The Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) says the sacking of Ikeleng’i MMD Member of Parliament, Elijah Muchima, as Deputy Minister of Lands by President Michael Sata should serve as a great lesson to other opposition parliamentarians.
FODEP Executive Director, MacDonald Chipenzi, says opposition parliamentarians should not betray the trust and confidence of their electorate and political parties for their appetite for ministerial positions and self-enrichment.
Mr Chipenzi said circumstances surrounding Mr Muchima’s removal from his ministerial position should also serve as a lesson to opposition parliamentarians still serving in government to brace themselves of an uncertain future stay in those positions.
He further added that the ruling party’s attempt to infuse members of the opposition in government without a thorough consideration of the true position of their loyalty to government should act as a reflection point.
The FODEP Executive Director said the alleged current witch-hunt obtaining in the Patriotic Front (PF) can be attributed to the ruling party’s indiscriminate infusion of opposition Parliamentarians without gauging their true loyalty to the party in power vis-a-vis its values and manifesto.
Mr Chipenzi said divided loyalties, at most times, can lead to leakages of confidential government information to the public.
He appealed to all advocates of democracy in this country to reflect seriously on how best multiparty politics in Zambia can be protected and defended from being decimated.
Mr Chipenzi said his organisation’s earnest appeal to all opposition Parliamentarians, especially those still suffering from the syndrome of indecision, was to remain loyal to the values and ideologies of their political parties regardless of how appetizing and lucrative the temptation to serve in Government.
He said it would be wise for opposition Parliamentarians to wait for 2016 during which they may join other political parties of their choice rather than contribute to the creation of unnecessary confusion and divisions in their own parties by joining and consequently causing costly by-elections when and if expelled.
ZANIS
Never sell your principles for the sake of position and money by swimming with the sharks as they’ll bite.Even the “tame” circus tigers and elephants ocassionaly go beserk on their friendly handlers.
Any minister can be fired by the app. Nothing special about opposition MPsointing authority
Finshi achitile …?
Aebele ba kateka ati CNP
What does CNP mean?
yangu tata ee!!kekekekekeke if this is true then that is sooo funny..
3.3: Chimbwi No Plan (CNP) mean while, the chimbwi had a plan together with us the Kaponyas. We await the educated to unseat the Kaponya government as they hold their first political rally in Kabulonga where they live.
He is one of our guys sent into government to get inside info for the opposition. unfortunately he was identified as such. anyway we have more guys in there and still sending more even at cabinet level soon. you can only work against a ruling party and gov from inside.
yes those selfish dimwits like namulambe should learn serious lessons
them never learn anything.them shameless
BABA, YOUR OBSERVATION IS MISPLACED. ANYONE CAN BE FIRED IF FOUND WANTING. IN FACT THE FIRED MINISTER HIMSELF IS AN *****- HOW CAN ONE SO EASILY LOSE HIS POSITION. HOW DOES ONE START OBSTRUCTING DEVELOPMENT? OTHER OPPOSITION MINISTERS ARE VERY SAFE AS LONG AS THEY PROMOTE THE RULING PARTY’S DEVELOPMENTAL AGENDA.
The major problem is there is no political ideologies that most politicians are anchored on. Their are non-aligned in their principles. In countries like China, USSR, USA, UK, German etc, political parties are anchored on communism, socialism, capitalism, liberalism and even people think like that with conviction in the principles of the -ism they have adopted. In our case, we are not principled on the -isms. We are principled on bread and butter. Whichever party will provide bread and butter that makes one join or switch over. This is the reason you notice MPs turn 90, 180, 270 and 306 degrees in search of a party to provide bread and butter. So poaching and defection is so easy and normal, especially that there is no deliberate law to curb this funny switching between parties.
What you have said is the truth. In Zambia politicians are like prostitutes hungrily hunting for a guy with the bulging wallet. No principles.
Politics of hiring and firing.. No wonder we do not develop! Nobody ever gets to keep a position for a long time. My poor country… akuchuleni.
Uluse
@ 3 chi Monk balelanda at alekenya ba MMD ku N/W abalefwaya ukichta defect to PF, ati he was also still MMD.
GOD BLESS ZAMBIA
The man deserved to be dropped.There is no way you can keep biting the finger feeding you and expect to be well nourished.
Good riddance it was.The last thing we want in our progressive patriotic front government are unpatriotic members.It is our belief that only if we stand up for a common cause which is to develop our country inspite of party affiliations can we move forward.Seleni tubombeko.
I have tried to tell you Zambians that Sata and PF will fail and are already failing Badly. Leading a country such as Zambia calls for Leadership with skill and a deeper sense of imagination than what is there in PF. Sata is a Dictator who rules by edicts and decrees and orders and commands. PF supporters are swallowing hard at this nonsense thats going on in Zambia.
If appointed ministers focused on the job at hand, they would never fail despite their political
affiliations. Failure comes because they focus on their self interests.
I agree. Our Democracy is too immature to accomodate appointments from the opposition. its either president wants you to defect or to sow suspicion amongst your party so that they focus on internal battles rather than the battle against the ruling party
The following time I learn a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as a lot as this one. I mean, I know it was my option to learn, however I truly thought youd have one thing attention-grabbing to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about one thing that you might fix in case you werent too busy looking for attention.