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Former Minister of Works and Supply Mike Mulongoti
Expelled former ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy MMD chairman for elections Mike Mulongoti has challenged Republican President Rupiah Banda to prove that he is legally ruling the country.
Mr. Mulongoti has said that President Banda should clear the air on whether he is qualified to rule the country or not.
Yesterday, MMD founder member and former Zambian ambassador to Malawi and Botswana Milton Phiri charged that President Rupiah Banda has been leading the country illegally.
Mr. Phiri said President Banda breached the Republican constitution by contesting the 2008 elections when he was not eligible.
Mr. Mulongoti has however distanced himself that he is behind the allegations brought forward by the former ambassador.
He wonders why his name keeps coming up each time certain allegations are made.
He says he is not a guardian to Mr. Phiri, and has no business in the allegations that were made by the former Zambian envoy.
Mr. Mulongoti adds that President Rupiah Banda should take a leaf from US president Barrack Obama who produced his birth certificate following questions on whether he was born in the United States or not.
Mr. Mulongoti said this in an interview with QFM this Morning.
Ryan Leslie has recently become one of my favorite RnB singers/producers. I wasn’t really a fan of his until I listed to his second album “Transition”. That is what I can consider a perfect album. All the songs are written, produced, arranged and engineered by Mr. Leslie himself. The album is said to be inspired by a lady whom he met during a rehearsal for a show at New York’s S.O.B nightclub.
The album that got me
Transition review
Stand out track: Something that I like
If you have never listened Ryan Leslie I would suggest you listen to “something that I like”. Leslie shows some diversity in this song, by both rapping and singing. That’s not say he is the best rapper, but merely tells listeners not to put him in a box. It has a smooth mid tempo beat and a funky baseline. Pasha t comes in with the third verse adding that extra something to the song.
What really stands out on this album is his production and arrangement, as the album to flow nicely from track to track. “You’re not my girl” is radio friendly and was made for the dance floor with its 80’s synths and harps.
His lyrics may seem simple and straight to the point, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. In “All my love“, lyrics like “I want to give u all my love/ even if I don’t have all your trust” are simple but so effective.
The bonus track could have been left off the album as “I choose you”, while somewhat mediocre, is a perfect way to end the album.
Brief history of the man
At the age of 14, Leslie got a perfect score on his SAT’s. He applied to prestigious universities such as Stanford, Yale and Harvard. He was accepted to Harvard where he graduated at the age of 19 with a degree in Political science and macroeconomics. During his stay at Harvard he devoted a lot of time to creating and developing music. He spent many hours perfecting his craft.
Sometime after his graduation, as he continued working on his music, he got a 30 day internship with a producer named Younglord. Within a week a produced a song that would be performed by Beyonce, called “Keep giving your love to me”. Sean “Diddy” Combs was impressed with his production and offered him a management contract.
He was later offered the chance to have his own imprint under Universal music group. It is called Next Selection and his first artist was Cassie. Leslie wrote and produced Cassies break out record “Me & u”.
Leslie plays a number of instruments and produces all of his own song. Here is a video of the making of one of his hits “Addiction”
Making of Addiction
What’s he doing now?
Leslie has worked with and produced hits for a number of artists such as Fabolous, Lloyd Banks, Britney spears, Mary j Blige, and numerous others.
He is currently working on his third album tentatively titled les is more. The lead single for the project is “Glory”. He raps about how he is underrated but is determined to “…spill my guts so I could get my glory”
Glory Video
Other notable songs that may appear on the album are, “beautiful lie” and “Joan of arc”
Early this year Leslie performed “beautiful lie” in Paris.
The National Restoration Party (NAREP) has predicted an increase in corruption if the MMD government is voted back into power in this year’s elections.
NAREP president Elias Chipimo Junior told QFM that the MMD government has completely failed to curb graft which has led to increased levels of poverty in Zambia.
Mr. Chipimo has also condemned the move by the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) to drop money laundering charges against former Western Province Permanent secretary Ikanuke Nooyo.
He has described government’s commitment to fighting corruption in the country as a non starter.
The DEC dropped charges of laundering amounting to K46 million, through unretired imprest against Mr. Nooyo adding that the money has been recovered from his gratuity.
The NAREP president says it is unfortunate that government is letting loose those who pay back resources obtained through corrupt practices without prosecution.
He explains that the gesture shown by the commission clearly demonstrates how selective the law is being applied in the country.
Mr. Chipimo has further said once voted into power, his government will ensure that corruption in all systems of governance is eradicated and perpetrators will be brought to book
CENTRAL Province Minister Ackimson Banda has urged Inspector General of Police Francis Kabonde to intensify the hunt for fugitive Mailoni brothers who have continued killing people in Luano Valley in Mkushi district.
Mr Banda said in an interview in Kabwe yesterday it is saddening that even after police officers were deployed in the area to hunt the serial killers after they murdered their first victims in December last year, they have to date not been captured.
“The IG should come out and let us know what is happening in Luano Valley. Police were sent there, and it’s worrying that the Mailoni brothers are still at large,” Mr Banda said.
He was reacting to concerns of Chief Chembe of Luano Valley, who on Monday appealed to Government to dispatch a combined team of soldiers and game rangers from the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) to hunt down the marauding killers.
Mr Banda said Government is concerned about the plight of Chief Chembe and his people.
He said there are a number of technicalities that need to be considered, which include hearing the position of the police and the Central Provincial Joint Operations Committee on the security situation in Luano Valley before soldiers can be dispatched to the area.
The minister said he is waiting for Mr Kabonde, through the office of the Central Province commanding officer, to update his office on the operations of the police assigned to patrol the valley.
He also echoed the concerns of Chief Chembe and Mkushi district commissioner Musonda Chunga, who said if the elusive serial killers are not arrested soon, the turnout at polling stations during this year’s elections might be negatively affected as the electorate are living in fear of the Mailoni brothers.
Mr Banda said Government is concerned people living in Luano Valley are now living in fear.
“If they are not arrested soon,it’s possible that the turnout during elections will be affected. This happened during the mobile voter registration because the people were fearing the Mailoni brothers,” Mr Banda said.
He appealed to people in the valley to co-operate with the police and give them information on the whereabouts of the brothers.
In their latest attack, the Mailoni brothers murdered Chief Chembe’s advisor, Christopher Nyama Champe of Shimpupula village, and headman Mbalakawe Chipokolo of Shitambeni village last Tuesday, bringing to 11 the number of their victims.
Last year, Government dispatched over 20 police officers to Luano Valley to beef up security and to arrest the murderers, but the villians have continued to elude the security dragnet.
The Mailoni brothers are said to be taking advantage of their good knowledge of the forest to evade the law enforcement officers.
One of their victims is former Zambia Flying Doctors Service chief pilot Dr Modesto Masumba.
[ Zambia Daily Mail ]
GOVERNMENT has unearthed a scam in which some top Patriotic Front (PF) officials in Chingola’s Mushishima area are allegedly trying to corruptly acquire ZCCM-IH houses following President Banda’s directive that outstanding balances on the units be written off.
This was brought to light when Chingola district commissioner Tobias Maliti addressed over 200 residents at Mushishima Basic School yesterday.
“Government has unearthed a scam in which some top PF officials in Kabungo ward wanted to take advantage of people in the settlement by buying the houses through corrupt means. Some of them started giving the houses to their daughters and other family members at the expense of the deserving sitting tenants,” Mr Maliti said.
He said some PF top officials are scrambling to buy the houses.
Mr Maliti said authorities have grabbed the house that PF Kabungo ward councillor Richard Katebe allocated himself and the property has been given to the sitting tenant
He said it is disappointing that individuals who have been criticising President Banda for empowering the vulnerable with housing are now trying to use corrupt means to acquire the houses.
“We are not saying PF members cannot benefit from the houses because they are also Zambians. What we are against is a situation where PF officials are taking advantage of their positions in certain areas to disadvantage other Zambians.
“These are the same people who condemned President Banda for empowering Zambians with houses, yet they are now in the forefront trying to benefit from the houses,” Mr Maliti said.
He said President Banda will continue implementing prudent policies to eradicate poverty in the communities.
He advised the PF not to politicise development programmes.
Mr Maliti warned that he will firmly deal with individuals who will use corrupt means to acquire houses in Mushishima.
But Mr Katebe said he has not benefited from the houses, and that he does not live in the area.
He said it is unfortunate that some people are trying to tarnish his image through accusations that he is trying to corruptly acquire houses.
Mr Katebe also said it is important for opposition political parties and Government to work together to develop the country.
[ Zambia Daily Mail ]
MMD Lusaka Province Chief Information and Publicity Secretary Greenock Lupambo has advised first Republican President Kenneth Kaunda son , Panji, to emulate his father’s peace stance.
Speaking in an interview with ZANIS, yesterday, Mr Lupambo said there was need for Colonel Kaunda to emulate his father’s spirit of creating peace with all.
He said the MMD is saddened by Col. Kaunda’s continued attacks on the MMD party and government in general instead of building peace among Zambians like his father.
Mr Lumpambo said the MMD in general was grateful to Dr Kaunda for appreciating and recognizing the leadership of President Rupiah Banda.
He noted that the media statement attributed to Dr. Kaunda cannot go without comment adding that all statesmen and eminent people should always appreciate their national leaders such as President Banda.
“Dr. Kaunda is a peace loving leader, He abhors wars and he is a peace maker, “ he said.
Mr. Lupambo told ZANIS in Lusaka today that President Banda has managed to deliver development throughout the country due to the peace that is preached by the first Republican President since independence in 1964.
He observed that without peace and unity, no development would ever take place in the country.
“Therefore, we want as many peace loving citizens as possible to follow and emulate Dr. Kaunda’s resolve in maintaining peace and stability through allegiance to government of President Rupiah Banda,” noted Mr. Lupambo.
He said the peace from loving citizens is contributing alot in bringing about national development.
Government says it will ensure that this year’s tripartite elections are held in a peaceful atmosphere.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Kabinga Mpande also indicated that election observer missions help government to make up for shortcomings observed from past elections and help add credence to the country’s electoral process.
In a statement made available to ZANIS in Lusaka yesterday, Mr. Mpande stated that government has, in its effort to ensure peaceful polls, also sent invitations to all interested parties in observing the forth coming general and parliamentary elections.
“Zambia has enjoyed peace and wants to maintain the same. There is need for elections to be transparent and to be held in a peaceful atmosphere,” he emphasized.
Mr. Mpande was speaking yesterday when a visiting seven-man delegation from the European Union Elections Observer Team, which is in Zambia at President Banda’s invitation, paid a courtesy call on him.
Mr. Mpande thanked the delegation for responding to President Banda’s request to have an observer mission from the European Union.
“Zambia has enjoyed peace and wants to maintain the same. There is need for elections to be transparent and to be held in a peaceful atmosphere,” he emphasized.
And Delegation Leader Mark Gallagher said his team received the request from President Banda to come and monitor the forth coming elections.
Mr. Gallagher noted that the European Union sends observer missions to concerned countries before the elections to make sure that the missions are welcome and that they are deployed on time.
He said the missions are deployed two months before the election date once it is determined that the reception is positive.
Mr. Gallagher stated that the observer mission would have to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Zambian government which would be done by mid July this year before observers are deployed.
PATRIOTIC Front (PF) president Michael Sata (center)
PATRIOTIC Front (PF) president Michael Sata yesterday disowned former Works and Supply minister Mike Mulongoti and Zambia’s former ambassador to Libya Mbita Chitala saying he found it hard to understand the two.
Mr Sata said in Lusaka yesterday that Mr Mulongoti and Dr Chitala are some of the human beings who are very difficult to understand. He was responding to a question from the presenter of Hot FM’s radio’s Hot Seat live phone-in programme on whether his party is willing to accept the two who have declared support for the PF by campaigning for Mr Sata.
“Mr Mulongoti and Dr Chitala teamed up with former President Chiluba to dissect and shred me when I left the MMD in 2001. They did the same in 2008. They did everything they could do but they failed,” Mr. Sata said.
“We have a big problem in this country. The biggest problem we have is to understand human beings. Among the human beings who are very difficult to understand are people like Mike Mulongoti and to a certain extent people like Mbita Chitala,” he said.
He said even during their campaign for President Mwanawasa, the duo worked against him but still failed to achieve their aim.
And the MMD has described Mr Sata’s statement that Mr Mulongoti and DrChitala are difficult people to understand, as an indication that the opposition leader does not want to work with them in this year’s general elections.
“If I understand that statement correctly, it means Mr Mulongoti and Dr Chitala are not welcome in the PF,” MMD national secretary Richard Kachingwe said yesterday.
He said Mr Sata’s statement on the duo is strong and should serve as a warning to Mr Mulongoti and Dr Chitala whom he said are trying to advance their hidden political agenda using the PF.
Major Kachingwe said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that Mr Mulongoti and Dr Chitala will pay a heavy price for being unprincipled political leaders as well as for resigning from the ruling party.
“Mr Sata’s statement is an indication that the opposition leader doesn’t want to work with these people. Mr Mulongoti and DrChitala will pay a heavy price for being opportunistic,” he said.
“It would appear these people wanted to form a faction within the ruling MMD but they failed. My advice to them is to come back and rejoin the party at branch level. The party is open as long as they come back and apologise for what they did before they were expelled,” Maj Kachingwe said.
Government has given a two week ultimatum to the Copperbelt Solid Waste Company (COPWASTE) to remove the waste from Uchi damp site to abate disease out breaks in the surrounding residential areas.
Copperbelt minister Mwansa Mbulakulima says there is need for the firm to commence the waste removal immediately and clear the two kilometer stretch of waste that the company and others have been using as a damp site.
The minister was speaking in Kitwe when he toured the damp site as a follow up on complaints of fly inversion by residents in Natwange and Ndeke Townships.
ZANIS reports that the minister said there is need for companies that are using Uchi damp site for their waste disposal to protect the environment and the residents from the contaminated air coming from the damp site.
He said it was unacceptable and negligence on the part of solid waste companies to off load waste near the road instead of going inside the site.
‘I do agree with the residents complaints I am giving you two weeks to mobilize resources and move the waste to an alternative place so that the stench and flies can reduce, Mr Mbulakulima said.
Flies from the waste area have invaded the residential areas in Ndeke and Natwange located near the Uchi damp site.
COPWASTE managing director Collins Gwanu said his company has no recycling or compacting machine to use in its operations hence disposing the waste that it collects from residents in Kitwe at the damp site.
Mr Gwanu added that since 2007 when it started operations it has been using Uchi damp site for waste disposal together with other companies dealing in waste management.
‘” The company has only one landfill compactor vehicle that collects waste in the entire province and damps the waste in the same site, the waste is now two kilometers long, ” he stated.
And environment council of Zambia acting manager northern region Cliff Ngwata described the situation as unbearable because it has reduced the size of the road leading to the damp site due to the in discriminatory disposal of waste.
Mr. Ngwata appealed to COPWASTE to remove the waste, compact it, and bury it in an alternative site immediately.
Kitwe City Council acting deputy director of health Tom Kapeshi said the council is exploring other areas in Luangwa stage 2 and Malebeka areas that will be opened as damp sites for the districts.
Mr. Kapeshi admitted that it is an embarrassment and horrible to continue using Uchi damp site which is a few meters from residential areas.
President Banda's Aid D'camp Mr Mayoko helps the President put on a jacket before left for Turkey at Lusaka International airport.
President Rupiah Banda says his administration is not siphoning public funds from Government for the ruling MMD campaigns as alleged by the opposition.
And President Banda has urged Zambians to judge for themselves on who is a mature and upright leader to steer national development between him and opposition PF leader Michael Sata.
In addition, Mr Banda has denied allegations that he is attacking the catholic clergymen.
Speaking to journalists at the Lusaka International Airport, today,shortly before departure for the SADC summit in Windhoek, Namibia, President Banda categorically denied the opposition’s accusations that his administration was abusing public funds to fund ministers’ trips in all provinces for the ruling MMD party campaigns.
Mr. Banda affirmatively refused to be drawn into ‘cheap administration’ by the opposition saying this is because Government and the MMD party are two different entities operating independently.
He added that though 2011 was an election year for Zambia, his administration is going to ensure that development flourishes in all sectors of the economy.
He castigated Mr. Sata for suggesting that the K1 trillion loan meant for roads is meant to hoodwink the Zambians.
Mr. Banda advised the opposition leader that his Government working with other cooperating partners is a creative one with a vision and focus to steer development across the country and that funds meant for projects could be sourced way possible.
“ We have started building the roads and hospital and you cannot run a Government only in the budget you have to be creative and sit with other stakeholders to find cash and build projects.
” We are going to the polls we should remain focused well co-ordinated as we embark on these projects. It is not hoodwinking people as Mr. Sata thinks,” he said.
Mr. Sata accused President Banda of hoodwinking the Zambian electorate on the K1 trillion loan for roads and hospitals suggesting that there is no budget for that.
He challenged scribes in the country to verify their stories before publishing them and desist from getting half baked information.
“….Abuse of public funds… there is no way l can give cash and give it to the party because the party has got programs. l have never collected or given money to ministers and l can’t do that because there are programs of raising money and not in that manner.
” You as Journalists can go to Permanent Secretaries in these provinces or indeed any other authority to verify facts with valid documents because this is what is expected of you and your fellow Journalists in other countries do,” he said.
And President Banda has also denied that he is attacking the catholic clergymen.
Mr. Banda stated that catholic priests and bishops have got the fundamental right who to support or not maintaining that some are in good books with him and Government in particular.
“It is not true that l attack the catholic people but l can tell you that there are those who support us and not,” he said.
On his trip to Windhoek, Namibia where he has gone to attend a two-day Extra Ordinary Summit of the Southern Africa Development Community-SADC, President Banda said the region is concerned about events in Madagascar and Zimbabwe.
He assured that a lasting solution would be found as the Heads of State were meeting to discuss the matter and a report would come out on Zimbabwe.
“We have always been concerned about the peace in some in Madagascar and Zimbabwe but we shall discus on Madagascar we will be making a report on Zimbabwe as you know we recently had a summit in Livingstone where we agreed the report was coming…,” he said
President Banda who is Chairman of the SADC Organ on Defence and Security Cooperation expressed optimistic that the SADC region was moving close to the table for attaining peace that would bring about change in the affected countries.
Mr. Banda is tonight expected to brief the SADC Summit on the progress made in the implementation of the Global Political Agreement in Zimbabwe and the Peace Mediation Process in Madagascar.
The SADC Summit has been called to discuss issues pertaining to regional peace and security following the SADC Troika Organ Summit which Zambia hosted in March.
SADC Chairman and Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba was mandated to call for an Extra Ordinary Summit to discuss issues agreed at the Livingstone Troika Organ meeting.
The SADC Summit will discuss progress towards the implementation of a joint Free Trade Area among the African regional blocs that include COMESA and the East African Community.
President Banda is accompanied to Namibia by Foreign Affairs Minister Kabinga Pande, Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Felix Mutati and other senior government officials.
Mr. Banda was seen off at the Lusaka International Airport by Works and Supply Minister Gabriel Namulambe, Energy Minister Kenneth Konga, Secretary to Cabinet Dr. Joshua Kanganja, Defense Chiefs and senior Government officials.
Striker Collins Mbesuma will know his fate at Golden Arrows this weekend when the South African league season comes to a close.
According to Kickoff.com Golden Arrows boss Mato Madlala will make a decision at the end of their last game of the season on Saturday.
She said the future of coach Ernst Middendorp will also be made clear after the game against Orlando Pirates.
“The future of Middendorp and Mbesuma will only be discussed after our last game. We will release an official statement regarding whether they are staying or leaving after that,” Madlala told Kickoff.com.
Mbesuma joined Golden Arrows in January after a six month period in limbo.
He is 10th placed Golden Arrows’ top scorer with 10 goals in 20 matches.
Mbesuma is part of the Dario Bonetti’s 30-man team picked for Zambia’s 2012 Africa Cup Group C qualifier against Mozambique on June 4 at Nchanga Stadium in Chingola.
The Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC) says it has become clear that attacks on the Catholic in the public media are co-ordinated and planned, and that the conclusion is that they are sponsored by the Government.
In a pastoral letter made available to QFM, to all Catholics in Zambia on the constant attacks directed at the Catholics in the public media, to be read in all Catholic churches on Ascension Sunday on 5th June, ZEC President says it a well known fact that the likes of Chanda Chimba III a Catholic himself would never on their own accord have the operational and financial ability to carry on the kind of attacks being waged against Catholics.
Bishop Zulu says whatever the case, this is not the way of winning the Catholic vote in an election year.
Bishop Zulu has also noted the growing but steady stream of individuals, journalists and questionable organisations that are ready to parade themselves before the public media vilifying innocent citizens and the Catholic Church, who are being given what he describes as puzzling and unfettered access to the public media.
He says they are allowed to despise, with such venomous passion and impunity, more than three million Catholics in Zambia, a third of the country’s entire population.
[pullquote]Bishop Zulu has also noted the growing but steady stream of individuals, journalists and questionable organisations that are ready to parade themselves before the public media vilifying innocent citizens and the Catholic Church, who are being given what he describes as puzzling and unfettered access to the public media.[/pullquote]
He questions how this can happen in a country where the Zambian people, as tax payers are supposed to be the owners of the public media.
Bishop Zulu who is also Bishop of Chipata observes that the gist of the attacks, clearly, is meant to discredit and cast aspersions against the leadership and general membership of the Catholic Church in Zambia.
He says in the process, this is meant to create despondency, division and confusion among Catholics,adding that whoever is behind these attacks is working on the principle of divide and rule trying to divide Catholics in Zambia.
He adds that when these attacks distort the Catholic Church’s moral doctrine on celibacy or homosexuality, there is cause for alarm.
Bishop Zulu has re-stated that the Catholic teaching does not promote homosexuality. He explains that the Catholic Church’s constant and firm teaching on homosexual acts is unequivocal, stating that homosexual acts are seriously wrong and sinful,adding that under no circumstances can homosexual acts be approved.
[pullquote]Bishop Zulu has re-stated that the Catholic teaching does not promote homosexuality. He explains that the Catholic Church’s constant and firm teaching on homosexual acts is unequivocal, stating that homosexual acts are seriously wrong and sinful,adding that under no circumstances can homosexual acts be approved.[/pullquote]
On the Catholic church engagement in politics, Bishop Zulu says the church is only motivated by its divine obligation to speak on behalf of the voiceless in the country, stating that they will not be intimidated, cowed into silence or be silenced on national issues that affect the poor.
He adds that the Executive Board of ZEC has since directed the Catholic Secretariat management to monitor the situation and if attacks continue,to consider taking legal action against those who are making a habit of defaming and vilifying the Catholic church including the media houses that enable them to do so.
Patriotic Front leader Micheal Sata has called for the arrest and prosecution of Education Minister Dora Siliya for allegedly distributing pornographic pictures during her recent campaign tour of Northern Province of two males kissing.
Mr Sata said that Police should also arrest the two men in the pictures Ms Siliya was distributing.
He has also maintained that he does not support homosexuality but that it in fact the cabinet of President Rupiah Banda which has Ministers who are homosexual who he did not name.
The PF leader added that some those Ministers are having marital problems in their homes because of the issue of homosexuality.
Mr Sata added that if the PF was cheap as the MMD is they would have gone ahead and named the people practicing homosexuality in the MMD Cabinet.
He was speaking on Hot FM’s the Hot Seat programme.
And Mr Sata has announced that the long awaited PF General conference is likely to be held in June.
He has since called on those that want to challenge him during the General conference to come forward and do so.
PF cadres line up along a red carpet for party leader Michael Sata
LUSAKA lawyer Christopher Mundia has warned the people of Western Province not to be hoodwinked by Catholic clergy and the PatrioticFront (PF) that the opposition would be an alternative government because it is a tribal party.
He also called upon law enforcement agencies to take appropriate action against people who are in the habit of insulting and ridiculing President Rupiah Banda because it was a crime under section 69 of the penal Code.
He said in a statement in Lusaka yesterday the Catholic clergy did no trepresent anyone as they had no families to worry about if there was a crisis in the country since they had no children.[pullquote]It is regrettable also that without any iota of truth the Head of State is being insulted, ridiculed and scandalised every day by characters who behave like graduates of mental asylums[/pullquote].
Mr Mundia said it was a betrayal of the people of the Western Province to see a person taking up a position in PF because some leaders in PF had an inherent hatred for the people of the province.
“To the people of Western Province, let me appeal to their conscience that PF cannot be an alternative to MMD because it is a tribal party,”he said.
Mr Mundia said it was totally unacceptable for some people to continually insult the president.
He reminded Zambians that the campaign being mounted against President Banda by the clergy, particularly the Catholic Church was also done against the late president Mwanawasa.
“It is not far fetched to believe that our beloved president died as a result of such campaign against him and the same people want to inflict the same damage on the current president who has done wonders in less than three years he has been in office,” he said.
It was totally unacceptable that the country was being turned into a den of hatred, ridicule and contempt for each other abandoning the moral fabric upon which people have existed for many years as one nation.
“It is regrettable also that without any iota of truth the Head of State is being insulted, ridiculed and scandalised every day by characters who behave like graduates of mental asylums.
Some clergy have also joined the band wagon of pseudo political quislings by portraying a picture that hell has broken loose in Zambia simplybecause the president in office is not someone from their province,”he said.
Mr Mundia said some clergy want their “kith and kin” to take over when infact they know that unless there is unity based on love all that the country had gained would be lost.
