MMD national secretary Katele Kalumba says the MMD has exhausted all administrative procedures to persuade former Minister of Defence George Mpombo to follow party procedure and that the nation should not judge the ruling party harshly if punitive action is taken against him.
Reacting to Mr Mpombo’s reported sentiments that the MMD national executive committee (NEC) cannot make the right decision over the holding of the party convention because it is under siege from President Banda, Dr Kalumba said he is listening carefully to calls by MMD members to discipline Mr Mpombo.
“I am listening carefully to the calling of the people and at some point I will consult fully on the course of action to take,” Dr Kalumba said.
He said Mr Mpombo knows that the party has exhausted all administrative procedures required to afford him (Mpombo) an opportunity to behave in accordance with an MMD members’ obligation under article 10 of the party constitution.[quote]
“I have gone beyond constitution imperatives, considered a political dimension of Mr Mpombo’s status as Member of Parliament of Kafulafuta.
I have been working with leaders on the Copperbelt and the constituency in Kafulafuta to seek their intervention to counsel the honorable member in such a way that we can avoid punitive measures that may deprive the people of Kafulafuta of effective representation and also cost the taxpayers millions of Kwacha in a by-election,” Dr Kalumba said.
He said Mr Mpombo wants to force a by-election in Kafulafuta by disregarding the assurances he made to his office to follow party procedure.
“I am certain that the people of Zambia will not judge the MMD harshly when punitive action is taken against Mr Mpombo,” Dr Kalumba said.
He said, however, that he has no reason to stifle democratic debate because the MMD was founded on the principle of plural democratic processes.
“I am not blind to the fact that there is a thin line between democratic debate and chaotic anarchical provocative utterances that are simply designed to deal with the individual’s personal ego problems. It is quite easy to respect egoistic problems of an individual for heroic politics,” Dr Kalumba said.
Dr Kalumba said he is not persuaded that Mr Mpombo is engaged in a healthy and constructive democratic debate.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
Just leave the bearded on alone !
Meanwhile I am number bwa ?
Just fire him so that the PF/UPND can take the seat.
We muloshi iwe, just shut up. If anything funny happens to Mpombo. it is you Katele.
Iwe cipoolba. did you have any procedures? kabiyefye ku toelet nga nawisula, and leave Mpombo alone.
The PACT is ready for the by-election in Kafulafuta. Go ahead and expel Mpombo who we shall then adopt. Elo you know Mpombo cannot lose Kafulafuta even as an independent.
Tabwelanso.
Let Mpombo resign from MMD, then get adopted under the PF/UPND pact to run for the same constituence. If the Kafulafuta populas is comfortable with his leadership they will vote him. Or even as independent!
Zambia is not a REAL DEMOCRACY!!!!!! No freedom of speech sure!!!!!!!!!!! Ama rubbish.
Mpombo seem to be the only courageouse man to stand against the ruthlesness of RB and his bootlickers. Go Mpombo, go…When a lot of people are made to act like robots, people like Mulongoti and Shikapwasha there is a need for someone a man without fear to stand up for the truth and change things.
Iwe Katele Shut the f… up and concentrate on your newly found IT Career desgning Tortoise Brand Laptops !
We are anxiouly waiting to see . mind you, PACT is watching, so be careful. what about MAGANDE? Have stopped talking about him?
PACT is on Rampage. Kafulafuta here we come !!
katele ni fwiti!
#13 the real fwiti is that nyawu sitting next to Katele in the pic.
Sure imwe ba Katele what sin has Mpombo committed just for calling for a convention you want to fire him from MMD? Kabili imwe ba Katele manje you cant talk against Mbwezani because of your corruption cases which are in court you fear to be locked up. You need such men like Mpombo in MMD rather than being bootlickers. Fire him then you are giving that seat to the PF-UPND pact.
Just fire him like you did to Chibombailimo and Shakafuswa. Mpombo has dared you for some time now and he has said he is ready for any thing evil from MMD-thieves. Why havent you fired him so the PACT gets the seat???? Totoise computer, we know you will not expell the monkey babtised Mpombo. He has the Ndola rural to himself. AS a PACT we are very restless for the kafulafuta seat. Go go go go Mbompo…….
ba sister eyo eyebro pencil ili bad! lol
MMD is really self destructing….
katele pliz dont kill Mpombo like the way you killed Tetamashimba. We ndoshi we.
In 2006 Mpombo struggled to win Kafulafuta.Since he went to parliament after leaving UNIP then UPND for MMD to start his job of grooving Mwanawasa. What makes you think he can pull it this time around without any achievement in the most impoverished constituency other than his grooving of Mwanawasa which he did with passion? After his failure at Energy with the fuel crisis, Mwanawasa dumped him on the Copperbelt as provincial minister, people rejected him there as a national reliability.In Chief Chiwala people and the Chief rejected him dangerous incompetency and mass displacement of villagers over the land he grabbed in Chiwala. It took Mulongoti to persuade the chiefdom to allow Mpombo stand. In event of an expulsion which i foresee eminent,with all trail of failures, katwishe Mpombo.
Ba Katele nindoshi !
There is real debilitating poverty in Kafulafuta from Chief Chiwala,Fiwale, Masangano,Chileshe, mundawanga to the heart of Kafulafuta.Mpombo under UNIP and MMD has done nothing not even on youth and vegetable farming community.There is no lifeline there he has delivered other than blusting them dust with a GRZ VX he has been doing every visit.
#19 awe mudala it was AIDS. Katele was off-duty this day !
There is no such thing as UBULOSHI iam not scared of iy, and it does not exist ! Wjites dont believe in it, and i do not bellieve in it as well. Its another backward african retard mentality of thinking that Black majic is real, it aint real . period. If it was real Zambia would have won the African cup, let alone qualify to the world cup. Get real stop listening to your grandparents!
Eye brow ni zee.
#20 and #22,who do you think can be an MP for Kafulafuta?Its like you are tolerating the madness going on in the MMD.Anyway you must be on RB’s sponsorship wher you are.The fact is Mpombo is just telling these MMD leaders the truth and its embarassing to see people like Katele Kalumba who never used to speak when Levy was still alive ,become active now in decision making as regards to party organization.Indeed corrupt elements have their own way of surviving and its not surprising that even RB has supported Katele’s remarks by keeping quiet.Well,we shall get Kafulafuta as PF/UPND pact come what may and Mpombo ulichaume.We need such men and women in Zambia today who can speak out when things go wrong.African leadership is at crossroads and that includes Zambia.VIVA MPOMBO WE CHAUME!!!!!
WHO IS THE SLUT WITH KATELE IN THE PICTURE?KWENA EYEBROW BA SISTER BWAFYA.YOU LOOK LIKE GUMUGUMU.CHEAP WOMAN
MMD women – organza plus truck stop whore makeup
waste politics in the world are zambian politics
Patriot.
We all thank you for the honesty in that MMD are failures and that Mpombo from MMD has failed to bring anything to the constituency.
This is the real actions of MMD.
All talk and no actions on democracy.
Go to the convention and then see if your Man who smells like Monkey Piss is still the one chosen.
the circus continues.
what make up!!!
RB willl disappear after destroying MMD and failing to take them through the next election. They (MMD) will be more orphaned than UNIP.
Why waste time? If someone is in violation of the code of conduct, they must be punished accordingly. It appears Mpombo is feared. Too bad for MMD.
how can the post promote such a useless human being who is just finishing oxgen on this planet….he is now driving the zed politics. shame ! an impala is worth much more than this clown! let him go back to wearing mapata-pata and drinkinking kachasu. or just relaese him into the kafue flood plains and the illa dogs will hunt him dowm . . !mpompo!
Mpombo had much support from our late president. He operated on some one’s intellect; it is time for him to apply his brains. He declared himself as acting president when the president died. His ego and stupid behavior is chasing him.
Mwe bantu Mwanawasa finished this man’s political career, i doubt if he even aspires to go a step further in his career other than than remaining as an MP. Levy was a real Sunami looking at the number of shells of people he’s left behind, Katele, FTJ, VJ, Mabenga, Nevers, etc. These people will go to their graves humiliated and finished.
Kanshi Ba Chrwa balikwi?What has to say about this MMD mess and the convention issues in This Mad Mess Demon’s party? Whose gonna cure and clean this Mad Mess Demons?
Katele Should shut up because the waste is yet to come. Be careful you evil doing man.
I thought the tenets of democracy, under which the MMD is based and enshrined in their constitution, allows to hear divergent views from the members?
Why then start threatening of disciplinary action?
I know Katele would have been in the fore front pushing for convention if he did not have pending corruption charges. He wants to please HE so that his sins can also be forgiven like those of Kafupi. Once forgiven see what katele will do – wait & see.
What is Sangoma Katele Kalumba wa Katanga talking about? No more wizardry antics be PhD of excrement, take your tortoise flying beever uko ku Katanga, no wickedness in Zambia.
Katele shut up because you are ****ed
Democracy has come on mother Zed, should a democratic sense confuse MMD top boys at all?
posterity will judge you harshly mmd and ur minions..
Another by-election Mpombo defection to PF-UPND and another win for PF-UPND.
This spells the BEGINIING OF THE END FOR MMD!!
I wonder who this kind is ‘grass-roots lack-of-meaning-language’ is targeted at. Has MMD stopped focussing on the people it was initially intended for sic! Get rid of them, they have outlived their usefulness. Chiluba’s ochestrated tactics are no longer useful. Kaunda, who I respect so much, also lost it at some point. We need something new, we are humans!!