YOU CAN’T COMPARE UPND’S TOILET PROJECT TO PF’S TRASFORMATION PROJECTS, MUNDUBILE TELLS MILUPI.

…Accuses UPND Govt. of corruption and mismanagement

Lusaka – Friday, November 15, 2024 (Smart Eagles)

Mporokoso Member of Parliament Hon Brian Mundubile has challenged Infrastructure and Urban Development Minister Hon Charles Milupi to level at a single infrastructure venture that has been applied underneath the UPND authorities within the final three years that they’ve been in energy.

Hon Mundubile says underneath Hon Milupi’s supervision as minister, just some 1 x 3 classroom blocks in constituencies and plenty of bogs that have been not too long ago commissioned by the President in Kwacha may be counted.

He says that is on the backdrop of the truth that the nationwide budgets which were handed by Parliament underneath the UPND have all the time been above K170-billion kwacha whereas throughout PF the best was K120-billion.

Reacting to Hon Milupi’s assertions that the Zambians can by no means vote the Patriotic Front again into workplace, Hon Mundubile reminded the Infrastructure Minister that in the course of the PF, the infrastructure improvement applied underneath President Edgar Chagwa Lungu stay unprecedented.

The Mporokoso lawmaker has cited the varied world class commonplace airports in Lusaka, Ndola, Livingstone, flyover bridges, quite a few well being posts and over 2,000 communication towers amongst a few of the notable infrastructure which have remained unmatched in Zambia’s historical past.

“The comparison between themselves as UPND and us as PF in infrastructure development would be the Lusaka International Airport versus a toilet in Kwacha Constituency which was commissioned under the supervision of Hon Milupi as Minister of Infrastructure and Urban Development,” Hon Mundubile mentioned in the course of the weekly media briefing by PF lawmakers immediately.

And the Mporokoso lawmaker has accused the UPND authorities of failing farmers, pointing to a pointy decline in agricultural manufacturing from over 3.6 million tons underneath the PF to 1.5 million tons underneath the UPND.

He argues that the present authorities’s dealing with of enter distribution and response to drought has left farmers with fewer assets, making them extra prone to vote for the PF within the upcoming elections.

“The excuse of drought is a lame one because if we had a serious government, they could have doubled or quadrupled the distribution of inputs in the northern regions and we would have maintained our production at over 3 million tons,” the lawmaker mentioned.

So should you ask the farmers to decide on immediately between a authorities that was giving them six luggage per individual to a authorities that’s giving them fertiliser in medas, widespread sense will inform you whom they’d select,” he added.

Hon Mundubile recollects that in 2015 underneath the PF rule, Zambia skilled a drought however the PF was in a position to hearken to specialists’ recommendation to begin just a few hours of load shedding with a view to preserve the water within the main dams that produce energy and the nation was in a position to undergo the drought section with minimal load shedding.

“But for UPND with their excitement to sell everything they find along the way, they have been exporting power without regard for the people despite the advance warnings we and the experts gave them,” he mentioned.

Meanwhile, Hon Mundubile has accused the UPND authorities of widespread corruption, pointing to the controversial handover of the Mopani Copper Mine and the dearth of transparency surrounding state property, a scenario which is undermining public belief.

He has referred to as out the UPND authorities for its financial mismanagement, highlighting the nation’s request for a $1.3 billion IMF mortgage amid allegations of corruption and misappropriation of state funds value billions of {dollars} but the President and state establishments aren’t excited in regards to the alleged corruption inside the authorities however that of the previous ruling celebration.

Hon Mundubile has since raised alarm over the UPND’s rising urge for food for state property, accusing key officers like Minister Milupi of participating in questionable offers that profit their political allies.
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