President Edgar Lungu has arrived in Luanda, Angola to attend an Extraordinary Summit of Heads of States of the Great Lakes Region (GLR) summit which opens here tomorrow.

The President arrived aboard the Challenger Jet at 4th February International airport in Luanda at 15. 50 local time.

The President was received by Angolan External Relations Minister Georges Pinto Chikoti, Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba, Zambia’s Ambassador to Angola Barbra Chilangwa, Senior Zambian and Angolan government officials.

President Lungu is accompanied by North Western Province Minister Dawson Kafwaya, Special Assistant for Press Amos Chanda and for Political Affairs Kaizer Zulu.

President Lungu will tomorrow attend the Extraordinary Summit at the Hotel Talatona and Conference Centre in Luanda along with 11 other Leaders of the Great Lakes Region whose main agenda is to discuss the turbulence in the region with the disturbances in Burundi being top on the Summit Agenda.

He was given a Salute Parade by the Angola Army Brigade while Zambians resident in Luanda welcomed him with songs and dance.

The President was the second Head of State to arrive after his counterpart from Congo Brazzaville Denise Sa Sasunguesso while South African President who has been invited to attend the Summit is expected to arrive later this evening.

President Lungu is expected to return home on Tuesday soon after the Summit.

Earlier today, president Edgar Lungu called for peace and reconciliation in the country.

President Lungu said that it is important that Zambia as a Christian nation should lead Christ like lives.

The Head of State said this in Solwezi this morning when he attended mass at St. Daniel Cathedral Parish.

President Lungu said he will address the plight of the people of North Western Province.

He said he will endeavour to work for the Province and improve on the road network, health and education.

In his Homily Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Solwezi Charles Kasonde called the congregants to promote the virtues of love by taking care of one another.

Bishop Kasonde said it is important to also be obedient and live by the commandments of God. He however called on President Lungu to consider the struggles and poverty levels of the people in the country.

The Bishop said the Road network in the district makes sad reading and the people of Solwezi deserve better.

He said it is his prayer that the Lord opens up the mind of the President to help the masses not only in North Western Province but in the entire country..

The bishop noted that the area is also in need of quality health services and a secondary school to cater for the ever increasing population.

The president was accompanied by six Deputy Ministers, namely : for Lands Davis Mwango, State House, Sata Mulenga, Labour Alfridah Kansembe, Foreign Affairs Rayford Mbulu, Finance, Christopher Mvunga and Dawson Kafwaya for North Western Province.

The President was also accompanied by his private secretaries and Deputy Secretary General of the Patriotic Front.

The President’s four day visit to the Province ended today.

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BY KAPA187

UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) vice president for politics Dr Canisius Banda says the departure of former vice president for administration Richard Kapita to the Patriotic Front (PF) is a priceless gift on a free golden platter to restructure the party and do better.

In his Face-Book posting, Dr Banda said people in the UPND should not become too defensive by saying that the departure of Mr Kapita was good riddance stating that it would be a mistake.

“Mr Kapita’s departure is a grand opportunity for learning and renewal in the UPND. We, in the UPND should not become too defensive by saying that it is good riddance. That would be a mistake,” he said.

Dr Banda said that Mr Kapita’s departure was based on a personal desire to reorder his life.

“And I still believe that there is a role for dissent/opposition in life. For as long we remain incapable of holding a view opposed to our own we must saddle others with this vital responsibility,” he said.

Dr Banda said the UPND should emerge stronger now saying Mr Kapita deserves the gratitude from the party.

[pullquote]We, in the UPND should not become too defensive by saying that it is good riddance. That would be a mistake,” he said.[/pullquote]

“Let Mr Kapita go, and may God go with him wherever he goes. We pray that wherever he goes, he will always remember to touch other people’s lives, that he will work for the security of others for therein lies his own,”he stated

And Speaking to QFM, Dr Banda described the defection of its vice president for administration Richard Kapita to the ruling PF as an opportunity to grow stronger.

Dr Banda said that Mr. Kapita’s departure has also created room for the party to renew itself and get better.

Dr. Banda has told Qfm News that what Mr. Kapita has left in the UPND is a vacancy and not a vacuum.

He saod that his party will in due course have Mr. Kapita replaced.

The UPND vice president for politics however thinks that Mr. Kapita’s decision to leave the UPND for ruling PF is personal and he should be thanked and respected in return, adding that ys the UPND thinks that such a decision is in keeping with Democracy and is not at variance with country’s national law because Mr. Kapita is merely expressing a fundamental freedom of associating with a political party of his choice.

Dr. Banda stated that the UPND now has a grand opportunity to learn and to restructure.

He said that this is why the UPND takes Mr. Kapita’s departure as bases for gratitude to him as has it has presented a chance the party to perform better in future.

PF Vice-Chairperson for Media and Publicity Sunday Chanda says United Party for National Development (UPND) Vice-President Richard Kapita resignation from the opposition party is an indictment of a failed leadership style of party President Hakainde Hichilema.

Mr. Chanda says Kapita’s decision to join the PF party is a clear demonstration of President Edgar Lungu’s transformational leadership.

He is reported by the social media today to have said that the UPND Vice-President’s resignation alone was an indictment on what he termed was the failed leadership style of party President Hichilema.

Chanda said the opposition political party will attempt to underplay the crumbling of its rank and file by minimizing Kapita’s resignation.

“This resignation alone is an indictment on the self-centred, mediocre and failed leadership style of one UPND Leader Hakainde Hichilema. We know that out of desperation, the UPND will try to underplay the crumbling it is witnessing before it own eyes by minimising the Kapita resignation, ” read the statement in part from Mr. Chanda.

Mr. Kapita, one of the key party leaders in the UPND today ditched his party by joining the Patriotic Front at a rally held in Mwinilunga District where Kapita hails from.

He served as MP from the area from 2001 through to 2006 and remained one of the few members to have remained in the party from the days of founding party leader Anderson Mazoka.

Opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) Vice President for Administration Richard Kapita has ditched the party and joined the ruling Patriotic Front (PF).

Mr Kapita having made this huge step in Mwinilunga saying he has decided to join PF and work with President Edger Lungu because he is a development oriented President who has demonstrated an inclusive and selfless spirit of leadership to develop the country.

Mr. Kapita said it is only through PF and under the sound leadership of President Lungu that he can successfully achieve his desire to contribute to meaningful national development and has since appealed to other members in UPND to come on board and join the ruling party.

He was joined by Kawiku Ward Councillor Haward Sameta with other UPND members who have defected to PF when President Lungu held a public rally at freedom square in Mwinilunga district today.

And President Lungu has welcomed Mr Kapita and other defectors to the PF party urging them to acquaint themselves with the PF manifesto and work diligently with the party.

He has since directed PF members unwilling to work with new members joining the party to immediately leave the party adding that he will not entertain anyone trying to stand on the way of recruiting new members.

President Lungu said politics is a game of numbers and has instructed North-western provincial PF Executive Committee to recruit more new members to the party regardless of their tribe or political affiliation in the province.

President Lungu was in Mwinilunga today to commission the earth moving equipment the district Local authority has procured and toured the district hospital before he held a public rally at freedom square.