Friday, March 29, 2024

Charles Banda Suspends Kalumbila Town Council for Inviting the Opposition to Inspect Government projects

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The Minister of local government Hon. Charles Banda has suspended the Kalumbila town council for inviting the opposition to inspect government projects and taking credit for the work done.

Dr Banda told journalists at a media briefing this morning that the councillors invited the opposition leaders to inspect government projects after lying that the projects which were taking place were their own initiative.

He said the move by the councillors was an act of indiscipline which will not be tolerated.

He said the decision by the government to punish the Kalumbila council was to save as a lesson to other councils.

The councillors invited their political leaders to inspect government projects without permission.

Dr. Banda said the local authority has the mandate to oversee the projects in the local authority.

He said the action taken by councillors to invite the opposition leaders to inspect government project was illegal and tend to politicise the projects.
And speaking at the same briefing, North-western Province Minister Nathaniel Mubukwanu condemned the acts by Kalumbila councilors to invite the opposition leaders to inspect the government projects saying the move was unacceptable.

He said Kalumbila was the creation of the PF government saying there was no way the opposition could claim benefits.

Meanwhile, Dr Banda has confirmed that the government has fully disbursed the constituency development fund for the year 2020.

He also regretted the high indiscipline being exhibited by Mufumbwe council officers that fought in Public.

He has since directed the Provincial Minister to ensure that an ad-hoc committee was formed to investigate the infighting that went viral on social media.

25 COMMENTS

  1. Any citizen can inspect any project. It’s their money after all – or money they will need to repay if it was borrowed. What is illegal about looking at
    so-called projects? What primitive actions are these? Self preservation politics at the expense of thinking. Does anyone ever think, in this useless
    PF-govt?

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  2. Pf is doing so much good work such that people are even claiming it to be their own achievement. And yet some upnd f00l thinks they stand a chance in 2021.

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  3. When you’re a councilor you are non partisan. Government projects can’t be referred to as political Party projects even if the council is dominated by 1 Party. Ba Kalumbila council shenke yenu

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  4. This country has serious problems of leadership. Nomba tukatina nokuposha our neighbors. Just in case they are not PF them we are in trouble.
    Anyway, someone to explain the $19B nkongole

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  5. He has not yet finished. By the time he is released ninshi he has faded like a PF campaign citenge. It is always good to have initiative and strategy when you engage an opponent of PF cruelty. Do not give them an opportunity to fault you. What good or use is an incarcerated Mucheleka to the UPND. Another vocal & prominent member taken out of circulation because he failed to take calculated risk. His voice is silenced. He spoke to the masses. Bane ba UPND muleishiba utuntu. Mwamona twamifulula. Mwapya 1 out and many to go. Basopo ni pamaka

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  6. I have on many occasions heard PF campaigns during which it was said that certain districts are undeveloped because they voted opposition. Kalumbila shows their development and they get suspended. How curious.

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  7. The problem with these PF *****s they think they own Zambia and only them are capable of delivering to the Zambian people.

    Let the council run smoothly. You can’t suspending the councils anyhow in any way.

    This is nosense.

    PF must go!

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  8. Okay ba Chalesi naimwe, I thought it was good that the opposition are now viewing your so called projects? What a minister!

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  9. If the opposition leaders were MPs or other elected officials, then they too belong to government. kikikiki on this one, minister Banda is chasing shadows.

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  10. @paolo I would rather be a dog that wins elections than one that has lost over 4 elections and continues to do the same things

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  11. He has finished fighting with his PS over the bridge, then with kilometers samples and now he is looking for another sparring partner. One day he will be fighting with his own shadow.

  12. What has become of this guy Banda? I’m beginning to lose respect for the so called educated. Don’t you know that you can a credit by allowing opposition to inspect the projects as a government in power?.

  13. Some DRs have head knowledge only. What a shame inspecting a project is not the same as commissioning a project. Any citizen has a right to inspect or see a project. Government has a right to commission projects. The opposition do not get credit for inspecting the project.

  14. Ati doctor mufinshi uyu wine Banda? Any way,I Wouldn’t be surprised as some degrees are equivalent to certificates. If you ask him what he studied he wont be able to tell you.This man is blank in the head. Na bafwala notu ma glasses twa ma donations .Ataa see

  15. The Kalumbila council should have invited both ruling and opposition leaders. Afterall development benefits every citizen and finances do not come from individual pockets but from tax payers

  16. Foolish kalumbila, their MPs always walk out from Parliament.so why should they claim today that it part of their duties. Banda well done let their mps remain in parliament during debate. Upnd should know that all councils are controlled by the government of the day. Unfortunate it is PF.

  17. This issue is simply a procedural issue. Indeed you cannot have the opposition coming to inspect the projects without the express authority of the ruling party. They are mandated to see the development across the country. The opposition cannot come through the backdoor and start inspecting Govt projects unless of course there is a problem by which opposition need verification.

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