THE Mwanawasa family has summoned Patrick Mwanawasa, son of the late former republican president, over disparaging remarks he has been issuing against President Banda.
Uncle of Patrick, Moses Muteteka, told the Sunday Mail in an interview yesterday that the family would like to counsel him because the statements he was making are not only demeaning the President, but embarrassing the family too.
Mr Muteteka, who is Deputy Minister of Local Government and Housing, said the statements coming from Patrick are too strong and inconsistent with the Mwanawasa family which is known to be disciplined and well-cultured.
He lamented that Patrick could be playing to the tune of the Patriotic Front (PF) which wants to use his name to discredit President Banda’s government.
“We have summoned him (Patrick). I asked him to come and see me immediately he arrives from Chipata. We are concerned with the statements said to be coming from him because they are quite strong. Imagine how can a young man tell President Banda that ‘you can’t bring me down’,” Mr Muteteka said.
He said it is clear that Patrick is being used by the PF because the language attributed to him is similar to that which PF president Michael Sata had been using against former President Mwanawasa.
Mr Muteteka said politicians and the media using the late president’s son must know that it is unfair to engage a young man in their own battles.
He said the family meeting is not meant to infringe on Patrick’s right to belong to a political party of his choice, but to counsel him to respect elders in his political career.
Mr Muteteka, who is also MMD national youth chairperson, said although Patrick did not consult the family before joining the PF, they respect his democratic right to belong to any political party.
He said as a person who served in the Mwanawasa government for five years, he is sure that if Dr Mwanawasa were alive, he would not be happy with media statements attributed to his son.
Mr Muteteka urged members of the public and MMD youths who are aggrieved with Patrick’s outbursts to exercise patience until he has been counselled by the family.
“The cadres who have issued threats to take him on must be patient with him, because it’s clear that there is a hidden voice behind him. And we don’t use that language in our family,” he said.
Efforts to get a comment from Patrick failed as he could not pick up his calls by press time.
iwe ka muteteka just keep licking boots. We want change and patrick has sensed that is the case.
mr muteteka you foolish how can you advice when everybody know you are protecting you stomach from RB. give us a break you abuser of reasoning.
Patrick mwakula mutu ka?
Please Muteteka (not Mwanawasa family) has called Patrick Mwanawasa. Mr Muteteka have you changed your name to Mwanawasa. I thought you call yourself Muteteka family. We know you are married to Maureen’s sister. No blood connection whatsoever with the Mwanawasa name. Levy was your chufi munonko not your bloody brother.
muteteka looks after cesaer’s interest because he lives of his charity.he does not have the moral authority to summon anybody.He has sold his freedom for a deputy ministerial position.He has to tow the party line.
Leave the young man alone. You will end up dwarfing him by your insistence that he sings the RB songs.
Muteteka is not from the Mwanawasa family,he’s only a husband to one of Patrick’s female cousins but yes Muteteka got close to Mwanawasa shortly before Mwanawasa got elected into office,Muteteka is only talking because he’s someone MMD relies on, not that he has influence in the Mwanawasa family,he has the right to advise Patrick but it’s just insane to say that the late Mwanawasa would not have been happy to be hearing things his son has been saying in the press. Patrick is not a minor anymore,whether dull or not,Patrick is independent now,he has his own home and lives his own life so he’s not representing the Mwanawasa family in his endeavours so he should be judged as an individual. I think the press in Zed is just too empty and hungry.
Thats the new kacha of belittling adults when you are no longer a minor? Your thinking is so retrogressive. Then why should sata disparage Dora for seeing his nakedness. this is a load of bull.
Iwe ”Spare-some-tears” no one is talking about ‘belittling of adults’ here,we are talking about the reference of a couple of MMD members trying to counsel Patrick in the name of ”Mwanawasa family” when Patrick is not a minor who depends on adults for guidance of for survival ! Patrick is independent now,he has his own home and therefore he should be treated as an individual not as ”Mwanawasa’s kid” he’s an adult and now capable of making independent decisions about his future. The late Mwanawasa tried so hard for his son Patrick to study law but it was all in vain,Patrick failed law and in the end did a course of his choice and finished,that’s just an example to show you that you cannot control an adult if he has made up his mind on what he wants to do.
That is the problem when you have a lot of old people in government. Patrick is an age mate with Thandiwe. And Thandiwe is the wife to the president. Why was she not conselled not to marry elderly men. This is not about respect or morality. It is about adults pf whatever age fighting a political battle.
That is the problem when you have a lot of old people in government. Patrick is an age mate with Thandiwe. And Thandiwe is the wife to the president. Why was she not conselled not to marry elderly men. This is not about respect or morality. It is about adults of whatever age fighting a political battle.
I think that it’s time for Parliament to enact a law that would prohibit hopeless en disrespectful people like Patrick to insult and use abusive language against the head of state. In Zimbabwe you can’t do that to the President….it’s imprisonment…it’s criminal! The reason is simple;whoever insults the Presidents insults whoever had elected him into office! We can criticize…but with respect!
iwe kachirwa tekuzimbabwe uko nikuzambia .twalateka ,amafumoayo yalaya.in life what is wrong is to insult somebody who is not making mistakes all the time
Isnt the young man exercising his democratic right?i dont think he needs any counsel from the other guys who think his activities will jeopardise their relationship with their employer.
Politics of the belly pa Zambia……..yanyanya. Leave the kid alone……..Muteteka. Patrick is the next-generation of leaders.
The standard of journalism has sunk so low pa Zambia.
Muteteka is an I.d.I.ot how can her want to advice Patrick? Who advised him when her was insulting HE MCS?
Ba LT please give us information on the chipata rally which Patrick attended
The RB song is difficult to sing, that is why is also full of insults, see Dora Shikapwasha speak then you will know what I am talking about.
Even HH is struggling to learn to sing RB song even after being linked to MMD a long time ago. Mpezeni has just failed to sing it and most members are missing out the verses hence getting confused in the process.
I think Patrick is good enough to know what is right or wrong, if you need to advise him go to him quietly and do so, I think that is where the problem is. As for Muteteka’s relation with the guy as highlighted by MORTGAGE, please Honourable Muteteka limit your politics of the belly boundary, so that you may have reasonable sebana wikute or just wacth.
This boy needs some beating, he is becoming big headed. I hope the people of Kafulafuta will give him some good political beating so that he can come back to his senses and go back to school so that he can get a real life.Â
Muteteka you are MMD youth chairman, Why have you deliberately disregarded the behaviour of youths under your control? Is it not that because their disrespectful and violent behaviour is endorsed by your leadership and benefits MMD? Have you ever counselled your youths in MMD on their behaviour?
You want to counsel Patrick because his entry into politics is hurting your party. If he was saying these things about Sata there would have been no reason for counselling because it was going to benefit MMD.
Patrick is not a child who does not understand what he is saying. He is just a self-important and snobbish young man who feels he can say whatever he wants because his father was once head of state.
He has gone off at a tangent and his condescending utterances should not surprise anyone.
Amulichafwe mwenka taa!Patrick wakomena.Atosa taa.
Iwe, Ass leaker Muteteka, just shup up and keep your job, what hell nonsense are you summoning Patrick? He has his own rights.
The Mwanawasa Family are also a problem. We will see when SATA wins. F.o.o.ls. leave the Youngman alone.
It’s time for the youth to rule, we respect our elders but when it come to the political arena it’s different Mr Muteteka, Patrick is old enough and he has a democratic right to criticise useless RB. Another RB of former News International has just gone down, it’s now the RB of Zambia to go down in a few weeks time. Viva youths it’s our time forget these old I****s
Uyu mwana, Patrick Mwanawasa bamulowa by the very Sata who mocked his father’s illness. Sata insulted Levy’s humanitarian gesture of saving his life by sending him for treatment to South Africa. He later insulted RB who also saved Dr. Kaseba in a similar manner. The boy’s maternal family must prevail over him. Patrick is abusing his father’s Presidency. There are many decent Zambian youths who have the best attributes to rise to Republican Presidency. If a serious illness befell on Patrick, Sata is not a kind of person who would care for his plight; but then if Patrick thrives on insulting language, where else will the boy turn to in times of real need. If Sata can discard FTJ as demonstrated lately, who is Patrick in Sata’s inhuman database?
The person who needs Muteteka’s counselling is Dora siliya, not Patrick. Dora Siliya has gone too far even to the extent of justifying the abuse of public media and telling some private media that they have some pot holes. Is this not too strong for Siliya? Muteteka where were you when Siliya was using this strong words on our highly valued journalist. Be sincere and just say that you are protecting your job
It is unfortunate that we have leaders that do not understand democratic principles. It is the young mans right to PARTICIPATE in politics and his age is not a liability. The youth are grossly under-represented in the affairs of the country. Leave Patrick alone and prepare for your retirement!
Muteteka as observed by some bloggers,is not a Mwanawas,if this came from Leslie Mbula,i would approve of it coz he is in the circle of the Mwanawasas.I know for sure that Patrick did not join pf without any form of consultation from some family members he thought were relevant to his ambitions,if muteteka was not one of them,then he is irrelevant to Patrick,so why would an irrelevant person want to give advice to someone who considers him as such?It will be useless for Patrick to even sit down and listen to your stupidity iwe ka mose.
Isn’t what Bwezani getting the dance with the devil has has to play? Has Muteteka ever heard of the one about Chickens coming home to roost? Mututwa is today dead, and I still wonder why a frail near centurion could be incarcerated for 30 days only for exercising his constitutionally and birth right of freedom of assembly. Bwezani should know that politics in nature are distinctly feral, the ferocity of attacks on him will only worsen with his useless local and foreign trips, his battles with innocent citizens like Masebo and his stinking abatement of corruption. No matter how much positive spin a gutless state media puts on his useless administration, things will only get worse as we get into the hom straight. The die is cast, the monkey toilet is doomed!
Two things, this boy may either be very calculating or he is absolutely dumb. First scenario, he knows he has better chances of rising using PF, he knows Sata is going nowhere and he sees himself as the next PF rebel MP leader like Machungwa was. Using that launch pad he can try presidency in 10 years time. The dumb scenario is exactly what it is looking like now……letting his ‘heavyweight’ name to be used by Mr Sata with no focus beyond 2011
Kuteteka just shut up….this is politics…who ever told you that when someone says you cant bring him down is an insult….. imbwa iwe….Patrick is even better than you in fact….how many poor people has any MMD ever apologised for theft by you and your friends….galu iwe
why should patrick’s actions be tied to the rest of his family? Whatever he is doing it is in his individual and democratic right, what’s wrong with you people!! It seems some people enjoy it when family memberz toll the line, they dont encourage individualism. You may be suprised that kanshi there some less couragers mwanawasa memberz that are actually supporting him but are scared to openly come out in the open.
No one will forget what muteteka was saying about GRZ when he was left out of cabinet. They had to appoint him deputy minister for him to stop attacking Govt.
It would have made sense if what Muteteka is saying had come from Shakafuswa’s mouth. Muteteka is obviously protecting his ka job.
Muteteka is not related to the mwanawasa,he was just a driver in the mwanawasa company he can not even Try to talk to patrick wait for the reaction you will laugh tomorrow.he can even insult him.Â
Lelo lelo Patrick. You are in hot soup. You’ll be smacked on the bottom by abakalamba.
Wrong advice from a wrong person. wonder if patrick would listen to Muteteka, because he knows that Muteteka’s advice is just to protect his job under RB. Democracy of threats hahh in a middle income country wow.
Bul shit ka Muteteka with the the reporting person! is this data? since when did faily affairs become news to the readership? Patrick is not a child or a little boy,he is just man enough like Muteteka who is trying to secure his future politically.
iwe ka patrick,yalaba ulekulila ingnda.
dont bite the finger that feeds u.
equally, young man muteteka,close that thing u call a mouth. are u also a mwanawasa or a muteteka? still waters ran deep man…take it easy.
Moses is not the Mwanawasa family. He is just married to the niece to Mawanwasa. He should shut up his mouth. “Let him continue licking the boots
Most of you who do not know Muteteka will keep uttering nosense. Though he is not direct from the Mwanawasa family, he is close to the family and comes from Chief Chamuka were Mwanawasa comes from. He is married to Mwanawasa s niece and served as private secretary to the president for five years. He is more closer to the Mwanawasas than Mpombo, mbula and Shikapwasha.
But what wrong did Patrick commit? can some one tell me please!!
I didnt know Democracy means insults,honestly those who are supporting patreck put yourselves in RB ‘s shoes someone insulting your father i personally i wouldnt tolerate that.am not against his freedom but for once he should respect elders and for God’s sake he knows how it feels cos his father has been a presdo before its a shame patreck usebanya mwe.
iwe chi little mama uli mbwa sana.What kind of reasoning is that?
#39 only a dog have those manners of yours.i dont blame you i blame your parents who brought you that way.uzabenda kamnwa ngauleyangala.anyway i forgive you.
#40. little mama. You will do urself a good favour if you dont respond to people with no resoning power. Some comments are even below the standard of primates. The kid does know that he’s being used for selfish reasons. So dumb.
Mu itileni alangizi amu tote mwana uyu lol
You *****s