PRESIDENT Banda has urged Zambians not to vote for opposition leaders because they have nothing to offer.
And Mr Banda has also appealed to MMD members to verify their details on the voters roll during the ongoing verification exercise being conducted by the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ).
The President said in Ndola yesterday that it will be retrogressive for voters to choose the opposition at a time the country is recording economic growth and massive developments.
Mr Banda is on the Copperbelt to officially open this year’s Copperbelt Mining and Agricultural Show in Kitwe. He was accompanied by Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry Felix Mutati and other Government officials.
“Don’t vote for politicians who have nothing to offer. We want to continue what we are doing as MMD for the benefit of the citizens of this country,” Mr Banda said.
The President was addressing people who welcomed him at Ndola International Airport. Mr Banda said the MMD has done very well and that its policies have transformed the country.
The President said it will be sad for the good projects the government is executing to be disturbed if the opposition assumes power.
“Everywhere we are constructing schools, clinics and roads and people should choose whether they want these good works to continue or not, because we have heard that some politicians want to become heads of state to settle scores,” Mr Banda said.
He said the economy has continued to record significant growth and that the country has enough food. Mr Banda also commended farmers for producing another bumper harvest this season.
The bumper harvest is as a result of the good policies of Government, he said.
“The opposition should be sincere as they campaign, instead of lying to our people that government is doing nothing. The MMD has done enough for the people of Zambia and the evidence is there,” Mr Banda said.
The President said once re-elected, he will continue to turn Zambia into a development hub which will grow internally and feed itself.
He said Zambia has achieved a lot in the agricultural sector and that there is enough food for consumption and export.
The President wondered where ‘false prophets’ are getting information that Zambians want to change government when the authorities are doing their best to develop the country.
“We have taken health facilities closer to the people through mobile hospitals and the response so far is very good. I wonder where people like Sata, Mulongoti and George Mpombo are getting information that people want change. The MMD will prove them wrong again during the elections this year,” Mr Banda said.
And the President has directed the MMD leadership on the Copperbelt to ensure that party members verify their particulars on the voters’ roll. Mr Banda said the verification exercise should be taken seriously by every voter.
“We want more members ahead of the elections, so let us ensure that we accommodate members rejoining our party. We need more people to vote for us during the general elections,” Mr Banda said.
“I want to leave a strong MMD when I retire in 2016, so we should defeat those who are against development,” Mr Banda said.
And Copperbelt provincial Minister Mwansa Mbulakulima assured President Banda of good support from the province.
Mr Mbulakulima said the MMD in the province is geared for the elections and commended President Banda for the procurement of mobile hospitals.
“Mobile hospitals are benefiting a lot of people, particularly in rural areas,” Mr Mbulakulima said.
He said Copperbelt Province has continued to record massive transformation because of the good policies of the MMD government.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
Biggy, if you are positive of winning, let PVT be conducted freely. Why should u wori anyway? Do not say 1 thing in public but when you go in the bathroom you have shiki.
and what do u have to offer?james banda,nenani banda?
Please learn to differentiate between govt and political party affairs. Did we see America collapse after power change? Did we see Japan collapse three years ago after change of govt? ati projects will be disturbed.. ebukopo ubu, as old as you are you fail to remember that when MMD came into power, govt departments were still working and up to date they are unless you tell me that in MMD policy, govt and the political party are one and the same. UBUTUTU MULEKE PA ZED
“Don’t vote for politicians like me who have nothing to offer. We want to continue what we are doing as MMD; scandal after scandal and stealing from the country to benefit ourselves. The accidental bumper harvest is as a result of God’s will. “We have taken health facilities closer to the people through mobile hospitals though there are no roads for the trucks to drive on and the response so far is very good. These are the very reasons why people want change and it is coming this year” Please vote for change
NI ZEEEEEEEE,THATS TRUE MUDALA,UBUKOPO BWEKABWEKA BA PRESIDENT WABO UYU.
Zambians wake up and stop useless pipo fooling the masses. What development is there this president talk about? Where are the graduates from CBU and UNZA, why are they quite? Those guys ahould be in for front questioning the president about jobs. Bring jobs, not mobile hospital, stop corruption, let the courts/ the police be independent. Pipo are dying of hunger not sata, c’mon man talk of things you will do better if voted in office for another term.
Ya We want to continue with our programmes- Dora and I are busy right now. Also I need to continue giving tenders to my sons and relatives. I have to continue getting kick backs in dubious deals. The maney is good! RB is useless. Who says that change of government means collapse of the nation. Ubepelefye!!! Kuya Kuya Kuya Kuya!!!
this man sure is up himself, countries dont stop progressing because power changes hands. has he not seen how things work in other countries? get over yourself Bwezani, Zambia will keep moving forward even without you and your lot in the picture.
These are wise words Mr. President. The MMD of 2001 till present has done a lot to steer this economy forward. In fact, in the 3 years you have been in power, Zambia has seen unprecedented levels of development. Development like never seen before in this nation.
Everywhere there is something happening in every sector thanks to the good policies of the MMD. Mr. Sata and his PF are too used to lying to people about abracadabra 90 day utopia day in day out. The people of Zambia have seen through all of this. Mr. Sata saw no corruption in the 1991 – 2000 regime. He is not qualified to fight corruption because he did not see any of it.
A vote for MMD is a vote for development Mr. President. This is why I keep on telling people that MMD is winning with a landslide victory this year.
Which party was in power during the corrupt period of 1991 to 2001 you have mentioned? Wasnt it the same party you are supporting today? so thats the party we want out of government thank you very much for admitting that MMD is a corrupt party. So dont you think its wise for the people to remove this corrupts party?
The MMD of 1991 is different from the MMD of 2001 till present. In fact, if you look closely, the MMD of 1991 left the current MMD and went to form PF. This present MMD is different. They have performed well economically and that is why I am supporting them. It is my democratic right.
If you want to remove the current MMD and replace them with PF, then you are making a big mistake IMO. PF has got no development plan. They have no development policies. In fact, development is a strange topic in PF. At least if you are suggesting UPND, that would make more sense.
Whatever the case, PF has never won a presidential election and will never win a presidential election.
Capitalist uli chipumbu.
IWE CHILAKA,CAPITALIST,WHICH DEVELOPMENTS ARE TALKING ABOUT?ARE OURU ARE FOLLOWING BLINDLY BECOZ ONE OF YOUR RELATIVES IS ABOUT TO LOSE A JOB.ALL RB HAS BEEN DOING ARE MINOR DEVELOPMENTS,LEISURE STAFF.THE MONEY IS THERE AND HE WOULD DO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS BUT HE IS BUSY USING A LOT OF MONEY ON USELESS DUBIOUS DEVELOPMENTS.IF I CAN ASK U A QUESTION,WHY DID HE REMOVE THE CLAUSE ACT OF PUBLIC OFFICE?IN ORDER TO SECURE AND SHIELD HIM SELF OF CORRUPT DEEDS.THIS TIME WE ARE KICKING MMD OUT.
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHA…..PROJECTS AT FINAL STAGE..EVEN A SMALL CHILD CAN TELL THIS IS TO BLINDFOLD PEOPLE…WE ARE NOT SLEEPING.DO WHAT EVER YOU WANT BUT NI DONCHI KUBEBA
9 posts so far 8 against 1 for…. tick tock tick tock
when Mr SATA pronounced the 90days development plan some brainless said it can not be possible because it is 90days.but today it’s like it is working for others,I only wish they had started earlier than that to dupe peoeple.
Even when RB is gone Zambia will still continue to move forward. Dont cheat yourselves that development will stop. Governments end, people die but the country doesnt and development continues. Vote for SATA to clean up the country. PABWATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Mr president you are using tax money and the next prisident will use the same so who are you cheating? GREADNESS has filled in you .do a fair election and avoid shame.power is sweet mixed with evil if you get greedness.
Nothing will stop Sata this year. come on Michael we are behind you.
All Zambians must reject RB. He is not a team player. He has made sure that there is no democracy in his own party, and the public media is run by him via a robot called Shikapwasha. His programs are ill-conceived as there has not been any real project management planning for any of his pet projects. He is not a national leader, but a plunderer in disguise.
Finally, I find the ZAF Logo to be poorly done. The location of the Eagle is supposed to be at the centre of the three colours converging. Shows that leadership has no quality assurance in its brain, if it has any for Zambia.
who is a team player? Am looking for one so i can voote for him. None of the candidates can claim to be team players. others cant even sustain a simple pact. African leadership depends on how strong an individual is thats why we vote on popularity, not quality of leadership. We all know the best leaders but they are not popular.
These projects are not personal to holder like they are being done by his farm in chipata.These are government projects where funding has been already allocated to.When UNIP left,did the country remain stand still?when levy mwanawasa died(mhsrip)did the country stop functioning?Fear and reality is now coming to MMD camp,they think when people talk of change,to them its a joke.Wait and see that power is in the hands of the people you always fool.Today geyers,roads,schools have become important to RB/MMD?Donchi Kubeba
Levy is Gone MHSRP but u continued where he had left.Nothing came to a stand still that the president has died now things should stop moving.Everything went on well up to today.As for your info all those projects that u are intiating now, no one will stop them they will be finished for the benefits of all Zambians and not for you Bwana President. Stop cheating people that thing will come to a stand still coz u are gone never.The only thing that will come to a stand still is your freedom that u are enjoying now together with your friend chiluba coz you will be asked to account for all your wrong doings.Dont cheapen yourself with all those lies you are not a factor to the development of this Country.It is time to you started packing u are leving in someone’s mansion
Provide jobs and good health care systems rather than endless projects without real base…..peaople need good standards of living and none corrupt leaders.
cheap politiking
But nafibipa ifintu zooooona…..So when MMD come out of power there will be no development?All these projects being talked about will come to a halt?Then let there be NO development its ok,we are not young ones any more to be cheated like that.Mr president,change in any nation come and development continues.Dont tell pipo that Zambia will come to an end if MMD is not voted into power.
BA RB NINVELA CIFUNDO INE BAABA MWATI MUZA WINA MA ELECTIONS IMWE,AWE NICITO DAUTA KWAMBIRIMBIRI NTAU YANU A MUDALA IONEKA MONGA YAFIKA.LEKELANI A SATA MWEO MUENDE KU FARM KU CHIPATA MWANVWA? AH MA RABISH GET MY ADVICE BABA TIME HAS COME FOR U TO GO
RB is a fool, didn’t he just take over were Mwanawasa left? The same will be done this year as he leaves office. This is the problem with our leaders thinking no1 can do what hes doing, this is totally wrong. Greedy people, by the way we not even benefiting from yo projects. Commisioning projcts were there is no activity, the recently commissioned projects in CB like Konkola Deep Mining Project (KDMP) wich was startd many years ago by Anglo, was commisioned when they are still deepening the shaft, not even sure wen production will start. Konnoco mine also in Chililabombwe, they re rehabilitating the plant with no specific date will it will be in full operational. Foolish man what’s this rush for?
Attending a ground-breaking ceremony is not a project, you mo/ron! You’re busy breaking the ground all over the country during election year to leave us with white elephant projects. You’re a stinker and clown, Rupiah Bozo.
Give credit to Levy Mwanawasa for the surpluses he left in the coffers you id/iot piece of unpresidential sh/it!
AFTER REACHING THE HIPIC COMPLETION POINT UNDER LLATE LPM ZAMBIA’S DEBTS WERE CANCELLED AND WE STOPPED SERVICIN THE DEBTS. THIS MEANT THAT THE NATION HAD EXTRA RESOURCES TO INVEST. INTO PROJECTS. RB JUST FOUND (NISANGWAPO) RESOURCES AVAILABLE AS A RESULT OF LPM’S HARD WORK. BUT INSTEAD OF DOING A BETTER JOB HE HAS ALLOWED MINES TO GO UNTAXED, BORROWING RECKLESS FOR USELESS THINGS, FLYING ALL OVER, KILLED DEMOCRACY IN THE NATION, REMOVED THE ABUSE OF OFFICE CLAUSE, ABANDOMED THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION, SINGLE SOURCING EVERY HUGE CONTRACT….. BUT THIS TIME AROUND ZAMBIANS WILL NOT BE FOOLED.
Goal posts are shifting again! Before we were being told that nothing is happening under RB, then it was the projects we are seeing were the brain child of Levy, now it is PF will continue were MMD left off. So MMD has been working all along? I guess the only reason I can think of why some want a change of govt is because they are Bemba tribalists period. Sata now says he saw no corruption when he was working with Chiluba for ten years, is that not evidence enough of his st.upidity or are the st.upid ones the Bemba tribalists who believe him?
As if they are his personal projects! Anyway if that is the best reason to vote for MMD that he can think of (i.e. “MMD is good at borrowing and begging money”) then bye bye dadee…
That explains why we have got a lot of white elephants in Zambia because all these politician start their projects around elections period and when they are out whoever takes over doesn’t finish them. When will this nonsense end? please develop Zambia because you want to and because you dearly love and are proud of Zambia and not just because you want to win election. We as a country can honestly archive a lot to even “wow” the world. it really breaks my heart seriously. *very Sad*.
SORRY SIR!! FOR NOW WE ARE DECIDED……….MMD NI HAMBA LALA……..YOU CANNOT DUPE US WITH THESE LAST MINUTE FAKE PROJECTS WHICH YOU ARE RUSHING UP……YOUR TIME IS UP……JUST START PACKING YOUR KATUNDU……..NOT EVEN THE RURAL FOLK WILL FALL FOR YOUR LIES THIS TIME AROUND…….TWAKANA!!!!! KABEPENIKO ABENA GWANDA!!!! IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA OR IS IT NYASALAND??……..BYE BYE POLIO!!!!!
i have never heard the so called RB talk about corruption is dirty mouth all he knows about is project idot change coming RB, sally, big noise, red lips must be in jail
Go to hell with the stinking mushota…Fake projects are all around us…mobile toilets and geysers in Mandevu…a geyser with no running water..cockeye
# 29 gabino. Very good point. You NEVER hear him condemn corrupt practices. He has been commissioning projects day in and out. Do we even have any adverts for tenders/expression of interest on these projects? It seems he is control of all the projects hence they just sit as MMD and decide.
RUPIAH YOU ARE ONLY PROVING SERVICES AS DEVELOPMENT MEANS ANOTHER THING – PLEASE CHECK THE DEFINITION AGAIN.
WHEN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS FALL THERE IS NOT MUCH CHANGE FOR THE PEOPLE.
GOOD POLICIES ARE KEPT AND BAD ONES ARE CHANGED.
THIS IS DEMOCRACY AND RUPIAH NEEDS TO LEARN THE WORD.
STOP THE SCARE TACTICS AND FEAR MONGERING.
RB when you were at the farm Zambians were far much safe than now, Your coming on the political scene has brought alot of misery in the Nation. You only think about your family and Tandi’s. You have allowed corruption to florish. By the way Zambians are entiled to good roads, hospital etc . you are paid a tax free salary to bring those things. MMD ZWAAAAAAAAAA
#10 33 posts so far and only 2 against………????????????
MMD clowns always condemn the 90day theory of the PF. How many days has it taken RB to launch these projects? Since he became President, by now he could have been opening finished projects for public consumption.
MMD is using GRZ money, which they will not go with as thery leave office this year, and development will continue with pro-poor focus.
You MMD cadres who usually say PF is suported by kaponya’s. My question do kaponya’s even have time to access the net? out of 34 comments only 2 are againt. So watch out. we have have already decided. VIVA SATA. ALA NI PABWATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is important for politicians to know that we are not stupid?…what development are you talking about…you call panicking development?…why didnt you do all this in the past 3 years? do you want as to revise the constitution so that we can have elections every year in order for us to see development?…..
Zambia can never come to a stand still because of change of government. MMD, Zambians are tired of your development talk, each MMD president who comes talks about development as an excuse of not vacating the presidency. After all the development talk we have heard from all the three mmd presidents, Zambia was going to be a highly developed country but nix, there is nothing much to show for. Don’t be so scared of the opposition, remember you were once an oppostion political party. We have seen enough of your dance, let others dance too.
This UNIP-ist rubbish is too funny. As if national development is brought by “the party”. It is really quite disturbing how far stuck in the past these people are.
This UNIP-ist rubbish is too funny. As if national development is brought by “the party”. It is really quite disturbing how far stuck in the past these people are.
Development will continue even when you are gone. Its not like the money is coming from your pocket. Don’t behave like you are doing us a favoure, the Zambia people employed you to deliver using their money which you are failing to do. This year you and your friends will be fired for non performance.
shame on you RB i thought uli na nzelu kansi muchimutu uliche manzi
One party mentality! MMD has now turned into UNIP, they have nothing to offer and no one should use public funds as ransom to convince people to vote for them.
MR PRESIDENT,the people you rule are not foolish. the people you rule are not blind, the people you rule are not stupid, the people you rule know what you are doing, for your information select words you say because the more you open your mouth the more you upset them, the more you insult them, all we have heard from you are insults. but the worst now is that you are insulting God. who are you to say when you leave office people will no longer eat, have good roods, are you saying you are now God? you have been using the word i have done this, i have done this etc, giving yourself credit. God has always heard his people. right now people are crying and their cries have been received by God. can you talk about the following;
-corruption- budgetory control you have not adhered to,
This is very sad. A president who was touted by his cadres as educated to sink so low. He is going back to 1970’s politics KK used in one party state. It is like he has forgotten the time he is living in. End times, even the perceived powerful ones will be reduced to ramblers. Democracy is one great thing. Presume this guy was in a one party state. He would be worse than Gadhaffi, Mubarak and Ben Ali combined. It seems like he is spending sleepless nights about Sata’s statement about plunderers and corruption. He is so worried about settling scores. Why? Has he done something that he is afraid of?
What has happened to MMD cadres? So out numbered by fact seeking and reasoning people on this blog. Capitalist, the praise master. Go and get your Banda praising team. We want to hear your airport songs you sing for Banda. Sometimes I just want to read your myopic rants. Come on Capitalist, send a message to your partner Senior Citizen/Veteran and Yaya, the little chihuahua. I am laughing as I write this. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I love you troubled MMD cadres.
I think RB is right, coz obviously there are some projects being carried out, hence they will be upset when the opposition comes in…
Mr mobile hospital,
so you think you are the only 1 who is suitable for the job very few like you old man, i wish you knew shame on you let other also enjoy some enough you old man from Malawi!