MP CAUTIONS ELECTORATE AGAINST ‘DECEPTIVE’ CANDIDATES

THE electorate must be careful with promises coming from some aspiring candidates or else they will be misled into voting for non-performing representatives, Nkana MP Alexander Chiteme has warned.

He said the electorate must be careful because some people who had failed to provide leadership when they were in Government, were busy making unattainable promises in constituencies.

Mr Chiteme, who is National Development Planning Minister, was speaking in Kitwe when he handed over 30 desks worth more than K30, 000 to Luyando Community School in Mindolo ward.

“People are coming here to tell you all sorts of things, but you must be careful or else you will be misled by those who have failed to deliver or provide quality leadership when they were given Government jobs. They are telling you lies.

“The machines which came to work on roads here are my machines and I have given you empowerment in form of money, chicken-rearing projects which your leadership has squandered. Even cement, roofing sheets and blocks have gone missing. So it is not my problem that you have a community leadership which steals from you,” Mr Chiteme said.

Mr Chiteme said the community had let him down and he was disappointed that despite putting up a lot of efforts to empower members, they had allowed their community leaders to steal from them.

He said he expected the Luyando community to become aggressive and deal firmly with their leadership which was stealing from them whenever he tried to empower them.

“I have been letdown and I am disappointed that as MP, my efforts to empower you have gone in vain. I brought you cement, blocks and roofing sheets, but they were stolen. I brought chicks for the chicken-rearing project but all what I bought was stolen by your community leaders,” he said

Mr Chiteme said he would buy books, uniforms and pay school fees for the vulnerable children at Luyando Community School because unlike handouts, education would empower every child in the community.

He was accompanied by Kitwe District Commissioner, Chileshe Bweupe, District Education Board Secretary, Chrispin Nyungila, and other officials.

Government, he said, would always work hard to ensure that children access education in various parts of the country

“An educated and health population is a productive population and this is why Government decided that this school should be given a centre number, allowing the children to sit for examinations at the same school as opposed to walking to other schools,” he added.