Deputy Minister of Local Government and Housing Moses Muteteka says the Patriotic Front (PF) in Northern Province has continued to sponsor hooligans who are disturbing MMD meetings at which the ruling party is explaining to the people the projects it has implemented in the area.
Mr. Muteteka said in a telephone interview from Chinsali yesterday the PF is unsettled by what the MMD has done for the people of Northern Province, and has therefore resorted to violence.
He said the reason for that behaviour is that the PF has no issues on which to campaign, and has chosen violence as a way of venting its frustrations on the MMD.
He said on Wednesday night the MMD uncovered a ploy in which some PF youths in Chinsali were strategising on how to disturb the MMD meetings, and threatened Minister of Education Dora Siliya, who is in the same entourage as Mr Muteteka and Minister of Labour and Social Security Austin Liato.
Mr. Muteteka said the youths became unruly, but police managed to apprehend some of them in connection with the violence.
“It is just normal for the PF to appreciate that we have delivered development, but what they are doing is backward type of politics,” he said.
Mr Muteteka said he has also discovered that PF MPs in the province are abusing Constituency Development Fund (CDF) money by engaging their relatives and friends and giving them money for contracts that they are not executing.
He said in one incident, he discovered that a named MP paid a purported contractor K60 million for the construction of a clinic, but the project has been at foundation level for the past seven months. Nothing is happening at the site.
Mr. Muteteka said it is unfortunate that the PF MPs have taken advantage of the huge allocations of CDF, which is supposed to benefit the people in the communities.
But he warned that any contractor who will be discovered to have got CDF money for unexecuted projects will be dealt with accordingly.
And Mr Muteteka has said as MMD youth chairman, he is disappointed with the PF leadership for abusing youths to work against the government, which is working hard to empower young people with survival skills and resources.
He urged the PF to discipline its cadres involved in acts of violence against the MMD.
[ Zambia Daily mail ]
P.F and MMD need to get in the ring and box it out….ruining the lives of Zambians with their fights is useless.
RUPIAH AND HIS THIEVING CLOWNS V’s SATA AND HIS THUGS…..ZAMBIA IS THE LOSER HERE.
tell William Banda atase
What is the point of explaining projects to us if those project are real? Come one grow up. Violence was started by MMD so you cheap minister what are you complaining about?