10 November 2009
ACTING MMD spokesperson, Mike Mulongoti has described Roan member of Parliament (MP), Chishimba Kambwili as a very ungrateful person who is only preoccupied with finding faults in Government leaders.
Mr Mulongoti said this in reaction to Mr Kambwili's comments in the media that President Rupiah Banda had done nothing in his first term of office.
The minister said President Banda's administration had done so much, especially for Luanshya where Mr Kambwili's constituency is located and wondered why the MP could disregard all development projects.
"Kambwili is a very unthankful person," he said.
He said Mr Kambwili was "crying" for the reopening of the Luanshya Copper Mine (LCM) and Mr Banda worked hard to ensure it started operating.
Mr Mulongoti said, Mr Kambwili had been pressing the Government for the rehabilitation of the road between the town centre and Mpatamato Township which was done.
At personal level, he said, Mr Kambwili had greatly benefited from the reopening of the mine as he was doing business with the LCM and, therefore, it was morally wrong for him to say the Government had done nothing.
Mr Mulongoti said while publicly Mr Kambwili was ferociously condemning the Chinese investors, he was aggressively involved with them in businesses behind closed-doors as a contractor.
And a newly-formed political party has urged former vice-president, Enoch Kavindele and ex-Defence minister, George Mpompo to prove their allegations that President Banda's sons are involved in corrupt business deals with the Government.
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) president, Elisha Musoma said Mr Kavindele and Mr Mpombo should report the case to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) if they had evidence of the alleged corrupt dealings.
He accused the two political leaders of peddling unfounded statements in the media, saying the information they where being quoted as having given to the media was a clear indication that they were waging personal attacks on the president.
Mr Musoma said it was not fair for people to wage attacks on a man whose children were adults and had a right to run their businesses without any interference from anyone.
Meanwhile, the MMD on the Copperbelt has said it is unfair for opposition leaders to label President Banda as a failure in the one year he has ruled the country when their MPs in the province have failed to start any meaningful development projects.
Party provincial youth chairman, Evans Chibanda said unlike the PF MPs, MMD MPs regularly visited their constituencies and had initiated a number of development projects that some PF MPs were now struggling to compete with, like the mini-hospital project in Kitwe's Ndeke Village.
Mr Chibanda said in an interview in Mufulira at the weekend the fact that most of the PF MPs had failed to initiate developmental projects or complete the ones that their MMD predecessors had started was a clear indication that they were alleged failures who were only good at insulting people through the media.
Mr Chibanda said PF MPs in the province could not be compared to their MMD predecessors and this was why the electorate in various constituencies were now regretting having voted for them.
And Mr Chibanda has urged MMD members in the province to ignore desperate statements from disgruntled politicians and concentrate on mobilising the party ahead of the 2011 elections.
Mr Chibanda said party members in the province should not listen to careless statements from some desperate opposition leaders, but should promote unity and harmony in the party so that it sets a strong stage to win the 2011 elections and silence its critics.
Mr Chibanda described the PF and United Party for National Development Pact as a power-hungry pact that would only spend most of its time fighting for positions once elected into Government.
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