Opposition Patriotic Front (PF) Kantanshi Member of Parliament (MP) Yamfwa Mukanga has disclosed that he shall not be a delegate to the National Constitutional Conference (NCC) which starts sitting in Lusaka next week.
Mr. Mukanga who is also PF Chairman for Mines and Minerals Development says his decision is based on merit and principle.
The pronouncement by the law maker now means that he was the only MP from Mufulira who will not sit on the NCC.
He told ZANIS in an interview in Mufulira today that as a God fearing person, he did not want to be part of a group of people who were allegedly only interested in sitting on the NCC primarily for money.
Mr. Mukanga noted that the allownaces being paid to NCC delegates was exaggerated and far too much.
He added that such colossal sums would be alternatively channeled to other needy areas such as poverty alleviation, health and education.
Mr. Mukanga added that it was not in order for its delegates to be paid hefty allowances when Government has been adamant to increase salaries and conditions of services for public service workers.
The Kankoyo MP said if Government reduced the per diem for NCC delegates, a number of participants will shun the NCC sittings.
He further proposed that NCC delegates should instead be paid fifty thousand Kwacha lunch allowance per day to see how genuine and patriotic they were.
Two other PF MPs Marjory Masiye for Mufulira central and Percy Chanda for Kankoyo have already registered as members at the NCC secretariat.
In separate interviews with ZANIS today, the two MPs refused to give details on why they have accepted to sit on the NCC.
MP, Chanda, referred all quieries to Bangweulu PF MP Dr. Peter Machungwa.
And Ms. Masiye said she did not want to wash dirty linen in public as the issue of MPS sitting on the NCC was purely an internal matter.
She added that she had her own personal opinions over her involvement with the NCC.
Yesterday,Spokesperson for PF MPs who have decided to participate in the NCC, Dr Peter Machungwa told the media after the swearing in cermony that it was essential that the PF leaders strengthened the position of those with similar views in the NCC.
Over 300 NCC members were yesterday sworn in at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre by Chief Justice Ernest Sakala.
Meanwhile, Defence Minister George Mpombo says the fact that most Patriotic Front Members of Parliament have registered for the National Constitutional Conference shows that the Patriotic Front was at its crossroads.
Mr Mpombo commended the PF MPs for the stance they had taken saying they had not allowed to be ruled by dictatorship.
”The Patriotic Front had called on its people to boycott the NCC process but most people have
registered. This means that the party is at crossroads,” he said.
Mr Mpombo was speaking in Livingstone yesterday when he officially closed the Zambia-Mozambique Joint Permanent Commission on defence and security at Chrismar Hotel.
He said MPs were elected by people adding that they had demonstrated the confidence bestowed on them by their electorates adding that the MPs had also demonstrated the confidence they had in government.
Mr Mpombo also said the NCC process had started on a resounding note adding that a lot of people had registered to take part in the process which was unparalled in the history of the country.
He said the broad based representation that had been captured had restored the confidence the people of Zambia had in the process.
”In any society, there are divergent views but they cant stand for the majority,” he said.
On Wednesday, twenty-seven PF MPs registered for the NCC in defiance of Party President Micheal Sata who warned of their expulsion.
Masiye (Muf central) is very honest. Her decision to take part in NCC is personal. As personal as her bank account! She is obviously just there for the money.
Mukanga is sincere, why pay people 46m/m when it can be used better elsewhere? PF manisefto was clear that it will not take part in ZCID (which has now become NCC) and these MP got voted for this (among other things). PF MP’s declined to take part, but now that there is 46mill per month they are taking part. Thats all that has changed.
Thanks honorable for having decided not to be part and parcel of that day light corruption.There is no way people will get such collosal amounts of money just for sitting in while poverty is the order of the day.
#2 che
It is truly immoral for anyone to get that amount of money in the misdt of povery, the other PF MPs will not even be able to achieve the party’s position on the constition. 20 out of 338. What came out of Levy’s Ndaba in 2002? nothing. Same here. Daylight plunder of 299billion and an attemp to disabilse the opposition.
Bravo brother Mukanga, trully you are patriotic. Zambians, Zambians is this the way these politicians are going to rob this nation. These laws they cleated in order to deny the average Zambians panadol in hospital and desks in a school in Luangeni, Shang’ombo, Kaputa, Zambezi in favour of their hefty allowances will definitely backfire in their face. Look at them so called NCC delegates, you are not even ashamed of your self. If I may ask ‘why are you being paid? what work have you undertaken?
NCC and MMD plunderers do you know what you doing to the economy? Watch for your self the ‘opportunity cost’ of diverting all those resources in the name of Levy’s constitution. I challenge you all to go to E11/E12 at UTH let alone Mwinilunga district hospital and see for yourself the magnitude of the opportunity really lost. Selfish leadership, what a shame.
The NCC was supposed to be enshrined in Parliament in the first place, that is why “we the people” send them there. It shouldn’t be an additional task for an MP.
As Mpombo, how can he making partisan comments at the Zambia-Mozambiquen Commission meeting? That’s not what tax payers sent him to do?
These are all politics of poverty!
The people demanded for the best options to adopt the Constitution.MMD said it was very expensive to adopt it by the people’s wishes. The amount of being spent on the NCC is way too collosal. Now we see the use of the policy of appeazement to entice people to be part of the constiution making process. Some of these MPs do not know what they have been elected for but the focus is on $$$.Shame upon the MMD and all the selfish leaders.
Zambians, is this what you call democracy? Paying people 46 million kwacha in order to accept your selfish constitution! Pastors, is this what you call a Christian nation? See for yourselves how this 46 metre has divided the three church mother bodies! Pastors see how you have betrayed our own country to this shameless govt. Come on Zambians, let us say no to NCC. Levy you will pay for this when you leave office.
Mpombo,Mpombo, Mpombo, Mpombo, Mpombo iyampanga. What kind of a leader are you. Shame on you. You are a shame to yo children and to the Nation.
Vita Mufulira MP. You shall not take part in the SINS of iMpombo and LPM
Bravo Mukanga.Lust for money should be pursued in business enterprises not in politics. Good strategy too, because once the 25MPs are expelled then they lose their seats/allowances from the infamous NCC too. It is incredible how greed can block mental faculties of even for Phd holders; to fail to see this consequence. As for those in Lusaka & CB, farewell to Manda hill. Try SIDO churches & fake NGO’s for easy money. Rural MPs where MMD uses fertiliser & salt to buy votes try your luck with LPM
Uncle Dee mpombo is indeed iyampanga! i hope this will be his last term in public office? his one individual that lacks both shame and character? such people can go to the extreme of sucking their old mother’s breast just to have the charm to please LPM? he’s such a loser? i wish somebody could pounce on his wife or something. his such a disgrace! his a two time loser. we don’t need people like him politics? his not even worth of a ward chairman! chipuba sana..! i wish he dies poor?
I glad that alot of people are realizing that our government is wasting alot of money on unproductive issues. what happened to honorable men and women? individuals with heart and true dedication? individuals with a conscience and compasion. are becoming a by-product of the free market economy or what? where is our humanity? As the zambian political scene is full of individuals powered by greed? scandals in the public office are now rampant? who would dare to do such a thing during KK’s era?
greed..greed…greed? let us put a halt to this social problem that zambia is experiencing.
My party is finished? i hope sata will truimph come what may rain or sunshine.
I would be very proud and happy if the NCC was held at some learning institution and used the money being spent to improve facilities there in, such as putting new catering equipment and beds, improving the ablutions and the like. Its time to forget luxury and go for simplicity, but stay focused on goals. Instead we have a leadership soaked in the peacefulness of Zedians, and take it for granted to justify immoral and greedy behavior at the expense of nation’s development
stupid MP how can you leave 47 million.what are you going to feed your family with.just go and get the money even though chaps will despise you its okay after all the are the ones you will be representing
PF just locked in a long term rivalry,MMD strategies from overseas and around the country late December 2007 starts convening in Livingston for a strategists, fundraising, campaigning and consesus resolution for their 2011 frontrunner.By the time PF reorganises itself, time will be up.Its a “catch 22”.
Honestly mwebantu 46mil per month!!How long will be this Ncc sitting?Use this 46mil to buy insulin you will see how many lives will be saved.Basa mali ngu satan!!Jesus christ was given away by Judas because of money.This money will haunt these people who are receiving it because someone somewhere is dying due to lack of drugs or transport to take them to hospitals.Well done to those who have said no to this satanic money.
Politics is truly a dirty social science I will never join. PF has just been locked up in a long term rivalry fiascal, MMD strategists from overseas and around the country late December 2007 starts convening in Livingston on fundraising, reorganization, campaigning and consensus resolution for their 2011 frontrunner yet to be filtered to delegates before the convention. By the time PF reorganizes itself, time will be up for Decision 2011.This is a “catch 22†for Sata and our opposition politics
Chuchu needs to be canned 12 strokes on the battocks sure mwandi for mis use of funds
Chuchu must pay back this money he’s misusing in the name of this stupid NCC, this is plundering of our resources of waste kind.Why not diverty this money to hospitals and buy drugs to save million zambians.justice lewanika died in SA, if our hospitals were well equipped the money used to take lewanika to SA could have been spend on buying more drugs in our hospitals, but the so called new dealers are spending millions on the unproductive NCC,Shame on muwelewele and his Mad Muwelewele Devils
zambians will never,never ever again dream of getting
a good govt like that of kk.what has happened to the
hour?.or where has the hour gone.NCC are well trained
(kafupi)boys.that’s why you have failed to put (kafupi)
on trail.these are still same pipo doing what kafupi
was doing.so remeber that as long as there’s no law in
in zambia,swindling will never get finished.
I agree with Dr Bush, country men is it not Machungwa who was in front of kafupi’s third term now trying to blew confusions in PF, Hon SATA wed them out before its too late.Which pipo are they representing when they are there for self gains, Shame on Elizabeth Chitika too,
I have copies of the said allowances and related materials for NCC, and I am distributing these copies to offices of the World Bank here in Washington DC. I will be going round the Embassies here to distribute these copies so that they see how their money donated to Zambia is being used. Day light robbery by Mwanawasa. I urge the would- be next- President of Zambia to come and charge Chuchu with this plunder of national resources. There’s no genuiness in those plunderers, so called delegates.
Yamfwa you are truly a Zambia and you care for the people of Muf.Percy and marjory should be ashame for pocketing K46million per month when where they come from there is misary.Ba Sata let us do the Chimumbwa way so that we can get people who represent the wishes of the people they represent.
What cheap propaganga ba Mukanga, If indeed your reason for refusing to participate in the NCC is the huge amount of money being paid to the delegates, then why don,t you participate but refuse to collect the allowances.Then people will know that you are a principled person. But I am sure your wife and children are cursing you for being such a foolish man who refuses to add to the comfort of his family genuinly. Shame….
King David..! extracts from: On Becoming a Leader:The Leadership Classic. “In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who will inherit the future. The learned (sata)will find themselves equiped to live in a world that no longer exists.”
“We are a generation raised on the bizarre propostion that leadership should be equated with popularity….Presidents an prime ministers are not chosen to seek popularity. they arre chosen to provide leadership. there are times when voters must be told not
(cont)what they want to hear but they have to know…time is ally of leaders who place the defence of principle ahead of the pursuit of popularity.”Brian Mulroney former canadian prime minister, 2001. cheers!
These are real men we need to rule us.
Eastern Power #27,28 Well put. Citizen #26 if you have run out of answers just keep quiet. Greed whether to enrich oneself or one’s family should be pursued by engaging in business enterprises not in politics. You are just confirming that all those that are attending the NCC are doing for their pockets & they dont give a f**k what type of costitution they puke.
# 30 Theo
Using your own vulgar language , what the F**K IS more important the constitution or the allowances being given. If indeed Mukanga is principle why not the F**K attend the NCC without collecting allowances then we shall all know that he indeed has got the country at heart. Let him be a volunteer,S**t.
Citizen# Don’t get emotional! Why should one attend a conference were one group already outnumbers the rest by an inbuilt majority. Why be an accessory to the crime of plunder? Why legitimize/rubber stamp what you dont believe in? You are either in it all or out of it.
who are you killing just attend the ncc and get the money,
who are you kidding just attend the ncc and get the money,
who are you kidding just attend the ncc and get the money,than been sorry at night and asking yourself why,
guess# 36 You dont get it. There is a catch.These former PF wont even get they money they gluttonously hoped they would get. They will be expelled and automatically loose the priviledge of sitting on NCC. No allowances, no manda hill, what next? Aiish!! Perhaps make a family political party!!
This is an opportunity for his excellency, the right honorable Michael Chilufya Sata to replace all those who are not loyal to the PF party with fresh young talent. 20 somethings sits are up for grabs in PF strong hold areas. Replace them all!!
Viva PF Viva Mukanga Viva Sata
Mulongoti and Mpombo are elated; They are hitting the headlines in all media; the strategy of bribing PF MP’s is working. And the moment for sharing the “CUTS†after the hunting trip (NCC Act) is finally here. It is such a humongous elephant you these guys killed (300 billion kilos). Man you are great poachers. How did you guys manage down such a large one!!Make sure you chew everything including bones and teeth because ZAWA may be on your trail after 2011!!
Mulongoti and Mpombo have reached orgasmic excitement; They are hitting the headlines in all media; the strategy of bribing PF MP’s is working. And the moment for sharing the “CUTS†after the hunting trip (NCC Act) is finally here. It is such a humongous elephant you these guys killed (300 billion kilos). Man you are great poachers. How did you guys manage down such a large one!!Make sure you chew everything including bones and teeth because ZAWA may be on your trail after 2011!!
Chuchu will be haulted to death with this kind of money is plundering from zedian pipo, who are dying every money bcoz there is no medicines in our hospitals. The money is being given to few individuals for brides by so called Mad Muwelewele Devils party.
ba sata this is yuor end . if yuo expell the mps just know that your political career is finished . it is clear that sata is a dictator by he way he is dealing with trhe issue .