Council chairpersons, mayors axed from Kuomboka
GOVERNMENT has banned all council chairperson and Mayors from attending the Kuomboka ceremony at taxpayers expense, Southern province minister Cornelius Mweetwa, has announced.
Mr Mweetwa, who is also UPND spokesperson, said that the ministry of Local Government had banned the Council chairpersons and mayors from travelling to Kuomboka at government expense because people from the councils all over the country were applying to go for Kuomboka on government ticket.
He said that the UPND government was putting in measures to restrain public workers from wasting taxpayers’ money from unnecessary travels that do not benefit the people of Zambia.
Mr Mweetwa said that President Hakainde Hichilema would not allow wastage of public resources and that was the reason why until today, UPND ministers were still using second hand vehicles that were left by the Patriotic
Front ministers.
“No minister is using a new car,” he said.
Meanwhile, he also said that claims being made by the Socialist Party president, Dr. Fred M’membe that UPND was using government vehicles to campaign in the Lukutu ward by-election was just mere propaganda which should be dismissed with the contempt it deserved.
Mr Mweetwa said that there was no way a political club like UPND could be using government vehicles to campaign under Mr Hichilema’s watch.
He said that UPND has never used any government resources to campaign in any by-election that had been held in the country so far.
Mr Mweetwa said that the Socialist Party should concentrate on selling their ideas to the people of Lukutu rather than spreading unfounded allegations.
He said that politics was a game of ideas and if the Socialist Party wanted to gain popularity they should sell their ideas to the people rather than fighting government.
Mr Mweetwa said that the UPND government was sacrificing a lot to better the lives of the Zambian people and that was the reason why they had done away with all luxury.
He said that people should pay particular attention to how many government officials will be at the Kuomboka ceremony today and realize that only a few people came, a thing that was not happening in the past.