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Vice President George Kunda congratulates UPND

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VP George Kunda
VP George Kunda

Vice President George Kunda has congratulated the United Party for National Development (UPND) for the scooping the Solwezi Central parliamentary by-elections.

Mr. Kunda said he has deliberately congratulated only the UPND as it was the party that had chosen a candidate and was recognised in parliament.

The UPND candidate Watson Lumba won the tightly contested polls after pouring 5669 against MMD‘s candidate Albert Chifita who got 4457 ,FDA’s Muhammad Kalela got 189, and Thomas Kafula an independent managed to get 51 votes

However, Mr. Kunda has condemned the recent violence that characterized the recent by-elections in the country.

He said government is concerned with the level of violence during by-elections but will leave everything to the law enforcers.

He said political parties who encourage their cadres to be violent should be ready to face the wrath of the law enforcement agencies.

Mr. Kunda said this in Parliament today during the Vice President question time.

This was after Luena MP Charles Milupi who asked the Vice President what government was doing to curb violence during elections.

Mr. Kunda said violence in any election should not be entertained and called on political parties to encourage their members to exercise peaceful campaigns.

He said political parties should condemn all its members who are practising violence during campaigns and election.

“It is the duty of political parties to encourage its members to be peaceful during election this is more important that the country has enjoyed peace since independence” he said.

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86 COMMENTS

  1. Thats maturity on the part of Kunda.I expect a day when Sata and HH will show the same maturity unlike crying foul.

  2. Kunda and his gang are now the ultimate losers.They tried everything rigging,violence e.t.c and they have come out second best.

    You can’t stop the winds of change Mr Kunda.Change is finally coming to Zambia.

  3. Finally change is slowly coming to zambia.No one will stop this change.The opposition are in control of almost all the economically viable provinces. Come 2011-MMD will be out. Ala twanaka naimwe ba kapuli.Load shedding-fuel crisis,Dora Siliya saga,Dubious acquital of Chiluba,etc

  4. the movement of moltiple prostitute can not agree that the pact is working how can he Geoge Kudya just take note of the UPND leaving out the other party Micheal Satana,wait you will see who is who

  5. If they wer tears you could call them crodile tears. Any that good coming from a guy who only a few hours go was so sure of victory.

  6. Ba Kunda just call a spade ap spade, dont beat about the bush. You will fail to prepare for 2011 if you are not ready to face PF and UPND as one team. Ala bane bola ili mu middie, wafwa na panga. VIVA pact VIVA Solwezi Central

  7. What a life!!!! One thing is true though when the guy goes to parliament he will recognised as UPND and not UPND/PF. They’ll be confusion with this pact come 2011

  8. The sentiments echoed in the assemby are welcome. However the congratrations are meant to divide the PACT. Both PF and UPND worked hard to drum up support for the chosen candidate. so viva PACT viva, PERIOD!!!!

  9. #12 The pact will win a majority of the Presidential votes and also gets the majority of the parliamentary seats.The elected president will then nominate his counterpart as an MP and then make him Vice President as part of the deal.These two wins in Kasama and Solwezi have just strengthened the pact and it’s mission.

  10. Kunda has of recency been pondering on how Hikaumba will be droped should Sata be elected president.he even advised the UPND leader to break loose of the PACT.is it coz he cares about Hikaumba and wants him to be president?NO!!what he is trying to do is devide the PACT and devide votes come 2011 so that MMD can win again with less than 40% of the vote!!if Hikaumba breaks off neither he nor Sata will win and the MMD will continue!!

  11. Ba Kunda, you will fail to divide the PF/UPND Pact which has been you line of thought of late.
    Anyway, we all know that you are a bit dull and your time is coming to an end- Very Fast.

  12. Iwe #13 it seems u dont understand this pact……its an electrol pact—they remain deferent entities remember even if LUMBA goes 2 parliament as UPND he will neva critisise PF(TH TWO PARTIES HAVE JUST COME TOGETHER AND NO PART HAS DISOLVED INTO ANOTHER…PLIZ) With that kind of thinig KUNDA WILL EASLY CHEAT U BECAUSE U R CHEATEBLE…PACT YABWELA

  13. iwe chi-number 17…were have u been?its not Hikaumba its Hichilema.
    now back to the story,boss ba GK u shud not congratulate abaiche aba baPact…kuti batuumpa nomba.just leave them be.Lets just concentrate on 2011 boss,I BELIEVE we will win again trust me boss.

  14. I wish i was a witch i would have done it to Kunda & Mulongolongoti so that we have another By- Elections. Thats a s.t.u.p.i.d congratulation coz both PF & UPND voted

  15. The pact will work as long as the two parties agree on who to back as president and leave no stone unturned come 2011. I’m of the opinion that we have too many political parties, none of which are divided on ideological grounds, and as our ‘democracy’ matures we shall witness consolidation leaving a manageable number of parties to fight for our votes.

  16. Chapman u are very shallow thinker.your ka-pact is not going anywere…if anything it will disintergrate before 2011….mark my words mwana!both yo leaders are stubborn and pompous !there will be a power struggle and this is wat will bring the kaponyapact down.It failed before and DEFINATELY it will fail again.mukamona mukasumina.

  17. I want to believe that 99.9% of you people on LT wish well for the Zambian Nation. I don’t care who will be our leaders tomorrow and where they are coming from, all I care for is that they should be committed to steer this country in the right direction that will bring unity and peace, development and benefits to all Zambians and all those that are in Zambia. To all of you people, please let’s make the next elections work.” Do as am doing if not even better”, I have targeted 25 people I know who will most likely not register as voter. I’ll influence them to take part in the next election. I’m talking about your friend’s young brother, your maid’s son, dependent e.t.c. Zambia is in our hands.

  18. We need to stratigize as MMD all else this pact will materialise into causing us more harm,th advice to th president avoid everytime being vistin other countries utilise th issue of delegation an attend to local issues facing th party an th nation before we hand ths country to irresponsible leaders such as sata who are are good at talkin,th other one is lets nt forget tht western province assisted us to win th by elections so lets be carefull how we handle th province Honourable Kaingu has given th party advice so lets digest his advice an come up with a concrete solution which will see us thru come 2011,ths are indicators bt th time to react is now.

  19. I am seeing that supporters of the PACT are slowly getting into the MMD syndrome were one says something real and you just react with a blind eye. What George is saying is reality and the PACT and its supporters should take heed. At the moment the PACT is not so cohesive as seen from these two bye elections. The truth is UPND and MMD are the real parties in Western province. The PACT should in the next bye election should there be one consolidate this by chosing a who is capable and has an identity of the PACT and not of and individual party chosen candidate.

  20. peaceful campain will never occur in zambia coz our leaders like attacking each other causing tension to the rest of the community .Come 2011 ninshi MMD atoba akaputi kuchulu tukamuwele napamo ati wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  21. Well for MMD just work hard give the people of Zambia what they want eg jobs ,clean water ,no loadsheding,good roads and health delivery system may people will be convinced otherwise the PACT has shown you your exit I’m sorry about that

  22. #5(Buckshot)
    Infact I was UPND under Mazoka,their manifesto was the best ever in Zambian political history.The way HH ascended to the presidency sidelining founding members made me change my mind.Right now,Iam a swing voter (a progressive) NOT aligned to any Party.I never liked MMD until LPM became President and did major policy shifts and borrowed some from UPND that made me start supporting some policies of MMD.Iam NOT an extremist life some cadres of some party who NEVER give credit even when its evident that something good has been done. I stand ready to support any well meaning politician who has a vision for Zambia and that does NOT INCLUDE MICHAEL CHILUFYA SATA.

  23. We are in political trouble bane, none of these aspiring politicians are better, they just want a piece of our hard earned colors.

  24. How clever kunda you are. i can see you are starting to sweeten your self to UNPD asa back up when your Grandfather(RB) loses the next election.

  25. Ka George Kunda pamenso kwati nimpaka,nangu ichibuli.No wonder MMD ilekashila umusango ifi.RB must sack him & appoint someone representable .

  26. What is even more interesting is the fact that these guys seem to be panicking!. They are coming to realise that the monay they use is actually for the people they look down on. These people are now so angry and are voting you out. You may even go to jail for foolishness. There is nothing left you can do now to change peoples minds. You have pushed them too far. Your arogance stinks and your foolishness will eat you up. It will not a good feeling to face the people you mistreat in the street. It is hard there, Ask Chiluba. He will tell you how it ease.

  27. VIVA the Pact!!!! You can only oppress the people for a limited time, when they turn their backs on you and make their choices you are left in awe! Let’s learn from Kenya as they got rid of Baba Moi.

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  28. Kunda and RB ba chepa sana kuli Sata na HH. MMD has lost hold in all provinces except eastern though I also doubt there. The guy RB does not have good advisors like the late LPM had. Really what can Mbikusita Lewanika advise RB? Mbikusita is an opportunist, so he will not advise objectively. PLEASE RB WAKE UP….MAKE SOME CHANGES.

  29. Chiluba thought, even if he had stolen, insulted people, and did all sorghts of things, he will still live peacefully, preach, probably fly in and outside the country. But hey, it is not working. Almost 10 years down the line people still call him a Lazo!. So be advised freely that people are dificulty. Why cant you just look for a good JOb if you can not be a servant of people. Leave politics for people with a heart. We can not afford to be so rich with all the resources but almost the poorest.

  30. In # 42…. oh sole I am advicing my opponent. RB , please I was just joking. All your advisors are great and intelligent. Wapya muzi…….

  31. Outstanding! Good job PF/UPND PACT!! We need your unity to liberate mother Zambia from this incapacitating Nyamasoya syndrome. VIVA change!!

  32. George is trying to divide the pact, he does not realise that his brain is average performer even in legal circles, to do such things one needs to think ahead of people’s thinking, but alas the fool has blown his ability beyond his nose! hahahahahahahahahahaha

  33. #1, THAT WASN’T MATURITY BUT FORMALITY. MATURITY SHOULD BE DEDICATED TO THE PACT THAT CHOSE TO WORK TOGETHER. MMD ARE JUST A BUNCH OF ANIMALS. PERIOD.

  34. IN FACT IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IT’S PF MEMEBERS FROM THE COPPERBELT MAINLY WHO HAVE INFILTRATED NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCE. KUNDA JUST HAS DIFFICULTIES ACCEPTING THAT PF IS A VERY BIG FORCE ON ZAMBIAN POLITICS. MORE SO WITH THE PACT. JUST START REMOVING YOUR BELONGINGS YOU CHAPS FROM THOSE GVERNMENT HOUSES, COME 2011.

  35. #17, DONT WORRY ABOUT CIPUBA CI KUNDA, (NA CI #12). I AM IN THE PACT. IT WILL NEVER BREAK. WHAT IS BREAKING MA TOLEY YABA MMD ABENA KUNDA NA BASHALA. YOU THINK ZAMBIANS CAN SLEEP FOREVER. YOU THINK ZAMBIANS LIKE A PROSTITUTING PRESIDENT WHO CAN’T REMAIN IN ZAMBIA TO SOLVE PROBLEMS? SUPPOSING THATS HOW YOUR FATHER BEHAVED WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG-THERE’S NO FOOD AT HOME BUT HE SPENDS MOST OF HIS TIME WITH FRIENDS AND EATS DELICIOUS FOOD THERE. That’s your RB. I can’t even bet-he’s not in the country.

  36. kunda and others just start ppreparing yourselves for court cases of plunder. and you kafupi, you are definitely going to be jailed for stealing the country’s money. just wait and see. redundant foreign mission staff abroad and overseas, your days are number. this is the end of your s.t.u.p.i.d.i.t.y. your loafing is over.

  37. #26, thats exactly what i have done, too. i have on record 50 people who live in Zambia i have convinced and am not stopping there. i have told them-its your country. let no rb start urinating in your mouths. go out and register as voters and do the right thing when the day comes. Don’t refuse their handouts. because thats your money. get them and eat them. but vote for the pf/undp pact members. they are all happily convinced. they are registered and they all have shown me their votting credentials. ZAMBIANS, THIS FIGHT IS FOR YOU AND ME. LETS BETTER OUR COUNTRY FOR OUR CHILDREN.

  38. Iwe Ka Kunda what was Sata doing in Solwezi then? Utumilomo. Victory for UPND is victory for PF. We are one wanya stop dividing us. Muleya ka shetani iwe. Mwibishefye pantu takwakabe ifi RB alekele ka Kafupi. Trust me the cases will be dealt with within a year. Nimuchifungo batata.

  39. #39 BA CHAMA, WHO CAN LISTEN TO AN I.D.I.O.T. SUCH AS KUNDA. MWILATUNSHA NO MUTIMA MWEMFUMU. ABA BANKUSA INSHITA YABO NAIFIKA. ZAMBIA IS A GREAT COUNTRY TO LEAVE IT TO THIS BUNCH OF RUBBISH.

  40. #42 KAMBONGOLO. Spot on. But you should know that Mbikusita and RB are ‘fowls of identical plummage who co-exist in close proximity’. Mbikusita was given (by KK) a brand new company to run in Kitwe (Kitwe Ceramics), instead he ran it down. In a similar manner RB also run down NAMBOARD, etc. So these guys have been running down companies, ‘basundila’ napo bamambala. So you expect rb to associate with such compatriots in a similar manner he does with kachiluba.

  41. CONGRATS UPND/PF THE THUGS ARE DEFEATED. REMAIN UNITED AND WHACK THEM CLEAN IN 2011. I WILL STAND AND CAMPAIGN WITH YOU THRU AND THRU, 2011 IS OUR FOR VICTORY.

  42. # PETER
    Iam a swing voter,May you please, If you don’t mind,tell or e-mail me the manifesto of the PACT so that I can have a closer look at it before I make my decision.Figuratively AND NOT literal in politics, maturity is synonymous with formality.

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  46. Tafimbwa lubilo. There is too little information to establish a pattern, and it’s too early to celebrate. Just watch the pact of dictators and democrats. We will end up with a moribund Mugabe-Tsvangirai like government and they will not even agree on who should take over from Fundanga when he retires by that time, let alone who will enter plot 1. How will they reconcile the presidency? Watch this space.

  47. MMD SHOULD LEARN TO LISTEN TO WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING. MMD IS NOW ACCUSING MUNKOMBWE FOR GIVING FALSE INFORMATION TO KUNDA THAT MMD HAD A STRONG HOLD ON SOLWEZI. THEY ARE FORCING MUNKOMBWE TO RESIGN. PITIFUL.

  48. We saw it coming.VIVA PF ang congrats to the pact for the victory,Another abayashi mu MDIDIDI and the pact wins, we are taking over,iwe ka fibre #61keep your silly and foolish prophecies to your sorry a$$ and f@CK YOUR SPACE you watch it alone,tuvi iwe…….

  49. Nambala 22 these chaps you have mentioned where not elected niba nominated bonse that is why they speak so loud like empty tins. you know if they are dropped ninshi kuba ngabalya bachiminina mu freedom.

  50. #64 WALASA, nominated chaps owe their bootlicking to nyamasoya and not the electorate no wonder they behave like mad cows.

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  51. The “UNIP SYNDROME” is very dangerous to people’s political careers. What syndrome? You ask. Well, the lack of appreciation that “YOUR TIME MAYBE UP, Baba!” If the MMD fails to acknowledge their failings and move to fix them, they will soon find themselves relegated to HISTORY—they should find out from UNIP how to fall out of favour with the electorate and become irrelevant.

    IF these two looses does not wake them up and stop putting all their eggs in one basket(RB), the opposition will score big come 2011. MMD, STOP TAKING CITIZENS AND YOUR RULE FOR GRANTED, OR YOU WILL SOON HAVE NO JOBS—you did it to UNIP and don’t think it can never happen to you!!!

  52. Good point # 68. What record did RB ever have for people to believe that he could govern. People should have taken a closer look at his record , but that’s hindsight now. What happens now, and the future is what is important.

  53. Does this red-lipped snake know any levels of gutlessness? I doubt because it would only take a chap wedded to cynisism to qualify a congratulation in such a stinking manner. Only last week, he was in Pemba condemning the Pact claiming Sata just wants to take the Tonga boy HH for a ride and dump him once they are in power and now he says he can only congratulate UPND because they are the ones who won the seat, atase stinker. From now till 2011, these MMD hyenas and monkeys will engage every trick in the book to retain power but alas it will come to naught. If I were him, I will patch up relations with Litunga because that is a big problem bwana.

  54. “You can fool some people some times but not all the people all the times”, thats a bible quotation. Life is like performing on a stage, when your time is over and the curtain is drawn, you just have to leave the stage for someone else. MMD’s time is over. UPND was not sold to PF, but MMD was sold to UNIP. May God grant me more days to see these MMD guys in 2012 shuttling in and out of local courts for Vigololo (marriage interferance cases), migstrate courts for plunder, high courts for sentencing and supreme court for appeals.

  55. #73(Its too late)
    I able to tell you the UPND under the late Mazoka,Sakwiba,Bob Sichinga(In short the UPND of then NOT now).

  56. This is a replay of 2001 where we saw the opposition UPND start to win by -elections but MMD won the General election very marginally. MMD will not lose the 2011 for one simple reason; can Zambians trust Sata as Head Of State? Please don’t answer this question so quick. Can Ackson Sejani who only yesterday was an arch enemy of Sata reconcile with his new President? These are core issues if not addressed will see that alliance begin to disuntegrate before 2011. PF will no longer dominate politics in Northern and Luapula provinces, this will disadvantage the union. Will General Miyanda just watch while Sata gains momentum when in his heart of hearts he knows that Sata is very cunning?

  57. I am open to a leadeship that is honest, cares for the people, treats Zambians as a priority before anyone else, leadership serving the people than own pockets. Be you MMD, UPND or P F will support you. So start serving people and you will get the results. Zambia is looking for severs than the ones being served. If you are a professional across the world, you dont need to sell yourself short when you can sell your professional skills across the world, you wonder why intelligent lawyers and other professionals sell themselves when you can have the confidence to sell your skills at an international level/ please dont cheat your own people, does not create the peace and intergrity you deserve. Zambia has skilled people dont sell yourselves short. Some of us teach these people you praise daily

  58. #77 surely you realise 20 years of MMD rubbish policies is destroying Zambia. Zambians need change ,,,,HH looks like a good candidate if Zambians give him a chance.

  59. Tell this lady with Kalumba that she is so dirty!!!! how can she paint herself like that…!!! I still remember when I was living in botswana,,,,they used to laugh at some of the zambian ladies of painting themselves…!! here in uk, it is the nigerian women been laughed at..!!! what wrong you black people…!!!!! Even choosing a president you trust somebody to build houses withinn 90 days…!!!!! he was been in goverment nearly for 4 decades,,, now you think is your saviour!!!

  60. Now that kunda has had chance to travel abroad let buy a new pair of glasses those he has been using are too big for his face.

  61. The Veep made it clear why he congratulated the UPND. I wonder why the pact preachers are calling him names for that. The elected chap won’t go in parliament as Pact MP no!!!! He goes as UPND MP. There is no party in Zambian called Pact!!! Even the two leaders of the two parties have made it clear that they are not merging. They have only made an election pact. As we speak both are printing campain material for 2011 in case you chaps don’t know dream on!!!

  62. The opposition is slowly taking centre stage in Zambia, surely let us all register so that we can kick mmd and bwezani out of the government, alatwanaka nabo these munshibilwa nsala. did you know that its the zambia people who are running the country eg we ordinally zambians we paying heavy taxes and also zesco bills for bwezani and his group. so its practically observed that we are running Zesco coz the profits which zesco is paying is being used by bwezani’s trips. so you rural dwellers watch out, the mmd have kept you illiterate so that you fail to make informed decisions and end up voting for the them. so twapapata salapukeni naba bamunshibilwa nsala!!!

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