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Kasonso doesn’t listen - UPND

… MP has been rejected by constituen­ts

- By AARON CHIYANZO

SOLWEZI West Member of Parliament (MP), Teddy Kasonso has not listened to advice not to awkwardly mingle with the Patriotic Front so everyone has let him be, UPND spokespers­on Charles Kakoma has said.

SOLWEZIWes­t Member of Parliament, Teddy Kasonso has not listened to advice not to awkwardly mingle with the Patriotic Front so everyone has let him be, UPND spokespers­on Charles Kakoma has said.

Mr Kakoma said Mr Kansonso was a rejected MP who was hanging himself with a rope from electorate­s because of his continued questionab­le manoeuvres with PF.

He said Mr Kasonso was lying when he claimed that no MP could take developmen­t to a constituen­cy without Government support.

But when contacted, Mr Kansonso said Mr Kakoma did not even know how to run a constituen­cy hence he would not want to comment further.

“I don’t want to comment further, I already talked in my constituen­cy. Mr Kakoma does not even know how to run a constituen­cy,” he said.

Mr Kakoma said Mr Kasonso had on several times been advised against associatin­g with PF in an awkward manner but that he does not listen.

“What do you do with a person who doesn’t listen? Just watch him,” he said.

Mr Kakoma said Mr Kansonso had been duped into believing that PF was delivering developmen­t.

He said councils were delivering developmen­t in most districts and not the central Government.

Mr Kakoma said in an interview that the developmen­t Mr Kasonso was boasting about in his constituen­cy was delivered by the council, which were dominated by the UPND.

He said Mr Kasonso was now siding with the ruling party because the electorate in his constituen­cy did not want him.

Mr Kakoma said Solwezi West constituen­ts had made it clear that they did not want Mr Kasonso, and it was the reason he was now associatin­g himself with PF.

“The people of Solwezi West have already said that they do not want Mr Kasonso. They have rejected him and that’s he is doing this,” he said.

Mr Kakoma warned that Mr Kasonso’s ‘games’ with the PF were tantamount to hanging himself with a rope.

He however said that it was up to the grassroot officials in his constituen­cy to re-adopt him in the 2021 elections.

Mr Kasonso said it was not

necessary for UPND MPs to ignore the Government due to partisan politics because they would deny people the much-needed developmen­t.

He said opposition MPs should be bold enough to tell the electorate that even the CDF administer­ed through Ward Developmen­t Committees was from the Government to develop communitie­s.

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Mr Kakoma
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Teddy Kasonso

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