one family which should work as a team in rebuilding the ruling party.
“The former president has been persuading a number of people who had left the MMD for the opposition or felt sidelined to consider re-joining or becoming active members of the party and not forming parallel structures in the province,” Mr Mwamba said.
And Mr Chilambwe said Dr Chiluba was an innocent person and that it was some MMD members who had excuses or failed to do their work who were trying to use his name for their campaigns.
He said the provincial leadership was against the use of names of senior party members such as Dr Chiluba or President Rupiah Banda by those vying for positions at the MMD convention.
And some MMD members led by former provincial information and publicity secretary, Benson Tembo yesterday stormed Times offices in Ndola clad in party attire bearing portraits of President Banda, and former presidents Dr Chiluba and Levy Mwanawasa.
They said there was no ban in the MMD on wearing attire bearing portraits of former presidents.
The group said the wearing of chitenges bearing portraits of past presidents was a sign of unity in the party.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Mr Tembo said the portraits portrayed continuity with change.
Mr Tembo said President Banda was on the right track in building the national economy and his association with former heads of State was uniting the nation.
Some sections of the media, quoting sources on the Copperbelt, reported that Dr Chiluba had divided the party and caused the formation of parallel structures in the party during his recent visit to the province.
[Times of Zambia]
If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for Zambia.:((:((:((:(( yangu tata lesa wesu nifinshi twakulufyanya :((:((
Findlay, you turned your back on Mpombo. Are you not the same guy that allegedly raped a young girl and you call yourself a man?
do not be fooled findlay. You are not a force to reckon with but a defiler to reckon with.
#1, you are spot-on!! i keep wondering when our natural resources will ever be put to good utilization….just see what happened at the palace in southern province – very shameful. GOD HELP US!!!
You fake coloured dog how do you forget the issue of a chiled you raped sick nigger stop taking finti iwe mwana wa gulu
Seems to me like the one who is panicking is Nyamasoya and his bunch of cronnies. He is running helter-skelter all over the country chasing the wind. Sorry sight. State house Izatelela mu 2011 baba.
Politics of appeasement continue to haunt Zambia at the expense of development. We need the youth to take up this challenge & build a Zambia that will give us direction & restore integrity on its citizens. At the moment these so called “leaders” have failed & will keep on doing it. We don’t need another 27-years to realise that the current leadership both in MMD & opposition is about self-enrichment rather than advancing and fostering development. At the end of the day you’re talking about 12million people which the government is failing to serve & uplift.
You are jst a defiller.You devil.Chioneni kuyipa.You will burn together with that ka little one of your.You defiler
LADIES LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS FINDLAY IS BACK IN TOWN
ba findlay naimwe,
come on ba findlay!!. I know what did last summer!!!
Findlay F.U.C.K YOU……………………
Findlay, don’t cheat yourself who can be influenced by Chiluba? You are better off keeping quiet and thinking of your political career. The MMD is dead and buried!!!!!
BA FINDLAY CIKALA CENU, MWAFYELWE KU MBWA IYI SHAKWATA AMANO, WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE FOOLED BY *****S LIKE YOU AND YOUR FTJ A.S.S.H.O.L.E ANY MORE. *****S.
Poor Zambia, Poor Nation. No visionary leaders just a bunch of self-centred shameless dumb heads. This is what happens when you let evil men run a nation. You’re showerd with their vomit day-in & day-out. When will we ever learn?
Good work findlay,it’s time to choke the haters.
Why 3/4 of the govt MMD media articles based on Chiluba? There is a saying to cross the road you do not look backward but forward and the sides. Zambia has to stop clinging to past leaders…they have been given the platform and did not deliver. Give place to new young voices… Where are all the young politicians? Is 100% Zambia based on Chilubalite media and agenda? Nurses, teachers, doctors, lawyers, youth , young men and women , degree holders where are you? it is the same names “elite” being spoken about everyday. Chiluba is in the newspapers more than RB. Is MMD RB legacy based on Chilubalite promotion? I wonder….
Yaba yashupa manje, even child morasters and difilers like Findly are now backing politically.
rubbish u rapist findlay…
The defiler is back in the political game after selling out mpombo! there is no honor in the MMD politics.
We have to move on as a country. Zambia is indeed moving, like a rocking chair- going nowhere.The system is packed with ass lickers and a clown bigger than the late Boris Yeltsin occupies plot one.The only two differences between RBB and Yeltsin are that Boris was more intelligent and the 2nd is that Boris is dead.Both will go down in history as the biggest clowns in their respective countries.
We have to move on as a country. Zambia is indeed moving, like a rocking chair- going nowhere.The system is packed with ass lickers and a clown bigger than the late Boris Yeltsin occupies plot one.The only two differences between RBB and Yeltsin are that Boris was more intelligent and the 2nd is that Boris is dead.Both will go down in history as the biggest clowns in their respective countries.Give more land to your countryman Mugabe please RBB like you did to Mswati. The Zambian People are peaceful,they will never complain.Zambian Missions abroad are pathetic and packed with ex police officers, cronies and other party cadres who couldn’t make it in the private sector.Just go to the Zambian High Commission in London and see the state it’s in.People there are like headless chickens
You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Findlay will always support Chiluba. After pumping in almost K10 million in the Chiluba Presidency, he was given ZEIL ( Emeralds processing plant at Bwana Mkubwa). 2 times there was robbery of stones (All inside jobs). Chilambwe was selling imishanga in Bulangililo at the station and pakashiwa, Probably he has forgotten. So, if Mr Senior Citizen wants to know who kaponyas are, he should ask Chilambwe (MMD, not PF).
#2 Major – The guy is just hitting back against Mwanawasa’s men.
Findlay you are just a lost goofle , defiler thief killer . these will come to haunt you when the new government comes in . Remember Trevor .also the emeralds you stole from zambia emeralds. You cunt of a mongrel
please Cab,who is “Trevor”? The one who stole emeralds?
Clare