He was arrested in Hong Kong in 2009 for carrying an alleged false passport but then-President Rupiah Banda intervened to have him returned to Zambia...
The high price covered commissions paid to politically connected brokers of the deal including former President Rupiah Banda's son Henry Africa Confidential can reveal...
Lap Green's 75% stake in Zamtel was seized in 2012 when the company was nationalised under former President Michael Sata following investigations that indicated illegalities in the original sale by the previous government of President Rupiah Banda...
Vol 58 No 25 |
- SECESSIONISM
After he defeated President Rupiah Banda having polled strongly in Western Province the local people expected their reward...
FQM bought the greenfield mining project at Kalumbila in the Northwestern province in 2010 by leveraging the warm relationship it enjoyed with then President Rupiah Banda...
This says that his bid is the work of the PF faction around former Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) figures close to former President Rupiah Banda who is an important Lungu supporter (AC Vol 56 No 2 PF set for victory)...
Kalulu is currently appearing before the Lusaka Magistrates Court on corruption charges allegedly committed when ex-President Rupiah Banda's Movement for Multiparty Democracy was last in office...
A growing number of Bemba-speakers from the PF's traditional power bases of Muchinga Luapula and Northern provinces feel slighted by the incorporation of former Movement for Multiparty Democracy figures and allies of former President Rupiah Banda into government...
His opponents angry at his marginalisation of long-serving members in preference to former Movement for Multiparty Democracy figures and allies of former President Rupiah Banda may now coalesce around the former Minister of Information...
Disagreements over key appointments and Lungu's falling out with key donors has seen former President Rupiah Banda who was influential in Lungu's election last year take a back seat in the campaign...