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<\/a>RB's MMD Campaign vehicle<\/p><\/div>Zambia police have seized about 37 vehicles belonging to former president Rupiah Banda\u2019s MMD party that were used for campaigns
\n\u201cThe number of seized trucks has increased to 37,\u201d confirmed Mhlakeni Zulu, Lusaka Province police commanding officer, late Tuesday.
\nHe said the police wanted to keep track of the vehicles suspected to have been irregularly brought into the country.
\nThe trucks were found abandoned at a garage in Lusaka, said Mr Zulu, who urged the public to report to the police wherever they found the MMD vehicles, to help in investigations.
\nMMD\u2019s hundreds of vehicles \u2013 trucks and vans \u2013 and other campaign materials raised suspicion that China bankrolled its re-election bid.
\nOrchestrating violence
\nThe PF had sued the MMD and the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) on suspicion that the then ruling party had not paid tax when bringing hundreds of campaign vehicles into the country, but the court trashed the case.
\nMr Banda, 74, and the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) \u2013 the party in power for two decades \u2013 lost to opposition leader Michael Sata and his Patriotic Front (PF) last week.
\nThe police also confirmed that William Banda, a close ally of the former president, who was on the run, had been captured and brought to Lusaka to face charges of inciting violence before the September 20 elections.
\nHe was nabbed in the border town of Chipata \u2013 Eastern Province \u2013 where he was allegedly enroute to neighbouring Malawi.
\nMr Banda, a controversial politician accused of orchestrating violence during the Kenneth Kaunda regime and immediate past MMD reign, was once deported to Malawi by the Frederick Chiluba-administration until the Levy Mwanawasa-government allowed him back into Zambia.
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