The ruling Patriotic Front (PF) has been advised to acknowledge the political pedigree former vice president Guy Scott still posses by restoring him to the dignified position of party Vice President.
The opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is urging the ruling PF to keep in mind the fact that Dr. Scott is a founder member of the ruling party.
PDP president George Mpombo has advised the ruling party to overlook its succession wrangles that preceded the January 20, 2015 presidential election and restore Dr. Scott to the position of PF vice president.
Dr. Mpombo has told Qfm News by telephone that the ruling party should restore Dr. Scott to his rightful position in the interest of harnessing peace and unity in the party.
He says if Dr. Scott is not shown the respect he deserves in the Patriotic Front, this will most likely result into discontentment which may not be in the best interest of the ruling party.
Dr Mpombo has also called on PF and Republican President Edgar Lungu to also realize the importance of making Dr. Scott feel part of the new PF administration as opposed to sidelining him.
He says much as it is President Lungu’s prerogative to appoint and disappoint, he should consider brining Dr. Scott closer by giving him a position in government with the purpose of chatting the way forward for the ruling party.
Ba Mwisho, welcome but I miss the adakadabra word for this article. What is the buzz word ba Mwisho? Anyway, well said ba Mwisho. How was prison?
BEING A FOUNDER DOES NOT MEAN U HAVE THE RIGHT TO DESTROY IT FOR SELFISH REASONS, JUST AS A MOTHER HAS NO RIGHT TO KILL HER CHILD FOR SELFISH REASONS. OTHERWISE THAT CHILD WILL BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HER AND BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO CAN TAKE CARE OF IT IN LOVE.
Obviously, Guy Scott gave you a free ticket out of jail and logic will dictate that you remain indebted to him for ever.
However, ECL has told you that it would be inappropriate for him to have his former boss under him and that makes perfect sense. Guy Scott is now old and should just retire. It is time all the all people start playing the elder statemen’s roles that boot lick the one famous Munkombwe. Guy Scott needs to move on. he has served his time from 1991. It is time for new blood please. I wouldn’t want my son to be my boss in life. That is a compromised reletionship and ECL sees it the same way. He can only go to Guy Scott for advise and not give him a job and am sure Guy Scott is smart enough to understand this. That is why he is not making noise about it.
He demoted himself when he voted for UPND last january
The country has gone to dogs, no wonder I’ve joined the The Rainbow Pary. One of my main reason is the attitude towards Dr Guy Scott by President Dental Formula. The Rainbow Party base in the North East including DC is growing fast. The PF party is only in the dumb south of USA. Watch out 2016.
Dear President Dental Formula, The King Cobra entrusted with a good mark but there’s no continuation loyalty. If you had shared a lot of ideas with the late President Sate, then little changes could’ve been possible to the cabinet. You’ve just wasted tax payers money for all those changes. And big mistake, treating Dr Guy Scott like he has ceased to to exist. So get this message, we not gonna smack you from the back of your small head but face you in 2016. Mind you, there will be more than enough international observers. We The Rainbow Party are getting stronger each day.
One = advise
Two or more= pieces of advise
Lusaka times = advises?
President Dental Formula, you visit to USA/Whitehouse will be highly COLD. Just ask theate president way better than you, FTJ was treated like that because he refused to be a puppet of those who helped him kick KKs behind. Now you, less than 3 months in office with multiple screw ups. What a mess in the copper rich nation. And do not even try to ignore my message.
MR MPOMBO, THE SOMBRE PART IS THAT YOU DID NOT AMELIORATE APROPOSLY. THIS IS SOMEWHAT BROVIATED. PLEASE BRICOLAGE IT WITHOUT HUBRIS.
Thank you
Mwisho you will forever be indebted to sikote for that presidential pardon. But lets not forget he tried very hard to destroy PF.
PF has been hijacked, period! Where’s Sata, Guy and Kabimba are out of the picture. Someone needs to pay a huge ransom to get it back.
Mpombo is right – please appoint Guy Scott as party vice-president and also as PF Chief Whip in Parliament!
History has the tendency to repeat itself.. Guy and others who founded MMD were hounded out of the party by chancres. WHERE is MMD today.?
Guy scott is a danger to the security of the nation. He cant be trusted because of his alliance with rainbow party. I dont see pf to be the ones side lining guy buy its the other way round. If he is brought closer to govt he may start leaking state secrets to the oppositions.
Why, there are more unpalatable secrets in PF?
What do you mean exactly by saying “Guy scott is a danger to the security of the nation” by your suspicion that he is a member of the Rainbow party??
The Rainbow party is not an enemy of Zambia but a competitor in Zambia’s political market. We are not all dull. Stop misleading the nation. This is a multi-party democracy. Pity that PF is busy trying to re-introduce one party state.
THE SAME GUY SCOT TEAMED WITH KABIMBA TO FORM THE “ANTI-PF” STRUCTURE WITHIN THE PF WHILE MCS WAS STILL RULING. TODAY THAT STRUCTURE HAS COME OUT AS “RAINBOW PARTY”. AND PRIOR TO 20TH JAN ELECTIONS “PF” TRIED SO HARD TO LOSE ELECTIONS, AND THEY NARROWLY WON-ALL THIS COZ OF THE THEN “GUY-PF”, THE MAN WAS ON THE VERGE OF BLOTTING OUT THE PF. THIS IS AMONG OTHER REASONS WHY HE WAS REMOVED FROM PARTY VP
Edgar Lungu can’t listen to any advice,He is preoccupied to crush all the people that he felt stood in his way as a stumbling block to become republican president.Pf members should brace themselves for more expulsion from the pf party.
Well we all know that he pardoned yu and had yu released from prison. When yu were in jele (jerabo) guy scot did alot of harm to the pf. He even appeared like he was protecting abuse of state resources from being used during campaigns , tho good but the intention was aimed at making sure that ecl had no chance of winning. It was the patriotic zambians and RB who gave the much needed muscle to pf to see it win. Just recruit him in yo party and give him that dignity.
EL has nit fired Muzungu wopusa.
All he has done is not to allow himself over Muzungu wopusa.
Wopusa ni wopusa. Sangachinje yayi. Ni wopusa
Further EL is smart with management etiquette. Wopusa having been is boss before will not inspire loyalty from wopusa in EL.
For Pete’s sakes, LT it is CHARTING the way forward not CHATTING!!! Eish – have you thought of perhaps converting this into the vernacular? If you want to believe in something (in this case, using English as a medium) you must believe in it COMPLETELY!!! Yesus Kristus!
How about “he should consider brining Dr. Scott”??
Will immersion in a bath of salt improve him?
In-fact Mr Mpombo should know that Scott released him and masumba to cause harm to EL just like on the retirement age issue. But Zambians are not in 1930 when whatever his father did was seen as working for blacks. Zambians know that Scott thinks that PF is what it is because of him. Far from it. PF is what it is because of SATA simple message of delivering to the people not complicated message.
OUR ORGANIZASTION IS STRONGLY OPPOSED TO INTEGRATE THIS GUY SCOT. HIS HATE ON PRESIDO LUNGU IS IMMEASURABLE. HE DIDNT WANT NOT EVEN ITS SLIGHTEST POSSIBILITY FOR LUNGU TO BE PRESIDENT. WHY BRINGING A DANGEROUIS PERSO NEAR BY?
MPOMBO SENTIMENT IS DUE TI HIS BY PADONED BY SCOT. THAT SHOULD NOT OVERLOOK FOR SCOT’s HATE AND ILL TRAETMENT TO LINGU AND PF PRIOR TO ELECTIONS.
GS did not behave in dignified manner during PF leadership wrangles. He hence deserve none.
IS DR.KAUNDA ,THE first ZAMBIAN REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT A TRUE CHRISTIAN ?HIS IS ALWAYS SILENT ON CRITICAL ISSUES E.G THE POLITICAL VIOLENCE ,THE BAROTSE AGREEMENT.I HAVE NOW BELIEVED WHY OUR FORMER PRESIDENT DID NOT RECEIVE HONOURS OF THE LIKES OF DESMOND TUTU AND NELSON MANDELA.
Barotse is long gone issue. WP is more than Lozi so don’t even talk about Barotse. Why do yu think it has not happened up to now? Its for the simple reason that its implementable, cannot be implemented without causing disturbances to others, the Nkoyas for instance, Mbundas etc
Scott didn’t play his ball well. This is the main reason he has very few critical PF members out on a limb for him.
Muzungu Opusa should not be any where near corridors of power. This Guy Scott nearly destroyed PF
Ba Mpombo but why..? We are in a democracy and we should get used to seeing change and move away from the “wamuyaayaa” type of thinking and leadership! Guy Scott is not the first nor the only one to loose a cabinet or VP position! There are others left out of EL’s cabinet and EL has his reasons for that! The only thing EL should avoid is to discuss Guy in “bad taste” and just leave him as he is- an ordinary but respected founder member of PF to avoid unnecessary frictions and to respect the reconciliation that was brokered by the church!Guy Scott is on his way out politically so there is no real need to keep referring to him.He did his part and if he was very popular PF members would by now agitating for his reinstatement the way they did when he(Guy)fired EL!
George Mpombo is speaking sense for the first time in many years!
Yes mr bombastic u r very right on that 1
What dignity you talking about? Has been insulted?
Well said hon Mpombo.
When PF was founded, Guy Scott was in Lima Party. How is he a founder member?
well said, EL has no experience in building anything or organising a party, GS built PF with Sata and hence he knows how to organise a party from the grass routes. EL has just inherited what has already been built by someone and by the look of things he is not a very good public speaker. How is EL going to charm the grass route with his luck of everything. Sate had his mouth and command for the bemba language has his only tool to get to the grass roots and with GS on his side people believed him. Do not under estimate GS without him EL would not be in state house today. Come 2016 is EL still going to be using sata’s portraits for his campaigns to win a sympathy vote. EL should be very careful with his handling of the PF or his hands will get burnt.
mr mphombo just enjoy yo freedom after scott released u from prison. u happy that’s why u talk like that.u were in jail wen yo muzungu brought confusion in the party that is why lungu felt it was un wise to work with someone against him.so leave him alone.
Guy Scott deserves the treatment he is getting right now,I mean this was against the leadership of EL from the beginning regardless of the PF masses being in ELs favour. He once said him and ka Kabimba were the A team of the PF so let him just follow that disgraced politician who was even disowned by his own father. It’s absolute nonsense to expect EL to work with Guy Scott after the way he behaved in the run up to the elections. Even MCS in his last days he never trusted Scott. For your own information had MCS come back alive from London he would have replaced this guy.
If the dead can make it back, Dr Guy Scott would be the VP again. ECL is an animal testicle.
THIS GUY SCOT ACCORDING TO THE CLASSIFICATION AND RATINNG OF FORMER AND PRESENT LEADERS IN VARIOUS PARTIES IS CLASSIFIED UNDER A, “THORNY IN THE EYE AND THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE EXPELLED IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF THE PARTY”.
THIS RATING IS CONSISTENT WITH GUY SCOT’S TREACHEROUS CONDUCT PRIOR TO LAST MONTH’S PRESIDO BY ELECTIONS.
Lungu should learn to work with people who have opposing views. Guy Scott has made immernce contribution to the development of this country. Let us show appreciation for his part. No doubt he is a father of the pf as at the moment.
Guy Scott has no integrity to restore. He is a disgrace to the PF and should just rejoin Rainball or UPND. We don’t need him anywhere near PF even if it means loosing power atase.
its a mistake to sideline Guy Scott. guy is a politician while most of Pf leadership cannot be compared to him when it comes to party mobilization. Pf risk losing members when parliament will be dissolved towards election in 2016. I can see Rainbow gaining ground.
Mr Mpombo is very right.Most people including ordinary people are saying what you mr Mpombo has advised the president.Dr Scot desreves better treatment from current PF leadership.Hes done alot for PF.God is watching.We should learn to respect men of high intergrity.If HE was corrupt Current PF leadership could have recognised him.hIS STANCE OF STANDING FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE HAS MADE HIM NOT TO BE IN GOOD BOOKS WITH EL.SHAME.
Perfectly silly. Nonsense. The worst advice any man of Mpombo’s age can give a younger man!
Guy Scott and His Excellency, are like Oil and Water. They don’t mix. Masebo, Guy Scott should just move on.
Guy Scott has no right to cabinet post on grounds of being a founder member. Fact is, he has the skills to found another party, as he clearly has the skills.
Guy Scott is a dark shady individual that must be removed from political office of any kind. He serves many interests and has a domineering persona that feels entitled. He practises old dirty politics, KUBEBA stylie. His Excellency is spot on. It would be inappropriate to allow Scott back, we are into New Things now. He made Zambians very unhappy.
In any case Zambian political stage is ‘going’ Younger, and…
Zambia does not need tokay old colonial politics. There are Zambians stuck in those times for whom only White is Good. We as a people need to be confident in our right to self rule.
A Presidential visit with Obama will be the greatest. Bring the countries closer. The two will get on mighty fine. They are both dignified people of purpose. In fact Hilary Clinton can just come around and visit us again!
Lungu is not Sata and will never be Sata . Sata saw the true value of Guy Scott and this is why Scott was a chola boy for Sata. Campaigned in areas where he Lungu had never being
Iwe @Nkana Kitwe, I am from Nkana Kitwe and we don’t think like that! Please stop and go away.
Ba Mpombo, Ba Scott baitamfinshe abene.
To make it look likeGuy Scot is the only founding member is not doing justice to those others who have also contributed to the party. Many questions beg serious reflection; why didn’t Sata give him such recognition when in fact he could not even trust him for VIP? In organization leadership I don’t think it Will be right for Lungu to keep a person who kept dismissing him from the party, GS’s loyalty is highly questionable, we all know he supported Winter,Kaseba, Kabimba and many more. If given the power,it’s possible that he can work against Lungu’s leadership.
His behavior cost him – period
Guy Scot’s game ended long before the late President passed on.
He should blame himself for being such a dull person.
He allowed *****s to fold-blind him and then put him between the posts.
He was a ‘fold-blinded goal keeper’. Let him join Kabimba and his rain fimo fimo.
Viva PF…… Viva Edgar C Lungu!!!!!!
2016 tukabwekeshapo!!
a whiteman will always remain a white man in his thinking, working and presentation and you can not take africa from an african evenif you take them to mars they cant change always see things in a negative way. what wrong did scott did to protect the resources has ecl not benefited to start a country with resources. so you wanted alot of liatos to bury all the money which was available. who are benefitting is it scot or zambians?
Is ecl a snake charmer? How can he keep a green snake in the grass? Scott must stay away from the current administration.
People of Zambia why should you follow the tribalist in the name of Mpombo?
Just because virgin nkote is not bemba?
Mpombo is the chief tribalist. He doesn’t want to see a female vp and for that matter a non bemba woman.
I wish NEZ could comment on this one.
George Mpombo (or Duicker)! Of course you would speak for Guy (just let him go Scott free) after all he rescued you from your former residence, chimbokaila which apparently gave you a “hair raising experience”. Agree with you that Lindsey Scott deserves respect from the PF, especially that he was a close buddy of the late King Cobra (MHSRIEP).