Youth and Sports Minister Chishimba Kambwili has charged that Zambia has for a long time allowed students from the University of Zambia to be irresponsible.
Mr Kambwili vowed that he will deal with students who are bent on causing anarchy over the ownership of the Commonwealth Youth Centre located at UNZA Great East Road campus.
The Youth and Sports Minister said allowing students to always have their way even when they are wrong is a sign of weakness on the part of Government.
He said he is a disciplinarian who does not tolerate indiscipline especially from ‘young boys and girls who surviving on Government bursary’.
Mr Kambwili said this when he featured on Sunday Interview on ZNBC TV Sunday evening.
He said the issue of the Commonwealth Youth Centre has been overblown and caused opposition political parties of inciting students to demonstrate over the issue.
Mr Kambwili revealed that Government has launched investigations to find out how a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding governing the running of the Centre was leaked to the student body.
He explained that there is no way the Centre could be surrendered to UNZA management because the Commonwealth is still running programmes there.
Mr Kambwili revealed that the Commonwealth has not exited the programmes but has merely changed its operational mode by asking the National Youth Development Centre to run programmes on its behalf.
He said he will not even engage the student populace over the issue because there was nothing to discuss adding that the Centre belongs to Government.
I think you PFs are allowing Kambwili to be such irresponsible minister.
Kambwili is now completely out of course. To be honest, Kambwili has taken over from Kabimba as the PF’s worst and most use.less minister at the moment. Surely if he has an issue with UNZA students why can’t he approach the necessary ministry (Education) or UNZA authorities to discuss the matter? He just wants to fight abaiche for nothing. If you want your voice to be heard Kambwili, there so many other noble things you can scream about, such as youth unemployment and how your ministry will address the situation. Where is Sata so he can sort out this man? The fact that you never went to UNZA can’t be the reason for you to have a grudge against UNZA students over a non-issue. Go to hell Kambwili.
What I hate about UNZA student’s behavior is breaking vehicles for Innocent people who have nothing to do with Kambwili / PF policies. It is high time they showed responsibility than also behave like the same dull Ministers.
Message to My UNZA Brothers & Sisters. Step back a second and think if what you truly do, by attacking people’s cars is right? Think of the hardships that people go through to acquire those assets? Think of how you would feel if such happened to your poor parents. It is high time you seriously changed and follow the right ways of resolving issues. Students from the highest institution behaving like uneducated?? Please follow Kambwili to his office than breaking cars. It’s wrong and you should stop it. What message are you sending to the young-ones in High…
Schools????
Think on how you can help to Improve the economy of our country?? think of how you would innovate / find solutions to other problems the country is facing?? Wake up and be responsible than behaving like kambwili. Your behavior is an embarrassment to the society?
Kambwili is not only dull, but a sign of a country lacking leaders. How can a nation even say it has a leader in the name of Kambwili. Going by him not understanding what the MoU standards for in this regards shows that this minister does not respect agreements. To some extent it seems he thinks he is the govt, hence his failure to respect the other minister of education.
Kambwili, recall you are a Copperstone graduate with no education but just with a certificate. Therefore, do have respect for those with education and the certificate as this is the way things are supposed to be.
u mean Havard,Oxford,Cambridge,Capetown & MIT universities ????The problem pa UNZA is that they have never been outside de country where UNZA is considered nothing.The way they look @ Copperstone thats the way other countries look @ UNZA..!!!
And the building these poor UNZA students are protecting about doest belong to Zambia alone. It caters for three other countries in the region. Do they expect government to give it to them just because it is on UNZA territory minus consulting the other countries ? Time they leant how to be objective.
I agree with hon Kambwili the level of stupidity has at YUNZA among students is way too high. You don’t destroy property to show anger, they should learn to find proper channels of solving issues not by blocking roads, or CWYC. This is what happens when most of those bomboclats only got spots through exam leakages. It’s a shame!! Viva Kambwili on this one I support you buddy
@******* **** you must be a ZIT (CBU) graduate, UNZA is a world recognized institution with engineers, scientists, medical doctors that have gone on to become world recognized professionals. UNZA’s ranking were affected by Kafupi constantly closing the institution in the 1990s. UNZA students have always been the moral campus of Zambia and deserve to be honoured rather han ridiculed or criticised. UNZA protested against KK’s support of UNITA in the 70s, they played a big part in prompting change in 1991, both as a result of the riots they staged as early as 1989 and the intellectual debates, again it was UNZA students who stood to support KK when Chiluba begun prosecting him after the Solo coupe a time when all these *****s who come out to say how great KK was wanted nothing to with him.
I dont know what all the fuss is about.
Kambwili is very right on his one. The problem with UNZA students is that they think they are special and hence entitled to break the law at will. They think they are above most of the Zambians by virtue of being at UNZA. I`m glad that at last someone has the guts to call a spade a spade. They are breaking other peoples property in their pseudo entitlement forgetting that the same people whose property they are breaking are the ones paying tax that at the end of the day goes toward their bursaries.
Kambwili is very right on this issue, I personally watched the interview and our media it seems rush to pick tit bits in a whole statement for whatever reason, others just copy and paste what other reporters write.
The Commonwealth Youth Programme has 4 centres world wide and Zambia is lucky to have one of them. The centre at UNZA runs programmes for the whole African region and being a secretariat the representatives for commonwealth are our heads of government. Therefore even to cancel or conclude programmes is a decision to be made by member states.
The CYP has simply opted to reduce labour costs by only retaining 4 staff per centre whilst all other staff bills will be footed by the National Youth Councils for the benefit of all youth and youth programmes all over the country…
On top of all this ladies and gentlemen let’s note that the Zambian Government at the time (which owns the UNZA) chose to host the CYP at UNZA premises, they could have chisen any piece of land. Why are our children rioting? Most of whom our Government is actually sponsoring at school to gain much needed skills.
The centre has 40 bed spaces only, even if they pile themselves and turn that into 120 bed spaces is that realistic?? We add 120 bed spaces to UNZA, close a programme benefiting all youth on the streets, at other colleges and around Africa surely??
The rioting students are not even interesting in being intellectuals and evaluating seriously the issue at hand. The CYP is still on going and if it indeed came to an end, it should UNZA management in liaison with Government that
@muche, Agreed. But what is irritating about Kambwili is the way he has taken the issue personally. He should discuss this issue with the necessary authorities than go about ranting and exposing his use.lessness. It’s like of late, Kambwili only dreams about UNZA students.
An agreement is an agreement. if the tenure expires, you have to honour the agreement and exit even if u have programme still running or not.
@Muche
Well said. The problem with most people is that they are rushing in condemning Kambwii without understanding the whole issue. You have explained it well.
I give credit where it is due. Kambwili acquited himself well during the Sunday Interview. He elucidated on the history and ownership of the CYDC. That building was ceded to the Commonwealth Secretariat by the Zambian Government with residual interest assigned to UNZA. However much the students howl, Kambwili does not have the locus standi to hand over the facility to the students.
And I advise students that the Boma will break their legs and ribs if they occupy the CYDC as this will spark a diplomatic furore.
Like or hate him, Kambwili is right on this one. And for the first time, I appreciated his eloquence although a bit robust. And I couldn’t just but think that perhaps in him or his kind lies the safe pair of hands on this enterprise’s steering wheel? Just musing…
@muche – well said. Unfortunately not many have this capacity for critical thinking. There is a whipping of emotions in Zambia that usually crosses the line. Nobody even bothered to look at the so-called MoU in context other than the letter that was written; it is no wonder even scripture has been misinterpreted in our country amid bogus churches some in residential areas and schools. @pumpe, watch the interview again! …and again! Perhaps all you have seen is this little make up from LT.
The biggest head with smallest brain in Zambia has spoken!!!
Result?
Disastrous as usual.
I personally support Mr Kambwili 100%.What the students must realise is that handing the student centre to them is not an issue.The centre belongs to a number of countries who are beneficiaries and for this to happen it requires a consesues and students should have studied the memorundum of understanding.Any students that demostrates and destroy vehicles please close the institute and for it to open students must be made to pay for the damages.
Interesting comment.
Have you followed the facts?
UNZA is the pride of Zambian intellectuals, not riotous characters destroying people’s vehicles and property.
The commonwealth has requested for greater involvement of the National Youth Council in the operation of the CYPS for the African region through the centre at UNZA.
Should all youths around Zambia and Africa lose out on these programmes so that riotous students sponsored by GRZ can have another 40 bed spaces?
2015 budget has proposed thousands of new bedspaces that is the answer
Yikes! I CK have a big skeleton but small brain & p****s…hehehehe
******* Panu zoona! Ndimwe apuba nagako zoona! Discuss the matter at hand that is CYC you f00l or leave the blog.
Year in year out ever since UNZA came into being students and govt are always at each other’s throat. They are incapable of sorting out their perennial problems. This is the only university where rioting, unnecessary closures are part of the curriculum. When are they going to grow up?
The Honourable Minister wishes he had a UNZA Degree and not one he picked up from that glorified secondary school called Copperstone University!!
And u wish u were his son so he could send u to Oxford better than UNZA coz he can afford..I was there myself.
@Mwine Mutwe – you are pathetic. Having said that, could you please now contribute to the matter at hand?
Mr. Kambwili, get my advise to avoid twisting your words and amplifying the issue. Resolve this issue administratively the press will be allowed to come in after everything has been discussed and resolved. The way things are going people will not see sense through “Co-cise” type of confrontation. You are a minister and Am sure you have linkages with your counter parts in other line ministries that have a stake in that infrastructure. Can you discus this issue in a more mature and sober manner than the way it is! Exchanging bitter words in the media is not credible way, for that matter expect a lot of ill words from whoever has grudge for you.
Okay Firstly,I have no interest in what kambwili has to say.. Secondly,he is completely right about the horrific and ghastly behaviour from those kids.Once my car was hit by their stones with my little niece in it,she is still traumatized and she always tells me how she survived an encounter with baboons *child voice*,How embarrasing for me to tell her that I was a monk myself.You will never hear of such nonsense from prestigious institutions like Harvard or Yale or Oxford..Luckily,some of us have no political interests.. Otherwise I would unleash hell itself on those viva’s.
The simple fact is PF promised UNZA solutions to their problems in 2011. Suddenly, now UNZA are irresponsible??? Well, don’t worry about that because Kambwili has just lost PF some crucial votes at the next election. Let’s wait to hear what PF will say to UNZA students when time for campaigns starts. The problem with PF is that they are so dull that they think the rest of the country is as dull as them. 2016 is coming and campaigns begin in 2015, like it or not. Everywhere PF will go to campaign they will be booed, apart from Northern, Muchinga, and Luapula provinces: since all those in PF government come from those 3 provinces (and they are not even ashamed of such level of selfishness! shocking!). Ask RB, with general elections you can’t rig your way to victory…muzachiona!
Don’t hold your breath. The ground shifts even as you are seated.
I THINK HON KAMBWILI IS RIGHT. EXCEPT THAT HE LACKS THE ART OF HANDLING ISSUES. THE STUDENTS ARE CLEARLY WRONG. BUT AS WE ALL KNOW THEY THINK THEY POSSESS ALL THE WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE EVEN WHEN THEY CLEARLY DONT. SITTING TO DIALOGUE WITH THE ATUDENTS IS IMPORTANT. BUT KAMBWILI DOES NOT WANT. A SIMPLE ISSUE NOW BECOMES BLOWN OUT OF PROPORTION.
Edgar Lungu was in Mongu over the weekend where the only 20 people who attended his rally at Blue Gums were the defectors and their relatives. Kuyabebele…! Life was going on normally in Mongu as people ignored the PF entourage. Willie Nsanda was so panicked and confused about the whole situation that he forgot he was in Western Province and started addressing people in Bemba, and by the time he realised the mistake even the small crowd that was there had gotten annoyed and also vanished leaving only convoy drivers standing there looking bored. It is the most embarrassing visit by a ruling party to Mongu. This is the truth about what went on in Mongu over the weekend. The signs of a dying regime…ask RB the way he went!
Chitapi pls how many pipo attend press briefings to receive defectors from UPND? Should we judge the popularity of the opposition party in Lusaka based on the small crowd that usually attend its defector presentation fora? The fact however still remains that no matter how much u underplay the defection, these big wig defectors PF welcomed to their ranks wl no doubt add to their popularity. Remember western province has been a week area fo the party & to receive former ministers and council lors is no mean achievement. Just like UPND wen they received nalumango and Vincent Malambo they proudly paraded them even though the crowd that received them was small. PF will get mo votes in western & other traditionally weak areas than they got in 2011 & mark my words are winning 2016…
I watch this man on TV last night … my God this guy is arrogant. any way what do you expect from PF… they are failures. Kambwili needs to be disciplined he is such a#####
What exactly did he say in his arrogance? Would be nice to know from you… was it kakambidwe or ka-meaning … or BOTH?
i think on this one i can say we have done that, its just like your son/daughter breaks plates in the house coz u haven’t yet put food on his table…these student’s allowances and everything come from the tax that we pay….now imagine u get a loan from a bank buy yourself a car and as u are going home they smash it…it doesn’t help the tax payer in any way….THERE SHLD BE A WAY OF AIRING THERE GRIEVANCES
MR KABWILI JUST IGNORE ALL THOSE ATTACKING YOU.WE LISTENED TO THE INTERVIEW AND YOU EXPLAINED EVERYTHING WELL.ONLY THOSE THAT DO NOT UNDERSTAND ENGLISH CAN DISPUTE WHAT THE MINISTER SAID.
Kambwili thinks by just to give you some insight;A memorandum of understanding (MoU) describes a bilateral or multilateral agreement between two or more parties. It expresses a convergence of will between the parties, indicating an intended common line of action. It is used in cases where parties do not imply a legal commitment or in situations where the parties cannot create a legally enforceable agreement.
It is a more formal alternative to a gentlemen’s agreement. Should one part opt to switch to option the Parties need to agree to meet on a round table to determine the pre and post auction services having regard to the relevant obligations set out in the Collective Agreement. Kambwili, did the parties agree when the term ended? advocate to build hostels and noise will be over
In all fairness Kambwili is right
Thanks
Can someone share that MOU online so we can all see what Kabwili is scared abt. Investigate the source of the leak what is he hiding. I wish one of the online papers could do us the justice!
Kambwili; a word of advice. UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE BEEN THE START AND THE END OF GOVERNMENTS. so mr big stuff; careful how you handle these young people.
For the first time UNZA students are being invited to remember the less privileged brothers and sisters. It is not acceptable for university students to riot whenever they disagree with government policies and decisions. What is the purpose of electing UNZASU leaders if the student leaders are not given the mandate to engage government on issues of mutual interest? Riots are violent, disruptive and must be not encouraged.
mr kambwili,dont be arrogant like Winter.am sure the way you talk is no different with your enemy.so,sometimes,even when u are saying sense ,it can not be heard.BE CAREFUL,as a leader u need to put down certain BAD habits in u for people to see dignity in u and what u say just the way u say it.People are seeing ,Mind the words u use.Free advise
Kambwili is so arrogant and he thinks he is always right when engaged in debate! He needs to undergo time into a rehab center to manage him on diplomacy and how to express himself vocally and non-verbal (cues – his facial expressions when speaking is full of anger and his gesticulating is that of a pompous street child). Yes I watched him last night, and he was ‘daring’ the UNZA students. He comes out more of a cadre than a leader and this personally makes me very worried. I wonder whether he has any advisers, I guess they are scared of his intimidating nature.
The University of Zambia which on the Webmetrics ranking of world universities ranked UNZA 66th (how many countries are in Africa) in Africa and 3,970 in the world has never stopped to amaze me. They protest on trial issues. Why have they not protested on lack involvement by our engineers and students of engineering on the two ultra-modern stadiums by the Chinese? Who will built one in Chipata, Nakonde, Namwala etc when we need one there? Why have these students not protest on their curriculum that do not prepare them to turn cotton into a suit or blanket, copper into a cathode, an egg into a chicken in 6 weeks? Why do they not protest on importation of socks, toothpicks, ear-sticks, etc. ? Why the so called intellectuals?And they protest they destroy people’s cars which are hard…
point on that 1..its lik they go there for allowances only
The worst behaved university students in the world! Sons and daughters of leaked exams at G12!!
Icisushi nangu cifulwe shani teti citule kaputula
If UNZA students are to be respected by the Government and Society at large, they should start behaving like Educated fellows and not like Kaponyas from the streets.
Stoning and Breaking innocent peoples Cars, and burning tires on the road resolves nothing. If anything it causes more harm to society and creates unnecessary panic in the public.Suppose the Cars they broke and burnt belonged to their own parents or relatives, how would they feel? In our African Culture, anyone who’s of your Mother’s or Father’s age is your Mother and Father respectively, The fact that the Cars they damaged did not belong to their Biological relatives does not make it right for them to DAMAGE.
Fellow Bloggers, lets not support such actives from our higher learning institution.
Who made this BUFFOON Minister of Education. …he lamentably failed at Foreign affairs, performed disgracefully at Labour. He is a big id.oit at Sports…..this is what happens when we have a deadwood patient in State House imbeciles like Chisamba step up.
To hell with these useless UNZA students. They are all products of leakage @grade 12. No wonder their thinking is so shallow. The fulls will always resort to violence and stoning the tax payers cars when they cant argue a point. Ba fi color always cause confusion when thee exams are near because they are not ready to write. Let the fulls know that taxpayers spend lots of money on them and they should therefore appreciate the sacrifice. Chishimba Kambwili is very right. We shall not tolerate the nonsense anymore…….ku ba pononna fye next time.
The students must ask the nurses at UTH. We are a serious govt. Twalaisala ka UNZA for 4 years! After all there are a lot of private universities now that can give us quality graduates unlike the feaces we get from UNZA!!
Kambwili is very correct & right on this one at last.For sure UNZA riots have been inimical to our social-economic development endeavour.No grudge of any kind as being perceived by some single minded bloggers.Those students found wanting must be severely punished.UNZA Management must impart viable & progressive social norms to these airheads during orientations or as a compulsory course.And this calls for UNZA faculties or curriculum overhaul.Most of these students from UNZA are social misfits & irresponsible in society-do a research & you will agree with the stance of Kambwili.
This is a sign of total degeneration in our governance system. We have no government but a bunch of dysfunctional morons brought together by a talkative populist who equally is as empty as his minions. How can a minister running a ministry outside education directly engage the students? Why can they not resolve this issue ministry to ministry including UNZA management. This is a totally failed government that needs to be booted out quickly
You are opposite of your name. you should read facts before talking from without. Kambwili has clearly disagreed to engage the STUDENTS as it is not necessary, its not his job neither is it his level nor is it his jurisdiction. what the students need to do is first to consult UNZA management before running to to street to cause havoc and mayhem in the streets like thugs
Can the Police service raise another MAN like the late. Wazangaza Ng’uni? We shouldn’t be having such no sense from these boys and girls. They need a strong hand like Wazangaza.Ng’uni. They need to be whipped. Hon.Kambwili is very right in all senses. Viva Chishimba Kambwili, Viva PF
AS A FORMER UNZA STUDENT , I AM ASHAMED AT THE BEHAVIOR OF SOME STUDENTS WHEN AGRIEVED ! HOWEVER , THAT IS THE NATURE OF MOB PSYCHOLOGY !
ON THE COMMONWEALTH YOUTH CENTRE , THE FACT IS THAT IT IS NOT PART OF UNZA ( LIKE IT OR NOT ) !
Honorable please baptize those good for nothing students. I agree with you 100% you are my favorite Minister
Brother Kambwili, do not relent. Deal wth those savage manered students who think the have a right to do what ever they want. Who do they think they are. They survive on government bursaries but damage private property for tax payers. Expel the whole lot if need be. After all we have more than enough half baked “graduates” roaming the streets!!
1. Any sane Zambian would agree with Kambwili on this issue, especially if they watched his interview and the facts he presented.
2. Its high time students realised that they are intellectuals and not rebels
BR
bane kambwili is right. if only unza students can understand how hard it is to find money in zambia they wud av lent to appreciate the govt for any help they recieve. we are tired ukumfwa ama riot every time from pipo we are helping. bushe takwabako any other way these boys and girls can use to complain apart from ulubuli? pipo we must surely cheak this out pantu one daythe riot will be so bad that we will loose innocent lives. kambwili am personally behind yu.
It seems a lot of people including Kambwili are very ignorant about the centre. A lot of info is hidden. In the first place, unless he was there in 1979, (I never saw him there). Poverty can make people being cheated, that’s why 90% of my ‘learned’ friends can never come back.
Imagine yourself driving along great east road with your hard earned cash hoping to pay for insurance on the Motor Vehicle cover. Student are very upset with one or two things and there you are face to face with them. They are ready to strike … you lose your car!!! What would be wrong in you saying Kambwili is right about UNZA Students being irresponsible in their act of violence. Come on guys, UNZA students are not the only deserving Youths in the country. They’d better show their so called intellect. A kaponya on the street is equally a deserving youth as you guys. Are you truly intellectuals or you are just claiming to be?
Shame on you. Do you even know why we allow you to chew our tax- the money we contribute towards your welfare (BC)? You can do better. Your friends want to…
Ba Kambwili Mwachepa sana what you are talking about is too big for you just shut UP
I have read most blogs with a little bit of awe: It is amazing how we veer off course and begin to attack the messenger while neglecting the message. Very few have even bothered to collate what they heard as transcript and what they have read here on LT. Those who watched were concentrating on the posturing and “arrogance” of the Minister and not his message or debate. Sometimes it is small wonder we are still in the wild, calling for a constitution that will allow mayhem and anarchy such as the destruction of private and public property under the pretext of entrenched behaviors! Pathetic!
Where is Dr Eustace Wabo by the way; always enjoy his postings! Yes – we need to contextualize what that MoU says. Lets confirm whether or not the Commonwealth has ceased all operations and what it means therefore to “hand back the CYP Center”. After this, let us consider what it really means to use the stoning of private property and by extensions citizens when we are aggrieved. Are they to join us a la ISIS-style or is that a way of ensuring there are implicit hostages so that our demands can be swiftly acceded to? I think thence lies the tale – it would be nice to consider these matters with sobriety.
I personally like Kambwili’s way of dealing with these kids. The fact that a number of them have found their way through leakage to that institution does not give them any right whatsoever to damage other peoples properties. What they need to understand is that the PF way of sorting issues is a panga for panga. Of course if they can demonstrate peacefully with placards stating their grievances no one would really be against them but the chaps most of the time would go to block the main way to and from town in the name of showing their anger and damage other peoples cars. Personally I have hated this for the past 15 years and I have lived waiting for this moment when they have finally been told off by their like mind in the name of Kambwili. For now they bette study and concentrate on…
I watched the sunday interview and to me, Kambwili came out as a panicked person due to his wild gestures and there was a clear disconnect between what he was saying and his body posture. I wonder if the chair was hot or not since he kept on shifting in his seat and glancing sideways once in a while as if he expected a student impi to storm the studio any time! These are clear signs that he was hiding something. How I wish ZNBC could arrange for a debate with Kambwili and one student leader. That is how we can all get a better and balanced picture of this raging issue.
Chishimba means a charm and Kambwili is a hoe, So why does Charm Hoe always have a dictatorial tone. Always very forceful even for things that need humility. Charm Hoe must be stopped some how.
Hon. Kambwili go ahead and instill discipline in UNZA Students. We do not want zambia to produce indisciplined society in future.
Ba LT, Consider posting a vertabim, that way you wont mislead or be accused of misleading anyone. I watched the interview, Kabwili is RIGHT. Why always resort to violence against innocent road users?
Ba intellectual sure… there is nothing INTELLECTUAL about your actions