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President Sata Refuses to Commission Mongu Stadium
PRESIDENT Michael Sata yesterday morning refused to symbolically perform the ground breaking ceremony at the site where the ultra modern stadium in Mongu is to be constructed.
Mr Sata boycotted to ‘break the ground’ because there was no mattock which he should have used to perform the symbolic activity.
He left the site where the stadium would be constructed, saying there was no way he could commission the construction exercise when things were not ready.
“You, there is nothing here. Why call me here when things are not ready,” he asked before walking to his official vehicle and left for the airport to depart for Shangombo where he was to officially commission the newly built district hospital.
The President is also scheduled to carry out a ground breaking exercise for a sanitation project under Western Water and Sewerage Company in Nalolo district, a few kilometres from Mongu district.
The President spent less than half an hour at the construction site but managed to plant a tree at the same place together with a few ministers and a Barotse Royal Establishment (BRE) representative.
He did not even unveil the plaque with inscriptions about him launching the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of the stadium.
Mr Sata arrived at Mongu airport at 10:30 hours and went to the construction site, which he left slightly after 11:00 hours.
He was accompanied by Minister of Commerce, Emmanuel Chenda, Minister of Health Joseph Kasonde and Minister of Community Development, Mother and Child Health, Joseph Katema and senior government officials.
The President was welcomed at the airport by Western Province Minister, Obvious Mwaliteta, his Permanent Secretary, Emmanuel Mwamba, Gender Minister Inonge Wina, Acting Ngambela, Godfrey Siisi and other senior government officials.
At the construction site, President Sata was welcomed by Minister of Sport, Chishimba Kambwili, Transports, Works, Supply and Communications Minister, Christopher Yaluma and AVIC officials whose company has been contracted to construct the stadium.
It is not yet clear how soon the president would return to Mongu to commission the stadium construction project.
Source: Mwebantu Media
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kakolwe
April 21, 2013 at 9:53 am
Honestly, how did his clowns expect him to break the ground without tools? You people, yo man doesnt like “make-believe”
CACINE
April 21, 2013 at 10:22 am
Rupiah used to commission even the unfinnished toilets in Wusakile Kitwe and where ever he heard that there was something to commission, he would rush there but that is not the case with this our hard working president. He is in a hurry to see things moving not this culture of talking that we have been subjected to by this and the previous Ministers. You are a great leader Mr. President. Thumbs up.
mainza
April 21, 2013 at 10:55 am
From what I read seems the Presidential trip did not yield intended results. Sadly even Veep Kuomboka was speech was a fairlure. How much of Tax payers money was misused. Plundering is in many forms.
ben2020
April 21, 2013 at 5:09 pm
You mainza uli chipuba sana.
Mtendere
April 21, 2013 at 7:16 pm
But kwena abena Zambia!! You invite someone to break ground without the tools! Kikikikikikiki! May be they thought Sata was a Superman who could just use his Karate Chop Kikikikikiki again
kwasha mukwenu
April 22, 2013 at 2:28 am
Iye! He used frontend loader to break the ground! Tamwamwene!
Genaro the Analyst
April 22, 2013 at 6:42 am
thats why i ve refused to commision Tumfweko due to lack of ground breaking News- otherwise Mr Sata did the right thing, he shouldnt even have planted those trees-Tufweko Bloggers Chairman. Analyze
sad face
April 22, 2013 at 8:12 am
Seeing is believing…. Nice 1 for the 0ld fella
Zambian
April 22, 2013 at 10:43 am
FAILED STATE.. So imbalancing!
mwansa mundia
April 22, 2013 at 11:07 am
if sata thinks he is going to use the lozis for the next elections to gain his party in government in 2016 then he is cheating himself, am half bemba half lozi, but am more lozi than bemba, sa ta should think (Bana bali poho zensu kiba kubapalisa cwalo) this time it will be zero opption.
LET PIPO TALK
April 22, 2013 at 3:31 pm
Think before you write, Since when did you vote for him. Is he not the President? Ask yourself wechipuba.
Tax Payer
April 22, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Having a market place at a distance… does not mean you shoud start feeding from a latrine, Nice show mudala….ppo shoud be serious, be it a share waste of tax payers money (for unfruitful trip), how possible can someone break the ground without a tool?
Tax Payer
April 22, 2013 at 12:07 pm
@ Mwansa I respect your opinion.
But remember, not all lozis think like you do.
Tax Payer
April 22, 2013 at 12:10 pm
@ mainza, who is to be blamed for the unfruitful trip?
@least he even planted a tree.
mali
April 23, 2013 at 12:08 pm
@LET PIPO TALK
GET OUT, U THINK YOU CAN VOTE FOR HIM ALONE, SATANYOKO, DID THE PERSON U INSULTED, INSULTED YOU, ATASE YOU FOOL. AND ARE U SATA’S RELATION? CHECK CHIRWAS PERKS, AND MINISTERS HOUSING ALLOWANCES.