Charles Romel Banda

Charles Romel Banda (born November 22, 1956 ) is a Zambian politician of the Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) and currently the Patriotic Front (PF).

Life

Banda completed an undergraduate degree as well as a postgraduate degree in mass communication , which he initially completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Mass Communication) and then with a Master of Arts (MA Mass Communication). He then worked as a journalist . In the 2001 election he was elected as a candidate for the Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) as a member of the National Assembly of Zambia and represented the Kaumbwe constituency there until the 2006 election .

In 2012 he was appointed by then President Michael Sata as a representative of the Patriotic Front (PF) for one of the eight presidential seats in the National Assembly of Zambia . At the same time he was appointed provincial minister for the Eastern Province in his cabinet by President Sata in February 2012 . After Sata's death on October 28, 2014, he also retained this office in the cabinet of his acting successor Guy Scott and in the cabinet of Edgar Lungu , who took over the office of President on January 25, 2015.

In the election on August 11, 2016, Banda was re-elected as a candidate for the PF in the Kapoche constituency as a member of the National Assembly and then took over the post of Minister for Tourism and the Arts in the Lungu cabinet in September 2016. Makebi Zulu then became the new provincial minister for the Eastern Province .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly of Zambia