Retired veteran politician Vernon Mwaanga says opposition leaders that form part of the Grand Coalition are right to resolve not to attend the April 30th constitution Indaba that is being organized by the Southern African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD).
On Friday last week 16 opposition political party leaders that include among other presidents, that of the MMD, UPND, ADD, NAREP and the ABZ announced at a media briefing that they will not attend Wednesday’s Constitution Indaba as they prefer meeting President Michael Sata himself as opposed to having a question and answer Indaba which SACCORD has proposed.
And Mr. Mwaanga has told Qfm news in an interview that although SACCORD has made a good attempt the opposition political party leaders have also made it clear that what they want is to have a meaningful dialogue on among other issues, the Constitution as well as the issue of the Public Order Act.
Mr. Mwaanga says this is the exact kind of dialogue that the country is supposed to be promoting especially that Zambia has been encouraging dialogue among political stakeholders in other countries.
He says doing the opposite will make a no sense of the efforts that the country has been making abroad if does not practice what it preaches to other countries.
And Mr. Mwaanga says he hopes that government will this time grant an audience to the opposition request of meeting with the Head of State as the strategy of denying the opposition to engage in such dialogue as had been practiced in the past is a matter of extreme regret.
He says in a democracy dialogue among political stakeholders is always essential as it is a means of addressing disagreements that of national concern that arise in the country.
Mr Mwanga is right as well
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Brother vj please come back to active politics lets assit hh nothing tribal here iam tubulu from luapula , lubwe mission, samfya, village mbwili..
LAZ is a let down on this constitution making process. Engineers, Doctors, Accountants, Economists do well in their Associations when it comes to their fields of expart. Lawyers the constitution is your field where are you?
They are bound by the provisions of the current constitution.
I love that picture. Goodness, age spares no beauty! Today what remains of VJ is a heavily wrinkled face, a shiny scalp with hair wiped away with age, a history dented with womanising, drugs-trade etc…etc…Most importantly VJ has maintained his intelligence and dignity. It is a pity you retired leaving rugs like Alexander Chikwanda, Guy Scott and Micheal Gondwe running round circles like lunatic id1ots!
That is why elders advise us to marry for love and not for bokosi, it will shrink with old age.The looks will fade .
Boycotting is not wrong in itself. What is wrong is boycotting in order to bring embarassment, humiliation, shame, ridicule of government and respectable State institutions. Anarchy is localizable and punishable by law. With regard to the constitution, the gap between government and certain opposition groups is because of unpalatable and provocative ideas that crept into the draft document. If you expect government to rush into referundum to appease opposition parties, then you are wrong. Government is custodian of peace and stability for the nation.
What is respectable about PF rule your doctor. Panga in the right hand and the Ten commandments on the left hand. I pity your doctorate.
VJ the Constitution aside, is MMD consulting you because they seem to have lost it.
They are now at each other, my take is that if the impasse is allowed MMD will soon go into political extinction.
Sorry for digressing folks!
Never again dine with this self home made satan.
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