Even before the election year officially begins, sparks are flying in Munali, as MP and Minister of Green Economy Mike Mposha and aspiring candidate and comedian Thomas Sipalo, aka Difikoti, seem to be competing to see who can go lower. Sipalo has been a vocal critic of Mposha’s leadership, but the Minister hit the comedian hard, saying the only thing Sipalo could claim to beat him at was fathering children with multiple women. The Minister’s outburst didn’t come out of nowhere. It followed a string of social media posts by Thomas Sipalo in which he questioned Mposha’s performance as Munali MP and accused him of neglecting his constituency. Sipalo, who has been positioning himself as a people’s candidate ahead of...




