Dear editor,
I write to you to expose former president Rupiah Banda’s schemes. I am inside Rupiah’s camp but cannot reveal my true identity. I believed and trusted in the man until recently when I discovered that he received large sums of money to aid his attempted comeback campaign from dubious businessmen in several countries like South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Angola and Malawi.
Rupiah assured his donors that he was very popular and would easily get MMD president Nevers Mumba to step aside for him to be the MMD presidential candidate. But Mumba has proved to be difficult to remove and Banda has been under tremendous pressure to show results to his corrupt paymasters to whom he has auctioned the country. I don’t want Zambia to become a mafia state under the control of corrupt foreigners and this is what has motivated me to speak out.
This is why Rupiah is trying to force matters. He is making lots of desperate moves to remove Nevers. He has dished out a lot of brown envelopes to some known NEC members, hired cadres, chiefs have refused to support him and he was the one who hired the cadres who stormed the MMD Secretariat on Sunday.
He declared on Monday that the MMD has adopted him as their presidential candidate based on a fake vote by 23 MPs imagined by Rupiah and his team. This is a big blue lie. No one even knows who conducted that illegal vote. Nevers called a general meeting with MPs and they left to pave way for the NEC meeting. These MPs are not part of NEC and were not available when the NEC meeting started.
What is worrying so much is the tendencies of Rupiah not wanting to concede defeat. you would not blame anyone for believing the rumours that he refused to hand over power to Sata when he was beaten pants down.
There a lot of turncoats up for sale to the highest bidder. Rupiah doesn’t have genuine committed people. His supporters just want to eat his money. As soon as he loses the fight with Nevers, they shall dump him like a rock, if Rupiah ever took over the MMD and was beaten again he will damp the party second time.
From reader.