Vice President Guy Scott has cautioned the people of Katuba not to vote for dead political parties that cannot be resurrected because they have nothing to offer.
Dr Scott said that the MMD is a dead political party that is beyond resuscitation and has become irrelevant to the needs and aspirations of the people.
The Vice President was speaking when he addressed hundreds of Katuba residents during campaign rallies he held at Kabile, Stumbeko and Chitantula in Chibombo District to drum up support for the PF candidate Moses Chilando in the February 25 Katuba parliamentary by-elections.
He told the crowds that rich countries in the world have developed and were developing because they do not have racism and tribalism.
Dr Scott beseeched the electorate to give the PF an MP they can work with to facilitate construction of roads, schools and heath infrastructure in the area.
He said President Michael Sata wants Zambia to be a model of an all-inclusive government that does not care about tribalism but just wants to work to develop the country under peace and unity.
And Southern Province Minister, Daniel Munkomwe, appealed to the electorate in Katuba not to allow a young child “mwana mushonto” apparently referring to Hakainde Hichilema and the UPND to drag them into tribalism and cause tension among them.
Mr Munkombwe reminded the electorate that past leaders that hailed from Southern and Western provinces such as Mainza Chona, Nalumino Mundia and Kebby Musokotwane were not tribalists but worked to foster development in the country.
Meanwhile, PF campaign manager Edgar Lungu, who is also Defence Minister, urged the people of Katuba to desist from wasting their vote on the opposition but instead vote for Moses Chilando to work with the PF to bring development to their constituency.
And Health Minister, Joseph Kasonde, disclosed that the government programme of constructing 650 health posts and centres countrywide was a brain child of the late Dr Chikusu and the people of Katuba owe it to him to give the PF an MP to continue the work.
Other candidates vying for the seat are MMD’s Cecil Homes, UPND’s Jonas Shakafuswa, UNIP’s Friday Malawo, National Restoration Party’s Joseph Mushalika, Alliance for a Better Zambia’s Patricia Mwashingwele and National Revolution Party’s Shakespeare Mwakamui.
The seat fell vacant following the death of MMD Member of Parliament, Patrick Chikusu, who was also deputy minister for health.
In my opinion what Guy Scott said is true of his party, PF. It is the PF party that is beyond resuscitation and has become irrelevant to the needs and
aspirations of the people.
They may win some elections through rigging but truth be told they are in a self destructive mode. His own Party and Republican President, Sata has actually confirmed it by saying most of his PF MPs are useless. I believe him when I read of the ramblings of Scott and Munkombwe.
Spot On
The PF won the 2011 elections on the bedrock of lies. Truth be told, you can’t cover a lie by another.
Trying hard to imagine where the PF has a stronghold now that Chumbu has messed up the Bemba Kingdom.
Dead and buried that is. Nevers Mumba is the tombstone!
Gy Scott should not cheat the people of Katuba Constituency.Dr.Chikusu although an MMD MP was working with PF as its Deputy Minister.In Parliament,he was voting with PF.What this means is that in actual fact,Dr Chikusu was more PF than MMD.What development did PF GIVE THE PEOPLE OF KATUBA?
The people of Katuba can vote for PF it they want to continue having:-
a) High Mealie meal prices ( from K35 under MMD to K70 and above under PF )
b) High Mini bus fares
c) A President who insults Chiefs.
d) Job and appointments discrimination whereby only people from Sata’s region
are appointed to Foreign Missions and other influential positions.
e) Poor Agriculture policies resulting in non distribution of inputs.
f) Reckless borrowing and unplanned projects.
Scot you are luck that in Zambia you are free and doing politics,your fellow Muzungu are farmers adding value to this country,
You won the election under the name of PF and you got advantage of people of Bauline with your gratuity(money), People like you can not survive in politics without Sata , Remember your ka useless party Lima Party, where is it??, why were you Fired in MMD? Is it not because of your tricks on the issue of swine flu ? You were the only person who gain with your fellow white community? Please shut old man ,you don’t know how it feel to go in life without food and shelter, you have not attended a school lesson under mongo tree.you are just a pretender will see if 2016 you will win or stand in Lusaka central, I put my finger you will loss or old age Will deal with…
Scot is just fooling Zambians, I have just come from the UK, Black Africans, Black Americans and Caribbeans have no place place for Official jobs in the UK, if not for a few whose brains are beyond the white man’s imaginations.
Most black people ‘because they are of my interest’ are guards and cleaners in Train tubes, toilets, shops, farms name all the dirty jobs while us African’s treat them with respect and they are making use of our generosity to exercise their slave master thinking even on our soils.
They have continued with their colonial and imperialist treatment buy transforming themselves and garbing our minerals, land, wealth and everything we have and we are allowing them. brothers and sisters, let us work up if we are to survive in this one sided globalizing of…
Surely why increase the number of PF useless MPs.I think Zambia has already enough PFuseless MPs.I just wonder also why PF keeps on talking about a ‘dead Party’.Is PF afraid of the dead?For me now MMD is in better position to rule again.Mind you MMD did not taste the Opposition Politics.But now they have.
So Guy Scott and PF can only play this “label them Tribalists” strategy against UPND. They can’t beat them on Ideology or intellect. They can’t campaign based on their record (they have had enough time to have a good record to speak for itself) but they have to lower themselves to this level. PF is the Bemba tribbal party. Better than 85% of their cabinet and other parastatal positions are held by Bembas and today they have the nerve to call others tribalists. What a silly group of buffoons.
PF are the ones who committed suicide recently. We are just waiting for a postmortem from the coroner’s office.
Munkombwe, in developed countries, they elect young educated leaders like Barack Obama, Tony Blair, David Cameron. This “mwana mushonto” business is nonsense. This polygamist old man is very selfish. He sides with any party in power, and all he cares about is himself. If UPND wins in 2016, he will be saying HH “mwana kwesu.” He will be the first to condemn the PF.
Plus the new guy Matteo Renzi in Italy,the youngest premier at 39yrs.
This message is actually directed at the dead PF itself. Kabimba and Guy Scott confirmed PF is a Bemba party. Sata said it is a useless party hence a dead one.
Only HH and UPND are the thing of the moment and no amount of hate campaign by Fred Mmembe will work. People know his evil schemes.
People of Katuba vote wisely with your own choice do not strayed by good promises.
I note the comments by Munkombwe with concern as he is not addressing the source and axis of tribal hegemony in Zambia. In the 2011 Presidential elections, the Bemba vote for HH in Luapula and Northern provinces was 1 759 and 2 935 respectively or a total of 4 694 whilst they gave Sata 394 277 votes. And yet Southern and Central Province gave Sata 24 609 and 63 980 respectively or 88 589 votes. Of course Central province has non tonga tribes too. Taking Southern Province alone, it gave Sata six times the votes HH got in two Bemba provinces!! Embarrassing. Munkombwe, who is the one preaching tribalism. Be wary of Bemba hegemony. And I speak from within rank and file of Bemba but deeply associated with the cattle people of the South.
Looks can be decieving coz MMD is not dead.Its like a perrenial flower merely in hibernation ready to spring back to life after winter.PF on the other hand is showin vigor but its those mistaken kicks from a dying horse.
I bet if MMD was dead (like UNIP) Guy Scot will not even waste his time talking about it. Now I see that it is giving him some headache, at least in Katuba. They concentrated on UPND and now they are feeling the heat the other side as well. Between UPND and MMD they will not know what hits them, until it is too late. Of course PF will come out third in this by-election.
Pf is the most tribal party taking development to muchinga only. Some provinces are not developing because of pf (potholes forever) tribalism.
I think Guy Scott should stop talking.He is decampaigning PF.
Edgar is a mature politician who is never petty. I think he can carry PF forward
PF is dead itself,kwacha losing value,high prices,you touch kubunga iwe,you are gone !!Dr Guy Scott you were once part of MMD.Lol naulaba?
don’t vote for a Congolese PF candidate..UPND has the best candidate followed by MMD..viva !!
DR Guy scot has stopped thinking, the current constitution bars him from acting as president, but because he just want to eat, he has lost his principles, he cannot stand up to his boss sata to tell him to proceed with constitution making process, what a shame for scot. Sata is using him like a bag of charcoal or a dust bin. so sorry for a him at his level of thinking. Scot you can do much better. awake man and fight the injustice of this govt. You deserve much better than a tribal PF to treat you like this.
It is interesting to listen to politicians trade accusations about who is more tribalist than the other group. I think the ruling party thinks it has a catchy word called tribalism against HH and group, and so they will continue happing it as their only weapon against HH and group. How successful they will be, time will tell, when the public compares the tribalism in the respective parties. For now, we are sick and tired of these accusations on UPND when it is the ruling class that is practicing the vice. UPND do not control anything national affairs, that are noe clearly run on tribal lines, as the other bloggers have already illustrated above!
Don’t Vote for HH because he is a tribalist, Don’t vote for MMD coz its a dead party, then vote for PF coz?????????????????????????????????? these fools have nothing to offer and are riding on membe’s propanganda
Munkombwe is disgusting as a politician if I can even call him that! HH will one day lead Zambia, unlike you ba Munkombwe who is just used to picking up the crumbs off the table of whoever is in power. Useless man.
PF has ransacked all the the money the MMD left in Reserve.So Zambians prepare for hard times ahead.The high exchange rate of almost K6 to a Dollar is just the begining of bad things to come.No more money(Dollars) for imports cover.