Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General Winter Kabimba has refuted claims by the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) that the ruling party is using underhand methods to hoodwink voters into voting for its candidate in the Mufumbwe parliamentary bye-election.
Mr. Kabimba told ZANIS in a telephone interview in Lusaka yesterday that the PF wants to win the bye elections in a transparent and accountable manner, saying the accusations are baseless.
He said if the MMD feel they have no chances of winning the by-election, they should tell the voters instead of raising lies to disrupt the voter’s attention on making a right choice of a candidate.
He said it is not true that the PF has used the payments to farmers for their maize as a strategy to hoodwink farmers in order to get votes adding that paying of farmers for their grain has always been a government program that should not be politicized.
He said government will continue paying farmers their money as they sold their maize to government.
Mr. Kabimba has, however, stated that as party Secretary General he does not know of a businessman named Shawi Fawaz who is alleged to have been sponsoring the parties’ alleged violence acts in Mufumbwe.
Meanwhile, North Western Province Police Commissioner Eugene Sibote has described the political atmosphere in Mufumbwe as peaceful.
Mr. Sibote told ZANIS in a telephone interview that it was sad that information is being manufactured to insinuate incidences that the police have not come across.
Reacting to a statement from Mufumbwe MMD campaign manager Newton Samakayi, Mr. Sibote said it was not true that the police have been reluctant to react to violence acts allegedly being perpetrated by the PF but was quick to act on the opposition.
He said police in Mufumbwe have only recorded one incident that happened when MMD members reported that they were attacked but later refused to take the police to the scene of the alleged violence so that police could establish the truth.
He said the Mufumbwe by-election campaigns have been peaceful adding that all parties contesting the by-election have conducted their campaigns in a peaceful manner.
And commenting on the chopper that landed in Kalengwa and raised suspicion of malpractices, Mr. Sibote said the only plane that landed in Kalengwa on October 11, this year was a chopper that carried Vice President Guy Scott when he went to witness the filing nominations by candidates in Mufumbwe.
He said Mufumbwe has got no air strip that can accommodate the size of chopper that the Vice President had used.
Movement for Multiparty Democracy in Mufumbwe have accused the ruling Patriotic Front party of using underhand methods to hoodwink voters in the forthcoming by-election.
MMD Mufumbwe Campaign Manager Newton Samakayi has told ZANIS in a statement that the Patriotic Front party has sponsored violence through Shawi Fawzi because they are not prepared for the by-election.
Mr. Samakayi further stated that the era of deceit belonged to the 2011 adding that the time for realism has come to North Western Province.
He further said people of North Western Province will not entertain lies as they deserved to be part of the wide spectrum of the development process of the country.
Mr. Samakayi has further given the Zambia Police 24 hours to assume responsibility failure to which a citizen’s arrest shall be effected by his party on any one found wanting in violence.
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DEMONS ARE IN CHARGE HERE,LOOSING AN ELECTION IS REALLY PAINFUL, HAKAINDE HAS NO DIRECTION WHAT SO EVER ITS EVEN WASTING TIME TALKING ABOUT HIM. THEY ARE SEEING GHOSTS IN MUFUMBWE, THEY CANT SLEEP BECAUSE THE DEVIL HAS TOLD THEM GUYS YOU ARE DOOMED.,
so your job you are paid for by miles sampa is insult and condemn HH? what about trying something worth a normal person?. i have another better job for you than this. been used for survival? awe sure
Hamiyanze you are a big fool why are u bringing HH when this story is about MMDÂ
who still believes what comes out of the mouths of these low caliber individuals i personally i don’t. they lied their way to Government so they do not owe any one the truth. they built their House on a found of LIES hence so shall be the rest of the HOUSE.
Mouths of low caliber? It’s unfortunate to be born from a cow. Keep dreaming and hating.
ARVs retards individual’s thinking. i think they are at work here. busy fathering children and infecting young girls. these young girls will finish because of money
MMD are now realising the old adage “what goes around comes around”Â
So Lusaka times you have been told you printed lies and never was there 37 P.F cadres arrested for invading opposition territory.
It looks like Summer Hule Kabimba the Adulterer i trying to use the media to cover up his control of the police reports and photos taken on the day.
We know the police were told to release the cadres under instructions from P.F.
Now this curry muncher born in Zambia needs to located and locked up ad failing to do this shows he is sponsoring P.F violence in Mufumbwe.
Fawaz is a criminal and the people in the area know and indian when they see one so the evididence is there for all to see except the Adulterer and his police state gang.
Don’t forget this important note.
Mushota is an ex prositute infected with HIV from Summer Hule Kabimba.
For a former ruling party MMD is being quite childish. Firstly, these tactics they accuse PF of, using maize for campaigns, is theirs. Before Chiluba died he even promised some “international tactics”. Secondly, as small children we all have done this thing where we provoke someone bigger than us, and out of the fear that he may actually beat the s**t out of us we complain to the elders that there is a bully on the loose. Mufumbwe violence last year was an MMD strategy. Hence the term “Movement for Mufumbwe Disaster”… One would think that MMD, having been in power, does understand political issues that call for checks and balances, but alas, they are also under five. One wonders what they were doing in office, really.
Sorry, not Mufumbwe violence LAST YEAR, but LAST ELECTION!!!
Yes lies should not be intertained,Don’t kubeba is no more.Muchinga Province is developing ,which is not producing anything.So show them that we are no longer accept anything.
Our boy is unfortunate.
pf cant win in mufumbwe even if SATA adopted himself as a ward councilor pf only wins in THE CRIMINAL POST
we will teach kabimba a lesson and pf will realise northwestern is up for real politics this one is a protest vote we know last month there was no money for farmers this time there is money and only in mufumbwe here in solwezi farmers are yet to be payed kabiimba will be thought.
PF has a lot of time and energy to answer all political critics, one wonders they will ever just shut up and deliver. Its becoming a bore as Shamenda and Winter are not even orators so their arguments are irritants.
MMD has always taken Zambians for small children. They always want to play the innocent and yet we all know the crimes they have commited with impunity
So farmes in mufumbwe are being paid there monies?thats good though it will be a donchi kubeba on the part of pf as masumba said