has accused former Defence minister, George Mpombo and other former Government leaders of having launched a smear campaign against President Rupiah Banda and the ruling party through unsubstantiated statements.
Lieutenant-General Shikapwasha said in a statement in Lusaka yesterday that the Government was extremely saddened by the behavior of the former senior Government officials who were reinforcing lies that the president’s sons were using State machinery to secure Government contracts.
He said it was disheartening that Mr Mpombo had repeated unsubstantiated allegations made by former vice-president Enoch Kavindele after State House and the Ministry of Defence denied any dealings with the President’s children.
He said Mr Mpombo’s incessant insults and accusations were part of his drive to misinform the public and ridicule the president.
In an interview with The Post Newspaper, Mr Mpombo is reported to have said that the president’s children should do business in a transparent manner and that they should not use State machinery to conduct business just because they were the president’s sons.
“These are serious allegations requiring a person of the experience and status of Hon Mpombo to have attempted to verify and so substantiate his public statement.
“If Hon Mpombo was making the statement in good faith, out of concern for this nation, he would have substantiated the allegations before making a statement,” Lt-Gen Shikapwasha said.
He said Mr Mpombo was by implication saying that the president’s children were involved in business in which they did not only use the State machinery but their father’s name.
He urged former leaders speaking out of bitterness to restrain themselves from making statements that endangered national peace and harmony.
Gen Shikapwasha also said Senior Chief Bright Nalubamba had chosen to play partisan politics in his discharge of duties as a chief.
He said Chief Nalubamba should realise that he was an official of the Government and had many channels to use if he wanted to advise the Government, including the president.
He said the Government had noted that the chief spoke ignorantly about the late president, Levy Mwanawasa’s policy on the future of the Task Force on Corruption.
Gen Shikapwasha said it was wrong for the chief to amplify allegations made by the opposition about the lack of benefit from attending meetings in foreign countries.
[Times of Zambia]
sosa sosa soa Mpombo
Reverend Shikapwasha, just respond to Mr Mpombo’s remarks which are reasonable. What conduct are you talking about? He has not personalised anything, he is talking on our behalf. Reverend, God is watching you.
Ask Reverend Lungu, that clown to spill the beans now! He is a big foool.
The problem with Mpombos remarks is that he cant say which president Bandas son is involved and which govnt contracts he has obtained. He must also go further to show which of those contracts was obtained unfairly. without those details his comments will be taken as mere hallucinations or drunkardness with his newly found great media coverage.
I think Mpombo’s outbursts have gone a turd too far,he is in the press for all the wrong reasons now,some of the drivel he’s spouting does not befit someone with any diplomatic experience,his attacks are now turning into a personal affair with RB(though i detest this imbecile).the best he could have done is to concetrate on pushing for the convention and only make comments when its neccessary with backed up facts not just hearsay,you cant fight on all fronts,keep a low profile and come out all gunz blazing when its neccessary mwemfumu
Heee, leave the monkey-babtised Mpombo alone. What he said is reasonable, he was just advising RB children to follow tender procedures. Whats wrong with this good humble advice? Please let RB children compete with others and not just giving them business like that, no. And shikapwasha the fake pastor must shut up his mouth.
The whole monologue by bitter heads is not only hollow, but unsubstantiated self damaging innuendoes from the pervasive hearts of jealous and malicious reactionary losers. I have never seen such incoherent and self failed political rhetoric directed at debasing systemic political power machinery. To succeed you need to build credibility through submission of empirical facts. People want to know what contract or tender and the evidence. MPombo is thinking RB is outdoing his ABSA US $ 100 million Trans Sahara Oil scam following his irrational disbandment of ZNOC for a song.
Goodmorning
Why is it so hard for Shikapwasha & co. to ignore Mpombo’s allegations if they’re baseless? The outcry just makes us suspect that there must be some fire down below the smoke of rumours.
whats wrong with this country and foools and *****s like Mpombo. He is now the darling of this fool and homo Mmembe. He should tell us which of Banda’s sons or companies and which contracts he is talking about. Advice out of nothing is useless. The Post is so desparate that whenever this imbacille opens his dirty mouth then its news. Why are they forcing this kachasu drunk on innicent people. stupid foools. Please spare us this nonsense. He should tell us if when he was Minister of Defence he gave Bandas sons contracts. This PHD nonsense really sucks!
#9 I totally agree with you. Mpombo was Cabinet minister in RB’s Govt. Please tell us which sons of RB have been involved in these dubious deals. If you have proof, why don’t you report the matter to the Anti Corruotion Commission. Just talking in the press on every issue about RB negatively will not take this country anywhere. Citizens should learn to assist the law enforcing officers by reporting law breakers to the Police and ACC.
Why cant Mpombo resign and fight these guys from outside? Anyways the MMD as well are tasting the bitter pill this time after shielding the PF REBEL MPs. What you do unto others shall be be done unto you.
Goodmorning Indeed…
I wonder why Mpombo is such a saver now…in my humble opinion, these fellows have taken us for granted since coming to power…the hour has come-remember the vibes?!…and once you fall off the table, you have to do everything possible to pull your fellow ‘mates’ down-turning saver of the nation (he was so blind to all the happening in the recent past)…honest implies me to wish all these ‘old’ fellows to move on and leave Zed to be ran by young people…GOD will need a new start…
Rupiah is married to Thandiwe and they have twins, Duniya and Temwani. In 1966 he had married Hope Mwansa Makulu who passed away on October 11, 2000, leaving him with a family of sons.
The sons are James, Andrew, Mabusha Masekela (whose mother is the young sister of trumpeter Hugh Masekela), Henry, Nenani and Dingani.
There coold be some truth in HON Mpombo’s statements.let us wait and see.Its just one year down the line two more to go……………….we shall seeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I am so glad that somebody is noticing that all this accusations against Rupiah are just Post newspaper propaganda with no evidence. We know that Levy had allowed a bail out for Zambian Airways in which Mmembe had invested US$3.5m through deferrement of debt payments to National Airpots Corporation. This was the reason for Levy being a darling. When Rupiah and Dora cancelled the bail out for Zambian Airways and Mmembe lost his US$3.5m equivalent to K17.5bn, the war against Rupiah started. We can understand the loss is huge but it should not be the reason for such a malicious campaign against a President. This is exactly what Kavindele has attempted to do and it is wrong
#13 how does that info you have copied from Wikipedia and posted here help us further in this issue? I think in Zambia the saying that “he who wants to arouse interest only needs to provoke…” has it’s fullest meaning.
Mpombo others know what they are talking about… There is a legal danger of them naming the companies esp if they do not have evidence, yet. It is most likely that RBs sons are using already established companies (with no trace of evidence) and Mpombo and others know this but cant name the companies because they will sue his bottom.
Mpombo is jealous because all his children including the girl now in Australia are Tasintha who have undergone Nkandu Luo’s reformatory school of amahule while all RB’s children American educated Graduate school degree holders.While Mpombo was busy drinking embote and kachasu in Ndola rural, RB was at the UN and DC embassy serving the country and educating his children in pretigious Washington schools.
Mpombo dont just make noise for the sake of, substantiate, your noise. Simple, if you cant go back and research and then come make more noise, you know what they say about empty tins!
Unsubstantiated Innuendoes turn to damage the the accuser while making the accused a victim of hatred.When lies ended to the family and Dr.Kalombo Mwansa’s ministry without proof, an image of immaturity, hatred and irresponsibility sticks on the accuser as unfit for public office.Anyone in allignment with these is taking the damage in the courts of public opinion.This is exactly that has killed UPND which Mazoka built and left as an alternative to MMD.The more HH makes his unpatriotic childish threats of violence on citizens and insults RB, the more he disqualifies himself untill now UPND is a political shell.
Bwezani, you sound like the same empty tin you are compairing Mpombo to. Now tell me where the difference is. As far as Iam concerned Mpombo is trying to speak against the vice of corruption so as to uphold Mwanawasa´s legacy as opposed to Rupiah Banda who managed to rescue Chilube from the jaws of justice!.
IWE CHI MPOMBO. LEAVE RB’S SONS ALONE. …MALELASI ! IF YOU CANT MANUFACTURE BOYS JUST INVITE SOME OF THESE BLOGGERS WHO CAN AND WILL WILLINGLY DO YOU A BIG FAVOUR BY ****ING YOUR UGLY WIFE AND YOU CAN HAVE SOME BOYS . . .
More than meets the eye. For sure Mpombo one of the few Zambian ministers to resign, i would rather take time to listen.the other George could not do what Mpombo has done.Today he claims there is no legacy. Watch out Kalimwitobo. Kunda will still rise against Bwezani.
All of us are complaining on the way this President is conducting himself. People like PATRIOT are wearing tinted glasses so to them what we see as evil to them its virtuous. No one can stop another person from doing business with any one GRZ included. But what is filtering out is very sad. Patriot dont forget that when you do business with GRZ you will be dealing with people not inane buildings. And these ZAMBIANS will always inform the public on how you are managing to win GRZ TENDERS. If its above board, they will not talk, but once they see that things are not straight they will be PATRIOTIC enough to inform the NATION..
Nambala 22 Ba Mwinsho balikwetepo amakosa. Pliz watch out Kunda has a fantastic reputation of chewing his own words. Look at how he took on FTJ. Today Miko calls him uncle George. He will not always eat with both hands.
#21….you cant keep making noise over something you have no proof of, because at the end of the day, what you would have achieved is nothing but noise making. These politians should move away from the old political school of running to the post to make noise, and raise unecessary alarm, come out with evidence which you can substantiate, let him prove these allegations.As I have said above, you know what they say about empty tins! Read in bewtween those lines if you are indeed wise. Cases are won on evidence not just mere accusations. Mpombo give us evidence I say!
22 That language will not help. Please if you ant got nothing to say, dont say it.
Veteran, the senior citizen, are you a son of a former UPND MP? You are a bootlicker in MMD do you develop stomach pains if you fail to mention UPND! If I had a gun…
#18 Were you a landlord with one of the daughters?
We all know which of his children was with Dora in Italy and Bahama and we also know the one who is all over Katebe Katoto to come to Zambia once again and plunder together. If these are all grown ups and not using their father’s position, why is it that every time he is travelling out of the country or on holidays, the whole urgly Bwezani troope of monkey is on the Challenger at our expense? Shikapwasha should just shut up, this is what happened to Miyanda, busy shishitaling and Miyandering while Chiluba was plundering and gerrymandering the constitution to curve out a third term. Zambian general, silly monkeys they all are.
# 18 Veteran I consider you to be a matured and maybe the oldest amongs all the bloggers here,but sometimes your comments leave much to be desired, if only you could read through what you type, maybe,just maybe you would be able to see that you dont make any sense at all, like i said before,if you had an electric brain you would be a walking blackout
mukwabo ba shikapwasha.when a chief speak against your MMd ,He is playing partisan politics.Hey leave nalubamba alone.what about Ka puta He has banned all political activities in his chiefdom ,is this not playing partisan politics.iwe ships .chinshi chalubila mwebo mukwabo.Nichito njomutochitila ubulya.Chitimukulu in Kasama was nuuuu with MMD.is that not being partisan.so sunu ba bright is partisan.MANO AMANAMO MUKWABO.VIVA ZAMBIA
Ba Veteran so many people have educated their children,some from humble means,what is so special about the Banda children’s education,do they have something special that the Zambians who are not American educated dont have? even if they went to Ivy league universities(did they?) Naifwe bene pano pa blog balitusambilisha abafyashi,which is expected of every parent anyway.Twatendwa ne lyashi lyamasambi….lilo
If indeed Mpombo is just hallucinating, why is it so difficult for MMD govt & Bwezani himself to challenge him formally? The reaction by Shikapwasha does not sort out the issue, instead, it adds more doubts. This to me says a lot about the seriousness (lack of it) of this government. How long should we be at the same point?
Everybody knows fred mmembe is a h.o.m.o.s.e.x.u.a.l.
He was havin a relationship on campus.let the time publish and expose this gay monkey
#35 Discuss the issue at hand. You can also become homo if you are jealous of the guy
Mpombo and friends have taken this offensive stance as a way of hiding their economic sabotage of Zambia , during Mwanawasa, s reign. If we consider the selling of KCM for US $ 25 Million where on earth can you buy such a mine for this amount, the selling of ZANACO for a song and the outright blatant stealing of ZNOC. Only Kachasu drunkards and hallucinators like Mpombo can the sell the country in the manner Mwanawasa did.
For instance EK has spoken again defending himself over the TST saga , may be Mwanawasa official representatives Mr. Jack Kalala and George Mpombo can give the Mwanawasa side of the story. This TST saga is important because there is a US $100 Million ABSA claim on the Zambian Government in addition to the over US $ 300 Million Total International losses at Inden
in addition to the over US $ 300 Million Total International losses at Indeni Refinery that the Zambian Government has just take over . On top of this there is a fictions US $ 100 ZNOC debt whose existence was rejected by ZNOC management but which debt was grandly accepted by Mwanawasa and his Kachasu drunkard Mpombo. Between the two of them they made the Zambian government take over fictious debt that they had created in their minds after drinking Kachasu and as part of their hallucitions that they were revolutionaries fighting corruption. The summation of just the above three figures adds up to US $ 500 million Dollars oil crimes of Mr. and Mrs. Mwanawasa , Mpombo and Katele Kalumba, this is before we take into account the ZNOC’s profits that have been siphoned from Zambia
and the US $ 20 Million that Mpombo paid to Indeni Refinery under the pretext of capitalizing the Refinery but which money was siphoned out like ZNOC profits without any capital projects being undertaken at the Refinery hence the current shortages and problems in the oil sector. Certainly these figures are very massive and are nothing compared with what Mwanawasa was charging the Generals and others through the Task Force and therefore certainly deserve explanations from the now official Mwanawasa representatives Mr. George Mpombo and Mr. Jack Kalala,.Please give Zambia a comprehensive statement to clear these facts in your usual Newspapers The Post Newspapers on why this cannot be considered
this cannot be considered Mr. and Mrs. Mwanawasa, Katele Kalumba and Mpombo economic sabotage of Zambia that compromised the country security as evidenced by the Mpombo fuel shortages among others. Please Mpombo and Kalala for once stop hallucinating and give Zambia Mwanawasa’s defence to these economic sabotage accusations
Leave Mpombo alone chimphuno!!
Ba Patriot is this a Debate? kwati niku secondary school. Ba Veteran na imwe bushe who cares if RB’s kids went to prestigious schools, work hard and you will also send your kids to Princeton, Yale or Harvard. Mpombo has every right to speak his mind. So ama words ayo ama innuendos, systematic finshi finshi uko filekeni. Prestigious shinga na shinga oko ..
Number 22…clean your mouth
Governemnt “saddened”? Do uyou ever get sad? really? then all the rot around you should sure make you perpetually sad. look at the mess you have created, sad ones?
# 42, Beyonce wapa Zed,
We say all that to hurt you and your Mwisho George Mpombo’ who has surrendered all his daughters to prostitution instead of excellence hence jealous to Pull the Bandas Down with his waste. He is deluded that in his effort to solicit Executive office attention and tabloid space, PHD with smear would serve the purpose.But the family have all ignored him as a sublevel thug too desperate for attention.They are educated and retaining their standard of reason.They didn’t tell or block him to have failures and prostitutes of daughters.KK and UNIP gave chance to excel to every Zambian.Zambians with brain were sent everywhere around the world for free education. Mpombo failed so have his Daughters who have resorted to prostitution when others saw a future in education.
Veteran are you employed to defend RB? You seem to have forgotten that you exist as an individual. If your presence on LT is as a means of living, then yours is the worst kind. Pray to GOD that you have your own life, not even RB’s children can behave in the manner you do it. Look at issues at hand and have a heart, We can do better surely as Zambians. How many more years do we need to turn the page of our people suffering?
# 46,
I can only sympathize with your opinionated mind in evidence of protruding ignorance. I cannot waste my time countering your cursing of what God has blessed. How can a blog be a means of living unless you done it before? What issues do you want me to look at which i have not? Don’t you see me with a clear stand that Zambia cannot risk with mercenaries and Kaponyas of the Sata and HH already mortgaging the country to South African apartheid ring Wing agents? The best is yet to come for Zambia.Spare yourself from the now tradition of insults instead, get into the act of being economic actors under the conducive environment obtaining in the country.Economists are in-charge from Plot 1, BOZ and MoFND.
Ba Veteran, ba Innuendo’s. What Mpombo’s daughters are doing is non of your business if at all you paid for any services from them fyenu efyo we don’t care. Chila muntu has their own life to lead. I would rather have Mpombo as my Mwisho WHO IS HAS THE GUTS TO STAND UP FOR WHAT HE BELIEVES IN.
Ba Veteran, ba Innuendo’s. What Mpombo’s daughters are doing is non of your business if at all you paid for any services from them fyenu efyo we don’t care. Chila muntu has their own life to lead. I would rather have Mpombo as my Mwisho WHO HAS THE GUTS TO STAND UP FOR WHAT HE BELIEVES IN.
Ba veteran just what are your eyes feasting on as regards to what is happening back home.its like you ve been out for too long and you have lost touch with reality pa zed.We need patriotic minds that have been pondering on how to move us forward. SATA AND HH have been at it even before your rubber begun undoing us.what good is economics if it can only translate into massive fuel shortages and single sourcing been practiced right at state house be real ba blaza.
Veteran, to me you seem to be a well informed person, unfortunately you have taken a deliberate wrong route. I’m sure Zambia can benefit a lot from you, if only you could invest your energies into reality.
Interesting stuff going on in Zed!
IF THESE NIKKAS WORKED AS MUCH AS THEY TALKED, ZAMBIA WOULD HAVE BEEN A SECOND WORLD COUNTRY BY NOW
Let the HON Mbombo speak because as he used to serve in a senior position he may have the truth in him,as the saying goes and i quote(birds of the same further fly together) end of quote.
I think the Veteran can’t read the minds of Zambians , the UPND/PF have realised that going solo is not a good way of defeating MMD.And uniting all the provinces is the only sure answer to defeat the MMD. Well done the PACT , also MMD show us that you still commited to fighting corruption then we will support you.
Abantu balefwa imwe bafikala ba MMD!!!!!!!!!!!
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