North-western Province Minister, Robert Lihefu has called on all political players in the Kaminzekenzeke Ward by-election to be peaceful and avoid violence as they seek to win the polls slated for July 12, 2024.
Speaking in an interview with ZANIS during the recent nominations in Mufumbwe’s Kaminzekenzeke Ward, Mr Lihefu said that the people must remain as one, regardless of their political affiliation during and after the by-election.
“I must be quick to mention that people of Kaminzekenzeke let’s be one regardless of the party where you belong,” he said.
The Provincial Minister who was in the Ward to drum-up support for the United Party for National Development (UPND) candidate has since appealed to the people of Kaminzekenzeke to vote for the UPND candidate, Fred Kabiki for continuity in the delivery of development in the ward.
He said the government led by President Hakainde Hichilema intends to develop Mufumbwe’s Kaminzekenzeke Ward adding that this is why the area has continued being a beneficiary of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) hence infrastructural development among many other things in the ward.
“People of Kaminzekenzeke let us vote for UPND in this by-election so that we continue on our developmental agenda in this ward.
Our President, Mr Hichilema is doing so many things in this ward using the CDF and that is why we have these schools and the clinics as well as the loans and grants that you people have benefited from this government,” he said.
And Mufumbwe Constituency Member of Parliament, Eliot Kamondo said Kaminzekenzeke Ward is poised for more development in 2024 such as more cooperatives and clubs benefiting from the CDF as well as the completion of Kyasalaula Primary and Shongwa health Centre projects that are nearing completion.
“As Mufumbwe Constituency we are yet to see more development for our people this year in Kaminzekenzeke apart from the Kyasalaula school and Shongwa health Centre which are almost complete and then we commission them,” he said.
Kaminzenzeke will go to the polls on July 12th , 2024 following a vacancy necessitated by the resignation of the incumbent Councillor, Dainos Mutukwa who has been employed in the Ministry of Education.
Four candidates have filed in their nominations and these include; Pelama Lainess, contesting on the United Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) ticket and Fred Kabiki who is contesting on the United Party for National Development (UPND) ticket.
Other candidates are Mary Chimba contesting on Socialist Party ticket and Joseph Mpondela on the Patriotic Front (PF) ticket.
