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Nothing wrong with sending Wynter Kabimba to represent Government at the burial of President Atta Mills in Ghana

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Chief Government Spokesperson Kennedy Sakeni
Chief Government Spokesperson Kennedy Sakeni

Chief Government Spokesperson Kennedy Sakeni has said there was nothing wrong in Government sending the PF Secretary General Wynter Kabimba to represent Government at the burial of President Atta Mills in Ghana.

Mr. Sakeni told ZANIS in an interview that Mr. Kabimba was a Zambian citizen and also the Secretary General of the ruling party and hence there was nothing wrong in sending him to represent Government and the people of Zambia in Ghana.

Reacting to Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) president Nevers Mumba, the Chief Government Spokesperson urged Dr. Mumba to desist from being petty but instead concentrate on issues that affect the livelihood of the Zambian people.

He wondered why the MMD leader was wasting time talking about issues that were straight forward, saying Dr. Mumba was reducing politics to something else.

On Monday the MMD president Nevers Mumba said that it was unfair for Government to send Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General Wynter Kabimba to Ghana to represent Government at the burial of that country’s late President John Atta Mills.[pullquote]He alleged that the two Zambian Cabinet Ministers, Home Affairs Minister Edgar Lungu and Gender Minister Inonge Wina who accompanied Mr. Kabimba to the burial of President Atta Mills were turned away from where other Government representatives were sitting in full view of the international community.[/pullquote]

Dr. Mumba said the least Government should have done if the President was not available was to send the Vice President or the Minister of Foreign Affairs to represent the country in Ghana.

Talking to journalists on the sidelines of the MMD retreat at Kulpark Lodge in Chilanga District, Dr Mumba said that his party had failed to appreciate how Government would send a Secretary General of a political party to a state function.

The MMD leader said Government’s decision to send officials whose portfolios were not related to the function at stake only led to embarrassment for the country.

He alleged that the two Zambian Cabinet Ministers, Home Affairs Minister Edgar Lungu and Gender Minister Inonge Wina who accompanied Mr. Kabimba to the burial of President Atta Mills were turned away from where other Government representatives were sitting in full view of the international community.

Dr. Mumba urged Government to in future send befitting representation to such functions not only as a way of showing honour and respect to other countries but to also avoid confusing protocol in those nations.[pullquote]Dr. Mumba also challenged Government to disclose whether Mr. Kabimba’s trip to Ghana was sponsored by Government or the PF party.[/pullquote]

He said Zambia and Ghana share a very strong relationship and enjoys tremendous bilateral relations adding that when late Republican President Levy Mwanawasa died, the then Ghanaian President John Kufour came to mourn with Zambia along with other heads of state.

Dr. Mumba also challenged Government to disclose whether Mr. Kabimba’s trip to Ghana was sponsored by Government or the PF party.

ZANIS

111 COMMENTS

  1. Why are we always petty. Some countries did not even send delegations to our funeral. Let us move on with life and developmental issues.

    • PF has lost it on this….instead of explaining why SUMMER is abusing tax payer’s cash ,SAKENI  chooses to be petty.Kabimba is not an MP and is not a government official. simply put, Kabimba is a Party cadre. Kabimba has no mandate from the Zambian people. why shud a party cadre  represent the Zambian people and travel on the treasury cash. PIG, PIG, PIG is back!!!

  2. Who is this ata Mills

    How can a zambian be called Mills

    This is a joke I am done talking about zambia, men changing their names becoming famous at a time when they have passed way. MHSRIP but I never heard of him!

    Anyway  let me finish my PhD proposal

    Thanks

    • You illiterate nursery school PhD pupil (you cant be a student) Ata mill was not Zambian were does it say he was Zambian in the article, he is the late Ghanaian president

    • Mushota, Mushota, Mushota. You can’t be more serious than this. Impossible to believe that a well literate person like you missed such an important event in world happenings, especially one based in the Queens Land. Gosh! How on earth did you miss the bus?

    • My friend its not every one who is a zambian that has your chi stupid name (mushota) mine sounds western but iam Zambian,

    • In 2010, you told us you were writing a PhD proposal. Uhh, two years just writing a PhD proposal? I wonder how long it will take to finish that same PhD when you actually start.
      If Proposal takes two year and still counting;
      I bet actual PhD work will take 10 years to finish

    • kwena ba mushota,na phd iyo mulechita muleke. surely,you cant even read an article but you are busy making comments. if you had read this article you would have realised that atta mills was the late president of ghana. and if it was not so clear,you could have done some research online to find out what was not clear to you and then later would have established who this atta mills is. ninshi what kind of research are you doing sure? ama phd yambi aya. lishina fye. no wonder the world isnt getting better,the education system in the whole world needs to be looked at seriously. not everyone should do PhD or even go to college. we should try to learn more about ourselves and then find what is best fitted for us,rather than making a nuisance of ourselves as this learned Doctor to ba mushota,is

  3. you  know what people, i have never heard of Ghanaian government sending people to our funerals why make the fuss out of it

    • You are a moron. Didnt they send delegations to Levy’s funeral? Its a state funeral and Kabimba is a private citizen who has no right to represent the country!!

  4. #1 This is not about being petty or not. You are missing the point. This is not even about attending funerals or even about Wynter Kabimba.

    This is about dipping fingers into the $2.3 billion reserves that the MMD government left  and  using it on PF party cadres. 

    This is about abusing Government resources on party cadres. This is what it is about.

    If you have no issue with who funded Kabimba’s trip, then don’t raise your voice when he  starts touring PF wards in a ZAF plane.

     Don’t raise your voice when the Party and Its Government is restored.

    Don’t raise your voice when the entire PF party membership is put on government payroll.

     Why? because you think it is petty. Embrace the P I G mentality then.

    • Much az the idea of sending Wynter Kabimba may not be the best, questioning who funded the trip iz rather myopic to say the least, az the man waz reprezenting government. Of course it would be criminal to allow Wynter to uze public resourcez on PF escapadez.

    • People the whole point is: what made it a wrong move is that Winter does not have the mandate of the Zambian people to represent them. Given does have, so does Guy, and Kambwili, and Shamenda, and Kapata, and all the MP’s that were voted for by Zambians. I don’t remember Winter being voted for by any contituency, other than within PF ranks.  

  5. Mushota are you really educated as you claim. If you are why failing to understand a simple report like this one above?

  6. There is nothing good you can expect from Skeni. The man is just a Grade 12 failure. The only attribute he has is that he once worked as a shushushu in the ofice of the President.

  7. This  is a simple question asked who funded winter but as always paya farmers answers wrongly.This goverment is not a reflection of transparent government .they should learn to be responsible and to the people who voted them explaining how they are using government resources.please remember to separate government official and party official.

  8. Ree, Ignore Mushota. She is just throwing her usual tantrums. You know lhow ast borns behav after tasting the fruits, they can say anything, even dreams that never occured

  9. Mushota – verbal dirhoea is dangerous. If you don’t know , then ask. Or may be you are not aware that google can helps people like you. Research your facts first before you comment. I was beginning to believe your phd plus where you stay but both don’t belong to a person who operates like you in this matter.

  10. For the first time I have to agree with # 4 MMD Chief Bootlicker. A Zambian government official was more appropriate as he represents the nation rather than a party official as this raises suspicions concerning the funding of the trip and brings about conflict of interest. One thing is clear that the PF party secretary general seems to be having a lot of power  than most government officials which should not be the case in a democratic dispensation. In a communist regime or socialist regime like during Kaunda’s one party state such is expected. However MMD party abused government resources as well and this explains why you are broke barely a year after leaving office. 

  11. Ka mushota, You illiterate nursery school PhD pupil (you cant be a student) Ata mill was not Zambian were does it say he was Zambian in the article, he is the late Ghanaian president

  12. PF SHOULD LEARN TO ACCEPT THAT THERE WAS AN OVER SIGHT. THE SHOULD HAVE SENT THE VEEP OR FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER. LETS FOLLOW PROTOCAL. KEN SAKENI KNOWS DEEP DOWN HIS HEART THAT THINGS WENT WRONG. I EXPECT PEOPLE LIKE HIM WHO SERVED IN THE SYSTEM OF PREVIOUS GOVTS THE PROTOCAL RATHER THAN PRETENDING ALL IS WELL. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS BANE?

  13. Ba minister, how do you send a party official to represent Govt and Zambia on Ghana’s Govt program? That’s the point we are putting across.

  14. Back to real issues on whos bill is this Kabimba going to Ghana on?? I personally don’t pay tax to sponsor party carders without a position in Government to go anywhere or do anything.. PF government its total abuse of public funds hope you wont give him allowances for attending a funeral.Why did we not use our diplomats in Ghana

  15. If its petty why respond to petty issues-by responding it means your are also petty.Sakeni should learn to zip up his big mouth because each time he wants to defend his pathetic party one can see that there is no substance in his responce apart from use of vulgar language on opponents.Even the cobra does the same.

  16. @4 chief bootlicker . Well said and to the rest don’t complain just enjoy the drama Chanda chiimba prophesied about all this….

  17. Is Zinjathropus for real? How can the funeral of a head of state be petty? Just a few weeks ago sata complained about Bush making him wait when he was just a former head of state

  18. I don’t understand why people cannot recognise a joke commenter when they see one…..or maybe they are playing along and I am too stupid to get it?

  19. This truly Pafwaka Party (PF), everything is kokai and they are even very proud about them, very proud with failure. We needed someone to go represent the Zambian govt, the zambian people not PF cadres or PF people who i take it by now have even reduced from 42% to only 30% or less of the zambian populace.

  20. “He alleged that the two Zambian Cabinet Ministers, Home Affairs Minister Edgar Lungu and Gender Minister Inonge Wina who accompanied Mr. Kabimba to the burial of President Atta Mills were turned away from where other Government representatives were sitting in full view of the international community.”
    Mr. Mumba, what has this to do with Zambia. If a Zambian is mistreated outside Zambia how does that become our governments fault.
    Sir with all duo respect lets not be petty

    • Muleke ukupepa ichamba. They were turned away because they were not registered for official protocol.. Only Kabimba was accreditated as a VVIP as they are called!! Its not being mistreated. They were not accredited as govt representatives. They went as private citizens!! And the govt of Ghana has nothing to do with that!

    • they were turned away because according to the records, their positions were inferior to that of Kabimba. kabimba went in while they were turned away. Kabimba is not in government, he cannot use state resources to represent the Zambian since they did not vote for him. That is called democracy, please try to understand issues and read between the lines. you are not in Grade 1 anymore.

    • Chamba cha ku kola. Why did the two ministers fly their asses to Ghana if it was’nt important? The PF lack protocal. They don’t seem to know what to do and when? Too much Chamba

    • Thank you @independent pantu apa pena kwena ibange, lya chilamo. Alefwaya asanguke ABC (Afredi Bonwelo Chunsu) in the book Pio na Vera.

  21. imagin the then mmd govt sending william tekele banda to go and represent the govt at a state function.just thinking what headline the post could come up with

  22. This is what happens when you have ignorant people running a country. This guy Sakeni does not see anything wrong in Kambimba (a non-government official) representin government?

  23. For Sakeni to respond then Govnt knew they were wrong but wanted to cover up the mess, PF thinks the way they respect kaKabimba is the way everyone respects him. A party official representing a big country with different political orientations????????? Only under PF can such rubbish happen. Ok ka Kabimba who ARE U????
    PF is a disgrace for sure, only non well meaning Zambians cant see that. Thats why mwalatutukisha saaana kuba Tonga!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  24. Being natured and bred and polished in SCotland I did not realise the man was Ghanian

    In all honest I would care less about Africa

    I have done a lot for Africa sending money to my distant relatives sending my clothes and my fiance for the needy people

    All in all I apologise for the confusion, it takes a bright strong character well educated person at times to admit their shortfall, and I am not ashamed to apolgise but then I hope you understand African affairs and me dont belong in the same sentence

    Thanks for the advise

    Thanks

    • But what are doing commenting on an ‘african website’ if as you claim you and african affairs dont belong in the same sentence~Is that not identity crisis?immigrant crisis should we say?

    • if you don’t read the entire article don’t expose you ignorance by rushing to post comments, by the way if you careless for African stick to THE SUN news site & don’t come back here(LT) en Scotland my-ass

    • you know what, we don’t need you!!!!!! So STOP READING OUR WEBSITES. Leave it to us who care about our dear country even though we do not live there. We need patriots and not immigrants with identity crises!!

    • Mushota, please explain how you have been “sending my clothes and my fiance for the needy people“. You have definitely not been raised in Scotland! Yaba! Your thesis must be horrendous (and I’m being polite)!

      :d

  25. But then Mr Minister you dont even seem to sympathise with your fellow cabinet ministers and the ordeal they went through. It may seem normal to you but honestly it was a stupid act and am sure ghana was just laughing at the unfolding drama further embarrasing us on the international scene. If this was a non issue as you claim then you are better off staying mute other than showing your dumbness here. By the way, why do we such urgly faces in PF?? Ungaluke pa last.

  26. the way some people look at things is really worrying.The so called Chamba honestly a cabinet minister is humiliated in full view of international community and you see nothing wrong with that?Excuuuuuuse me!!!!!!

  27. You ask what is wrong with Winter representing Govt. Everything is wrong Winter is PF secretary general not Secretary to the Cabinet,he should have gone there yes to represent his party not govt.Pleaswe PF and Sata in general don’t take us to the days of UNIP where Secretary General of the Party was N.#2 to kaunda .Why is Dr Scot quiet of now,It’s because of *****s like Sakeni who fail to differiciate Govt and the Party,the man is frustrated what we expect is his resignation from the govt.

  28. You ask what is wrong with Winter representing Govt. Everything is wrong Winter is PF secretary general not Secretary to the Cabinet,he should have gone there yes to represent his party not govt.Pleaswe PF and Sata in general don’t take us to the days of UNIP where Secretary General of the Party was N.#2 to kaunda .Why is Dr Scot quiet of now,It’s because of *****s like Sakeni who fail to differiciate Govt and the Party,the man is frustrated what we expect is his resignation from the govt.

  29. Mushota is he or she is real….. a psycho patient…lives in an imaginary world….nzeru za chiBemba umambala na wenye!

  30. @mushota this leaves me with a lot of worries now,am 100% sure even where you are there you are jast bringing the name of zambia down,i would suggest you denounce your citzenship for the betterment of our beautfull nation,sorry.

  31. HUMBLE REQUEST ON MUSHOTA: PLEASE IGNORE THIS PERSON WHATEVER THE CASE. DO NOT COMMENT ON ANY OF HIS OR HER PROVOCATIVE COMMENTS. YOU GIVE PEOPLE ROOM TO CONTINUE WITH THEIR UN BAPTISED COMMENTS IF YOU COMMENT ON THEIR IMMATURE REMARKS AS A NORMAL PERSON. MUSHOTA, WE FORGIVE ALL YOUR FOOLISHNESS NOW, IN THE PAST AND IN THE FUTURE. WHATEVER MOTIVATES YOU TO SAY UNKIND THINGS ABOUT ZAMBIA AND AFRICA ONLY GOD KNOWS! RESPECT IS VERY IMPORTANT IN OUR SOCIETY

  32. Kabimba is a PF functionary not a government officer…how on earth does he head a government delegation with ministers in it?! The problem is that Sata is mentally stuck to UNIP’s one party democracy where the Party and Its Government (PIG) was supreme.

    The only other plausible explanation was that it was Kabimba’s “turn” to make money from government allowances…more money in your pocket…even if its done illegally!

  33. Stop being petty! The government can send any person they want to represent them. The person they choose can be a member of a political party or just a non-partisan person.

    Why are contributing to time wastage? MaZambians kukambakamba, exactly like the boxer we sent to the London Olympics. Nizamupounder, and then fail to score points.

    Stop it, and work.

    • Why bother sending the two ministers along when you have a special government representative? To make matters worse the hosts do not even recognize the ministers as representing Zambia?

      The bottom line is that this is a waste of tax payers money. One senior government rep is enough. I refer you to #5 MMD Chief Bootlicker for other arguments on “pettiness”

  34. @1 Rational Man, please change your blog name to IRRATIONAL MAN. @28 Chamba, your thinking faculty ranks lower than Mushota’s. Can’t you thick heads appreciate the simple truth that Winter or Summer Kamimbya is not a Govt official?

  35. So Kabimba is Minister without Portfiolio second to the Veep…….? I should think he is already drawing a salary from Governement. it shall be known soon.

  36. @46 You dont understand Zambia has always been under The Party and Its Government. Even under MMD and UNIP. The party forms government and does what ever it wants and there is nothing you can do about it. Unless you seriously deal with the constitution.

  37. I have been a very strong supporter of pf but with each day that passes by i keep losing faith. Hope we are not many who feel like this.
    Anyway what ever ‘donchi kubeba’ meant might be manifesting now…

  38. Winter Kabimba was MMD, President Sata MMD, Sakeni MMD, GBM MMD, Chikwanda MMD, Chenda MMD, Sakeni MMD, Muchima MMD, Masumba MMD, Taima MMD, Ngoma MMD, the list is endless .So what change are we talking about. If there was no development during MMD then these people were part of it and if MMD is/ was corrupt then how about the above people? One day I was listening to Sakeni saying the 20 rule of MMD was a disaster. Sometimes I wonder if some people understand what they say. Surely how can we develop as a people with such short lived minds and recycled people? We need new ideas not old Unipilised political tactics.

  39. i cant understan pf and ur contradictions honestly u were the same people who used to rise if at ll RB do something like this…wat wynter used was it not money for the government? ansa me!!! dont be to judgmental think and do ur part u thot ur time will not come also?we want to see your promises shame on you!!!!! you have failed pf u have failed..HH for president viva

  40. It’s like some people never stop to live in a world of fantasy.Here is an issue where a party cadre is sponsored using Government money and some of you are busy talking about Mushota,what value are you adding by saying bad thing about her….Money is used on cadres and not fulfilling campaign promises,roads,water,schools,universities,colleges even ZNBC need Gvt attention.I wonder who this Minister is,,,,on Average what is the highest qualification for a minister in this PF “New Deal”Govt?e.g.SAKENI,GBM,LUBINDA,ETC

  41. PF government should accept this mistake.We have close relationship with Ghana when Mr MwanawasA died The former Ghananian president attended THE BURRIAL SERVICE IN Zambia and what stopped our president attending or sending the VP?

  42. So if it was in order to send Kabimba to represent Zambia, why did they also send Edgar Lungu and that Gender minister too to sit on the sidelines, do we have that kind of money to waste?

  43. Not only the money, don’t those ministers have anything better to do back home than go to Ghana just to idle because Kabimba “will do the job”?

  44. Bullocks! There is protocol in government and diplomacy. A ministerial delegation cannot be headed by a person lower than the ministers in rank! Kabimba has no rank in government.

    You cant just appoint any VIP (vagabond in power) to lead a ministerial delegation!
    Typical CNP way of doing things.

  45. Let them just give Kabimba Minister without Portfolio. At least then wwe will be able to account for tax payer money. On Mushota since you have no interest with Zambia and Africa in general, stick to the Scottish news sites. The rest of us love Zambia and are concerned with the iissues that affect it.

  46. Nothing wrong fellow Zambians he also pays TAX.KK and RP represented Zambia at the last African Football yet there are not in Govt.He is the secretary Gen of the party he can accompany the President 

  47. PF ARE TAKING US BACKWARD, PERIOD…WE HAD TOLD YOU THAT SATA WAS NO PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL. THE GUY IS TOTALLY CONFUSED…ALMOST ONE YEAR IN GOVERNMENT THE GAUY HAS NEVER HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE OR ADDRESSED THE NATION ON HOW HE PLANS TO RUN GRZ…THE GUY IS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN ON GOVERNMENT BUSINESS WITHIN THE COUNTRY, HE ALWAYS HIDDING BEHIND HIS PRESS SECTRETARY…BWAN MWAFILWA INCHITO…2016 IS TOO FAR JUST QUIT NOW BEFORE YOU SINK ZAMBIA BEYOND 1991….

  48. PF ARE TAKING US BACKWARD, PERIOD…WE HAD TOLD YOU, SUPPOTERS OF PF, THAT SATA WAS NO PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL. THE GUY IS TOTALLY CONFUSED…ALMOST ONE YEAR IN GOVERNMENT THE GUY HAS NEVER HELD A SINGLE PRESS CONFERENCE OR ADDRESSED THE NATION ON HOW HE PLANS TO RUN GRZ…THE GUY IS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN ON GOVERNMENT BUSINESS WITHIN THE COUNTRY, HE’S ALWAYS HIDDING BEHIND HIS PRESS SECTRETARY…BWANA MWAFILWA INCHITO…2016 IS TOO FAR JUST QUIT NOW BEFORE YOU SINK ZAMBIA BEYOND 1991….

  49. So much has gone wrong in less than a year of PF admnistration. Lets face it, Zambia has lost direction, every where you look there is disarray. This failure by CNP led PF govt. is more serious than any of the cases brought before the courts for defamation. Let me suggest something, 2016 is way too far. How about one courageous MP move the motion of impeachment. No normal person can stand this insanity.

  50. Here we have only One Question,is Wynter or Summer Kabimba in Gvt,if not Sata should tell us who is in Gvt.Has got a private Position just known in Gvt.
    Sata should not take us for granted.

  51. One thing pf ‘don’t kubeba’d the public is that the Secretary General in their party is second to the President,veep is third. While we c the wrong,they know the hidden truth. What they ve further not told is the hidden position of W. Kabimba in govt. Their r many secret positions that we don’t know. Galamukani ba Fwethu

  52. Can anything sensible come out of that ugly head you see in the picture? I doubt it. Dont get me wrong I know for sure he was created like that but in Chewa they say “Ukaipa nkhope dzina kuimba” literay meaning dont be ugly in everything try to do better in another area but for this guy its 100% clumsiness. I am happy that I am reading this when I have already taken my dinner otherwise I could have lost my appetite. I rest my case!

  53. Case for impeachment,
    Kabimba being third in protocol at state functions is unconsitutional; Kabimba has never been sworn-in and no where in our constitution is his position mentioned; kABIMBA does not have a constituency of zambians to claim leadership over them. he is a leader of pf and pf is not zambia. i, for one never voted for pf or kabimba and how then does he become my leader today????????????????????????????????????????????????????

  54. this is not the olympics where it is more important to participate. if there were no credible government officials to send we need not have sent anyone out there, period. a mere message of condolences would have sufficed. i bet not every country was represented at our two presidents funerals and no dust was raised.

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