Miles is ungrateful, PF salvaged him from poverty – Mutale
By Kombe Chimpinde Mataka
CHITAMBO PF member of parliament Remember Mutale says Miles Sampa should return the money given to him by the party if he withdraws as surety for bail in a matter where party vice-president Given Lubinda is facing corruption charges.
Mutale told The Mast in an interview that the announcement by Sampa that he would withdraw his surety from Lubinda was nonsensical.
He said Sampa was ungrateful to the party that salvaged him from poverty.
“I was part of the people that managed to salvage him from poverty. If you recall he went against the same PF and became a small president against a big crowd and he was calling himself Icipyango (broom) so on and so on. Then the man became poverty stricken. There is some English word called beleaguered. We said ‘he is our brother’ and we made him become a manager of council (mayor of Lusaka). If I were him I cannot even accept that position because he was deputy minister of finance. He was member of parliament. He stooped so low to accept a position which I cannot accept, of a mayor after being a presidential candidate. That should tell you a story of that person today,” Mutale said. “When he writes to Lubinda and says ‘ I am going to get back my surety’, I fear for that because even us who gave him money for him to be a surety, we shall also demand for our money from him. That is how cheap he is. For him to offer himself as Lubinda’s surety, he demanded for money.”
Mutale said there were a number of people that would have offered themselves as surety within the party.
“We shall also go and say, give us back. The sooner he does that the better. We contributed money for him to do that. Can you imagine that is how bad this so-called presidential candidate is? So my challenge is let him go ahead so that we can also have our money which we contributed handsomely,” said Mutale. “We were ready to offer ourselves but he demanded ‘let me do it but just orgnanise me something’. You cannot bite the finger that feeds you. He went to court and said ‘this man (Lubinda) does not hold these powers but again at the same time he is calling himself a member of the PF central committee appointed by the same man who he is saying does not have power.”
Last Thursday, Sampa said he had informed Lubinda that he was withdrawing his surety in a matter where the ACC arrested Lubinda for being in possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime.
“My friend honourable Lubinda and colleague, former acting president, it turns out now we have conflict of interest. There is a court case where I am a plaintiff, he is the defendant. On one of his cases, I was a surety so I would like to remind him that in the next 48 hours I am withdrawing my surety from him. When he needed the surety all those ba [Mr Nickson] Chilangwa, [Stephen] Kampyongo, [Remember] Mutale were running away. We were telling them ‘get introduction letters from parliament so you can go and bail honourable Lubinda’. They were all doing this ‘me’. I bailed him together with honourable Kalima,” said Sampa. “Even yesterday [Wednesday], [Chishimba] Kambwili needed his sureties, the other MPs run away. Me I am ever available to help because they are my brothers. I am not interested in their cases with police but I always help. So honourable Lubinda I am withdrawing my surety. Please find somebody tomorrow to replace me, those that you trust.