Works and Supply minister Gabriel Namulambe and his Ministry of Labour counterpart Austin Liato have denied harboring intentions of defecting from the ruling MMD to the Patriotic Front.
Reacting to a story on QFM this morning in which highly placed MMD sources indicated that the two plan to defect to the opposition PF completing the number of senior MMD official intending to ditch the party, Mr Namulambe told a media briefing in Lusaka this morning that there is nothing sweet than being chairperson for elections in the MMD and a cabinet minister for him to contemplate defecting to the opposition.
Mr Namulambe further said that if had any intentions of defecting from the MMD he would have defected at the time he was fired as Science and technology minister by president Rupiah Banda over his tribal remarks.
He adds that he is working under instruction from 15 chief on the Copperbelt who have resolved to rally behind President Rupiah Banda.
And Labour minister Austin Liato described assertion that he intends to defect from the ruling party as a ploy aimed at causing confusion in the MMD.
He says he is very strong in his Kaoma central constituency and would not think of defecting to opposition and risk losing his parliamentary seat.
QFM
Now Liato and Namulambe are talking sense and not speaking from euphoria like the PF crew!!
PF will never form government as it is a one man band.This is the year when the titanic finally gets submerged to oblivion!!Wina azalila!!
Donchi kubeba. Will wait and see then.
what a relief…. RB needs every MP, even the useless ones. Seriously, PF Mps are welcome but not their one party participatory dictator.
Mwandi balemibepeshafye after all you have been all out campaigning.why campaign if you know you want to defect.you live in denial like mangani
KK2 keep on hallucinating. Why should everyone join PF? Why should anyone join PF? Don’t reduce everything to cheap senseless slogans like “Donchi Kubeba”. If all of RB’s Cabinet defected to PF, will that solve our problems?
Leave us out of this. We are not the ones who said these guys are defecting to us. It was “highly placed MMD sources”… How about calling them the liars? Donchi kubeeba!!!
Latest,latest,rb has resigned and formed his new party.kudya na kusheta party
Nothing is sweeter than being MMD chairman for elections?That the problem of staying too long in the village Mpongwe worse still.
Lets wait and see if its true then its ok for Pf coz we don’t need them.
They have learnt from Mpombo!
Come on guys join you know you like it.
i think RB chabe….ba sata iz a clown, and i can only imagine how a PF cabinet would look like.
Guys you have worked very hard & everyone with good intentions for the country and govt will not waste his time to join the corrupt PF which has fail to discipline its corrupt Copperbelt and Lusaka  councilors  on land cases,……. This year’s elections are meant to bar Satanists from Statehouse. Liato and Namulambe don’t listen to the demagogues wanting to bring confusion in our beloved Party – MMD.
#5 Satatheliar— i said lets wait and see. Am not a politician but a supporter for PF. Therefore, i am here to wait and see. Whats so special about these ticks that are coming to PF? NOTHING. Sata is not so dull to put them in gvt when PF wins and thats what i like about him. You will cut my throat.
@ 11 ezra ,# 12 PUSO.
You are spot on!!!PF is party without direction and vision!!How can you put more money in peoples pockets when you dismiss things like per capita income,GDP and coupled with a rogue foreing policy of supporting small Taiwan instead of China?PF are going to win the noble prize for being the most vicious day dreamers this year!!!
Free theze MP’z from the parliamentary and cabinet bondage and see what happenz.Â
RECYCLING CONTINUES.2O11 FOR BAFANABAFANA
KK2, tell us of the ‘intelligent real Sata’ who today is pretending and yet will be completely different if elected as President. Why tell lies only to win elections. Is that what you call being principled? How many ‘ticks’ has he rejected?
LIARS’/FOOLS’. Defect quickly we will receive you Ba FIKALA’
Bushe efyo chili bane finshi filechitika mu zambia finshi ba RB ba chitile kanshi
Nothing like a relief, RB is solid. Around this time it is expected for politicians with weak hearts to defect, infact that is there right but as for us in MMD Nafuti Nafuti on RB
@ no. 1 You amaze me with your dullness,it is not only Namulambe and Liato who are defecting to PF,Gladys and almost all those who served as Cabinet ministers under Levy are defecting they are just waiting for the dissolution of Parliament;oh even VJ is on the way out.
As for Namulambe and Liato well done boys for making a bold move,PF here you come,you have come of age;you are following my foot steps!
only Godly gives leaders, no matter what we say and do.
#5 Satatheliar— The man is more practical than some people i know. Tell me who is intelligent among the three for you? HH or RB!!! you are joking. What we need is a president who can stand on his feet than on his junior’s lies. Ticks havent started sucking him yet since there just settling and looking for oppotunities. When the dont get what they want? you will see them going all directions of the society in vain.
only God gives leaders no matter what we say and do.
MMD sources said Liato and Nalumambe!MMD members are bringing confusion in MMD.Who said that Nalumambe and liato are moving to PF?It’s MMD sources.So the confusion is the MMD.They don’t know ministers who are defecting to PF.Really PF is a big party can make confusion in MMD.
Only F00ls will leave MMD and join their fellow f00ls in the Patriotic F00ls Club. Lack of Vision
Rupiah is using Donchi Kubeba, he also wants to defect to PF. Just wait and see
I THINK ITS GUD FOR PF COZ THIS YEAR IS FOR SATA SO FOR THOZ WHO ARE POLITICIANS BY CAREER SHOUL HAVE AN EAR TO GROUND AND DO WHAT IS REQUIRED OF THEM,
BY THE WAY YOU BLOGGERS Y SHOUD YOU CONDEMN BA SATA BY SAYING OTHERS ARE JUST GETING RABBITS AS COUNCILLORS?YES ITS IS A REALITY THAT A RABBIT IS A SMALL ANIMAL IN GAME PARK SO Y WORRY AFTER ALL A BUFALLO IS BIGGER THAN A RABBIT
You people,Namulambe is one hell of a joker,he is not liked by rbish at all,the only reason he has kept him is for rbish to have some support in CB rural otherwise,even his adoption is in limbo,rbish wants Ann Chungu to contest Mpongwe ba Namulembe bena he is busy licking rbish’s black balls.Time will tell,he will defect as soon as he learns how much he is being used.As for liato,its hard to trust him,LPM made him minister in the hope that he would marry his daughter to which Liato agreed,all was going on smooth until LPM died.Liato has neglected even his own child,not even soap yamwana,he is now a supperstar.So ba rbish should be careful na Liato.
This Bemba party will not exist after elections. Even this UNIPinised MMD should do the same(Zwa Zamaya). There is no change at all if this PF which people are hallucinating over was to form a govt. PF and MMD are the same crooks regrouping here and there. I really question the intelligence of people who support the two part clones. I should not be misunderstood to be an HH supporter, NO. Zambians must be dull, they can go for anything with eyes wide open. Well, poverty has played a part here. There are so many young educated leaders who can take this country to higher heights. Why stick to old finished rugs? Imagine having unlettered Sata as president! This country is a laughing stork.
Just realised that most bloggers on this site are uncivilised, childish and uninformed
USELEES , UNEDUCATED AND SATANIC PF BLOGGERS! YOU HAVE BN LEFT STUNNING, DO YOU THINK GABRIEL AND AUSTIN CAN JOIN FOOLS? HE WUD HAVE WEN HE WZ SACKD AS MINISTER AT VOCATIONAL TRAINING. HE IS A PRINCIPLED GUY.
JUST CONTINUE WITH WAT U HAV IN THE LIKES OF GBM, NSANDA, KAMBWILI, MISAPA, MUSENGE, WINTER ETC. THAT’S YOUR CALIBRE.
Thats sign of Maturity Comrade Ministers. We cant afford to be a strayed by these drug balloons
Most radio stations are victims of this political propaganda where always ‘highly placed sources’. There are some of our citizens who are paid to issue such calculated statements aimed at creating suspicions and divisions in the parties.So anything without properly named source should be held with great suspicion.
If there will be more defections from MMD to PF then change will be in MMD where there will be new ministers unlike for PF where there will be recycled Masebo, Mangan, Mulongoti and so on
We don’t want each Jim & Jackie to go to PF, Some should join Chipimo Junior, Milupi and other parties. PF Bana kwana. Liato & your friend try next door…………………………………………
It will be worst betray for the two gentlemen to defect from MMD yet they are holding cabinet positins in addition s to NEC. This style of defecting at the last moment is killing the meaning of democracy. I wondetr what good it is doing to our young democracy. The defections are only going to help Sata as an individual coz he wants at all costs to become Repulican President nothing else. The rest will be at his mess when it comes to making appointments are diappointments.It will not make sense for those defecting from one party to another coz all along they never saw development being delivered by MMD govt. Satanomics is making the nation beleive that he can single handendly deliver services within 90 days. That is as good as imagining to build Kariba dam in one year. Governance is complex
#30 Am not amuzed by thoze who uze obscene and vulgar language, but thoze you call uncivilized, childish and uninformed make blogging fun and entertaining, else it would be boring just to have only the so called intellectualz. Â
lice will cling to a corpse.Â
PF does not have the capacity to win these elections let alone run the country. this country needs serious leaders. Mr Sata and his bunch do not have what it takes to lead a nation like ours which is moving forward. they will take us backwards with politics of tujili jili
Dissolve parliament and see wat happens!!!! All tricks are well known but just disolve parliament now before u finish sorting out your prefered parliamentarian and see wat will happen.Its not only Gabby and liato who want to defect bt many more and the president knows this.Tafilibwino ifintu….Obviuosly at this stage Gabby cant tell that he wants to defect.The defection was maturely announced.
So are these the ‘elephants’ Mr Sata has been bleating about?
The boat is open for all. Time to step in, just after dosolving parliament. All are welcome. Dont kubeba. The change we want. Its a wave, no matter how many last minute developments are doe it will not work, after all its our money and by no way a favour. Dont kubeba.
These buffaloes and elephants crossing onto the boat will end up capsizing it. Why are the disgruntled running like cockroaches from a house that has suddenly run out of food??? Zambian politicians are only fit for a comedy show. Just look at Mulongoti’s turncoat behaviour and you see the whole comedy setup. Popcorn anyone?
People who support mmd do you support it because you believe in the ideals of the mmd to take Zambia where it must be or because the individuals want to benefit from the croocked deals of the mmd?
#38 Wish we had more like you, Zambia would get somewhere.
thanks guys we love you dont go to the once opposition always opposition party.MMD this year will form government and RB as prisido.
#38 waba amafi….and you think were are happy with MMD 20 years and Banda as President….go Zim Mugabe will like you…chikala
#44 you equally a disgrace go to Zim and support Mugabe Zed poeple know when its enough on principle and not hatred galu iwe
Nos 38 & 44 have no clue as to where we could have been had we serious minded Presidents under MMD from 1991. This Country is exporting in excess of US$7Billion/- per annum from Copper, Cobalt and GOLD out of which we get a partly $150million as Taxes. Just how dull can No. 38 & 44 be to understand that the local taxes do not just add up (How come Mining Companies are earning so much from our God given resourse and yet we get so Little from it as a Country, BECAUSE OF CORRUPTION). STOP WASTING OUT TIME YOU FOOLS.
Iwe #45 waba akabwamba.Tackle xenophobia ku jo’burg, kabwa iwe!
All in all,we all know that zambians from deep down their hearts would like to replace RB with a more favourable leader but he is definetely the lesser evill  compared to a Serpent!!!Truth hurts!!!
RB has been endorsed by the majority of the rural zambians who are the majority voters in the country!! I recently completed a national tour of all major rural areas and I do concur with EIU(Economic Intelligent Unit) that the tasting of the pudding is in its eating!!Bena bazalila!!!
The writing is on the wall that MMD is in total trepidation.Can`t blame any wise MMD leader that reads accurately the political wave of change.It`s not only these two honourables but the chief rigger VJ is on the fence as well.MMD is a ramshackle.
LUSAKA PROVINCE MMD CHAIRAM WILLIAM BANDA IS DEAD .HE PASSED ON THIS MORNING AT 01:20. HIS WIFE HAS ALSO CONFIRMED TO THIS REPORTER.SHE DID NOT SAY WHAT KILLED HIM
what a mess 4 MMD, smearing their own & then not knowing what to do with them!!! THAT IS WHAT IS CALLED AGONY!!!!!
NAMULAMBE 15 CHIEFS AND 15 VOTES. ******WE
WHY IS PF TOO HAPPY TO GOBBLE UP MMD MPS? NO QUALITY IN PF ITSELF EH BA SATANA MWALACHIMONA UMWAKA UNO MWALOBOLA ILYABUMA NAFUTI NAFUTI.
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