President Rupiah Banda says his administration is not siphoning public funds from Government for the ruling MMD campaigns as alleged by the opposition.
And President Banda has urged Zambians to judge for themselves on who is a mature and upright leader to steer national development between him and opposition PF leader Michael Sata.
In addition, Mr Banda has denied allegations that he is attacking the catholic clergymen.
Speaking to journalists at the Lusaka International Airport, today,shortly before departure for the SADC summit in Windhoek, Namibia, President Banda categorically denied the opposition’s accusations that his administration was abusing public funds to fund ministers’ trips in all provinces for the ruling MMD party campaigns.
Mr. Banda affirmatively refused to be drawn into ‘cheap administration’ by the opposition saying this is because Government and the MMD party are two different entities operating independently.
He added that though 2011 was an election year for Zambia, his administration is going to ensure that development flourishes in all sectors of the economy.
He castigated Mr. Sata for suggesting that the K1 trillion loan meant for roads is meant to hoodwink the Zambians.
Mr. Banda advised the opposition leader that his Government working with other cooperating partners is a creative one with a vision and focus to steer development across the country and that funds meant for projects could be sourced way possible.
“ We have started building the roads and hospital and you cannot run a Government only in the budget you have to be creative and sit with other stakeholders to find cash and build projects.
” We are going to the polls we should remain focused well co-ordinated as we embark on these projects. It is not hoodwinking people as Mr. Sata thinks,” he said.
Mr. Sata accused President Banda of hoodwinking the Zambian electorate on the K1 trillion loan for roads and hospitals suggesting that there is no budget for that.
He challenged scribes in the country to verify their stories before publishing them and desist from getting half baked information.
“….Abuse of public funds… there is no way l can give cash and give it to the party because the party has got programs. l have never collected or given money to ministers and l can’t do that because there are programs of raising money and not in that manner.
” You as Journalists can go to Permanent Secretaries in these provinces or indeed any other authority to verify facts with valid documents because this is what is expected of you and your fellow Journalists in other countries do,” he said.
And President Banda has also denied that he is attacking the catholic clergymen.
Mr. Banda stated that catholic priests and bishops have got the fundamental right who to support or not maintaining that some are in good books with him and Government in particular.
“It is not true that l attack the catholic people but l can tell you that there are those who support us and not,” he said.
On his trip to Windhoek, Namibia where he has gone to attend a two-day Extra Ordinary Summit of the Southern Africa Development Community-SADC, President Banda said the region is concerned about events in Madagascar and Zimbabwe.
He assured that a lasting solution would be found as the Heads of State were meeting to discuss the matter and a report would come out on Zimbabwe.
“We have always been concerned about the peace in some in Madagascar and Zimbabwe but we shall discus on Madagascar we will be making a report on Zimbabwe as you know we recently had a summit in Livingstone where we agreed the report was coming…,” he said
President Banda who is Chairman of the SADC Organ on Defence and Security Cooperation expressed optimistic that the SADC region was moving close to the table for attaining peace that would bring about change in the affected countries.
Mr. Banda is tonight expected to brief the SADC Summit on the progress made in the implementation of the Global Political Agreement in Zimbabwe and the Peace Mediation Process in Madagascar.
The SADC Summit has been called to discuss issues pertaining to regional peace and security following the SADC Troika Organ Summit which Zambia hosted in March.
SADC Chairman and Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba was mandated to call for an Extra Ordinary Summit to discuss issues agreed at the Livingstone Troika Organ meeting.
The SADC Summit will discuss progress towards the implementation of a joint Free Trade Area among the African regional blocs that include COMESA and the East African Community.
President Banda is accompanied to Namibia by Foreign Affairs Minister Kabinga Pande, Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Felix Mutati and other senior government officials.
Mr. Banda was seen off at the Lusaka International Airport by Works and Supply Minister Gabriel Namulambe, Energy Minister Kenneth Konga, Secretary to Cabinet Dr. Joshua Kanganja, Defense Chiefs and senior Government officials.
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At the moment, there is a lacuna in Zambian laws on campaign funding for political parties. That needs to be addressed. Some countries forbid foreign monies being used in political campaings but others allow it as long as it is declared. I don’t know which model would suit Zambian politics. In some countries, all donations to political parties must be made public and be below an agreed threshold.
Rupiah, we are not stu.pid people to buy your cheap denial. We know you are stealing from govt to fund your campaign. It will soon be laid bare for all to see
Yourself and dola are top on list for arrest to serve as example.
Just announce election day so that sort you out
LATEST pf president michael sata was quoted this evening on znbc tv news saying that the likes of mulongoti and mbita chitala had ganged up against him in 2001. another flip flop? get your copy of the post or times of zambia or daily tomorrow for more information. obviously readers will be confused by this turn of events, but don’t worry this if pf, you have to be pf in order to understand, speak or practise the science of nonsense.
So this crap is going be on every string? Don’t nausea for doing so? You have nothing else to contribute? Take a nap!
2012 Arrest warrants
1. Rupiah Crooked Banda
2. Dora Ho Siliya
3. Simon Mambala Miti
4. Vernon slim Mwaanga
5. George Hearse Kunda
Wa Toba Numbian princess. Good one. I like it. Yes Yesss
Apologise to the catholic priests and for siphoning public funds to fund Dora’s insults.
On 5th June 2011 the Zec Bishops’ letter will be read in all Catholic Church congregations in Zambia and that’s when Rupiah will see that Dora is not as smart as he thinks. Who is Dora to be insulting men of God? And Rupiah is politicking instead of apologising. Catholic Church is not a joke bane.
Rupiah shouldn’t deny that he is siphoning public funds for his campaigns. The day of reckoning is near. Rupiah is contracting more debts to please the copperbelt voter, how sad.
Kuya bebele….this year,No matter what you do.
DANISH INTERVIEWER
QUESTION 16: So you wouldn’t make some new rules or some new conditions or some new restrictions regarding the relationship with the Chinese?
MICHAEL SATA
ANSWER – The point is the laws have already made restrictions. Some people are saying I am talking to you people because I want to bring back the gay and lesbians and *** I tell them to say listen, the laws of Zambia recognise gayism, the laws of Zambia recognise lesbians.***
Mr. Sata has got nothing to offer and he is panicking. This is why he is making empty statements. Mr. Sata must understand that whether election year or not, development must continue. President Rupiah Banda and his administration have outperformed any other administration in the history of Zambia in just a period of 2 years.
This level of development happening in Zambia is unprecedented and Mr. Sata knows that he cannot debate against the MMD when it comes to development. This is why his manifesto is filled with utopia which only PF cadres can believe.
Mr. Sata must know that the MMD is winning with a landslide victory this year. There is no amount of propaganda he can spread to stop that trend. Mr. Sata will receive the shock of his life this year.
I am too dull to be a journalist..says RB… z e d l e a k s . c o m
# 6 the so called nubian princess. Pray that God gives u a faithful husband otherwise its not good to make fun of those our friends who are affilicted. May god gives a faithful husband who will not stray and have live sex with a sick person. Most ppl who are sick especially you ladies, it most likey coz unfaithful friends or husbands. God bless you
does a thief accept have ever you heard chiluba accepting, even if poverty was evident in the country.
Chunga pesa zetu na ushuru wetu utumike kwa mambo ya maendeleo ya zambia.Hatutaki wafisadi katika serikali kwani wataleta umaskini kwetu kwa kujitajirisha kwa mali ya umma.
Kuya bebeleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
What a sad indictment that the Post is reporting fictional fraud as fact. I can’t believe that a newspaper can sink so low reporting untrue accusations as facts by juxtaposing events and targeting one tribal group.
#10 and 11 you ar stupid fooooooooooooooooooooooools who feed on corrupt mmd money…this yr we ar voting pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
Ya…keep on telling yourself that…lol.
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Sata tried to sell this gospel when he came to the UK. He attempted to sell his story to the respected UK (1) THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER & (2) THE OBSERVER NEWSPAPER , they told him to take a hike and trek back because they did not know anything about he (Sata). Thus, he got reduced to addressing his London based unemployed PF Cadres and Credit Card Fraudsters
Fred False Prophet M’membe mislead Sata that he would expose him to the international platform, but it all failed. While at the oxford address, he was asked to articulate on an issue in the speech, Sata could not answer the question and started panicking
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What Sata did not realise is that – Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague have commended the good works RB has done in the last 2 years. Hence, they want to continue supporting development programs, which RB is undertaking.
As for The Post, it has lost credibility on the international platform. CNN, Voice of America and BBC World Radio is now very careful replicating anything that The Post publishes. A while ago, a UK Labour MP who and his wife were both born in Zambia before Independence called The Post as an angry hidden Political Party that is likely to bring Civil War to the nation
Common people support your president RB, he still at 20 points Sata 112 points, articles posted at same time.
Ruphia Banda alailwala BP, you can see how he has lost wait in last 2 months…. Sata mwaume DON’T UKUBEBA
What abot GRZ vehicles you used. are they for MMD. You used to wear gumboots mpombo said as designers shoess.
#20. I have been to ZIM and RSA and NAMIBIA. They is no paper like our Post. What do you read yourself.
#20 just a coward blogging under your blankets. No match for mmembe
Imagine a zambia. Full of chaps like #11 and 20 who think with their stomacks.
23# 24# Jealous phili
Tell M’membe he is no match to me not by any inch at all by some form. He knows that very well. If you know him ask him who Independent Observer is?
Its morning and business hours right now in Tokyo, I will spare you my comments some other time I get back to London. Everything that I have said about M’membe has smoke accompanied by fire. I speak for myself and not for MMD. Just like, I have criticised and condemned Chiluba so many times, if you have followed by blogs for some time.
I do not need MMD muscle but I agree and support their Economical & Fiscal Programs, which are bringing yields to all parts of Zambia. I ask you to debate objectively and do follow blindly and hero-worshiping.
As for your papers in ZIM, RSA & NAMIBIA – good that is your back yard.
Sorry, I read papers that can influence good western investors, partners and tourists to come to Zambia. That is the difference between you and me. Its not about me, me and me. Its about how we Zambians can promote and do for our motherland.
Therefore, I ask to stand up and make a difference for Zambia and not hero-worship people.
#20 Who are those people Cameron and Hague are they Blackburn Rovers soccer players?
Your president Ruphia Banda, is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
@ 27 – I mean’t … I ask you to debate objectively and do NOT follow blindly and hero-worshiping.
#27 I feel sorry to imagine that Zambia would be your MOTHERland, or do you call it Mother-Zambia? Then someone is abusing your mother and you are there trying to find a better father (Investors/ Tourists) to come and participate in impregnating your Mother-Zambia?
Banda is the worst president to rule Zambia. Those who support him have chosen to exist in their own pride of ignorance. Please leave the post out of this nonsense. Rupiya is just corrupt and will face his own judgement.
No truth comes out of Rupiah’s mouth! He thinks Zambians are so dull after he tricked us before the last elections that he had withdrawn the bill increasing perks for institutional office holders, but as soon as the rigged elections passed he took the bill back to parliament. So no matter how much he barks about Sata, opposition and the Post telling lies, the people of Zambia will never believe anything out of his foul mouth. The truth is what comes from Sata and the Post because they have the facts which is fed to them by the trustees of Rupiah. Kuyabebele uno mwaka, especially with the MMD Chairman of elections who struggles to construct even simple English grammar! Its all over!
Dear Mr Independent Observer, I hope you are debating just for the sake of it. You sound like somebody far away in Europe being fed false info by a relative in Zed. Guys come for holidays & see things for yourselves. I was in the same boots as you until….
I came back home. The Sata you are haranguing under your sheets has been endorsed by prominent Zambians in the political arena because unlike Chiluba’s theft which was clandestine, Rupiah’s is overt and obvious. Unless there is something very amiss with you or you are just a blind tribalist, surely you have to see the obvious. We are NOT reading The Post bwana, we are a previleged few that see things at a higher level than the general Populace. If you were a Zed businessman worth above 10 billion kwacha
you would have seen things differently. Comparing the Post with the Western media is myopic in the least because their news is mainly meant to propagate western supremacy and the so called foreign investors that you Zed people keep baying about are NOT the solution to #ed’s problems. They just syphon our meagre resources. Tourists will only visit in drones if there is something worth seeing/experiencing not a ranting president who knows absolutely nothing. If you’ve ever been the best in anything, you’ll
agree that you have to depend on your own abilities and not external help. Foreigners will NOT bring wealth to Zed. Please Mr. Independent Observer, you sound like an intelligent person do NOT yoke yourself to the “Foreign is good” syndrome or “wako ni wako” that oue Eastern brothers have adopted. Where is the African development that BBC, CNN and others have kept trumpeting about since the 60’s? Do you think they wud sing the same song if Africa united against forein handouts and depended on itself?
#26 give us yo profile. We have seen the works of mmembe.
#26 which paper do you read. I have worked in Namibia. RSA and Zim And i read a lot my friend
#26 You are out there moving around with yo tail tacked between yo legs like a village dog.
My wife wanted me work in the UK i refused. May be my children will do that not me.
#27 Ati “i read newsletters to bring good investaz to zambia”. Who is this chap. Is he not RB son
I bet Mr 10% (Rupiah), has recieved a cut from all road contractors. There is no way Rupiah ca award contracts worth K1Trillion without getting a cut. He is desparately trying to raise money for his MMD/UNIP party. Am comforted though that we will catch him in September and just after Elections have been annouced
so Rupiah has been in power for a few years and he still wants to work on Zimbabwe….If he followed Levy’s stance from 2007 – 08 then maybe Mugabe would be gone by now.
Rupiah supports Mugabe so he will never act against him
African dictators who scratch each others backs at important times stay in power the longest.
Zambia and Africa in general needs better road infrastructure: Currently statistics are that African road network is half that of Latin America and less than a third of Asia. Rupiah Banda should be praised for pouring a meagre 1 trillion Kwacha to enhance road capacity. Those who have taken time to drive in Western Europe will know that road works are the order of the day. Roads and rail networks are constantly being repaired and improved. In terms for strategy, Rupiah is by far better than Sata. When Zambia is finally granted status to sell bonds on the global markets, they must use these resources to improve our transportation network.
COME BACK TO ZAMBIA, YOU SLAVES. TOILET CLEANERS, OLD PEOPLES MAIDS. AINT YOU TIRED CLEANING YARDS FOR OTHERS. YOU HAVE NO DIGINITY. WE WANT TO CHANGE ZAMBIA SO THAT WE CAN EMPLOYEE YOU, YOU DONT EVEN VISIT YO FAMILIES COZ,YO LIVE HAND TO MOUTH. MMD KUYA BEBELE.
36# Jealous phili
Guys.. INDEPENDENT OBSERVER is not rb’s son. he is a zambian that works as an equity stock trader in an american investemtment bank in uk. i read his profile in the financial times, which said he earns about £2 million pounds plus per year and lives in a £3m house in london. i think his money is confusing him and keeps ranting all the time. i hear he has shares into stanbic, citibank, finance bank and a number of companies in zambia. if he continues ranting, we shall review his name very soon.
VIVA …SATA …SATA… SATA
I laughed when RB challenged journalists to dig for information, about whether or not GRZ funds are being misused by MMD, from the various ministries. Those parrots at Times of Zambia, Zambia Daily Mail, and ZNBC can never do that. Those from The Post can try but the information will never be given to them. The GRZ operates under a code of secrecy. Zambians should help themselves by removing this corrupt MMD government in this year’s elections.
#45 Oopss! Dominic stras kan wud get $500k/yr IMF boss. Stock broker it abot $90k
#45 IMF boss gets $500000per yr . A stock trader gets about $90000 per yr
Derivates & Equity Traders can easily get millions. Their basic are around £150,000 to £500,000 but get a lot of commission from every deal they make. They also get continuous pay from their Portfolios of Pyramids. Investments banks pay good bonuses often in millions. I read INDEPENDENT OBSERVER’s profile and it appears he is a Licensed Trader, Proprietary and Partner in his Bank. He is also involved Acquisitions & Merging similar to how HH made his money. This means he must get millions per year. I have to say, for a Zambian, I was impressed with his achievements. The author of the article said he manages a £450 Million Portfolio of good clients names. That is huge even if he just gets the minimum, which is 2.5 Percent commission per year. He should join an intelligent party – UPND
#49 am impressed. Am compilin list of people that ve made it & opinion leaders for kids to read. Give me his names will search the profile.
Pa Zed ala Wina Azalina over stealing of public funds. Days are never the same!
#50 Jealous phili.
I am not for naming him on the LT blog, ask him. You can search him of FT.COM.
There was an article in the hard copy of Financial Times as to why African & Caribbean Blacks fail to get high profile Capital Markets jobs. The author went and interviewed INDEPENDENT OBSERVER with the permission of his Investment Bank employers at his work place. He does a good CV & Academic background. You can try this company, ADVFN.COM as I hear he is among the co-founders. I also saw him in a picture with Bill Gates (Microsoft) that was taken at the London School of Economics when Bill was giving a seminar. I am not upping him up, but he is genuine and an inspiration. People I know that have meant him say he is a down to earth person keeps a low profile. His story is amazing.
RB is just waiting for confirmation, because he has already own the elections. the results are there to show….
Independent observer is a paper. Ft.com and advfn.com are stock exch. sites. Mention his NAME pls
Is he a partner or employee at the US investment bank.
Please. Please, help me out. Why is it that the PF supporters on this blog can’t make their case in an intelligible manner. Also they seem to be stooped in the delusion of utopia, which Mr. Sata is promising. Where is he going to get the money from? Please PF supporters tell us a bit more. Spare us the emotion.
Jealous Phili et al. Copperbelt Joint is right. Get reading guys. The boys in the city make money beyond belief and there is no limit. Please read a book titled “Who Runs Britain?” by Robert Peston the BBC Chief Economic Correspondent. There are others of course. I am not surprised that there is a Zambian guy making big money in the city. The city does not care about your skin colour as long as you can make money. Damon Buffini, Chairman of Permira for example is black.
I think am debating with student. Anyway the best guy in zambia is Elias Chipomo jr.
# 58 Jealous phili.
Man, do you have an issue, why can’t you wish good for fellow Zambian. Why do want his name. The guy was in Financial Times FT.COM and was interviewed by a well respected Business Journalist. The article also said that he was the founding member of ADVFN.COM when it started in 1999. However, INDEPENDENT OBSERVER sold his stake for millions and went into Investment Banking. Be proud for your fellow Zambian. He has two Degrees and MBA.
One minute you are saying you want the kids to read about him, the next minute, you are showing jealousy
57# Apamwamba
I agree with you. The Chief Executive of PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE is
MR. TIDJANE THIAM. He is Blackman born and raised in Ivory Cost. He has a degree in Engineering from France. He is running 400 plus £ Billion Insurance Company.
The Chief Economist of Lloyds Bank is TREVOR WILLIAMS. He is a Blackman, born in the Caribbean Islands
Lets be proud with our own Zambian flying the color in the city of London.
By the way, LUKWESA BURAK, the SKYNEWS Reader is Zambian and black just in case some people think that Zambians are not good enough to shine