PRESS STATEMENT
1 ST OCTOBER 2021
THE CRIMES MILINGO LUNGU COMMITTED AT KCM ARE PF CRIMES
Finally DEC has charged and arrested the KCM provisional Liquidator Mr. Milingo Lungu for allegedly stealing huge sums of money from the unconscious KCM. What the Liquidator allegedly did to KCM is like a Doctor stealing life saving drugs from a very sick patient. Mr Milingo Lungu was appointed Provisional Liquidator of KCM by former President Lungu. Therefore PF was using Milingo Lungu to steal from KCM. We say so because we believe that the former President knew what was going on at KCM long before he even left office through intelligence reports. But since PF was a direct beneficiary from what was happening at KCM they opted to keep quite. While PF and the Liquidator were busy stealing, they decided to ill treat Miners by paying terminal benefits in three piece meals. A very sad development
From the onset we knew that PF was using KCM as a cash cow. When we reminded them about the theft at KCM, they responded with insults. The way KCM assets have been run down it requires very huge investment to turn things around at KCM. There is very little life at KCM and one wonders why Mr. Milingo Lungu cut the KCM copse into two and called them KCM Mining Resources and KCM Smelter. This action was un called for and a waste of resources.
We also demand that the Minister of Labour and Social Security should investigate thoroughly the conduct of the two Union leaders of MUZ and NUMAW. Clearly the two labour leaders abandoned Miners and decided to identify themselves with the liquidator. We are very sure that had the MUZ and NUMAW leaders stood with the Miners at KCM, Miners could have been paid their benefits in full.
Miners were left in the cold by the leadership of MUZ and NUMAW. The relationship that we saw between PF, the two Union Officials and Mr. Lungu raises a lot suspicions. We can reasonably suspect that there could have been an illegality between PF, Mr. Milingo Lungu and the two Union officials. We need answers from the Minister of Labour as to why Miners were treated in such a manner by people who were supposed to protect them.
Percy Chanda
UPND – NMC Member and Chairman for Mines