A government Minister and some District Commissioners in Mangango were yesterday caught red-handed placing private number plates on government vehicles with the intention of abusing the motor vehicles in the by-election campaigns in the area.
However, the police in Western Province have locked up a United Party for National Development (UPND) official identified as Nasilele for grabbing the keys of the vehicles and the private number plates and reporting the matter to police.
An alert UPND campaign team exposed the electoral scandal when they reported the Minister and the District Commissioners to police after they caught them removing government number plates from 18 government vehicles and replacing them with private number plates.
According to UPND deputy secretary general Kuchunga Simusamba, the UPND campaign team grabbed the private number plates and the keys to the government vehicles and took them to police in Kaoma.
The UPND has since submitted a list of 18 government motor vehicles whose government number plate numbers were allegedly changed to private ones so that motor vehicles could be used in the Mangango constituency by-election campaigns.
Mr Simusamba told the Daily Nation from Mangango yesterday that the opposition political party campaign team discovered that the PF Ministers and some District Commissioners were swapping the GRZ plate numbers with private ones so that the vehicles could be used for their campaigns.
Mr Simusamba said Western Province UPND official Nasilele was arrested after grabbing the car keys and the plate numbers from Mr Mwaliteta when he quickly rushed to police to report.
Mr Simusamba has warned that the UPND would not tolerate the Patriotic Front (PF)’s continued abuse of government resources during by-elections.
Mr Simusammba said the UPND would continue effecting citizens’ arrest if the PF would continue flouting the electoral rules and regulations and that no amount of intimidation and harassment would deter them from ensuring the political playing field was leveled.
‘This morning, our campaign team found some PF Ministers and a number of District Commissioners (DCs) in Western Province who were in the act of changing government plate number to private one so that the vehicles could be abused in their campaigns. They have so far changed the GRZ plate numbers to private ones on 18 vehicles and we have submitted the list of the motor vehicles to police. The youths who found the Minister in the act grabbed the keys and the number plates and quickly rushed to the police to report. But instead of arresting the Minister, the police arrested our youth leader Nasilele and have denied him bond,” Mr Simusamba said.
He said it was annoying that the police were acting like puppets of the ruling party adding the UPND had sent more youths on the ground to monitor the illegal activities of the ruling party.
Mr Simusamba said the UPND would not stand with its arms akimbo and continue watching the ruling party violate the electoral rules with impunity.
Police spokesperson Charity Munganga when contacted referred the matter to Western Province police commissioner.
[Daily Nation]
Crap accusations ! There were no change of number plates.These UPND cadres just want an excuse after their barbaric attacks on Mwaliteta and his people.Arrest those chaps and throw away the key in Zambezi river.
UPND themselves changed the plates and now want to play victim. Cut that pseudo-innocence !!!
The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour and PF has been lying through their teeth from day one.I’ll believe UPND on this one. Why should anyone believe a party who lies to voters that the president is wooing Israeli investors,why should we believe a party that beats up worshipers in a church,why should we believe a party that has strangled our national wealth with debt,why should we believe a party that had created unprecedented by elections for selfish gain,why should we believe a party like PF?
@ Saulosi are you PF?? How do you know this never happened? Get serious than being emotional. Abuse of government Property is unacceptable. We have poor Zambians suffering and yet a party in power that promised a lot to Zambians cannot deliver a single thing and continues to abuse power? If you are PF I am warning you, that your days are numbered. You will not fo.ol Zambians any longer. Enough with this nonsense that PF has brought to Zambians.
UPND are becoming desperate.We all know they changed the plates themselves.
So the real story is out ba LT.
Saulosi. How many cooks will die this time in Mangango?
I am also waiting to hear of a lone UPND cadre with a panga who will jump on a moving PF campaign truck full of PF cadres, in a heavy convoy of PF campaign vehicles , Kill Chanda, jump out and flee. And then we see the Police arrest Nkombo et al.
@Ghana and Saulosi. Your assertions are simply Stu-pid. Its not funny.
In all of these issues how come we never see pictures and videos? Cadres dont have smart phones?
What is wrong with that?
Thanks
Mushota in your right state of mind you don’t see anything wrong in changing GRZ plates to private,are you serious or you didn’t have anything to write about.
saulosi you are an hired i.di.o.t and the blood of the many Zambians shall be required on you by God.
Mushota only talks not because she has something to say but purely because she has a mouth
@mushota cybok
mushota is not a woman my brother. he is a man, one of those renegade children with mental dysfunction (HOMO)
Using govrnment fuel for that matter.PF muli mbwa sana
Unlawfully changing a car number plate is a serious offence in countries with laws, but why are we allowing it in Zambia?
That minister is a terrible cruku, he broke Gary’s shoulder in Livingstone. Pf is full of ruffians ,dogs,hynas,frogs above all thieves and biological liars! Even the police are committing unforgivable offence of arresting innoncent/law abiding Nasilele release him fools! Viva UPND and HH!