ALLAFRICA

MORE than 250 Patriotic Front (PF) members in Mandevu Constituency yesterday defected to the ruling MMD.

The defectors said they did not see any progressive ideas in the PF.

MMD Lusaka Province chairperson William Banda welcomed the defectors and said his

programme to destroy the PF and United Party for National Development (UPND) in the province was working well.

Mr Banda said people of Mandevu Constituency had wasted a lot of time by voting for the PF Member of Parliament (MP) Jean Kapata because she had not done anything.

He said that Ms Kapata had failed to deliver any development because the people of Mandevu still wanted clean water, good housing and a good road network.

"I challenge Ms Kapata to say what she has done for this constituency because all what I see here is what we did in the UNIP era when I was youth secretary," he said.

He would like Ms Kapata to share a platform with him where she could explain what she had done in Mandevu, in the council and in Parliament.

The PF/UPND pact was panicking and that Mandevu Constituency would from next year have a good MP from the MMD.

He said PF leader Michael Sata and his UPND partner Hakainde Hichilema were fake presidents while president Banda was working for the people of Zambia.

He said the two would never rule the country and that he would continue going where they thought he could not go.

Mr Banda would not stop talking and Ms Kapata should not say that he should be arrested because as far as he was concerned he had not committed any offence.

He said PF spokesperson Given Lubinda was not a clean man and challenged him to state what he had done at a house near the Lusaka International Airport and explain about the money he received on behalf of a football team in Chilenje Township.

Mr Banda said even the PF leader, Mr Sata should explain how much he paid for his house in Rhodespark instead of defending his secretary general Wynter Kabimba.

He warned that he was capable of reacting if the PF/UPND pact transported cadres to Milanzi and Mufumbwe by-elections.

He further clarified that there were no MMD members involved in the selling of illegal plots in Lusaka.

He would ensure that all those involved were sent to prison