Second Republican president Frederick Chiluba has said the Patriotic Front (PF) and its supporters who are against his visits to Ndola are afraid he will expose the poor state of PF-run councils and bring it to the attention of the central Government.
Dr Chiluba said the PF must not panic each time he visits other provinces because he is still a free citizen of the country.
Dr Chiluba said in an interview in Ndola yesterday that the PF was worried that he was seeing for himself the damage they were causing to the councils under their control which they wanted to blame on the administration of President Rupiah Banda.
Dr Chiluba said he enjoyed freedom of movement and no one could stop him from seeing for himself what was happening in some areas.
“What I see, I can’t keep to myself, I will pass it on to the president,” he said.
Dr Chiluba said he was extremely pleased that on Tuesday when he toured Chifubu Township, people including PF cadres were expressing their anger over the poor state of the township directly under the leadership of the PF councilors.
“I totally agree with them that we need to change the current PF leadership at local government level and replace them with MMD. The PF has clearly failed to run the councils,” he said.
Dr Chiluba said it was unacceptable that Chifubu Market, which was one of the oldest in the city, still had no electricity and marketeers were forced to close as early as 18.00 hours.
[pullquote]“What I see, I can’t keep to myself, I will pass it on to the president,” he said.
Dr Chiluba said he was extremely pleased that on Tuesday when he toured Chifubu Township, people including PF cadres were expressing their anger over the poor state of the township directly under the leadership of the PF councilors.
“I totally agree with them that we need to change the current PF leadership at local government level and replace them with MMD. The PF has clearly failed to run the councils,” he said.[/pullquote]
He wondered where the PF councillors were using the K600 million constituency development fund if areas such as Chifubu had heaps of garbage and sanitation was lacking.
“I am in total consonance with them that we need change because the councillors there have clearly failed the people. Modern government is not about central government but about local government. PF councilors are responsible for areas like Chifubu and they must be held responsible for the poor state of the township,” he said.
He said when he left office, the CDF was only K30 million but it had since been raised to K600 million which was a lot of money that could be translated into tangible development projects.
Dr Chiluba said people in areas such as Chifubu appreciate his housing policy legacy hence the reason why their reception was warm when he visited the township.
He said Chifubu residents must agitate for repairs of the roads and electricity and hold their councillors responsible for failing to deliver on such services.
“Our people are not resentful or insane, they are nice law abiding citizens who respect their leaders,” he said.
Excited crowds followed Dr Chiluba when word went round that he was in Chifubu Township.
He visited the home of an elderly widow Lise Bwalya who said electricity had been disconnected as she was struggling to make a living.
And Dr Chiluba, through his spokesperson Emmanuel Mwamba, said PF should not remain constantly pre-occupied and obsessed with his movements to any part of the country.
“Dr Chiluba is a former head of state. He is not seeking any party or Government office. He will be engaged in non-partisan issues that he deems helps our people,” he said.
Mr Mwamba said while on the Copperbelt, residents with difficult and longstanding problems have requested Dr Chiluba’s intervention in many issues.
He said Wusakile residents, whose households share communal toilets that have been neglected and have not been serviced by the new sewerage company requested his intervention.
He said the former miners had also made Dr Chiluba their patron and he has coordinated the search for a solution with Government for their numerous problems ranging from failure to access title deeds, unpaid dues and other issues.
Dr Chiluba also visited former ZAFFICO houses in Kalulushi where residents want the houses sold to them as sitting tenants and former workers.
He said the residents had also requested for his intervention on many issues as the local councillors had paid a deaf ear to their plight.
The former president expressed surprise at the deliberately twisted media reports arising from his presence on the Copperbelt Province.
[ Times of Zambia ]
You know why some people might be cheering when they see you Dr Kafupi? It is because they know that you are keeping their money, the money you had stolen from them, so they want to claim it back. Remember, you are very corrupt, and you dish money so as to control people. Our people know who you are by now and if you don’t know, they only want you to satisfy their immediate needs whilst knowing that your hour is gone.
There is nothing here. FTJ is a joker. MMD is going down and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
iwe ka chiluba take yo madness to hell !! and LT pliz tel chiluba dat hez very useless !! VIVA PACT
Kafupi shut up. You are doing the same things you did not want Kaunda to do and the only difference is that, you stole and you are scared that if the new gov comes in power you will no longer wear shoes and suits bought with stolen money. OUR MONEY. Rememeber that days are numbered son! big brother Ruphia will never be there for you as he will be trying to save his ass too.
Is LT run by the GRZ or it is a private owned site? Chiluba is a shameless lier and that he knows himself and people that follow him. How do you expect a warm welcome in a town where you grabbed somebody’s wife? nangu kwena ulabepa. Akale ebantu baletanfya mumushi.
There must be a serious problem in the nation when you see grown up men start talking like children. A former President saying “they’re scared I’ll report them to our great leader!”. He needs to be reminded that the overall oversight on councils rests with a government ministry who can suspend a non-performing council. In any case, why does the ruling government need services of such a man to monitor council activities? What are those employed to do so being paid for? This is an endorsement of a complete breakdown of governmence structures. They’re failing to manage.
Theres nothing anyone can do to save MMD.Not even image builders.The only reason why RB won the election is because people loved MWANAWASA and by taking his body round the country and also promising to keep his legacy, people gave him a benefit of doubt.Chiluba has seen for himself how unpopular he and the MMD have become.His bodyguards were at pains telling people insulting Chiluba that he is an elderly person and should be respected.If he wants to be respected let him stay home.VIVA PACT
Kavwipi wants to blame PF councillors for Chifubu market’s lack of electricity. Why didn’t he do it when he was in power for 10yrs? When will that ‘monkey in a maize field’ realise that zambians can’t fooled anymore?
3. This I.D.I.O.T says: “What I see, I can’t keep to myself, I will pass it on to the president,” what happened when he took over KK? Did he ‘pass it’ to KK? Iwe ka Kafupi when you first apologise to KK, that’s when we shall take anything serious in whatever you yap! Otherwise, we shall always take you either with a pinch of salt or indeed proffer the contempt you deserve! We (including RB) who enjoyed KK’s free education shall always treasure the aspirations of KK- to bring a better Zambia to the newly independent country- NOT WHAT YOU KAFUPI (KA FRED, IWE THIEF, KA CHIKILI, KA CHILUBA, LAZO, NJEKE, KABOLALA, WAKUBA, MALIONGO, BURGLAR, MUGGER, ROBBER, PICKPOCKET, HIGHWAYMAN, PICKPOCKET, SWINDLER, KLEPTOMANIAC, PILFERER, PLUNDERER) and I havent given you my best expletives…
This disgraced former president is a real dreamer. It is shameful to all Zambians that this character once ruled Zambia for ten years. How did Zambia end up with this man for a president? Were there no better people?
the role of being mmd consultant on politics and development has excited chiluba so much so that he can kiss his ass to please those who hired him to provide consultancy services.
chiluba you are a shame to say the least! you had pple who used to leak your boots now you are the one leaking vasco da banda’s boots. be rest assured jail awaits you not today not tomorrow but along the way you gonna be there coz that is where you belong
CHILUBA IS NOW RUPIA,S BOOTLICKER HE HE HE HE HE HE !! ati former head of state, MALABISH !! VIVA PACT !!
sori not leak but lick
The worst kind of hypocrisy is when you rule for ten years with MMD and you do not give electricity to a market in Chifubu, when people vote for PF, you laugh at PF for not providing electricity to that same market. Kwena ka-Chiluba kalishilu, I think lichili mumutwe.
who cares what he says. he is an empty tin oozing water. Ayamba uku pituluka mutuma suit twaku tungisha.
What a thief we have in FTJ, all his and griefs to bear, what a privelage to carry, take him to Mukobeko in chains!!
Ala Ba chiluba tata I respected you but this time awe tata muli kapuba ichine chine. Kanshi utubantu utwipi namano yepi….. ata iwe ka Chiluba.
You were president for 10 years and you never saw it fit to put electricity at Chifubu market. Now when you are no longer president you see it fit just coz PF runs the Chifubu council? And PF is not rulling but MMD. Awe katata iwe na upena ichine chine. You are behaving like ka wambwenene kwi.
MAY BE YOU ARE THINKING TOO HARD ABOUT WHAT MR MWANZA WILL DO TO YOU FOR STEALING HIS WIFE REGINA.
Awe katata ka Ka chiluba na kapwa bane.:-j:-j:-j
FTJ Chiluba from President to Cader how low so pipo can go.:-?:-?:-?:-?:-?:-?
””Dr Chiluba said it was unacceptable that Chifubu Market, which was one of the oldest in the city, still had no electricity and marketeers were forced to close as early as 18.00 hours.”” Please educate me was electricity there during his 10 years rule and then disconnected or WHAT? is this little man 100% nonormal or what? Ni ka do-g sana aka. Just enjoy your wife whom you also plundered from ba MWANZA
DR CHILUBA IS A FREE MAN. ENJOY YOURSELF. INDEED SATA CANNOT BLOCK YOU. ACHEPA SANA
#20.. I hear you bro/sis. he has run out ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!
This man is a disgrace! RB is digging his own grave!
Chiluba is a shameless 1.d.1.0.t . I think this boy has gone completely mad. Why should he be reporting to Rupiah what is going on in the PF run councils?
#24 I think it is because PF have failed to produce the report they promised on the councils they run. Also, did Sata himself not recently admit that PF councils had failed?
All that PF councillors can do is to admit where they have failed and then tell us where they have scored.
We Zambians now need to know where our money goes and who is it benefiting. MMD should also tell us how they have run the councils which they control.
hahahahaha.. ya kuti waseka. Ubwipi nabo ninchito sana aini. Has this cahap got any advisers? He still believes there are people in Zambia who would even fear him. I’d never even listen to your preaching, Hypocrite! Power hungry short man! Your time is over. Just go home and enjoy life with your wife. Your days are numbered.
Uli mbwa kafupi, Imbwa yabula ubwema; period. i don’t know how Zambia ended up with a Lazo, kaponya, chikala…
Kafupi wawa.When are u going for your medical review
Please tell this ka Dog to shut up!.He is now active talking nonsence but he was always sick during Mwanawasa’s time.He cries that the Task Force is not a legal organ to investgate him but he brought in Scotland yard to invistigate KK.This galu is supposed to be in jail or hell,what is he still doing in Zambia?
I think the people of Zambia you re very Good.This Man Your former President sold the council houses instend of empowering people by giving them roans but he stole all the money the same man the gv`t builds him a house if he passes near me can do anything to him .he has caused many people to die is not not ashamed ……if you go in the bomas its just like villages please you gv`t do something
#31. Why are u excluding yourself? I am sure from your english, i can tell that u are zambian.
I’m not a PF sympathiser but it’s foolishness on the part of MMD to accuse PF councillors for their inefficiencies in running the ministry of local govt. As for FTJ, am glad I never for him.
How long till the next elections or erections for MMD? FTJ wud bring move silence and less violence only if he sent to Amsterdam as twani…….Ambassador chikila. He can surely chill out there and forget about his sickness. Soooooo useless. Vasco Da Banda send the man there if you got some dignity.:d/
“Ma polictics yafika pacimake”Do not worry Sata and Dr.Chiluba know each other better than us.Let them size each other so that we know the truth.
“CONVICTED MMD national secretary Katele Kalumba has gone on leave after he recently asked President Rupiah Banda to stay away from running party affairs until his corruption cases were disposed off by the High Court”. THE POST ONLINE… 10.06.2010.
This is an Honorable act …. at least.
Chiluba is a sorry soul. I have never seen a man who is so selfish like this man Kafupi. What a shame! Chaps like Emmanuel Mwamba (his spokesman) and RB are a disgrace to society too.
I fail to farthom whether this little, minute, midget, of a man has a conscience at all. He emptied national treasury into his pocket, stole another man’s wife, and now he wants to talk like he has a brain. The barger has no morals at all! Iwe ka kafupi just go home tell your tall wife to rub that bleaching cream on your tiny body (no wonder she can rub the bleaching cream on your entire body in under 3 minutes) you are a very small man. Just shut the f.u.ck up…..
Kafupi you are such a selfish person, come 2011 you will pay back my taxpayer money you are using for RB campaing, shame on you!!!!
Kafupi stop cheating RB that you will win copperbelt for him, you were booed and shamelessly ran away, by the way you are not a factor anymore….just seeing your picture make me so upset and sick
Ya, ba FTJ chisushi chenu, you left a mess in the councils and now it is PF’s problem. Zambian politicians should also learn to be selfless and serve, otherwise whether in opposition or not people will see no diference. Let opposition MPs sacrifice their gratuities for projects in their constituencies or councils and they will be better than MMD leaders. UPND should also be carefull in southern province as people are no longer seing a difference.Namisoka ba koswe bonse oke!!!!!!
Iwe ka midget, you are no longer a factor. Even my 10 year old son knows you are nuts. PF is ours.
/:) i wish the charges against you were not droped. you could hAVE KEPT QUIET.
FTJ the best you could have done was keep quiet on the chifubu trip. You are lying that you were never booed in moscow (chifubu). If I wasnt in chifubu on that afternoon I was going to believe you. I’ve just comfirmed that you are lier. Even school children booed you. We saw it from your face it was covered with shame. You claim to be born again,but no born again person would twist a poor man’s arm and say if we give u a house then vote for us. You corrupt in that head of yours.
FTJ needs deliverance