10 things you didn’t know about Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba
Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba is a Zambian businessman.
He was born 15 March 1959.
Mr Mwamba is also a politician who once served as Kasama central member of parliament and the UPND’s Vice President.
Under the Patriotic Front government of President Michael Sata, he served as Minister of Defence from 2011 to 2013.
Mwamba was expelled from the ruling PF in February 2014.
On 23 July 2015, he endorsed the main opposition party, the UPND.
June 2016 he successfully appears to stand as the running mate of UPND candidate Hakainde Hichilema in the August 2016 presidential election.
He once got arrested for allegedly slapping a woman at a market in Ndola
He got awarded a doctorate degree in Business Administration from Commonwealth University.
Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba is the son of Zambia’s African Minister of Agriculture Muma Mwamba who later became Chief Munkonge and his mother Grace Chileshe both of Kasama Disrict.