A check by the Zambia Daily Mail crew at Dr Banda’s house yesterday found four men loading household goods onto a Mitsubishi Canter light truck, which was later driven to an unknown destination.

Dr Banda said in an interview that he is not happy that a private matter has gone into the public domain.

Early last month, Dr Banda’s landlady, Chali Tumelo, said that she was going to evict the UPND VEEP after failing to settle his house rentals and that Dr Banda has been a difficult tenant in paying the rentals.

“He has been staying in my house for nine years and paying rent has been very difficult. Sometimes Dr Banda would pay rentals after a month or at times, it takes two months for him to pay. After so many defaults, we decided to give him seven days ultimatum in which to pay, but still he has continued defaulting,” she said.

Ms Tumelo said Dr Banda pays K5,500 per month, although the market rate in PHI is between K7,000 and K8,000.

“The money he is paying is very little. We have not increased rentals because he has been there for a long time. I had planned to evict him but he pleaded with us, and we gave him a chance because at the time, he had lost his wife,” she said.

Ms Tumelo said she entered into a new contract with Dr Banda, but he has continued defaulting, and that when she asked for the payment of rentals, he allegedly went to the extent of insulting her.

“I have all the text messages as proof of the insults he sent to my mobile phone. Dr Banda started treating me as though I was his tenant and he was the landlord. My lawyer and I have asked him to vacate the house on March 31st,” she said.

Ms Tumelo said she has asked Dr Banda to renovate her house before moving out.

But Dr Banda at the time said the allegation was not true and that he has hardly known Ms Tumelo. Dr Banda said some people are trying to taint his name because he is a politician.

FORMER Southern Province Permanent Secretary Gladys Kristafor, whose husband Stan Kristafor endorsed HH in 2015 elections, has urged women in Zambia to rally behind President Edgar Lungu because of his genuine desire to promote and uplift women.

Ms Kristafor, who is one of the aspiring candidates for the Livingstone Parliamentary seat under the ruling Patriotic Front (PF), said there was need for females to support President Lungu he had a lot of respect for them.

She said it was historic in Zambia for the Head of State to reserve 40 per cent of all leadership positions to women.

Ms Kristafor was speaking at Linda Community School Hall in Livingstone on Wednesday during a PF mobilisation meeting attended by scores of ruling party officials from the Constituency and Wards.

“Only a person with wise heart and a genuine desire to lead the nation effectively can come out in the open to reserve 40 per cent of all leadership positions to women.

“There is nothing above a mother’s love and a woman’s commitment to see that her household is in order. I am therefore challenging women from every walk of life to take up this opportunity to rally behind Mr Lungu. As women, we should be proud of this position by the Head of State,” she said.

She said her party had started massive mobilisation of women and other voters in Livingstone to ensure that the parliamentary seat, which is currently being held by PF’s Lawrence Evans, was retained in this year’s elections.

“We want to mobilise many people and introduce a new generation of respect and unity in politics.

“There is an ongoing massive mobilisation going on in all the 17 wards of Livingstone. PF is a force to reckon that is why we are still seeing investments coming to Zambia regardless of the economic hardships,” Ms Kristafor said.

She said many people were currently being attracted to the attractive policies of the ruling PF.

“Many people have kept coming in numbers because they have seen substance in PF policies and programmes.

“They are encouraged to come to PF because of its good governance record and continued developmental projects agenda in the whole country. The agenda is making sense and we have seen the implementation of policies in line with the PF manifesto and Government programmes for development,” she said.

Ms Kristafor urged Zambians to be very patriotic and honest because they had seen what was happening in terms of development.

She said President Lungu, who was the first President in Zambia to appoint a female Vice President Inonge Wina, was committed to ensure Zambia moved forward in terms of development.

“Our President has begun a massive exercise where we are seeing massive infrastructure development such as roads, hospitals, clinics, schools and airports among others across the country.

“A nation cannot develop without roads and other infrastructure. Infrastructure is key in opening up rural areas for development,” she said.

She also urged Zambians to respect the Head of State saying she was tired of insults targeted at the President in the media.
“It is so painful and I have never seen the whole world where people are insulting the Republican President.

“Let’s have respect for the President whether we like it or not because he was duly elected. It is against Christian values or norms to insult a Republican President,” she said.

Mr Grady said at Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) and SNP leadership interaction workshop on party mobilisation and poll management held at VNT lodge in Chipata yesterday that he was happy that since independence, Zambia has proven to be peaceful country.

“The good thing is that Zambia is peaceful since its independence on that part I am really happy,” he said.

Mr Grady who is also a member of House of Commons at SNP Westminster said politics of name calling and hate speech cannot win someone a vote in an election.

He said his party in Scotland managed to win 54 seats from six MPs because of engaging into constructive politics as well as following the party manifesto.

“Do not engage into personal attacks, name calling and criticism which such politicians cannot win votes but it is better to tell the people what we are going to do for them using party manifesto,” Mr Grady who is also SNP national secretary said.

Speaking earlier FDD president Edith Nawakwi said SNP was the governing party in Scotland and the third largest party in the United Kingdom.

Ms Nawakwi said SNP and FDD partnered in 2007 with the aim of exchanging visits that wo0uld enhanced the relationship between the two political parties.

“Originally the cooperation was anchored on capacity building of the FDD provincial leadership in various mobilisation and fundraising techniques,” she said.

She said FDD was a peaceful and matured opposition political party in the country so far.

Ms Nawakwi said her cadres would not be allowed to engage into political violence stating that her party was growing because of its peacefulness.

She said her party would continue promoting decentralisation so that when it forms government it could not labour in channelling developments to local people.

“FDD is become of peace and we shall not engage into political violence like other political parties are doing. I am a mother and I don’t want to see people fighting in my party or any other political party because it pains me,”Ms Nawakwi said.

She told the party structures that her party would continue advocating about peace ahead of the general elections.

She said the reports going round that she would be a running mate to someone were untrue because she was also looking for a running mate.

And FDD National Chairperson Women and Gender Angelica Rumsey and FDD spokesperson Antonio Mwanza said it was sad that some political parties were receiving rejects including engaging into political violence.

Ms Rumsey said Zambians should rise up and vote for Ms Nawakwi in the general elections.

The Scottish MP is accompanied by Head of Programme smaller parties office of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy Adele Poskitt and Moraig Henderson also from the Westminster Foundation for Democracy while Ms Nawakwi is accompanied by FDD National Chairperson Portiphar Chungu.

The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) has urged broadcasting stations in the country to be impartial in their coverage of political activities leading to the August 11, 2016 general elections.

IBA Board Chairman Justine Mutale said media houses should not be biased in covering political parties but should provide fair coverage to all the party leaders.

Brigadier General Mutale said the media play a crucial role of informing, educating and entertaining the public on issues such as the electoral process.

Brig. Gen. Mutale was speaking at a press briefing held at Mass Media complex in Lusaka today.

He said all media houses in Zambia should be professional at all times and avoid biasness.

And Brig. Gen. Mutale has said the authority was deeply concerned about threats and intimidations on media personnel and their guests.

He has since appealed to the police and other law enforcement agencies to protect journalists and other media staff as they execute their duties.

He further urged media practitioners to report any threats and perpetrators of violence to the police in order to protect the public.

Brig. Gen. Mutale also advised politicians and their party sympathisers to engage the authority when aggrieved instead of resorting to violent acts.

He additionally implored members of the public to report any mischievous behaviour or deed to IBA and other relevant law enforcement agencies within 14 days of the occurring of the act.

Meanwhile, the IBA board chairperson said some of the recent incidents of violent attacks on some radio stations were as a result of security lapses by the stations themselves.

Those that recently suffered violent attacks are ISO FM in Isoka district, Breeze FM in Chipata, Chikaya FM in Lundazi and Radio Mano in Kasama district.

“Any disturbance to a licensed radio or television station for whatever period, be it an hour, a day or weeks, is an infringement to the public’s right to be informed,” he stated.

There are over 70 community radio and over 10 television broadcasting stations in Zambia.

Meanwhile, Brig. Gen. Mutale has commended the political parties that participated in the peace talks organised by the three church mother bodies on Tuesday this week.

President Edgar Lungu was among the 18 political party representatives who attended the peace talks that unanimously denounced violence before, during and after the general elections set for 11 August, 2016.

Court bailiffs in Kalulushi have auctioned 36 herds of cattle belonging to a lawyer after he defaulted to pay K500 million.

This was when Lakeni Moono of Nkana Chambers failed to account for K500 Million due to be given to a Mr. Edson Mwanza as compensation to him from the National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA).

This is in a case in which NAPSA was accused of encroaching on three hectares of land belonging to Mr. Mwanza’s at Kitwe Kalulushi Roads Housing units.

Mr. Moono who was representing Mr Mwanza in the case as the lawyer and proprietor of Nkana Chambers of Kitwe, but failed to pay his client in full and only paid him K200 Million.
It was at his point that Mr. Mwanza dragged him to court.

Mr. Mwanza went for months without being paid and hence he decided to sue his lawyer.

On Tuesday, bailiffs pounced on Mr. Moonos farm and collected 36 herds of cattle and took them to Mr. Mwanza’s business premises at Umulu Pleasure Resort where the auction process took place.