CHISHIMBA Kambwili says Zambians have a playful leadership in State House.

And Kambwili, the Roan PF member of parliament who was dismissed from government by President Edgar Lungu last November, says he will not stop talking about the wrongs of the current PF government despite criticism from Copperbelt minister Bowman Lusambo, Nkana member of parliament Alexander Chiteme and the ruling party’s media director Sunday Chanda.

State House aides on Saturday joined President Edgar Lungu in donning Swaziland’s traditional attire called lihiya.

Pictures of President Lungu’s delegation to Swaziland in traditional attire called lihiya, which included businessman Vauden Findlay and Inyatsi Construction owner Michelo Shakantu, have been taking turns on social media.

In their emahiya, Sate House aides Amos Chanda, Kaizar Zulu, Daniel Siwo, Hibene Mwiinga, Derrick Mpundu, Andrew Chellah, deputy Secretary to the Cabinet Christopher Mvunga, presidential affairs minister Freedom Sikazwe, among others, proudly showed off their bellies at the reed dance organized as part of their visit during that country’s Trade Fair last weekend.

“People of Zambia, when we talk, some of you are even ridiculing us! All I am saying is that we have a wrong leadership in State House, a leadership that is full of nothing but a leadership that is being playful. When people are suffering, you can go to Swaziland, dress in the traditional attire and show off on social media with even people who are not supposed to accompany the President, friends, businessmen!”

The former PF central committee member who has been expelled from the ruling party, a decision he has contested in court, said he wanted answers from the Zambian leadership.

He said it was not the President’s job to always be travelling whenever he was invited.

“President Lungu was invited by King Mswati [of Swaziland] to open the Trade Fair. 
The question that begs an answer from our President is: was it necessary for the President to go for four days? He left on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and is expected to come back today (yesterday). A flight from Lusaka into Swaziland is one hour 50 minutes. Was it necessary for the President to have gone to open a Trade Fair for four days?” Kambwili asked.

“The pictures from Swaziland are not impressive. What is coming out of Swaziland gives an impression that our President went for holiday; they are busy taking pictures with some of the road contractors here in Zambia; some of his own friends. If you look at the pictures, there is Mr Findlay, who is a known friend of the President. Who paid for Mr Findlay’s passage into Swaziland? Who is paying for his meals and hotel accommodation? The other contractors and friends are in the picture. We want to know who paid for their airfares into Swaziland, who is paying for their meals and who is paying for everything?”

He said Zambians would not accept using taxpayers money on people who had nothing to do with governance.

Kambwili said the idea of the Head of State travelling with his friends on official trips should come to an end.

“Taxpayers’ money must be spent on civil servants and employees of government. Why should the President be moving with people who have got questionable characters? Our guess could be may be he does not know that some of the people who are in the pictures we have seen have questionable characters. Some of the people have gone through investigations for drug dealing. Those are the people that our President, representing Zambia, is travelling with and posing with in a foreign nation! This we cannot allow,” Kambwili, who also wondered why the Head of State could be travelling with all his special assistants, said.

He said the people of Chawama where President Edgar Lungu comes from were suffering and could not imagine that the Head of State could go to Swaziland for four days just to open a Trade Fair on Saturday.

Kambwili said the Zambian government had invited South Africa’s Jacob Zuma to be guest at the Zambia Agricultural and Commercial Show last month and he travelled with seven people, “opened the show and returned to South Africa the same day”.



“What we want to see is a responsible President who can go to Swaziland in the morning, open the Trade Fair in the afternoon and fly back to Zambia in one hour 50 minutes. But our President, our humble president, I don’t know whether by merely doing this (clasp hands), I am being humble! Our humble President left the country on Friday, as I am speaking now, he is not yet back in the country, to open a Trade Fair, that function is done in 30 minutes, to the most, one hour,”

he said.

“Mwe bamunyinane, nangu tapasoswa [my colleagues, even if you are not allowed to talk], people are suffering but our President leaves the country on Friday with his friends and all his aides to go to Swaziland and spend four solid days! Immediately the President comes back, I want an answer on behalf of the people of Zambia how much was spent on this outing to Swaziland and who is paying. If it’s taxpayers’ money, I demand that all the friends who accompanied the President must refund the treasury. This is how we want this country to be run from now going forward.”

On Copperbelt minister Bowman Lusambo’s statement asking him to withdraw the court case and instead go for a by-election in Roan, Kambwili said the minister would end up looking foolish.

“Just because yesterday you went to UCZ in Mpatamato, you go and give a cheque of K60,000 from the President, you think you can compromise or buy off the people of Roan Constituency? Let me tell you, the people of Roan are more advanced, more intelligent than you are. I can’t understand why a provincial minister can go and issue a statement that withdraw the case to prove who is popular. It’s not about proving who is popular, it’s about being reasonable and living within the norms of governance,” he said.

Kambwili told Lusambo that he had to be convinced that he was expelled for something wrong he committed.

He said if he felt the party had been unfair to him, he would fight to the bitter end and that a by-election to be caused would not be financed by Lusambo.

“I am a very responsible, law-abiding citizen. And I want is to make sure that the people of Zambia don’t suffer lack of medicines in hospital because we are going to spend K4 million on an election in Roan just to show that I am popular,” Kambwili said.

He said Lusambo’s tools of analysis were defective.

“For him, he was told that the UCZ church in Mpatamato, one of the biggest churches, is going to have a fundraising for the reverend to build a house. He says ‘Mr president send us some money, once we give to the UCZ, Kambwili is going to lose elections’. Thank very much Mr President for the money. I am sure when you went to UCZ, you saw that they have got a cathedral, do you know how much money I donated to build that cathedral? Go and ask the UCZ how much I have given towards that cathedral. You are only showing the people of Zambia that there is some kind of foolishness; you go to donate to a church, you carry cameras. I have donated more than that K60,000 to that church. So tonse uto tuma tricks you want to use ba Lusambo, naba Lungu, the people of Roan are far much ahead of you,” Kambwili said.

He also took time to school Chiteme and government spokesperson Kampamba Mulenga who criticized his attacks on President Lungu.

“The other one was Chiteme. Mwaice wandi Chiteme, umweni talisha munsoli, nga alisha umunsoli, ninshi eko afuma ningomba (a visitor does not whistle, if he does then where he comes from he is a truant). You have just come in PF, you have just been elected as MP, you think you are the only one who knows how to talk?” Kambwili asked.

He advised Chiteme to fight for a ministerial position in a good way other than talking about issues he did not know.

Kambwili told Chiteme there were billions of kwacha he had personally spent on hospitals, marketeers, schools and students in his constituency.

He also told Mulenga that she was “a young girl” who was excited to be minister and could afford to insult him when he personally helped her to be in her current position.

Mulenga last week wondered why Kambwili was telling President Lungu that there was corruption in his government.

But Kambwili said he was merely asking the Head of State where he had gotten all the money he was using to build massive infrastructure.

“Yesterday some people from Chawama came and told me ‘we have watched what you were saying on video; let’s take you to a place where Edgar Lungu is building a mall in Lilayi’. I am telling you Zambians, you will be shocked [by the magnitude, the size of the mall that President Edgar Lungu is building. Who doesn’t know who Edgar Lungu was before he became President? Who doesn’t know who Lungu was before he became MP? Where has he gotten the money to put up all these infrastructure? He is building filling stations, he is demolishing his old bar and building a mall in Chawama, he is building a mall in Petauke. So what we are asking is that let him tell us where he has gotten the money,” he said.

“It’s not for you Chiteme, it’s not for Kampamba, it’s not for Bowman, it’s for President Edgar Lungu to come on TV and say I got a loan from Finance Bank, that’s the house I am building near Leopards Hill Memorial Park; I got a Loan from Barclays Bank, that’s the mall I am building; that’s all we need. We don’t want people to be speculating. We love our President so much. He is too humble to be building so much without explaining where he has gotten all that money. I am only speaking for you, that’s taxpayers’ money which is being plundered for personal riches, which is unfortunate.”

And Kambwili said it was disheartening that wherever President Lungu was building, there were paramilitary police guarding the premises.

“That is abuse of authority with impunity. I don’t think that the law provides that wherever the President is building his private properties, paramilitary or police must be guarding those properties. To make matters worse, even his former house in Jack Compound, which is on rent, there is a policeman guarding there. Nangu tamwakwata umwenso [even if you are not scared), Kampyongo, withdraw those police officers from those private properties. Even here in the neighbourhood where he used to live as Minister of Justice, he has never handed it to government. His children are still staying there and when you check inside, there are a lot of vehicles, brand new vehicles. Where have all those vehicles come from?”

he asked.

Kambwili also urged the government to pay former RAMCOZ employees their NAPSA contributions.

Meanwhile, Kambwili asked the government when a salary increment for civil servants would be effected in view of the increase in electricity tariffs.

“Mr President, I plead with you, from me to you, when you buy electricity for K50 today, before the end of the day ninshi amalaiti nayapwa (electricity units are finished). I know you don’t buy electricity Mr President, you are not feeling it because the taxpayers pay for you but for you ministers you pay for electricity and you are also feeling the pinch, why are you failing to table it in Cabinet and say ‘look, can we make these increments gradually other than putting the whole 75 percent on the poor civil servants, the poor miners, on the poor employees?’,”

said Kambwili.

“You are saying we want cost reflective tariffs so that we can have more electricity, but what is more electricity if the people cannot afford it? Why should you have more electricity that people cannot afford? That electricity should not even be generated because no one will use it.”

The Chipolopolo boys will battle it out with Algeria for the second time in four days in a crucial Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup Group B encounter at the Mohamed Hamlaoui Stadium in Constantine.
Zambia won the first leg on Saturday at Heroes Stadium through a 3-1 result that revived the Chipolopolo’s world cup dream.
A Brian Mwila brace and a wonder effort from Enock Mwepu won the day for Zambia but the second leg will be another matter with Fennec Foxes fighting for their wounded pride before their home crowd.
Today’s match will be crucial in indicating how far Group B will go in deciding who carries the ticket to Russia after table toppers Nigeria were held by Cameroun in Yaoundé.
Nigeria moved to 10 points with Zambia in good stead to move to seven points with a win while the Algerians who have not surrendered could still be in with the slenderest of mathematical chances if they beat their rivals today.
Chipolopolo coach Wedson Nyirenda is sweating over the fitness of target man Brian Mwila who is under the watch of medics after having picked up a knock in Saturday’s match.
But Nyirenda could fall on Justin Shonga or Alex Ng’onga should the Platinum Stars striker not come off fit prior to the match.
In midfield Kondwani Mtonga is sure to pick up from where he left off in the first leg but the technical bench will have to decide whether to deploy the trickery and fluidity of Chisamba Lungu or the exuberance of youth in Mwepu.
At the back there will be need for the partnership of Stoppilla Sunzu and Ziyo Tembo to work on their telepathy that came short in the first leg if they have to stave off the threat posed by the Algeria attack that will have the highly rated Riyad Mahrez back in the squad after missing out on the first leg.
Expectations are high among Chipolopolo enthusiasts given the blend of youthful players that have excelled at youth level and also the assuredness of experience embodied in skipper Kennedy Mweene, Sunzu, Chisamba and Mtonga.
Kickoff for the match is at 21:30 hours Zambian time and will be carried live on pay television station SuperSport.

The Zambia national team chalked up a historic victory over Algeria to keep their dream of making it to the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup alive with Patson Daka scoring the all-important goal in the 66th minute.
Skipper Kennedy Mweene reminded everyone why he remains the safest pair of hands in the country when he bravely stopped Algerian star Riyad Mahrez’s penalty kick in the 16th minute after Kapumbu had been adjudged to have fouled Youcef Atal in the box.
Mahrez who missed the first leg stepped up to take the spot kick but the Zambian number one goal minder dived the right way and kept Zambian hopes alive.
Coach Wedson Nyirenda’s charges bravely fought hard and in the 66th minute Daka rose to the occasion after being set up by Augustine Mulenga to put the ball behind Mbolhi Rais.
The win took Zambia to seven points, three behind leaders Nigeria with the October 7 clash between the two sides standing as a decider.
The loss meant that Algeria joins Cameroun out of the race for 2018 with Zambia and Algeria still in going into the final two matches.
Nyirenda will be happy to have masterminded two victories in four days over the highly rated North Africans that have not lost at home in world cup qualification in 10 years.

NIGERIA’S Champions Royal Assembly prophet Joshua Iginla has told President Edgar Lungu to deliver to the Zambian people now, take a bow and leave.

In an undated prophesy, Prophet Iginla advised the Head of State not to let anyone push him to contest the 2021 general elections because he was not seeing another term for him.

He said President Lungu was a ‘great man’ who feared God, but was surrounded by many “Judas Iscariots”.

“Don’t let them push you for another 2021 elections; please, deliver what you have now to the Zambian people and walk out with glory. I don’t see another time for you!”

Prophet Iginla, who has been in the country for crusades, said.
“If I have said this, I don’t run after the President to give me money; I’m blessed; what am I looking for?

I have said the truth. Please, please, the Lord has taken you there and you know what you have to do and take a bow and leave. I’m troubled; Zambia is a peaceful place.”

He said some of Zambia’s founding fathers had led Zambia on spiritual principles and advised President Lungu to honour the principles very much.

“And I’m saying it, great man, His Excellency Lungu, I have sat with him, prayed with him, God-fearing man [but] there are a lot of Judas Iscariots around you – they only want you to fail. They will thwart your government, they will criticise you at last. Those who are saying Hosanna to you now, they will soon say crucify you tomorrow. Don’t let them push you for another 2021 election, please, deliver what you have now to the Zambia people and walk out with glory, I don’t see another time for you,” said Prophet Iginla.

The Zambia national team is expected to camp outside the country in preparation of the must win 2018 Russia World Cup qualifier against Nigeria to be played on 7th October.
Chipolopolo coach Wedson Nyirenda told theZamFoot Crew on arrival from Constatine Algeria that he would like to see his team have an intensive training camp in ahead of the penultimate game of the qualifiers.
“We have been talking to the Football Association of Zambia [FAZ] and they are also interested in camping the team outside the country and if that comes it will be a bonus to the players,” Nyirenda said.
FAZ president Andrew Kamanga echoed the coach’s sentiments stating that a good number of the players already ply their trade in Europe and it would be easier to camp the team there.
“As you know some of the players are already in Europe, they didn’t come with us they have already gone back and we may see it fit to camp the team abroad so that it is easier to prepare the team adequately,” Kamanga said.
The Chipolopolo will need to pick a win in Uyo – Nigeria to keep chances of qualifying to the World Cup in their own hands.
Zambia shot to second place in group B of the qualifiers after picking back to back wins against Algeria.
Zambia’s next game is against the Super Eagles on 7th October.
The team arrived at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport at 12:40hrs.

It is said that facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.

And we are told in Proverbs 29:11: “A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.”
Denial, panic, threats, anger – those are very human responses to feeling guilty.

We say this in the light of Patriotic Front threats to Chishimba Kambwili that his decision to take on Edgar Lungu “punch for punch” until he addressed the living standards of the Zambian people will make him regret and “cry like a baby”. Edgar had earlier referred to Kambwili as a “kapala (worthless person)” who thought people liked him. This was in response to Kambwili’s criticism that Edgar’s government had failed to resolve the dispute between Mopani Copper Mine and Copperbelt Energy Corporation that threatened jobs of over 5,000 miners. Kambwili said he would exert pressure on Edgar until he pulled up his socks. He said pressure made people do things that they did not want to do.
“For you Mr President, be prepared for more pressure. It is [now] punch for punch until the living standards of our people improve. So, if you expect that I’m going to keep quiet because you are calling me a kapala, you are thinking in a wrong way because what makes Chishimba Kambwili is to speak out. You went to the Copperbelt yesterday and said some of the people we worked with them in government and we know that they just use their government positions to get lucrative contracts and businesses from mining companies. [But] I want to challenge you President Edgar Lungu: tell the people of Zambia how many contracts I got from the mines when I was a minister. To the best of my knowledge, my contracts with the mining companies have been running since 1993…It is shameful that a President of the sovereign Republic of Zambia can go and stand in front of cameras and mislead the people that Chishimba Kambwili got lucrative contracts as a minister. I have never,” said Kambwili.
“So you lied to the people of Zambia that I got lucrative contracts when I was in government and when you see a President telling lies, then know that he has either failed to govern or he is feeling the pressure. Those who know Chishimba Kambwili know that I can exert pressure and I have started exerting pressure on President Edgar Lungu so that he can wake up, pull up his socks and start working for the people of Zambia other than travelling every time. You go to tell people that this kapala is saying I’m travelling a lot but travelling is part of my job. Yes, we know it’s part of your job but it’s not mandatory. I was a Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mr [Michael] Sata travelled less than five times in his one year in office as a President. He was sending Dr Guy Scott and others to go and represent him [because] it’s not mandatory for the President to continuously travel.”

But Patriotic Front media director Sunday Chanda advised Kambwili against taking the route he had chosen of criticizing Edgar.

“Kambwili’s challenge to take on Republican President Edgar Lungu ‘punch for punch’ will make him regret. His ‘punch-for-punch’ strategy will leave him as the major political casualty. We would like him to take this as a kind reminder before he can cry like a baby. Like in boxing, my brother Kambwili will get a good whipping for his big mouth…”

Menachem Begin said, “He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.” It is said that as fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also is a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

The Patriotic Front’s continued pursuit of intolerance, tyranny, a desire to stay in power at any cost and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to peace and stability in this country. As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.

If you look at great human civilisations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

Still, corruption, intolerance, repression and abuse of state institutions are far too common threats to our multiparty democracy and plural society. Corrupt regimes are usually very intolerant and full of threats. It is no longer in dispute that this PF government of Edgar is making the corruption of Rupiah Banda’s regime and that of Fredrick Chiluba look like child’s play. Under this regime of Edgar, there is corruption in all deals you can think of – fertiliser, maize, oil, roads, and so on and so forth. For instance, US $2 million is being collected in bribes every three months from shipments of oil. There’s increasing displeasure about this corruption in the Ministry of Energy. There are differences over the sharing of money from crude oil shipments. Companies they are awarding government construction contracts are building for them houses, apartments, and so on and so forth.
They have auctioned this country to the highest bidder. There is nothing this government can say to any of these corporations that have gotten government business through corruption. They can’t even cough.

These are the issues Kambwili is raising, questioning or challenging. And these are things over which he will be made to cry like a baby. It’s this corruption that is making them very intolerant and wanting to stay in power for as long as they can and at any cost, including rigging elections, destroying the opposition and silencing critical voices.

Off late we have been hearing that there are some teachers in government who forged qualification. My opinion is that teaching was not the only career where one needs qualifications to be recruited. We perhaps have doctors, lawyers, agriculturalists, Veterinary officer, and other officer with forged qualification.

So my suggestion is that government should scrutinize all careers. After all, it is not only in teaching where there is fracas and incompetence.

Zambian Citizen

IT’S is not true that President Edgar Lungu came into State House a poor man; he had a life even before that, claims chief government spokesperson Kampamba Mulenga. And the information and broadcasting minister says it is wrong to insinuate that President Lungu is building shopping malls and other property using taxpayers’ money.

Meanwhile, Mulenga says it is not wrong for President Lungu to travel with his business associates and posing for photographs with them for as long as it was not the government paying their bills. Mulenga has come to President Lungu’s defence following Roan PF member of parliament Chishimba Kambwili’s allegations last week that the Head of State was building several properties in Lusaka and challenged him to deny it.

Kambwili, the former information minister who was dismissed last November and now expelled from the PF, a decision he has contested in the High Court, said President Lungu must explain the source of his wealth because he had all of a sudden embarked on huge construction projects around Lusaka and in Petauke. But Kampamba said there was nothing wrong with President Lungu owning property because he was a Zambian citizen who made money during his law practice before he came Republican President.

She told News Diggers in a telephone interview from South Africa where she is on government duty that it was not true that President Lungu was building around Lusaka, but quickly defended the move saying it was not illegal for the Head of State to own property.

“…like we have clearly said, Honourable Kambwili should have questioned all these things when he was in government. Can he specify that ‘this mall and this mall are being built by President Lungu’, because we are not aware of that. And also, what we must realise is that the President had a life before he became President. He is a lawyer. So questioning his capabilities because he is now the President is neither here nor there,”

Mulenga said in reaction to Kambwili’s allegations.

“What we must realise is that before the presidency, President Lungu is a very well educated man, he was a lawyer, so it is not like President Lungu just came in a poor man, no! We know lawyers are one of the most handsomely paid professionals in Zambia. This is not to say that President Lungu is building [shopping] malls through taxpayers’ money, it is not true. But questioning the aspect of whether President Lungu can own property, yes he is a Zambian. He is a Zambian entitled under the Constitution to own property, but it does not mean that when you own property, every property you own is coming from taxpayers money, it’s not true. President Lungu has clearly stated even before, that he was in business. It is not true that President Lungu came into State House a poor man, he is a lawyer by profession…”

She wondered why Kambwili did not raise the issues he was talking about today against President Lungu before he was fired. Mulenga claimed she could disclose to the public in an event that she discovered that President Lungu was involved in corruption. She further claimed she could resign from government to protect her integrity.

“That is what noble people, credible people do. They don’t wait to be fired to say President Lungu is corrupt. If I see that the decisions we are making in Cabinet are not going well with the Zambia people, I would resign on moral ground, I will not wait until I am fired,”

Mulenga said.

And on why President Lungu spent four days in Swaziland where he attended the Reed Dance after which photos of him, his aides and business associates in emahiya were posted on Facebook, Mulenga said there were two events taking place at once.

“The President was also invited for the National Reed Dance. There were two events taking place at once. And that invitation was a gesture from his counterpart. The Trade Fair has not even finished, it finishes next week Monday,” she said, adding that it was disrespectful for government to allow the President to travel with few people.

“There is the presidential affairs minister that accompanied him, there is a political advisor, and there is a press aide that accompanied him. So who did Honourable Kambwili want to accompany the President? Those are part of the presidential delegation and they have been from time immemorial. Every time a President travels, he travels with a delegation. There is no way…look, this is the presidency for goodness’ sake. The Presidency is a big institution and we are not going to demean and undermine the institution because Honourable Kambwili says one or two people should accompany the President. Ubufuma buchindika umwine (One has to respect himself in order to be respected)…”

On the pictures of President Lungu with his aides and business associates which were posted on social media, Mulenga claimed the businessmen were not in Swaziland at government expense.

“Honourable Kambwili has already said that Mr Valden Findlay is a businessman, do you think, in his own capacity, Mr Findlay can fail to pay for his accommodation? If he has that evidence that Mr Findlay used taxpayers money to get himself there, he might as well raise a query. We know that Mr Findlay owns Chrismar Hotel, he has been in business for a long time. You think he can fail to pay for his accommodation? And we also know that under the laws of Zambia, it is illegal for anyone to deal in drugs, so since Honourable Kambwili seems to have so much information, why hasn’t he reported them to the law enforcers? People have accused Honourable Kambwili of so many things, but no one is guilty until proven innocent,” Mulenga said.

“He knows the speculations of social media, how people are accused innocently. But in any case, what is wrong with Mr Findlay being found with the President in Swaziland? What crime has he done? How many people appear with the President in public? What crime would that be if Mr Findlay appeared in public with the President? That was a public event, even me if I had the money, I would have gone, even Honourable Kambwili if he had the money, he should have travelled to Swaziland, nobody was going to question him.”

On Kambwili’s claims that President Lungu’s former ministerial House was still being occupied by his childen, Mulenga said the government was not aware of that.

She accused Kambwili of wanting to distract the government from performing.

“…This is one man who says the President has so many houses, then the other moment he says he has no house, he is using the ministerial house for his family. We are not going to continue answering Kambwili because he just wants to distract government from performing. The way he wants President Lungu convicted, if Honourable Kambwili had any evidence of all those allegations, he would have submitted all that information to the law enforcers already,” said Mulenga.

“He knows where to take evidence. The judiciary is very independent and the President won’t interfere. A man that switches his tongue is a very dangerous man. If President Lungu brought him back in government, Honourable Kambwili can switch and say, ‘I was moved by evil spirits from the other side that’s why I said those things’.”

Copperbelt Province Minister Bowman Lusambo if anyone cuts his skin, they will find that his blood is PF just like President Edgar Lungu.
And Lusambo says anyone who insults President Lungu is an enemy.
Speaking when he featured on Hot FM’s Hot Seat programme on Thursday, the Kabushi PF member of parliament, who was an MMD die hard cadres until said he was the number one supporter for “His Excellency President Edgar Chagwa Lungu the great leader of this great nation”.
“Me I am die hard for PF, if you cut my skin you will find that my blood inside is PF and Edgar Chagwa Lungu. I stood on the PF ticket in Kabushi constituency and I was the best candidate on the Copperbelt Province, I gave the votes for the President which was number one as MP and I was number one in the province. When you go to Parliament they will say honourbale Bowman Lusambo, PF Member of Parliament for Kabushi constituency. So I am 100 per cent PF and I am a member of the Patriotic Front and I am number one supporter of President Edger Chagwa Lungu, the great leader of this great nation because I believe in his leadership and in his policy,” Lusambo said.
“So if there are people who are not happy that Bowman Lusambo who is MP for Kabushi constituency is Minister of the Copperbelt, that is not my job because the appointing authority is his Excellency Edgar Chagwa Lungu and for me the allegiance goes to the President and in these political things, the most important thing is loyalty, that is the medicine which has been in the political scene, it’s just loyalty.”
And Lusambo said the ruling party would not allow anyone to insult their leader.
“And you know that President Lungu doesn’t what to talk because he is a very humble President who is working hard for the people of this country and for us who are the vision carriers of his Excellency the President won’t allow any individual to insult his Excellency President Edgar Chagwa Lungu. Immediately you insult him, just know that you are our number enemy, especially on my behalf,” he said.
Lusambo said the Head of State was constantly travelling because he was looking for solutions to the problems which Zambians were facing.
“The President is doing everything possible to make sure that we uplift the living standards of our people and if others think that Zambians are suffering, I can assure them that the President is not sleeping, he is not staying at State House because he wants to bring in investors, he wants to bring in people who can push us from where we are to another level. Those who are saying they cannot see development, I want to invite them to Katuba area tomorrow where the President will be flagging off the Copperbelt – Lusaka dual carriage way so that they can see what we talking about,” Lusambo said.
Meanwhile, Lusambo said he had gotten tired of trying to engage Kambwili and Mwenya Musenga over their accusations because they were not listening.
“Ba Musenge naba Kambwili bakalamba bandi, nalilanda nabo kabili ndabatuminako nama phone limo limo njebele awe kwena bakalamba bandi ifi mulecita tafiweme, ala takwaba umwana afuma mung’anda elo aya iminina pamusebo ayakusalula bawishi, ulya umwana mu Chibemba beta ati Chinkula (Mwenya Musenge and Chishimba Kambwili are my elder brothers, I even ring them sometimes to advice them to stop what they are doing because there is no child who leaves his father’s house and goes to stand by the road to insult him, in Bemba we call that person an imbecile,” he said.
“I have tried personally to talk to these my elder brothers because for me I used to sit down with Honourable Kambwili when he was a Minister but even when he calls me a boy there is nothing I can do kuti twakonkanyapofue ukubakontolola (there is nothing we can do about Kambwili except to guide him to do the right things. Lelo nokubakontolola nga twamona ati tabaleumfa kubaleka (But even as we guide him also if he he doesn’t want to compromise then we will leave him). Otherwise what Kambwili is supposed to do is just to keep quiet, he is our elder brother but he cannot be insulting us. For me I think I have tried to talk about this issue but now I just wanted to keep quiet because I know that Copperbelt Province is intact.”
Lusambo boasted that if an election were held in Roan constituency today, the PF would win.
“I can assure you that Copperbelt Province is intact and I can assure you that just about four days ago I was coming from Luanshya where I went to inspect government projects in Luanshya and I passed through Roan Constituency, I can assure you that we are intact as a Povince and even if we called an election today in Roan constituency PF would win with a landslide, that is how intact the Copperbelt is,” said Lusambo.

By Mukosha Funga
I am a very good example for those who are going to hold the office of Chief Government spokesperson because after going out of my way to defend President Lungu and PF, I have been thrown away, says Chishimba Kambwili in this audio.
And Kambwili who is also Roan PF member of parliament says it is not true that President Lungu was rich before going to State House because he lived in a garage belonging to incumbent Chawama member of parliament Lawrence Sichalwe for two years
In an interview with News Diggers! the former Information Minister warned his successor Kampamba Mulenga against defending things she does not understand.
“I feel sorry for that little girl Kampamba Mulenga, I regard that young girl as my young sister but she has disappointed me the way she is carrying herself and the way she is conducting herself. For her, she thinks she is making a name to Edgar Lungu but what she should know is that it is not Edgar Lungu who will vote for her in Kalulushi. It is the same people of Zambia who are upset with the conduct of Edgar which Kampamba wants to defend. The voters are the ones who are upset about how the ministers are amassing wealth that they cannot account for,” Kambwili said.
“Since when did Kampamba know Edgar Lungu in details? Ask her, does she know that the same man she is saying was very rich was staying in a garage? In a ka small room, in honorable Sichalwe’s garage for close to two years? Does she know that history that the man she wants to defend was staying in honorable Sichalwe’s garage? Now, can a person who was very rich and had money before he was President live in a garage where they repair vehicles?”
He advised Mulenga to learn from his mistakes.
“So tell Kampamba that don’t defend things that you don’t know. Aya ama (these are) politics me I have learnt something, I can only advise Kampamba not to make the mistakes that I made. And me I am a very good example for those who are going to hold the office of Chief Government Spokesperson. Because I tried my level best to defend President Edgar Lungu and the PF, what have they paid me? They have paid evil for good. Now, a normal person would learn from such kind of a situation to say, ‘if they can treat Honorable Kambwili like that who used to defend them, in and out, day and night, how about me?’ I went out of my way even going to the extent of telling the Tongas that even if Jesus came, they would not vote for him, for Edgar’s sake and the PF,” Kambwili recalled.
“What is Edgar today and the PF saying? ‘Kambwili was possessed with evil spirits, he insulted the Tonga people’. When I issued that statement, the first person to congratulate me was the President ‘well done, you have done very well, that was a lovely interview’…I played a part in the winning of elections. I am not saying I am the one who made the PF win but I am part of the people that contributed and my contribution was outstanding for everybody to see. How have I been paid? So mwaiche wandi (my young sister) Kampamba, to defend people who do not appreciate, you are just wasting your time, you are going to have more enemies than friends and then they will just discard you and start insulting you.”
He charged that President Lungu was very bad hearted.
“President Edgar Lungu has a very bad heart. Alikwata umutima ububi. Just look at the way he has treated ba Christine Kaseba, the widow of the late president Michael Sata, may his soul rest in peace, ba mayo has been treated like nobody, like a piece of dirt by President Edgar Lungu. Ask ba mayo how many times she has entered to go to State House after her husband died? That is a woman who used to spend money from her pocket, hard earned cash from her job as a doctor to give cadres transport money, to fund the PF, today she is treated like a piece of dirt by President Edgar Lungu. They have even named her; Black Widow, ukuvotela pacililo. That’s what they call her in their circles,” Kambwili said.
And Kambwili charged that President Lungu’s delegation went to watch breasts at the Reed Dance in Swaziland.
“Kampamba is a very unreasonable person. I think no wonder she can’t keep her marriages, she is always getting married and divorcing, married and divorcing because she is unreasonable. You see, special assistant to the president on politics has to advise the President on political issues, does he need to be travelling with the President? We had Mrs Mavis Muyunda who was political advisor to president Levy Mwanawasa, go and check how many times she travelled with the President both locally and abroad. What did the Special Assistant to the President for Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects go to do eko bailefye ukutamba ama bele yabaiche (where they went to watch girls breasts?” he wondered.
“They spent all that money mukutamba fye amabele, amabele yatwaiche. Mwalimona picture bakopele Sikazwe, alekopa ama picture yamabele yatwaiche (You saw the picture Sikazwe took of young girls breats), what a shame! Tell Kampamba that she should think before she speaks because I think the problem that she is having, she is talking before she thinks. She even said the trade fair is still going on, where on earth have you seen a President opens a trade fair and wait until it is closed? Ukumona fye ati the young lady, my young sister is drunk with unknown powers. But like I have said, she should learn from my experience if she wants to be a better person. But if she wants to treat government like the way she behaves in her marriages where she can walk in and walk out, let her go ahead. She will have a similar record like she has in marriage in government.”
Kambwili went on sparring with Kampamba’s personality.
“She is telling you that Mr Kambwili was possessed by evil spirits, it is her who needs prayers so that at least this marriage, I am told she is getting married again, she can keep that marriage. So tell Kampamba Mulenga that ukucita defend abantu abashicita appreciate, you will end up being bruised. Because everything Kampamba said in that statement does not make sense to any reasonable person. Just look at the comments that were there on your website, if she is reasonable enough, she must know that she did not make sense,” he said.
He went further to charge that President Lungu was an impoverished person before being elected Head of State.
“She is saying the President was very rich, umuntu uwali rich kuti alya indalama ishama clients bamupoka (can someone who was rich eat a client’s money and they get his) practicing license? Eh bali aba (yes he was a) lawyer but record yabo muli bu lawyer is a bad record, balilya indalama yama client (he ate a client’s money) and everybody knows. Just take pictures of President Edgar Lungu when he became president and you compare with how he looks today. He was very thin, not thin ilya iyanatural but ilya iyakuchula (impoverished health). Lelo mumone ama picture yabo efyo bainine. Ine Chishimba Kambwili epo naingila muma politics nalifye uwaina fino finne na nomba ndi uwaina (Look at how he has gained weight today. Me I was fat before politics and I am still fat even today). In fact amapolitics nayangonshako nokungonsha mulandu uwakubombesha. Nomba abo chinshi bainina lelo? (In fact politics has made me lose weight because of hard work, but him, how has he gained weight? So we don’t want Kampamba to be responding, we want him to respond alone where he got the money. And if they want to dare us, we can get all the newspapers to go and show them what they have built,” Kambwili warned.
He threatened to expose President Lungu’s ill-gotten wealth.
“So if they want to be embarrassed, they should continue responding through nonentities like Kampamba Mulenga, we will expose more, the best they can do is to keep quiet. She is saying we don’t know that the President’s children still live in a government house, it is only two houses from where I live. If you came now I will take you there you go and see who lives there. It is the President’s children, that is abuse of authority with impunity. How can you not be aware because you are government spokesperson? All the information in government is supposed to be on your fingertips. Me when I was Chief Government Spokesperson, every information on government was on my fingertips. You ask me, even in my sleep I will give you answers. So she is only telling us that she is not fit to be in that office,” said Kambwili.
“She also said that if I have evidence I should report Edgar to the Anti Corruption Commission, are you sure she is serious? We all know that at one time people reported Kaizer Zulu to the ACC saying he was getting $250,000 to give people appointments to see the President, what happened? the President was the first to defend him and castigated the ACC for wanting to investigate him. So does Kampamba think I am so stupid that I will go to the ACC and report President Lungu and the people who are involved in corruption with him when I know nothing will be done? I will not waste my time. We have to wait until he leaves office because the ACC will not do anything and they will say he has immunity. So Kampamba must know that don’t talk about issues that you don’t understand. It only shows some level of foolishness. And Kampamba is saying Findley can manage to travel on his own, Findley travelled on the Presidential plane to and from Swaziland, come on Kampamba, you can do better than that.”
News Diggers

Son to Legendary Chipolopolo Midfied genius Charles Musonda, Charly Musonda Juniour will soon feature for the Chipolopolo senior team, Tumfweko can exclusively reveal.

A source at Passports office in the Ministry of Home Affairs HQ in Lusaka has informed Tumfweko of the development that Charly Musonda’s Zambian Passport has been issued and is ready.

Musonda recently snubbed a call by Belgian U21 coach Johan Walem. National Team coach Wedson Nyirenda will soon formalize a call up on the Belgian born wing wizard.

And Belgian coach Roberto Martinez, who recently praised Eden Hazard for returning from injury to play for Belgium’s senior team, took an indirect swipe at Musonda for failing to realise the opportunity presented to him.
‘Johan [Walem] has one of the most complicated jobs in football,’ the former Everton manager told Belgian outlet DH.

‘To manage to involve U21s who are very talented and who, sometimes, feel that going there is not rewarding.
‘That’s the truth.’ said Martinez.

And a Tumfweko check on Wikipedia this morning showed an updated nationality on Charly Musondas profile.

Charly Musonda’s Parents Charles and Angela Mushimba Musonda are very much Zambians who have tasted the mining fumes from Butondo township in Mufulira known as ‘Senta’ locally.

There was understandable shock worldwide when Kenya’s supreme court announced the annulment of their general election – a landmark ruling and the first of its kind in the African continent. However, one of the most stunned individuals may not actually be a Kenyan. Joshua Iginla, a well-known Prophet from Nigeria had released a video two weeks earlier celebrating his purported prediction of incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election victory.

Iginla had predicted the ruling party candidate would have a “narrow escape” and achieve victory by a “miracle” although some would choose to call it “magic”. With the ruling of Chief Justice David Maraga however, the ‘miracle’ Iginla spoke of can more adequately be termed as ‘fraud’ – with more than five million votes allegedly tinkered with and thus subject to suspicion. “This was a wrong prophecy,” wrote an irked Rachael Musotsi on Facebook in the aftermath of the ruling. “How can an anointed man of God give a prophecy of open rigging and call it a miracle?” Her view was reiterated by many.

“To be a false prophet is not in prophesying wrongly or in making mistakes; hence they are human,” Iginla had once told his plethora of followers in a Facebook post. “Being a false prophet is in consulting and dining with black powers!” Perhaps this is because the Kenyan faux pas is just one of many times when the Nigerian cleric has missed the mark prophetically.

Perhaps most prominent is Iginla’s unequivocal declaration in 2014 that Goodluck Jonathan would win Nigeria’s 2015 elections. “The truth about the whole matter is that Jonathan is going to win the whole elections and there is no doubt about it,” he prophesied. “It is not because Jonathan is the perfect man, but I think the unity of Nigeria is most important. I thank God for the opposition party because they are going to do well but they are not the dream party that God will raise to take the ‘baton’ from PDP. Indeed, time would come that PDP would crumble but it has not come to the time. For now, the years ahead would still be held by the same person in power.”

When Muhammadu Buhari was historically sworn into office, there was loud silence from Champions Royal Assembly. However, the Abuja-based cleric did not stop there. In his list of annual prophecies for 2016, Iginla declared a victory for former Ghanaian President John Mahama. “I see a robust economy and the Democrats still holding onto the seat in the election. The ruling party will retain the power,” he prophesied. Again, the results proved otherwise as Mahama’s long-term rival and opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won the election.

Even local Nigerian politics were not out of Iginla’s prophetic vision, no matter how cloudy those revelations later panned out. When Ondo State governorship candidate Professor Robert Ajayi Boroffice visited his church in Abuja, Iginla is said to have told the surprised Senator that he was destined to be the governor of his state. Such destiny was not quick to materialise, however, as Boroffice later threw his weight behind Rotimi Akeredolu who then won the gubernatorial elections to become the new Governor of Ondo State.

Unfortunately, these examples are just the tip of the iceberg. A brief online perusal reveals ‘Brother Iginla’ is currently in Zambia – one of his many trips to the Christian nation. Unfortunately, headlines surrounding his past visits have dealt with accusations that he was being ‘paid’ to prophesy good tidings for Edgar Lungu, then a presidential candidate and now Zambia’s President.

My reason for pointing all this out is not to make mockery; but let’s call a spade a spade. Politics is a dirty game in murky waters. Getting embroiled as a cleric – who should maintain a firm and untampered moral barometer – is dangerous, especially when you are tagging politically-motivated declarations with the slogan, ‘Thus saith the Lord’. Mr Iginla – don’t confuse people in God’s name. Steer clear of political prophecies and focus on the work of the vineyard that will save souls and restore homes. Such predictions may attract media attention and garner controversy but rather than pointing people to Jesus – which should be the primary purpose of any minister – they serve to achieve the exact opposite.

Mr Kwebena is a concerned Christian citizen…

It is unfortunate that Hon. Chishimba Kambwili has chosen a path of aggressive politics in addressing some national issues.
The statement from Hon. Kambwili that he will now engage in punch for punch politics against President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, the Great Leader of this great nation is laughable.
The truth remains that Hon. Kambwili cannot match up to the political credentials of President Lungu.
A punch for punch political fight between President Lungu and Hon. Kambwili will be a mismatch. It is like Floyd Mayweather fighting Connor McGregor. The entire nation knows who will be the ultimate winner. It will be a technical knockout with Hon. Kambwili on the floor.
I wish to warn Hon. Kambwili that continuing on this path will only leave him politically bruised. He should forthwith desist from attacking President Lungu as a person and as holder of the highest office in the land.
Zambians are not interested in knowing where President Lungu lived before entering State House. What majority of Zambians are interested in is to see to it that the current leadership improves the quality of life for all Zambians. Hon. Kambwili should be reminded that discussing President Lungu’s pre-State House lifestyle now will not translate into better livelihoods for the people of Roan Constituency.
President Lungu is busy transforming the fortunes of this great nation and he will not be sidetracked by irresponsible politicians like Hon. Kambwili. Just last week, President Lungu was launching the construction of the dual carriageway on the Great North Road.
Just over the last few months, President Lungu has on several occasions launched mega projects on the Copperbelt which has put Hon. Kambwili’s utterances of under development to shame.
No matter how lucid Hon. Kambwili wishes to be against President Lungu, the people of Zambia know that President Lungu was a prominent Lawyer at a well-established law firm in Lusaka and represented many Zambians and institutions who can today attest to his exceptional law practice.
Every right-thinking Zambia knows that successfully completing an LLB degree at the University of Zambia and further obtaining a law practice licence from ZIALE is not the same as stripping railway slippers off the railway line between Ndola and Luanshya commonly known as scrap.
I know Hon. Kambwili very well and I challenge him to appear with me on any radio or television talk show to discuss developmental projects scored under President Lungu. Failure to accept this invitation will leave me with no choice but to disclose details of Hon. Kambwili activities that border on criminal misconduct which I believe will warrant criminal prosecution.
On this current path, Hon. Kambwili is becoming useless to Zambia’s development discourse and he needs to take a hard look at his life before he becomes obsolete.

COMMEDIAN Thomas Sipalo alias Difikoti has offloaded some scorn against former Republican President Kenneth Kaunda, over UNIP brutality before the return of plural politics in Zambia.
Sipalo wants Kaunda to be bundled, so that he can explain his brutality before he dies – Kaunda’s yesterdays are more than his tomorrows.
Sipalo says despite being young during the Kaunda era, he is still livid at the things Kaunda’s regime did to his relatives.
Twenty-Eight years after his brother Alex Mabid died, for allegedly poisoned by Kaunda’s, Sipalo says he can’t forget about it.
“Today’s marks exactly 28 years since my brother was poisoned then later on thrown from a third floor building and days later he was found dead for opposing UNIP and championing the formation of multi party politics,” Sipalo says.
He recounts that the wife to his brother disappeared after being abducted without a trace living behind 3 young children.
“I might have been young,but the hate for KK and his brutal regime still lives on…UNIP did a lot of harm to the people,did we try to investigate these issues?”
After UNIP grabbed power from Colonists, Kaunda turned Zambia into a one party state during which rights of persons opposed to UNIP were violated. People were brutally treated, jailed and sometimes even killed mysteriously.
Source: Thomas sipalo Facebook book page.

Steven Kampyongo is just a small boy who can’t compete with a political giant like myself, Chishimba Kambwili has bragged.

War of words between Kambwili and Kampyongo have been reignited after the former went for President Lungu, accusing him of being corrupt.

Kampyongo who is Home Affairs Minister told off Kambwili that he is not a factor.

Kampyongo warned Kambwili to stop misconducting himself in speech and manner he has made it an habit to issue disparaging remarks against President Edgar Lungu.

He wondered what sort of nonsense Kambwili represented by practicing politics of character assassination.

“I want to warn Kambwili to desist from talking nonsense about people like he did to Information

Minister Mulenga Kampamba. Let him stop threatening people especially in PF. No one in PF owes him anything. Not new or old members. And let him stop masquerading as an old serving member of the party because he is not,” Kampyongo warned.

But Kambwili fondly referred to as Imbwili hit back at Kampyongo, saying the PF Youth Chairperson should not behave like an excited teenager.

He wondered why the PF is insulting him and calling him names  instead of merely responding  to issues he is raising.

“A small boy telling a giant that he is not a factor. Even you, you know who is a political heavyweight between me and Kampyongo. do you even need to be told? Let them just respond to issues I am raising,” Kambwili said

By Musonda Chibulu

When are others are well known for sending tickets for girlfriends to go and party abroad, Patson Daka and Emmanuel Banda are truly epitomising the spirit of Bola na Lesa. Now look, the Under-20 and Chipolopolo striker and Midfielder bought their respective mothers a car.

Patson got his mother a Toyota Axio whilst Emmanuel Banda got his mother a Toyota Harrier.

We can learn from these lads.

“Ba Muzo, do know you that even Emmanuel JR Banda bought his mom a Harrier last week?”
This is so inspiring. I now understand why these boys have so much belief in God Jehovah.
May God bless Banda in his career.
#Respect

The Patriotic Front (PF) has scooped the majority of the local government seats following elections on Thursday, September 14, 2017.
The PF won eight out of the 10 seats which were mostly from its traditional stronghold.
The other two seats from Itezhi-Itezhi and Zambezi East from Central and North Western provinces respectively were scooped by the opposition UPND.
As indicated yesterday day after our glance analysis of the initial results the tribal voting in Zambia has remained intact.
Below are results from the elections held yesterday:
It was a Month of busy Ward & Council Chairpersons By – Elections dotted around the Country:
WARD BY – ELECTIONS
1. Chitiwi Ward in Luanshya – Won by PF
2. Lusombe Ward in Kakoyo Mufulira – Won by PF
3. Luntomfwa Ward in Kaputa – Won by PF
4. Mabinga Ward in Chama – Won by PF
5. Zambezi Ward in Zambezi west – Won by UPND
6. Chimaje Ward in Chilanga – Won by PF.
MAYORAL SEATS
7. Lupososhi in N/Province – Won by PF
8. Kachibiya in N/Province – Won by PF
9. Lunte in N/Province – Won by PF
10. Itezhi tezhi in Central Province – Won by UPND

CHISHIMBA Kambwili has warned the PF government to stop stealing or he will continue disclosing the deals going on in President Edgar Lungu’s regime.

And Kambwili has warned that a political ‘Tsunami’ will soon hit the ruling Patriotic Front.
Meanwhile, the Roan PF member of parliament has also Challeged President Lungu to a live debate on national issues where he can also answer allegations of corruption against him than using his ministers to respond.

Kambwili, the former information minister who was recently expelled from the ruling party on Wednesday, defied directives by government agencies for him not to go ahead with his donation to schools in Roan Constituency yesterday.

When the motorcade reached Mpatamatu market, word had already gone round that Kambwili was in the area, forcing residents to throng Mpatamatu Secondary School where he was scheduled to hand over learning equipment worth K500,000 he bought from the UK.

When he arrived at the school, a huge crowd of residents, young and old, burst into songs, praising Kambwili while in other songs denouncing President Lungu and Luanshya mayor Nathan Chanda.
The headmaster and her deputy reportedly left the school, leaving only a female head of department Isabel Bwanga to act in their places.

Kambwili donated desktop computers, laptops, chairs, tables, interactive boards, printers, copiers and musical equipment.

“I received a call from the head teacher that I should not go ahead to donate these teaching and learning aids until I get clearance from the DEBS. I told him that head teacher, I don’t report to the DEBS, President or yourself, I report to the people of Roan Constituency and whether you like it or not, I will donate because I have been donating to this school for a long time; what has changed now?”

Kambwili wondered amid cheers from parents and pupils.

However, Kambwili refused to donate half the same number of items to Roan Antelope Secondary School where a deputy head teacher, a Mr Mwila, initially resisted but after a closed door meeting with Kambwili’s entourage, reluctantly accepted but only agreed to have a few pupils witness and that the donation be made at the head master’s car park behind the administration block to which Kambwili objected and ordered that the truck instead delivers the items to Twashuka Secondary School.

The school authorities’ behaviour infuriated parents who stormed the administration department and severely warned Mwila and a few teachers present of serious consequences if any pupil was chased from school for non-payment of fees.

“Mundolekeshe sana ine (look at me very well), just try to chase any pupil, mukantanfishepofye umwana wandi ati indalama shama computer. Tukesaiponona tukaikomena muno mwine elo tukaiponone teti umuntu umwine aleta ifyabupe mwakana uyo wine Lungu akutumine alitala acitapo ifyamusango uyu? Mukeshe mukacimona (chase my child over money for purchasing computers, we will fight, we will lock ourselves in this office and fight, you can’t refuse gifts from a person, is this same Lungu who has sent you has he ever done such a thing? You try it you will see,”

said a visibly angry parent.
Pupils at the school joined in the condemnation chorus after Kambwili informed them that he was diverting his gifts to another school because government had declined.

At a briefing later, Kambwili, who touched on many issues said:

“I know a lot, if they want this to stop, let them stop stealing. Muleke ukwiba pantu mukesa kakwa, mukabutauka nga mapanga [You will be jailed, you will be running like rats when a serious government comes into power. If you are a ruling party and cracks start emerging, people within your party across the country start leaving and forming other structures, just know that there is a problem. There is a Tsunami coming, not a crack, a Tsunami. And iwe mwaice [home affairs minister Stephen] Kampyongo and [Copperbelt minister] Bowman Lusambo and others, stop talking on behalf of the President. Stop answering for him, let him answer for himself, when did he stop talking?”

He said he had every right to criticise President Lungu’s wrongs as he was a State property.

Kambwili said Kampyongo had no right to threaten him over his criticism of President Lungu.

He said President Lungu was not a private individual but a public figure, who should be used to public scrutiny.

“The presidency is an institution and anybody who is President is no longer a private individual but a State property. And when one becomes President or a public figure, he is supposed to be scrutinised and criticised when things are not going well. So there is no way you can say ‘do not criticise the President’ because when you are President, you must know that criticism is part of the job,”

Kambwili said.

He said he was not scared to take on President Lungu on issues of corruption because he (Kambwili) did not have any skeletons.

Kambwili said if he was corrupt, President Lungu would have crucified him by now as he hates him a lot.

He said he had every right to question where President Lungu was getting funds for the Presidential Empowerment Fund, which was being given to marketeers.

“Let the money be provided for as a budget line if it’s truly meant for marketeers so that Parliament can approve it because there is no way we can let that money, over K10 million be given out without knowing where it is coming from. So do not threaten us but answer when questioned because we will ask when we feel there is an act of money laundering taking place,”

Kambwili said.

He said the most corrupt individuals were those in government, whom he warned would pay back when time comes.

Kambwili said the money that had been allocated to the new Ndola airport was too much and that a part of it would have been invested in the agriculture sector for job opportunities and boost the economy.

“Mpongwe farm was brought about by one investor and the face of Mpongwe has changed but as government, you decide to spend US$522 million on an airport and I don’t see anything wrong with [Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe airport] because I usually land there; why can’t part of the money be invested in agriculture and make a replica of Mpongwe in every town of the Copperbelt so that the economy can grow? But because people want commissions, they choose an airport!”

he said.
And Kambwili alleged that Lusambo got K250,000 from a Chinese company in Chingola on the pretext that President Lungu had sent him.

He alleged Lusambo later used the money in his Kabushi campaigns.

“Today he is building an upstair house in Lusaka; where has he gotten the money in one year? We all know that he was a die hard in blue overalls and in one year he is building,” Kambwili alleged.

He also alleged that Lusambo again used President Lungu’s name to collect another sum of money from the poor who were empowered by Levy Mwanawasa.
Kambwili said Lusambo was a nobody, who would sell disco lights to him, but was now building an expensive house and buying fuel tankers.
He asked Lusambo to take back the money as there was no way he could acquire all the properties he currently had in just a year of being minister.

Kambwili said after the Chingola deal, the relationship between President Lungu and Lusambo had become stronger.

“I will give the President a benefit of the doubt because it’s possible that you [Lusambo] just used the President’s name to collect money but let me tell you, take back that money, it belongs to the poor. I am sure that’s why you are so close with the President because of what you did in Chingola and I am reliably told that he went to South Africa to buy three, four tankers for fuel but he is now buying things from the money he collected,”

he said.

Kambwili dared Lusambo to sue him if he was lying.

He also said Kampyongo was another government servant who was slowly becoming rich.
Kambwili said the PF national youth chairman had been transformed from a money changer to a man with more than 12 expensive cars in his garage and was building mansions in Lusaka.

“If you go to Kampyongo’s house, you will find over 12 brand new cars, expensive cars. We all know who he was, now he has gotten the money and he wants to threaten me! No, I will not be bruised, it’s you who will be bruised and if you want, dare me, I will disclose more details,” he said.

Meanwhile, Kambwili disclosed that President Lungu and his team formed a political party in five days as plan B in case the PF did not pick him in 2014.

He wondered why the government was telling Mwenya Musenge that papers for registration of his party would be processed in three months when President Lungu, at the time Minister of Home Affairs, registered his party in five days.

Kambwili said the PF were scared of Musenge’s party.

As Reported By Gregory Matthew Gosden
“My self and the NGOCC team left Luapula for Lusaka on the Tuta road at 7:30am and a Peace Solider bus over took us (at a guess they where going 130/140kph!!!!). And they disappeared around the corner 5 min later (9am) we find this horrific site! People still screaming from inside the bus as they tried to escape. Still half a bus full of people still inside when we arrived people lying all over the floor around the bus.

“A couple of people screaming to God and praying for their lives. I ran straight to the bus ripped the roof vent open to finish clearing the bus where I found some pretty horrible injuries as I help a lady who had a slash from hair line on forehead to corner of eye (just ended before corner of eye!) and was to the bone and not good.

“The worst injury I have see in my life first hand. So I sat her down sprinted back to our car and got my medical bag and liquids and towels quickly cleaned and then steri striped her forehead back together before bandaging and chucking her in a passing car for emergency care at nearest hospital. Lucky enough I had lots of bandages to go around. Man photographed had a nasty deep gash in forehead. Made a sling or two and continued with high priority patients as pictured below after I did my job of first aiding, but way above my skill level as only have a level 3 certificate that is out of date as taken coarse in college 2007ish.

“Finally the ambulance arrived and found that I had taken immediate care of the worst so chucked them in the ambulance and continued with minor patching and plastering.

“Cheers to the people in my life that have taught me how to bandage and be medically on my feet (Maxine Gosden you know I’m talking about you
And the others out there who have taught me things as well you know who you are.)

“May I also aid all of you that travel no matter how long nor how far away take a medical bag even if your not skilled at all I could of done with another 3 medical bags even tho I got the biggest one possible from go outdoors in England. Please please please get one where ever travelling or not. not being big headed but I stopped a lot of blood loss with bandage and steri strips!

“I pray that all injured get well soon. Also that I made the right decision on how I dealt with the big lacerations hope I did good.

“The peace core charity group (American volunteers) I hope you all reach Lusaka safely after this incident.

I’m not a religious man but may God be with you all!”

CHRISTIANS who were petitioning God to intervene in the marriage of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome’s and his wife Anita can as well withdraw their petitions because the reunion may never be possible!
This is because Rev Anita has allegedly remarried while Pastor Chris is also reportedly considering the option of remarrying.
The estranged wife of the founder of Christ Embassy Church seems to have moved on with her life following the 2014 breakup with her husband as there are strong indications that she has remarried.
Rev Anita sparked up marriage rumours recently after she introduced ‘Schafer’ to her maiden name.
She authored her latest article ‘A Simple Prayer’ with the name Anita Ebhodaghe Schafer, on her online Christian portal at www.pastoranita.org.
A Nigerian Newspaper DAILY POST stumbled on the article where it was confirmed she had remarried, as one of the approved comments said, “Congratulations Pastor Anita for your new name.”
Two other comments – “Congratulations Pastor Anita for your new name,” “It was such a beautiful ceremony,” also confirmed that the mother of two has tied the nuptial nuts.
It would be recalled that Rev Anita in 2014 was involved in a messy break up with her husband, Chris, after she claimed he was involved in illicit affairs with female members of the church.
She said she tolerated abuse for so long and subsequently, the ministry pulled down her profile from the church website, a development that showed all was not well with the family.
She had confirmed she was no longer a part of, or involved in, Christ Embassy, also known as, Believers LoveWorld INC.
Rev Anita, however, officially filed for divorce at Central Family Court, High Holborn, London, UK, citing her husband’s “unreasonable behaviour” and inappropriate relationships with members of staff, an intonation of “adultery” as her reason.
There had been many efforts by senior Christian leaders to reconcile the couple but Rev Anita refused.
And quoting some sources within Christ Embassy, the Nigerian media is flooded with news that Pastor Chris is considering remarrying within the first quarter of next year.