Kambwili campaign trail hits snag
NATIONAL Democratic
Congress (NDC) consultant
Chishimba Kambwili and his Thursday team’s hit campaign a snag trail as they on were booed and forced to leave Mansa before proceeding to Mwense where their attempt to disrupt classes at one of the schools to hold a rally were rebuffed by management.
And police yesterday holed out Mr. Kambwili from K-FM radio after he went ballistic while on air and started insulting President
Edgar Lungu, forcing the police to cut short his paid-for interview before taking him to the station for questioning and later released him.
Mr. Kambwili and NDC secretary general Mwenya Musenge made a stop-over in Mansa town after a bus in their convoy developed a fault and he attempted to use the time that the vehicle was being worked on to campaign but his team was ordered to leave Mansa by irate residents.
Luapula Province PF youth chairperson Chilufya Kapondo told the Daily that Mr Kambwili and Mr Musenge attempted to hold a mini-rally at Village Industries as they were waiting for their vehicle to be fixed but the residents ordered them to leave if their plan was to start campaigning. 10:00 was a lage saying and fault. “They part Industries that he and They arrived of will is the the how bring then convoy complex in minibus people Mansa development went developed and around started to which Vil- Mr. Kambwili started campaigning booing to attempted Mr. leave. Kambwili him to and disrupt asked later lessons the allegedly group at one Munwa of the ward schools where in he Mwense’s insisted that that he his was programme supposed to indicated hold a campaign rally at the school but that management told him to look for another place and not its school grounds. “School management told him that he could not hold the rally as pupils were learning and that is how they moved to a place called Katongola. Even there, he did not have an easy meeting as people reminded him that he failed to complete a project to construct Mwense market when his company, Mwamona investment, was awarded the contract and it had to take a Chinese company to complete it.
Meanwhile, a source who was at K-FM yesterday said Mr. Kambwili’s interview was cut short by police officers after he started insulting while on air.
“Police arrived at the station at 11:49 and ordered that the station cut short the interview and started searching for the on air studio. Fearing that officers might break equipment, station management led the police to where the interview was taking place and ordered the immediate stop to the interview. Mr. Kambwili obliged and was taken to police station immediately. He was only released after being questioned by the police command,” a source said.