Mulongoti challenges government on Ballot paper printing
Mike Mulongoti addressing the media at the conference
Former Communication and Transport Minister Mike Mulongoti has challenged government to justify its plans to have the Livingstone and Mpongwe by-elections ballot papers printed outside the country.
Speaking in an interview with ZANIS Kitwe today Mr Mulongoti said government printers have the capacity to print the ballot papers and wondered why governments still wants to give the job to a foreign company.
He argued that government was contradicting itself as it had recently announced through the Minister of Communication and Transport Christopher Yaluma that Government Printers had the capacity to print ballot papers.
He accused some government officials of wanting to make money out of the ballot Paper printing contract.
He noted that the Patriotic Front government talks about creating employment in the country but the decision to award the contract of printing ballots paper to foreign company is creating jobs for people abroad leaving the local people wallowing in poverty.
Mr Mulongoti further stated that the move was as good as declaring Government Printers redundant because there was no way government should continue paying huge sums of money to foreign companies to print ballot papers when the Government Printers had the capacity to do the same job.
Two week ago Electoral Commission of Zambia Senior Public Relations officer Sylvia Bwalya announced that the ballot papers for the forth coming Livingstone and Mpongwe parliamentary by-elections will be printed from the UK by a company called Smith and Ouznam.
Livingstone Central and Mpongwe constituencies will be holding by-elections on the 28th of February following the resignation of Howard Sikwela of the United Party for National Development and Gabriel Namulambe of the MMD.
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UKWA does not listen. after disclosure of his illness by Indian doctore, he has sent Wynter Maize Kabimba to Cuba to negotitate Ukwas treatment.
PF full of contradiction, Ukwa in opposition called for Govt., printers to print ballot papers, what has changed after him getting inoto power?
Has your father been found with akaswende or akasele you ***** to be insulting our President? You are an imbecile.
@macgyer majombo… another name for kaswede is prostate cancer. i know some one you macgyer majombo respect very much has that illness and his brain twistd,,, he doesn´t listen to good advice
The reason for printing ballot papers in the U.K is simply because of too much Tongas working at the Printing Company who may end up collaborating with small parties like upnd and the largest opposition mmd. So we as PF are clever than some of you boasting of having gotten your degrees from Matero or small colleges in the U.K. Iwe Chi Mulongoti, where were you when mmd was not listening to what PF was saying about having ballot papers printed outside the Country? You are now realizing how sweet it is to be in government. Yakunyokola nyala manje *****.
If Mulongoti was a foodstuff i dont know how many people would have been eating it.This man is really a lunatic.You cannot just be commenting on anything and everything like an inmate.Can t the wife do us a favor and tell this loser to shut up and at least think before he yaps.
some of you pipo make me laugh, you let politicians treat you like ***** here in europe politicians respect the public becoz they know that its the public that vote, when sata was fighting to be president he impressed alot of pipo and they voted 4 him but now his behaving like a dictator
Be warned. Innocent Chimfutumba is a charlatan and a mole. Like a deranged vulture he preys on people’s character. He is all over the Internet sniffing out stories and writing gibberish about people and issues he hardly understands. Google his name and you’ll see what I mean. I have compiled his texts in both the “LT and ZWD. At times he wears the hat of a skunk, spraying his terrible malodorous smell. He claims to be learned. Read all his comments (How I wish I could display them). He’s a moron who writes in colloquial English—semi-literate style. Learned bloggers write well even in haste. His writing is best described by one blogger: “so many words with no sense.” His punctuations are terrible and typos aplenty.
He claims to have been in class with me. It is not true. He might have…
He claims to have been in class with me. It is not true. He might have been in the same 1973 stream and not 1972 as he claims in some of his comments. He’s so damn he does not know when he graduated. I never met him in 1967 because I went to Chingola Primary School in 1968. At Chikola I was not taught by Cheeseman. I associated with him in the Young Farmer’s Club. Yes, the late Patrick Chibwe was in my class, but not Lazarus Chota.
In Form Five, I and Patrick were in “A” and Lazarus in “S.” Ask him what form he was in. He claims to have been with me in the same class for five years. There was no Innocent Chimfutumba in my class. If there was, he must have been one of those dumb students with nothing to offer. What was Innocent Chimfutumba famous for? Anyone?
Ask Innocent Chimfutumba to table his qualifications and credentials. Let him give a link to his thesis or books he has written, then simply google my name and see my books and academic achievements. What a difference. Get off my back you grain-brain spiteful creep! You can’t intimidate me.
Am surprised people still believe what Sata says and does.
This man has no memory at all of the promises he made and the master puppeteers controlling him know that no wonder there exploiting every chance to steal tax payers money. impeach this sick man his a danger to the country.
@Rodrik- u made me laugh. Otherwise he could b out of shelf(Expired) or unwanted. Useless Mulongoti needs to be investigated so that we know how much he made on this arrangement.
I think this man is right, the best time to check how government printers can print these ballot papers is by trying them out on by – elections, we need to start keeping resourses in the country
Mulongoti, having been consigned into political oblivion, has now the tendency to be gasping for air, seeing as he does that nobody, but nobody, pays any attention to him and his tantrums.
By Law most civil servants once retired would not have anything to do with civil service except the few lucky ones well connected do get back on contracts. But certainly for politicians especially former ministers and MPs they should equally have nothing to do with politics once kicked out by one system to reduce on numerous re-cycled politicians, not giving space to new politicians. Just like former presidents they should also remain non-partisan. Mr. Mulongoti it is past time for you. Leave politics to new entrants.
i think mulongoti is right on this one, lets try and see wht wl come out. th best time to try is now bcoz some few days ago a gvt official dd say gvt printers hs th capacity to do so.