STATE House has dismissed former Works and Supply minister Mike Mulongoti’s statement that President Rupiah Banda is lazy describing him as a frustrated politician who has resorted to telling lies to please his political allies.
Special assistant to the president for Press and public relations Dickson Jere told ZNBC news in Mfuwe yesterday that Mr Mulongoti was a bitter person because he was fired by President Banda.
Mr Jere said in his quest to please his political masters, Mr Mulongoti had embarked on a campaign to try and put President Banda’s name in disrepute.
He said President Banda was the most hard working Head of State who even holds meetings at mid night. He said former Finance and National Planning minister Situmbeko Musokotwane could confirm that the Head of State held meetings on various national issues as late as mid night. Mr Mulongoti was quoted in yesterday’s Post Newspaper saying President Banda was a lazy man.
And MMD Chisamba aspiring candidate Moses Muteteka has said the statement by Mr Mike Mulongoti that President Rupiah Banda is lazy has just exposed how ignorant the former minister is about the operations and working of the Head of State.
Mr Muteteka who is immediate past deputy minister of Local Government and a former senior private secretary to the late president Levy Mwanawasa said the office of the president was an institution that operates from anywhere.
“Mr Mulongoti doesn’t seem to understand how the president works. What does he mean that he is lazy, that he comes for work late. The president has an office at his home and sometimes can work from there.
“The office of president is not as easy as he wants to put it because sometimes he doesn’t sleep. Because of the time differences sometimes the Head of State has to stay awake to communicate with other heads of states,” he said.
Mr Muteteka said it was not possible for the country to have achieved so much economically and in terms of development if the president was lazy.
[Times of Zambia]
He is Lazy, A man who cannot even put on his own Jacket? I was so disgusted when I saw his bodyguard carry and help him wear it. Have you seen such nonsense with western leaders?
Observe him when he is passing his OLD style departure speeches at the airport.
Look at Obama or Cameroon? No such fo.oli.sh.ness.
These Old chaps have to Go. Really sad that we have no Presidential option but the same OLD RB & SATA, our so-called leaders that cannot even use the Internet. What do you expect development? In our dreams. We will always backtrack than move forward.
#, we do have an option, Hichilema, our under five!
I strongly suspect that MMD is hoodwinking PF.
The MMD are running their own system which is making “Donchi Kubeba” work against the PF party.
I think MMD are deliberately leaking false information to PF big wigs. I think MMD leaked the false story of RB’s parentage so that PF could make a fool of themselves in public. I think this ECZ issue is another trap by MMD. So was the VP court action trap and the campaign material trap.
MMD are feeding false information to PF so that PF wastes its time talking rubbish in the post newspaper and wasting court resources meanwhile, MMD is campaigning hard on the ground wining hearts day by day.
MMD know that the chifukushi of Fred Mmembe can be used to their advantage and they know that PF has no strategy so they will pull on any rope they are given.
This explains why MMD is way ahead of PF in campaigns and PF is wasting space in the Post on nonsense instead of marketing the party to the people.
This is my theory!
Indeed politics is a dirty game,a few weeks ago, those two in the pic were the best of buddies and today one of the them is another’s number one enemy.kikikiki.thats why i dont admire this career!
Mr Mulongoti, you used to strke me as a mature informed leader at the time you were in Government. Now, I think totally otherwise, thanks to your hopeless comments.
If he was lazy he would not have been the most travelled President over a period of two years, since independence. Mulongoti is a sour-grapes childish opportunist. Wait when RB wins, Mulongoti will starve to near-death until he goes back begging for a job…!!
This was a man (RB) who used to snore loudly at a public Rally! Given a chance he will do it! Kachepa has it that RB has ordered his staff to kick-start (nudge) him, each time he starts dozing! For a man of 78 years, I must say he is very virile, producing 2 twins (who are under 5). And who are we, not to believe Mulongoti because RB and Mike were true best friends. Anyway, this man (RB) is on his way out! History will write him as the shortest term serving President in South Africa!
hahahahaha
The big elephants who defected to PF and who they hoped would bring them merger votes. Is this really campaign material Ba Mulongoti?
just wait for 20th September… insala ikamijokola. You will be eating sweety potatoes with Sata in Mpika
Unomwaka ni
MMD 4 : PF 0
If indeed President Banda is a lazy man, why did Mr. Mulongoti continue serving under his government until he got kicked out? Please, we expect you guys to be discussing issues that are going to improve the welfare of the people. Do you simply utter things that come to your minds even if you don’t believe in them for the sake of grabbing headlines in certain tabloids?
good observation kunta kinte i may be related to this foul mouthed cousin of mine but from childhood the guy thrives in falsehoodness. MY CHOICE MAY NOT BE YOURS AND THAT SHOULD NOT MAKE US ENEMIES
The man (Mulongoti) thought after endorsing RB for Presidency in 2008, then RB would automatically reciprocate by grooming him to take over power at some point. However, he started the process at a very wrong time and through the media and that’s how he destroyed his political career. He is now in political limbo as the catholics would put it. He was even shown the exit door by the new comers from the party he helped form in 1991. Now he is just yapping like a mad dog. He is a frustrated man. Thank God he store enough money to sustain himself.
Imwe, Sata can not climb stair, who is more lazy? Sata will cancel an interview at radio phoenix of the elevator is not working. Ka Mulongoti just shut you stink mouth
ooo mwisho nindo kanshi namwe watatika ukuminyonkola nsala.mwabona ukukakatila mu town fyonse ku shita .after ukufileka fimachito ngamwalile kumushi ngamulenwako nefimbombo,imbote ne kasenga man’ga ngamulelyako nenshima ya masaaka ne nakamotomoya nakatapa wafisashi.mwisho bwelelenimo kumushi mukaba cilolo wa ba chief ndubeni tekukukopako kumubwenu katele kalumba nilolo waba chief puta.
True dat all the punkass knows is getting drunk. Chakolwa chi mataba ati pa 15hrs chienda yaka
Is Lazy…..can tell from the way he walks
buffoons like Mulogoti shud just kip quite.everyone knows that he is yapping like that bcoz he was fired,hence his dream of becoming MMD veep crushed too.he shud try to retain some morals and not lose them at such a dangerous speed, all in the hope of geting a job if by accident sata wins
KK dismissed RB for a good reason. Can you tell me if he was healed of the mice before rejoining MMD? He might be just a bad as when KK relieved him of his duties.
ka small comment from mike people want to eat him alive for exposing our brainles rb.i pray that mike release more fireworks over rb deficiencies.
that chap mulongoti is a failed politician
Sata is the laziest,he cant do ant gardening.The only presidential candidate without a farm.
Ba Post bazamuletelelani ba Mulongoti, can’t you learn from your friend Mpombo who can’t defend himself against James Banda now because he has no evidence while ba Post are laughing at him?
Ka mulongoti is such a tweet. He was singing praises for RB not so long ago, now the ka man turns arround as if we are all fools. Go to hell Ka mulongoti, you have no political following other than the dull goons.
On the other articles pa fwaka(PF) people said they do not believe anything that is from times of zed now here you are breathing. Go back then to the article about Sata failing to answer question on national development.
PF you are the waste politicians Zambia has ever had,young and old you are all the same. Either you are insulting,blaming someone or telling lies. Shame you are pulling Zambia 18 years back ward.
Wanzelu..You must be very dull! Who lied to you that having a farm is sign of hardwork?? HH has several successful farms but he lives in Kabulonga and does not toil on those farms. But does that make a HH a better option, hardly. And who told you everyone should become a farmer in life?? Sata doesnt need a farm to show that he is not lazy. He has other very successful businesses
Let’s give Mulongoti a chance to be heard. Mind you it takes a crocodile to tell us how a hippo lives in water. Lol
Hahaaaa…..you are the same people who insulted Mulongoti when he put the heat against you with his friend the late Tetamashimba. You hypocrites!
Mulongoti, the presidency is not as easy as you think. Show me your grade 7 social studies results.
he is lazy fullstop.
He not lazy but tired , he is too old
So we, the PF have managed to feature candidates in all the 150 constituences. So where was all those stories coming from in the mmd vuvuzelas,prior to the nomination date, that PF has failed to find candidates in some constituences-shame on you mmd!! Tulinaimwe tight in all the parts of Zambia imwe ba mambala ba MMD, and this time you will dance big time-wapya munzi!!
RB is lazy! Simple statement and the only hobby he enjoys is travelling, hence well travelled! He also talks and insults anyhow. Every fora he uses words like yamunyokola and mambala! All you who have been benefitting from his misrule can not see any wrong in him! Mulongoti was once close to the man and he surely knows a weakness or two of your saviour RBish! Mulongoti, some more data please! How about the well circulated data that he hits the whiskey bottle hard?
This little twit once said that,” the MMD is a victim of its own positve sucesses”.These successes were over seen by the man he is terming lazy.This twit is just frustrated to note that the ubwato he jumped on is fast sinking in the zambian political ocean.
Good, we need to see alot of such pictures. It tells all the story of this mosquito politician. Hooliganism at its best.
What is he going to say about RB this time which will change this image?
#’s 3&4
Honest Zambian, a plausible theory now that master strategy architect VJ has resurfaced!
Crazy chap. He is not even standing as MP because he couldn’t find a seat. Haaaaaaaa!
Mulongoti is very much correct, he knws what he is talking about. The chap looks lazy, tired and corrupt. Thats the problem with presidents who do not have agenda for the country, he was recalled from poverty in chipata. What do you expect.
Time is up for MMD. Just pack your bags and prepare exit.
Acdcording to Rupiah’s mouthpiece Dickson Jere: “President Rupiah Banda is the most hard-working head of state who holds meetings even at midnight” and that “even former finance minister; Situmbeko Musokotwane can confirm that President Banda even calls meetings after midnight”. Mr. Jere, calling a meeting at midnight does not equate to hardworking or efficiency. To the contrary, it means one is too lazy to complete their tasks during the normal course of the day and therefore incompetent and inefficient!! By his incompetence, he forces others to work at midnight instead of being in bed at home with their families! Jere and Banda, get a life the both of you!
thats the problem with people live abroad,you undermine your own president ,wheather u live abroad or what u still a zambian by birth,so dont compare rb,to cameron or obama,im proud of being a zambian,people should write contractive ideas for our country,not just trash the our zambian leader.there has been no war in zambia, u speek yo mind, OK do the same to MUGABE .,{rb is ok so you should be proud to be a zambian}.
peace.KK GET WELL SOON.
President Banda is the most hard working Head of State who even holds meetings at mid night TO SCHEME HOW TO CORRUPTLY ROB ZAMBIANS AND GET KICKBACKS FROM INVESTORS as State House has been turned into Finance Ministers official Office.
We all have days when we dont feel like working from the office and if you have chance to work from home who wouldn’t go for it?Mulongoti is just a loser in politics how can he turn around so fast and embrace the opposition he spoke so badly about especially PF what has become good all of a sudden.If Sata is wise enough let him be careful of such a mouth he’ll tell the nation even how many times our president uses the bathroom just to get his voice heard now that he has no job.He is a job seeker. lazy or not we have seen some developmental change in our country RB for the next 5years you have my vote.