MMD chairman for elections Mike Mulongoti says the ruling party does not tolerate corruption at any level, and the National Executive Committee (NEC) will investigate allegations of the vice in the process of adopting a candidate to contest the Chifubu parliamentary seat.
Mr Mulongoti said in an interview yesterday that it is not right for the MMD to adopt a candidate to contest the Chifubu parliamentary seat on the basis of corruption.
“I have not received an official complaint, but if the allegations are true, it is not right for us to adopt a candidate on the basis of corruption,” Mr Mulongoti said.
“If there are any complaints, the national executive committee will look into that,” he said.
Some candidates vying for the seat have alleged that interviews by the lower party organs have been marred by corruption.
Mr Mulongoti also said NEC wrapped up the process of interviewing the candidates for the Chifubu and Luena seats on Monday, July 5.
“We hope the teams will have concluded and will report back. We are waiting to start campaigning soon after the candidates for Chifubu and Luena are made known. It is all-systems-go after we select the candidates,” Mr Mulongoti said.
Five candidates have applied to contest the Chifubu parliamentary seat on the MMD ticket.
The candidates include Frank Ng’ambi, Victor Konie, Henry Mwelwa, Lisa Mpasi Nkowani and Benson Tembo.
The Electoral Commission of Zambia has set August 5, 2010 as the date on which the Chifubu and Luena parliamentary by-elections will be held.
The Chifubu parliamentary seat fell vacant after the death of Mr Benson Mwamba, who was a Patriotic Front member of Parliament.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
Mike tell us what corruption method was used?
Was it cash incentives?
Was it the length of your tongue? (For technique purposes)
Was it a family tree issue?
Proves there is corruption from Bottom and Upwards in MMD.
The party throws its money everywhere hoping to buy the right people but it just shows money cant buy loyalty.
Senior Citizen and Capital moron we wait your comment.
How can you spin this around?
Its strange to see the depth of decay in the MMD if rotten people like Mike can condem the vice by this maginitude then its really severe. If something is called corrupt by the MMD then I dont know what the correct term must be becouse in MMD attempted murder is called assault. Gross theft of Chiluba is called judicial manipulation. Let Zambians realise how unsafe this country is in the hands of these selfconfessing crimininals.
I for one feel like the story is misleading especially just 7 days after Zambia came up with money to repay the donors! This is cheap politics and every educated Zambian who can read between the lines should ultimately and rightly condemn such backward politics of poverty as displayed herein! Its the same MMD who have corruptly adopted Kafupi as their saviour because there are no brains within their circles to carry day-to-day operations of a working government! Dont get me wrong, I love MMD to death but some individuals have to go come 2011.