THE United Party for National Development (UPND) has suspended Colonel Panji Kaunda from the party for gross misconduct.
This is contained in a letter dated March 29, 2011, from UPND secretary general WinstoneChibwe to Col Kaunda.
Mr Chibwe said it has been brought to his attention that Col Kaunda has on numerous occasions issued media statements that are inimical and detrimental to UPND.
He said on March 18, 2011, Col Kaunda was on Radio Phoenix’s ‘Let the People Talk’ programme on which he said although he is a UPND member, he will support Patriotic Front president Michael Sata in this year’s tripartite elections.
“This was without any prior indication, communication or consultation with the UPND, the party whose platform you were speaking on as a member,” Mr Chibwe’s letter to Col Kaunda reads in part.
He said on February 27, 2011, Col Kaunda was quoted in The Post newspaper as saying he had revealed his dealings with UPND president Hakainde Hichilema, about whom he made various insinuations.
“Again, the party expected you to have shared your views with it if at all you had any misgivings about the said meeting you had with Mr Hichilema in 2008. This is testimony that you are not a genuine member,” he said.
Mr Chibwe said Col Kaunda’s motive is malicious, with intent to distabilise and injure the good image of the UPND as a well organised party.
“By virtue of powers vested in me under article 83(1) of the UPND constitution, you are hereby charged with gross misconduct, and therefore suspended with immediate effect as your actions are in breach of article 8 of our party’s constitution,” Mr Chibwe said.
Mr Chibwe has since given Col Kaunda seven days in which to exculpate himself.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
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What took them so long? He came out openly that he supports HH’s rival, MCS, that it’s a wonder he still calls himself a UPND member. If he had any brains, he would quit and ‘officially’ join PF.
Why suspend the moron,just expel him so that he campaigns for his fellow madalas freely.
Instead of concentrating energiez on consoldating the UPND az one of the formidable oppozition partiez, they go on this futile exercize of suspending memberz and attacking the PF.
Get rid of such rubbish, he is a spent force and has no influence anywhere except in his father’s party, defunct UNIP. He can go and hang. Leave the peaceful UPND alone. VIVA HH. Thank you UPND for your patience and wisdom. Zambian people always believe in mob physicology that is the reason why they have always voted for a wrong government.
Ya, kick him out. His father spent our resources liberating other countries and now we are laughing stocks. Talk about genetical uselessness. These chaps are not affected by the poverty their father perpetuated by useless policies of supporting Yasser Arafat, Saddam, the ANC, chi Mugabe and others. This trend of family politics should end in Zed. Let boys who work hard for themsellves with bright ideas take the stage.
That is good move UPND…!!!! Why doesn’t he want to join PF instead of destroying good image of the party. A lot of people knows that if PF looses the elections this year, it is the end of the party…This is why they still want atleast one leg UPND and the other PF. Because, after 2011 elections only UPND will have formmitable opposition party and PF will finish….!! These are reality,,,Winter Kabimba, or Mwamba to be presidential material..?
Good job UPND, The I.DI.OT chewed enough from his fathers gains
why suspend someone for exercising his rights kanshi. Musiyeni Panji ateke
@#1 Given Lubinda, Its you who will cry since we have been told that you have been dipping your thing in a pool of viruses and your party is losing
This is very undemocratic cannt Upnd listen to the cries of its memebers how many will they suspend or expel..this is a sad thing for democracy.
Why didn’t they just expel the id.iot. May be now he can advocate violence properly.
NO.11 MATE:each team of players has norms and values,UPND has the right to do so let wynter support HH you will see how midiocre kaponyas will cry for him,look at mpombo claiming to be MMD yet he supports PF no morals for thier party of affiliation Panji shud be sober minded in issues,look at prof.chirwa he apologised and he is still in the party,if panji feels PF is strong let him resign on his own unlike his attitude towards our party,we need dedicated people who are loyal to its constitution,UPND is not like a kantemba party PF
This ***** Panji & the other one Mpombo are looking for jobs & somehow they think the PF will win this year. They are cheating themselves. We know UPND won’t win because of the bad tribal scourge prevailing in the country but PF is not wining either . With out UPND, Sata will cry. People foolishly think that they have won some UPND members. That’s rubbish coz you won’t. You can’t force people to vote for rubbish, corrupt, iceage politicians & leave out a refined gentleman who has managed his life very well.
UPND Suppoters have been dribled by there own President, check this link out and you will be in the know. HH TO ENDORSE RB zedleaks.com/?p=1686
You are wasting time suspending this grory seeker by suspending him.Expel him so that he can join PF as another mouth piece for the cobra whose vernom is now drying out.May be he also needs a lesson that the back side is for passing human out byproducts of digestion not sex
UPND expel this old monster, we do not need recycled opportunist after all he is doing nothing for the party only waiting for HH to get into power muselapakaba. kick him out, we need serious intellectuals.
“UPND is mine, iam UPND and UPND begins and ends with HH. I shall be the last Tonga bull standing for my tongas’ party.” These words came from one of Zambia’s presidential aspirings. Could we be safe??
Please KICK that f@@l out. We dont need old f@@lish chaps like Panji. He needs to be expelled now. VIVA UPND! VIVA HH!!
charge me now whether i am a suitable candidate.
Let Panji join PF peacefully and leave UPND alone. Why is scared of leaving UPND and join the Madala PARTY. This year i will vote to RETIRE the 74 years OLD Mr. Sata. I will send sent into oblivion so that UNIP does not come close to power through PF and MMD.
Although Panji is suspended or even expeled, it will not change the political fortune of UPND. HH himself has confessed that he can not win alone. He may as well pull out of the race. The break of the pact may also signify the end of his political career. I know i will be bombaded by his supporters but this is the reality. A pact with the Ngondo party may not have any impact. It is a pity his career not last that long dispite the potential. Sata may also be fighting his last. Age has caught up with him. It will be sad to see MMD continue for another five years.
when sata wanted to do the same with the Machungwas you called him names now that you have tasted the sour wine you are crying like little children.
you called sata all kinds of name for the 26 lebel MPs and you have helped them stay up untill this day in the name of PF when they are MMD and attaking their own party president and UPND were very happy.
let it happen and alot more members will join PF from UPND……………………
stay well.Chiwamina galu……………
Panji is a sale-out, shameless PF suporter. He had no decency of even resigning from UPND to join the other party! Shame on the old man. Where is his wisdom with all the gray hair ?
In UPND we deal with men of substance not these Job seekers who move from one party to another. Beware of Job seekers, they have re-grouped in pf, when pf loses they will run away like birds. Mpombo and Panji a political prostitutes who can do anything for a job, Some men folks are really letting us down, no moral, there is a saying which goes ” Do not insult where you are coming from, for your ways to be clean, in case you think of returning” those who ignore this saying find themselves in a mess because the future at times may not be certain, where you think there is glory, it may just be misery. Some men folks in Zambia are not mature as such they fall into this trap.
HOW MANY ARE U GOING TO EXPEL BCOZ MANY PIPO DONT LIKE THE TRASH THAT IS GOING ON IN UPND….READ WHAT BOB SICHINGA SAID IN THE POST TODAY….HE CANT SUPPORT A PARTY WHICH HE KNOWS IS GOING NO WHERE. FOR HIM TO SEE CHANGE OF GVT WUD RATHER SUPPORT….DONCHI KUBEBA
There is also another saying which goes like “what you do on a bad one, you also do it on a good one” meaning what Panji has done to UPND there is 100% probability that he will do it on pf when he will find another party. So ba Panji if you want to leave, do it clean so that your path may also be clean, in short do not insult where you are coming from.
#25 Donkey whatever, are the you the only one does not know that Bob Sichinga is related to Sata in marriage.should sichinga’s opinion therefore surprise you. Sichinga has never supported sata until his son married sata’s daughter.dont vote on the basis of mob psychology bwana.
i ve noted with disgust that upnd supporters hv vulgar language.it wont help.u are defunct.yr numbers keeps on dwindling;nisangwapo mweeee!
Imwe tu UPND, when cobra tried to discpline the rebel MPS you said he was a dictator. Now that its your turn , you say its good riddance. Shame! In the US Gneral Powell openly supported Obama dispite him being a republican. He was not suspended or fired from the republican party!
LT print my cmment
Thank you LT.U VE PRINTED &28
Why do these pf guys hate the truth, whenever you state the truth, they wake up with insults. Bob Sichinga is a sebele to Sata, hence there is no way these can hate or speak different languages, but we cannot fall for a family tree or whatever you may call it. We want neutral people here not with strings attached, let them have those strings in their homes, but should not attempt to influence us. No wonder even Chisanga said he did not talk in terms of quality, meaning Sata is popular but he is not the quality of leadership we want as zambians. Thanks Bob for stating the truth about this devil. Viva HH our man.
Charlse Kakoma said UPND is a democratic party and will not take action against Panji as he was exercising his democratic rights. What has changed in UPND now. Has UPND stopped from being democratic?
Youth pliz take your place in this country – work together and lead zambia. stop being lazy. be honesto yo spirit. to hell with PK
Good riddance…where did this fuul come from..all these ku mawaz think they can just come from their no profit making farms to come and ride on the Zambians..All these old farmers llike alabee and panji should be bannished to hell
NANA, I know you like UPND. Just continue support HH for a better future of our people.
#10 ubuwelewel bwaisula icimutwe,Lubinda aisamo shani muli ili lyashi.Iyo ni Pure PULL HIM DOWN ,iwe we nsamba.,uli sabi????????
The writer of – rich dad poor dad – in that book he said ” a poor parent tells their children to study hard so that they can get a good job. a rich parent on the other hand tells their children to study hard so that they can find a good company to buy. Our youths hav studied hard and have vry good grades. But becoz of poor man’s mind set, all you do is insult yo fellow youth(s) and accept to be lead by the old & ‘best before’ leaders. using yo wordsyou understand better – guys you are ****ed.
We need first to win where we come from…Our people(family, relatives, friends) must appreciate us before another person can trust you elsewhere, these know us. So, the issue of saying tribal MUST end. If your own family can not vote for you, then you are a serious DEVIL. HH is right, if Southern Province can vote for him, it is not tribal but they have trust in him. Sata has no seat in Mbala where he comes from…his own do not trust him, they know him better. So what do you think?
The Youths of Zambia MUST STAND UP NOW and VOTE for their fellow young leader…HH. If we give this chance to the madalas again, we are finished. SATA or RB CANNOT take us anywhere in this cutting age. We need young vibrant leaders. The madalas had their chance. Imagine since4 independence, they have been in government, whatelse haven’t they done? tell me!
VIVA HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ED UPND WIL BE THERE FO U GUYS.
panji kaunda is an ***** who lacks morals.
GOD FORBID, in case HH died would Kapita or Simenda take UPND Presidency or another Tonga will rise from the blues & become UPND President?
This is the end of UPND and HH. Mwasila imwe!!!!! You are no longer relevant on zambia’s political platform.
Leader and ordinaly member are willingly defecting and suspend others; you are now a shell!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is nice that UPND have taught Panji Kaunda a lesson. Panji was free to campaign for PF’s Sata MC but he went to far but saying what he was quoted as having said about his president of UPND HH.
On “Again, the party expected you to have shared your views with it if at all you had any misgivings about the said meeting you had with Mr Hichilema in 2008. This is testimony that you are not a genuine member,” … Mr Chibwe said Col Kaunda’s motive is malicious, with intent to distabilise and injure the good image of the UPND as a well organised party” this is great and I hope Panji will do the right thing other than rushing to the POST to vomit some unpalatable language on the mighty UPND Team.
Be blest all and vote for the UPND Team to form GRZ Administration this 2011…
In the days of old, wisdom was associated with old men. These days in Zanbia, it is hard to see wisdom coming out of our old politicians. Is it because of our brand of politics which has left us without role models? In a country professing to be christian, unchristian behaviour dominates our lives. Where are strong benevolent & principled leaders of the people?
All you guys are useless fools. I thought by being out here you have brain. I sorry. I understand why you are out here. You are loses. I though I would hear critical analysis of the issues back home. All I hear is the bunch of loses wasting time making silly coments. Maybe that is the reasons Zambia can not progress with brains like yours.
Ba UPND you’ve just got a way of attracting such spoilers………first Chizhyuka, then Panji and then professor………..who next edward Mumbi?
Upnd is not even a tribal party, it is a one village club
As usual Zambians dont like people who are very objective.I dont see any thing wrong Col. Panji has done.In Zambia we all the time dont like people who are straight in their thinking over national issues.
LEAVE PANJI ALONE.IT IS HH WHO HAS BETRAYED THE UPND PARTY.WITHOUT SATA HH OR UPND IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE.HH HAS LOST HIS POLITICAL LIFE.
this country needs capable people to practically, specify a way to come out of third world status, and lay the foundation for the young and the unborne to build on. In my mind its ckear that its the likes of hh who are most probable to do that. If now we allow so called ‘popullar’ and tribal incrinations to interfere with reason and reality, that can only be pityfull for futre.
I am ‘e’.
#51 George dont see any wrong in this guys? We dont hurt him but where was he to start reviewing things that happened in 2008 if they even happenned at. This is what we call character assasination if you dont know.
We women of Zambia are here @ home fighting the many battles that we face but see from what you write insults & insults , true we know from what tree you have come from. Discuss issues ba DIASPORA.. I keep on saying UPND KEEP ON DREAMIMG! IT may come to pass for you after 10yrs that means you will age also by 10 years ,as of now its PF ruling, YOU JUST hear tubelelebe. ITS PF bane.Its solid material .
UPND U ARE PURE TRIBALIST Y DIDN’T U GIVE PRESIDENCY 2 SAKWIBA SIKOTA WEN A.MAZOKA DIED UPND U ARE FAKE BCOZ OF KUJATA NG’OMBE TOO MUCH THE ONLY PLACE U CAN RULE IS EITHER IN GRAVEYARD OR YO VILLAGE U THINK U ARE SUCCESFUL WITH STOLEN MONEY FROM NAMBOARD 4U ITZ BETA HITLER,SADDAM,MUSSOLINI OR LUCIFER ARE BETA TAN U,U SHUTTERED BRAIN UNDERDOG WANYA WITH CHRONIC DIARRHOEA.