Kitwe PF executive under fire

PATRIOTIC Front (PF) members in Kitwe including councillors and constituency leaders have called for the dissolution of the district executive committee led by Evaristo Chilufya for alleged incompetence.

Members are incensed that the executive has been struggling to raise funds to buy property to be used as an office.

But Mr Chilufya said his executive was in the process of raising money to buy a house, which would be used as the PF district office.

The calls to have the district executive dissolved arose from the committee's failure to raise K700,000 to purchase the house in Nkana West residential area to be used as an office The party officials, who separately spoke on grounds of anonymity, told the Daily Nation that the Chilufya led executive was incapable of providing inspirational leadership hence the need to dissolve it.

"The only way to sort out the mess at the Kitwe District PF is to dissolve the current executive led by Mr Chilufya and replace it withnan interim executive which will be vibrant and able to solve its own problems.

"That executive has failed to raise money because nobody has confidence and trust in it. No PF sympathizer or businessman was willing to contribute money to Mr Chilufya and his executive,'' a PF official said.

But Mr Chilufya said his team needed some time to raise money to purchase property and parried accusation against his executive.

Mr Chilufya did not however elaborate how money would be raised and did not also five a time-frame.