Finance Minister, Alexander Chikwanda is the acting President during President Sata’s absence. Vice president Guy Scott is also away in China.
President Sata has left for Uganda today to attend the International Conference on the Great lakes Region–ICGLR-summit. The ICGLR summit would take place from December 15 to 16, 2011 after which President Sata would return home.At the summit President Sata is expected to hand over the chairmanship of the ICGLR to president of Uganda Yoweri Museveni.
This is President Sata’s first foreign trip since winning the September 20th polls.
President Sata who left in the company of his wife has in the past vowed not to globe trot in an effort to save public resources.
President Sata’s advance party included Defence Minister Geoffrey Mwamba, his Foreign Affairs counterpart Chishimba Kambwili, Deputy Minister in-Charge of Gender Emerine Kabanshi and other senior officials.
Attempts by journalists to get a comment from President Sata over his first foreign trip proved fruitless as he blatantly refused to speak to them.
The temporary transfer of power was symbolized by defence chiefs saluting Minister Chikwanda just before President Sata left.
Efforts to get a comment from Mr Chikwanda immediately after president Sata left failed as he was stopped from talking by officers from cabinet office.
Nice…lol…
Nice one alright.
So the Zambian entourage can even use bemba as an ‘official’ lanuage, since all 5 including the president are ethnic bemba.
What do the other 72 tribes say to this abuse of office?
Sata is not ethnic Bemba. He just happens to speak Bemba Iam Bemba myself.
ubupuba kolwe
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As though that were not enough the chap acting back in Zed is also Bemba, and Pf cadres on this blog will tell you to ignore this blatant arrogance.
You haven’t seen nothing yet, Zambians don’t listen and Zambians will never learn.
So, the VP is conveniently despatched to China, the ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs are both conveniently put on the delegation so none of them acts because the appointing authority has no confidence in them – meanwhile for the first time in Zambia’s history, all key ministeries are run by people from one region. I hate this style of politics.
So the conspiracy theorists try and confuse the masses by directing them to look at something that isn’t troubling them but is troubling Adviser. So Adviser wil continue to conveniently cry wolf when there’s no wolf anywhere. Adviser might just get so stressed he will need a shrink rather than a politician to sought him out. Adviser could end up at Chainama
@President Santa, Chikwanda is not only Bemba, he is Sata’s first cousin. He has always been Sata’s family spokesperson. That’s why he is in such a strategic ministerial position. It is also the reason why I was suspicious when he was sworn in in the middle of the night and dispatched on a mysterious foreign trip that no one has explained to the nation. I want to believe the man went to do some matrix in the offshore banks, on behalf of his family. Open your eyes, Zambians…
What matters is Sata’s delegation is Zambian, only a narrow-minded individual sees surnames and tribes in everything one does. So do you want him to take bitter shallow MPs of UPND with him, next time tell your grandmother, daddy and the rest of your clan to vote for a representative party other than the Useless Party of Narrow-minded Dunderheads!!
#8 I would like to think this is a civil and intelligent conversation we’re having here…Can you please communicate sensibly.
WHO CARES……………
I’V NEVER BEEN BOTHERED BY THIS SO CALLED TRIBE WHEN I’M NOT EVEN BAMBA. WHERE IS ZAMBIA LEADING TO? IF YOU HAD WANTED YOUR TRIBESMEN TO BE IN THE CABINET WHY DID YOU THEN NOT VOTE FOR THEM? AR MUCH AS I KNOW IN ALMOST EVERY CONSTITUENCY A PERSON FROM THAT TERRITORY WAS STANDING AS MP BUT YOU NEVER VOTED FOR THEM. DO YOU EXPECT SATA TO COME AND PICK YOUR UNCLE FROM THE FARM AND MAKE HIM MINISTER? PLEASE PEOPLE GET A LIFE! THIS IS A ONE ZAMBIA ONE NATION. WHETHER BEMBA, LOZI, KALUNDA WE ARE ONE AND THE SAME. LET NOT THESE PREMATURE TRIBLELIST UPND NOT SEPARATE OUR MOTHER ZAMBIA THROUGH THEIR PROJECTION OF TRIBALISTIC.
so what imwe mwabantu, do u expect him to take his rivals on such trips, let the people of tonga land field a good candidate with no tribal tag or support any other party let a tonga rise through the ranks in any big party , zambia will vote for him, if the tongas think they can win with only their province they shall never live to see a tonga president,,12% you must be jokers
#9 Kalumbi Sitali, What is civil and intelligent in your posts? you call tribalistic jokes intelligent sssshhhhiiiittttt Its sicken that some narrow-minded people’s views have tribalistic undertones. You are the same people who were making fun of Sata when was campaigning, calling him all vulgar names under sun, now you want him to include people based on tribe.This is why I dislike ka sillyb0y HH and his tribal party because of everything it represents
Tongas are working hard to make sure HH does not become president. I just wonder what is your strategy, keep attacking bembas, if you are really serious and not tribal as we know, you got to find a way of winning a bemba vote, right even those who voted for HH might changed their minds by the way you are going. You are bringing tribal everywhere even when it is not necessary, you have to bring facts and compare oranges with oranges. For instance take Panji, you all saw how much he put in, you can show another tribe or tonga if you who has done the same. if both have put in the same and one is rewarded and the other is not, surely we can say the probable reason could be tribe. the way you come out it is if a bemba invest time and commitment he/she should be sacrificed/excluded
Rubbish
#13, don’t judge me by your standards. I am blind when it comes to tribe and skin color.
Why is it that some characters always sees tribalism in whatever Sata and his government does ? This is becoming serious bane the Zambia as we know it has gone to the the birds and bats.What happened to the analytical minds ?
#16 Nah, I think you are completely blind as a bat and didn’t care to read all the comments before submitting your comments!
Change has come, let the king cobra rule tribalisim ante.
Why not try the Sampa Intermarriage Theory “Tonga men marying bemba women – ” it will be the end of all this tribal shit
As a Bemba woman I wouldnt marry a Tonga man not even if he had 1 million Cattle- and neither am I married to a bemba man, I believe in one Zambia one nation that is why I am married to an easterner !
It is amazing how, in the 21st Century, bloggers whom I suppose are only aping sentiments inherited from emotive tales from their grandparents and vaguely conscious parents, can speak so passionately about tribe. Next we will start regressing as in KKs time just because we need to “balance”. Lets seriously examine ourselves and look at competencies and not this concocted bigotry that will mindlessly tear our societies if we are not careful!
When other tribes complain about facts, I would implore my “powerful” bemba colleagues, brothers, sisters to look at the issue from the much illusive “other side” and only can they see the light. There is a problem: the domino effect that when one bemba goes outside the country, he/her position is assumed by another bemba.
Bembas are the next emerging triBe who will take this country to another level. Their numbers hv increased that. They will continue to win each election. EVerywhere u go there is chinese or a bemba
Let our presdnt transfa o tonga civil sevant 4rm southn 2 nothen en luapula so dat their childrn inter mary bembas ,4 de tongas 2 cam n rul in 2050.as 4 now without bembas hh ill neva rule
@Deep throttle what ever they call U you must be told that Hon Chikwanda was sworn in that way and sent to South Africa to go and fish out legal documents pertaining 2 sale of FBZ 2 First Rand which never existed First Rand has failed to sue Over this tranaction cause of they know that they can never win period. Ne chilshina cine ati Deep fimo fimo teti mufume ifyamano.
You’re not intelligent enough to know the name Deep Throat. It is a legendary name in journalism. Free knowledge…
So, the VP is conveniently despatched to China,
@ Adviser. Got it. Give it MCS! Tactiful as always. VP away, key ministries away. So his own acts. Ingeneous, isn’t it?
Its sad to see that Tongas are really bitter because Sata is in plot 1, a thing they never expected to happen and because of that, every time HH is in the media, there is no mention of HE MCS being tribal. a thing which has spread to his followers. This is indeed a sad story and i wonder how we are going to develop as Zambia. My advice to Tongas and their UPND is why dont you just work hard and find your way to state house so that you can rid this country of the tribalism you claiming to be happening? This is however a thing i doubt would happen unless you stop accusing others of being tribal. wake up and get a life….
one zambia…one nation…one nation…one leader…and that leader….WENKA WEBO…WENKA WEBO…NEBANA BOBE
@ DRE, the people you conned to vote for your fellow tribesman are the ones you should be sensitive to. And they are watching, they were screwed, just look at the cabinet. Bembas cannot make a president on their own, you are lying to yourselves. Those on the copperbelt are not bembas, Lusaka province, etc where PF scored big time. Just watch the space …….
To all Tribalists, this is a Zambian delegation accompanying the Zambian President. I did not see nor read the word bemba in the article? Whether you like it or not they will represent Zambia not only Bembas. Ooh by the way I am a proud Bemba, How do you take that?
Zed should never have a Prez & vice prez outside zambia at the same time.Having said that,this obsession with tribe reflects why zed is 3rd world.Its always true the crudest of all stuff always settles at the bottom be it unshaken medicine,paint,mud in water or even societies.Tis the reason blue collar whites mostly voted against Obama because they’re driven by the lowest denominator which is race not issues.If we keep voting or selecting cabinet on tribal lines rather than issues or policies we will always be a country that settles at the bottom like every other crude stuff does. I didn’t write that law-nature did and its always true.
Heys guy lets be real even in one of the editions by the post the tribal element was mention unless u dont do your reading that much. I seriously feel all that Elijah Chikwanda is too old for the job
You mother f**kers on which of these postings is it written that all the bloggers criticizing Sata’s moves are Tongas? It’s you the Bembas who are coming out shamelessly in the open pointing fingers at Tongas that they are tribalists. MIND YOU THIS ISSUE OF TRIBALISM WAS STARTED WITH SATA and don’t think you’ll go very far accusing anyone who comes your way as a tribalist, and don’t presume that anyone who criticize your baboons in plot one is a Tonga just because UPND seems to be your threatening opposition. Use your heads morons.
time will tell you that we were born to rule
I would like to tell other tribes to come together and vote out these bembas guys who claim to be clever and yet they are thieves and the waste tribalist.hw can the key ministries led by bembas.75 percent of pf cabinet are bembas, why?western,southern.n/western,central,c/belt and eastern let us come together are remove these crooks.god save us frm these tribalist govt.
IF BEMBAS ARE TRIBELIST WHY U CHAPS TONGAS ARE VOTE FOR YOUR ONLY BACHIBULULU.
IWE CHI INTERNATIONAL ULICHIPUBA TAWAKWAYA MANO MUCHIMUTWE CHOBE WHY ARE U INSULTING U DON T THINK.
He seems a drunk in the picture!
Why is it that everyone who critisises Sata’s tribal nonsense is assumed to be tonga. Many of us Zambians who are not Tonga can see and disgusted by the tribal on goings. I have seen easterners who supported SATA now sidelined in gvt and bemba’s who were nowhere near the struggle given presidents. For those of you who want to protect this rubbish, please explain GBM for defence minister
Mr acting President just declare Kafue Province on behalf of H.E. M.C. Sata. We know as President the man is too busy sometimes, so do some of his work for him. As Finance Minister, also allocate some resources to start developing Kaoma, the proposed provincial capital of Kafue Province.
why tribe a major concern to some people? noticing this actually implies that you yourself are highly tribal. Sata is the president and has the right to appoint however he deems fit to work with, if he appoints 20 bembas so be it, as long as they can deliver. Abashi tribal hatred its evil and must be chopped out each time it shows its face. So those talking about tribe become president and appoint your whole village if you want we wont care as long as you can discharge your duties to the benefits of the Zambian people.
UBUTUTU PA INTERNET, I DIDN’T KNOW ATI AMAFONTINI KUTI YAKWATA INTERNET FACILITY, I CALL U AMAFONTINI BASING ON YOUR FOOLISH POSTINGS,, TAMWAKWATA IFYAKUCITA?
IGNORANCE ON DISPLAY. STATISTICS SHOW BEMBAS TO BE THE MAJORITY IN ZAMBIA, SO BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR TRIBAL REMARKS – IF WE SAY EACH TRIBE TO VOTE FOR ITS PEOPLE – THEN BEMBAS WILL BE OUR LEADERS FOREVER IN THIS NATION. I DON’T SEE ANY TRIBALISM IN THE PRESIDENT’S TEAM.
YOURS, INTELLECTUAL NSENGA…
When the whole Zambia says Bembas are tribalists as now proved, they (Bembas) vehemently and aggressively protest to the point of shedding blood of an innocent chicken. You achieve less to delete and surpress what Zambians feel and experience, he who feels it, knows it.
It iz wize to just see a person in every Zambian one comez accross instead of the tribe they belong to. Very sad that even our vibrant HH choozez to interprate Sata’z “balancing brainz and not people”, to mean thoze not included in the Constitution making team have no brainz!
Whoever wins Copperbelt and Lusaka wins the elections and forms govt. These are not Bemba provinces are they?
Also Bemba and bemba speaking are not the same. Bemba lanuage is like English language, they are a medium of exchange, a street language. You dont have to be English to speak English.
Only tribalists see tribalism in everything. Such people have self confidence, are insecure and blame other people for their own weaknesses.
Travel well Mr president and we wish our VP Guy Scott success in China.
#3, take the LOG out of your eye, before you pick out a speck out of someone else’s eye.
How can a person as “exposed” as you get stuck in the mire?
If i become president today i will only trust those i know very well. Those are the ones i will entrust my authority becoz iam assured of their loyalty. Trusting Southerners is tantamount to hanging on a rope. These are pipo who dont think with their minds but with their hearts and tribal is their langauge.
‘President Sata who left in the company of his wife has in the past vowed not to globe trot in an effort to save public resources.’
because you will be reaping what RB planted,thats why during the budget speech mr chikwanda said we will use the china economic zones left by MMD as a big source of income,RB didnt make unproductive trips,check todays times and see how much investment came in this year,you think it came by drinking juice at state house whole day?give me a break…if he spent $1m per trip and brought $100m investment and the over 36000 jobs made last year whats the issue?today guy scott is in china all because someone built the bridge..even sitting at state house is costly
@The Voice of reason (38). When HH and crew were busy distancing themselves from PF GBM was diping in his pocket providing the campaign funds. If he doesnt’t get appointed who should? This is politics guys efyo iya….BTW am Bemba!
To the People who always count tribesmen and Moses MC who seems to be a voice of reason: Those who want to Bembanise us who speak languages that sound like Bemba will have only themselves to blame if Bemba continues to dominate. That is what you want so it will happen.
To educate you a little Kambwili is not Bemba, Kabanshi is not Bemba. Kambwili is a name from the Biza in Eastern Province. By the way there are also the Bisa of Mpika. Kabanshi is from the Njumba and the Ngumbo. These people have Chiefs and Kingdoms who are not in anyway subservient to the Bemba Kingdom. The Bembas are in Kasama, Chinsali and Luwingu. Personally I dont check out someone’s tribe before befriending him or her but given the stupid accusations I could be forced into your groupings.
Iyee. iliko liko pa zed zoona
@No 45 very correct, to add on bemba speaking is in Northern, Luapula, Muchinga, Central and Central provinces but the actual bemba tribes are only found in Kasama, Mporokoso, Chinsali and Luwingu Districts.
Those against Sata’s appointments, who do you want him to have appointed, these are the people who campaigned against MMD together with him. So just live with this fact and wait until your own candidates win. This is the beauty about democracy, don’t give up your time will also come.
My grandfather is from Malawi, grandmother from Congo, other grandfather from Egypt, other grandmother from Tanzania, parents born in Northern province, other born in Luwapula.
What does that make me?
A Zambian.
Which of you here is 100% one tribe or another. Bottom line, if you use the word “tribe” you are a tribalist. We are all Zambians and that is that. The people in power now are there because they were voted in. You want to see a change, make your vote count next time.
Simple.
Ubupuba # 3. Do you watch soccer and for how long? Joel Bwalya, Kalusha Bwalya, Makasa, Vincent Mutale, etc plus Kenneth Malitoli and Modon Malitoli why didn’t you complain? Why didn’t you join the party? You thought they were not going to win, right? Ukutumpa.
Change has come, let the king cobra rule tribalisim anze….
NACHULA@11. What you seem not to understand is that if Sata was interested in having a balanced Cabinet he would have used the 8 nominations he has to pick people from the deficit areas. Even in the United States Presidential candidates pick running mates with a view of balancing the ticket. It is people like you who are so insensitive that they will bring tribal conflict and war in this country. Sata’s tribal cabinet must be condemned. It extends even beyond cabinet appointments. Look at the diplomatic service, commissions of enquiry, permanent secretaries etc and anybody with a modicum of decency would hide their heads in shame.
bene bala ng’ombe ikalenifye tondolo pamo nakapuba kanenu ka hh. i can assure you, tamwakaipule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate talking about Zambian Politics with riffraffs who are not even in Zambia but based in the diaspora.. Chaps busy complaining about Zambia when you same chaps left us to fend on our own two’s, busy connecting Internet through neighbors wifi’s and complaining bout bembas and the rule of the majority, we voted and as a nation decided to have this change.. DID you chaps even vote elo most of you baggers don’t even own a valid votes card nor even set foot in this lovely country since the lord knows when.. i am amused every time i read comments on this cite when the same chaps that don’t even help in change are the first ones to complain about any change.. PEOPLE LEARN TO APPRECIATE CHANGE WHEN IT HITS YOU IN THE FACE… BAGGERS… o->o->o->**==**==
HAHAHA ACTING PRESIDENT NOW? MR CHIKWANDA SHOULD JUST ANSWER WHERE ALL THE STOLEN MONEY HAS GONE. THEY CAN PLAY PASS THE PRESIDENTIAL SEAT ALL THEY WANT BUT THE LONGER THEY TAKE THE WORSE IT WILL BE FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES – JUST ASK ABOUT HIS WIFES GOSSIPING TONGUE AND YOU’LL UNDERSTAND WHY THEY ARE BARELY TOLERATED. MAKE NO MISTAKE JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED SO ENJOY THE MOMENT
@59, Mr. Chikwanda has always been successful and wealthy with a God fearing wife. Your poverty and illiteracy is making you hullucinate.
#50 Thank you for the education. But whats the difference between the Bisa of Mpika and the Biza in Eastern Province?