The ruling Movement for Multi Party Democracy (MMD) has denied media reports indicating that President Rupiah Banda’s Image Builders were accommodated at the controversy embroiled Best Home Lodge during previous presidential by-election campaigns.
MMD party Spokesperson Benny Tetamashimba in a statement to ZANIS in Lusaka today described the media reports as false as the image builders were accommodated at Binnie Lodge Inn in Ibex Hill, a facility owned by the late Bank of Zambia Governor Francis Nkhoma, contrary to some media reports suggesting that they were staying at Best Home Lodge.
Mr. Tetamashimba, who is also Local Government and Housing Minister, further said as MMD campaign manager and election agent for President Banda he does not remember the party holding any Press Conference at the now infamous lodge which is owned by a suspended Ministry of Health Officer Henry Kapoko who is allegedly involved in the K27 billion Ministry of Health scandal.
He said the MMD Campaign Centre was located on Bwinjifumu Road, South End and does not remember holding any Press Conference at Best Home Lodge which has since been restricted by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC).
“We wish to deny the story and condemn it in the strongest terms possible,” the statement read in part.
Mr. Tetamashimba has since advised the opposition to keep quiet if they had nothing to offer the Zambian people as the MMD was now concentrating on making Rupiah Banda win with a resounding victory in the 2011 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
Recent media reports had indicated that President Banda’s image builders had stayed at the infamous lodge during the previous presidential by-election.
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If there are any jouranlists here or those in the know, are there any investigative journalists in Zambia? Am tired of the he said, she said kind of reporting!
Right on spot dalitso. show us some facts not the he/she said. i am getting sick!
even if they were staying there or not…so what?does that matter now?
Let the Image Builders come back,its like they did not finish building RB’s image.
“Mr. Tetamashimba has since advised the opposition to keep quiet if they had nothing to offer the Zambian people as the MMD was now concentrating on making Rupiah Banda win with a resounding victory in the 2011 Presidential and Parliamentary elections” So Teta and his friends target is to win 2011, and not improving the welfare of the Zambian people. What a shame!!!
Teta is a liability to zambian government.I wonder whether he even plans his work because this Man is always Politicking.
Why does this Tetamalilo always answer to every little thing? Is he so useless that he has to have the last say in everything. Zambian ministers, i wonder when they do there jobs. Have you heard what is happening in England over MPs claims ( refunds ) many have resigned over little amounts, how many Zambian MPs/ Ministers would ever do that? they just know how to talk Shi-t.
Account for the heases that you paid for in December instead of yapping around bwan Teta.
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9 POPOOO 2 greetings and could you please desist from such bad behaviour. I will be reporting you to LT for your failure to respect Minister Teta. and me including some bloggers.
As for “Mr. Tetamashimba has since advised the opposition to keep quiet if they had nothing to offer the Zambian people as the MMD was now concentrating on making Rupiah Banda win with a resounding victory in the 2011 Presidential and Parliamentary elections continue supporting President RB Banda for MMD presidential candidate so that the opposition can have a weak candidate to dislodge MMD from power.
I thus like your using MMD youths in provinces to call for President RB Banda to go for his term and not only completing late LP Mwanawasa’s one.
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9 POPOOO 2 you are lucky LT has done the jo before I reported you. Careful next time.
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SORRY BA Satelite com sci Maestro,i will refrain!!!!!!!!!!! but chi Teta must behave too.He should learn something from ministers like Mutati,Simbo etc
Tetamalilo,just accept that you are part of the cartel as MMD.
Twimiyuka anweba mana kafwapo
12 POPOOO 2, I understand but please insults do not help anyway save leave the person who utters them guilty.
Therefore, let us use this facility by LT in a good manner so that foreigners can take us a normal Zambians.
Have a great day and we all strive to move as “One Zambia, One Nation“.
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Tetamashimba chipuba!
Mr, Minister how come nobody trusts you guys. You folks are holding multiple press conferences everyday justfying and explaning your involvement or non-involvement in one thing or another. How come what you do cannot explain itself? Try even for a few days to be transparent and you ll see how the number of press conferences you give ll reduce. Imagine you told us about the mandamandas, now one would have been suprised when they arrived or their value.
Best Home Lodge established in 2007 is an exclusive comfort lodge centered on providing a cool & calm environment for our clients to sit back and relax.We deal with local and International clientele thus providing a vast array of quality services just to meet your needs.Situated in the capital city Best Home Lodge is a strategic location for all type of clients. The Lodge offers 20 rooms, all furnished with bathroom,shower and jacuzzi’s in selected rooms.Swimming pool,restaurant.
Not worth reading.
No need to deny if there is evidence… unless if they have already destroyed all the evidence, that these image builders did actually lodge & stay there..
Chi Tetamashimba. Can you also explain the use of Ministry of Health vehicles to carry RB’s image builders during campaigns for the Presidential bye-election?
Name: MMD, Country of residence: Zambia ,Written: Monday, 1 June 2009 (18:27) 16373
Says: Ignore perenial these losers. The opposition must keep quiet and just keep scratching their heads over what next, as they have nothing to offer the Zambian people.
The MMD is distinctly concentrating on making H.E President Rupiah Banda win with a resounding opposition debilitating victory in the 2011 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Watch the space and vindicate us.
POLICE SORROUND NURSING SCH OWNED BY SATA’S WIFE DR. KASEBA AND THEIR NEPHEW KAPOKO.OVER K27B THEFT
Police officers Monday afternoon surrounded ESU nursing school situated in Lusaka’s Kalundu residential area. ESU is a newly established nursing school housed at a private house in Kalundu, Lusaka. According to the Auditor general’s report on whose strength the investigations are based, ESU Nursing School received over K7billion (USD1.2m) in 2008, on the pretext that it is training government nurses, mid-wives and clinical officers and the continuous training of health workers through workshops.
“Mr. Tetamashimba has since advised the opposition to keep quiet if they had nothing to offer the Zambian people as the MMD was now concentrating on making Rupiah Banda win with a resounding victory in the 2011 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.”
That’s it. No alleviation of poverty, no improvement in health, education etc. In fact Zambians be damned for all Tetamajilo cares. All he cares about is that he and his clique continue to pillage Zambia for many years to come. Politics of self preservation at its best.
21 or senior citizen be careful with your wild allegations. Let the investigative wings do their Job.
Patriot (#21), if you quote a source from elsewhere you must credit that source. Otherwise you will be guilty of errrr, what do they call it? Plagiarism?
I wait to see Sata’s case against MMD spokesman in the Courts of law. He has been caught with pants down trying to feed with both hands from the people. Only carnivals have the pride to rob people of their Medicare. This is an act of Genocide.He started by firing Doctors to create revenue for own pocket, then brought in the nephew Kapoko in HR to suck Ghost workers remunerations for many years. Finally, the chickens are roasting in the public eyes. Levy told Chiluba in his resignation that this Sata stinks of corruption. Daniel Kapapa and Sata politicized with lies that Levy insulted Bembas. Far from it.I’m a Bemba myself and i find Sata a callous thief i call to resign and allow clean hands to win people’s confidence. Emerging politicians must reject this kind of faceless impunity.
Malaika,
ZANIS reporters get news from the same sources.Therefore, no need to cite them when we all get data from the same sources.Investigators make briefyings or confide the same materials.
Malaika, Just stand up and justify your boss’s impunity.Don’t you agree with me that this callous appetite for wealth is an act of Genocide? Are you proud of such a crime pondarous in magnify party indulgence? Do you have the moral reasons to sing the PF ochestra here? Careful with your unholy alliances because they are bound to prounce a doom on you.
I’m a Bemba myself and i find Sata to be a typical callous thief i call to resign and allow clean hands to win people’s confidence.
Us emerging politicians must reject this kind of faceless impunity in perpetuity from the Avondale plunder, Merzf, convention billions to MoH which playing with lives of people you claim to serve and counting to rule.What a measure of faceless hypocrisy.
Patriot #28 I agree with you on this.I have been singing now and again that this level of thieving is an act of genocide.The second republic syndrone of being caught with the fingers in the till must come to a stop with legistilation that defines this crime as genocide.
But pa Zambia. They should just remove that country from the world map. Ubungo and ubupumbu is the only thing left. The country is like pamansansa. What type of people are we? When will true leadership emerge to give a good image to that country? The issue is not Sata. Only a fool like some of you would be tricked in believing what this failed and robbery run govts would agree to these reports. When will the military take over that country? I am really tired of lies and criminal run syndicates having power. So now PF went in and robbed MoH. What a cracker? And some of you agree because they want to divert attention to PF, they start with Dr. Kaseba as the one who took that K27 million. Guys, you should look beyond your noses. Wake up and smell the coffee. You’re being fooled.
Ba Patriot, all of the sudden because Sata has been mentioned you resurface. If I remember clearly, you never became so active on this blog when the Dora Siliya saga became evident that RB was trying to hush down the issue. Please explain what you know about Merzf and Avondale. Not what you heard, but what you know. What do you know about MoH saga and who is behind all the saga? Yes you’re a “bemba” and very good one. But is this a Bemba saga? Or is Sata the Bemba savior?
31 Kalos20202….. man walasa. The problem is not Sata and PF. They are so many people involved in this saga. Why only single ot Kaseba? Zambians especially Bembas wake up. Know that this fight against corruption is the fight against polical opponents. Let us give examples , Kande has committed the same corruption like Kapoko, where is Kande?? Freely moving, RB’s son brought in GMO and our money was waisted, nothing has happened to him. Dora saga, nothing has happened and the report is gathering dust in state house. Miti is mensioned in the saga, why is he not arrested? Now you want to put it all on Sata and PF…what an effot in futility. Just because you have continued spitting and trampling on Bembas….so you lay all this corruption on Sata. We are watching your pace people.
LT I want my comments please. Why are you so these days? Who does not know that the fight agaist corruption is sellective. Who does not know that it is biased against Bemba??? Tell me LT
corruption being comitted is not corruption unless a bemba commits. we have noted this. example is mwanaumo, nkade, mabenga, dora etc….nthing has happened to them. we see dear LT.
What about president RB’s sons vs Capital investment and GMO involvement??? And what about the ‘Mobile Hospitals’ whose concept is borrowed from developed nations but not understood by MMD officials??
Some of the issues emanating from our beloved country are so embarrasing. For once Mr. Benny Tetamashimba, hon. Minister of Local Government & Housing, grab your job profile and read it again and again, for once try to bring into perspective your role in that Ministry. Ba mudala muli bakulu limo muleikalafye tondolo and get glued to your job, “Do be careful, the tongue leaves in a wet place is apt to fall”.
the tongue lives in a wet place and is apt to fall
Patriot #27, my last comments were deleted maybe because I mentioned the……….. Here goes for the second time. If you copy a passage word for word and do not acknowledge the source, then you are passing off that work as your own, which is plagiarism. If on the other hand you obtained information from the one and same source but described it in your own word then fair play. As it happens you lifted that report word for word from the other online newspaper whose initials are Z.W.D.
Rubbish!
CORRUPTION BEGETS CORRUPTION. RB and his MMD can not fool any sensible Zambian. You can not plant mangoes and harvest maize.
# 38 Malaika,
If i post a complete artile as news on an online news portal, i do not need to cite myself on another blog which is Lusaka.If you visit the work we do, you have no right to force me citing myself.Any issues you have with that, you get me sue against myself for not citing self.
The chap with the biggest mouth in the land is telling others to shut up. Talk of the pot calling the kettle black.
ba mambala ba kuba kuipa. the fact that there are denying any association, they are as guilty as hell in this scam.
WE dont expect them to say YES. But when more evidence surfaces they will change the story to justfy their action such as, at the time we thought it was just another guest house blah blah
Thats how Tetamalilo’s behave! They dont work but keep on yaping until they drop Malilo!
who knew that the lodge was owned by a “thief”?
i dont see anythin wrong wit those guys stayin at that lodge…..but why is this teta denyin of them stayin there that means he knew it was a built from stolen money!