Thursday, March 28, 2024

PF cadres take over office and lock out Town clerk

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FILE: PF cadres

The Office of the Town Clerk in Choma has been locked by irate Patriotic Front (PF) officials after newly appointed Town Clerk Mwiya Mwiya attempted to take over the office.

And riot police have been deployed at the Civic Centre following disturbances there.

The PF officials are opposed to the transfer of incumbent town clerk Oliver Muuka.

Business came to standstill at the Civic Centre as the Mayor and other Council Officers hid in council offices to avoid being lynched by the mob of angry cadres.

The PF official trooped to the Civic Centre at about 09.00 hours after word went round that Mr Mwiya had arrived for the third time in an attempt to take over office from current Town Clerk Oliver Muuka.

The PF youths led by District Political Secretary Bernadette Hamweemba raided the Civic Centre as UPND Mayor Geoffrey Makwamba was in the process of facilitating handovers between the outgoing and incoming.

After grabbing the keys and handover notes from Mr Muuka, the PF officials locked the Town Clerk’s office and vowed not to allow Mr Mwiya to take over.

The PF youths then matched to the District Administration where they attempted to lock out the District Commissioner Golden Nyambe whom they wanted to lynch after accusing him of working with the opposition UPND councillors.

The PF youths were only restrained by alert police officers who pleaded with them to calm down.

During the meeting also attended by police, the PF youths openly told Mr Nyambe they were not happy with the way he was not supporting the PF in the cause to stop the transfer of Mr Muuka.

By press time, the keys for the office of the town clerk were still in the hands of the PF officials.

Chief Singani of the Tonga people of Choma has called on the Minister of Local Government to quickly intervene and restore sanity at the Choma Municipal Council where ongoing wrangling over transfer of town clerk Oliver Muuka threatens to derail operations of the local authority.

Chief Singani says the quick intervention by the Minister will help bring to an end the current disturbances at the local authority that is supposed to be busy working on transforming Choma into a new provincial capital for southern province.

He told ZANIS in Choma today that all concerned parties should respect the decision taken by Southern Province permanent Secretary Chileshe Mulenga that town clerk Oliver Muuka should not vacate office until the Minister of Local Government resolves the matter.

Chief Singani said Mr Muuka should not be hounded out of office because he enjoys the popular support of all residents who have petition government to rescind his transfer out of the district.

He said the Provincial Permanent Secretary’s authority should be respect because he represents government in the province.

Dr Mulenga has written instructing that Mr Muuka should not vacate office but UPND Choma mayor Geoffrey Makwamba and other councillors yesterday attempted to evict Mr Muuka from office.

This resulted in a clash between the UPND mayor and patriotic Front district officials.

ZANIS

ZANIS

32 COMMENTS

  1. Fire the mayor .. y should he retard development in sounthern province. Tongas for PF. kuyuma yumaa basa. we support government of the day

  2. This is what PF is good at. Anarchy. what has a civil servant got to do with party functions and party rewards and benefits?

    leave civic matters and stay away from Civic matters. Do Not mix petty politics with civic matters. a Pf appointee being rejected by PF cadres.  awe kwena.

  3. WHAT TYPE OF LEADERSHIP GOING ON IN ZAMBAI WHERE EVEN THE POLICE CAN ALLOW PEOPLE TO GRAB KEYS IN THERE PRESECE.
    ZAMBIA IS TRUELLY A FAILED STATE.WHAT WILL HAPAPEN IN 2015?
    CRY MY BELOVED COUNTRY.

  4. We want to know the root cause of all this fracas please.Civil can be transferred anywhere by the government of the day.This thing of cadres coming into the legal operations of the local government should come to end.This is what destroyed Kitwe City Council when the politicians were shading then TC Ali Simwinga from being transferred to another district all the expenses of development.To me its seems the Councillors are not being favored in plots allocations and are up in arms against the TC.Or the TC is only favouring PF cadres in plots allocations leaving out the opposition.

  5. Typical events of a country so backwards that its subjects somehow find entertainment in what really should be under control by the Police
    When the public or cadres engage in physically assaulting or taking the law in their hands be it physically or with intent they should be punished

    Your country though is riddled with corruption such that people are owning house, driving cars that otherwise they would not have afforded if they worked 38 hours like people who di it through blood sweat and tears. 
    Abysmal country

    Their mentality is personified by the irrelevant contributuion to this topic by people above who have commented on it and those who will without adding anything to the cause
    Someone pass me a puke bucket

    Thanks

  6. Did any of you notice, how irritating Mitt Romney`s face is? my Gosh i cant bear looking at him, i always change the channel when they show him, the debates were so painful to watch! could i be allegic to Romneysia? i pray that Obama is re elected otherwise, i need pain killers to see Romney`s face!

  7. @Mushota#5
    Hello there my ever shinning star of the hour. I wrote a lot to you on the earlier article published on 5.11.2012 I am sure you recall what we discussed earlier.Please click there because there is interesting news for you. Please, Mushota I am not stoking you but simply responding to the natural calls of biological processes. By the way, lately you have been using biological terms and you have confined yourself to the plant anatomy. Is there anything to do with your love for nature or you seem to be missing the warm weather here in Africa? Come here for our sunny warm or mild weather unlike the English weather which is greyish and makes people unfriendly. Hey Mushota come down and wash away your worries.

  8. @Mushota#5
    You may consider the possibility of meeting me in your backyard as reality because when I want something I always get whatever I want. I have the money and what I need is to execute the plan in action. I promise you Mushota that I will shock you and trust me on this I will show up in Scotland before you know it. I am working on a plan of tracing your contact information. You indicated that I am younger than you hopefully I have not misconstrued anything you said in that respect. The truth is that I am your senior and when I see or communicate to a lady I can tell from first impressions that she is the one. If I do not communicate to you now I will never have this chance in my life to do so. I do not give it a damn as to who else is reading this other than you.

  9. BOOM
    You mean ‘stalking’

    Look first of all you don’t bother me as much, I have a lot on my plate and use LT when i feel like having a break from my daily chores of work.
    By my own high standards I am highly utilized and greatly unrewarded pay wise. But then again no man is ever happy with their salary as per evidence from the SPL who are paid diabolical amount for kicking a rag(ball)
    I am unlike the unwashed masses I pinch myself at times to be mingling with people who excuse my expression ‘not at my level’ when I am blogging unless someone gets under my skin that is when i respond to them, not that you did :)

    I see we still have ignominious people talking Obama more succinctly than their own state of affairs. Sad
    Thanks 

  10. @Mushota#5
    Mushota pretend that other bloggers don’t exist and only take me seriously the way I am applying myself to you. Mushota, you have not yet weded with Nick and anything between that man and you to me it is irrelevant because you are still open to a highest offer. Race here is irrelevant but love and committment coupled with emense resources are crucial to make a woman feel like a baby. Try me I can put smiles on your face without blinking. When a woman wants to be pampered I can spend. Mention anything so as to try me and I will use my platinum card to purchase your favourite items.

  11. These are not the Patriotic Front, they are the Pathetic Front.

    They should be arrested and charged for preventing the local government to deliver services to the public.

  12. That is welcome. sometimes u get confused with the way PF is handling the issues with these town clerk. even here in mufulira the town clerk was caught with ballot papers in an attempt to make mmd win now because he has friends in PF he is now the commissioner of local government and has been transfered to Lusaka from mufulira,meaning those who were against him have to go , OH I WISH EVEN HERE IN MUFULIRA PF OFFICIALS SHOULD HAVE DONE LIKE THERE FELLOWS DID IN CHOMA. When i asked the PF OFFICIALS IN MUFULIRA THEY SAID TO KNOW SOMEONE YOU SHOULD BRING THEM CLOSER AGAIN I ASKED WHY DO YOU HAVE TO DO THAT COZ THAT PERSON IS DEEP ROOTING IN THE PROCESS HE WILL DESTROY THE EVIDENCE AGAINST HIMSELF? THEN THEY SAID IT’S EVERYONE BY HIMSELF IN PF, IS THAT TRU

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