Vice President Guy Scott says the Patriotic Front (PF) has eaten up the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) to a point that the former ruling party is virtually dead.
And Dr Scott has appealed to the people of Lukulu district to vote for the Patriotic Front (PF) candidate Eileen Imbae in the April 23 Lukulu parliamentary by elections.
“ Their (MMD ) failure to field a candidate in the Lukulu and Kapiri Mposhi by elections is proof enough that the MMD is heading for extinction, “ said Dr Scott.
ZANIS reports The Vice President said this yesterday when he addressed scores of people at a rally to drum up support for Ms Imbae in the newly created Mitete district in Western Province.
Dr Scott said the dream and hopes of the PF where the same as that of the MMD at its conception but that the difference was the people who were implementing those dreams.
He said MMD leaders forgot about the people they promised to serve and became corrupt and selfish adding that they got more interested in amassing wealthy for themselves at the expense of the people.
Dr Scott urged MMD members to ditch the former ruling party and join the PF which he said is a vibrant and action oriented party.
And Dr Scott said the PF Government is creating new districts in the country in order to take development as closer to the people as possible.
He said the creation of Mitete district will result in the construction of between 230 to 250 houses for civil servants in the area.
The Vice President also promised to install a telecommunications mast in Mitete district so people can be communicating saying they cannot be a district without telecommunication network.
He also pledged Government’s commitment to construct the Kaoma Lukulu road via Mitete which is under the Link Zambia 8000 project, adding that Government will in the maintain bring a pontoon to connect the district to other surrounding areas.
Dr Scott said the PF Government is also enhancing border controls in order to control cattle disease which is an impossible undertaking if border posts remain porous.
Speaking earlier, Community Development Mother and Child Health Deputy Minister Jean Kapata said Mitete district will benefit eight rural health centers of the 600 health posts Government intends to construct countrywide.
Ms Kapata said Mitete district has remained underdeveloped in the last 48 years because the MMD Government failed to deliver development to the area.
She said it has only taken the PF Government one and half years to upgrade the area to district standard saying as a result a big hospital, high school, police post and many other infrastructure will be constructed in the area.
And PF campaign manager for the Lukulu by elections Nathaniel Mubukwanu urged the people of Lukulu district to vote for Ms Imbae who he described as a reasonable woman who will work tirelessly to ensure that people’s lives are improved.
Mr. Mubukwanu said the people of Lukulu and Mitete should vote for the ruling party candidate if they want to see meaningful development to take place in the area.
And Gender Minister Inonge Wina said the opposition are inciting citizens to challenge the PF Government over governance issues because they want to keep the people of Zambia in captivity.
She said the captivity that the opposition want to keep the people of Zambia in is underdevelopment and poverty which she said is the only thing the opposition know how to do best while they are busy amassing wealthy for themselves.
She warned the people of Mitete not to listen to opposition leaders as they only want to use the people of Zambia to their own benefit.
Mrs. Wina also urged women in Mitete district to form clubs in order to access women empowerment funds under her district and improve their living standards.
PF Deputy Secretary General Bridget Atanga urged voters to shun parties that only had tribal and regional inclinations saying there is need to promote unity in the country.
Mrs. Atanga said the PF Government was made up of members from different races and tribes, which she said makes the ruling party unique and attractive.
And Ms Imbae pledged to take development to Mitete once voted into office, saying she will leave no stone unturned to ensure people’s living standards in the area were uplifted.
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Ha ha ha.It can`t get more truer that that.Pf has consumed MMD completely including the very pastor Mumbwe who is pretending to be their promised messiah.
truer than that i.e
It’s not about who eats who. It should be about who best serves the people of Zambia. People are not going to eat PF,UPND or MMD. Some may argue that you are abusing state resources to settle scores with anyone who seems to be a threat to your party. What are you trying to communicate to us? Are you trying to say that the next party that forms government should make sure your party is wiped off the face of the earth? I would not be surprised if this man is behind all the violence associated with the PF party. He seems to relish being destructive.
POLITIX IS ABOUT NUMBERS MY FRIEND, JUST LIKE SOCCER IS ABOUT GOALS. MAYBE YOU NEED TO READ MORE CIVICS TO BE ABLE TO KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. I CAN’T START TEACHING YOU CIVICS.
There is our problem righ there. When did civics become the benchmark for multiparty politics? Try reading Politics,economics and Law and bring yourself to the 21st centuary politics.
The good thing is that pf talks and works.politics is about numbers.am enjoying this dispensation!
like it or not, PF has consumed mmd.PF and mmd are simular but the only diference is that PF is action oriented.
MMD AND OPPOSITION HAVE CONSUMED THEMSELVES WITH THEIR FUULISHNESS.
“PF Deputy Secretary General Bridget Atanga urged voters to shun parties that only had tribal and regional inclinations saying there is need to promote unity in the country.”
There we go again!The ugly head of tribalism being raised again .Who is tribal kanshi?Why is that PF always campaign on the the tribal line?Why can’t they just sell their manifesto?They are more divisive than the political party they accuse of being tribal
BABA POLITICS IS A GAME OF NUMBERS. UPND HAS A VERY GLARING STAIN OF TRIBALISM ON THEM. THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING TO GET RID OF THIS STAIN. THEY PROUDLY TOLD THE NATION THAT THEY ARE “PROUDLY BANTU STAN”. THE PF IS CAPITALISING ON THIS WEAKNESS. THIS SHOULD NOT BE TRIVIALISED. IT IS KILLING UPND. THE SEAT IN LUKULU IS ALREADY GONE TO PF. BEFORE LONG, THE PF WILL BE A GIGANTIC PARTY IN PARLIAMENT. THIS IS OF COURSE NOT GOOD. BUT YOU CANNOT BLAME THE PF. THE OPPOSITION SHOULD TAKE THE ENTIRE BLAME. WHY IS THE OPPOSITION NOT ATTRACTIVE TO THE VOTERS? OR WE HAVE TOO MANY UNDER FIVES IN THE OPPOSITION WHO DO NOT KNOW HOW TO PLAY POLITICS.
The Horse and the Rider
pf will win the elections because they have already rigged like they did in mufumbwe and livingstone. voting is just a formality and an academic exercise. government machinery. unless the voters will turn out enmass to out vote the rigged system by a sucker punch of votes. opposition political parties just consult me at a fee for advise
There goes the titanic in balotseland with a loudest horn across the quiet waters. ha ha ha ha, i wonder where their international crook bob mugabe is, oooop, is it armstadam kekekekekeke
Definately not good for the country.Checks and balances are neccesary ingredients in any self respecting nation.
MY BROTER CHECKS AND BALANCES ARE GOOD. BUT IF THE OPPOSITION BECOMES TRIVIAL THEN THESE ARE THE CONSEQUENCES. THE PF HAS THE RIGHT TO SURVIVE, JUST AS UNIP, UPND, MMD ETC. BUT IT IS NOT THE DUTY OF SATA TO MAKE THE OPPOSITION VIBRANT AND STRONG. SATA HAS HIS OWN PARTY TO LOOK AFTER. THESE PARTIES ARE IN COMPETITION TO WIN SUPPORT. THE COMPETITION IS NOT FORTHE FAIT HEARTED. THE ONUS IS UPON THE OPPOSITION TO BECOME RELEVANT TO OUR DISPENSATION AND ATTRACT VOTERS TO ITSELF. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR PF TO BRIBE THE WHOLE ZAMBIA. RB WITH ALL HIS MONEY FAILED TO BRIBE US. OUR OPPOSITION NEEDS TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND RE-STRATEGISE. ITHEY HAVE BECOME SO PATHETIC THAT ALL THEY ARE NOW WISHING IS FOR SATA TO DIE. CHECK THE ZWD. THIS IS SURELY LACK OF STRATEGY.
Fools and foolish talk. 48 years and pipo are listening to such rubbish. Pipo pliz stand up and fight.
THE OPPOSITION MUST B GIVEN SAVARE PUNISHMENT 4 NOT PROVIDING US WITH A VIBRANT OPPOSITION CAPABLE OF REAL CHACKS AND BALANCES. PF GO ON! I AM SEEING A HEAVEN ON EARTH WITH U. MEN AND WOMEN OF ACTIONS. GOD RICHLY BLESS U!
Delivering on promises for PF is more about destroying the MMD. Once that is done, the nation is developing to them. We know that they are preoccupied with the MMD being destroyed because of the coming presidential by election.
make sure you dont spit them out or else they will come back from the dead! Next swallow one fellow under five and make sure you chew properly so the digestion is properly carried out he can end up in the deepest pit of the latrine, otherwise, if you dont chew well you can vomit him out, and you know what they say about vomit, you dont wanna go back there!
On a serious note, in as much as i dont support one party state which is primitive and criminal, i also would like to see strong strategic good opposition parties, not treacherous unpatriotic tribalistic individualistic parties, Zambia is for everyone therefore, we are all equal and should be treated equal, bad eggs to be rooted out, are there interligent beautiful young men and women to lead Zambia to a civilised future? I wonder!
Maxwell HIV Nkole is a very bitter man behind all these stupit deportations ,the man is more dangerous than Ukwa .He over rates himself too much just because he once worked for the UN like thousand other Africans .You are too miserable Nkole ,your end will be worse than your boss,mark my words.Just take your ARV’s before your liver packs it will be no more bwana and its sooner than later.
Guy Scott where did you buy your PhD from?You are the most stupid white man i have ever come across,your swine fever thief.Only a thief can appoint you VP ,you have no morals no wonder you bonk young ZNBC married girl.Stupid *****.Finished man.If you made this statement in your homeland they would have stoned you to death.You are lucky ,you talking to villagers in a remote place,you swine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No. 20 please do not use insults.
#21 Where did i insult please,stupid is not an insult,just as swine.Ask him he knows the story very well in case you were born in 1991!
Political partie are on competition if a strategy can kill an enermy the betters is good since the opposition promised to frustrate the budget of pf. Upnd shud die first as they wish for the death of HEMCS. IF you read ZWD you will discover that they only publish what is for upnd other posts are withheld. Statistically those for pf are more than those for upnd only that our comments are blocked. That’s why on the net u are many but few in the booth. Thankx.
SATA MAY GO EARLIER BUT WE ARE MANY LIKE HIM AND WE SHALL SWOLLOW U. INSULT BUT THAT WAY U COMPAIGN 4 PF .U ARE YET TO CRY .YO FAILURE SHOULD B BLAMED O SCORT OR PF .U EVEN KNOW DAT SCOT NEVER DID WHAT HAVE SAID. IT SHOULD B U WITH YO ROTTEN ED’TION.
MMD is surely dead and UPND is comatose on its death bed, then enter Mulongoti with Pwetete Pwetete(PP)
While this sounds like Christmas to PF, its not good for our young & dynamic democracy. Checks and balances that keep govt on its toes are grossly and unacceptably eroded leaving the people at the mercy of govt.
Its incumbent upon the opposition to strategize, organize & energize the masses by sending positive messages that inspire hope.
The fact that the opposition parties advocate and encourage their watchdog to insult and instigate violence against ordinary citizens who do not agree with their vomit works against new members and fresh thinkers they need to flourish.
PF may not be doing the best, but far better than MMD, but there is no alternative party or plan for now.
What a childish and retrogressive ideology from PF. But, its not Rocket science, its easy to see that Dr Guy Scott knows fully well that his comment resonates well with his boss’s dominant thought, AND most importantly it plays into the shallow minds of the vast majority of PF supporters mostly whom cannot even touch a computer, let alone use one. Not long ago MMD sounded exactly the same.
MUNZI WAPYA WA BA UPND AND MMD
True ba opposition will not win the elections on the internet. Mind you most people who blog do not even vote later on do not mostly live in Zambia.
Go out and convice people. Personally i see PF to have a good stratege and the have arcteche to do the job. Nsele and bitterness will never make any one popular.
Where is MMD BOOTLICKER I have not heard from him for a while. Has he defected to PF? Please BOOTLICKER come back under the same tag just change the first part of your name make your new name PF to be ‘newly’ called PF BOOTLICKER. Some of your colleagues have done it shamelessly, Daniel Munkombwe being one of the many examples.
Future Zed@3 Is right on one point. The focus should not be on how the ruling party can destroy the opposition but how it can deliver
“Scott was born in 1944 in Livingstone to British parents. His father, a Scot from Glasgow, moved there in 1927 and worked at first as a doctor, while his English mother emigrated in 1940.Scott completed his education in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the United Kingdom at Cambridge University and the University of Sussex, where he obtained a degree in economics and a PhD in cognitive science respectively. His participation in Zambian politics was inspired by his late father who was an ally of Zambian nationalists and a founder of anti-colonial government newspapers including the African Mail, now the Zambia Daily Mail.” Source Wikipedia. These are Guy Scot’s qualifications. I rest my case.
Dr Guy Scott is reaping the harvest he sowed together with his father. His father assisted us in the liberation of Zambia and he himself contributed in no small measure in liberating us from KK and MMD.
To say Guy Scot’s ancestry is associated with Great Britain , a bastion of democratic governance, would probably be an insult to the British. This man is becoming a great embarrassment to all that believe in the democracy of west minster. I can only equate him to a European that was Idi Amin’s special adviser. This man under went the painful native tattooing on his body and face to prove how much he ‘loved’ Amin and the Baganda. Its the adage of “the outsider who wept louder than the bereaved”. At one time Sata publicly embarrassed Scott when he told him how lucky he was to be Veep of Zambia, as in Britain he would never stand a chance. Scott said nothing other than offer Sata a bizarre grin. This grumpy old man is something else.
Iwe Senior Engineer r u Scott’s PR man?
# 32 Thanks for your research- just be careful with your references (Source) Wikipedia is not a good source academically. Thanks
I LOVE THE PF. BUT IT WILL BE MUCH SAFER TO HAVE A VIABLE OPPOSITION FOR THE SAKE OF CHECKS AND BALANCES. UNFORTUNATELY WHAT WE HAVE ARE EITHER VERY SMALL PARTIES THAT ARE INSIGNIFICANT OR VERY BITTER OPPOSITION WHICH LACKS OBJECTIVITY. I HOPE A NEW POLITICAL PARTY SPRINGS UP WITH BRILLIANT IDEAS AND CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISIMS WHICH WE CAN LOOK TO AS AN ALTERNATIVE SHOULD THE PF FAIL. WITH THE CURRENT FEEBLE OPPOSITION, THE PF WILL GROW TO BECOME A GIGANTIC PARTY. AND YOU CANNOT BLAME THE PF. THE OPPOSITION SHOULD LEARN TO SURVIVE ON ITS OWN. POLITICS IS NOT AGAME FOR THE FAINT HEARTED.
No , I do not agree with Scoty, its not the PF that has eaten the MMD, but its the useless opposition itself. Instead of concentrating on telling Zambians how well they will formulate developmental policy, they just insult Sata and show that bitterness and hatred never seen in the history of Zambian politics. Zambians have lost trust in the opposition.
Peace and prosperity to mother Zambia.
What a stupid whiteman, this Scot is,does he know that ( what goes round comes comes round). UNIP was swallowed by MMD and MMD by PF as SCot wishes and PF will be swallowed by UPND or NAREP. So Big Fool dont celebrate your existence is counted and numbered,it’s soon, 2016.
Unfortunately Sata’s dry sense of humour (sacarstic humour) is his Achilles’ heel (deadly weakness inspite of overall strength). Dr Guy Scott would be the first person to admit that he is not the only one to be at the receiving end of Sata’s dry jokes. Ask George Bush, Lubinda (“who is a tourist attraction himself”), the presidents of Uganda and Tanzania at a meeting, Patrick Ngoma whom he lured from the teaching service to MMD, the list is endless. We are not going to throw the bathwater with the baby because of this. One MD of a parastatal embarrassed his director by telling him that he got him from another firm where he was getting 80 pin in front of his juniors. In life there are people like that. What is important is the overall good they do which is bigger than their weakness.
YES. TEACH THEM A LESSON. FOR UNDERMINING THE SOVREIGNITY OF ZAMBIA AND GOING TO THE C/WEALTH. TO THE DISPLEASURE OF MANY ZAMBIANS. EVEN IN LUKULU AND KAPIRI AND NOW FEIRA, THEY SHALL BE TAUGHT A LESSON.
heheheheheh jast watching as things unfold.