A faith based NGO, Christians Against Poverty has charged that some individuals within the PF government are determined to see President Michael Sata rejected in 2016 elections.
Christians Against Poverty President Gregory Chileshe has wondered why it had to take the president to check on the water crisis at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) when the country has three ministers in the ministry of health.
Evangelist Chileshe in an interview with QFM has also wondered why the Copperbelt has for the first time in 20 years experienced such a critical mealie-meal shortage despite the country having produced enough maize.
He says from the hiccups that are being faced in the country’s governance system, it is evident that some elements within the PF are trying to strip President Sata of his popularity ahead on the next elections.
Evangelist Chileshe adds that it is obvious that some people in the country would want to replace president Sata by doing everything possible to discredit his leadership.
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Imwe ba so-called NGO: your observation(s) at this juncture can only be categorised as redundant. You should have made you rant before the president intervened, not after.
Its never too late. It is a valid observation. Why should all three Ministers dealing with Health have ignored the problems at UTH. Are Kabanshi, Katema and Kasonde discharging their responsibilities? I think they are useless and they should all be dropped.
Imwe pls The question could have been asked without linking it to 2016… Who said Sata was popular? The kama NGO guy appears to politicise the question for his own benefit. Food politics! Is it ministers responsibility to manage water and sewers at UTH? Of course should management at UTH fail or request for help, ministry must step – which is where things are now….
EVANGELIST CHILESHE HAS TOTALY NOTHING TO SAY AND HE SOUNDS LIKE HE HAS NOT PREPARED HIMSELF TO PREACH TOMORROW AND HAS MANY POVERTY BASED PROBLEMS OF HIS OWN WHICH REQUIRE URGENCY.
The ministers are just wasting tax payers money. What are they really doing? The money being paid to the could fix of UTH’s problems.
The three ministers were busy enriching themselves! While Sata was plotting his next move to in buying the unprincipled MMD MP’s. And this evangelist sounds has though he wants a ministerial job in the ministry of health, by apportioning blame on the three but not the whole machinery including Sata who’s leadership he appears to praise.
this shows that the president is failing to monitor performance progress by his ministers,so the problem is the president.wake up ba SATA
How on earth can the managing director of UTH still be in the job after this circus as the fault lies with them…as for the ministers it just goes to show how much of taxpayer’s funds is being wasted on empty suits…there was Sata in October last year preaching about a lean government!!
imagine, the ministers should be fired. IT goes to show sata no longer has teeth to bite. 3 ministers sure…and UTH is in a deplorable state, chamusebanya mwe!!!
Such forked bigoted thinking stinks to the very heavens above. You bet the Arch Angel Gabriel is puking, now. Sata has failed, period! Two of these three ministers are useless ones bought from MMD, so what did Zondwe expect recruiting elements from a rejected party? Come 2016 kuya bebele, I even doubt he will live to see 2016.
The three Ministers are Luo, Kasonde, Katema. All three are PF. There’s no MMD sellout appointed to a cabinet positions. They are all useless Deputy Ministers!
You have a terminal heart problem, and you go about thinking of Chilufya Sata?? If you don’t have Mwanawasa’s obituary I can send you one.
Three Ministers? Could be that UTH is not the responsibility of anyone of them. May be it falls under Christine Kaseba’s undefined office . It could also be under Sata’s office. Honestly, PF is a government of clowns!
I think the guy make a good point….. that the PF is its own worst enemy.
With three health ministers, why DID the President have to get involved in something so basic as a water problem? One possible answer, of course, is that each of the three ministers is incompetent! Is that the message PF wants to send? Surely we can’t be expected to believe that “some members of the opposition” caused the water problem to embarrass Mr. Sata.
#7. Mutima. Clearly a bantustanist. PF here to stay!
This is how one looks for a job in this government.Defend the indefensible and become a glory seeker for UKWA’s visionless government.
BA sata ati KING COBRA is finished. He even goes to negotiate with staff and water companies to UTH to have water, atase!!!! king cobra indeed
Hey people! Am a little bit behind here. Did they just say THREE MINISTERS? How? How does one ministry have THREE minister?
Chileshe’s observation is valid. The ministers concerned should be ashamed of themselves and resign. Earning money and doing absolutely nothing!
Thieves, to busy plundering.
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#7 Terminal, You have a terminal heart problem, and you go about thinking of Chilufya Sata?? If you don’t have Mwanawasa’s obituary I can send you one.
It is a Zambian curse, always putting the blame on the wrong people. Who supplies water to the Hospital, is it the ministry of healthy or Lusaka water and sewage company? In the last 20 years, Zambians have accepted the incompetence of water companies through water rations. How do you ration water as if we are in a desert or in drought prone area. Having water in the morning and evening for few hours is not acceptable, we need to re-organise the water utility companies and get rid of all the incompetent Directors. Let us put the blame on LWSC not the ministry!.
I believe you’re missing the point. People elect GRZ to do exactly that; ensure country runs & functions properly. If these cant do it, then they must be held responsible for failings of LWSC: in short, they have failed!
I spent 15 years of MMD rule on the copperbelt and if you have stayed there you will agree with me that food shortage is a problem mostly because of DR Congo so what is this pastor taking about maybe he has never even been to CB specifically boarder towns. I remember very well in 2003 we had mealie meal problems and we survived on potatoes and rice check you facts before you open your months in public
I guess the ministerial count includes deputy ministers and I suppose the minister bringing the head count to three
Yes there is one cabinet minister and two deputy ministers in the Ministry of Health’
FIRE THE PS DR MWABA AND MD DR KASONKA. THESE ARE JUST THIEVES BUT PROTECTED COZ THEY ARE BEMBAS. BRING BACK DR LAMBERT TO UTH. SUCH LAXITY AND PROBLEMS WERE NOT THERE EVEN WHEN DR MITI WAS PS. THE HEALTH SECTOR NEEDS AN OVERHAUL EVEN THE MINISTERS ARE NOT WORKING. MONEY WAS GIVEN TO UTH BUT MWABA AND KASONKA HAVE BEEN STEALING. PERIOD. AS UTH WORKERS WILL GO ON STRIKE SOON. THE RDA AND ZMA ARE USELESS.
Liar full of rants. Thats why you will never rule Zambia coz you are always tribal…why???
Mwe bantu! How many times has UTH run out of water in the past? This has been a problem for so long among other serious challenges. Where was this NGO then? Any serious leader will go on the ground and see for them selves what the situation is! And besides State House is less then 10 minutes away. We do not want leaders who observe disasters from a distance.