PATRIOTIC Front secretary-general Wynter Kabimba has described as sugar-coated the claim by MMD president Nevers Mumba that the former ruling party has repented of its past misdeeds.
Mr Kabimba said the repentance does little to stop the wear-and-tear the former ruling party was experiencing and would not dupe Zambians.
The PF secretary-general shared these sentiments via a media statement made available to the Sunday Mail by PF media and publicity director Chanda Mfula.
Mr Kabimba said Dr Mumba wanted the nation to believe that he stood opposed to the corruption that has formed the backbone of the MMD’s character over the years which include the times he was Vice-President and High Commissioner to Canada, while simultaneously issuing unwarranted attacks aimed at undermining President Sata and the PF government’s efforts to fight this same corruption.
“It is a show of double standards for Pastor Mumba to condemn, yet still condone corruption, just because that is what is expedient for his survival as MMD leader. It is clear from his statements that Pastor Mumba has launched a spirited attack on the fight against corruption,” Mr Kabimba said.
The PF, Mr Kabimba said, found it very strange for Dr Mumba to proclaim that those who would be convicted of corruption by the courts would be asked to resign from their leadership positions in the MMD, when he was in the forefront of attacking, undermining, and scandalising the legal process that was meant to clear or convict those facing corruption charges.
Even stranger, Mr Kabimba went on, is the fact that Dr Mumba has failed to state whether he himself would step down if convicted of corruption.
“In fact if the MMD is genuine in their so-called rebranding exercise, they should go beyond screening their leadership on the basis of convictions or legal processes alone, and ascribe to standards built on humility, morality and integrity because it is the lack of such standards that has led Dr Mumba to unnecessarily malign and discredit the government and President Sata, to the extent of raising false alarm that the government was persecuting and harassing the opposition,” Mr Kabimba said.
He said the PF was fortunate that it had already seen through the scheme by the MMD and its leadership to hoodwink Zambians by paying lip-service to true repentance and reformation.
Corruption, said Mr Kabimba, would remain part of the MMD DNA if Dr Mumba and the MMD leadership did not liberate themselves from the bondage of self-deceit and hypocrisy.
According to Mr Kabimba, if true reformation were to take root in the MMD, not even Dr Mumba would be fit to lead the former ruling party.
He said corruption in the MMD was tied to acts of certain individuals in its current and former leadership, some of whom Dr Mumba had been eulogising and a situation the PF found curious.
“We challenge Pastor Mumba to reconcile his anti-corruption and repentance claims with his continued association, within his ranks, with people whose characters are blighted by corruption and mischief,” Mr Kabimba said.
In Mr Kabimba’s view, the state of the Zambian economy today, the dilapidation of social services in the areas of health and education, the poverty and misery of the Zambian people, and the high levels of unemployment among the youth and women of Zambia are all problems created by the MMD during its 20-year tenure.
“Therefore, the MMD cannot hope that Zambians can forget these misdeeds by merely rebranding itself under the same leadership which has caused such misery to our people,” Mr Kabimba said.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
You are also corrupt. How do you give your Ministers K8m talktime and increaes the President’s salary 100% while the people who voted for you are wallowing in poverty. And for you, corruption is in your heads. Thats why your President is a diplomatic disgrace.
Hear hear hear!
We already know that, and the MMD have acknowledged it.
Say something new and inspirational Mr Kabimba.
It would add a great deal of value to your assertions, if only Sata and those former MMD cabinet ministers, now serving in the PF Govt, would repent and detail their corrupt activities at the time they were embedding this DNA into the MMD party. It is only tens years that Sata left and as we all know DNA is configured at conception.
SG, i think it would be wise if you guys could just concentrate on issues of development rather than talking about MMD always. Instead look and how you are going to make sure that all in your manifesto in brought to life. It is about time we changed how we politic. Name calling Fakale na MMD not PF, so stop it at once and just work because you will be judged by your works not what you said or thought about MMD……….
The pot calling the kettle black…. what a F.O.O.L
You’re right and the nation knows what is in Kabimba’s DNA.
the same people who corrupted mmd 2 get fèrtilizer contracts r now funding pf.,thats y we don’t hear any progres in how,wher the campaign funds 4 mmd came from.these corrupt elements must b stopped.
Kavimba……lol….you always sound dull when you open your mouth.cant you concentrate on more pertinent issues as opposed to talking about what the opposition is doing to reform itself.i think those are mmd internal issues for which you have no right to comment on.
You are paying ministers K8 million for talktime and K12 Million for fuel in cash before salaries and other allowances, you president has increased his salary by more than 100% …… You have no proof that MMD is corrupt, you havent convicted anybody from MMD for corruption….. stop covering up your failures and meet your campaign promises. 90 days passed a long time, its now almost a year in power and we havent seen any development….. MMD days were even better.
Tribalism and nepotism are in PF’s DNA.
Could someone please clarify, Who pays Kabimba’s salary GRZ or PF or is it both?
hey fox, any one with info as to why the post online isnt updagting their their site any more?
‘hey folks’
Because of tambe mbwa (Watch dog) online that support a region party .The Post want to publish hard copies (physical documents ) not copy and paste type of Journalism
@Sosa, relax, your support for our president and his party blinds you too much. You can’t think outside the box, boxed-in syndrome. Let ZWD do its work and too bad if it does not suit your taste. Well some of us read it for a laugh especially on the part of our Ukwa.
Kabimba concentrate on your useless pf. Uttering those will not bring development in Zambia. Moreover you are same that planted the seed of corruption in the first 10 years of mmd with your boss sata. You think we have forgoten how you corruptly acquired properties along independence ave with your boss sata- you liars
Loading LPG at indeni on saturdays isn’t corruption ?
The MMD was removed from power by a vote and the PF was elected with a minority group of illitrate voters who thots the party meant well for them only to be dumped on the way,what can we see today;1.Favouritism 2.more talk less work 3.Diplomatic boobs 4.reshuffles and relocations 5.Cadres representing the president
Kabimba shud be reminded that Sata is a product of MMD no wonder he is poaching MPs from the party.Kabimba is busy castigating MMD yet they are the pipo they are poaching is there sense in him?is Nevers MMD not Taima and this seller out Masumba who is behaving like a cadre,development is what you preached thru out the country.where is it?more money,lower taxes,consttution in 90days,16 bags of fertilizer,airwaves expansion nad blabla,Don’t Kubeba….TAZIGONG’A
JEALOUS DOWN KABIMBA.MUMBA HAS SCORED ON THIS ONE.REMEMBER HE BEAT YOU ON 50+1 WHEN HE TOOK OVER FROM RB.HE CALL FOR A RETREAT AND HE SCORES AGAIN WHEN YOU DID’NT EXPECT HIM.KABIMBA AND PF ACTUALLY YOU SHOULD HAVE GONE ON RETREAT AFTER SIX MONTH IN POWER TO THINK AND REBRAND YOUR 90 DAYS PROMISES.EVERYBODY NEEDS A RETREAT IN LIFE TO ENERGISE HIMSELF OR REVIEW YOUR PLANS.CONGRATULATIONS DR MUMBA.JEALOUS DOWN MR KABIMBA.
Less than two thousand people voted country wide
Winter its time delivery on pre elections promises.You have a mount to climb regarding the promises you made to the voters. Corruption of MMD is not a factor any more. By the way why is PF govt. poaching the MPs from the corrupt MMD. You should shut up if you nothing constructive to talk you *****.
BaKamimba whats DNA? I rest my case!
Grade 7 social studies: If mmd is to corruption, what is “nepotism, 100% salary increase for minister and president, 90 day miracle failure, criminal DPP, firing non-cadre judges, police state” to? answer ….
I HAVE LEARNT NOT TO TRUST ZAMBIAN POLITICIANS. THEY ARE EMPLOYMENT SEEKERS, AFTER THEY HAVE THE JOB, THEY SLEEP AND ALL THEY ARE GOOD AT IS NAME CALLING.
Wynter you should not use Biological similes which you don’t know anything about.
DNA is inherited. So everyone who was in MMD, like your boss, has inherited corruption.
The Zambia Watchdog provides correct news worthy articles than anyother news media in Zambia today. Other news media have compromised with PF govt as they all get their appointments from mr Sata. Its a shame the profession has been reduced to mere mouth pieces for Sata PF. At least during MMD private news media operated indipendently, hence mr Sata’s coverage then. Today only media close to PF and friends of PF such as Mmembe Post operate freely. Its a shame we have gone 30 yrs backwards in terms of free news media. The Zambia Watchdog is the only remaining news media voice for the majority and small wonder PF govt is aggressively fighting to have it closed down. Zambians have tasted the bitter medicine worse than the diesease we thought we could cure ourselves from.
Please just work and fulfill campaign promises. What is this obsession with MMD? MMD is not in power any more, PF is. Why talk about what people already know? PF is made up of people who looted the country when they were in MMD. Don’t take people for granted.
IN MMD WAS SATA, GUY SCOTT, MASEBO, MANGANI, MULONGOTI, MPOMBO ETC SO WHAT IS NEW IN PF BA KABIMBA? IS IT THE SAME CORRUPTION? TELL US, WHERE IS PF DIFFERENT FROM MMD & ATLEAST MMD PERFORMED UNDER MWANAWASA. BA KABIMBA LET PF CONSETRATE ON DEVELOPING ZAMBIA & NOT POLITICKING. HH IS ACTUALLY THE ONLY OPTION FOR ZAMBIA. NOT ALL THESE USED FORCES. WE NEED A COMPLETE POLITICAL REVOLUTION IN ZAMBIA.
Pf will rule for one term only..
When are we going to realise that our governors are mentally challenged?
ba kabimba, you are the dullest politician that has ever graced Zambian politics in recent times and to add salt to the wound Ukwa cant see that. My advice: concentrate in archieving atleas 5 per cent of your lies maybe the Zambian Pipo may atleast remember you for that or else you and your PF are a joke and the Zambians will put you were you belong come 2016!
Whereas Kabimba laments that corruption is in MMD, he conveniently hides the true biogical dynamics that the ancestral stock that this virus was enginned by his own President who filled trunk loads of money with Katele Kalumba to corrupt into accepting a 3rd Term for FTJ Chiluba. Sata’s deadly DNA went into a ressive mode during the Mwanawasa and RB’s regime, But when PF got into power Sata’s DNA underwent mutation only to be activated to dormant lethal stages of modified corruption, nepotism, deception. The PF’s phenotype is deceptively Christian undeer the umberella of the Catholic but its true cryptic genotype can only be best described by the Catholic Church that have tasted the sugar-coated bitter pill of PF’s poisonous drug.
How time flies…only 4 years left!!
PF is MMD Phase two period. so nothng kabimba can tell me to convince me they are any better. may be we try Tongas who have never been ion power and have never accepted any appointments from these two governments of phase one and phase two.am beggining to think hard about my position in Zambian politics. i hate HHcoz of the way he came to lead upnd when we siupported mazoka some of us and i dumped it afterwards, but am beggining to think he may be a better devil after all than these crooks in sheep skin em,brassing us every day on teh international scene.
Winter don’t forget what you did when you’re a City Council Secretary, the act you did behind closed doors, did it not mount to corruption.You were lucky that the council had inept auditors. Your boss Sata deposited a Local Govt cheque which was meant for the workers in the councils in his account for the sake of interest while families were suffering from hjis deeds. He stood by Chiluba when he was busy stealing from ZAMTROOP account,the minister without portofolio that was Sata.The blood of Sata is tainted with DNA of corruption and you too Kabimba.
WHO WANTS TO A MILLIONAIRE? What does the A in DNA stand for?
According to a security officer based in Sinazongwe who sought anonymity, the Chinese based at the mine were not happy that the man on the run had not been caught.
“The Chinese are saying ‘no soil’, meaning no burial of their friend who was killed at shaft 5. So we have a problem as the mutilated body is still lying in Maamba Hospital mortuary,” the source said.
Get down to work bwana time is running out. You will spend most of your time reciting the wrongs of the MMD to the converted at the expense of working. When you work up it will be 2016. Learn to focus and enjoy working quietly. Forget about MMD. If you marry a divorcee who has no children on the pretext that you will give her children don’t waste your time ridiculing the previous husband and explaining why he could not make her pregnant . Show the difference by quickly settling into marriage and make the lady pregnant otherwise people will think you have the same problem as the previous man
of course like your web-site but you have to check the spelling on quite a few of your posts. A number of them are rife with spelling problems and I in finding it very bothersome to tell the truth nevertheless I’ll definitely come again again.
Meanwhile his boss is busy appointing MPs from the same party Kabimba calls corrupt.The most serious crimes of MMD were committed during FJT’s rule.Where was Ukwa,your boss, during this time? Minister Without Portfolio,Number 3 in GOVERNMENT.
I thought Nevers Mumba was once a preacher of the word, if so what does the wold teach us on repentance. Steps on repentance when you steal something, 1. accept your wrong doings. 2. Ensure to apologize with remorse to the one you stole from. 3. Ask for forgiveness from the one you stole from and return that which you stole if possible 2 fold. 4. Then approach God and ask for forgiveness and repent that you will not do it again. Nevers check these above and ask your self what you have missed, otherwise no one will forgive you.