MWALITETA CLARIFIES UPND BRANCHES’ FORMATION

By AARON CHIYANZOUPND branches will be created among marketeers and bus drivers, UPND Lusaka Province chairperson Obvious Mwaliteta has clarified.Mr Mwaliteta explained that no political cadre would be brought into markets and bus stations to create branches.This follows public uproar over insinuations that Mr Mwaliteta was plotting to bring back cadres in bus stations and markets against efforts by the new Government to remove cadres from public places.Mr Mwaliteta said his plans were misunderstood as he did not mean cadres would be brought back into markets and bus stations.He explained that just like political parties mobilise people in communities into party branches, the same could be done with marketeers and bus drivers.Mr Mwaliteta said in an interview that marketeers and bus drivers could be mobilised into branches for the party.He emphasised that branches formed within markets and bus stations were not for purposes of collecting money or interfering with council operations.Mr Mwaliteta said the branches […]