Frederick Chiluba

Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba (April 30th 1943 -) is old a president of the République of Zambia according to on November 1st 1991 with the January 2nd 2002.

Wire of Jacob Titus Chiluba Nkonde and Diana Kaimba, Chiluba is high with Ndola, it follows studies there to the Kawambwa college before perfecting its economic competences with the the United States and in the countries of Eastern Europe. Chiluba begins its professional path as a person in charge of the personnel before becoming countable assistant at Atlas Copco , a company of extraction of Cuivre located at Ndola. It off affiliates with the trade union National Union Building, Engineering and General Workers (NUBEGW or National union of the personnel of the buildings, engineers and personnel general) and goes up quickly in the hierarchy of the trade union before is made elect general secretary of the trade union.

Chiluba is also elected general secretary of the confederation of the Zambian trade unions ( Zambia Congress off Trade Unions ). At the time of an illegal general strike issued by the ZCTU which paralyzes the Zambian economy in 1981, the president Kenneth Kaunda sends Chiluba and other trade union officials in prison. They will be released by the justice which regards their imprisonment as anticonstitutional. In 1987, Chiluba keeps its position of president of the trade union NUBEGW .

Chiluba takes part in the foundation of the political party Movement for Multiparty Democracy (Movement for a multi-party democracy) in 1990. Chiluba has been presented in the form of a candidate in the name of the MANDELEVIUM to the presidential election of 1991, first multi-party election for 20 years, and carries it vis-a-vis the outgoing president Kenneth Kaunda with 81% of the voices. Chiluba is invested on November 1st 1991 with Levy Mwanawasa as vice-president. In 1994, Chiluba must do the housework in its team, several high ranking officials being shown of drug trafficking and corruption. The MANDELEVIUM loses a little its superb and some seats with legislative but Chiluba obtains second a five years presidential mandate in 1996.

The presidential campaign of 1996 is marked by a polemic on the exact birthplace of Chiluba. Certain presidential candidates hammer that Chiluba was born in Democratic republic from Belgian Congo then Congo . It is difficult to solve the question with certainty, the registers of the registry office being not very convincing more especially as Ndola is a frontier commune of the DRC. On its side the State, on which the MANDELEVIUM with the seizure badgers the rivals with Chiluba.

In 1998, Chiluba makes imprison without judgment former president Kenneth “K.K.” Kaunda for some time.

In spite of a comfortable majority for the MANDELEVIUM at the Parliament, Chiluba does not succeed in making modify the constitution to authorize it to aspire to a third mandate. Its mandate is completed the January 2nd 2002 and it is replaced by Levy Mwanawasa.

The countryside anti-corruption launched by Mwanawasa touches Chiluba in February 2003 since the former president is accused to have diverted 30 million euros of public funds at the time of his mandate. The embezzlements and the corruption of the members of the Chiluba team are proven, but the legal procedures initiated by Mwanawasa are not free from political motivations, it acts to reduce the influence of Chiluba on the MANDELEVIUM .

Chiluba began its political career as a Marxist trade unionist , quickly adopted capitalism while following to the letter the instructions of the the IMF as of its come to power, privatisant, inter alia, the companies of copper extraction, first economic resource of the country. It succeeded in suppressing inflation which gallops at the price of social disturbances and a strong unemployment.

Chiluba was used as mediator at the time of the Second war of Kivu in close Democratic republic of Congo with certain results, but at the interior level, the economic situation did not improve.

At the end of 2001, Chiluba and his Vera wife divorce, Chiluba has 9 children of this marriage.

See too

Presidents de Zambie

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