First Lady, Thandiwe Banda, has presented K30 million for distribution to about 500 women’s clubs in Mpika district. Mrs. Banda said she has an obligation to care for women and children in the country.
Mrs. Banda said more needs to be done to empower women and that her assistance to various women groups can go a long way in contributing to the development of the nation.
Speaking in Mpika district to mark the end of her seven day tour of Northern Province, Mrs. Banda thanked the well-wishers for supporting her efforts to serve the women folk and the vulnerable children in the nation. Mrs. Banda said she appreciated the warm reception accorded to her by the traditional leaders and the Northern Province Administration.
The First Lady expressed happiness that peace and unity prevailing in the nation and urged the nation to continue cherishing these two aspects in the country.
And speaking at the same occasion, Mpika District Commissioner Mwamba Sokoni said Government would soon send enough equipment to the district for use by the small scale farmers as a pilot scheme aimed at increasing food security in Mpika district.
Mr. Sokoni said last year, Mpika district harvested enough maize to feed the whole country for one month and disclosed that this year, the district has recorded a bumper maize harvest enough to feed the nation for three-months. He added that the district is geared to become the bread basket of the whole of Zambia.
Before leaving Mpika for Mansa, the First Lady paid a courtesy call on Chief Chikwanda and also visited Lwitikila Girls High School.
The First Lady is expected to return to Lusaka after ending her tour of Luapula province on September 5, 2010.
QFM
Where did she get the K30m from?Desperate people are known to do desperate thinggs
What nonsense is this . She has left K30 million to be distributed among 500 women groups, so each women group will get 60 pin = 60 thousand Kwacha only. What a mockery of the century. Let her stop misusing our money going round teasing the poor ambians. I am really shokod at her imaturity. Any way if her 80 years old husban acts like a 15 year, what else can we expect from Thandi???
# 1, First lady is a position of affluence and goodwill with corporations and philanthropic networks at home and overseas. I wish you were in Los Angeles when she responded to the first ladies’ conference. Its not like troll like you. Blessed are the givers.
Veteran/S.Citizen-You are the last person on earth i would debate with!!!!
The only thing we are not going to accept is this young girl to be called the mother of the nation she is a baby her self if that husband repeats that statement again he should be told off!
Which province is she vising next. Kaili she cant stay home, for her husband is alwys on the move. One day RB bakamwafwa.
Mrs Banda, you at one time anounced to the nation that you will not form an NGO but instead work with existing ones. which NGO were you representing or helping in Nothern P?…MMD?..shame upon you.We thought you are a wise first lady when you made that anouncement, but you are an embarasment!!! a big one for that matter!!! Dont think zambians are foolish. For your own info,every Zambian including reciepients of your stolen Tax payers money know that you are just campaigning for your husband. Have you not seen what is happening to Chilubas Regina, do you want to go through the same thing when RB leave state house? Chimboikala is just a stone throw. the more tax payers money you dish out, the nearer you get to chimboikala.
Rupiah Banda = father of the nation
Thandiwe Banda = mother of the nation
eeh, they must be extremely, very, very fertile to give birth to 12 million people!
This is blatant corruption!! Where has the money come from? Who donated it to her? If she has given away K30 million how much is she left with and how does she account for this money? One cant simply say it is from donors! Which donors when did they give her the money and where are the receipts/invoices? The ACC should be asking these questions not me but because they are lapdogs they will wait until a rival president takes over and orders them to check the books. Chiluba claims to have received $8 million this way when we all know public servants are not supposed to receive donations or gifts!
BUT, WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO WITH £8? WHAT DOES THIS GOVERNMENT THINK ABOUT ZAMBIANS? FUULS OR WHAT? COS REALLY WHAT CAN ONE DO WITH LESS THAN £8? ONE THING THAT SURPRISES ME IS THAT ZAMBIANS DON’T KNOW THAT THEY ARE BEING FUULED. ZAMBIANS PLEASE WAKE UP IN 2011.
#4 PLEASE MAINTAIN YOUR DIGNITY BY AVOIDING ANY DEBATE WITH VETERAN. YOU HAVE PUT IT RIGHTLY. ITS TRUE HE IS THE LAST PERSON…
YOU SEE CHILUBA WHAT YOU HAVE DONE, YOU HAVE LEFT A VERY BAD PRECIDENT OF DISHING OUT MONEY OR HAVE YOU JUST REVIVED IT NOW THAT YOU ARE A LOOSE CANON WHO IS RUBING SHODERS WITH RB? ………………………VJ YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8 wanjipaya! Its possible since they have twins…Satana naka sana ati iyo Thandie afyalafye ba mpundu…Its hot in there Thandie is in the mix now.
K30,000,000 divide 500= k60,000. Well I hope what the first lady is doing is really contributing to the women empowerment.
Iyeeee! Ala chansoni sana. So nomba ba Thandi nobwaiche bwabo, baleimona kwati nabakula ayi? This girl asakule mutu, she is a nonentity who by default found herself at plot one. Actually default of sleeping with an 80+ year old man! Yiiiishhhh, I shudder to imagine them two n.a.ked together, ukufulila abakote or ukutambila ichikote, we kapuba iwe behave yourself. Who told you that people would be bought by 60pin, kwena uli fontini.
Somebody help that girl how to tie gele, ahhhh! ubufontini. Those with intelligence know that when you give money freely like santa claus, people will smile at you and not with you coz they are getting it and cursing you inside their minds. Wake up, iwe fara wamuma famu.
Let others also feed from the corrupt elements. Accept the money and vote them out. WShy can’t the govt take development to all 9 provinces unlike this 000.00% development? Election time people open your eyes and hears’ .’ In bemba We say ubushi bwachipuba babulya lilya lifuntile.’ People just enjoy and decide later to give matching orders. This govt is corrupt from head to toe and is not fit for purpose.
Thandie was made pregnant by a very OLD RB before they got married. It’s not me saying it. It’s herself when she gave an account how she Met Shikulu RB. So because of child abuse Thandi cant think straight. Now she is in the firing line. She is campaigning for RB so we shall meet her head on in this POLITICAL WAR. Fidgiting with an OLD Man has gotten to her HEAD.
She got the money from being a ghost worker.
Or in Veterans words she used money from other Stealing African President’s wives.
Zambians.
DEMAND an audit of Rupiah and his tight arse wife.
60 Pin what a joke
The Presidential Slash Fund is back! Even the President moves with cash for dishing out at whim the same way Chiluba used to.
The First Lady’s donation of K30m in Chinsali on Saturday almost caused District Commissioner Maximo Chitambi to be beaten by women after he was tasked to distribute it. …Immediately Thandiwe left, Chitambi announced that the money had been deposited into the bank and would be ready today. The irate women wondered how 500 clubs with more than 40 members can be given K90,000 each. And there was not even transport to take them back home. The women were so disappointed that they just started shouting PF! PF! PF!
We are sailing, we are sailing,
The 2011 election campaign is getting dirty, ill-gotten money is being flashed around. What a disgrace!
Fellow zambians, We are stuck & stranded with RB and thandi. We don’t know what to do with this camera-excited couple. Thandi got excited & donated that money. same with the hubby who when gets in front of camera is so tuned on that the day he will decide to divorce his wife, most likely it will be in front of camera. remember that he sacked shaka & the late chibomba on camera. He was chasing way donors on camera. RB becomes dangerous to zambia when he has mics sorrounding him & ZNBC cameras pointing at him. He even has the guts to run back to cameras after he has already finished addressing them. Whoa! zambia!
She specifically went to Mpulungu to campaign. Mpika is just a by the way. MMD are spoiling the young lady.
I would like to find out if there are the Salanda’s in mpika district.Am from malawi.I understand my grandfather left malawi in the 50s and settled there.