Vice President, George Kunda says there was nothing irregular in the procurement of 100 hearses as the transaction for the procurement of the hearses started in the previous government.
Mr. Kunda says there is no need for the people to start attacking and condemning the current government following the procurement of 100 hearses, as the current administration is just completing the transactions that were initiated in the previous one.
The Vice President was speaking yesterday in Serenje district during the official hand-over ceremony of a speed boat to the community of Lusiwasi in Nalube village.
Mr. Kunda said that government procured 100 hearses at the request of the Local Government and Housing Ministry in the previous government following the popular demand from councils.
He further said that there is no need for the people to attack and condemn the current government, but that there is need for the nation to commend government with the way it is fulfilling its campaign promises which were based on continuity.
Mr. Kunda said the current government was just fulfilling its mandate of ensuring that there was continuation in the implementation of development programmes which the late President Levy Mwanawasa initiated.
Meanwhile, Mr Kunda has called on the farming fraternity to diversify into fish farming with a view to enhancing the growth of the fishing industry in the country.
Mr. Kunda says diversifying into fish farming will greatly contribute to the social and economic well-being of the country by boosting employment creation as well as ensuring that the living-standards of people is uplifted in societies.
Mr. Kunda, who is also Muchinga Member of Parliament, said the move taken by government to venture into fish farming was in line with the government’s vision to increase agriculture productivity particularly in the fishing industry with a view to ensuring food security through the promotion of fish farming.
The Vice President has since cautioned the Zambian people against using illegal fishing methods with a view to ensuring that there is preservation in the country’s fishing industry.
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You guys were there in the previous govt. Give us a better reason.
Do you mean the other one were Mr Sata was the main henchman
yeh blame the late President cowards! The previous govt also wanted to host the All Africa games how come you intervened?You ‘ve got your priorities all wrong.Anyway with the way things are being run you might need more hearses. You have people stealing K10billion from the sick, rich politicians being involved in pedophilia and porn…..my poor poor motherland no wonder we seem cursed!
Where these hearses free for the taxpayer to use or are they there solely for commercial gain?Using government resources to fund capital investments for personal financial gain. If the previous government was corrupt enough to procure hearses , in no way does that give the current government a pass to do the same . Thats the problem with zed politics no accountability they do things just because previous governments established thieving systems and they think it’s not their fault as they inherited the ideology.
Instead of ordering ambulances to assist the living people, they ordered hearses. It is disturbing what is going on in Zambia.
Both RB and Kunda were part of the previous administration. So what is bleating about? They seem to have their priorities back to front and now they have been caught out!
i personally don’t see anything wrong with the procurement of hearses. its a huge community service.
That sounds like a cheap excuse coming from the veep. He is indirectly shifting the blame on the previous government. The tacticsmight work on villagers but not on us…we need a proper explanation please.
Instead of promoting health(ambulances), we are glorifying death(hearses). If this is not satanism, tell me what it is.
VP you honestly need to act according to the prevailing situation.Even in this economic downturn period you just want to move blindly.From your own assessment do we really need those hearses at the moment as matter of urgency?
Shifting blame is what they are good at. They are saying the previous govt but they are the same psycho orphans who were in the same “previous” govt. To hell with all dem stu.pid fellas.
#8 monalisasyndrome. I don’t think its glorifying death. Hearses are a badly needed service to the people of Zed. As a culture we respect the dead. Transportation of corpses is costly and more than 80% of Zedians are poor, unfortunately, death befalls these same people more than the well to do. Ambulances are ideal but remember death is inevitable. You can have as many ambulances as your possibly can but someone somewhere will still die.
this is shalllow thinking ba VP
the whole lot of VP
he should change and buy bibles from the change
#8 BTW, how does buying ambulances promote health? not too long ago, we were reading of a one plunderer who has 7 girlfriends. If one of them is HIV +, then 9 people in this relationship are possibly infected. If at all they get preg, there’s a huge possibility that their offsprings will be HIV+. How does an ambulance come into play here?
Its been MMD for 18 now, does red-lipped Kunda mean that Unip ordered those manda mandas? These guys have run out of steam to the point they dont know which dispensation they belong to. Bunch of losers really!
The problem with people like George is that their thinking is so limited they even believe their own lies as the truth. Show us the initial tender for these hearses and we will believe you. By the way, were you not part of both Chiluba and Mwanawasa’s Governement. Sorry I forgot it was Kaunda’s Government you meant!!! Please George go fool yourself. You are luck I was not in Serenje when told this lie as I was going to call your bluff!! We may need the hearses but not in the way you have procured them and at that price. A Chinese top of the heap double cub with all the trimmings does not cost that much and your hearse cost US $29,000. My foot!!!!
Iwe chigeorge wabaichikanwa, we are not your children you can tell those stories spare them for yo wife. Ukutumpa are just a coward. Will how you will run the hearse
So Mr Kunda is saying that if the previous govt. initiated stupid transactions, the current govt. would still complete them. Zambian leadership is dead. And you even support the nonesense that Zambia needs a Degree holder for President. My foot.
Which previous government?? Wasn’t RB and George Kunda in this same “previous government?”
Total rubbish!!!! Can someone pliz tell me how these are going to work. Someone might just get it ti transport malasha and make a profit… Zed has become very strange.
Watch this space!!!!
If not told, one wouldn’t know that Kunda is a degree holder. ‘ the hearses were bought by the previous government” he says, which previous govnt wasn’t he the minister of Justice and Attorney General during Mwanawasa’s presidency? Is he telling us that Govenment now means the sitting President. Daft ! very daft ! what a numpty
As much as the departed needs respect, hearse buying at this point in time was a baseless move. Why this time??? I smell a rat.
Instead of just complaining in corners, we should find a way of making this guys to wake up and start listening to peoples cries and concerns. Hopefully it wont be very ghastly and only a few characters like Teta, Siulapwa and mulongoti would be sacrificed. If you asked me, am ready for the revolution.
So the vice president officiates at a hand over of a speed boat, wow!
As Djokote (not sure of the name) said, it is a year of mobility. Imagine, mobile phones, mobile clinics, mobile hearses, then we need mobile bars, mobile schools, mobile parliament etc. I suggest mobile coffins so that when one kicks the bucket, you just roll the coffin on wheels until it drops in the tomb!!
Bloggers, they mean UNIP government because that is the previous party in government.
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THIS IS TOTAL NONSENSE. HOW DO YOU SPEND SO MUCH CASH ON VEHICLES TO TAKE PEOPLE TO THE GRAVE YARD INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON ALLEVIATING PROBLEMS THAT RESULTS IN EVENTUAL DEATH? THE BEST THING WAS TO INVEST THE MONEY IN ACQUIRING MEDICINE AND IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIVING THAN GETTING EXCITED IN TAKING PEOPLE TO THE GRAVE YARD.
#13 Ule tontokanya if you have ambulances you can have medics respond in time to people who can not get to a hospital in time. How are you going to attend to the Hiv pipo you are refering to when they need help – by wheel barrow!!
Is this not the same MMD govt ? Kunda is so shallow minded . He was in prevoius govt advising the govt on legal matters. If the previous govt made a mistake why not controlling the mistake. Typical mmd govt it is now time to blame Levy. shame up on you.
Here we go again! Ambulances, ambulances. Surely LT bloggers are as ignorant as most Zambians pretend to be or want to be. Ask the guys in Mporokoso, they will tell you that they received ambulances way before the hearses. Please bloggers, save yourselves from your ignorance. All District Health Management Boards have ambulances!
if councils were that unanimous in (popularly) requesting that these katenga malilos be procured, let us see hands (or grassroot voices) go up in support of the move taken by gov. given a choice i am sure a few petients might opt for ambulances, maybe even a bit of medicines and if there be any change, maybe also get that understaffed clinic an extra nurse…. just maybe that could have been ONE of the voices.
Always passing the buck on someone else… Why this I didnt do it attitude??
This ‘previous government’ language is becoming too much. Havent these guys heard of what i called collective responsibility? They were all there so they shouldnt be talking as if it was some idea hatched by a totally separate group of pipo!
LT, help me please as I am getting confused by what is appearing is the press. Who bought the 100 private ambulances called hearses? VP in Serenje says it is the previous government and yet Tetamashimba claims to have bought them and nobody should blame Silvier Masebo. For all I know, Tetamashimba belongs to the present government under RB. Which is which???
#31 MBO
My bro. this guys are at sevens and sixes in other words at sea. The nation is on auto-pilot, no one is in charge and sane people around RB don’t care about our welfare. In hindsight am certain that normal people who mistakenly voted for this man are regreting for having put the affairs of the nation in wrong hands. At least we new Sata – better the devil you know than the angel you dont know.
i think mudala uyu alilwala shiki mumutwe. which previous govt is he talking about? we have had only two govts kaunda and mmd so if he says previous does it mean these manda mandaz where bought in 1990 even before they were designed and put on the market? blame shifting kwati te lawyer sure. am not even sure who hire this chap to defend them coz kuti akukakisha mambala uyu
Mr Kunda has missed the point here. Whether the purchase was irregular is besides the point. The question they should be asking is, is it moral to waste resources when the money could have been channeled to higher priority areas? And what does he mean the ‘previous government’? Your campaign slogan was continuity. The current president was the Veep? Are you saying he was in the dark regarding the transaction? And Kunda was the Justice Minister. In fact, save for a few individuals, cabinet is the same as Mwanawasa’s. So, does Mr Kunda mean the UNIP Govt then?
he is a numb skull
Give us the reasoning behind purchasing the Manda Mandas, does it mean that you are happy to help the dead instead of investing in life saving measures? Are they going to be used for free and how do you plan to do that? What will the funeral homes be doing if the government is busy buying Manda Mandas? Please teach people responsibility than help them think funerals will be taken care of by the government and educate people to maybe start investing in things like life insurance etc… This notion that government provides free things is what killed the people of Zambia during the Kaunda era because they never were given the tools to invest , so don’t even go down that road now. You would be wise in investing in mobile hospitals for rural areas far away from the main hospital.Pa Zed yaba…
Since you have allowed alot of money to be stolen from the ministry of health and quickly realised the death rated will shoot up due to luck of resources how wise to prepare by buying these hearses.You could have at least bought durable vehicles.Since we are now all ready use the hearses a stop must be made for foreign treatment trips of the likes of kufupi lets all just die HERE.
In paragraph 2, is the Veep implying that helping some one do wrong is right? People are opposed to the action of buying hearses and therefore all those envolved in this are perceived to have done something wrong. He should convice people by putting forth the rationale behind the action.