Mutotwe Kafwaya canes Zambia’s antagonistic former Ministers

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By Caesar Edward Sindele

TRANSPORT and Communications Minister Mutotwe Kafwaya says it is strange for former ministers who served in the PF government to attack the ruling party today when they did nothing sensible during their time in office.

And Mr. Kafwaya, a PF Lunte Member of Parliament (MP) in the Northern Province is confident that the people of Zambia will vote for the Patriotic Front (PF) on Thursday 12th August 2021 because the party has transformed the Zambia in terms of road infrastructure.

Meanwhile, Kafwaya, says he will support all progressive articles in Bill 10, including the delimitation of Constituencies.

Speaking when he appeared on a Pan African Radio  96.1FM News Feedback programme, Sunday, 26th January 2020, anchored by Hermit Hachilonde, Kafwaya charged that the former ministers did nothing to improve the status of people but stole from the Zambian electorate.

“There are a lot of colleagues who were ministers, when they were ministers, they could not do sensible things but today, they are saying they want to be Republican President’s so that they can help the Zambian people. How are you going to help the Zambian people just because you are a Head of State? When you were given a role as a minister, you did nothing. In fact, when we remind you that even initiated and spearheaded the mining you did in Lower Zambezi, you start running away saying no it is a collective Cabinet decision,” Kafwaya said.

“When we ask you how Cabinet can approve a policy which is not sponsored by a minister, you cannot answer the question. You are given a good chance to help the Zambian people, you steal their cash as taxpayers. Up to today, people are suffering, people are dying, you cannot even have the remorse that ‘now that I want to be a leader, let me show some leadership, I go back to these people and say when I was given a chance to run this, and that portfolio, I mismanaged it, let me pay back’. But all you are saying is when we become leaders, we are going to do the right thing.”

A tart Kafwaya said unlike President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, who had left a legacy in Chawama Constituency, both as an MP and Home Affairs Minister, the former ministers had not done anything to write home about.

“When founding PF leader, the late Michael Chilufya Sata used to campaign, he bragged of having built the ZESCO flyover bridge, Intercity Bus Terminus, bank houses in Emmasdale, so what do you have to say? President Lungu left a legacy in Chawama, when he was an MP. This is why President Michael Chilufya Sata before he died on Tuesday 28th October 2014, he gave him (ECL) all the key positions in the party and Government,” recollected Kafwaya.

President Lungu, now Dr. Lungu, bestowed by the University of Zambia, alongside Zimbabwean President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, served as PF Secretary General, Justice Minister at the time he was Home Affairs Minister as well as acting as Republican President each time Sata was out of the country.

Sata’s right hand man Dr. Guy Lindsay Scott, then served as as Vice President, while Rainbow Party (RP) Secretary General and 2021 Presidential Aspirant Wynter Kabimba was Justice Minister, and PF Secretary General.

And Kafwaya bragged that the PF had transformed roads in Zambia.

“When you see the feeder roads countrywide that President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s government is doing across the constituencies, in Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Muchinga, Northern, FASHBACKNorth-Western, Southern and Western provinces, ECL is trying to help the diversification of agriculture. Because President Edgar Chagwa Lungu knows very well that agriculture takes place in the rural areas and so for inputs to be able to be delivered on time and to facilitate easier marketing, feeder roads need to be done. This is why you are seeing all these things. The reason why you are seeing these beautiful roads being done, it is to facilitate for tourism because President Lungu, in line with what you see in that book, he wants to make it easy for tourism to thrive. Because tourism can help to change Zambia,” Kafwaya said.

“So clearly, the Zambian people as far I see it, they are going to judge Dr. Lungu not based on social media, not based on hatred, not based on all the ill feelings that you see, they will judge him based on his focus upon the Zambian people. When I win an election [for instance], Lunte people are going to decide based on what they perceive I have been able to do for them as their area Member of Parliament and to some degree when I was given responsibility to run the two important portfolios; the Ministry of Works and Supply and now the Ministry of Transport and Communications,” boasted Kafwaya.

Kafwaya said President Lungu had not failed to run the country.

“You cannot say ba President ba kangiwa (the President has failed). It is the same President who has changed Mwanawasa Hospital, it is the same President who has built all these roads, it is the same president who is constructing these towers, it is the same Head of State, who is enabling the environment. No, there is no resigning, we are going to the polls in 2021.What you must tell your United Party for National Development (UPND) colleagues is that they should sell their manifesto. In fact, last time I was saying this UPND group is a joker I challenged them here to produce their manifesto but what they produced is not a manifesto,” he said.

Meanwhile, Kafwaya said he would support all progressive articles in Bill 10, including the delimitation of Constituencies.

“Bill 10 is certainly not up to me as a Minister of Transport and Communications and Member of Parliament for Lunte. For me, in Bill 10, I will be projecting my thoughts, I will be projecting the thoughts of People in Lunte and other Zambians, so I will be supporting all progressive articles in Bill 10 including the delimitation of constituencies because I want Lunte to be cut in between so that I can have manageable wards in Lunte District. If I have a chance of being re-elected or those who will come in future, when there are two constituencies there, the distance will be easier to cover and Constituency Development Fund (CDF) will cover many more projects in a smaller constituency, so this is what I will be looking forward to and I will be looking forward to all those contentious clauses, which both UPND and PF don’t want to be amended out of Bill 10,” said Kafwaya. source news diggers.

The UPND is led by entreprenuer turned-politician Hakainde Hichilema, while President Lungu is deputised by Vice President, Ms. Inonge Mutukwa-Wina.

Lunte District was established on 17th March 2017 under Statutory Instrument No. 24 of 2017 of the Local Government Act, Volume 161 Cap 281 of the Laws of Zambia. Lunte District is a district of Northern Province, Zambia.^[1][2] It was separated from Mporokoso District in 2017 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mporokoso_District)
Lunte district is 160 kilometres from Kasama, the provincial headquarters of Northern Province and 1050 kilometres from Lusaka the capital city of Zambia.

The district shares boundaries with Mpulungu in the North, Kasama to the west, Mbala to the East, Luwingu to the South and Mporokoso to the Northwest. It covers an area of approximately 8, 028 square kilometres
Lunte district lies between longitudes 29o 20’ and 31o08’ East of Universal Meridian 0o or Greenwich Meridian or Longitude Zero degree, and between latitudes 09o08’ and 10o16’ South of Latitude 0o or Equator. It lies between altitude 1300 meters and 1500 meters above sea level. The district receives an average annual rainfall of 1500mm with maximum temperatures varying between 30o C and 35oC. The rainy season extends from October to April/May the following year.
Hydrological and Water Resources
The District has several rivers and streams that are perennial in nature. Notable big rivers are Luangwa, Kalungwishi, Lukulu, Lupansa and Lufubu.
The district also has a number of waterfalls namely Chilambwe, Pule Walupansa, Pule Waluangwa, Chitende and Chisulwa waterfalls. The waterfalls have great potential in tourism.
Demography
Lunte District has a total population of 57, 839 of which 49.9% are males and 50.1% female. The annual population growth is 2.9% with the population density of 8.2 people per square kilometre.
Governance System
The district has only one (1) constituency divided into twelve (12) wards.
Economic sectors
Agriculture
Lunte is predominantly an agricultural district and the main crops grown are maize, beans, cassava and finger millet.
Livestock
Lunte District also has great potential in ranching due to availability of vast grazing land. The district has a breeding centre (Kalungwishi Breeding Centre) which has been stocked with Boran breed of cattle. The ranch is still multiplying and in the foreseeable future will provide good quality breeds to farmers in the Province and Nationwide. The ministry has intensions of introducing goats to the centre for multiplication in efforts to meet the export demands good quality breeds to farmers in the Province and Nationwide.