{"id":433630,"date":"2011-05-31T09:39:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T09:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/31\/banda-has-shamed-prophets-of-doom\/"},"modified":"2011-05-31T09:39:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T09:39:57","slug":"banda-has-shamed-prophets-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/31\/banda-has-shamed-prophets-of-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Banda Has Shamed Prophets of Doom&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"29.3166926677\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.co.zm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/timeszambia180.jpg\" alt=\"The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" title=\"Visit The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>31 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has shamed prophets of doom and those that doubted his capacity of bringing development to Zambia as witnessed by massive development projects worth billions of Kwacha around the country, an MMD official has said.<\/p>\n<p>Lusaka Province information and publicity secretary Greenock Lupambo said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that development projects that the president had initiated were a clear testimony of his commitment to alleviate the suffering for the people of Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lupambo said the just ended rally in Mandevu also confirmed President Banda&#8217;s popularity in Lusaka which was previously the opposition stronghold.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition would be in for a rude shock as the MMD would win this year&#8217;s election with landslide results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The response from the people of Mandevu was positive, this indicates that MMD is becoming more and more popular,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the opposition should not expect to have it easy and think they were still popular in Lusaka as evidenced from the large crowds that turned up for President Banda&#8217;s rally.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lupambo also warned former Lands Minister Judith Kapijimpanga to stop &#8220;hallucinating&#8221; that MMD would lose elections.<\/p>\n<p>He said Ms Kapijimpanga was once a minister and Member of Parliament and yet she never implemented any development project.<\/p>\n<p>She advised Ms Kapijimpanga to stop commenting on issues surrounding Western Province as she did not understand anything and had no authority on the matter.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105310302.html\" title=\"'Banda Has Shamed Prophets of Doom'\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Banda Has Shamed Prophets of Doom&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 31 May 2011 PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has shamed prophets of doom and those that doubted his capacity of bringing development to Zambia as witnessed by massive development projects worth billions of Kwacha around the country, an MMD official has said. Lusaka Province information and publicity secretary Greenock Lupambo said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that development projects that the president had initiated were a clear testimony of his commitment to alleviate the suffering for the people of Zambia. Mr Lupambo said the just ended rally in Mandevu also confirmed President Banda&#8217;s popularity in Lusaka which was previously the opposition stronghold. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":433631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-433630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Banda Has Shamed Prophets of Doom&#039; - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/31\/banda-has-shamed-prophets-of-doom\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"&#039;Banda Has Shamed Prophets of Doom&#039; - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"31 May 2011 PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has shamed prophets of doom and those that doubted his capacity of bringing development to Zambia as witnessed by massive development projects worth billions of Kwacha around the country, an MMD official has said. 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