Mr Kunda said the main road in the area was also being worked on to ensure it linked Lufwanyama to North-Western Province.
Mr Kunda said, when he addressed a rally at Shimukunami Basic School in Lufwanyama that the ruling party was committed to facilitating development especially in rural areas like Lufwanyama.
“We are also working on your main road here because it is not only economically valuable to this district, but to North-Western Province as well, and my promise to you is that we shall ensure that this road is done,” he said.
He urged women to form clubs and benefit from various funds under the Community Development and Social Services, Youth and Sport, and Gender ministries.
He said opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) risks disintegrating because some members do not approve of the party’s pact with the Patriotic Front (PF).
And the vice-president said yesterday that UPND president, Hakainde Hichilema should admit his mistake in joining hands with the PF and apologise to his members and the people of Southern Province.
Mr Kunda said that the UPND’s crisis was deepening by the day as the leadership and general membership were unsettled by Mr Hichilema’s ill-advised move to join forces with PF.
“This crisis is causing sleepless nights for them and now we are seeing an uprising in some strongmen such as Garry Nkombo,” he said.
He said Mr Hichilema’s position was threatened and he needed to reverse his mistakes or “he may be kicked out of the party”.
Mr Kunda warned that PF leader, Michael Sata could not be trusted because he had a history of expelling party members, including members of Parliament (MPs), and wondered why the UPND had decided to side with him.
He said people like Mr Sata, who had served under former presidents Kenneth Kaunda and Frederick Chiluba, had failed to put up any significant infrastructure in Lufwanyama.
And when he met Chief Shibuchinga before the rally, Mr Kunda said the Government would always work with traditional leaders who are frank and open because they would help in addressing problems facing their areas.
Mr Kunda castigated some opposition political party leaders publicly insulting traditional leaders.
He was reacting to Chief Shibuchinga’s concern over the poor state of Kalengwa Road and the dilapidated chiefs’ palaces in the area.
He said he had visited chiefs in Eastern and Western provinces where they expressed similar concerns over the state of their palaces.
Speaking on behalf of the traditional rulers in the district, Chief Shibuchinga said he was grateful Mr Kunda found time to visit the chiefs in the area.
He was also happy that three major projects – a district hospital, high school and police station – were on course in the area.
And in Mpongwe, Mr Kunda said the continuity of late president Levy Mwanawasa’s development efforts promised during elections was being delivered through President Rupiah Banda’s national development projects.
Mr Kunda said the people themselves were speaking about the development being spearheaded by the MMD Government.
Provincial chairperson Joseph Chilambwe said the party was strong in the province while Copperbelt Minister Mwansa Mbulakulima said the party was aware that a “very outspoken priest” on the Copperbelt holding rallies had ambitions to stand in the next general elections in Kwacha Constituency in Kitwe or in Ndola.
[Times of Zambia]
l-) Why have you become a spokesman for the opposition party? Why not simply mind your own business and explain to the people your party’s vision for the country? 😮 Ba Kunda please twapapata……your party is already injured and with all due respect, don’t add salt to it! [-x
This “And the vice-president said yesterday that UPND president, Hakainde Hichilema should admit his mistake in joining hands with the PF and apologise to his members and the people of Southern Province” attributed to the Acting Zambian President, Vice President and Minister of Justice George Kunda is a very bad tribal and regional statement from a manwho was just telling people that the “One Zambia, One Nation” Motto must be promoted and that tribalism is a crime.
This is because us, people of the mighty Southern Province are part of Zambia and do not own the UPND political party and hence there is no need for president HH to apologise to us. I hope more voices will condemn this bad approach to painting the UPND as a party for Sothern Province people.
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This sick acting president is talking nosence…!!!! where ever he goes, he is talking of UPND. If HH made a mistake then it should benefit the MMD. Why talking about it..!! In other words he did not made a mistake but right decision. People do forget their sickness when they are campaining. Kunda must be told UPND does not belong to people of southern province alone..!!!! UPND has even some members of parliament from other provinces.Does he think people of southern can support him when they have no cabinet minister in his government..!! This aids stricken patient,, with his red lipps should learn to shut up…!!! Go out and tell people about Government projects.. He should also know that he represents the whole people of zambia and should not use MMD symbols when doing national isses.!!
The pact really makes these a**holes un comfortable. why dont they just mind there own bizzinessss??
Do you call the school Boxer Garry Nkombo is inspecting as a development project, MY FOOT
Continuing on myy “I hope more voices will condemn this bad approach to painting the UPND as a party for Sothern Province people” above, I would like to commend Mr Mwansa Kunda of the Copperbelt who resigned from the MMD to join the mighty UPND Team just at about the time Mr Acting President George Kunda was making sad ronouncements in Lufwanyama.
The former MMD ward councillor had the following words to share with the whole nation Zambia, “I have resigned from MMD and joined UPND. Even my family can’t allow me to continue being in MMD,”. Such progressive people are what are making Minister Goerge Kunda panic and possibly hallucinate over the growing popularity of president HH and the mighty UPND Team across the face of Zambia.
Be blest all.
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Government on its toes because of the pact. Zambians your pressure for these guys to come together has yielded results. An inept government is now running to discredit the pact instead of working to convince people that they are working for them. The Pact is the only way. At this late hour, no-matter how MMD works for the people, such will merely be appeasement which should not accepted. They will be blindfolding people to think they are a right people. 18 years they have been sleeping and today they come saying we have been working! Viva PACT VIVA PACT VIVA PACT VIVA PACT VIVA PACT
Nkunda is a member of UPND and he feels agrieved that its in a pact with PF.Baba nchito esila next year:-t:-t:-t:-t:-t
I love that classroom photo, thanks LT. Ba MMD nisebana, if thats the development they are bringing in our land then God help us remove these thugs from office next year.
Patriot Sernior citizen and Mwata are still asleep in The US, wait until they wake up there will be a lot of rubbish on this site. KUNDA ENA MULWELE BANE NASUMINA8-|8-|