Former Secretary to the Cabinet Dr Sketchley Sacika has observed that President Sata is exhibiting a lack of presidential etiquette in the manner he is addressing his Ministers.
Dr Sacika said in an interview that President Sata’s continued berating of his Ministers in public is unacceptable and un-presidential.He said it is unfortunate that President Sata has continued embarrassing his Ministers in front of the media by passing unpalatable comments about them.
Dr Sacika was commenting on President Sata’s latest outburst against his Ministers in which he complained that some Ministers are becoming too fat and failing to visit the rural areas.He said President Sata should realize that his Ministers are adults and have egos to protect.
“Respect is a two way process. You need to respect someone for that person to respect you back. The way President Sata is behaving might result in some of his Ministers failing to respect him. He needs to reconsider the way he talks to his Ministers,” Dr Sacika said.
He also observed that talking down his Ministers in front of the media might also affect public perception of the entire Government machinery.Dr Sacika said President Sata should be reminded that the office he occupies demands that he conducts himself in a certain acceptable manner.
Focus on national development. Ignore any opinions, comments, jokes. The sense of humor is contextual. At the end of the day, infrastructure and economic growth will seal the fate of voters.
@Dr Makasa Kasonde, are you implying that at the end of the day infrastructure and economic growth will propel themselves forward without a motivated staff? So, Sata can publicly ridicule and belittle his Lieutenants and it won’t affect growth at all? Are we now to believe Sata’s loss of weight is due to hard work as he is implying? Ba Kasonde, are you okay?
You are expecting too much from an uneducated villager
Ba Dr. Makasa naimwe mulichipuba fye, kwati niba PF leadership. What sense of humour are you talking about? Dr. Sacika is right. Sata is a thug and does not have presidential manners.
Am sorry Bakasonde something is missing . Please we need a sane president period
We can all imagine what our Bemba brother ‘Dr’ Kasonde would be saying if a non-Bemba Zambian president was behaving in public like our dear newly svelte Ukwa Katongo Mwango does!
dr. Kasonde, you are just adding salt to the wounds by asking Zambians to leak there wounds. Zambians believe in Donchi Kubeba. Just wait and see the results in 2016.
Kaunda Analia in 1990 and RB in 2011.
If I were you I would rather keep quite otherwise tighten your “BOMBASA”
WHEN DOES SOMEONE WHO WAS ONCE UNDER OATH LOSE THIS AND START TALKING AGAINST THE PRESIDENT IN PUBLIC IGNORING THE ACCEPTABLE NORM OF EITHER WRITING THE HEAD OF STATE OR MAKING AN APPOINTMENT TO SEE AND ADVISE HIM? HAVE THINGS CHANGED NOW?
Mr SACHIKA THE FACT IS ZAMBIANS INCLUDING YOU ARE ALIEN TO BEING TOLD FRANKLY IN PUBLIC. YES, FOR EXAMPLE WHY SHOULD MINISTERS START GETTING FAT AND THEREFORE LAZY TO VISIT CONSTITUENCIES AND GOVT PROJECTS? I WAS ONE DAY IN A BANK AND THE TELLER’S BOSS CAME TO BLAST THE TELLER IN FRONT OF ME AND SHE LEFT AFTER THE BLAST INSTRUCTING THE TELLER TO DEAL WITH ALL THE CUSTOMERS IN GOOD TIME AND DO OTHER THINGS. WHEN HER BOSS LEFT I ASKED THE TELLER HOW SHE FELT ABOUT THE BLAST. SHE SAID THE MANAGER WAS RIGHT, “SHE IS THE BOSS AND I MUST INCREASE MY SPEED”. AND THIS IS VERY COMMON AND NORMAL HERE.
Svelte : Thin in an attractive or graceful way.
@ 1.5 Mphendula are you sure this is the right word to use in describing this subject?
Its just a shame that in this day and age Zambia has Sata as President.
Last month President Paul Kagame was addressing a town-hall meeting at Stanford University in California. He was talking about how his government is partnering with universities & research institutes in the U.S to build research institutes in Rwanda.
I was telling myself——-this is what the Zambia President should be doing!
if only you knew Kagames true colors. Ask Rwandese they will tell you. you would not wish for him to be your presido
@The Visionary, you are spot on. And that is what hurts most when you realise what opportunities Zambia has squandered. We had so much goodwill, so much so that notable figures were queueing up to come in. We had President Clinton, President Bush, Mrs Clinton and I have reason to believe Obama himself would have come soon after. But suddenly the goodwill evaporated. All because we have a conman in State House who is a complete disgrace to our Country.
And Malawi has a professor as president
For a country that, not too long ago, elected Mr. Sata, a high school drop-out, as it’s president, such mindset is too foreign. Zambia still belongs to the stone age, unfortunately.
Iwe tha paul kagame is a ruthless dictator of all time, please do not compare him to our MCS
See how that changes when we bring on a proven businessman in the name of HH to redeem us. If you love Zambia you will vote HH in 2016 to bring back the greatness in our country. Try him for a term or two and you will come out of the yokes sata-nism!
@kombo & Yebo: Check your statistics. Of the many countries in Africa, Rwanda is among the few considered most progressive, and chiefly so, during Paul Kagame’s reign. Go to Kigali and you will think you are in New York. What the visionary is saying is that, he saw Paul Kagame addressing a Town Hall Meeting at Stanford University. I wish you knew what that means? Stanford is one of the most prestigious universities in the world. It is there where you will find the likes of Condoleezza Rice etc.
Much as a duck can never soar the skies like an eagle, Mr. Sata can never address a meeting at Stanford University like Paul Kagame. Dictator or not, Mr. Paul Kagame is among the most respected African leaders worldwide. Mr. Sata is of an inferior pedigree, unfortunately.
@kombo & Yebo: Not all dictators are pot-bellied! The late Muammar Gaddafi of Libya managed to transform his country from being one of the poorest in the world, to one of the most affluent in Africa. Was he a dictator? Yes, he was.
The same goes for Mr. Kagame. He took over the reins of power in his country, not under the best of circumstances. At the time, Rwanda was flowing, not with mild and honey, but with human blood, due to the genocide. Today Rwanda is admirably peaceful and admirably prosperous! There are some in the world, who are able to notice things like that.
I SOMETIMES WONDER HOW HE EVEN MANAGED TO WIN THE PRESIDENCE WITH HIS BAD MANNERS,HOW ON EARTH WOULD A PRESIDENT TALK TO HIS MINISTERS LIKE THAT. THESE ARE SOME OF THE REASONS PEOPLE WERE SAYING SATA WAS A MAD MAN WHEN HE WAS STILL IN OPPOSITION.
A MAN WHO DOES NOT VALUE HIS MINISTERS,NO RESPECT WHATSOEVER.ITS UNFORTUNATE THAT EVEN THOSE INVOLVED ARE SMILING AT HIM AS THOUGH THEY ARE TOYS.SATA IS A VERY DISSAPOINTMENT CHAP IN OUR HISTORY AS A PRESIDENT.AM VERY SURE EVEN OTHER COUNTRIES ARE LAUGHING AT US TO HAVE SUCH AN EDIOTI AS A PRESIDENT.ANYWAY AM SURE ALL HIS MINISTERS ARE JUST WAITING FOR HIM TO KICK THE BUCKET SO THAT SOMEONE TAKES OVER AND BEGINS TO RESPECT THEM.
I wonder why you wonder! The so called ‘educated Zambians’ are the ones who voted for him. That speaks volumes about Zambia’s level of education. An average Zambian is an educated illiterate, I reckon.
@ Mei Matungu, ndugu yangu. I love that point. Spot on! I would Zambians to vote for leaders who value people.
In the previous election, people were voting for the popular candidate. Which is the mistake we are likely to be making for a long time to come. The are leaders who really care for Zambia but because they are considered not popular, they keep being sidelined. A few names come to mind. Brig. Gen. Miyanda, Chipimo, Milupi. These are people I believe can move Zambia forward. Thanks
Only GBM has balls the size of a 50kg bag of roller meal on each side of his groin and Sata couldn’t squeeze them!
Sata has always walked like a duck, quacked like a duck, and proven to be a duck. It is in his genes. So, it futile to expect him to turn into an Eagle by lecturing him. Complete waste of time.
Zambians must at least know that if they vote for a duck as president, that duck will not, all of a sudden, become an eagle after it is inaugurated into office!
These ministers have the power to begin the process of investigating the president’s health, if only they could muster their courage and balls. It’s evident that a medical team would definitely find multiple physical and mental problems with the president. So these ministers have nothing to fear about the possibility of Sata emerging out of the medical review with a clean health slate, this is impossible even if the medical team is made up of quacks.
Yes, but these “Ministers” are a spineless bunch of cowards, more interested in stealing Zambian taxpayers money that the future of Zambia.
Even SATA, in his mentally incapacitated state, can see that they are USELESS! That is why he appointed them!
Out of all of them, there is not one “honourable” enough to stand up for Zambians and SPEAK THE TRUTH.
ba Sachika, dont beat about the bush because there is no bush left. simply say he is not Presidential material, to cut the story short. to insult someone at a certain age is taboo in zambia particularly one with grand children. may be ku mupika it is part of their culture
Walasa iwe mune that is it.
Ba Matipa, ala even in Mpika no elderly person insults others whenever they have a platform. My own mother is from their and I have never heard anyone adress another elderly person with such disdain as I have herd from MCS. It is unacceptable! Ala ubu ebo beba at bumushebwa!
Current politics in Zambia is still way off from transparent, accountability and good governance principles. The situation obtaining in PF government is reminiscent of every government that has existed. Hero worshiping and cronyism of a political leader late alone president is seen as a cut above the rest of the group. This perception is mistaken as being loyal to leadership, when in fact chocks and stifles free flow of ideas that would even make the leader more effective. This is worse with the current PF government where a leader and president of the nation has become senile known both locally and internationally, yet the central committee of PF government is not even discussing the eventuality of a serious pending expectation. All because of fear and myths that is with zambian
politics of hero worshiping. Lack of openness impacts negatively in today’s ever changing political environment. Innovative thinking is stifled and creativity will always lack in modern current complex politics. PF ministers by now should be cranking plan B and counsel the republican president appropriately accepting the reality of things. If still gripped with fear of the cobra, let them prevail over what Kabimba is doing, going round for the president when he has no constituency to stand on. To speak for PF fearful ministers, Kabimba is propagating his personal agenda (project) which will be thrown in their faces not long from now. You may say ‘we will come and reject him then’. Too late PF wont be the same then, you will all have lost then. SPEAK YOUR MIND NOW. (free advice)
IT SHOULD BE CLEAR IN OUR MINDS WHY WE HAVE SATA AS PRESIDENT
1. RB AND MMD HAD BECOME IRRITATING, REPUGNANT, ABHORRED AND DETESTABLE. THEY WERE SIMPLY TOO PROUD AND STUBBORN.
2. HH AND HIS UPND HAVE NO NATIONAL CHARACTER. THE PARTY STILL REMAINS REGIONAL AND TRIBAL. UPND HAS SIMPLY NOT DONE ENOUGH TO REMOVE THE TRIBAL TAG THAT THEY CARRY.
3. THE OTHER PARTIES ARE TOO SMALL AND INSIGNIFICANT. THEY COULD NOT WRESTLE POWER FROM MMD.
4. SO WE WERE STUCK. THE ONLY PARTY THAT HAD THE NUMBERS TO REMOVE RB/MMD FROM POWER WAS PF. SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SATA WERE WELL KNOWN EVEN THEN. PF WAS A BETTER EVIL THEN. HAS THE SITUATION CHANGED NOW???….WE ARE YET TO SEE. THE TWO MAIN OPPOSITION PARTIES ARE NOT YET APPEALING ENOUGH. IT IS SAD THAT WE HAVE ENDED UP THIS WAY.
Did you know Peter Mutarika before he became president of Malawi? The same can happen here in Zambia. Vote for one of these younger but promising leaders
But Peter is NOT young he is 74! Just saying.
Quite a good excuse for a sloppy choice. How nice it is to be able to rationalize the way we normally do as humans.
St Magdalena, Peter was Foreign Minister in his brother’s cabinet and was actively being groomed by then President Bingu. He was well known except you hardly followed politics below that of the presidency as is the case in your country now. I note how entire opposition leaders fail to allow their shadow cabinets to even speak on matters in their purview…
The reason you voted PF is because you believed the post propaganda.What people never realised is that Meembe had a personal vendetta against Banda only God knows why.Tell me how you can explain the corruption allegations even before he became president.On any given day I would have voted MMD then the PF 90 days clowns.Gosh Zambians are so gullible its so annoying
Chisenga what is this you call tribalism; anything that is not Bemba, grow up man we can see through your lies and we refuse to buy that. This time around HH is going to plot one like it or not. We cannot afford to have a mismanaged country like that, some of you have Congo and Tanzania to run to, us it is this very Zambia, so grow up in your analysis. And one thing, we know you are a paid carder hence your comments……… wake up and smell the coffee the wind of change has come. This can be evident in the confusion and power struggle we are witnessing among your part. Donchi at play right? Forget man.
What all this proves is that Zambians are a bunch of dunderheads. They are the ones who voted for Psycho Matter. No matter how much they condemn him, they are to blame. At least some of us voted with our heads.
Voting for HH is not voting with one’s head at all until the “tribal” tag is worked on. How to work on the tribal tug is to stop comments like this.
@Dodoma Daeresalaam Dansania: Our brothers in the South have eyes, but they see not. I wish they were not as tribal!
SATA HAS PROVED TO BE A BAD LEADER. BUT HH WILL BE WORSE. EVEN IF SATA WAS A MILLION TIMES BAD, HH SHOULD NEVER AND WILL NEVER BE THE REPLACEMENT. DO WE NEED TO HAVE A REPLACEMENT FOR SATA, YES! BUT LUCKY ENOUGH IT SHOULD NEVER BE HH.
Why shouldn’t HH get the presidency all knowing chisenga?
Must agree with Sacika; there must be seen to be exhibited- basic decorum, finesse, decency and respect. Not this street roughness we are seeing daily!
Too late too little! Such scrutiny should have been embedded within the selection process for a president. As an institution, presidency lacks the capacity to straighten ill-bred individual like the incumbent.
I find it funny that we are now able to come-up with all sorts of explanations as to how Mr. Sata, a semi illiterate, managed to get elected president of a seemingly progressive country like Zambia. The truth of the matter is that he was a popular politician who had a formidable political base; and a knack at steering the grassroots. He was particularly a darling of Zambia’s educated youth. He was their hero, the ‘king cobra’, the ‘man of action’ etc., terms I now rarely hear!
If Mr. Sata had any quality that made him to be so endeared, it was his ability to tell a lie and sound genuine about it. He was able to lie his way all the way to State House. Those who still wonder how he did it, must just accept that they were duped. They were bewitched by his charisma!
I promise you when you tell the truth in Zambia while campaigning you will not win an election. Just check out the history of the country; it tells its story by itself. Look, ever since Zambians started voting in multiparty dispensations there has been disillusion after disillusion. It is as if we are blundering from one sensation to another. It appears at the back of the queue the dogs, chickens, cats and pigs are waiting their turn to be President; they are just perfecting their sensationalism, too.
A darling with his sick jokes that are haunting him now? He should repent and apologise to the families he hurt.
@Kal: Politicians lie. That is a well known facet of theirs. Politicians all over the world lie. But they do so at their own peril. They cannot be allowed to lie with impunity. Mr. Sata must be made to pay for lying to the Zambian people. Being a politician is not a license to cheat and deceive the electorate. Consequently, whether they lie or not, politicians must be held accountable for their promises to the electorate. Otherwise, they must be impeached.
Mr. Sata is ripe for impeachment. He lied too much. There is no morality in what he did. Where is the constitution that he promised to deliver in 90 days? Why has he not delivered on that promise? Why should he be forgiven and allowed to go scot free after making such a blatant lie?
Even if Sata defecated in his “falling” trousers right before our very own eyes today, the likes of Dr Makasa Kasonde will claim it’s fine because that is what nature intended it to be. This is Bemba tribal bigotry for you, even education has zero traction on these medieval Iturian jungle primates.
Abena Dr Kapasa Makasa Emmanuel Kasonde, muli chipuba chacine.
You can fault this observation from this fine gentleman, a refined son of the soil of a calibre we as Zambians should be proud of any time at any fora!
This is the discourse and enlightened thinking that has been absent for along time in Zambia. The nation has gone to sleep, all the sharp minds have withdrawn into the shells and allowed nincompoops to come to the fore and direct the course of beautiful country should chart. In effect we have regressed so dramatically by have allowing an apology of leadership that is devoid of substance to be in charge. Nevers too, who is a compatriot of the man in office has rightly observed how our image has been tarnished on the international scene by the attitude of a very uncough leader who thinks shouting down people is the mark of a good leader!…
Stop complaining so much! but blame the majority of us who voted for king Cobra in full view of his CV. just think twice next time!
Crude, uncultured and rough cut is what this president is. He goes to disrespect and antagonise the very people that are his foot soldiers by openly insulting them. That is not leadership, its not the leadership style one should spawn for any country – least of all this beautiful country endowed with some of the best spirited people on the continent. You do not want to be a fly on the wall to hear what these same Minister will be saying about him when he is not in ear shot! His show is up. Yes he came in to promote some “not properly thought out” and unbudgeted for development”, whose success will be a “flook” at best and be paid for by generations to come!!
And those people in cabinet we thought were luminaries, sit there and contend with being run down and be littled by this man. what happened to the likes of Bob Sichinga, Emmnanuel Chenda, etc who would have stood up and not just soap up the insults? No sense of self worthy and backbone in these men!
What insults did Sata spit ? All he was that Ministers should be visiting the country to explain the developmental programmes and projects. He also reminded them to be physically fit by shedding off some fats (like himself) so that they could accomplish the ‘travels’ easily. What was insulting about that?
Much as the sentiment now seems to be taking root that Mr. Sata’s presidency is an eyesore, I dare point out that his election must not have been unexpected. Mr. Sata had become a celebrated and decorated hero of Zambian politics. As an opposition leader, he was a cut above the rest.
Even as early as 2008, it had been speculated that RB could not have pulled it through without clever rigging. Though contemplated, such rigging became impractical to effect in 2011. All eyes were watching and no one wanted to see bloodshed, akin to the Kenyan saga.
The Zambian electorate had gone for Mr. Sata, knowing fully well what it was they were getting. If a raw deal, the Zambians can only blame it on themselves for failing to exercise due skepticism, a vitality in politics.
But where are the educated zambians what are they doing in the shadows let them stand up and be counted look at RB didn’t he have degrees how much did he steal from zambians the personality is the issue not papers some papers don’t perform people voted for some one to work not only speak english and steal from the publick
As the old adage goes, you can take a man out of the bush but taking the bush out of his skull is nearly impossible. Especially for a Satanic ***** like Ukwa Charlie Mwango, you need surgeons, bulldozers and cranes to uproot masalamusi from that stinking kalukobo!
You sound worse than Sata. The scorn and insults you have poured on him are nothing compared to his urging his ministers to stay fit so that it is easy for them to travel to their constituences. More of a kettle calling the pot black for you!
Sata by name Sata by nature. Lekeni ale Sata!
now u are complaining. u were worse when mwanawasa took u to south africa sachika. u were refusing to help zambians who were robbed saying they just threw the passports because they have overstayed. now u are jobless. inshiku shilalinganya. lekeni sata ateke. u never gave a good example therefore u are just talking. and talk is cheap. and oh, welcome back, i hope you invested
It is sad to note that some of you are refering the President to be uneducated and let me remaind you whatever you are using to communicate your insults was inverted by a failure at some university. My friend if you think that to be the president you must very educated then you are missing the point. Currently, in Zambia things have started mproving and His Excellency is making great effort in that regard. You will be amazed that before 2016, the country will be very different in terms of development. Long LIVE MCS and continue pushing your Ministers.
What development are you talking about? Let me remind you 2 to 3 years down the line, you will see how worse the Zambian economic situation shall be, going by the economic sabotage that is taking place at the moment. You yourself will be moving with an empty stomach due to no food caused by high prices of commodities. Anyone who supports the Sata administration must be axamined mentally because they have got no foresight to see the direction CNP is taking the country. Sata thought to rule the country is like collecting catapillars in the bush. This time around the man is confused because he doen’ t know how to run the country. Beyond that, he is only surrounded by vultures who just want to eat under his name.
@ Kal.’I promise you when you tell the truth in Zambia while campaigning you will not win an election.’ I agree with you in total. That is why leaders like Brig Gen G Miyanda cannot become presidents because they are too honest to tell lies in order to worm their way to State House.
@Meu Mutungu.’Mr. Sata had become a celebrated and decorated hero of Zambian politics. As an opposition leader, he was a cut above the rest’. Totally agreed with you. That is WHY Sata is gaggling and stopping opposition from campaigning freely. Levy and RB gave leeway to SATA to campaign freely. But being a crook he is, he is using the police to stop anyone to assemble and campaign freely. An A.S.S of a presido!
@Chisanga
If you are mad or useless like PF ministers as observed by their president, take yours far from this website, however, if you insist we shall be more than well coming to observe your foly. HH is a Zambian, its foly of most high for a fellow citizen to hate another. The reason why Sata was propelled to rule Zambia was by a cartel which only thinks that you can become rich simply y being in power, which is very incorrect, ofcourse!
The reason why Sata wants his ministers not to gain weight or rather lose weight is in order for them to cover up for his own weight loss. When the masses question his weight loss, at least he will be able to say it is a governemnt initiative for all leaders to lose weight. Everybody in government has lost weight and why ask me only?
SOMEONE NEEDS TO SAY THAT A LITTLE LOUDER, MAYBE HE WILL HEAR!!! You can make a kaponya a president but can’t take the kaponya out of him!!!