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North Western Province want Cabinet Minister in the PF Government

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North Western Provincial Minister Stephen Masumba
North Western Provincial Minister Stephen Masumba

Solwezi west Member of Parliament, Humphrey Mwanza, is appealing to the Patriotic Front government to consider appointing a full Cabinet Minister from North-western Province.

Mr Mwanza said it is critical that the province is represented in Cabinet because most developmental discussions are done by the Cabinet.

He said ever since independence, each province has had at least someone in the Cabinet.

“North-western province is generally calm but we are not comfortable because we feel the PF government has neglected the province because we do not have a full cabinet minister”, he said.

Mr Mwanza said this in a verbal statement issued to Zambia News and Information Services (ZANIS) in Solwezi today.

Mr Mwanza said it is for this reason that the province proposed a federal state during the Provincial Constitution Convention because under a federal state system such issues will be enshrined.

Meanwhile, North Western Provincial Minister Stephen Masumba has pledged to devise more practical ways to ensure the Patriotic Front ( PF ) policy of getting government closer to the people becomes a reality in the province.

Mr Masumba said yesterday that the PF has an open door policy which requires leaders and civil servants to interact extensively with chiefs and their subjects to foster development.

He said He said it was only through formal and informal interactions that government can fully understand the diverse needs of chiefs and their people.

He said that , as a minister, he was going to be more practical in creating avenues that will ensure meaningful interaction between government officials and chiefs.

He noted that one such interaction was the decision to hold the first ever New Year party at the open palace grounds of senior chief Kanonengesha of the Lunda people in Mwinilunga.

The minister was speaking during a New Year get together party held at senior chief Kanongesha’s palace in Mwinilunga district attended by hundreds of residents in the chiefdom.

Newly appointed Lands Deputy Minister Danny Chingimbu and North Western province permanent secretary Augustine Seyuba, alongside several provincial heads of departments, joined the minster at the event.

Also in attendance were chiefs Matebo and Sailunga both of Mwinilunga, and Nyakaseya and Ikelengi of Ikelengi district.

And Mr Masumba has said that the Patriotic Front government is not interested in dividing people based on their tribal and political party affiliations.

He said government realizes that progress in developing the country can only come when people are united and work together towards one vision.

He said it was for this that President Michael Sata is running an inclusive government which has seen MPs from outside the Patriotic Front being appointed to ministerial positions.

The minister said the people of Zambia must thank President Sata for the leadership he has exhibited to forgive all those who had insulted him during 2011 elections campaigns.

He said President Sata’s forgiveness can be seen through the inclusion of MPs from the opposition MMD, despite that some of them had mounted a campaign of bitter accusations, including homosexuality, against the President.

ZANIS

21 COMMENTS

  1. Zambia is not a serious country. How can someone with forged educational certificates be a minister? Banana republic indeed!

    • Uluse ka masumba ,go to NIPA and finish your course you swine.Your time is coming useless chap.Remember SAtana d way tu Namugala used to bepa RB dats Masumba.Bonse guys muli insoka mwemafi mwe.These same masumba are d 1111111111 destroying u pipo.Next will start insulting Satana Grade 7 chap.Watch d space

    • true walasa no proper fipepa ,and Satana is hapi that ve got a minister ,God help us.Gladys Kristafor will be adopted as Pathetic fools MP fo Lstone and Namulambe pipo please don’t vote for PF busy dishing money to destroy oppositions.Nearly cried when saw Satana singing a song ati tutemwane mwe bachibusa bandi,my heart was bleeding as new that devil at heart.

  2. toatl corruption,with brown envelope what can a chief say,nothing. a thief has no shame,he forged the certificate and he should be ashamed of himself

  3. Dr. Joseph Katema is from North Western Province….Why are people so backward? It is like a tonga claiming that Wilbar Simuusa is not tonga because he is MP for chingola

    • Hey un circumsized Philistines.We are saying we need a North westerner in the cabinet.North westerners are cool people,not stupid.they know whats going on and what Satana’s government is busy doing.Solwezi must be transformed into a town.only one street and heavily conjested.whether they like it or not.Northwestern is the new copperbelt.All un circumsized philistines are now treking to solwezi.

  4. Muchinga Taliban government is running a militant regional, ethnic and nepotistic government . You were warned by Prophet Chanda Chimba III that the snake was never to be trusted. The prophecy came to pass. And the children of Zambia have learnt their lesson. Hopefully! One hopes the damage to the country wont be devastating by the time the serpent is cast into the flames of hell fire! Lord, let thy will be done!

  5. The minister said the people of Zambia must thank President Sata for the leadership he has exhibited to forgive all those who had insulted him during 2011 elections campaigns including myself.

  6. Nobody forced them to stand on MMD, they should just wait for 2016! Dr Katema is representing NW, what kind of an MP who cannot recognise the name of his brother? Is it because he is representing Chingola? Democracy is bad, if you find yourself on the wrong side of power like this MP, you start crying and forget the democratic rule about the winner forms the government. Power hungry chap!

  7. #1, MASUMBA NEVER FORGED HIS CERTIFICATE. IT WAS WRONGLY ISSUED TO HIM BY THE ACADEMIC INSTITUTION. IF HE DID YOU CAN TAKE HIM TO COURT- ITS VERY POSSIBLE. BUT I PERSONALLY THINK THE LEARNING INSTITUTION WERE HE ATTENDED HIS COURSE MUST BE THE ONE TO TAKE TO COURT, IN FACT BY MASUMBA OR ANY INTERESTED PARTY. DON’T JUST FEEL JEALOUS ABOUT THE YOUNG MINISTER FULL OF LIFE. GO BACK TO ZAMBIA. YOU MAY BE A MINISTER AS WELL.

    • I come from NWP and seeing such individuals in leadership positions breaks my heart. Already you can see that his job is actually a political one, destabilize the other political parties and strengthen the PF in the province that is what earned him the position he has now, useless chap. With such individuals holding such positions of power, we are doomed, there shall be no development to talk about in NWP. He is already licking Sata and Kabimba’s boots. Why should Zambians thank a dictator like Sata who is taking us back to the era of the party and its government (one-party State). And he claims it is through interactions that he will learn about what the people want, why was this chap voted into office because he clearly is ignorant about issues and therefore has no agenda for the area.

  8. The Honorable Humphrey Mwanza is saying it is like southern province saying give us a cabinet minister when the M.Ps are prodominantly UPND and the UPND does not want to work with the P.F government. And North Western Province has just one M.P who defected to P.F, Masumba. It is when people like Humpherey Mwanza himself proposes a way by which they can work with the government that such a thing can happen. From his talk, it seems like he is someone saying things and criticising from the wilderness and not looking and starting with himself. He first has to analise the polital landscape. He is not being reasonable on this one.

  9. Ba Mwanza, put the blame on yourselves as Northwestern. You failed to give PF even one MP in 2011 coz you believed in MMD lies + tribalism!!!!!!! When Sata appoints a cabinate minister from opposition, you call it “killing democracy”!!!! Lets stop this culture of condeming and support Sata and PF in their quest to bring back our lost glory! One Zambia, One Nation!!!!!! Abash tribalism!!!!!!

  10. Henry Munene, you are very pathetic. It is individuals such as you that are causing underdevelopment in the country. Yes the PF did not get an MP from NWP in 2011 because people saw no hope in Sata. He is a pathetic liar and tribalist himself who has condemned NWP as “6 koloko” before (the Post or Times Archives may have this). How would you expect the people to give him the votes or even an MP? And if he was interested in the people of NWP in terms of representation, why didn’t he nominate someone from there and give them a ministerial position? Has he even visited NW yet since his election? Not sure but I never heard. And it is unfortunate that in Zambia we talk about needing to be in the ruling party or having a minister to see development in an area, very unfortunate.

  11. Sensible presidents always ensure that all regions of a country are represented in cabinet even those that did not vote for them. But the old man at the helm of the current regime does not like NWP and he thought it was his opportune time to spite the province. This is the reason why he appoints clowns like Masumba to deputy ministerial positions so that people can look down on the province.

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