Rupiah Bwezani Banda

Wandi said that former President Rupiah Banda’s Movement for Multiparty Democracy government could have avoided these problems if proper bidding and due diligence procedures had been followed...

Their testimony suggests that two Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) governments – first under Levy Mwanawasa who was President from 2002 until his death in 2008 then under Rupiah Banda – sourced the scanners from Nuctech at an inflated cost...

Chanda’s inquiry heard that eight scanners including an additional four later ordered by Rupiah Banda were delivered in 2010...

Ahead of the September 2011 polls that brought Sata’s Patriotic Front (PF) to power Sata frequently denounced China and accused it of bankrolling incumbent President Rupiah Banda and his Movement for Multiparty Democracy...

Since defeating incumbent Rupiah Banda and the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) in the 20 September polls Sata’s popularity has soared...

A casual worker at Sino Metals reported that workers were either asked to stay home or were locked in a room when former President Rupiah Banda visited the site in March 2011...

The Post newspaper long an outspoken critic of Sata’s presidential predecessor Rupiah Bwezani Banda said ‘it does not make sense’...

’ CORRECTION: In AC Vol 52 No 21 ‘Brothers in arms’ we said that Michael Sata had been deported from Malawi in 2007 during the presidency of Rupiah Banda in Zambia...

Sata argues that the government led by his predecessor Rupiah Bwezani Banda was irredeemably corrupt and a clean-out was needed (AC Vol 52 20 Troubled exit for Banda)...

Ex-President Rupiah Banda seemed to have everything on his side before the 20 September elections...

Zambia’s then President Rupiah Banda asked Mutharika to stop the meeting so Malawian police arrested Sata declared him persona non grata drove him 500 kilometres to the border and left him there...

Rupiah Bwezani Banda was on the verge of declaring himself winner of the 20 September presidential poll after realising he had lost the elections to Michael Chilufya Sata’s Patriotic Front (PF) sources close to the presidency have told Africa Confidential...