A recent survey by an NGO dealing in Politics and Good Governance has indicates that the successive crop bumper harvests and massive infrastructure development projects have put President Rupiah Banda ahead of his political contenders in this year’s tripartite polls.
The African Institute for Good Governance and Democracy says the September 20, political contest in Northern Province and other parts of the country will strictly be at parliamentary and local government levels.
Institute Spokesperson Thabo Kawana also says the pilot study for Northern Province shows that the majority of people in the region have generally resolved to support President Banda because of his good policies and unprecedented performance.
Mr Kawana was speaking in an interview with ZNBC News in Kasama on Thursday.
He says the race at parliamentary and local government level remains competitive due to a good turn out of credible candidates across political parties.
Meanwhile, Mr Kawana says the political ground in Northern Province is relatively calm except for selected cases of intolerance in Kasama Central where the MMD has fielded Chilekwa Munkonge to challenge his brother Geoffrey Mwamba of the Patriotic Front-PF.
He has urged the two brothers to look at the broader picture of national interest other than focus on antagonizing each other based on family ties.
Mr Kawana has also urged all political contenders in the Northern Province to uphold peaceful and issue based campaigns ahead of the September 20, tripartite elections.
ZNBC
. If for sure we have been having bumper harvest, why do we face this challenge on the local market for a long period of time every year? Â Zambia has been experiencing high prices of meal meal on the local market in periods like December, January, February
How can Chilekwa Munkonge and Geoffrey Mwamba be brothers when they have different surnames? Â Can’t these fools get organised and have one surname instead? Â Or did the commentator mean they are cousins? Â Get some education!!
Tabo Kawana who used to work for YWCA? Tiulule?
#3 Ulula!!!!!!!!
12 Days.Dont tell them…That maize will go roting…Street kids and street adults will continue sleeping on empty stomach….Shiiiiiiiiii
#1 does not believe Zambia has had 3 successive bumpers harvests. lol
He is not alone, even Mr sata is skeptical. The only telling thing is that he does not know how a farm looks like and thinks farming is ‘backwards’ calls it ‘ukuchula’.
#6, why have a bumper harvest without price reduction in the staple food? gone are the days of praising numbers. people need food on the table not statistical projections. we have had such in the days of KK but prices kept sowering and if there is one food item that cost KK’s election in 1991 was the increment he made in 1985/6 of ubunga from 37kwacha to 83kwacha. All hell broke loose and he had to reduce the price coupled with introduction of coupons but this did not help as people had already resolved to boot him out. Ask him and he will tell you how suddenly the kumulu lesa panshi kaunda became a name of scorn in post independence zambia