SP ACCUSE ELVIS NKANDU OF ENGAGING IN ELECTORAL MALPRACTICES
….says he will be prosecuted for all these crímes when UPND leaves office in 2026
Kawambwa… Friday, October 25, 2024
The opposition Socialist Party (SP) has accused Sports Minister Elvis Nkandu of engaging in electoral malpractices during by-elections since 2021 when the UPND came into office.
The opposition political party says Mr Nkandu should not think he will get away with these crímes he is committing now.
SP Chief Presidential Advisor Brian Hapunda says even the District Commissioners who are being used during these by-elections, will account for these crímes after the 2026 polls.
“Mr Elvis Nkandu has engaged in many electoral malpractices since 2021 when the UPND came into power. And he thinks he can get away with it! Today he is known as honorable “Tantameni” and he knows very well that what he is doing now is very wrong. He is using District Commissioners in by-elections by removing number plates, disguising them as private vehicles when they are government vehicles. He has engaged in many several electoral malpractices, and because he has done it for a long period of time, he thinks it is normal. Yes there maybe impunity today, but he will be prosecuted for all these crímes when UPND leaves office in 2026,” said Mr Hapunda.
“The people he is sending, we are in touch with them. The same people he is sending today, will be the same people who will be testifying against him. He shouldn’t think he will get away with it. But this is not new with Mr Nkandu! He was notorious under the MMD, to a point where when Mr Michael Sata won the elections, Elvis Nkandu had to leave the country. He fled the country, he had to come back when the dust had settled. And we thought he had leant something from that, but he has continued.”
He further warned the DCs who are using government vehicles during campaigns by removing number plates saying they shouldn’t cry foul when they are followed after 2026.
“As for the DCs who are allowing themselves to be used as election cadres during by-elections, they should not cry foul at the end of this term when they will be chased like dogs. They are civil servants. If they are UPND cadres, they should be paid by the UPND party, but if they are working for the people of Zambia, they will have to be paid using tax payers’ money. And we know which DCs are participating in by-elections and they shouldn’t think they will get away with it. We are restraining our people from going for them because we are not lawless,” he concluded.