Thursday, March 28, 2024

Sata is punch-drunk, I’ll finish him off – Rupiah

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Patriotic Front Leader Michael Sata
Patriotic Front Leader Michael Sata

PRESIDENT Banda says Patriotic Front (PF) president Michael Sata talks a lot but says very little.

Mr Banda said Mr Sata claims to be a big man but lacks substance.

“He promises everything but delivers nothing. When he and his PF friends come calling ask them questions,” Mr Banda said.

He said this yesterday when he launched the Presidential and MMD campaign for the 2011 general elections.

He said people should ask the PF how it will build tomorrow’s Zambia, how it will create stability, security and prosperity for all Zambians.

He said Mr Sata can never be President for all Zambians who have already rejected him three times.

Mr Banda said former President Frederick Chiluba rejected Mr Sata as his successor because he knew he is not worthy.

“Dr Mwanawasa beat him in 2001 because he was a better man. He beat him again in 2006; easily I beat him in 2008 and in 2011will beat him again. But Sata never learns, he is like a punch-drunk boxer who keeps coming back for more. Well this time the MMD is going to knock him out for good! The people of Zambia will be the referee…let them count him out,” he said.

Mr Banda said the PF leader’s final hour has really come because the PF boat is sinking and that Mr Sata will go down with it forever.

He said as President since 2008, he can stand before the Zambian people and point to what his Government has achieved.

Mr Banda said the MMD is ready to be judged by the people who have seen what it has done.

“We have been constructive and energetic. They have also seen what the opposition have been doing; fighting and squabbling like children. Michael Sata will be asking Zambians to vote for him. Let him stand on his record, too,” he said.

[pullquote]“Sata likes to call himself the cobra. I never trust a creature that slithers on its stomach, would you trust a snake? I warn all Zambians if you play with the cobra expect to be bitten. But that is democracy for you. Everybody has a right to stand, even Michael Sata,” he said.[/pullquote]

He said in 2008, Mr Sata promised to fix load-shedding, build the Livingstone road, and put more money in people’s pockets within 90 days but nobody believed him.

Mr Banda said even this year, Mr Sata is making the same promises but he has no vision, no new ideas, and no direction.

“He is yesterday’s man. This year he will say that it is time for change. But change to what? People of Zambia, your choice is simple. You can go backwards with PF or forward with the MMD,” he said.

He said the truth is that PF is a one-man band with a sick heart, it has no soul and that it only has Mr Sata whom Zambians cannot trust.

Mr Banda said United Party for National Development president Hakainde Hichilema trusted Mr Sata but he got hurt.

“Sata likes to call himself the cobra. I never trust a creature that slithers on its stomach, would you trust a snake? I warn all Zambians if you play with the cobra expect to be bitten. But that is democracy for you. Everybody has a right to stand, even Michael Sata,” he said.

He added that the failed PF-UPND pact was meant to be about teamwork but Mr Sata is not a team player.

“We knew the pact would never work because we know that Sata will say and do anything to get power. Because of their mistakes and failures, the Zambian people will punish them. The MMD will take votes from PF up and down the country. We will take them from the Copperbelt, Lusaka and Luapula,” he said.

Mr Banda also cautioned the UPND to watch out because the MMD will win in Southern Province because it is a party for all Zambians.

[Zambia Daily Mail]

92 COMMENTS

  1. He said the truth is that PF is a one-man band with a sick heart, it has no soul and that it only has Mr Sata whom Zambians cannot trust.

  2. RB ,talk about your heritage and clear the air ! People will decide whether sata rules or not. Right now tell the Zambian people where your perents where born !! If you respect the constitution.Kuya

    bebele !!

  3. RB, you cant decide for Zambians. You and your sons have looted our coffers thus time to answer the people of Zambia is fast approaching. You and your sons love money and can do anything to remain in power so that you continue with your scams. Henry AND James especially will soon be dancing to the final tune.

  4. Ba bwez, is this what you supose to tel the electrolates?how i wish i was living is u.s.a.you politicians in zambia you are so dull and doomed,why cant you just keep on talkings about peoples ‘ needs rather than just talking about your opponents.atleast you are matured enough to know which is which and who is who…speak the truth,discuss and asure zambians how you are going to develop this nation,not like that previous speeches,please ba rb try by all means to change.twanaka nefi ma rubish campaign.on,not like that previous speeches,please ba rb try by all means to change.twanaka nefi ma rubish campaign.

  5. This is MMD’s issue based campaign! PF will not petition ECZ, but has already petitioned Zambian voters. RB is getting sleepless nights. I laughed at the statements he made about Security, development. He wants PF to provide security for Zambians while he is in office? What a wacko of a misleader?

  6. RB You launch your campaign and the first out of your mouth is SATA , haaaa kwena he gives you sleepless nights. Go on please tell us more about him, we love hearing about him, that’s why he has our votes.

  7. Rb you a such useless president Zambia has ever had. You spend taxe payers money deviding the country.what ve done 4 you to boast? You elect poster even on forests you didn’t plant. What make u think that zambia can only be ruled by u and not Sata? You even boast over things done by other,u have done nothing now tell us why we should vote 4 u.ll us why we should vote 4 u.

  8. you are right mr president,the next thing this man will be promising us that if we vote for him he will be raising us from the dead.ala lishilu!!

  9. Imwe na imwe ba kalos2121,how many times is PF going to petition the people of zambia kanshi,just as HERB,has put it uno mwaka is to bury sata and the entire party will go with him and the people will be spared of the noise,because in PF no one has got the acumen to mobilise the kabovas like sata.of course kabimba can`t,lubinda can`t worse guy scott.in MMD,RB is scooping this one then pass on the button to Felix mutati in 2016 and all will be on auto pilot there after.

    • Sata won the 2006 and 2006 elections. So , he has so far delivered. If we were in Ivory Coast, Rupia would have been tried in court for rigging.Sata is a very peaceful person by all standards. By the way I do not vote and I do not support Sata.

    • Mwe bansele, MMD is the one who advocated for many parties. I am wondering why muletuka ba Sata because he belongs to another Party. only UNIP was insulting.. may be UNIP yalikukila ku MMD we can see William Banda, Rupiah and others infested MMD, Tilyenji does not even talk because his cadres are in the so called MMD.

  10. No need to insult. The fact is Sata is a clown and he will never be President of Zambia. Sata is a corrupt tribalist. His checkered past tells it all. Not only that but the man is also very immoral though his fans want us to believe the contrary. HH is far better than this old lunatic, Sata!

  11. “Power is sweet kano ine fye not umbi ukuba kateka, I am the smartest any other than me will be a failed experiment” so says many a politician. For all I know we  have experimented with all of you that have been politicking on the pretext of being the peoples servants turned “bosses” once the votes are counted! Zedians are now more enlightened from the village to low density city suburbs! An analysis of an MP by villagers of a constituency I recently visited was that since being elected the only development the MP delivered for his constituents was providing coffins and transport for the dead!

  12. It will only take MMD of 9 and 10 to rule Zambia. This shows the minds of a person who can’t blog on issues. What a person to write such kind of unprintables and what do others say.

  13. BOTH MADALAS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE OUT OF THE BOXING RING BY NOW.. IN OLD AGE, WOUNDS TAKE LONG TO HEAL DUE TO IMPAIRED BLOOD SUPPLY..SATA HAS A HEART PROBLEM, RB HB HAS A KNEE PROBLEM. WHO CAN ENJOY A FIGHT OF TWO PATIENTS. A DOCTOR HAS ADVISED ZAMBIANS TO IGNORE SUCH A FIGHT BECAUSE OF LIMITED HOSPITAL BED SPACE IN I.C.U…. VOTE FOR THE YOUNG AND FIT. HHHHHHHHHHH

  14. Mr Banda instead of talking about your programs your start talking about Sata even your girl friend Dora just talks about Sata this Sata That. Please leave Sata alone and Start packing.

  15. Iwe No.4 – The 1. Just keep quiet because your grammar is so pathetic. Which school did you go to where you learnt your punctuation skills?
    You say politicians in Zambia are so dull but you have just demonstrated that you are amongst the most dull of all bloggers so far. Please don’t expose your ignorance or to put it politely “Don’t expose your knowledge inadequacy”.

  16. Ati issue based campaigns> Sometimes Mr president you send me back to fence! I would have loved if the script was done by someone independent of political hallucinations – alas though it was rich in content, I did not agree with you attack from start to finish of someone who cannot defend himself in that gathering.

    I once attended a rally by your vice president; same approach. He did not even great us, he just started by saying Mr Sata is a mad man, Mr Sata will never be president (and you know his accent). Surely we are the people who need to vote for you and you can’t even say hello, good afternoon people.
     

  17. The PF leader’s final hour has really come because the PF boat is sinking and that Mr Sata will go down with it forever.
    Nafuti Nafuti!!!

  18.  Ine ndiwansele ule kwata amano , this blog is not for useless cadres like no need to insult we all have preferred choices, kashi naiwe leka RB akateke ba noko naba wiso nebwaa shobe not ifwe , walitupa sana iwe  

  19. @16 kangwele, I agree with you. If one is MMD please desist from insulting language, it’s unbecoming and our President, the President of all Zambians, has stated so all the time. @8, 9, 10 ine ndiwansele, we implore you not to use unpalatable language, it’s unbecoming of MMD character. We value your support but please insults are not in tune with MMD philosophy. You may start by changing your name to “good language” or anything more civilised than “insele”.

  20. “SELA TUBOMBEKO,” UPND’S new slogan. let these two continue fighting while door to door campaign takes to the root. Both of them should be ignored and humbly be retired this year. Inshita ya kusela yafika bane, longeni.

  21. Zambians have this great opportunity to redeem themselves from the yolk of corruption and under development under the established failed leadership of rupiah and his cronies.
    We have a choice between a better life through the creation of sustainable job opportunities and equitable distribution of the national cake under PF or misery and perpetuity in poverty under rupiah and MMD.
    We have a choice between strengthening democratic institutions such as the ACC under PF and allowing the country to continue sliding back to the medieval times under MMD.
    Vote for proven leadership that will bring sanity and respect to the people and discard MMD for the betterment of our great country.
    Zambians deserve better. Zambians deserve PF

  22. Please zambians lets respect each other there is no way you can insult the president like some of you as much as we know that RB has failed us and we will not vote for him lets respect the office only your vote will hate RB more than your insults so lets do the right thing on 20 september,Mr RB also you try to behave like a president you are still behaving like a farmer and you thinking zambia is your farm.

  23. Ba LT thanx so much for your news,but please kindly leave out blogers with insults dont publish them pliz I beg you, insults dont build

  24. Time for you to pack and leave for the farms ba shikulu! SATA..in..Nyamasoya out! Ukubeba ni Donchi!!;):-@:-ss**==[-x

    RB:-h

  25. Thanks RB for your purely Sata-based campaign. Who needs campaign issues when you can talk purely about Sata all the time? You must surely be afraid

  26. There is no doubt that RB and his MMD friends are under the spell of one MCS! How else do you explain their insistence on going against their own advice when they do nothing else on campaign platforms but attack MCS like he were the password to any speech. So then, what do you Mr Banda wish to bring to the table if you get re-elected on September 20? As for the bad language, I think that this blog can only get as good as its participants.Is foul language the only means to communicate to others? How can we degrade ourselves so much?I am sure there is room for change!

  27. i only feel for those who sat through this launch and listened to nothing but SATA is like this, he is this, and therefore dont vote for him. Its like a man proposing to a woman and telling her that all the men are losers but he fails to state that he is a winner and she should therefore go for him.

  28. When in a race and you see your opponent is out-running you, it is very annoying and heart-breaking.
    This is what is happening to SATA’s supporters; RB has hammered hard on their campaign policy by the amount of development taking place in the country, and they are annoyed as evidenced by their posting here on this site. SATA’s campaign was based on FLY-OVER bridge but now the developments that have taken place in Zambia are more than what one would proudly compare with a mere FLY-OVER bridge.
    SATA is in much trouble this time because his team is also breaking apart. He is aware that it is tougher to get votes this year than it was in 2008. The Best SATA can do is groom young leaders to take over him. The problem is that PF is based on SATA as man of action, as known by voters.

  29. PUNCH DRUNK! it is safer way to say Sata has liver and heart problems. Thank you Mr. Presi9dent for scaling around the Sick Satan

  30. Sata is a dead man, this man will just collapse and die when he loses this year. I wonder why he put himself under killing situation when he knows that his heart has patches 

  31. Can you imagin Sata addressing the UN gathering! This man cannot have a complete discourse in English without switching to Bemba. How about his mannerisms? He does not know how to behave in a formal gathering. In his mouth there is pitch darkness. I wonder if he cleans his teeth…………And imagin the smell there from……………

  32. Satan is going this year, he will be knocked out, this is his last month in active politics. Bye Bye Satan, you devil snake 

  33. It’s sad to note that discussing people rather than issues is kind of endemic even in the population engaging on this forum. You talk down the politicians doing so then you get embedded deep into it yourselves.
    Talking of development, it’s a shame to note that in the last-minute fashion, a few or even a lot of road improvement and construction going on for example. People, open your eyes and see!! This is what the politicians should be rightly doing at any one time using your money! It shows that if they put their mind to it, the money can be correctly used. And no one should come singing and boasting they are doing these things, this is what they are employed to do for God’s sake.

  34. I echo the words of #29 imagine all you guys in politics with bad language like this…. lets fight clean fight inwith Zedian ubuntu arena as children are now reading what we are all saying on the blog…I had to tell my son not to read Lusaka Times.com because we are unbecoming adults…. Enough said vote PF for change MMD 20 years is enough…. we will not let what is happen elsewhere in Africa happen here…. “muyaya governments” all because of hatred fro Ba Sata

  35. The trouble is we have got so used to under-performance such that when these so-called developments are taking place,we think politicians are doing us a favour. Loook how long it takes to construct simple clinics under the guise of no funds, and yet they can very quickly find monet for any by-election that comes their way. There’s urgent need to change how things are done, and that begins with the general population that has a constitution which gives them right powers to hold these politicians to account. Stop discussing people you masses. Change your mind set!

  36. The other trouble is that the People who founded MMD left to form other Parties because they believed that the atmosphere had been created to have many parties. UNIP say this and started infesting MMD… no wonder MMD now is a one party advocate and insults all those who oppose.

  37. The MMD  should be asked the very same questions They also promise a lot especially in election year. Can we see development throughout the 5 years? Not in one.  year

  38. Dear Bloggers,

    I have been missing for quite some time now. Anyway, its just that I was preparing for my thesis. Now coming back to Zambian Politics.

    It would be a grave mistake and irrational to vote one MCS in State house. This man has no single skill, not even the leadership one. He failed to maintain the pact because of his selfish motives. Those of us who are relatively old will recall that KK warned us against FTJ, he has also several times indicated to us that MCS is not Presidential material. Two wrongs cannot make a right. God forgave us first time for not listening to him. But alas he may not repeat it . The bible says ; my people perish for,,,, The rest is yours to reason Bye

  39. Sata is winning,unless of course the MMD rings.All the bloggers here, busy supporting MMD are those directly/indirectly connected or benefiting from the corrupt MMD because anyone who is fair and straight in mind would not support the MMD.What devpt are MMD going to do for the country which they failed to do in the 20 yrs they have been in power-nothing,MMD are just conmen who wants to keep chewing nafuti nafuti-nosense!! All those supporting the MMD from the confort of their sitting rooms,should take their time and visit their grandmother/fathers in their respective villages and see the suffering of the people, there is deep poverty out there which is not supposed to be the case with a concerned Govt in place.Last yr I visited my mbuyas in the village and cried bcz of the suffering I saw.

  40. #47, There can be no better advise than what you have just said. No wonder you have attained that level of education where you can talk of a thesis.

    You might need to expand more what a thesis means to our dear colleagues in the PF

    • You guys are indeed a surprise package possibly coming from MUTENGULENI Village.
      The fact that RuBish has to go still remains with the basic failures of the fight againest corruption, Ending of all currupt cases and failled constitution. Surely money spend would have been enopgh for a Hospital the size of Ndola Central in all Provinces. Even for openning Chawama Kapiri and one other hospital without any facility is reason to vate out RuBish.
      You tribes man has failed

      KUYAA BEBELEEEEEEEEEEEEE

      VOTE PF and SATAAAAA

  41. HH the best man for Zambia. RB & Sata please rest & reflect on want you have done for your mother country. We need you to support the new generation if you are not greed tired men. Wise people kno that there is time for everything, now is the time for the new generation but old people( our great freedom fighters) we still love you but please REST. God bless all Zambians, wick & strong, poor & rich, illiterate & educated.

  42. For many, there is no difference between wisdom and education. I would rather one had the former than the latter. However, a combination of both in good measure, put to good use is a more desirable status.
    Educated and arrogant, and selfish, and manipulative, and deceitful, and wasteful, uncaring, not heeding advise. Willingly and openly corrupt AND FACILITATING the same. That’s a no no.

  43. Honestly Zambians, just look at the face in the picture for Sata, it is silently asking for a rest.
    Please fellow Zambians let us not overuse some people to a point where you are going to drain ALL their energy. As much as we appreciate the experience which both Rb & Sata have, its evident that this our grandfathers need to be given time to rest & remain on the advisory aim of our mighty nation. Zambia forward for real change.

  44. Mr president Banda, you can only be happy if you ve seen there i a loop hole where to get the votes. We are tired of you and your puppets. Just start renovations at your farm and buy more pigs to officiate Dora Sicily’s wedding next year.

  45. ok mwandi ba Sata balusa ama elections mwe..ah!!!!!!!!!
    surely he is like a Punch Drunk boxer..ifwe ni chweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee pankoloko

  46. Dr RB- that is why they call him the “cobra!” He (Sata) has this uncanny way of coming back! Even the Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade who started in the early seventies trying to be president! He lost 5 elections and never gave up! Even the bible tells us never give up. In 2 Chronicles 15:7 “But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded…….” And this time, we do see that the cobra’s hour has indeed come! By the way, that is how he strikes, when you think he has been decapitated, he strikes with venom.
    Matters may have seemed a bit simpler in the last elections.

  47. The electorate, were dealing with an incumbent (RB) who was given the benefit of doubt especially, he promised that he wouldn’t stand in 2011 as he knew the cobra would produce a hemotoxic venom that was highly deadly to humans. Except in Cote d’ivoire, Egypt and Tunisia- home to a deadly, neurotoxic take over—most humans bitten in North Africa could expect to survive- like in Libya. But they did experience depressed blood pressure associated with shock, destruction of tissue near the bite, massive swelling of the affected area, and haemorrhaging both near the bite and internally (caused by anticoagulants in the venom). If untreated, the call for democracy becomes “People Power.

  48. .” Sometimes the venom would also attack the ballot. People lost even their own (Mulongoti, Chitala, but few died Tentamashimba, FTJ) —particularly after the introduction in 1991antivenom made from words such as Donch kubeba was the new serum. In the worst cases scenario, RB’ cobra bite will have only an hour or two to get to Kafwenkhu village, about 39km from Chipata town before the situation turned dire!

  49. RB IS RIGHT. SATA TALKS A LOT BUT SAYS NOTHING. WE DON’T KNOW HIS STAND ON THE ECONOMY, EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE, HEALTH ETC. WE WANT DEVELOPMENT
    NOT 90 DAYS MIRACLES. RB HAS BEEN PRESIDENT FOR 3 YEARS AND WE KNOW WHAT HE HAS DONE. SATA DONT TEST OUR INTELLIGENCE. WALK YOUR TALK. TALK ISSUES NOT JUST DON’T KUBEBA. VIVA RB VIVA ZAMBIA. MAY GOD BLESS THE REPUBLIC

  50. Please you buffoon RB leave Sata alone for a minute and concentrate on why you should be allowed to continue after 20years in power!!
    What are you going to do differently, some of us don’t give a monkeys about all this PF Vs MMD handbagging we are interested in facts and your manifesto!!

  51. Mwaba you are an *****. Only *****s think the way you do. MMD IS GOING DONT BE CHEATED BY FLUCK PROJECTS. VILLAGERS HAVE LEARN’T A LESSON. WE WAIT TO SEE YOU DIE.

  52. Mwaba you are any *****. Only *****s think the way you do. MMD IS GOING DONT BE CHEATED BY FLUCK PROJECTS. VILLAGERS HAVE LEARN’T A LESSON. WE WAIT TO SEE YOU DIE.

  53. To all PF Haters ,we will vote sata because of all your labelling ,like lunatic,zombie ,useless .Thats what we want ,so you didnt know .We never wanted Ba Dr Banda.We are koponyas thats we need sata ,coz Band is John Cena ,you cant see me.,

  54. One day Zambai ,will see real development ,accountability ,evrything working on Database ,then i will say at least we are trying.Mention 1 thing Banda has done,Ndola stadium ,no,mwanawasa’s project.Please can some 1 tell me

  55. No insults please. Zambia is one only playing games. Its Like football. Please in the name of God dont insult each other

  56. No 75 sata is a professional oppositionist and we will do well to keep there come sept 20.Namakando his propoesed veep is also a wrong chap who just love power and money thats all.

  57. Rupiah the malawian is a corrupted crook who sell the zambian wealths for a song to Mzungus, Wachinas and Mhindis

    His only purpose is to continue to line his pockets,his minions and cronies get the crumbs

    I couldnt give a damn about hot air and MMD propaganda, brainwashing and lies,

    this corrupt regime is hard pressed because the Change is UNSTOPPABLE :-)

  58. An advice to u fellow blogers who like commentin for the sake of it. Pliz think b4 u say anythin, if not leave this blog to pipo who can talk sense….. The issue of sata this RB that is not wat we need ryt now as Zambians as we are abt to go to the polls. Wat we need are real issues that are affectn the majority of poor zambians. Zambia 4de past 20yrs has suffered from underdevelopment n this is nw bn seen normal by pipo who cant read btwn the line in this country. It is so sad to note that the corruption n poverty we are facing are nw erodn our senses n negativly affect the way we shud perceive things,…..

  59. RB’S MENU is nowadays King Cobra. HE EATS SATA, DRINKS SATA AND SLEEPS SATA. But ba kaamba umufyashi alimi pelako ka busy. If indeed you delivered why are you talking about Sata? Why can’t you let the electorates judge you by your deeds? Is stealing from the Zambians development? Where is ZAMTEL? Who sold it? Is it not your son and your girl friend Dora? Is this what you are calling development? Stupid fool!

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