President Michael Sata has been advised to drop his press assistant for Press George Chellah in order to put to end the habit of shallow and un-researched statements from the highest office in the land.
In a a a media statement released to the media in reaction to the press statement on Nevers Mumba’s call for General elections, National Coordinator-MMD Die Hard Youth Wing Bownman Lusambo appealed to the President to consider dropping Mr Chellah from his position and appoint a more mature and intelligent officer for the role of Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations.
Yesterday George Chellah released the statement below in reaction to Nevers Mumba’s press conferennce
PRESIDENT Sata is shocked at Pastor Nevers Mumba’s decision to deliberately distort facts surrounding an honest conversation he had with him and turned it around with a coat of lies and illusions.
The President is also surprised that the preacher has decided to continue to openly show contempt for the judiciary even when he faces contempt charges before the same judiciary.
President Sata was reacting to Pastor Mumba’s allegations made in the wake of a conversation he held with Pastor Mumba in which the preacherman practically begged the head of State to accord him a ‘secret meeting’ or audience without a clear agenda.
“I am surprised that the so-called pastor has decided to suffer from temporary amnesia and distort an honest and cordial conversation in which he wanted to meet me,” President Sata said.
“I gave him my private number, I personally dictated the number to him as he sounded really desperate. I challenge him to deny that I gave him my personal number to make an appointment.”
President Sata was reacting to Pastor Mumba’s remarks made yesterday at a press conference where the MMD leader made remarks about the judiciary and called for early elections.
Mr Sata also questioned Pastor Mumba’s leadership quality for supporting nurses that took illegal strike action, which he says the pastor should in fact be condemning instead of criticizing the government for acting decisively in order to save lives.
“How can he pretend to talk on behalf or symathise with the nurses when he was in the forefront of encouraging them to take illegal strike action with other irresponsible opposition characters?” President Sata asked.
“Good leaders are supposed to ask workers to act within the law not outside the law and the suffering, the nurses are facing now must be squarely blamed on him and other irresponsible figures.”
In retrospect, President Sata reflected that Pastor Mumba perhaps missed his original calling when he was choosing a career, “he must have been a Hollywood script writer because he has such a wild imagination. It’s also shocking he can weave some lies around and make them appear as if they are the gospel truth.”
The head of State, however, advised Pastor Mumba to take extreme caution with the manner in which he continues to show contempt for the judiciary, “because as a person who stands accused of various offences before the courts, he walks on thin ice.”
President Sata expressed regret that a conversation held in brotherly manner between one leader and another has been used to try and question his character as a State President endorsed by the Zambian people.
Below is Lusambo’s full Statement
Date: December 22, 2013
STATE HOUSE UNDERMING THE JUDICIARY
As MMD youths, we are shocked and concerned at the manner in which the Executive arm of Government is commenting on matters before the court of law.
The revelations by Dr Nevers Mumba that President Michael Sata phoned him and threatened him with a jail sentence should not be dismissed.
Dr Mumba’s disclosure casts a big shadow on the separation of powers as espoused by our democratic aspirations. It is evident to see that President Sata will stop at nothing to see his political rivals suffer.
We are in support of Dr Mumba’s statement and further challenge State House to clear the air because the revelations are damaging to the integrity of the relationship between State and the Judiciary.
We appeal to State House Spokesman George Chellah not to attempt to downplay the statement by Dr Mumba but examine its true extent.
We are appalled by Mr Chellah’s assertions that Dr Mumba’s revelation border on content of court. How does Dr Mumba’s revelation of President Sata’s phone call become contemptuous? Has President Sata become part of the Judiciary?
These are some of the questions that we expected Mr Chellah to answer to in his reactionary statement following Dr Mumba’s State of the Nation address yesterday.
During the Press Conference, Dr Mumba never directly addressed any issues regarding the Judiciary but only answered two questions directed at him by two Journalists, Salim Dawood from the Post Newspapers and Justin Ngosa from Muvi TV.
In all the two responses, Dr Mumba was categorical in expressing him confidence in the independence and integrity of the judiciary.
We are praying that State House is not in any way putting pressure on the Judiciary to decide cases in its favour.
We as Zambians, still have faith in our Judiciary. We still remain hopeful that our men and women serving in the Judiciary will continue to perform their duties professionally without any undue pressure from any other arm of government.
Furthermore, we the MMD youths are in full support of Dr Mumba’s call for fresh elections. We are fed up that tax payers money is being misused in endless by elections at the expense of development.
We are confident that MMD would win the general election with a landslide if it is called today because Dr Mumba is the only true alternative for Zambia.
As MMD youths, we also wish to challenge President Sata to dissolve Parliament and call for an early election because his administration has failed to govern the nation.
Contrary to Mr Chellah’s assertions that the MMD is scattered, the MMD is intact in all the 10 provinces of this nation.
If there is any political party that needs reorganizing, it is definitely not the MMD but the PF as rightly put by its embattled Secretary General Wynter Kabimba who is on record as having said that the PF is the most indisciplined political party in the history of Zambia.
We also wish to remind Mr Sata through Mr Chellah that the PF is dead as in the words of its Youth National Chairman Chishimba Kambwili.
Mr Chellah insisted that Zambians gave the PF a five year mandate but we wish to remind him further that the people of Zambia also have a right to decide their fate especially that the PF has mismanaged the affairs of this great nation.
Going forward, our humble appeal is to President Sata to consider dropping Mr Chellah from his position and appoint a more mature and intelligent officer for the role of Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations in order to put to end this habit of shallow and un-researched statements from the highest office in the land.
Issued by: BOWMAN LUSAMBO-National Coordinator-MMD Die Hard Youth Wing
No the statements represent sata’s thinking both are shallow
sata and chellah
Thanks
hehehehe well said Mushota, for once i have liked your writting not ifyama PhD ulandapo lyonse
As a peace loving Zambian,, am stepping up to help PF govern the country properly, So am urgently looking for brain donors!!,,, PF seriously need brain donors in order to survivial,,, starting with Nkwazi house
asking sata to fire chelo is like asking a chicken to hatch a hyena. those are birds of the same feathers. they have similar levels of comprehending things. ni phone na sim card
@matipa
kekekekekeek… be nice its christmas, maybe brain transplant will help,, help me find some brain donors please
Unbelievable… Ba Chellah why so much writing? Now he wants to be Hollywood script writer wow, is it for A-Team?
@Nostradamus
be nice this christmas… are you willing to donate some brain cells to Mr Chella??
@Mushota mwa dabwisha icalo. To much sense in what you have said! Thumbs up girl!
@ Mushota,
You dont make sense when you make sense!
improved version of PF cadre’s remarks
How did you manage to get this right Mushota? It could not be put any better
Lets concentrate on making our party strong before we start calling on fresh elections cause if we were to go for fresh elections today CNP will surely win.
Nature will take control. they will cage nevers.
awe teti awiine CNP!
What that statements tells you Zambians is that CJ will send Nevers Munba to Jail for contempt of court whether for 9 months or six months and will not appeal anywhere. Mumba will be buried and forgotten. That is the work of PF cartel. So die hard just die hard indeed. Criminal record wont be allowed to contest in 2016.
Read between lines??????
Zambia seriously needs writing skills courses. The story above is long and winding so are the statements. The reporter could have paraphrased them. I didnt find the time to go through stuff as boring as that.
brain donors please!!..kekekekekekeke
No Yellow man. You should have been patient enough to go through the whole article. The reporter’s article itself, yes, has a lot of errors but Lusambo’s quoted statement is superb. He has articulated and made clear Dr. Mumba’s call for fresh general elections.
Ndobo you dynosaur just shut your aged beak!
is lusambo mmd spokesman?
Chellah only says what Sata’s shallow brain tells him to say. Chellah would never say anything without the blessing of the paying thug!
Rubbish rantings….MMD winning a landslide .. In Zambia or on mars? You guys, MMD is dead and never to resurrect. Continue dreaming that you will rule again.
Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.
Really Truth Hurts. The quick and sharp reaction by ‘Chelo’ means the comments by Dr. Mumba must have hit home.
with the way Zambia is being steered,any one can take control of the wheels.
Sata won’t have the energy to campaign. so Nevers is more intelligent than you. he knows that all things being equal Sata would win by rigging. but a general election today would just prove that what has remained of Sata is scrap.it technical.
WHAT ABOUT HH
Sata is very weak right now and if election were to be called it would be a disaster for PF I can assure you.Lusambo I agree with for this one.
are you sure? can you remember what happened in Mansa?
It could be true that state house is undermining the judiciary which is the reason why state house should check its statements. It is living on a dreamland for Lusambo to call for early election 2 expect MMD to win. I advise you to re-brand yo party to give confidence to the electorate to vote you. Otherwise, it is wishful thinking 4 MMD to bounce back in 2016.
@real-man,we are reorganizing our party from the grassroots,when we say will win we mean it
If Sata is no more I am surely voting for HH and not Neverland!
For sure HH is a by far better candidate than Mumba of the disgraced MMD
Sata-Chellah almost sounds like santa claus .Both sets are clownish and never to be taken seriously hence the shallow statements.
boring
Call 4 elections long over due.
they are all baking, I dont who is person between Lusambo and Chella.. it is a sad situation
# MUSHOTA
Well said !! Short and powerful statement from you. What happened have you dumped Nick, that’s not like you?
Mumba,is afraid of being jailed. let him go there so that he reforms for the better.
@MUSHOTA AND THEO. You are just puppets of PF. One wouldn’t be wrong to say you are praise singers. Maybe you are employees of PF. One day you we shall kick your teeth down your throat.
From statements its now clear that sata himself is responsible firing nurses. I wouldnt sympathise with him in his ill health. Reason he fires nurses is because he thinks he can buy life using tax payers money.
Very imature and politicaly frivorous statement.
Which one?
Amazing grammatical errors: “In a a a media statement released to the media in reaction to the press statement on Nevers Mumba’s call for General elections”,
Let us write in vernacular please!
Mr Lusambo, your leader is a liar.
If the President had called him with the threats, why did he not wait for the day of his judgement, and use the threats as proof of the executive’s interference with the judiciary?
The timing of exposing the President’s alleged threats, a day or so of the court’s judgement which will be handed down to him this morning, is a sign of a man who is scared to death. His press conference was designed to appeal for public sympathy!
He talks needlessly and carelessly…
Chellah is so pompous that he can go to ZAF and commandeer TWO helicopters to take off with him and his cronies, gallivanting. Also the PF government is so wasteful that it makes a convoy of presidential cars – EMPTY- go to the airport and drive back again to State House yet the presido yet has been airlifted to the airport. Budget overshoot is now approaching K20 Billion!!!!
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