A veteran politician has urged political parties contesting the three by elections not to embark on unfulfilled promises.
National Democratic Focus-NDF- president, Ben Mwila, says the parties should campaign truthfully as it has become fashionable for politicians to make unfulfilled promises.
He also described as primitive politics the recent violence between political cadres in Livingstone and Muchinga.
He says the introduction of multi party politics in Zambia was meant to give a chance to the citizenry to elect people to belong to a party of their choice.
And The campaign period for the July 5th by-elections has closed with all the candidates looking forward to scooping the seats.
The campaign period lapsed at 06:00 hours this morning in line with the revised electoral guidelines.
And Returning Officer in the Livingstone parliamentary by-election, Vivian Chikoti says all is set for Thursday’s poll as all the electoral materials are in place.
She also confirmed that electoral staff will be deployed in polling stations tomorrow.
The electorate in Livingstone, Chama North and Muchinga constituencies will cast ballots on Thursday to usher in new parliamentary representatives.
And a traditional leader in Southern Province has urged politicians in Zambia to avoid practicing politics of bitterness and insults.
Chief Monze of the Tonga people says politics of bitterness and insults has the potential to derail national development.
He told ZNBC’s Charles Mucholo in Monze on Tuesday that politicians should be issue based in their effort to lure support from the electorates.
The traditional leader says politicians who practice politics of mudslinging should not be entertained.
Chief Monze says the freedom of speech Zambia is enjoying should not be taken for granted.
ZNBC
Very wise words coming from a very wise chief. We are all zambians first and should treat each other accordingly. Crying over spilt milk whenever one loses an election just pushes us back to the stone age. Ndi mubemba but ifyalanda iyi imfumu yaba tonga, muli amano sana. That’s why we cannot continue lumping the entire group of people into imbeciles owing to the stupidity of a few selfish and self serving individuals. There are more good tongas, lozis, ngonis, bemba, kaondes, lenjes, lambas, lundas that just a bunch of few lunatics who are so obsessed with tribal affiliations. Way to go we mfumu yesu bonse.
Is this the man who went on a campaign trail with RB?
You know ZED politics mr Ben politician will say anything so long it gets them in office, its like chuffing a gal that you give her the moon and she believes it..obviously it will never happen
is it true that mcs will announce employment plan within ninety days
ba BY naimwe just shut up. You know very well that you can not win any election in Zambia. You even failed to win a parliamentally seat in you home District of Nchelenge. Shame on you
The problem is that few people in Zambia understand what the term “multi-party” democracy or politics. Zambia is a multi party democracy so why do cadres want everyone to belong to one party? Their party? The term implies more than one party. People should accept that they can belong to one party of their choice while their brother can belong to another!!!!!!!! The one party state is long gone! (Hopefully)