The National Constitutional Conference (NCC) which began sitting on Wednesday this week, has adjourned until January after making headway on the proceedings of the conference.
And Zambia Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) President Leonard Hikaumba has scooped the position of the Vice Chairperson along with Patriotic Front (PF) Matero Member of Parliament Faustina Sinyangwe and Katombola Member of Parliament Regima Musokotwane.
The conference which was officially opened by President Levy Mwanawasa has since appointed the chairperson, the three Vice chairpersons and the spokesperson.
The conference chaired by Lusaka Prominent Lawyer Chifumu Banda also appointed an interim committee that will constitute rules which will govern the proceedings of the conference.
The 15 member committee headed by Lusaka Lawyer Dr. Patrick Matibini is expected to formulate rules that are subject to approval by the conference when it reconvenes on January.
The committee that includes members from the Church and Civil Society is comprised of prominent persons that include Lawyer Nelly Miti, Stanely Muhango from Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP), Bonnie Tembo from Anti- Voter Apathy (AVAP) and politician Dante Saunders.
Announcing the adjournment, NCC chairperson Mr. Banda said the conference would only convene for four days in January next year so as to allow MPs to attend the official opening of Parliament.
Mr. Banda further called on the MPs who would want to be part of the committee to be constituted to submit their CVs to the secretariat.
He said the conference did not want to put people in the committees who would be handicapped in their execution of duties.
The NCC, expected to sit for one year, would debate and adopt the Mung’omba Draft constitution which will be presented to parliament for enactment.
Some of the issues contained in the draft constitution that the NCC is to debate include the bill of rights and its enforcement, citizenship, economic and social rights, representation of people and public finance and budget.
Others issues are Political parties fund and registration, executive, legislative, judiciary, Chieftaincy and house of chiefs land and property and environment and natural resources.
Meanwhile, ZCTU president Leonard Hikaumba has scooped the Vice Chairmanship of the NCC.
He emerged victor after beating the only other contestant, University of Zambia (UNZA) Students Union president Saje Samuwika.
Mr. Hikaumba polled 373 votes while his rival polled 50 votes, bring the total number of voters cast to 423 .
Mrs. Sinyangwe polled 347 , Mrs Musokotwane 322 and Ms. Miti 132.
The results were announced by Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) returning officer Joselyne Mubita.
Speaking after the elections, Mr. Hikaumba said he was humbled by the outcome of the elections.
He said the NCC had the challenge of giving the Zambian people a document they have been looking forward to for a long time.
Mrs. Musokotwane pledged to work as a team in coming up with the constitution that will stand the test of time.
Mrs. Musokotwane, who disclosed that she was sure of scooping the position, said time has come for the country to come up with good constitution.
She said Zambia has been a shining example in many areas in the region hence should be an example of the good constitution.
Ms. Sinyangwe said she was humbled by the confidence people have show in her to contribute to the constitution making process.
She said the task given to her was a big challenge but stated that she would pray to God to give her the wisdom to deliver to the expectation of the Zambian people.
This thing will run for one year!!! Wow, ba Kapala mwafola ai? K46 million x 12 months=K552 million. What a nice time to be UNZASU president. Nice annual income. At today’s exchange rate it’s US $145 000 I work for Fortune 500 compnay in the US and only get a $ 65 000 gross annual salary. Is there a vacancy on the NCC? How about those that did not take up their positions? Am more than happy to replace them. Is the door still open?
Slowly but sure our obsession and blind inclination to tribal allegiance is isolating and eroding our Bemba place in the Zambian Governance system.We’ve been useless and undesirable.Zambia has started progressing without us due to our foolishness. Its evident that the country is holding well without our input.This is clearly a self created dilemma. I foresee a Zambia without Bembas’input.
Here is more evidence.Sata is a jerk he has destroyed the Bemba standing in society.
Congratulation to the NCC leadership and abash Sata and Masalamusi on LT buying THE BOYCOTT fantasy. One Zambia One Nation.
This kind of progress we want actually the day KK will die he will be a happy man becuase of kind of wisdom he has instilled in the Zambian people. Thank God we are moving in the right directión soon Zambia will be a strong nation. #SampaKapasamaka dont cry to much bembas are not excluded what ever out of this document it will be for the Zambians made by Zambians instead of a copy right constitution we have from Britain which has no constitution in real sense. Remember united we stand divided we
fall. Sata and his cronies should start looking for a new citizenship in Taipe may he can suit very well.
Sampa,
Glad you have come to ralise that Sata is a jerk and most of your people are a legion of thieves not meant for top level leadership. welcome to the new Zambian order. Sanitize yourselves from the Luapulan lazy and plundering spirit that has infested you chaps. Then only will we consider one of the descent your people will float 25 years from 2011.Its pleasing Zambians have realised who have been stealing and mounted power sanctions silently.Congrats NCC & Zambians the future is bright.
I just want to know what happens after a year, deos it mean we have the new cosititution there and then, and all the deligates will go back homes with a new costitution or it goes to parliament, and then, the president for assentire, tell me please.
If the later is going to apply, then i think, we zambians are FOOLS and need to go back and start living in the bush with monkeys or bring back our colonizers( britain and queen)
Iwe #7jb After deliberations I hope you have 5 senses. When the NCC is over the document will hand over to the court and they have to prove it and make a certification. If there any undesirable context the court can disapprove this and throw it. It will go back to the NCC for rewriting. There after it passed to parliament as bill and it has to pass all the three stages
before the president signs it. For South Africa it took them two years to come up with the current of the constitution which
one of the best in the world
# 2 Stop cheating abantu no bupuba bobe. And all your supposedly conmen that are posing with you with comments. Why are you emphasizing repeatedly who you are not? Ubupuba.
Sampa, please cut the tribal talk. Look at the subject above and make appropriate comments.
Well, by the look of things we are headed in some direction, where am not to sure but the train has started moving to Constitution Stop our final stop. But sitting for one whole year, my God, thats heaps of money for these MPs and delegates. I am away for 2days, going with wife to an rottnest island. Best of luck boys and gals. Ciao
If it took south africa two years to come up with one which is the best in the world then it should take zambians less than a month to come up with one coz we have been in this game for a long time and we know what we want, sa was coming from a time of aparthied and we have been free since 24/10/1964, easy wake up, there are no boars and mukoto wasizwe in zambia, we are not trying to reconsil anyone here, the fact is, we know what works,so why waste time. Fools we are zambians,43 yrs of peace.
Sata can’t be entrusted to lead Zambia, says Nawakwi
Sata cannot be entrusted to lead Zambia because he has no solutions for the country’s problems going by the way he handles things, Forum for Development and Democracy
Sata is jerk period.
All Sata bootlickers,
I know this denounciation on Sata and you his surrogate dimwits here is beyond your comprehension.Sata is jerk he has destroyed our nationalist reputation. He dreams he could rule Zambia on tribal lines.You may have not head his lies and tribalism over Dr. Bwalya Ng’andu and Sebastian Kopulande’s retirement. It took these men to denounce his tribalism blantantly. Then he started lies of family tree using his dogs Masalamusi here.He is a jerk.Mama Nawakwi has just nailed it
I am Prag Chipumbu posing as “Sampa!”
Ok twasumina, Sata ni jerk, elyo Sampa ni mbwa!
Well, in my perspective I see that the PF’s problems are faction is beyond self comforting fantasy. Sata thrives on a false personal belief based on incorrect inference about external realities that are firmly against him at national level. His bootlickers online led by a Chapi the mutant, have an acute issue related to mind” deficit and reasoning bias. They see hope even where there is a debilitating crisis impossible to jump out without destroying their whole structure.
Well, in my perspective I see that the PF faction problems are beyond self comforting fantasy seen here. Sata thrives on a false personal belief based on incorrect inference about external realities that are firmly against him at national level. His bootlickers online led by a Chapi the mutant, have an acute issue related to mind” deficit and reasoning bias. They see hope even where there is a debilitating crisis impossible to jump out without destroying their whole structure.
Madam Nawakwi,TJ Kaunda, Saki,Ngondo and BY are indeed proven patriots with wisdom far much sound than Sata.I implore every fellow patriots that access this message in the ruling MMD and other entities to acknowledge to these leeaders that we treasure their patriotism and national leadership across the board.
Madam Nawakwi has a lot of wisdom. No wonder Sata aimed his murdering panga on her neck in Chawama to eliminate this frank rebuke. That is typical of Dictators when faced with the intelligentsia. Amin, Bokasa, Mobutu Pinochet all did that.What a party to support.
SATA CAN’T BE ENTRUSTED TO LEAD ZAMBIA, SAYS NAWAKWI (Post Newspaper Z)
Sata cannot be entrusted to lead Zambia because he has no solutions for the country’s problems going by the way he handles things, Forum for Development and Democracy (FDD) president Edith Nawakwi has said. She said at the Zambia Centre for Inter-party Dialogue (ZCID) meeting this year, Sata – together with other party presidents – agreed to the formation of NCC. She said it was a matter of surprise to note that Sata had af
Nawakwi said when Sata realised that the Church and some Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) were boycotting, he decided to side with them. Nawakwi said the Church and the NGOs had valid reasons to boycott the NCC sittings while Sata had not advanced convincing reasons for his decision.
The decision to join NCC is a conscious decision and that is why Parliament asks for a two-thirds majority when voting on constitutional matters. All members of PF should just come forward and participate,” Nawakwi said. “We are fighting to stop the mutilation of the Republican constitution. I therefore don’t expect Sata to lead the country looking at the way he handles things.
He is displaying the highest kind of political rhetoric and he doesn’t have any solution for taking the country out of the current political and economic problems. All those MPs and councillors from his party should just come to the NCC because it is the people they represent who chose them and not Sata. I personally think Sata doesn’t deserve the expenditure of time and talk he has had in the recent past.”
Nawakwi said during the fight against the third term in 2001, Sata was at the helm of expulsions of 22 members of parliament from MMD hoping that he would become party president.
Nawakwi said when Sata noticed that he could not become MMD president, he was the last one to leave the party just like he was the last one to join MMD from UNIP in 1991. She further said the most important aspect of the constitution-making process was to ensure that a compromise was found over contentious issues to se
–over contentious issues to secure Zambia’s future. Nawakwi said it was not right that every ten years, Zambians should be discussing the Constitution and that the NCC had provided an important platform to iron out the issues.
“We need to focus on how our children will live after us,” she said. “We should avoid the danger of going through a failed state. I have seen many countries on the continent that have gone through failed states have suffered and we wouldn’t want to pass through such. We need to look at how government institutions would be strengthened to enable them work effectively.”
Nawakwi said there was need to look at the security of tenure of the judiciary and an independent Parliament but that this could only be possible by having a constitution spelling out the rights of individuals. She further said it was up to the government to reach out to organisations and individuals that had boycotted the NCC sittings due to some misgivings in the process.
Nawakwi is a wise woman.
Nawakwi said during the fight against the third term in 2001, Sata was at the helm of expulsions of 22 members of parliament from MMD hoping that he would become party president.
That is Chapi’s President
Nawakwi said during the fight against the third term in 2001, Sata was at the helm of expulsions of 22 members of parliament from MMD hoping that he would become party president. Nawakwi said when Sata noticed that he could not become MMD president, he was the last one to leave the party just like he was the last one to join MMD from UNIP in 1991.
She further said the most important aspect of the constitution-making process was to ensure that a compromise was found over contentious issues to secure Zambia’s future. Nawakwi said it was not right that every ten years, Zambians should be discussing the Constitution and that the NCC had provided an important platform to iron out the issues.
Only an insane person can burn his energy supporting insane monster for the Presidency he can never get from sober Zambian voters.
My fellow patriots over many years of preserving our national unity and sustainable peace, i have a special message in appreciation to post on Sunday (unless otherwise) for your documented steadfast patriotism in the year ending 2007.The future is bright and certain beyond your imagination.There is a practical Game plan to realize everything on the scorecard in 2008 God willing.We will not overlook your selflessness.
Thank you all.
Prag tawakwata ilyashi?
Kwena bane ninkolwa, tukamonanafye mailo. Good night chuchu!
Nawakwi she is a shameless and crued politician. Is she not the same person who was against the draft? Which political party is she leading that can deliver any political change? Is she not the one who was against using large sum of money? Now Dr chipumputu has bribed her with this hefty allowances she is there not to save ordinary zeds it is for her person benefit since she has no money.Since when did she come out and speak for
the less able to defend themselves. She wants to make political
Contd:Mileage. The Catholic church has played major roles in shaping the political scenary in 1990, the third term with OASIS Forum and the church is still contributing in social sector and agric.Today, the church has refused to be part of daylight pludders of the mega resources of one of poorest countries in the world coz they know how fraud the outcome will be regardlesss.
Pragmatist,Sampa Kapsamakasa,Easy,Joseblinnah,Kuku,Kwangangala,Muntuza,Senior Citizen, Original Pundit,Pragmatist,eAnalyst, Wanyanya,Theoretician,HK and ba Anonymous.
Cease fire
It is that time of the year when we must take time off from our different opinions and think of the person on the other side. To wish him well, to wish him a happy christmas and prosperous new year,to wish that he spends this time with his family and wish him Gods blessings.
No 1 – Chocho
It is not true that members of NCC are getting K 46 million per month. For december members only met for 3 days. And everybody is getting the same amount since some members stay in Lusaka and will not be eligible for sub allowances.
The NCC will not sit when Parliament will be siting, meaning that no one will be paid until the NCC reconvenes. This means that from Jan – Mar 2007 , there will be no oney paid to members.
Prag “Sampa” ubungwa.
No 1 – Chocho
It is not true that members of NCC are getting K 46 million per month. For december members only met for 3 days. And not everybody is getting the same amount since some members stay in Lusaka and will not be eligible for sub allowances.
The NCC will not sit when Parliament will be siting, meaning that no one will be paid until the NCC reconvenes. This means that from Jan – Mar 2007 , there will be no oney paid to members.
Then what is the fuss about the cost then? Does anybody know the full details of the payments. There seem to be rumour here and there. Just how much are they really getting and is it per sitting or per month? And how many sittings are they going to have? Does anybody have the details on this blog? We could be demonising the NCC for nothing in terms of cost after all. Some facts please, anybody??
Bane..May all of you have a merry x-mas and happy new. Let our almighty bless Zambians and Zambia abundantly. We pray that all *****s supporting fellow *****s be blessed with wisdom and start to see further than their mouth and nose. Let our nation recover from illness of corruption, bigotry, nepotism, tribalism and all bad vices which has made our country an eyesore. Let our past heritage and diversity be our strength not our downfall and division.We pray sata to get extra 4 senses fr his 2.
And we pray for KH to get extra 5 senses for his 1.
It is interlestingi. Blag camus wisi a pen name hiding his loots but poses as “Sampa Kapasamakasa,” Ubungwa.
It looks like the empty headed Anonymous ranting here over some bloggers offline was conceived and fatted out from a loose b—itch in some Tavern engagement. Could be a product of sangwapo among some chibuku drunkards. I can’t get what he is talking or struggling to communicate here 24/7.
Did not know that P was also senseless like all the rest.
Or are Pig, Pan & Sample the same thing? Amano ubunono.
conceived and fatted out from a loose b—itch in some Tavern under sangwapo engagements with some chibuku drunkards?????? Boooh….that is gross sarcasm. If that is the case, please be compassionate and mind the damage on you brother. His confusion is beyond his wish.Those Tavern drunkard make turns on loose vulnerable woman blind and retarded. You cannot expect a normal product which anonymous has proved here. I don’t either catch where he is coming from or going worse still his destiny.
But social justice demands you let him get some help still rather than tearing him down.
Enough of Sata and NCC. The man and his party have decided to boycott. I have also NOT heard him stop any tribe from attending the NCC. Leave him and PF alone to sort out their internal strife. They know what they are doing. Those attending the NCC also know what they are doing. What is the screaming all about. Time will tell who has made a better judgement of the situation.Merry christmas and happy new year
Bonse muli fipuba imwe. Tamutontokanya. Naiwe ci PlagD.
Cease Fire
Merry christmas to all bloggers here on LT.
#7 Jb We Chipuba niwebo, NOT ifwe (Abena Zambia). Imwe baice libange ‘nshi mulepepa?
Chi Pioneer, Dejavu, Plag and Sample “Sampa” are the same crocodiles that have no manners and show disrespect kubakulu. Baice mwalitipwa mukafwa bwangu.
Meant to say is the same child.
Anonymous
Like said earlier, your problem is beyond this blog and your hatred of those you keep being haunted over.Consulty LT servers or any of the institutional secret services cyberspace phising departments to clear your confusion if you are so haunted with my posts or any of the people you keep hallucinating about. Alternatively,Get back to your mother and challenge her to line up atleast 10 men that took rounds towards her conceiving you in some Chibuku tavern.DNA test them them check–
–Check the degree of the man whose sperm ovulated your raped mother to get you. Your treatment impinges on get the DNA traits.If you don’t know any secret service institution with real time data to cyber servers under request i could like you there in the USA UK and Zambia where i enjoy unparallel support. They could give you all the data on LT.If one of your protogonists f-u-c-k-s your confusesed mother, find a way of settleing your scores rather insulting and framing innocent people not keen.
–Check the degree of the man whose sperm ovulated your raped mother to get you. Your treatment impinges on get the DNA traits.If you don’t know any secret service institution with real time data to cyber servers on request, i could help you in the USA, UK and Zambia where i enjoy unparallel support. They could give you all the data on LT.If one of your protogonists f-u-c-k-s your confusesed mother’s ash-hole, find a way of settling your scores than insulting and framing innocent blogger
You all shall die young for lack of respect for seniors and that is for real.
Stage-managed activities will weaken PF, says Machungwa
STAGE-MANAGED activities in Patriotic Front (PF) will not only create a rift within the ranks but also weaken the party in general, Luapula member of parliament Dr Peter Machungwa has stated.
Can sombody help me to find out Tel. nr. or e-mail address of T.J. Kaunda?
I would be very grateful.
My e-mail: [email protected]
Thanks for your help