Opposition Political parties and other stakeholders yesterday took to task Kapiri Mposhi District Electoral officer and demanded to know why the access room where the ballot papers for the next week’s elections was left open over night.
This was after it was discovered that the access room was not locked and no one was able to provide an explanation on who opened the room.
The United Party for National Development (UPND) and UNIP accused the council officials of planning to rig the election for the upcoming by elections prompting the electoral officers to order that a verification of the ballots be carried out.
But District Electoral officer who is also Kapiri Mposhi district Council Secretary Mpande Hamwende who was at pain to explain to the political parties said he does not know who opened the room but assured that all the papers were intact and ruled out accusation of rigging.
Mr Hamwende said he was confident that the papers were intact and that no box was tempered with according to the serial numbers issued by the printer in the United Kingdom and asked them not to panic.
He explained that the only papers which were opened were the ballot papers samples which showed all the candidate and insisted that known of the ballot boxes were opened.
But UNPD aspiring candidate Lawrence Zimba and his UNIP counterpart Francis Mwape insisted that it was clear that there wanted to rig the elections.
By press time verification of the ballots were been carried out in the presences of the three political parties the ruling Patriotic Front (PF), UNIP,UPND and other stakeholders while police was keeping vigil.
Central Commissioner of police Standwell Lungu said calm had returned but police was monitoring the situation.
Meanwhile UNIP Vice President, Njekwa Anamela says his party was the only political party that can boast of delivering meaningful development to the people of Zambia when it formed government from 1964 to 1991.
Mr Anamela who was speaking during a rally to dram up support for the UNIP candidate Mr Mwape urged electorates in Kapiri Mposhi to vote for an opposition Member of Parliament in the April 23 by-elections for purposes of providing checks and balances to government.
“We built roads and here in Kapiri Mposhi we left Kapiri Grass Products (KGP), TAZARA among other companies that gave employment to our people but our colleagues have categorically failed to add value to these companies that’s why we have come back to remind you that you deserve better leadership than what you have now, “he said.
The UNIP leader who was flanked by its party National Chairman for Elections, Chigaga Banda and other senior party officials pointed out that UNIP succeeded in putting-up infrastructure and industries in all corners of the country which provided employment for the local people.
He added that UNIP would bounce back to power in 2016 and promised that the oldest political party in the country would deliver development to the expectations of its people.
He charged that the MMD and PF governments have clearly failed to match the levels of development left by UNIP and that the two political parties were merely riding on the achievements of UNIP.
And Mr Mwape urged electorates in Kapiri Mposhi to vote for him because he is a local person who identifies with the challenges that the constituency was faced with.
If opposition win, no rigging……..but if PF wins, then its rigging…!
we chipuba, how do you expect a party not in control of the tools of rigging to rig the elections? the ruling party have all the avenues of rigging to its disposal including the ecz. so stop being myopic and narrow minded
Iwe ci Kaligongo waliba dull just like Kalingongo.
Did the PF rig the election when they kiicked from office munthu wa mphuno ikulu?
If they could hammer you *****s when in opposition and before they could deliver, what can stop them hammering you when they are delivering to the poorest of our societies? Brain dead!!
Imwe ba Kaling’ongo mulelanda kwati mwafyelwe mailo. KK accused MMD of rigging the elections in 1991 yet he was in power. The accusation is actually genuine because the MMD’s backers from the US wanted to a liberal economy for Z
p.f wntd to rig. this explains y only U.P.N.D & U.N.I.P complained.
fi pf fikabolala,now in kapiri we are doing dont kubeba
seat yaba zimba empela.
‘He explained that the only papers which were opened were the ballot papers samples which showed all the candidate and insisted that known of the ballot boxes were opened’.
It does not make sense
Shud read “non” not “known” ok.
Please ba LT, we can do better than this. The story was not edited. You are diminishing your credibility.And of late, you seem to have become a government vuvuzela, that is not your duty. Daily Mail, Times of Zambia, Post, and ZNBC are enough. Bakuoshani na chikanda?
Yayi ni “none”
Bo Anamela sha where is Tilyenji?
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