MMD President Nevers Mumba has laughed off suggestions that his party left the country’s economy in tatters when it was voted out of office in 2011.
Speaking when he featured on Mazabuka community radio station Wednesday afternoon, Dr. Mumba said unlike the MMD who inherited a ruined economy from UNIP in 1991, the PF inherited an economy in good sharp which they have destroyed in record time due to bad governance.
He observed that all the economic structures that the former ruling party created so as to ensure continued prosperity have been destroyed by the PF hence the slowdown in the Zambian economy.
He accused the PF of being the most corrupt government that Zambia has ever had.
Dr Mumba also accused President Sata of using corruption as a political weapon against some senior government officials.
Asked if he had evidence of the alleged corruption in the PF government and if he had reported the cases to the Anti-Corruption Commission, Dr. Mumba said evidence of corruption was everywhere citing the awarding of road contracts to cadres who do not have equipment to work on the roads who later sell the contracts to the Chinese contractors at a profit.
“Evidence of corruption is everywhere because the people they are giving contracts come to us and brag about these things. These people are our brothers, our cousins and friends, so we see evidence of massive corruption every day,” he said.
He added, “We are compiling evidence so that when we take it to the ACC, there will be no shadow of doubt that some individuals in the PF are corrupt.”
And Dr Mumba has accused the PF government of failing to control cattle diseases in the Southern province.
Dr Mumba said it is the responsibility of the government to ensure that the challenges facing cattle farmers are resolved.
He said the people of Southern Province are being denied access to the other markets for their cattle due to restrictions imposed on the movement of cattle as a result of animal diseases.
Meanwhile, the opposition leader says the PF should not brag about the projections of a bumper harvest because if the country is indeed going to have a bumper harvest it will not be due to the good policies of the PF government but the hard work of the people in Southern Province and the country at large.
Dr. Mumba also encouraged MMD members in the province to forget about the perceived wrangles at the MMD secretariat and concentrate on reorganizing the party in the province and ensure that it bounces back to power in 2016.
He said it was the responsibility of everyone in the party to ensure that the party does not go in to extinction as it is a trend in most African countries once a party loses power.
He urged members to take advantage of the good record that the party left when it lost power and ensure that it is voted back.
Dr. Mumba is in Southern Province to kick start party auditing and mobilization throughout the country as the former ruling party gauges its popularity.
He is accompanied by party Vice National Secretary Edger Kembe.
I dont think anyone, including Kabimba is any doubt about this obvious fact. The problem is the PF and in particular Kabimba is a known liar. Look at what he said to parliament about having unequivical evidence against RB’s criminality, Look what he said about HH being attacked by “ordinary citizens” in Ndola. It is therefore no surprise that he “sees” the Zambian economy in a mess pre Sept 2011.
WILL THE FAKE PASTOR PLEASE SHUT UP! PLEASE DO NOT TAKE US BACK TO REMEMBERING HOW MONEY WAS SERIOUSLY STOLEN BY THE MMD. HOW TREES AND STREET LIGHT POLES WERE CLOTHED WITH CHITENGES WHILE ZAMBIAN CHILDREN WENT ABOUT NAKED.
Who sold KCM for $25m
Agarwal mocked the Zambian government for giving him VVIP treatment when he came to acquire the asset and eventually becoming majority owner of KCM at the current 69 per cent.
Speaking to the Jain International Trade Organisation in Bangalore, India between March 22 – 23 this year, Agarwal told the cheering crowd how he bought KCM for a song, rather than the US$400 million asking price.
In the 3:58-minute video, a bragging Agarwal describes his surprise at receiving a VIP welcome to the Zambian Parliament, and ridicules the then Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa for claiming that Vedanta would improve the lives of Zambians, especially those in Chingola and Chililabombwe.
Agarwal reveals how he duped late president Mwanawasa on their first meeting that 30 members of his delegation missed…
Mumba Baunze!
Vedanta/KCM comes mind immediately! MMD Economic Managers. Somebody shut this loof up!
I am almost exploding with anger to hear someone saying MMD are better economic managers. Yes – selling a mine for $25 million and you call yourselves better economic managers. Worse still you want to come back to power, check your conscience .
Yes better than PF, at least this is a fact.
Pf should not be even mentioned with anything like Economic manager, strategic thinking, excellence etc. They are just economic borrowers, specialist spoilers!
Mumba may not be the right person to comment but some facts he has presented are true eg How much was the kwacha to a dollar in 2011? How much was a bag of melie meal in 2011? How much reserves were left by the MMD government? How much was our debt stock in 2011? How was freedom of assembly including the opposition political parties etc. The list is endless if you compares to the lies of now. But one thing that is true is that MMD cannot bounce back just yet. MMDs rhetoric is still fresh in our souls especially how RB snubbed all the local authorities in the country is nauseting
The fact however,is that the Zambians are no longer again going to expriment with onother government.They’re really disappointed with the experiment they made with the PF(Peoples’ Fault).Zambians are no longer interested in promises.MMD at least will now try to implement effectively their Economic policies and Programmes-Like the PF hyjacked MMD’s Roads Formuilar 1 projects(changed name to Link Zambia8000),Provincial Universities,Health Infrastructers etc
Will try HH/UPND, they have stable and intelligent members and can manage the country better.
I never thought Nevets Mumba can be so ignorant about contracts as to say that people who get awarded road contracts sell them to others!How possible is this?Nevers pls stop talking nonsense!The truth is the MMD will never come back to power if u remain the leader because we all know that the best you can do is take the MMD into political oblivion.Right now the MMD is in the political Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and very soon it will die.You are a power hungry destroyer of political parties.Wake up MMMD!
Kikikiki, running the economy like akantemba lol 🙂
But honestly speaking only the shallow minded goons can support pf! MMD was far much better am yes they had there negatives but pf is worse only the blind and wicked can support pf. *****s
Pf is running a country on guess work. Chinese ambassador has refuted their claims that, mmd printed fake money. Check in today’s post edition. Look at the dollar against our Kwacha, Look at the price m/meal, look at the fuel price and now they want to copy MMD RB’s initiative (Government to Government oil deals) with the middle eat countries after condemning RB. shamuneni bane…….SHAME
I agree with you MMD were better economic managers,infact far much better.PF is crueless, they have failed lamentably,the kwacha has become worthless and its falling freely against major currencies,prices are moving up.These guys lied and promissed a lot of things,now its like they are lost and they do not even know where to touch, what ever button they they try to press is always a wrong one,surely where are they taking us??????
@ Lay. Ala iwe, it is not crueless!! It is CLUELESS.