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Edwin Lifwekelo joins UPND

Forum for Leadership Search Director Edwin Lifwekelo has joined the opposition UPND. Lifwekelo formally joined UPND Tuesday afternoon. Lifwekelo is the founding Secretary General of the ruling Party, the Patritioc Front. He is the one who registered it.

In the current case of the three suspended judges, it is Mr. Sata who is protecting his rich friends, Mutembo Nchito and Fred Membe from paying back the poor tax payers money of over K14 billion kwacha owed to Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ). It must be stated that failure to pay back a loan from a public institution amounts to abuse of public funds and is a special form of corruption.

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By Edwin Sakala In countries where the rule of laws counts, President Michael Sata should have volunteered to resign his position as president of the republic of Zambia. This follows a series of scandals that have rocked this country in his seven months in power. The scandals we have witnessed in the recent past have [...]

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Minister of Information, Broadcasting and Labour Fackson Shamenda is in China to learn the technical and financial capabilities of the Huawei technologies Zambia Company limited and the ZTE Corporation to execute the digital terrestrial television migration project for Zambia. Mr Shamenda is also expected to visit some Chinese television stations to learn the operation and management experience of the Huawei Technologies [...]

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A civil servant in Kasama has been sentenced to three (3) months imprisonment with hard labour by the Magistrate Court for defaming Republican President Michael Sata. Kasama District Culture Officer Patrick Mubanga, 38, of ZAMTEL Compound was found guilty of the offence by Magistrate Monica Mwamulima when he appeared for judgement yesterday. Facts before the court were [...]

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President Michael Sata has given a seven-day ultimatum to Robert Amsterdam, the lawyer representing former president Rupiah Banda’s son, Henry, to retract what he considers a defamatory media statement or face legal action. Speaking through his lawyer, Bonaventure Mutale, the President has extended the ultimatum to the Daily Nation newspaper and is also demanding K500 [...]

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By Mike Lungu William Banda has joined the United Party for National Development (UPND), as a matter of his constitutional and human right, and above all on his own volition. From our own stand point, there seems to have been no “stick or carrot” approach used against him to join the UPND. What is perhaps [...]

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Home Affairs minister Kennedy Sakeni’s first wife has been found dead in her home in Mansa. According to her relatives, Priscilla Mumba died Monday evening at home after being ill for some time. Sakeni and the same woman lost their two sons late last year. The first son, a teacher by profession, is believed to [...]

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