MMD Patron Sikota Wina has said that the country has made tremedious economic progress under the able leadership of President
Rupiah Banda.
Speaking at Sandy’s Creations in Lusaka at “Meet the President FOR Unit and sustenance” fundrainsing Dinner Dance orgainsed by MMD Lusaka Province, Mr. Wina said under the guidance and massive experience of Pesident Banda, many countries were now evying the country’s sustainable unit and peace.
Mr. Wina said through Mr. Banda’s efforts, there was now unit within the MMD and the nation. He said even the International Monetary Fund President Dominique Strauss Kahn who was in the country recently was satisfied with the economic performance of the country in the last two years.
Mr. Wina said Mr. Kahn was satisfied with measures government had made in the management of the economy during the World Economic crisis.
He said the IMF official was extremely happy with the country’s economic performance and even asked Mr. Banda to influence other leaders in the region to come up with appropriate regislation that will make them easily access IMF funds.
Mr. Wina said during his visit Mr. Kahn encouraged other countries in Africa to seek to seek cheaper loans from china to grow their economies.
Mr. Wina said on good governance, Transparent International has rated the country above several other countries which indicated that the country was on the right track in the fight against corruption.
Former Finance and National Planning minister Ng’andu Magande has expressed happiness that the MMD government has been doing well in the last five years.
Speaking to Qfm in an interview after he renewed his MMD membership card at Mulungushi International Conference Centre on the weekend, Mr. Magande said the MMD is still there because it has kept the policies that were agreed in 2005.
He said the MMD government has managed to improve the economy and to get Zambia’s debt off.
The former minster said the International Monetary Fund will continue to support Zambia because the country has good economic policies.
Recently, International Monetary Fund Managing Director was in the country and said Zambia’s economy is in the right direction.
Mr. Straus however warned the country to weigh the country’s benefits from Chinese investment.
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MMD refutes Magande harassment report
MMD national secretary Katele Kalumba has dismissed as false media reports that former Minister of Finance and National Planning Ng’andu Magande was harassed at the ruling party’s card renewal.
Dr Kalumba said the party does not entertain violence of any form.He said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that if Mr Magande was harassed in any way, he should lodge an official complaint to his office.
“As national secretary of the party, I didn’t see anyone being beaten, insulted or threatened by party cadres. All I know is that there were a lot of cadres who were excited to see many people defecting to the ruling party. There was noise, yes, because there were a lot of cadres, but there was no violence and threats of that nature,” he said.
Dr Kalumba urged the media to be professional in their work.
“I don’t want to comment further on this matter because I don’t want to be part of the lies that are being peddled,” he said.
Dr Kalumba was reacting to an article carried by The Post newspaper in which it was reported that Mr Magande was harassed by cadres in the presence of President Banda during the 2010 card renewal at Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka on Saturday.
Which election can Magande win? he fraudulently won the Chilanga seat%-(%-(%-(%-(.Now for Sikota Wina,this man he been confined to zambia because of his drug activities.He his clinging to MMD for personal benefit thats all:-t:-t:-t:-t:-t:-t
Politics can never be clean whenever certain individuals are involved. A hostile press also muddies the waters. This was seen clearly when the whole progressive world was roting for Obama and a certain media house was duigging up as much ‘murk’ as it could find. When there was nothing, they were apt to take someone’s words from their mouths and twist them in the headline. Now that is what we see in Zambia. Journalists know that 90% of people only read the headline.The dirty politics involves infiltration and counter infiltration of political parties. Every leader should be careful about what they say to cadres, because there are infil-traitors among them.
William Banda is still harrassing Magande, so what are you
mwata talking about?
When you know that in 20 years time you will not be there and Zambia will still remain you tend to be callous and careless. I wonder why this is so? I mean look at the people busy seeing to ti that this country perpetually stays in the Mud; it’s the old folks. The likes of Banda, Shikapwasha, Munkombwe and Now even Sikota has joined the troop.
I am almost compelled to suggest that we should have an age cap for public officers.
Who is Sikota Wina? Ngandu Magande is a failure always and we still have not forgotten who sold ZANACO
Now that Magande is praising the achievements of the MMD under RB leadership what is he saying about his interests for the presidency? What failures is he going to use to decampaign RB?…..some people thought Magande was indispensable….forgeting that zambia has a lot of qualified individuals….