Some opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) Councilors in Mazabuka district are angry with their National Management Committee (NMC) for stopping them from attending President Rupiah Banda’s meeting when he visited the district last week.
The Councilors complained to ZANIS in Mazabuka today that it was sad to note that the NMC of the UPND decided to stop them from welcoming President Banda when he had traveled for a developmental meeting. The civic leaders, who did not want to be named for fear of victimization, urged their party authorities to differentiate between politics and development.
They charged that they were threatened with expulsion from the party if they disobeyed the party directives.
They wondered how they would now explain issues such as the construction of a high school in Magoye constituency and the upgrading of the Mazabuka District Hospital into a general hospital to their wards.
But UPND Mazabuka District chairperson, Lloyd Buumba told ZANIS in Mazabuka that there was nothing he could do because the instructions came from the supreme organ of the party.
Mr Buumba however argued that the meeting which President Banda addressed was political because it took place at Chief Mwanachingwala’s palace.
During the visit to Chief Mwanachingwala’s palace, President Banda announced that his government would this year construct a new high school in Magoye constituency and upgrade Mazabuka district hospital into a general hospital.
He also assured Chief Mwanachingwala that boreholes would be sunk in areas that are faced with serious water problems.
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Disquiet in the UPND
zanis is another organ of excretion these days. thank god the pact and mmd will fail
Sounds like politics of hatred.
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Very unprogressive politics. The UPND councillors represent or should represent a citizenry that belongs to various parties and therefore as stakeholders they are entitled to play a progressive role in the development of the nation. some political leaders are selfish and would not mind destroying the nation in their quest for plot one. Luli ZWAAAAAAAAAAAA
How many times times do mazabuka people going to be promised things that can not be done by MMD? Any way the MMD took advantage of tonga
Nonsense, that is why LT could not show pictures because its a lie and just propaganda. One can see that LT pretends to be impartial when in actual fact they are an MMD mouth piece. Critically looking at some of your articles, one can deduce that you are in the MMD camp. RB went to see the MMD chief and it was a party issue, period. If it was the other way around this could not have been headline.:-@:-@:-@:-@:-@:-@:-@:-@
By the way why has mazabuka become a hot bed all over a sudden. Just because of that unpopular chief! RB should try Namwala![-x[-x[-x[-x[-x[-x[-x%-(%-(%-(%-(
if the president wanted to address issues of development, the meeting would have been held somewhere else not the chief’s palace. we have plenty of conference halls in this town, or if they wanted an open air meeting there are alot of football grounds in and out of town.how does one expect staunch UPND cadres to storm the MMD controlled palace???? we people of mazabuka have suffered enough and would not sit again and watch MMD lie to us. never!