OUR CADRES WERE ENJOYING WRONG THINGS PF WAS DOING – NKOMBO … and were looking forward towards doing the same wrong things

By Merlyn Mwanza

Local Government minister Garry Nkombo says the UPND had their own cadres who were enjoying the wrong things their fellow PF cadres were doing and were looking forward towards doing the same wrong stuff.

Featuring on a Hot FM radio programme this morning, Nkombo said the UPND cadres were upset that he stood opposed to the wrong things they wanted to do, and the only way they could get back at him was to raise placards asking for his removal.

“We had our own cadres who were enjoying what PF was doing,” Nkombo said, charging that the bus stations were infested with cadres.

He said the other cadres that have been aligned with ruling parties in the past have now mutated into the UPND in order to continue doing the same wrong things they have been accustomed to for years.

Nkombo said there was a situation in this country during the PF administration when cadres controlled the politicians, saying engagements to never allow that to happen must continue, as even they themselves in the UPND were facing resistance from their own members.

But Nkombo said he is equal to the task against UPND cadres calling for his removal, saying he would rather go back to his farm than see a bad thing happening.

Nkombo said his cabinet colleagues at Home Affairs and Transport, Jack Mwiimbu and Frank Tayali and himself must put their act together so that people should operate in designated market areas and bus stations, saying this matter has delayed and it should “not just be Nkombo (doing it) alone…so that if he loses popularity it’s him alone.”

On the mobile money booths which had been removed from the huge segments of town center and other places. Nkombo defended the position taken, adding that the country was coming from a background where systems were broken under the PF administration, saying the PF were actually the ones who used to allocate spaces for mobile booths and were charging K5000 with some of the money going towards the former ruling party secretariat and also some torcher chambers.

“They were financing this state sponsored terrorism,” Nkombo said, and that in times past a cadre could threaten a minister but he was equal to the task.

He said there should not be the issue of gratification that “because you made the most noise you deserve this”, recounting his own past arrest when he was bundled into police cells having been accused of killing someone