PRESIDENT Banda has taken a swipe at Kasama Mayor Fidelis Chishoma for suggesting that he (the President) was not welcome in Kasama and Northern Province as a whole.
Mr Banda said Mr Chishoma must have been misquoted when he said President Banda would not be welcomed in Kasama, because as Head of State, he is free to visit any part of Zambia.
“I feel for the mayor because he is always here each time I come to Kasama. But today, he has opted to stay away following his statement that I will not be welcomed. But I wish he was here to see the magnitude of people that have come to welcome me,” Mr Banda said on arrival at Kasama Airport.
Mr Banda wondered why the civic leader had issued such a reckless statement when he knew that people would welcome the President.
Mr Banda jokingly said being Ngoni by tribe, he was free to visit Northern Province because Bembaland was his home.
“The mayor was dreaming because this is my home, and I cannot fear to come, even if he was misquoted in one of the tabloids saying I will not be welcomed,” Mr Banda said.[quote]
Mr Banda also said the tabloid newspaper lied last week when it published a picture showing a traditional leader smearing powder on PF president Michael Sata as a sign of support for the opposition party leader.
Mr Banda said he had contacted the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services to enquire about the traditional leader that was shown in the picture, and he was told that such a traditional leader does not exist.
“You can see how desperate Mr Sata has become,” Mr Banda said.
Earlier, Northern Province Minister John Chinyanta wondered why a civic leader could dare the Head of State in such a manner.
“This is what it means when you have civic leaders that have nothing to do but want to dare the Republican President. I wish he was here to see for himself the number of people that have come to welcome the President,” Mr Chinyanta said.
[ Zambia Daily Mail]
Am I number 1?
yes u are Zulu 83.
people in the diaspora, can u see the type of sh!t we have to deal with everyday? I pray the good Lord gives me strength coz the hate i have for RB and his legion is energy-draining.
Just face the truth RB , the mayor was not present at Kasama Airport to welcome you…
Mayor Fidelis Chishoma probably means what he said…
This is a result of making market Kaponyas as mayors. They even have no clue or idea on what it means to be a civic leader. They think being a mayor is like being call boy with a protected territory.
Banda’s lies are over, the problem is he want to be told what he wants to here, any counter view is a lie… God help the Man
Why was Ruphia affected by the Mayor’s absence? Because he needed him there but he (the mayor) has a right to choose to welcome the global trotter or not.
Hey, this mayor is strong and really smote RB right in the face. We need such men of Vera, just like Max Nkole. So the presdo really felt it. I have never seen such courage in the Land of Zambia. This really gives hope that we have men in the land. Just to hit RB hard like that is cool. If we continue hiting them like that, these thieves will eventually leave our politics. The current one is from Zim, the other from Zaire and the first one was from Malabi. We need a Zambian???
Most of these thieves know that, cheating is easier through politics and since they do not have any form of skills to get a job and earn a salary, they bootlick through and through. They want to cause confusion and pretent to be solving problems and justfy their stay and continued stealling. Surely, guy do we need people like VJ, Mulongoti, Shikap…, Mabenga etc to continue shriving on stollen money?? Some of these are even convicts!! Kafupi has also waken up and started fighting for another share, as if what he got is not enough. This is a guy with 200 stollen pairs of shoes!
Kasama Mayor Fidelis Chishoma must be saluted for his bravery. It reminds me of the brave mwana wa Kwitu ku Zambia Lieutenant General Christon Tembo MHSRIP when as vice president of Zambia refused to parade himself at the airport to receive ka Kafupi Chiluba every time the pygmy was leaving or arriving at the airport. This makes the end of Kanitundila, the Southern MMD is also cracking, the bells are now wailing, and we’ll see because should he bulk under pressure, and bulk he will, his loss at the convention will be a foregone conclusion. Enough of this Kanitundila s.t.u.p.i.d.i.t.y. is enough, twachula pafula sure!
That is what happens when you use kaponyalism as a prerequisite for party membership. Sata mobilized all these kaponyas and turned them into his party officials. All on contract that they would be turned into millioneers with overflowing pockets of magic money and personal mansion as long as they can hallucinate with him in the HakaSata insultology.Now the Xenophobic Ex-Lumpa sect member is gnashing his rotten teeth in illusions.I have waited for the much announced PF organize lethally coordinated hostile reception to no avail.Sata for two days was blowing hot air that it happen to no avail.What a legion of sole losers.
Chishoma and chief Chimbaka were enjoying some katata when banda was at the airport, viva lumpen behaviour.
Can a Mayor do that? What are the consequences?
Is this all he could talk about in Kasama and why did he go to so much trouble to find out whether the chief who is supporting PF exists or not? Doesn’t he have better things to do?
This was really a major set -back and powerful blow to the RB entourage!. What a shame!. This is likely to happen often as we approach more by-elections.
Fidelis is really couragous and I am imperest.
# 10, You are such a distance disillusioned dreamer.I pray your illusions don’t deliver you a heart attack as you face the real world. Here you are deep in the utopian world misfed by the embatled tabloid now gone epileptic.Come back to earth and meet grassroot voters and political functionaries where power is derived from.Power is birthed from the ballot boxes in secret booth and certainly not from delusions in tabloids.Careful, you may just die of own hatred when your friends are floating in peace.Good lucky.
rb has just lost western province coz all mmd folk down there say there with Namakando, the provincial mmd chairman who has defied Katete’s directive that the executive there be dissolved. Assess this; Namakando has already critisized Banda publicly and knowin lozis, they will sway were Namakando tells them to sway. Nobody can deny that RB’s a moron but moronity at these toxic levels is raising eyebrows. mpombo just verified wat some of us speculated on and thats no one really has any respect for RB both within and outside the party. thats why any jim and jack within the party can issue out funny statements and not care about any repercussions coz there wont be any. threats and directives by kalumba are all part of the joke so no one’s takin anybody seriously
Even monkeys have written Nyamasoya Kanitundula off! Leave it to a certain section of “ba khumawa” to still remain wedded to the belief that this goofy and clueless globe trotting baboon can salvage Zambia from its economic and political doldrums. Like Bwezani, they are intoxicated with the vile bigotry of tribalism and are now wholly blind to reality, reality which even tailed primates of State House could clearly see when one of them right before the whole world absolutely drenched his p.i.s.s. head in urine in a typical show of monkey disapproval! And why did he have to talk about the Ngoni-Bemba cousinship, I wonder what he will say if the Mongu or Livingstone Mayor absconds from receiving him?
CIAO,
How has this immaterial failed PF project been a setback to to the entourage??????
How when they are on course with their program and multitudes welcomed him despite PF vesting millions in vanity? There is RB and entourage in Kasama for 3 days while that kaponya has gone hidding?
This is what poverty can do. Little sados want to be worshipped. Someone show me where in the constitution it says a president has to have mayors and hungry people waiting for him? I do not even know when Gordon is coming or leaving the country. He goes and comes quietly. Only a few weeks ago, it was big news when Mrs Obama came to was it Stanstead when someone leaked information.
I am really proud of Fidelis, he has brought honour to the province. I dont think this has ever happened anywhere in the world. To shame a group of thieves just like that??. It cant get worse than that!!. MMmmm, this will go down in history as a story of the brave mayor who could not sale his birth right for politics
Well, in addition to the very valid reasons Kasama Mayor Fidelis Chishoma gave for declining to receive Banda at the airport, I also hear that he was forewarned by reliable sources that abena Kolwe clan were going to ambush Kanitundila and once again soak him and his entourage in deeper urine this time. So abena Fidelis decided to remain at his office to do some civic duties for which he was elected. Besides, urine is very had to wear off and given the high price of washing surf these days, who would blame “abena” Fidelis for staying away from this monkey toilet?
Senior Citizen, my man, how u doin? Your monlogues remind me of my secondary school days during debates when a dude wud say stuff like “As I stand here Perpendicular to the wall and horizontal to whatever to spew out the bla bla bla” Admit it dude, u were in the debate club werent u? Related subject, i just need to know, Senior Citizen, wat criteria wud you use to defend Katele’s blatant disregard for the MMD consitution which states that Provincial whatevers can only be dissolved by the NEC? Coz as u know, he has directed that the Western Province and Serenje mmd executives be dissolved and for wat reason? Sayin there were not for the idea of skipping the convention. Oh and in case u didnt know, L/stone MMD also do not want the convention skipped.
#16 Senior Citizen says: I smell a rat here, your English is bad, it stinks. You’re a school kid and are most likely named Sakala, Phiri, Tembo or Banda. Your father was sent into the diplomatic service by Kanitundila because of your name, a Ngoni one. I bet when Kanitundila gets the boot, you’re hearding home quickly. If I were you, I would just tuck that kolwe tail of yours clean over your smelly under 5 prat at shut the hell up!
Many times Mwanawasa’s trips as late as 2008 where boycotted by Ndola mayor Katongo.Did it make any bearing? Nop levy was still Z1.Can a PF kaponya make any difference? Certainly no because with his illusions and hatred he should have stopped RB from landing in Kasama.But there is the man meeting multitudes, public workers, traditional rulers and voters.Where is Sata and his Kaponyas to allow what they have wasted money to beat them flat?
Senior Citizen, one day you will realise that by simply being a saleout, you actually kill your own people indirectly. There is no where in this world, you can support thieves and have a clear concience. Right now Fidelis has a clear concience by doing the right thing while RB and you yourself move with a shadow of shame and quilty. Are you so narrow that you are not able to tell right and wrong?. Or you are just a misfit in society that you can support fools to justfy your mental problem, just because thieves can take advantage of your sickness to stay in power and continue stealling and killing innocent people?
Rupiah is in Kasama for partisan business therefore the Mayor does not need to welcome him. The Mayor is in battle with the presdient’ s Party(Acting). The sooner Rupiah goes the Better. I guess when Rupiah meets with Chiluba all they talk about are tribal polictics and alliances between Bembas and Ngoniz.. Dull man.
All you PF kaponya,an opportunity to prove your worth has presented itself.After days of fantasy,against your dreams RB is in town. Go stop him from following his program instead of burning in vain.
If Zambia had more people like Fidelis, may be we would have seen development. Unfortunately all there is are i d i o t s like ci Senior Citizen, ici pu ba ci Bootlicker and the dim Mr Capitalist.
Kaponyalism has no future but vanity and abyss of poverty.Yours is a utopian world with no dividend.
Fidelis you are the man! Top marks mate! Well done. Unfortunately you`ve been let down by a few hungry people who as awlays will only complain after they drink all the chibuku they have been brought. One has to feel sorry for that country!
You went to Kasama coz u are campgng. The mayor right your work in Kasama is nothing. Can u list for me the work that u have doen there?
Seniour Citizen look here you dim person. Even Bob Mugabe has followers! Does that tell you something about poverty in Africa? I bet not because you are so dim to see. Yet reality tells us something else.
We don’t want cheap politics in Zambia.
Know that these days people are educated, don’t go there with your cheap and simple Psychology to allure people, yet your work done is equel to Zero. People in Kasama walkup and vote for the person who will work for you, GBM and forget abt Mugala he will do nothing to u he is in the same party of the lazy people who takes leadership on the silver plate “DOGS OF THE SAME STREET BARKS ALIKE” it means people from the same origin have the same behaviour, he is an MMD he will do nothing.
Does RB have anything to do? What is a point of investing chiefs. Can somebody tell RB send of bootlikers to investigate how much hunger, poverty and desperation for jobs and other neccesities that people are in need of… Well done mayor of Kasama
Leka muchinyaja nikambe, chaoneka monga ba Banda chizungu apa chaba pita pa mutu. Fixelis atokoza ati Bantu simamifunani, mugayende kulikone muchalo, ba sogoleso ba chalo.
useless nyama soya…
L.T do not insinuate I cursed I said mu.g.a.en.de. Senior has stated before in another thread he is controversial to spark debate. Even he knows R.B and his colonial ways is misguided. My fellow bloggers hear me, the only way we shall change Zambia is by educating our families back home the solid foundations if democracy, relying even on the drop of a dime on PF-UPND pacts shall not cut it. Zambians need tobe awoken to hard work and independent awareness. The majority of us on LT do not even suffer from that dreaded inferiority complex that plagues a Zambian or two. So teach three to reach many, surely look at the firmer and former Bechuanaland; hard work, love and a belief in our one true God shall get us there.
This is some analysis of the 2011 elections
Lusaka Province = PF (UPND/PF Pact) ,Copperbelt Province = PF (UPND/PF Pact), Southern Province = UNPD (UPND/PF Pact) ,Western Province = UPND (UPND/PF Pact), Northern Province = PF (UPND/PF Pact) ,Eastern Province = MMD, Luapula Province = Swing State PF (UPND/PF Pact) ? Central Province = Swing State MMD? North Western Province = Swing State UPND (UPND/PF Pact)? A Recommendation to the UPND/PF Pact for them to solidify their base in their strongholds and to work hard in the Swing states,they need to employ registration Managers in the swing states to aggressively Register new voters while HH and Sata concentrate on Campaining.
Bloggers you may be misreading The Mayors absence at the airport. I think he stayed away for his own safety as he new he would attract a lot of venom and hatred from the MMD carders following his statement earlier in the week. He know how violent they can get and was wise enough to stay away and not necessarily out of bravery. What was indeed brave was his initial statement of saying RB would not be welcome in Kasama. Whether his statement has been proven true or not is besides the point
Senior citizen, Waba ichinyo pa mputi!
It is VERY sad that some people who are supposed to be learned can use such shameful language like #42. It is this type of behaviour which takes us backward always. Why not differ with dignity? Surely insulting like this is a clear sign that you cannot think right. You are the people who think that everyone MUST think the way you do. SHAME, SHAME!!!
Persuade and not insult.
Twasebana sana…
Goodafternoon
The trivial political issues between the President and his opponents should not be carried out at the expense of national unity. The Kasama mayor did well to live up to his words by not being present to welcome the president, so let that should conclude the whole issue.
#41 Marcus. I agree with your observation on why the Mayor stayed away (and he is at liberty to do so). However, I disagree with you when you say “Whether his statement has been proven true or not is besides the point”, This is not besides the point. This is the point. If the Mayor misjudged the mood of his people – that is sad because then he was speaking for himself. This may be the undoing of the opposition – standing on top of an anthill to make sweeping statements that are not supported by the people. The Mayor should have concentrated on mobilizing the people to boycott welcoming the President to show displeasure with his leadership – and send a message. He is not the people.
exactly no. 45. this is what all these PF kaponya’s should undertsand. Most people in Kasama do not even read the Post let alone would they listen to a fool like chishoma. the fact is that sata and GBM are not in anyway respected in Kasama. Sata is NOT and WILL NEVER be a Bemba. He is a mwachusa (tanzanian) from Mpika and thats why Chitimukulu has kept his distance from him. the mwachusa’s for those who do not know are traditional cousins of namwanga’s and they are the ones who worked as slaves for the namwanga’s in the old kingdom in Tanzania. then GBM is a well known street kid who made it big financially but its still remembered as a simple bully with no character at all. senior citizen I commend your patience but really LT is full of kaponya’s with no real understanding of zambia
Senior Citizen, are you Sipolilo a.k.a Bashemi working at the Zambian embassy in Washington? If you are, surely you are finished bruv, supporting the NyamaSoya govt. Anyway, I look forward to Nyamas visiting your home province, Sipolilo. There he will truly be booed!
I understand provincial chairman for the Western Province Simasiku Namakando is now calling “…….. President Banda to an Indian emperor Shahjahan…
#29. How come you don’t seem to know the obvious? Senior Citizen is the chap who is also Bootlikcker who is also the Capitalist. I have the data as ”Junior”. On the hand observe ”their” English closely.
PF has spent 2 weeks calling for a massive hostile public reception with lethal response against the Head of state in Kasama but in vain.PF has spent over ZK 250,000,000 in feeding staged cadres and on publicity for violence but in vain.
The Head of state arrived in Kasama yesterday morning to a thunderous massive reception.The PF mayoral Kaponya mayor and mobilized thugs have all coiled their tails between their legs. They have since gone into hiding out of shame.In disappointment with his cadres, Sata has since developed stomach virus. The man is now releasing gas uncontrollably out of shame and anger that this has been a money wasted project without desired results.
RB as of this evening has meet civil servants, party leaders, traditional rulers and registered voters under best ever hospitality from his bemba cousins.He is spending full 3 days in and around Kasama incidence free thereafter he will return to state house for more national services.
The question is, has Sata and his kaponyas prepared for a similar strategy against them around the country?Do they have the skin to absorb counter measures from corner to corner of Zambia? RB can be in any part of the country despite such sponsored PF and Ichilema thuggery, but do the HakaSata got similar shocks to absorb the danger this thuggery may deliver? How are they going to campaign around the country when they have irresponsibly started to sponsor desperate moves with every propensity of costing themselves more than an incumbent head of State? Are they better insulated from the lethal hostility they are invoking better than RB?
Good luck and cry not.Put it on record that in the calendar of the Lord, PF has dually sponsored a failed hostile project against the head of state.
#49. I know! I know he is the i d i o t called Patriot as well. A lot of people post under different names and with different flags. He also posts as Akapondo.
Come Thursday,Patriot,Senior Citizen,Akapondoand all the foolish blind followers will eat their vomit.KasamaCentral is no go area for MMD.GBM will emerge victorious.Your RB can camp there for a month and hold 100 meetings,peolple there will not be swayed .
So get that drilled down yourthroat!
Did RB have to investigate which chief was annointing Sata!
RBee should concentrate on the following developing the roads, increasing wages of teachers, the road infrastructure of Kasama ,the health care system, build industries that bring job creation ( not only based on foreign investment. That is what the people are interested in hearing. We are not concerned on how many people see him at the airport. We are not interested in hearing how he will win elections in 2011. No matter how complicated some bloggers put it. The basic fact Zambians are waiting to see results. Wealth that trickles to the poor. Standard of living improved. MMD has been in power 20 yrs ….please show results that empower the Zambian people. God bless Zambia
Senior Citizen and Patriot, you know what makes the loudest noise so just ignore the empty drums and keep up the good work.
By the way what has happened to the Chiluba appeal campaign? Now the attention is on that kaponya mayor. You guys are easily deflated. Typical of empty drums making loud noises, just rolling everywhere and no direction.
My fellow contributors, the truth is the mayor of Kasama was right, to tell RB he is not wanted. The people Senior Citizen you are talking about have been transported from other districts in northern province. If the mayor was not telling the truth why the Mangani and the MMD govt sent two big buses full of police paramilitary officers to guard at Luwingu bus station, shoprite and Kasama town centre where RB was chased by throwing items on him. The truth is MMD will not carry a day on thursday despite buying meal mealie, cooking oil and chibuku to bribe locals. They are saying let us share with these corrupt leaders because they have come to us because they want us to vote for MMD. Let us eat and drink but we will vote for PF.MMD is in distray it is like the sheep without a shepherd.
45 Solomon, Ackson Mwamba the current Chitimukulu his alliance with RB is born out of poverty and not a real alliance. Before he was a proper UNIP cadre and started supporting MMD when MMD govt helped him to ascend to the throne through duboius means. That why Mr Ackson M wamba is not popular to many bembas because it is the MMD govt that imposed him on the Bemba tribe. With this support from the corrupt govt , he has become corrupt and he is receiving K16 MILLION , Senior chief Mwamba is not part of what Patriot is claiming to be with RB. Secondly, the provincial permanent secretary has ordered all female civil servants to gather at president park to have prayers on Monday morning. All the people in Kasama they know this is a political move so that RB can address them.
#49 Junior S.h.i.t.izen
You are greatly mistaken. If you have been on the LT blog long enough, you’ll notice that I am not Senior Citizen. I can give you a history of the usernames I have used on the LT blog. I was Free-Market-Capitalist, I then changed and opted for the name Free-Market-Economist, I then changed once again to adopt the current name I am carrying which is Mr. Capitalist. Bloggers who have been here long enough like Nine Chale can bear witness to this.
Senior Citizen is a blogger I greatly respect due to his great ability to adequately analyze political issues. Such an ability is a great asset to the LT blog and not PF fantasies of 90 day economic miracle formula and 24 hour ultimatums which are at least 5 months over-due.
#61 Senior citizen and Natalie…you are the empty cans that make too much noise. So loud that your ears no longer hear the cry of a child in the village, the hunger in some homes in Zambia, the lack of jobs etc Look at places like Botswana and compare it to the direction of Z MMD has ruled 20 years including your favorite kafupi. Please give us concrete reasons why Z is still begging from Donors .Zambia has alot of potential to be the richest country in Africa. Victoria falls alone could have made Z no1 in tourism in the world. People like you give excuses for theft and greed and guess what people suffer. You encourage the same people into power who are taking advantage of peaceful and docile Zambians. You really don’t care about removing the root problem corruption it is all about you.
If there were still any doubts about Kanitundila’s deteriorating mental capabilities, they were definitively put to rest in Kasama yesterday, at a rally before the whole world. Cognitive symptoms such as the disruption of memory, language, thinking and reasoning are an unmistakable sign of alzheimer’s disease. In Kasama yesterday, it had to take the poor translator one Mr Kapungwe there times to register it into Kanitundila’s thick skull that the former MP for Kasama’s name is Saviour Chishimba and not Mr Xavier Chungu. Maybe these are some of the effects of Kolwe’s sprinkle babtizing of Kanitundila’s head!
LT where are the week and weekend in pictures? Would be great to see that great man Mr Sata being smeared in ubunga.
For you who are not in Zambia: Every time a mayor from the opposition has gone to welcome the Republican President, they have been subjected to all kinds of humiliation by MMD cadres in full view of RB and ZP. So why is this man RB complaining about?
Analyzing the President’s speech in Kasama and other statements that have been made concerning MMD MP’s etc having easier access to the Govt/ Developmental funds, it should be made very clear concerning which clause in the constitution allows that and if there is a clause then MMD MP’s should be held to a very high standard than their counterpart MP’s from the opposition. The MMD MP’s etc need to be made accountable for those funds against the development they have brought to the nation in the last 18 years.
#64 SORRY U MISSED THE PICTURE. I SAW IT. IT WAS A FRIEND TO A CHIEF, ALIKOLWA KATATA. AFTER UKUBAILA NA MA BIGGIE BA SATA ELYO BATAMPILE KA DEMO EFYO BA CHIEF CHITIMUKULU BAKAYA BASUBA UBUNGA BA SATA. PASOPO
Senior citizen and Natalie, you are the worst fools this country has ever produced. John 8:32.
# 49, i like the humour in your name S.h.i.t.i.z.e.n hahahaha it seems to have been the knockout punch for senior s.h.i.t.i.zen. #42 Contrada wachita over mwana, but at least the f.o.o.l gets the message.Just wondering why LT didnt delete your comment???
Well done ba Mayor. We now know there are senior members of society who arent bootlickers to RB. Infact dont ever go to his meeting again, bazakulowa mudala.
We need such Mayors around.
Did the president have to talk about this?
KK was a real states man. He never stooped that low. When he openned his mouth, a head of state spoke.
YOU POOR DIASPORA PEOPLE GET A LIFE AND WORK INSTEAD OF ALWAYS HATIN ON PEOPLE. RB WILL NOT LOSE HE WILL NEVER LOSE AND IN FACT HE WILL WIN AGAIN REGARDLESS OF UR PATHETIC SUPPORT FOR SATA. JUSR GET USED TO SEEING HIM. COS HE AINT GOIN NOWHERE LOL. HE AINT GOIN NOWHERE. VIVA RB VIVA MMD VIVA ZAMBIA
#73 VIVA RB, Senior Citizen, et. al. I salute u guys… U r the people we need in society who can stand for truth despite all opposition. Despite insults. I usually wonder what the definition of democracy is in PF… Insults? Rebellion? I wonder what their ‘alternate govt’ stands for. Hate?
Pls pipo, NOT supporting Sata is not being a ‘saleout’ as some educated fella above said it. In the same vein, supporting RB is not being a sell out. In a democracy, one shud be allowed to support any view possible without fear of intimidation thru insults and hate speech.
PF is only qualified to insult and speak hatred, not to rule. Read all topics writen by PF sympathisers and they all carry the same tone – hurt (of having lost), hate, bitterness, insults. No one speaks any wisdom. Prove me.
I have advice for Lusaka Times- your site is interesting to read about the goings on but what about the efforts marginalised people in Zambia are trying to overcome to survive,it seems you guys are everywhere RB goes and even when it is not in the interest of Zambia,we want to see a fair reporting of news items worthy of this medium.what about the workers in coal mines how are they fairing?farm workers,copper mines who is benefitting,how much has the country lost or benefitted from the “investors”,what about the levels of corruption in Zambia?why do we see children on western TVs in Zambia being used as starving children when our leaders are jetsetting the World where is the morality in our leaders,yes you report on those issues ARE YOU GUYS FOR REAL?LUSAKA TIMES SHOW US!!!!!!