Kaziya eyes PF Lusaka top post
By NATION REPORTER FORMER Water Development, Sanitation and Environmental Protection Minister, Lloyd Kaziya has set his eyes on the Patriotic Front (PF) Lusaka Provincial Chairmanship when the region holds its intra-party elections on June 30, 2018. And Mr Kaziya who is PF Matero law maker has charged that some people within PF were threatened by his intention to contest the Lusaka provincial chairmanship hence they are accusing him and others of having had clandestine meetings aimed at sabotaging the ongoing intra party elections. In an interview with the Daily Nation yesterday, Mr Kaziya who confirmed his intention to contest the Provincial Chairmanship rubbished claims that he together with other PF officials were having dark corner meetings’ aimed at imposing their preferred candidates in the ongoing intra party elections. Mr Kaziya was reacting to irate PF members who on Monday stormed the party secretariat to present a petition against him, some cabinet ministers and other members of Parliament who they accused of holding dark corner meetings aimed at imposing their preferred candidates in the ongoing intra party elections. Mr Kaziya said it was annoying that some people within the party were trying to scandalise him and others for merely showing interest in running for certain positions in the planned party elections. “If people are threatened by our vying for certain positions, it’s a wrong way of doing things. Let them just campaign, I’m going for provincial chairmanship and for people to bring in dirty politics, it’s very annoying for people to come up with innuendos that they cannot prove, I mean it’s not right,” Mr Kaziya said. Meanwhile Mr Kaziya disclosed that contrary to insinuation, he together with five others met at the Justice Minister, Given Lubinda’s house to discuss private matters on how to collaborate as MPs for the betterment of the party. “Yes we met, but it was purely private and whatever we deliberated, I don’t think anyone of us can sink so low to disclose what we discussed because it concerns no body as it was a private meeting. We were six of us and that was a private arrangement where we went to refresh. “We are adults who have the party at heart and would not undermine anybody. Whatever we discussed was purely private. What we said is that we must be meeting as leaders regularly,” he said. Mr Kaziya added, “And I don’t see any offence in us meeting and discussing the way forward on how we should actually put the party forward. So I don’t think that it is right that anybody should start putting words in our mouths.”