The seat was contested by four political parties.

PF Candidate Sylvia Masebo Polled eight thousand six-hundred and seven (8607) while Adrian Bauleni of the UPND/MMD pact polled three thousand nine hundred and two (3902).

David Chulu of FDD got one-hundred and seventeen (117) votes while UNIP’s Johannes Mativenga got one hundred and twenty three (123) votes.

The total number of registered voters in Chongwe is 52,166 and only 12,901 voters managed to cast their votes, which is only 25% of the registered voters.

Chongwe Returning officer, John Lungu declared Ms. Masebo of the Patriotic Front duly elected at exactly 03:05, this morning.

The Pf has also won the Nakonde parliamentary seat.

PF candidate Abel Sichula emerged winner with 8,841 votes and was seconded by the MMD candidate George Sinkala who managed to secure 2,116 votes.

Mr Sichula was declared winner around 04 hours this morning.

In preliminary results from Magoye constituency, 36 polling stations have been counted while the remaining four will be tabulated after collection from across the Zambezi River.

So far, the UPND has secured 6,058 votes, PF 2,430 UNIP 64, ADD 100 and FDD 71.

[MUVI TV]

GOVERNMENT has asked National Democratic Focus (NDF) president, Benjamin Mwila’s company, Wade Adams to reimburse all the money advanced to them for the failed K80 billion Mumbwa-Landless Corner road project.

According to the Road Development Agency (RDA), the Mumbwa–Landless Corner contract was signed on December 3, 2010 and Mr Mwila’s firm, Wade Adams, was advanced K11.5 billion with a performance bond of about K8 billion.

And the Government has said that former leaders who are suspected to have openly stolen from the public coffers would be arrested and prosecuted.

Information, Broadcasting and Tourism Minister, Given Lubinda, said at a Press briefing in Lusaka yesterday that Mr Mwila’s company should pay back the money because he had failed to perform his contractual obligations. He said it was wrong for Mr Mwila to suggest that there was tension in the country.

“I do not have the figures yes, but Mr Mwila must be able to tell you that his Wade Adams company was contracted by the Rupiah Banda government to do part of the Mumbwa –Landless Corner Road along with a Chinese company.

“Mr Mwila’s Wade Adams was supposed to have started from Landless Corner, the Chinese company was supposed to have started from Mumbwa. Whereas the Chinese company has done 40 kilometres, almost completing their contractual obligation, Mr BY Mwila’s Wade Adams has not even
started.

‘That is the reason why this responsible Government has asked him to pay back the bond that he issued at the time of getting the contract,” he said. Efforts to get Mr Mwila for a comment proved futile as his phone was not reachable.

Mr Lubinda said all those who had failed to execute Government contracts for which they were paid would have their contracts terminated irrespective of whether they cried foul or not so as to save the country from losing money.

“Mr Mwila was instructed to reimburse the Government money advanced to him for the construction of the Landless Corner road which he failed to even start. This does not mean there is tension in the country,” he said. The minister, who is also Chief Government spokesperson, said it was sad that people who had been questioned by the police together with their lawyers were accusing the Government of engaging in a
witch-hunt.

He pointed out that Government would not be swayed by “some cheap defensive mechanism.” “Former leaders who are suspected to have openly stolen from the public coffers shall be arrested and rosecuted.

‘We encourage our law enforcement officers to continue with their noble task of unearthing all the dirty criminal scandals that were engaged in by some of these common criminals who used the veil of leadership to loot and squander people’s resources,” he said.

Mr Lubinda said it did not imply that there was tension in the country when law enforcement agencies question former leaders of misconduct which included the suspicious sale of Zamtel, the acquisition of large fleets of motor vehicles, thousands of bicycles, motorised bicycles and burying of billions of Kwacha in the ground.

Mr Lubuinda said the PF Government was a responsible one, was not vindictive and one that did not believe in any form of retribution. He said the likes of Mr Mwila were encouraged to go about their lives freely without fear of victimisation by the Government.

Mr Lubinda said at no time did President Sata stop respecting his predecessors in the execution of national duties and that the president would continue to bestow honour on all those who served Zambia in various capacities before him.

“A leader whose only preoccupation was to loot from the poor cannot be respected. A leader who goes about insulting their former spouse in public cannot be respected.

‘A former leader who fails to fulfill his contractual obligations to the Government through Government contracts cannot be respected,” he said.
Meanwhile, Mr Lubinda has warned former president, Rupiah Banda against engaging in active politics as he would lose his retirement benefits.

Mr Lubinda’s remarks come in the wake of Mr Mwila’s advice in his advertorial that the MMD should allow Mr Banda to be the party’s president for another two years. And Mr Lubinda has said Government had no regrets over having registered its apologies to Angola over the previous government’s engagement in that country’s internal partisan politics.

“We did not have to hide behind national pride so as to avoid tendering our apologies. We instead chose to do what we did for the sake of contributing to good neighbourliness and global understanding,” he said.

[Times of Zambia]

Warrior tells the story of the broken Conlon family, Brendan (Joel Edgerton), Tommy (Tom Hardy) and Paddy (Nick Nolte), who figuratively and literally fight to repair themselves and their family. An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy returns to his hometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father, a recovered alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for a Mixed Martial Arts( MMA) tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. As Tommy blazes a violent path towards the title prize, his brother, Brendan, a former MMA fighter unable to make ends meet as a public school teacher, returns to the amateur ring to provide for his family. Even though years have passed, recriminations and past betrayals keep Brendan bitterly estranged from both Tommy and his father. But when Brendan’s unlikely rise as an underdog sets him on a collision course with Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront the forces that tore them apart, all the while waging the most intense, winner-takes-all battle of their lives

PRO’S

• Great story line that gets you hook from the beginning to the end of the movie.
• You will feel for the father , played by Nick Nolte , as he struggles to find forgiveness from his sons.
• The relationship between the two estranged brothers was developed perfectly.
• The conversations between Tommy (Tom Hardy) and is father (Nick Nolte) were done perfectly , lines such as “..hard to find a woman who can take a punch these days” contains the history of Tommy’s childhood, his fighter’s voice, his humour, his father’s backstory and the character of his mother, all in 11 words.
• The fights were excellent , even if you are not a fan of Mixed Martial Arts , you will be impressed.

FAVORITE QUOTES

Brendan Conlon(Joel Edgerton): C’mon, it’s not as bad as it looks.

Principal Zito: Are you being literal or figurative? Because literally it looks bad. And figuratively it looks even worse.

Tommy Conlon(Tom Hardy): Mom needed you. I needed you. You were my big brother and you bailed on me.

CONCLUSION

Coming out of the summer movie season that has been filled with larger than life super hero’s , this movie brings us back to real life. Dotted with emotional honesty and strong storytelling that you only find in truly special movies. It is much more than a “fight” movie . One of the top 5 movies of the year.

RATING

5 out of 5

BY KAPA187 

THE opposition MMD has suspended its chairperson for health Lumba Kalumba for allegedly bringing the name of the former ruling party into disrepute and ridicule.

But Mrs Kalumba, who is wife of former MMD national secretary Katele Kalumba, described the move as ridiculous and that the charges slapped on her by the MMD are a ploy to expel her from the party.

MMD deputy national secretary Chembe Nyangu confirmed Mrs Kalumba’s suspension in an interview.

“We have suspended Mrs Lumba Kalumba and the party has proffered a number of charges on her. Among the charges are putting the name of the party into disrepute and attacking fellow members when she has no facts. She also attended a workshop in South Africa at the invitation of the African National Congress (ANC) where she issued disparaging remarks against the party and its leadership, in a foreign country, to an extent that the people who conducted the workshop were not happy,” Mr Nyangu said.

He said Mrs Kalumba should have defended the MMD despite the fact that it lost elections and that she has allegedly been destabilising party structures.

“She wants to know where we got the money from to campaign and how it was spent. She has also been charged with leaking information on the national executive committee matters like the election postmortem to the press,” Mr Nyangu said.

He said Mrs Kalumba has been given 10 days in which to exculpate herself and that the MMD disciplinary committee will soon sit to hear her case.

Mr Nyangu said Mrs Kalumba will be given a fair hearing to clear herself of the charges slapped on her.

Mrs Kalumba said she knows her suspension will end up in an expulsion because of her opinion that the MMD should hold an extraordinary convention to elect a new leadership.

She said she was surprised to receive a suspension letter last Friday on her return from South Africa where she attended a political party workshop run by the Management of African Political Parties.

Mrs Kalumba said MMD national secretary Richard Kachingwe nominated her along with five other party officials to attend the training early last month.

She explained that four political parties attended the course and these are ANC, Botswana Democratic Party, Lesotho Congress Party and the MMD.

Mrs Kalumba said the MMD was the only opposition party at the event.

Mrs Kalumba said the topics discussed at the course among others included the role of political parties, issues of constitution and finances.

“The first topic ‘sins of incumbency’ was an eye-opener because it says that when political parties reach 15 to 20 years in power , they become complacent and they stop listening .

I had to talk about the strengths and weaknesses of the MMD,” she said.

She wondered what disparaging remarks she made against the MMD leadership when she made an honest analysis on why the MMD lost the September 20 tripartite elections which was the purpose of her attending the training.

“The other three political parties that attended the training are ruling parties and none of them keep money in presidential accounts, they all have audited accounts. All of them talked about separate party accounts which are audited,” Mrs Kalumba said.

She accused former republican President Rupiah Banda of pulling the strings and using Major Kachingwe as a front.

Mrs Kalumba said Maj Kachingwe cannot be objective on the matter because he is being paid from Mr Banda’s account.

“The Die-hard came in for Mr Banda’s campaign, in the past we never heard of Die-hard MMD youth wing and all of a sudden there is Die-hard. They want to shut me up, threaten me with violence so that I don’t reveal the truth,” she said.

Mrs Kalumba also wondered why her suspension letter is dated November 23, 2011 when the date stamp of the envelope is dated November 25, 2011.

She said it is unfortunate that the MMD is accusing her of destabilising the party because she wrote SMSs to some MMD provincial leaders on her opinion that the MMD should hold an extraordinary convention for leaders to renew their mandates and review the party constitution.

She said the SMS was copied to Mr Nyangu and Maj Kachingwe.

“If you cannot talk to provincial leaders, who are we going to talk to? I think people should understand that MMD is not a private club, a ‘kantemba’ it is a public institution,” Mrs Kalumba said.

She said it is unfortunate that the MMD NEC does not want the truth to be told because they want to continue running the party in the same ‘crazy’ manner.

Mrs Kalumba also said there is no reason why she cannot talk to the press to respond to attacks and threats from the Die-hard MMD Youth Wing.

“I asked Major Kachingwe to discipline the MMD Die-hard Youth Wing and now I am the one being disciplined,” she said.

Mrs Kalumba also said NEC members were recently asked to contribute towards the party, but she will not contribute a ‘ngwee’ until she has audited independent accounts on how the money was spent.

“They can expel me, maybe I am a mosquito, but the problem will remain. I want to stay in the party so that I can fight from within but they are so clever, they want to expel me,” she said.
[Zambia Daily Mail]

Information Minister Given Lubinda has castigated Lusaka politician and businessman, Benjamin Mwila for suggesting that the country is under extreme tension from the time the PF government took office.

Mr Lubinda described as misguided and baseless Mr B.Y Mwila’s negative statements carried in Sunday’s Daily Mail Advertorial.

He says at a media briefing that the PF administration has a duty to protect citizens from innuendos that have the potential to send wrong messages about the government and the country.

Mr Lubinda wondered which sections of the country are under extreme tension or people that need to be reconciled as alleged by Mr Mwila.

The Minister emphasized that no persons found guilty of corruption will left to go scot free simply because they are former leaders.

Mr Lubinda says Mr Mwila’s claims are a result of personal anguish arising from government’s termination of the former Nchilenge MP’s road contract in Chibombo.

He says Mr Mwila’s firm Wade Adams failed to fulfil contractual obligations for which it has to refund the government billions of Kwacha.

Meanwhile, Mr Lubinda says former President Rupiah Banda will lose his retirement entitlements if he heeds to Mr Mwila’s advice to continue leading the MMD for the next two years.

In his statement, Mr Mwila urged President Michael Sata to help reduce the extreme tension and reconcile the people.

He suggested that the new government should embrace all people even those that voted against the PF in the September 20, tripartite elections.

[ZNBC]