State house said that President Rupiah Banda will not stop any citizen from petitioning the United Nations or any other body to seek redress over his parentage and eligibility to run in this year’s elections.
Reacting to threat by the PF to write to SADC, AU and UN over President Banda’s parentage and eligibility as a presidential candidate, President Banda’s special assistant for press and public relations Dickson Jere in a statement released to QFM said that it was the right of any citizen to petition any relevant Tribunal if they felt aggrieved on any matter.
Mr Jere said that the President cannot stop any citizen from petitioning the United Nations or any other body to seek redress.
He said that the President is surprised that the issue of the nationality of his parents has become very important now when the PF has been claiming that they will beat the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) during the forthcoming elections.
He wondered why the PF was scared to face President Banda in the elections scheduled for 20th September 2011.
Mr Jere also questioned why the PF kept quiet in 2008 and now want to block President Banda from standing. he further added that President Banda was on record several times, including his family, as having stated clearly that both his father and mother were Zambians.
He said that if his parents were not Zambians, the PF could have raised the issue when President Banda was appointed Vice-President of Zambia by the late President Levy Mwanawasa, stating that the Constitution of Zambia requires that the Vice-President should have the same qualifications as those of the President.
Mr Jere further explained that President Banda served Zambia in a number of portfolios, including that of Ambassador to the UN, Washington and Egypt and that no one has ever raised the issue of his parentage wondering why it has become an issue all of a sudden.
[QFM]
In short they have been told to go ahead with their threat so they see where it takes them. most likely, nowhere
Does this issue need responding to?
SUCH ARE STUPPIDY LAWS SATA AND KA FTJ INACTEDÂ WHILSTÂ IN GOVERNMENT THAT SHOULD BE REPEALED, SO WHAT IF HIS PARENTS WERE NOT ZAMBIAN, IAM NOW A BRITISH CITIZEN THOUGH I WAS BORN IN ZAMBIA I CAN ASPIRE TO ANY HIGH OFFICE IN THE UK, F00LISH PF U ARE JUST SCARED OF MMD AND YOU HAVE FELT THE HEAT FROM HH HH WHO IS PULLING HUGE RALLIES AND HAS MADE SERIOUS IN-ROADS IN YOUR TERRITORY, TO BE HONEST I WOULD RATHER RB CONTINUES OR HH WINS THAT TO HAVE THIS PF MAGOATE IN STATE HOUSE THANK HEAVENS ON 21ST SEPTEMBER WE WILL DISCARD SATA TO THE POLITICAL DUST BIN. ELO BA MAMBALA BA PF DONT ATTEMPT TO CAUSE ANARCHY ORÂ CHAOSÂ IN OUR COUNTRY WE WILL CANE YOU THIS IS NOT LIBYA OR EGYPT SHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
PF is losing direction or is it Wynter Kabimba who is losing his mind … Just contest the elections.
exactly. thats why even LAZ is quiet because it will take nobody anywhere. Foolish Pantu Fyandi (PF).
This is the strategy to disturb the campaign for MMD by PF. MMD are now confused more than ever
Let them spend their time on a wild goose chase whilst those with Zambia’s interest at heart focus on the country’s future.
RB has called Sata’s bluff. The illiterate founder of the PF should go ahead and write to those reputable organizations and see if they will even waste their time acknowledging receipt of his letter.
By the way which language will the buffoon use? Bemba and Taiwanese are not official languages in those organisations! Maybe he should try his mother tongue Mwachusa/Swahili!
PF is simply conceding defeat. Mr. Michael PUNCH-DRUNK Zondwa Sata should go ahead and petition the UN and AU (both organizations that are trying to deal with the horn of Africa issues) over this trivial matter if he so wishes.
This just shows that PF is not ready for these elections. If you’re not ready, pull out, restructure your party and try again in 2016….simple.
Dey ve run out of ideas now
so dey think dere cheap propagander wil serve dem.
Shame on dem.Where were dey when Levy appointed him veep?Did dey go 2 slip when he wz adopted in 2008 as presidetial candident? Let dem jst agree zat 4 sure dey re PF which simply mean Presidential Failures.Nafuti Nafuti.Rb state house.
Ya all comments most appreciated bravo
RB NAFUTI NAFUTI SATANA ALALA
Being a vice president is different to being president hence the need to clear his parentage. Don’t jump into conclusions you zambians.
Read the constitution. It requires same qualifications for the reason being that if anything happens to the President, the V/Pres. should take over (Good example: Mwanawasa – Rupiya situation). Good day sir/madam
these PF maggots are now irrtiating us so much..they ahve no more data about RB and Zambia..forget about ruling you maggots..RB chabe na 20HH..
Why havent they taken this issue to court all these years RB has been President? # 13 they are maggots you are very right apopena
In an event that the incumbent president dies , the vice takes over until the by- election . Meaning that all these pf dogs bucking now should ve started this issue long ago when rb was veep. Or that’s when evidence has surfaced? Are u just trying to sway rb political attention ? Anyway , thanx for conceding defeat but don’t kubeba please .
Now this is extremely boring mwee! Ba fi color give us sumthing worthy our intellect not this nonsense coming from presidential candidates. Dickson, muuze boss wako, naiwe winter mwacita ova manje.
COMEÖN ZAMBIANS.2DAY ELECTION DATE,2MORROW UNKNOWN INTERVETION.THIS IS A DESGRACE 2 THE ENTIRE PF CADRES.NAIMWE BA JUNE KABIMBA ADVICE THE BIG MAN B4 POTENTIAL FAILURE{PF} LOSES ELECTRORATE.
Mudala uyu li ule
I know Easterners majority are ules and drunkers, and very stingy.
Bloo/d bust/ers
I love the way MMD cadres are getting mad on this issue. What happened? Campaign topic has changed? I remember few days ago Mr Banda at the launch of the campaign mentioned about security and sovereignty. Little did he know that his own words will haunt him in very few days. I really don’t know if Zambia is an extension of Malawi or Zimbabwe such that we have to get leaders from those countries. So now Zambia is a colony of Malawi? Sad story.
The strategic campaign trail of RB and MMD for Decision 2011 has left Poor Finishers’ Party in a quagmire of senselessly waffling rubbish all the way to their rejection verdict they increasingly smell.
Zambia is for RB as elections are for MMD. It’s Nafuti Nafuti! PF surrogates have been deactivated in battle time. Time is their worst enemy to scheme up a battle plan.
Keep yaping and ploughing resources to frivolous petitions and see how RB President for all Zambians is swelling in popularity. When the Secret service and the police who screens all candidates for public office say, he is cleared as always since independence poor finishers will lose all the way again.
The primate called satan out of election fever has gone shiki polomya. We forewarned you that expect degeneration of shiki polomyo from this mentally dysfunctional primate.
Wynter Kabimba needs to shut the ..%&#k up, he can cost us erections. Atleast these MMD thugs have put their b#&*h Dora in rehab from Chibuku, she stopped shouting these days.
# 20 spot on. i am with you. lets not treat this election like English footbal league. this is Zambia’s future at stake. its not about who wins or who looses its about sustainable development but if there is a legimate issue that needs to be taken into consideration before elections we have to take it serously. wake up Zambians this is not a game between Man U and asenal. Laz needs to interven in this matter and it should be delt with before elections. lets see if LAZ is not corrupt. are laws only for certain people and not others?
Ba 24,
how does LAZ come in in your nonsense.if LAZ had a case do you think mwenye not “indian”
mwenye the laz chairman would have stayed put with all his heart in PF.fyabupuba bafffikala.let`s just go to the elections or you are afraid because your candidate only wins erections
This issue is a non starter because the time this old man was born Zambia, malawi and Zimbabwe were like one country under the british colony BSA company, when it was northern rhodesia, south rhodesia and nyasaland, so by then there was no citizen declaration, hence people were migrating freely from Zimbabwe to Zambia and malawi not until Zambia got her independence in 1964 so was malawi and evidently Zimbabwe got hers in 1980. yes we know that RB was not born in zambia but the time Zambia got her independence in 1964 RB was Zambian and declared his citizenship as zambian Coz his parents came from northern Rhodesia Zambia now and by then there were no birth certificates. Ba Sata we love you but on this issue you gona loose big time.please campaign on real issues like education, poverty.
the game has satarted and weak and sick minded people like sata who have no strengh will melt away like candle or wax.Mr.President please dont waste your time to answer these castrated morons.Just campain and develop our nation.We love you R B…Nafuti nafuti
# 25, you have summarised the topic. #20 and 24 are useless, you wanted an erection date….lol erection. now you have it. # 23 nostradamus you made me laugh….lol. anyway. if LAZ was to go with the issue we wont have elections this year.
RB concentrate on issue based campaigns and don’t waste precious time to react to Mr.Sata and his tactics of trying to draw you into trivial issues. Continue giving hope to the less privileged in our society. Talk about the schools, hospitals, roads and the various projects you embarked on in the 2 years of presidency. These are the yardsticks Zambians are likely to use in rating you, not how much you react to Mr.Sata’s claims.
This is Rubbis can these Jokers concentrate on real issues, Healthcare, Housing, Schools, Roads etc. The man has been president for 3 years already why was this not brought up. The only true Zambians are under the age of 47, are we forgetting the federation of Nyasaland, Northern and Southern Rhodesia??? Anyone older than the 47 years of Zambia’s independence is suspect!! By virtue of ordinarily residing in the country when independence was declared one became a Zambia.
looking at the pic above, is that RB’s daughter?? I didn’t know he had a teenage daughter !!
Mr Sata on petitioning SADC, AU, UN and/or COMESA if you like, ask Morgan Tshangirai. He attempted to hoodwink these bodies to solve national issues but got more frustrated as they could not just help out. I would advise you to concentrate on issues Zambians want to hear. Why did you call for the election date (Through the letter you claim forced RB to announce the date) if you well knew that your competitor was a foreigner? You should have taken the matter to court instead of calling for the election date and preaching to be ready fro the polls.
Just show us the Birth Certificate like Obama did and shame them!
@31, Unlike the case is for Obama, I doubt whether birth certificates were being issued when RB’s parents were being born. Look at it this way, RB is aged 76(?) so he was born in (around) 1935. So his parents should have been born say around or before 1910 (give at least a 20 year allowance). Now, were birth certificates being issued at that time?
#32 This is why this issue is a non-starter. Sata would not be able to conclusively prove that his father was not of Tanzanian origin.
The Final blow for Sata has come.
If SATA wants to stand even in 2016, then sure he is PUNCH-DRUNK. May be SATA thinks it is honorable to lose elections. Because both the winner and the loser are announced nationalwide and heard world wide. May be he likes it because it helps to take his name wide, notwithsanding the shame that others think are associated with losing. As for SATA he waits to hear his name, that is all.
I LIKE RB’S MATURITY. BA PA FWAKO GO AHEAD AND PETITION SADC, AU AND UN. THEY WONT ENTERTAIN YOU. I KNOW THIS IS ALL KABIMBA’S DOING. SATA BE CAREFUL WITH KABIMBA HE IS ALSO A SNAKE AND SNAKES TEND TO EAT OTHER SNAKES. SO WATCH YO TAIL COBRA KABIMBA IS LEADING YOU TO THE KNACKERS!
# 36 even if he can prove that RB was not born in Zambia by 1936 there was no Zambia, there was the Federation of Nyasaland and North & South Rhodesia up until 1958 or 59 (not too sure) so whats Sata talking about???
Such is the sense of gross immaturity that is an integral part of PF. Totally disillusioned and immature! RB is happily sailing towards the most sweet of victories. Shame on Wynter and PF. Shame!