Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General Wynter Kabimba has said that the PF never promised to abolish the Public Order Act. Reacting to accusations in an Interview on ZNBC yesterday that the PF had u-turned on its earlier stance to amend the Public Order Act, Mr Kabimba said the party was merely concerned with the manner it was being applied.
“We were critical of the enforcement of the Public Order Act and not its content. We never said that we would abolish it but its application was not credible,” Mr Kabimba said.
Mr Kabimba further said that it was important for security wings to continue familiarising themselves with the application of the Act to avoid political misunderstandings.
And Mr Kabimba maintained that there is no room for party members that compromise loyalty and discipline as this can derail developmental focus.
In an apparent reference to Foreign Affairs Minister Given Lubinda who facing charges of treachery, Mr Kabimba said it was important for the PF to have a strong and disciplined membership and not allow elements of disloyalty.
[pullquote]“We were critical of the enforcement of the Public Order Act and not its content. We never said that we would abolish it but its application was not credible,” Mr Kabimba said.[/pullquote]
“The party monitors the operations of Government and Government can only deliver on development if it has a disciplined and loyal membership, the two elements are co-related and there is no compromise on these principles.
“The party has to protect itself from members that are divided because they threaten the existence of the party and its vision. Just the way the human body acts, when there is an intrusion, the white cells come out to fight and protect it so that it continues to function properly,” Mr Kabimba said.
Mr Kabimba, who is Justice Minister, dispelled reports of infighting in the ruling party but that it was the issue of ensuring that discipline and loyalty were maintained.
“If people are singing a hymn in Church, you cannot be saying Amen, you have to follow procedure and as a party, we have a procedure which members must follow,” he said.
He said the survival of the party was paramount and cases such as that facing Mr Lubinda should not be judged politically.
Mr Kabimba cited the expulsion of outspoken South African youth leader, Julius Malema, from the ruling Africa National Congress, as a case study that political parties should emulate to avoid being derailed from focusing on development.
Commenting on the defections from the crisis-hit MMD, Mr Kabimba said the PF should not be accused of causing the problems in the former ruling party but on a failed leadership.
“The defections cannot be attributed to the PF, even the troubles that any opposition party is experiencing. If members want to leave, it is not us (PF) to blame but it’s the failed leadership of that party that should be blamed,” he said.
He added that the PF would not accept any member without scrutinising them especially those in the MMD that were alleged to have been corrupt.
Isnt it your goverment that has taken Namulambe to court over stolen bicycles?Are you telling us he has suddenly become clean even befor the courts clear him?Sir i think something has really gone wrong with your thinking.One of my greatest regrets in life is voting for pf.The same reasons we voted mmd out pf is repeating.
Wonder where the allergy to corruption has gone!
spot on Beerman. These guys are taking us for a ride.
PF promised to fight MMD corruption not PF corruption. PF makes too many promises you need a diary to keep track.All the time its beer talk, they are never sobber kabimba on A
Kabimba, for once, cant you have a grain of shame in you? You were critical of its application? Has it now improved? Kuti wa filwa nokulolesha fye!!!!
Class make inetrsection set from group. Set A (kabimba, tentamashimba, mulongoti and kamalondo) Set B (zuma, ruphia, muswati and chiluba) set C ( sata, mugabe, mabutu, abacha and kamuzu) set D (chiphire, mmembe, lufwekelo and mumbi) set F (Mwanawasa, obama, mandela and nyerere
Include Chawinga and William Banda in Set A.
#3 Fwaka … What happened to set E?
where is KK the chameleon?
daudi isabi,
KK is in Set O. He is rotating … (Recanted Humanism; now a disciple of Sata).
I swear Kabimba has a brain the size of a pea! Have you ever wondered why his father opposed his candidature in Mwembeshi? He knows his son’s capacity, or worse still, the lack of it! Ya ya ya, Galamukani bena Zambia! shibukeni mwe bena Zambia!
so according to lawyer kabimba, the apllication of the public order act is now credible.
Battle lines drawn: Kambwili Vs Kabimba. I think Kabimba has met his match! We are watching! The infighting in MMD is not as disastrous to the nation as that of pf coz they ruling. Coz of infighting they are failing to address essential problems hence the country after 20 years people are starting to queue for Mealie Meal. Its shameful!
The Kabwato is sinking with its clueless captains!
Oh! God now l know why we dont make progress in our nation, with this kind of leadership there is no hope
They were merely critical in the way the Public Order Act was being applied. Now, they are applying it the same, if not worse, way and are not even ashamed. 2016 is not very far Mr. Kabimba.
This man is gunning to be the next president of PF. His strategyis to talk the loudest on any thing but this shall work against him.
Wynter tone down please, you are not hollier than thee! PF is bigger than you, to me you seem to be imature and uncultured.
kabimba is hopelessly inadequate to understand the needs of our country. his small-minded party appears lost in governance and has adopted the simplistic route leading to dictatorship. This is an insult to the intelligence of all Zambians, and Kabimba knows this. They simply do not have balls to make Zambia a better place.
The greatest mistake PF is making is to think they are very popular. They are forgetting they narrowly won the 2011 elections. I like the others regret voting for them and come the next elections my vote wont be on PF. The number of people regreting PF in power is what will chuck them out. Their behaviour suggests they are prepared to be a one term party.
This Kabimba is proving to be a very useless SG. Sata needs to open his eyes and see the damage this guy is causing to our beloved party. May be a loss in Lufwanyama will make him realise that we are not fools.
i think this one is a big FO.O.L
kabimba napena. ala namashilu yalapena
That is the problem when a party never expected to win in the first. They thought they were going to lose again and so they were not very prepared to govern. They have become so big headed lately.
ZAMBIANS ARE DOCILE.
ITS NOT ABOUT KABIMBA ,ITS ABOUT PROTECTING YOUR NATIONAL INTEREST.
@Kwa, you don’t have to say zambians are docile, please use “some” actually it is you who do not think properly, what national interest is being protected??? Kabimba is not being honest to zambian people and to himself as well.
Autumn Kaunderwear has no conscious
Nonsense Wynter. The fact that you did not promise to abolish it is not reason to abuse it and deny the opposition the right to assemble.
DONT KUBEBA!!!
i AM SHOCKED. SO NEW CONSTITITION WILL BE USELESS
He is so stupid that he thinks all the 13.5 million Zambians are so foolish and would make sense of what he is saying.
Already 13.5 million people? Census 1990 we counted 9.8 million.
According to the 2010 Census, total population = 13,092,666 (49.3% male; 50.7% female) @ 2.8% annual growth over the period 2000-2010 = 13,836,120 total estimated population in 2012 (or 14,223,531 by end of 2013).
Btw – At the time of the 2010 Census, 5,857,806 Zambian citizens were aged 18 years or older making them eligible to vote. Of these, 3,677,092 (62.8%) were registered voters. Copperbelt Province had the highest number of registered voters with 642,210 (17.5%) followed by Lusaka Province with 631,816 (17.2%). Muchinga Province had the least number of registered voters at 189,189 (5.1%).
I think the interviewer was not prepared or he is not smart enough…..in this modern world u let go a human creature like kabimba say that on a national tv when actually u have all the records….if he refuses get the tape and play it right in front of his face. even the issue of barotseland records are there when sata and friends made all these kinds or pronouncements
Kabimba looks like Hitler, short with mustache. Look at him, with 2 fore-head wrinkles (tunkanshi), and 4 buttoned jacket!
I regret voting for PF thugs
I think a lot of people do.
I also think PF knows this very well and is a large part of why they are hell-bent on doing everything possible to suppress the opposition.
We are being fooled my these *****s. I have really lost interest in the PF government. For the first time i have believed that Kabimba is a very useless lawyer and he thinks every Zambian is like him.
KEEGAN # 14, that’s a good one! Can any of you fellow bloggers with articles or recordings of what these guys were promising please splash them out. At times like this that is all that works; these guys are fond of playing politics in exclusion of rationality…
EYA !!!! ba MMD na ba UPND, Chababa it is Don!t Kubeba muyaya naifwe tumfweko bwino bushe nimwe mweka fye mufwile ukulya indalama sha calo? ba upnd CHILL your time is comming you will also rule but without HH as president
What will happen now, since Lubinda didn’t react to Kabimba’s warning, 7 days passed 2 days ago.
Kabimba went with a large number of cadres to ACC, how come he never got a police permit to gather or move with such a big number of pipo.
BECAUSE POLICE ARE SCARED. HE WILL FIRE THEM!
# 3 FMC. Its a well thought comparison worth to take a long hard brooding on.
Lucifer has followers and among them is the annointed one who harasses and torments people on behalf of his master. We warned Zambians of jumping from a frying pan into actual fire. Public Order Act is a whip to lash at opposition, corruption cases are for others, Zambia is officialy a ONE PARTY STATE cofirmed by Kawimba, Zambia goes without food, fuel, medicine, democracy, rule of law and failed governance. We have become worse than colonial times.
# 3: Set C: you forget KK in that set.
the man of the moment, it seems he is really enjoying irritating voter without considering what tomorrow brings..tone down bwana SG!
This chap is confused is the ACT’s application now credible than before foolish
I just hope all this nonsense is part of Zambia’s democracy ‘growing pains’. I am delighted some of you who voted for PF are now regretting, I for one never believe this bunch. Next time vote wisely please!
Can this chap get anymore irritating than this?
Winter will be tamed & humbled, wait & see. Zambia is for JESUS!!
Amen and Amen, Wynter will be born again in 2016 and ask for forgiveness. BUT NINSHI NAPWA ku ma army worms.
At leat MMD took longer than this to become stupid but these guys awe sure….
kabimba u r the julius malema of PF
Chanda Chimba the III warned you but you still went ahead voted for the PF government
Sad for our beloved PF to go down on this unpopular route.
Kambwili should watch his fingers for he risks burning them.Kabimba has plainly stated that he is a mere chola boy of Michael Chilufya Sata backed by all powerful Fred Mm’embe with their dependable fullback Mutembo Nchito.No body at the moment can score against this team.If Kambwili thinks he can take on Kabimba,he has himself to blame for what may befall him.Leave Lubinda to fight his own battles.
When you listen to Wynter talk, just picture Kunda and Teta…that is what happened before they died.
All they ever said was things that made us wonder if they were normal or not. Those ARVs are really somethings else. I think people taking those things should not be active in public office because this makes them look like chainama cases.
Kabimba is a perfect example. So, next you’ll hear that PF never promised Zambians jobs. We already know about that silly 90 days promise. Hell, they have already back peddled on the windfall tax campaign promise, the barotse agreement issue, and now the public order act.
PF, please don’t lose all your marbles.
You’re a fool. Most of what any of these politicians are saying is self-serving and changes from one moment to the next. It has nothing to do with ARVs and those who use them. Stop using this site as a platform to rant about ARVs, most of us here know someone whose health has been restored and have avoided early death due to these medicines. And get your facts straight. Also, no need to stereotype the mentally ill either (i.e. ‘chainama cases”). If you don’t like what PF is doing, say so but don’t degrade or stereotype innocent people.
No wonder this man has never won a single case before any court.That is the danger of being protective and reacting to anything.
The end of the begining.
Mr Kabimba just shut up we all know and have come to accept that PF don’t have any morals so whats the big deal if kambwili dished out youth empowerment money? You kabimba got kick bucks from the oil deal with trafigura? bogus commission of inquiry on corruption in oil procurement?
just continue topping up, i hope with these traveling you doing you end up forgetting to take drugs and it will be serious diarrhea to accompany the verbal diarrhea.
@45, you are the one whose comments don’t make sense. Most of what any of these politicians are saying is self-serving and changes from one moment to the next. It has nothing to do with ARVs and those who use them. Stop using this site as a platform to rant about ARVs, most of us here know someone whose health has been restored and have avoided early death due to these medicines. And get your facts straight. Also, no need to stereotype the mentally ill either (i.e. ‘chainama cases”). If you don’t like what PF is doing, say so but don’t degrade or stereotype innocent people.
The fact that Zambia adhered to the UN charter meant that the colonial Public Order Act was OVER RIDDEN by the UN Declaration of Human Rights. That is why the previous govts never applied it, despite it still being law in Zambia. Note that Sata’s mentor Mugabe allows freedom of assembly. Who is more a dictator between the two?
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Sometimes i ask myself why we are always befallen with such characters when we just seem to be making some progress. Is it a curse or what? Surely after 20 years of democracy, we shouldn’t be witnesing the manifestation of such backward behaviour. Holy Gost fire on whoever is bringing our great nation backwards! FIRE!!
This ravenous diminutive rat has now gone rabid full cycle!