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Queen mother of the Bemba Royal Establishment, Chieftainess Mukuka Mfumu has defended the appointment of Henry Kanyanta Sosala as Paramount Chief Chitimukulu and has castigated Chief Chewe Kamponge of Chinsali whom she has accused of misleading the nation and causing acrimony in the Bemba Kingdom.
Speaking when she made a rare appearance on Kasama’s Mano Community Station on Thursday the Queen mother said Sosala’s appointment went through her, contrary to Chileshe Yulaya Yumba’s claims on Tuesday.
She accused Yumba who reigns as Chief Chewe Kamponge (IV) of doing things that disregarded the Bemba traditional set up on such matters.
“Ba Yulaya Yumba bacita ifya kuipangila abene ifishili fya ntambi shalubemba, ba Sosala ba sontelwe naine (Yulaya Yumba does things as he pleases contrary to the Bemba tradition, the appointment of Sosala had my blessings),” she said.
The Queen Mother who was flanked by the spokesperson of the Bemba Royal Establishment and other royal members added that the unfortunate behavior of Chileshe Yulaya Yumba could be evidenced in the manner he was jostling for the throne of Chief Nkula which led to acrimony.
Earlier on Tuesday, Yumba charged that ba Shilubemba had no authority to appoint the Chitimukulu and that the responsibility lay with the Bemba Queen mother.
He also threatened to take legal action against the spokesperson of the Bemba Royal Establishment Washanga Impika-shalubemba, for claiming that President Michael Sata had erroneously appointed him (Yumba) as Chitimukulu. But Washanga said the action will be the first one in the history of the kingdom and accused Yumba of masquerading as chief Chewe.
He further said that it would be shocking for someone who claims to be Chief Chewe to take royalty to court.
Washanga has since challenged Yumba to tell the nation who appointed him Chief Chewe Kamponge (IV) and why he was bent on bringing confusion in the Bemba kingdom.
President Sata has refused to recognize the traditional appointment of Sosala as Chief Chitimukulu Kanyanta Manga (ii) of the Bemba people, insisting that he was not properly initiated but the establishment has challenged the President to clearly state the personal differences he had with Sosala which has led to the deployment of policemen at the palace to block Sosala from occupying it.The head of state has however not offered convincing reasons for his rejection of Sosala, an action which led to the royal establishment accusing him of having a personal preferred candidate in mind and has vowed not to reverse the appointment.
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#1 Comment By Nostradamus On March 31, 2014 @ 1:53 pm
Whatever Chieftainess Mukuka may say is not more important of what Bana Sata (I forgot her name, ohhh Christina Kaseba, I miss her), has decided.
The best is to set a debate between that “Bemba Queen” and First Lady
#2 Comment By Kanjimaano On March 31, 2014 @ 4:28 pm
What has lady Kaseba got to do with this? It is purely the responsibility of the Bembas to choose whom they want to be the their preferred chief. Sata as president should be behind the BLE instead of dictating things for them.
#3 Comment By Waluma Njoka On March 31, 2014 @ 2:59 pm
Small tribes with spineless people (tribesmen). How do u allow such humiliation?
#4 Comment By Mutale Chikwanda On March 31, 2014 @ 5:25 pm
Look who is talking! What have you done about the new constitution which Sata has refused to give you? I would have thought that was more important the Bemba internal differences.
#5 Comment By DitA On March 31, 2014 @ 3:00 pm
Bana Lubemba I think sounds better than QM.
#6 Comment By Kamukati On March 31, 2014 @ 3:04 pm
Ndundundu paluputa? Ka dona kalelengela? Yanyanta nalila nati nafya mayo?
#7 Comment By Mphangwe On March 31, 2014 @ 3:34 pm
Sata will pay for the confusion he is creating in his bid to shift the authentic Bemba Royal Clan from Kasama to an artifial royal clique in Chinsali.
Besides, Sata is fermenting his own brand of Ukraine in Muchinga Province. He has appended the Tumbuka-speaking people of Chama to prop-up his dreamland in Muchinga Province. Very soon the Senga people will starting dissociating themselves from Muchinga Province.
#8 Comment By Mutale Chikwanda On March 31, 2014 @ 5:29 pm
But there were Tumbukas in Northern province (Muyombe) and Eastern province before. So what is new?
#9 Comment By Mutale Chikwanda On March 31, 2014 @ 5:34 pm
You have shown your ignorance by claiming that the Bemba Royal Clan is only from Kasama. Ulubemba covers Mporokoso, Luwingu, Kasama, Chinsali and Mpika and it is ruled by Abena Ng’andu i.e. your so called Bemba Royal Clan.
#10 Comment By Amuna Onzuna On March 31, 2014 @ 4:58 pm
How true is Sosala’s confession that he never past through the initiation ceremony when ascending to Chief Mwamba?
#11 Comment By msinzang’anyi On March 31, 2014 @ 9:37 pm
@AMUNA ONZUNA initiation is not what makes a king among Bembas, they have clearly told this nation that a king is born king, these appointments, initiations are just formal details which do not interest the masses unless those interested in the same royal powers such as Nkandu Luo and her pone Sata, who are not even Bembas perse but Bisas.
#12 Comment By Wantanshi On March 31, 2014 @ 9:55 pm
ba Sata should just come down to earth and accept that uluBemba has spoken with finality that Sosala is the Chitimukulu. Abusing govt machinery to intimidate Sosala and the Bemba people just proves how inferior he regards himself. He doesn’t realise that bashi Lubemba and the entire Bembaland are resolved that Sosala, not ba Chewe, is the Chitimukulu. The choice he has to make now to achieve his lunatic objectives, is to order the army and the police to massacre the entire Bembaland, perhaps then, he can proceed with installing Chewe as paramount chief. To expect abaBemba to bow down to Mr. Chewe as paramount of the Bemba isn’t smart thinking. It’s stu.pid.
#13 Comment By Julie Arse Scissors On April 1, 2014 @ 1:26 am
Bembas lozis Ngonis don’t have Queens. only men can rule.
#14 Comment By Mufumbwe On November 25, 2014 @ 2:45 pm
The issue with Chanda Sosala is who his mother was. Was she from the Bemba Royal family? That is where the argument is. There is no doubt about his father. There is a matrilineal system of ascendancy which is the basis of this argument, initiated by some members of the Royal establishment in Bembaland. It is not Sata who started it, by the way. Let’s be factual.