Kabwata Member of Parliament Given Lubinda’s case has been deffered to February 23 after the party failed to look at the matter due to a busy agenda.
PF Deputy Secretary-General said in an interview today that Mr Lubinda’s disciplinary case could not take-off because of other commitments on the PF’s agenda such as preparations for the forthcoming by-elections for Livingstone and Mpongwe Constituencies.
“We had a busy schedule and the matter could not be looked at. We have by-elections coming and we have received new adoptions for these by-elections so the matter has been postponed,” she said.
Mr Lubinda is accused of collaborating with the opposition United Party for National Development and the MMD.
The Foreign Affairs Minister is also accused of leaking party information to the Zambian Watchdog, an online publication and the Daily Nation newspaper.
And MMD Muchinga Member of Parliament (MP), Catherine Namugala has been expelled from the party. Ms Namugala has been expelled along with MMD Lusaka Province chairperson Mary Tembo, party vice president for politics Michael Kaingu has announced.
The decision to expel the two members was arrived at following an MMD National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Tuesday evening, which cited the two for being inimical to the fundamental values of the MMD.
Ms Namugala has since been replaced by former Patriotic Front (PF) Matero MP Faustina Sinyangwe.
Dr Kaingu who is Mwandi MP announced the expulsions at a media briefing in Lusaka today.
“Yesterday NEC met at Chrismar Hotel where we discussed several important issues being raised in the media concerning our party. We made a resolution as NEC that Ms Namugala and Ms Tembo be expelled from the party with immediate effect.
“The NEC decided to expel the two party members for being inimical to the core values of the party. Ms Namugala’s position has been given to Ms Sinyangwe with immediate effect,” Dr Kaingu said.
He said acting MMD national chairperson Kabinga Pande and party chairperson for elections Kenneth Chipungu who is Rufunsa MP were confirmed in their positions while acting party national secretary Kapembwa Simbao had also been confirmed as a NEC member.
Ms Namugala and ousted party national secretary, Richard Kachingwe on Tuesday formed a parallel structure announcing a new secretariat and denouncing party leader Nevers Mumba.
Dr Kaingu termed the action by the two as unlawful and that law enforcement wings should probe the two for forming an illegal structure.
Major Kachingwe announced that a national convention would be held in May this year, to usher-in new office bearers.
But Dr Kaingu said the faction formed by Ms Namugala and Maj Kachingwe was illegal because records at the Registrar of Societies office showed that there was one MMD structure whose secretariat was located on Addis Ababa Drive.
“If you go to the Registrar of Society, the only MMD address you will find is this one where we are and not that illegal structure along Bwinjimfumu Road. Those who want to leave can call themselves any names like puppies… we don’t care about those leaving or have left us because we have our elected party president Nevers Mumba,” he said.
Dr Kaingu said Dr Mumba would soon embark on countrywide meetings to prepare for 2016 tripartite elections adding that the MMD would participate in all by-elections.
On accusations by Ms Namugala that Dr Mumba was an invalid MMD leader since records at the Registrar of Societies indicated that he was still president of the Reform Party, Dr Kaingu said, the registration and processing of the party leader was still in the process.
On the forthcoming by-elections in Mpongwe, he said the MMD would scoop the seat and was confident in the candidature of Miniva Mtesa and that the party’s candidate for the Livingstone by-election would be announced soon.
Kabimba hands off! You can never be president of Zambia, just leave the smart guy be.
What has Kabimba got to do about this MMD matter?
THE INFORMATION IS THAT THE MEETING WAS HELD.AND I THANK THE PF FOR THE DEMOCRATIC WAY THEY HANDLED LUBINDAS CASE.I PRAY THAT DEMOCRACY WILL BE EXTENDED ON NATIONAL LEVEL , ALLOWING THE OPPOSITION TO DO THEIR CHECKS AND BALANCES.IN THE PAST,PF CONTRIBUTED GREATLY WHEN THEY WERE IN OPPOSITION BECAUSE OF THE PRESSURE THEY MOUNTED ON MMD.THIS MADE MMD TO ACHIVE WHAT THEY DID IN THE PAST 20YRS.
I NOW BELIEVE FIELD RUWE’S (ANOTHER IDI-OT) REFERENCES THAT ZAMBIANS IQ IS THE LOWEST. JUST LOOK AT #1’S COMMENT. ITS OUT OF PLACE. WOULD ONE THINK THIA GUY HAS A REASONABLE IQ? MAYBE THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME BECAUSE I CAN’T CONNECT KABIMBA TO THIS ISSUE. I AM NO FAN OF KABIMBA, ANYWAY.
Peter..It looks like you turned the sharp side of the sword towards yourself. The article has two stories; the first one is about the PF case with Given Lubinda and the second story is about the MMD and Namugala saga. So the story Sana was alluding to is the first one…knowing that from Media stories it appears like Kabimba wants to take over from Sata and now that Lubinda’s case is slowly dying out Kabimba will never be president. I must admit here that Sana is actually more of a critical thinker and no Field Ruwe was not talking about him.
It’s called reading between the lines.Kabimba has everything to do with this story.
I wish this site had enough space for BLASPHEMY.
Until Sata sees a black cat in his office, he won’t understand that Kabimba is stinking skunk, he could prove in last night’s cabinet meeting. No cabinet minister drunk tea.
ba PF Bafika.la mulechita torture umunenu. Just tell him you are fired instead of playing this monkey game. is it because you have no case against GL and you need to buy more time?
WHICH SMART GUY DO YOU HAVE IN MIND? NOT NEVERS MUMBA, I HOPE!
MMD no wonder you are called member to member distroyers how can you put fostina on that position of namungala oh ,if she can insult her uncle king cobra who is nevers or kaingu the double wife king & the promoter of sexy pono films,my heart bleeds mwe bantu tunse!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too much tribalism in pf. Is it a tribal part?
It’s PARTY CHIQALA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AKASUNGU
you are right tribalism.
Namugala has been given a boot!!!!!!!! hahahaha i guess PF will find some use for her. For Given thats good news come 23rd nothing will happen
I told you they want to see the result in Livingstone first. scared little devils!
So who is telling the truth? One online publication tells us that:’Sources say there was a protracted debate in the meeting held at State House this morning so much that the meeting had to defer its decision. According to sources, Wynter Kabimba and his backers whipped up their case with the expectation that they would get majority support. But the amount of opposition from other Central Committee members was enough to send the meeting into an adjournment.’ And LT tells us that: ‘the party failed to look at the matter due to a busy agenda.’
LT have no reporters of their own. They just collect stories from other news sites. There’s no originality.
One of them is not telling the truth, we know which one! LT
Or could it be that one of the two is fabricating stories?
There’s no way that central comitee cud put Lubinda’s case away like that without arguments for and against. No one wanted to be freezed by Winter in that meeting.
No man is indispensable. We all have various talents, displayed implicitly or explicitly as we live. I know that there is a beginning and an ending to many things, including our short lives on earth. No man is indispensable. I saw a man who seemed so wise and great, the earth opened and nothing of him ever remained standing, he is no more, he is history. No man is indispensable. The clever ones can be so foolish at some point, and vice versa. What a world, full of the beauty and the beast. So good and bad will ever exist together like day and night! In there I live that life like a candle in the wind, sometimes so happy sometimes so sad. This affects politics and politicians just like anyone else. Fired, no job, temporarily shaken, I hope to pick up and run again.
We postponed Cde Lubinda’s case cos we had quite a number of issues to discuss such as the forth bye-elections and the adoptions for candidates. The ZWD, in their imaginations, is reporting that a meeting took place or nearly took place! Please the truth is as above.
How did they dispense of other disciplinary cases if they could not touch Lubunda’s. I thought this was more urgent as they need to fill the position of Foreign Affairs Cabinet Minister ASAP with a Kabimba’s goodie goodie
Mtesa cud do better in another set nevertheless lets campain hard 4Mtesa not satanic pf
Ok. I would rather have Lubinda gets a severe reprimand and continues in PF and continues as Kabwata MP. However, the following should happen to him: Being fired as Foreign Minister, Suspension from PF for a period of one year and upon the lifting of the suspension he should just remain as an ordinary member of the party.
You are in dream land my friend!
Twaaya, Lubinda is getting no suspension nor is he getting fired! In the spirit of reconciliation PF will reprimand him and give him a written warning. Then if he does something foolish in future, he will come tumbling at break-necvk speed. Watch this space!
Bravo to all PF Democrats. For a change Today is a good day at the office for Zambian democracy. It is so sweet everytime Democracy wins against the powerful. I hope this is a turning point for PF intra-party democracy. Who knows with time, the few democrats in PF might want to extend this to the National Level. And what a day that would be, free from Police Force infringements of fundamental rights and freedoms.
whatever it is that Hon.Lubinda did wrong, he deserves a 2nd chance…..he is my favourite MP & Minister at the moment…..HEMCS should intervene & play a parental role….twapapata bakateka!
too much confusion in the ruling party..in the opposition -both sides need to get it together..surely how can we develop?
KABIMBA IS WASTING TIME,HE WILL NEVER RULE ZAMBIA,LUBINDA AT THE MOMENT IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN KEEP THIS BOAT IN POWER,WEN KABIMBA TAKES OVER FROM NOAH,THAT WILL BE THE END AND THE BOAT WILL SINK,MARK MY WORDS
YOU CAN’T BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH! I HOPE THE PF IS LISTENING. THEY ARE SHOOTING THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT IF THEY EXPELL LUBINDA.
I concur with you & trully I hope HEMCS ensures Kabimba out of his anger for power does not break the core of PF by sidelining and maligning anyone he suspects of being potential successor to HEMCS!
GL must stay within PF and as Kabwata MP, finito!
At the age of ten (10) I stopped fighting for anything, because I came to understand and believe that its God who gives us things including leadership, at an appointed time.
These PF Wrangles and 90days failures will soon cost PF heavily…the same voters who Donchi MMD will Donchi PF soon, Zambians are now more politically sensitive and sharp than ever before…. Amos malupenga is the DEBRIS of the dirt water he was refering to in Malawi….when drainage blocks come 2016 or before Malupenga and his corrupt friends will be fished out like debris onto the shore where they will be sun dried to cracks …time is a good teacher. If only little history can tell u ,no govt is forever,your strength as leaders is founded in being favorable to the masses (Zambians)….
As the saying goes, when poverty enters the house , finger pointing starts!
Fracture was imminent, you can not go to sleep today as the richest person and wake up very broke. The problems MMD is experiencing today can be solved if they can find out what really happened to the party confers in 24 hours on the election day. A mega-fault has developed and next week we shall see minor fractures starts to develop and some retard will hold a press conference and blame it on PF and think everything is okay. MMD MP’s should start to speak up and lead before they find themselves without a party or worse if they share the votes at constituency level, PF will come out as the winner in those constituencies.
This Lubinda issue is an unnecessary distraction . PF is taking the Zambian public for granted. Who cares if Lubinda is expelled from PF or not? the bottom line is that PF has failed to govern Zambia. The party was never ready to rule. The party is still confused it is in power. Come on people this party is not ready and will never be ready. Sata is not ready. This Lubinda issue is total nonsense. Sata does not require the central committee to discipline an erring officer. So why the halabuloo!
I wish this site had enough space for BLASPHEMY.
Until Sata sees a black cat in his office, he won’t understand that Kabimba is stinking skunk, he could prove in last night’s cabinet meeting. No cabinet minister drunk tea.
This Lubinda issue is like a simmering volcano ready to explode. It is laughable too that they could not discuss the matter during their NEC meeting, they are just running scarred now of the potential ramnifications. And if it was Lubinda leaking all this information, why is it that the leaks are even more now that he has been sidelined? Who told the Watchdog that Dr Desai and his team are in the country to check on Zondwe’s diseased ubuchende?
ba PF Bafika.la mulechita torture umunenu. Just tell him you are fired instead of playing this monkey game. is it because you have no case against GL and you need to buy more time?
Ukwa nomba ni Zondwe//// he he he he
I can assure you, as usual this case was resolved yesterday it is not going any further than yesterday. Kabimba was embarrassed. He will never bring this case again. Kabimba please just nurse your injured ego. Viva my brother Given. You are no match to the like of winter.
kwaaa dont be too certain..kabimba ya namu sokoneza ma arv..him and his floozie masebo are puffed up with pride and hallucinating on african potato..he is relentless like herpes..he’l lick his wounds for a day but come back fighting with more ludicrous accusations..he will not rest until hes put down!believe that
The longer the PF lie about this matter the more sympathy and credit Lubinda gets from the common man. We do know that among the first items on the agenda was the supposed expulsion. However there was a serious deadlock as a significant number of CC members refused to endorse the expulsion. Hence the time thing is but a blantant way of trying to cover things; its hurting the PF.
Given should be given a 2nd chance, but he too should learn to be loyal and keep quiet not saying i will defend my seat even b4 you are shown the door,it doesnt occur well,sort out these rubbish and get down to work ba PF.
winter i know one thing he dreams to become president of zambia,but to tell the nation the truth,winter will never God for bids we are watching him very intently,that is the reason why he is treating the great worrior mr lubinda if he was not an indian coloured he would have ruled zambia.so i dont like the mind of winter he is a bad man.
thank you
zambia.
The meeting was held and hear no more!Zambian Politics.