PF RESORTS TO BRIBES IN LAMBALAND

BY SUFZ CORRESPONDENT

A plot by the Patriotic Front (PF) to win over the Lamba vote has suffered a setback through the airing of a recent episode of the widely watched TV Programme ‘Stand up Zambia’ which showed the PF leader Michael Sata insulting the late President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa.

Sources have revealed that many locals of the Copperbelt rural are incensed with the PF who are attempting to use the influence of the Baptist Church to infiltrate the area.  The PF turned to the church when they saw that they were not making any headway with the chiefs who have openly declared support for RB and the MMD.

Sources further revealed that the PF is busy strategising on how to approach the church because a number of local church leaders are said to be pro-MMD.

The PF wants to lure the Lambas using the church through all sorts of offers including the promise to field Lamba candidates in all the Copperbelt seats.  The Lambas are incensed with the PF which has a habit of using churches as campaign tools.

The PF is targeting the Lamba vote to help to cover up the loss the party has suffered in Luapula due to their blunders over the funeral of former president F.J.T Chiluba.  The one who is heading this campaign is a local businessman who is busy attending funerals and buying coffins.  The named businessman, a Mr. Mwale who runs a lodge has also promised to sponsor an air ticket to enable sick chief travel to Nigeria for prayers in Nigeria in return for his support for the PF.

But the locals are standing together with their chiefs who have endorsed RB and are grateful for the Stand Up for Zambia program for reminding them what sort of man Sata really is.  The Copperbelt vote has become an important factor ever since the late levy Patrick Mwanawasa become president.  He was born of a Lenje father and a Lamba mother.  But Levy was widely accepted as a Lamba because he grew up on the Copperbelt and spoke Lamba most of the time.